Before the Book Society most Britons believed, as H.G. Wells put it, “that it is extravagant and wrong to own books”. Even ...

The House of Representatives intends to begin work on the “One Big Beautiful Bill” at 9am today. Senators spent 27 hours ...

Ferrari also now offers far more opportunities for personalisation, from custom paint-jobs to added carbon fibre and lavish interiors. These can add 20% to the price of its cars, which Barclays, a ...

If the picture appears bleak for America’s graduates, it is bleaker still for Uncle Sam. Student lending was once profitable ...

As South Africa is buffeted by criticism from President Donald Trump and other American conservatives—some of it unfair and ...

Yet the race for a handful of superstar software engineers masks a slump for everyone else. As Chat GPT -like generative AI ...

O N JULY 1ST, after 27 hours of non-stop voting and debate, America’s Senate passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBB), ...

In some ways it is surprising that China, a forceful surveillance state, did not roll out digital ID s earlier. Dozens of ...

On June 19th Ethan Klein, an American YouTuber and podcaster (pictured), sued three streamers who had broadcast lengthy ...

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In response, Xi Jinping, China’s ruler, introduced a policy called “supply-side structural reform”. Its original aim was to ...