Tax systems across the rich world are broken. They are unwieldy, unfair and riddled with perverse incentives. Governments ...

I n the 20 months since Donald Trump returned to the White House, right-wing candidates have won all seven presidential ...

Jack Smith, a former special counsel who led criminal cases against Donald Trump, appeared before the Senate Judiciary ...

Top AI executives met Donald Trump amid growing calls to regulate the technology. Ahead of the gathering America’s president ...

Andy Burnham said he would downgrade Britain’s “triple lock” on state-pension increases to a “double lock”. From April 2030 ...

Iran wants a deal because it is “losing so badly,” said the president. Mr Trump and many of his advisers reckon America has ...

B ritain’s Labour Party is on the up. After ditching Sir Keir Starmer as its leader and replacing him with Andy Burnham, the ...

Hamas is struggling to work out a future for itself. Donald Trump’s ceasefire, now almost a year old, has failed to shield it ...

This is the introduction to Analysing Africa, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our correspondents turn their ...

Jack Smith, a former special counsel who led criminal cases against Donald Trump, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in an ill-tempered hearing. Republican senators said Mr Smith had ...

Even in an America where AI turbocharges the economy, by the 2050s the government could be much more indebted than today. The ...

Micron Technology, an American maker of memory chips, reports quarterly earnings on Wednesday. The company trails its South ...