In their final week before the holidays, lawmakers in Congress will consider several health-care proposals. Subsidies for ...

This is the introduction to Essential India, a newsletter on a vast and complicated country that will increasingly shape the ...

Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, confirmed the massacre was a “targeted attack on Jewish Australians”. He ...

Editor’s note (December 15th): Jimmy Lai was found guilty of conspiring to commit sedition and foreign collusion on December ...

Mr Lai’s case looks likely to establish new precedents both legally and socially. The party’s control centres on a national-security law ( NSL ). It was promulgated by the national parliament in ...

Some people may tell you that you can limit the damage by being picky about which type of sugar you eat. Avoid refined white ...

That Britons—western Europe’s top dog-owners—like pet photos is no surprise. What is striking is how many they take. A 2024 ...

A mock job advertisement that has done the rounds recently calls for a “killswitch engineer” for Open AI, maker of Chat GPT. The description requires the successful applicant to stand by servers all ...

R EFORM UK, the right-wing populist party led by Nigel Farage, won just five of the 650 seats in Britain’s parliament in last ...

Many of the fanciest luxury brands, such as Hermès, Ferragamo and Prada, remain family-run despite being publicly listed.

Being bigger gives you that competitive advantage.” At the same time, mergers are becoming simpler. A surge in interest rates ...

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