Excitement from those who expected its reasoning capabilities to be a big step towards superhuman intelligence (some reckoned ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s victory and the fallout from the US election in 2024.

The market grew by roughly 20% in 2023, compared with 8% for alcoholic drinks. How big will it get? Chart: The Economist ...

The stunt was hardly representative of what Greenlanders really make of Donald Trump’s recent outbursts. In Nuuk, opinions ...

On January 7th the president-elect declined to rule out using military might or economic warfare in his pursuit of Greenland ...

But there is no reason to catastrophise or give up hope. If other continents can prosper, so can Africa. It is time its ...

Derek Shaffer, Free Speech Coalition’s lawyer, acknowledged Texas’s “compelling interest” in protecting children from online pornography. But he told the justices that Texas’s law infringes on adults’ ...

Heavyweight libertarian economist Milton Friedman's famous observation was that you can't have open immigration and a welfare ...

Terror attack on French satirical magazine united the Western world in defence of free speech, but a decade on some claim 'the killers have won' ...

The British edition of The Economist has identified the top five countries by the ... Thanks to "the most radical free market experiment in the world," inflation and borrowing costs have declined, and ...

It speaks to an animating principle of libertarianism in a U.S. policy sense: abide a Constitution that leaves the vast ...

Whatever ceremonial respect Jimmy Carter gets paid while he's lying in state, it's unlikely to change his historical reputation as a second-rater. The scholars who fill out the presidential rankings ...