Riots over a dead Muslim ruler put Narendra Modi in a tight spot
The Mughal emperor Aurangzeb, who reigned between 1658 and 1707, has been a hated figure among Indian Hindu nationalists for ...
Why India’s south is fighting plans to overhaul parliament
Battling India’s central government is almost a way of life for M.K. Stalin, the chief minister of the southern state of Tami...
Even priests need the free market
Henry Ward Beecher’s church was very rich. Every Sunday crowds would flock across New York’s East River on “Beecher’s boats” ...
Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
FOR CHINESE stocks to outperform American ones is rare enough. But this year the MSCI China index has beaten its American equ...
The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s economies
Tian Shan—the name for the mountains that cross Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan—roughly translates as “Mountains of Hea...
Nubank has conquered Brazil. Now it is expanding overseas
Brazil may not be an obvious place to look for the future of retail banking. Yet in just over a decade Nubank, based in São P...
The unpredictability of Trump’s tariffs will increase the pain
DONALD TRUMP has already raised the average tariff on America’s imports by about twice as much as he did in his entire first ...
The cover-up is worse than the group chat
Leave it to Vice-President J.D. Vance, the most media-savvy and self-assured of Donald Trump’s media-savvy, self-assured disc...
Britain’s wimpish effort to balance its books
Rachel Reeves may not have called her Spring Statement on March 26th a budget, but it certainly felt like one. Speculation gr...
Russia plays for time in Ukraine ceasefire talks
As american spooks tell it, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky may be willing to talk about ending their war, but they are...