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Monday 26/November/2018 14:38 PM

The global talent race

More than 3 per cent of all people live outside the country of their birth. But while the share of migrants in the world’s population has remained mostly...

Monday 26/November/2018 14:15 PM

How Kim has played Trump

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is eager to hold a second summit with US President Donald Trump. Since their first meeting in Singapore in June, Kim has...

Sunday 25/November/2018 15:33 PM

Ban the beef?

Christiana Figueres, the former United Nations official responsible for the 2015 Paris climate agreement, has a startling vision for restaurants of the...

Sunday 25/November/2018 14:36 PM

Angela Merkel’s new momentum

Upon Albert Einstein’s death in 1955, the New York Times published a letter to the editor with a marvellous anecdote. Shortly after the atomic bombs had...

Sunday 25/November/2018 14:31 PM

Europe’s new political battle lines

French President Emmanuel Macron has framed the European Parliament election in May 2019 as a battle not between the traditional right and left, but between...

Sunday 25/November/2018 14:25 PM

Brexit and the global economy

The singular issue of Brexit has consumed the United Kingdom for two and a half years. The “if,” “how,” and “when” of the country’s withdrawal...

Saturday 24/November/2018 15:36 PM

Vaccinating against superbugs

Whether you live below the poverty line in the slums of Karachi or work as a banker on Wall Street, drug-resistant “superbugs” are among the gravest...

Saturday 24/November/2018 15:13 PM

An agenda for resolving the US-China conflict

With charges flying back and forth between the United States and China ahead of the eagerly awaited December 1 meeting between President Donald Trump and...

Saturday 24/November/2018 14:58 PM

Trump’s protectionist quagmire

After World War II, the United States led the world in reducing protectionist barriers and establishing an open, rules-based trade system. That effort...

Saturday 24/November/2018 14:13 PM

Disaster capitalism comes to Puerto Rico

It has been more than a year since Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico, compounding the agony of a commonwealth that was already caught in an economic...