All of this marks a stunning reversal for Myanmar’s revolutionaries. At the end of 2024 they appeared to have the junta on ...

Renowned economist Jason Schenker reflects on 2025—what went right and what went wrong with the economy—and the prospects for supply chains in the new year.

The U.S. economy economy expanded at a strong 4.3% annual rate from July through September as consumer spending, exports and government spending all grew.

But he also encountered more radical Uyghurs who still want to “fight with China as soon as possible”. As long as that threat ...

Sigmund Freud theorized that when thoughts or experiences are repressed, they inevitably resurface in more deranged and damaging forms. When our dominant communication platforms seek to repress widely ...

A magazine stores ammunition and feeds it into a gun’s chamber, allowing a person to continuously fire bullets without reloading. The larger the magazine, the more a person can shoot without ...

L ately economists have been vigorously debating the health of America’s labour market. Some argue that the jobs market is ...

IN JULY 2019 Nicolas Pelham, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, received a rare journalist’s visa to Iran. On the day he was due to fly home, he was detained. He was held in Tehran for seven ...

In September 2022 the board of the Isocrates foundation gathered in Florence for its annual meeting. This wasn’t your usual corporate shindig—the group lingered over meals in swanky restaurants, ...

PICKING A WORD of the year is not easy. In the past the American Dialect Society has gone with “tender-age shelters” (2018) and “-ussy” (2022). The Oxford English Dictionary (oed) has caused ...

An economist at one of China’s biggest investment banks said the time has come for authorities to allow for more appreciation in the yuan, a decision that would give consumers greater spending power ...

CHINESE-BORN brainiacs have been at the forefront of innovation in America. Yang Chen-Ning, a Nobel-prizewinning physicist who died in October, was one such. But a mixture of pushes (such as the ...