W HEN HE FIRES his trade weapons at China, President Donald Trump often appears to shoot from the hip. Officials in Beijing, ...

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IT TOOK Donald Trump less than 12 hours on the ground to bring peace to the Middle East. At least this is how the American president’s whirlwind visit to the region on October 13th was framed. It ...

America is reviving the base as a staging ground for its expanding war against Latin America’s drug gangs. Since August it ...

Mr Mokyr is an economist and a historian. He is also an inbetweener; not fully happy in either camp. He writes better than ...

Next, the editorials insist that China is profoundly resilient. They note risks, including American protectionism and weak ...

In schools children would resort to many a ruse to win (not least baking their conkers). At last year’s championships a fake steel conker was found in the octogenarian winner’s pocket, generating a ...

H OLLYWOOD can be cruel to actresses who dare to age. Faye Dunaway’s star dimmed after the 1970s, as did Debra Winger’s after the 1980s and Meg Ryan’s after the 1990s. Diane Keaton somehow escaped ...

The effect is still hard to spot in official data. But a study of 300,000 companies suggests where hiring is weakening ...

The number of mega-deals—mergers, acquisitions and investments worth more than $10bn—announced this year is approaching a ...

To succeed, the process will require new leadership and sustained external pressure, writes the peace-deal veteran ...

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