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We would likely get a harder edged, more insular, xenophobic and paranoid version in the White House second time around
‘We are locked into a battle of ideas with Beijing — our democratic values versus their authoritarian mindset,’ says Nicholas Burns
The concept seems to have become bifurcated
If there are any Indian auguries for America’s November 5 election, they might even be negative
Does anyone now look to a political system that tolerates a convicted felon as a model?
It is not as if the likely incoming Labour government will be able to reverse the bulk of the damage wrought
If the Big Tech company is found to be breaking the law, it could change corporate behaviour in a profound way
The benefits will go far beyond American shores
We ought to be paying more attention to the former president’s plan to reimpose Schedule F
Netanyahu blames antisemitism for campus protests. But has he forgotten his own embrace of Trumpism?
His final pick will have to say they believe 2020 election was stolen, and refuse to admit that the former president could lose in November
I’m sceptical that artificial intelligence will benefit anyone aside from Big Tech in the short term
The former president nominated Jay Powell, and to him there are few things worse than having loyalty betrayed
Frustration over the pace of technological change and our ability to control it is leading to an emotional hollowing out
Life is certainly harder for the Muslim and secular populations under Modi, but he has also overseen exceptional growth
What if the productivity gap is really about how large corporations use their economic and political power?
The American economist who once said the age of rapid innovation was over has a striking prognosis about AI
Suburban women in swing states believe the former president’s policies are too restrictive
US growth does not matter much to voters if interest rates remain elevated
This may be the moment we remember as a turning point towards a new world
Will the killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers prompt Biden to take action against Netanyahu’s government?
Beneficiaries of the old paradigm of US financialisation are beginning to express doubts over what it has achieved
Afghanistan’s reversion to its role as the host and incubator of cross-border Islamist terror was entirely foreseeable
Perhaps we’ll remember this moment in antitrust as a harbinger of a big correction
When a former vice-president spurns his former president, we ought to sit up and notice
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