The president has targeted Ms James after she sued him successfully for fraud at his real-estate business. Last year a judge ...

Although employment has stagnated as migration flows have stopped, America’s economy will probably grow by 1.5-2% in 2025.

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

Her candidacy for Venezuela’s presidential election last year unified a normally fragmented opposition and inspired hope of ...

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is keen to bask in the goodwill: in her conference speech last month, she highlighted the cap ...

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The idea that running barefoot might be good for you took off in 2009 when Christopher McDougall, a journalist, published a ...

Britain’s success in this field is partly down to climate. One key to growing giant veg is the avoidance of stress. That means ensuring things are never too hot, too cold or too dry. The British ...

I’ve kicked bags of garbage in New York as part of a rat safari and you just watch rats go flying,” says Kaylee Byers, an ...

Africa’s “leaders for life” are easy to mock. Mr Biya sometimes runs his country from the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva.

To understand why, look to the part of the world where strongman rule is most common: Africa. For a time in the 1990s the ...

Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving taxi firm, proudly proclaims that its ...