The consensus that America should be a benign superpower, born out of the ashes after 1945, has gone, too. And Mr Trump wants ...

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For years, the question of whether to move Australia Day to a less contentious date has loomed over the festivities.

Despite the American government’s efforts to hold back China’s AI industry, two Chinese firms had reduced their American counterparts’ technological lead to a matter of weeks. It is not just with ...

Until, of course, in 2013 the Silk Road was shut down by FBI agents and Mr Ulbricht, then 29 years old, was arrested in the ...

A merican presidents are often disappointed to discover limits to their authority, but the country’s founders intended the ...

The overhaul, announced in July by the Financial Conduct Authority, Britain’s financial watchdog, brings the rules in line ...

This is where Mr Trump’s talk of an “invasion” becomes more than rhetorical bombast. Framing the cartels as terrorists ...

If Henri Bergson were alive, or even remembered, they would get more. In his heyday—in the 15 years or so before the first ...

C onflicting SIGNALS are reaching the new American administration from Rome. And some carry a whiff of incense. While Italy’s ...

Britain also wants the EU to renew its approval of British data-protection standards, which will expire in June this year.

M ore than any other country, Donald Trump went after Mexico on his first day in office. He ordered its criminal gangs to be ...