Brazil’s election results Sunday make one thing clear: The country is turning further to the right, and not even the old lion of Latin America’s left, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, can stand in its way a...

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Delcy alights from a glamorous Gulfstream G500 onto the tarmac of Teterboro, a short drive from Manhattan. She is all smiles, exuding confidence. Later, she meets US President Donald Trump. More smile...

If AI hasn’t finished off your local newspaper yet, just wait. It will. OpenAI, the company that built ChatGPT, has called itself an “existential threat” to news publishers.

Facts are facts, so let’s just state it plainly: Howard Buffett is a nepo baby. And this is one of the rare cases where I think we should be OK with it.

The bill for a season in youth sports comes in installments: new skates, registration fees and uniforms. Then there’s the price of travel tournaments, gas and restaurant meals. Finally, the hotel requ...

Copper prices are hitting records as the world struggles with shortages. Why on earth is a giant $10 billion mine that accounts for about 1.5% of global production sitting idle in the Panamanian jungl...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and his critics agree on one thing: The Pentagon is in urgent need of transformation. The change he’s pursuing, however, is endangering that vital mission.

As the US doubles down on oil and gas, the rapid shift by emerging markets into alternative sources of energy is forcing a reset that will have profound consequences for global power dynamics, accordi...

A Big Mac in Mexico already costs almost $6.50. So does a gallon of premium gasoline. The shiny new iPhone 18 Pro? That will set you back 29,999 pesos, or about $1,765 at 17 to the dollar, nearly 50% ...

Last week’s visit to Ukraine by US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner appeared to achieve little: After they left Kyiv, Russian missiles again struck the Ukrainian capital, killing civilians and d...

President Donald Trump sees the art of geopolitics as a matter of money and leverage. As a result, he’s relied on fellow businesspeople to do the work of diplomats in Gaza, Ukraine and the Persian Gul...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has temporarily deprived Democrats of a potent midterm rallying cry and averted a crisis for El Salvador’s president, one of President Donald...

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin has temporarily deprived Democrats of a potent midterm rallying cry and averted a crisis for El Salvador’s president, one of President Donald...

Entrepreneurs are the heroes of capitalism. They create something out of nothing — products where there were no products, jobs where there were no jobs — and in the process boost the productive power ...

The African diplomats who drafted a recent resolution by the United Nations to “Correct the Map” of the world made a tactical error when they oversold their bit of common sense with flamboyant claims ...

Brasilia is finally getting rain, ending a punishing dry season. Inside the government’s iconic modernist buildings, though, the temperature is only rising.

The Davos set and the MAGA mob are usually like cats and dogs. But when it comes to the relationship between globalization and nationalism, they are as one. They both believe that you must choose betw...

What if the secret to happiness was … low expectations?

Almost two years after Donald Trump first threatened to take over the Panama Canal, the storied watershed is thriving.

What if the secret to happiness was … low expectations?

Learn about the current outbreak of Ebola disease affecting DRC and Uganda.

The statements came 14 years apart, but they almost could have been written from the same template.

In the current Russian leadership’s rather 19th — though increasingly 21st — century view of how the world works, lesser powers must defer to great ones or pay the price. The UK, a country in a catego...

The Mohamed Jama case in Minnesota -- one of almost 40 that have fallen apart -- provides evidence that Customs and Border Patrol agents conspired to do precisely what the MN-15 are accused of: illega...

Daron Acemoglu’s new book, What Happened to Liberal Democracy?, is deservedly commanding a lot of attention. One of the world’s most eminent economists, the author combines extraordinary historical br...

Six months after Energy Secretary Chris Wright pledged that the US-Venezuela partnership would lead to a “dramatic increase” in oil, natural gas and electricity production, the gusher has yet to gush.

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

Multiple sailors aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln have attempted to go overboard as the carrier's deployment stretches into its ninth month.

Brazilians will head to the polls in less than two months to elect their next president. What do the country’s 159 million voters care most about? Crime, narcotrafficking and corruption. They also wor...

Silicon Valley's oligarchs are plotting your future

Can Guyana outrun the mismanagement and corruption that have afflicted so many other petro-states?