High inflation in 2021-23 meant that prices and incomes grew quickly, pushing up America’s nominal economic output. Meanwhile ...

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The author made her name with “Gulag”, a Pulitzer-prizewinning history of the Soviet Union’s prison camps. Her new book is shorter and more urgent. Today’s strongmen typically crave little besides ...

FOR FIFTY-SEVEN years Israel has justified its control over the territories it captured in 1967 with a combination of historic, legal, diplomatic and security arguments: The eastern part of Jerusalem ...

R ARELY HAS so divisive a figure been so honoured by America’s political class. On July 24th Binyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, ...

Yet things have recently moved in a different direction: the gap between America’s and Japan’s five-year government bond ...