Late on October 8th President Donald Trump wrote on social media: “I am very proud to announce that Israel and Hamas have both signed off on the first phase of our peace plan.” Hamas, Israel and Qatar ...

Liuzhi detentions are perhaps the clearest source of unease. When the system was created in 2018 it was aimed mainly at Communist Party members and government officials, part of the anti-corruption ...

All told, our estimates suggest that tariffs are adding around 0.3 percentage points to inflation. Employment has weakened, too, in tariff-exposed sectors such as manufacturing and retail; bosses ...

That intervention was prompted by the Argentine central bank being forced to sell over $1bn in two days to prop up the peso. Mr Bessent’s promises stopped the slide, but details are scant and even ...

After two years of ruinous fighting, 67,000 dead Gazans and an ongoing famine in Gaza city, everyone is desperate for the talks to succeed. Mr Trump sent his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff, and his ...

Rising receivables can disguise a business model under strain, however. Carillion, a building firm, collapsed in 2018, becoming Britain’s largest ever liquidation. Hedge funds had short-sold its stock ...

SAY “POLLINATORS” and most people will think “bees”. They are correct, for bees are the most important insects involved in pollinating flowers. Rather fewer, however, might guess that the second-most ...

Most presidential hopefuls make hokey promises to fix the economy, heal divisions or restore America’s promise. Donald Trump offered something different. “For those who have been wronged and betrayed, ...

A NYONE interested in art knows Frida Kahlo’s story: the polio; the terrible bus accident; the painting during convalescence; ...

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Better than any other liberal, Tocqueville understood the importance of ensuring that the collective business of society is done as much as possible by the people themselves, through voluntary effort, ...

During the 1940s Karl Popper, Friedrich Hayek and Joseph Schumpeter, Viennese exiles all, offered a robust critique of totalitarianism and collectivism, advocating for liberal democracy and market ...