P LUMES OF SMOKE rose over Damascus on July 16th as Israeli warplanes struck Syria’s capital. Targeting the presidential ...

In the High Court Mr Justice Chamberlain cancelled a super-injunction, applied contra mundum (against everyone), which had ...

Ideas for how to squeeze the country’s interest bill, ideally without cutting spending or raising taxes, are thus at a ...

I T IS HARD to overstate the importance of sleep. Regular hours of rest offer organisms of all sizes a chance to consolidate ...

India has yet to confirm it officially but this was one of a number of its fighter jets that were lost in a four-day conflict ...

Republicans bring the biggest changes to health care in 15 years ...

Across the board, the AI users exhibited markedly lower neural activity in parts of the brain associated with creative ...

Across the board, the AI users exhibited markedly lower neural activity in parts of the brain associated with creative ...

But the fact that America or China will win this contest should not turn other countries into mere spectators. Even more ...

For almost four decades The Economist has been producing the Big Mac index, which uses the prices of its eponymous delicacy around the world to construct a quick-and-dirty guide to exchange-rate ...

America’s average effective tariff rate has already risen to 10%, from 2.5% last year. Among the wrongs Mr Trump hopes to right with his levies—from Russia’s war on Ukraine to a “witch hunt” against ...

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