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Today populism is back in Britain with a vengeance. In council elections in England on May 1st Reform UK, the party led by ...

Coercion of institutions whose views Donald Trump disfavours has been a signature of his second term. Will he be checked? The ...

The reason is hard to pin down. Inflation and economic anxiety have undermined confidence in European leaders. A changing ...

As a result, humanoid robots are at last beginning to leave the lab and enter the workplace. On April 22nd Elon Musk ...

In the process he has raised the average effective tariff on goods entering America from 2.5% last year to about 20%, the ...

The pontiff began phoning Gaza’s Christians every day, more often on the worst days. He was still calling when failing health ...

Mr Morales blames Mr Arce, but the crisis took root on his watch. Bolivia has been burning through its dollar reserves since ...

The continent is home to 77 intra-regional deals and 104 extra-regional ones and, as such, is party to 45% of the world’s ...

Financial services, the biggest contributor to GDP, have been hit since India renegotiated a tax treaty that had made ...

France spends less of its national income on health care than America, but is by most measures a lot healthier. Its total ...

Countries long associated with emigration, such as Mexico and the Philippines, are now rich enough to have passed their ...