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CAMBRIDGE – Once again, US economic and market forecasters are having a difficult time. Worse, while 2023 surprised on the upside, the deviation...
HAMBURG – Sometimes, the fulfillment of a promise feels like punishment. When the radio was invented more than 100 years ago, the German...
BERKELEY – America’s retirement system isn’t working. It is failing older workers, pensioners, and would-be retirees, and if we don’t fix it...
LONDON – Economics has always had a strange and much-debated relationship with money. For a long time, economists – including Nobel laureates...
SILVER SPRING – Jessica Pettway, a YouTube fashion and lifestyle influencer, died this month from cervical cancer at the age of 36. Her untimely...
GENEVA– There is a good chance that you know one of the 154 million people who over the past 50 years have been saved from a preventable death by...
BATON ROUGE – Facing criminal indictments in connection with a hush-money payment to an adult-film actress and his efforts to overturn the result...
OXFORD/NASHVILLE – As voters around the world head to the polls this year, many have lost trust in politicians and even in democracy itself. For...
BATON ROUGE – Facing criminal indictments in connection with a hush-money payment to an adult-film actress and his efforts to overturn the result...
OXFORD – Kristalina Georgieva’s reappointment as managing director of the International Monetary Fund is a welcome development, but it also...
STOCKHOLM – The news this past week was undoubtedly met with relief in Kyiv and with grief in the Kremlin. The US Congress finally broke its...
LJUBLJANA – It is only April, but we already have a good candidate for photo of the year. On April 12, German police shut down a Palestine...
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States has a population of roughly 330 million, while all NATO countries combined have about 975 million. Adding...
ZURICH – Many scientists and tech leaders have sounded the alarm about artificial intelligence in recent years, issuing dire warnings not heard...
MADRID – Amid escalating geopolitical tensions, and with European Parliament elections looming, the narrow passage earlier this month of the...
URBANA, ILLINOIS/BERKELEY – After a months-long delay, the fractious United States House of Representatives finally approved more than $60 billion...
CHICAGO – Pandemic preparedness was on the agenda at last week’s Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, held in...
MUNICH – Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine more than two years ago, the West has desperately sought ways to punish Russia...
BOSTON – Artificial intelligence and the threat that it poses to good jobs would seem to be an entirely new problem. But we can find useful ideas...
NEW HAVEN – Until the twenty-first century, people took for granted that their most meaningful relationships – with family, friends, and fellow...
NEW YORK – Donald Trump knows a thing or two about defaulting on debt. His businesses have filed for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the US...
TOKYO – Last month, the Bank of Japan took its first important step toward monetary-policy normalization. The BOJ ended its negative...
NEW YORK – The cities that some 4.4 billion people call home are increasingly at risk of catastrophic climate-driven events. Rising sea levels...
CHICAGO – As the first criminal case against Donald Trump gets underway in New York City, the media have forgone their customary practice of...
NEW DELHI – This year marks the 30th anniversary of the United Nations’ International Year of the Family (IYF). In the decades since the IYF...
PARIS – The European Union’s spending rules and public-procurement processes are plainly inadequate to the threat posed by Russia’s...