The hegemon slips

The dots appear to contradict one another, puzzling observers. How to connect them? Inflation over the last five years has been double the Federal Reserve’s target. Why then, does it cut its key lendi

“America has progressed from infancy to senility without passing through a period of maturity.” So said a character in one of Ian Fleming’s short stories in 1960. He was wrong then – or, was he, as so

The US government has shut down again. But even as the shutdown approached, stocks rose. How could they go up while the single biggest player in the whole economy withdraws? Because maybe it doesn’t m

Qatari spokesperson Majed al-Ansari tells Newsweek of Gulf leaders’ plans to warn President Donald Trump of a “new threat perception” following Israel’s strikes in Doha

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