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Cameron Abadi, Adam ToozeForeign Policy |
China’s government recently announced a 5 percent growth target for the country, which surprised many analysts in the West, where the consensus has...
The United States, among most other countries in the world, is no longer keeping track of the progression of COVID-19 as an acute illness. That’s...
The expected best picture winner at this year’s Oscars ceremony is Oppenheimer , a film about the making of the Manhattan Project, the U.S....
The value of commercial real estate in the United States has declined by 11 percent since March 2022. The immediate cause of that price drop was an...
Age has become a central campaign issue in this year’s U.S. presidential election. Both candidates qualify as elderly, with President Joe Biden...
Indonesia, the world’s third-largest democracy—and fourth-largest country overall—held a presidential election on Feb. 14. Defense Minister...
The U.S. Congress has so far failed to pass a $60 billion aid package for Ukraine supported by the Biden administration due to opposition from...
Americans’ attention turned this past weekend to Las Vegas, which hosted this year’s Super Bowl. But the city has long played an outsized role in...
Danish pharmaceutical manufacturer Novo Nordisk recently achieved a market valuation of roughly $500 billion, making it only the second European...
The stock price of aerospace manufacturer Boeing has fallen around 14 percent since a mid-air incident several weeks ago, in which a part of the...
Approximately 30 percent of global shipping-container traffic goes through the Red Sea—the body of water that is now the site of the United...
The Japanese company Nippon Steel has made a $14.1 billion takeover bid for the American company U.S. Steel. That deal is now under review by the...
The 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum takes place this week in the small Swiss village of Davos. As always, the world’s political and...
Dozens of countries will be holding elections in 2024—more than in most years—including India, Britain, and the United States, where the outcomes...
From China’s slowdown to the growing pressure on Ukraine, it was a busy year in global economics. What have we learned from the successful fight...
Approximately 525 million children around the world will be celebrating Christmas—and most will be expecting presents under their Christmas tree...
Germany’s constitutional court blew a 17 billion euro hole into the country’s national budget a month ago, triggering a fiscal crisis and nearly...
Nearly 2,500 fossil fuel lobbyists had access to this year’s annual COP summit in Dubai—the U.N.-led conference on climate change—almost four...
In the run-up to Argentina’s presidential election in late October, the country’s inflation rate reached 143 percent. The winner of the election,...
Ridley Scott’s Napoleon earned $78.8 million internationally in its first weekend in movie theaters. The film focuses on the titular 19th-century...
Andreessen Horowitz, the world’s largest venture capital fund, based in Silicon Valley, manages a total of $35 billion ranging from small start-ups...
The annual budget for the core operations of the United Nations in New York is approximately $3.4 billion. But its operations obviously extend around...
News, analysis, and background on the ongoing conflict. More on this topic The latest war in the Middle East is both a historical tragedy and an...
To mark the two-year anniversary of Ones and Tooze, the podcast we co-host, we dedicated this week’s episode to listener questions—specifically,...
The Open Society Foundations (OSF), the philanthropy founded by billionaire investor George Soros, distributes some $1.5 billion in grants every year,...