Joe Biden is using his 50 years of networking behind the scenes to get his vice-president the Democratic nod. There is a lot still to do, but the road ahead suddenly looks clearer.
Republicans were projected to win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, setting the stage for two years of divided government as President Joe Biden's Democratic Party held…
It is two weeks before the U.S. midterm elections that are taking place on Tuesday, 8 November 2022, in which all 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 35 of the 100 seats in the Senate will…
As the leaders of the Democratic Party look fearfully toward the midterm elections in November, many are recoiling from some of the left-wing progressives’ proposals that became prominent during the…
The centuries-old debate in the US about taxing the rich for the benefit of the poor and for maintaining a fair society, reached its climax last week when Elon Musk, the richest man on earth (almost …
The Turkish lira continues to touch record lows, the first of its kind, at a time when the Central Bank is trying to control its exchange rate against foreign currencies.
The lira continues its…
Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.
The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?
After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?
Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground