America’s stockmarket finished the first quarter of 2024 on an astonishing tear, with its benchmark S&P 500 index having ...

Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act ( IRA ), a climate law full of tax incentives for clean-energy infrastructure. President Joe Biden and Democrats won the support of Joe Manchin, a centrist ...

This week, however, after months of dithering, Congress approved $40bn of such assistance, a sum roughly equivalent to all ...

In the vast majority of cases, including Giddings’s, this is usually because a body is too decomposed to examine properly.

W HEN KAVIPRIYA, a 22-year-old from a village in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, decided to take a factory job, her ...

T HE PETITIONER in Trump v United States was not present on April 25th when the Supreme Court considered whether he and other ex-presidents should enjoy immunity from criminal lia ...

Chinese citizens and business owners are increasingly victims of unscrupulous attempts by local governments to shore up their ...

In six weeks’ time Narendra Modi is expected to win a third term as India’s prime minister, cementing his status as its most ...

Mr Trump’s appeals have delayed one of his criminal trials—the federal election-interference case—which was scheduled to ...

Where other historians saw a mob of hungry peasants, E.P. Thompson saw resistance to capitalism. Studying England’s ...

FLOWS OF INFORMATION and energy underpin all economic activity, and advanced technologies support both. Hence the sky-high stakes in the tech wars between America and China. Started during Donald ...

The right to privacy was cited in an influential ECHR ruling in 2002 that let a British trans woman change her birth certificate. The court is also opaque; until recently, judges could issue emergency ...