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E ver since turning communist, China has set top-down targets for its economy. Mao Zedong wanted to double steel output in a ...

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Ken Paxton, Texas’s populist attorney-general, and John Cornyn, the four-term incumbent, advanced to a run-off on May 26th to ...

Add the much smaller health-care operation and the three heirs are worth $600bn, five times GE ’s value before the split was ...

A MERICANS HAVE been arguing about immigration since the country’s founding. In his first message to Congress as president in 1801, Thomas Jefferson insisted it was too difficult for newcomers to ...

Should AI labs unquestioningly obey the Pentagon? Donald Trump’s administration seems to think so. Last week it banned ...

T he American-Israeli campaign against Iran is not abating. Since February 28th the two countries have bombed a range of targets, including Iran’s leadership, military infrastru ...

The Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ), a six-nation club, bristles with modern air defences. Five of the six countries—Oman ...

After America and Israel struck at the heart of the mullahs’ regime on February 28th, killing its supreme leader, what ...