Arab armed forces often splurge on vanity equipment like fighter jets that are ill-suited to the asymmetric threats they face, argues Paul Collins, a former British defence attaché in Cairo. Flashy ...

And that was mostly before ChatGPT set off the AI revolution in November that year. The ensuing hoopla led the the International Energy Agency (IEA), an official forecaster, to predict that data ...

In 2022 he nixed federal protections for transgender workers. In March he put on hold President Joe Biden’s lending rules for poorer Americans. And in recent days Texas has again turned to Amarillo to ...

M ykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the River Dnieper in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of Russia ...

While suppressing many sources of dissent, in the media and civil society, the government also projects Mr Modi as an everyman, acutely in touch with the problems of ordinary people and committed ...

Editor’s note (May 4th 2024): This article has been updated.

Understanding how these harmonies conjure thoughts, memories and emotions is perhaps the greatest scientific question of all—the brain seeking to understand itself—and yet the question remains ...

For years the NHL has ranked a distant fourth in North American sports leagues, behind the National Football League ( NFL ), the National Basketball Association ( NBA) and Major League Baseball ( MLB) ...

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More than a century on, financial globalisation’s second age has given the day trader tapping at her phone a menu of options that would put Keynes’s imaginary gentleman to shame. Though war has ...

It is tempting to conclude that the fragmentation described in this special report—of capital flows, payment networks and financial institutions—might be spurred by geopolitics, but has little bearing ...

The prioritisation of national security above unfettered investment is reshaping the movement of capital across borders. Global capital flows—especially foreign direct investment (FDI)—have plunged, ...