THE FRIDAY news dump is a venerable technique to minimise attention to a controversial announcement. On December 23rd the Supreme Court performed the Christmas equivalent, dealing President Donald ...

In Donald Trump’s state-of-the-union speech on February 24th, he boasted that America had made a “turnaround for the ages”. The president’s net approval rating—which fell this week to -19—suggests ...

“Do you know what really impresses me? I saw a robot pick up an egg!’’ exclaimed Roger Smith, chairman of General Motors, in 1985. The American carmaker, which two decades earlier had been the first ...

THE GERMANS are an inventive bunch. They came up with the printing press, the car and the X-ray machine, not to mention MP3s and gummy bears. The country remains a big contributor to technological ...

NO OTHER FIRM has benefited from the boom in artificial intelligence (AI) as much as Nvidia. Since January 2023 the chipmaker’s share price has surged by almost 450%. With the total value of its ...

BITCOIN has a bad reputation. The decentralised digital cryptocurrency, powered by a vast computer network, is notorious for the wild fluctuations in its value, the zeal of its supporters and its ...

ON AUGUST 31ST 1910 Theodore Roosevelt delivered a fiery speech in Osawatomie, Kansas. The former president celebrated America’s extraordinary new commercial power but also gave warning that America’s ...

CENTRAL-BANK digital currencies are coming. China has started large-scale trials of the “e-yuan”. European officials want to launch a digital euro by 2025. America’s Federal Reserve is studying ...

WHEN SCHOLARS of international relations predict that the 2000s will be a “Chinese century”, they are not being premature. Although America remains the lone superpower, China has already replaced it ...

MAX, a young Haitian, lives in Pequeño Haití in Santo Domingo but does not feel welcome there. “Dominicans want all this island for themselves,” he says, referring to Hispaniola, which is shared by ...