Oil made Venezuela rich. For decades it helped fund a stable democracy with the highest living standards in Latin America.

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Removing the barriers to women working would raise income per person by a fifth in many countries, estimates the World Bank—a ...

Indeed, Europe looks at first glance to be in markedly better fiscal shape than its transatlantic rival—a rare case in which ...

The bottom line was clear: let Russia do as it pleases, or else. It is a dead-end approach. For years after the fall of the ...

And whom should America welcome in the future? Mr Trump has offered a brutal answer to the first question, and a self-harming ...

A big dose of luck, and a distinctly odd character.

The warnings were apocalyptic. An „economic D-Day” was looming for Iran, blustered Donald Trump. It would be „the single ...

Yet Ms Ryan has a good point about noblesse oblige. She may never live like common people, but why should that bar her from ...

Mr Trump, who sees himself as an alpha male to his core, was never likely to limp quietly from office. Now that his dominance is threatened, the world will find him more disruptive than ever.

What did Mr O’Leary, who is best known for presenting „Shark Tank”, know about data centres? How would it be paid for? Or ...

This is one of many droll anecdotes in „Are They Dead Yet?”, a memoir and meditation on obituaries by Sam Roberts, a veteran writer of them at the New York Times. Nobel’s tale quirkily captures the ...