Brazil’s ragged finances are holding back its green ambitions
Visitors to the Port of Açu may struggle to determine its industrial nature. No warehouses or piles of containers block the v...
Can Magnus Carlsen convince people to watch chess?
CHESS IS the sort of deep and rewarding game that you can spend an enjoyable lifetime failing to master. But even ardent fans...
China needs its frightened officials to save the economy
OVER THE past decade, as Chinese governance has become more politicised and a fear of punishment has taken hold, local offici...
Ahmed al-Sharaa declares himself president of Syria
On January 29th cafés across Damascus were packed. Syrians, both recently returned exiles from Europe and Turkey and those wh...
Donald Trump’s Defining Decade
Donald Trump invoked the 1890s in laying out the agenda for his second term. But from his demand for the Panama Canal to his ...
Donald Trump turns an angry gaze south
THE TRADE war between the United States and Colombia on January 26th was over within a day—about the same time it took Teddy ...
Donald Trump’s defining decade
Donald Trump invoked the 1890s in laying out the agenda for his second term. But from his demand for the Panama Canal to his ...
Even in India, bureaucracy is being curtailed
In offices that used to house India’s planning commission, Sanjeev Sanyal, an economic adviser to the prime minister, is purs...
From cribs to carriers, high-end baby products are in vogue
Among the whizzy gadgets unveiled in January at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas was the Elvie Rise, an automated b...
Football clubs are making more money than ever. Players not so much
It is an excellent time to be an armchair football fan. Never have there been more matches to choose from. On January 29th th...