British women thrived under remote working
“Work Anywhere”, an initiative at Nationwide, Britain’s biggest building society, was short-lived. In 2021 Joe Garner, the ch...
Germans Reach Deal to Spend Big on Defense, Climate and More
Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, announced on Friday that he had cut a deal with the Green Party to all...
The People Whose Children Were Killed in Duterte’s Drug War
Emily Soriano was doing laundry this week when a friend rushed into her house with news about their yearslong quest for justi...
Hamas Says It’s Willing to Release U.S.-Israeli Hostage Edan Alexander
Hamas said on Friday that it had agreed to free Edan Alexander, an American Israeli soldier who has been held in Gaza for 17 ...
What sparks an investing revolution?
What prompts a revolution? When it comes to investing, no change has been as great as that which began with researchers at th...
Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist
Talk to a business owner in any country and, before long, they will voice a familiar complaint. In low-unemployment America, ...
America First may be a boon for Walmart’s Mexican business
THERE ARE few more potent symbols of American capitalism than a Walmart supercentre, its endless aisles heaving under the wei...
Trump’s whims are overriding the national interest
WHEN ENVOYS of President Donald Trump travel the world making promises, demands and threats, do they speak for America’s nati...
India is benefiting from Trump 2.0
On March 5th Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India’s minister of external affairs, was in his element. At Chatham House, a think-tan...
Donald Trump is setting new boundaries for political speech
Pick your most bracing defence of freedom from the Trump administration: here is the vice-president, J.D. Vance, lecturing Eu...