This is just one symptom of a much broader problem that China’s old, male rulers have with the opposite sex. Unlike Asia’s ...

A tugboat guides a ship at one of the major container ports in Sharjah Emirate, along the Gulf of Oman on July 14, 2026.

Europe wants bigger firms. Its apparatchiks say so every time they talk about integration and competitiveness. „The leaders want true European champions,” announced António Costa, the Portuguese head ...

It is too darn hot. On July 14th the surface temperature of Earth’s tropical and mid-latitude oceans was higher than on any ...

When the war in Ukraine ends, Moscow will need to be part of the new security architecture, argues Andrey Melnichenko.

More than that, they represent a new turn in China’s economic management, as officials try to ease fiscal straits by squeezing more out of state assets. The physical transformation is stunning. The ...

Putting boots on the ground would not help Ukraine, but it might help Europe find the stomach for war, writes Nathalie Tocci.

It is working with AI companies on voluntary standards that could soon be released. Unfortunately, its efforts so far have ...

Pope Leo XIV recently presented the Catholic Church’s first encyclical on digital technology, Magnifica Humanitas. Silicon Valley’s atheist critics complained that the Holy Father had missed a chance ...

As in previous decades, the recommendations of investment gurus—how to cut expenses, build a savings fund or avoid scams—are ...

Ten years and six prime ministers after voting to quit the European Union, Britain has, to paraphrase Dean Acheson, lost a continent but not yet found a role. The referendum on June 23rd 2016, in ...

Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley want to change the world. The ones profiled in „The Everywhere Millionaire”, a forthcoming book by Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick, are different. They find something boring, ...