French bond investors are demanding sharply higher interest rates, a cautionary development for other high-debt countries.

A government-debt crisis is looming

And petty squabbling always wins

Deficits, spreads against Germany and the risk of President Le Pen are all rising

Exports through the Strait of Hormuz and beyond are soaring but prices remain stubbornly high

The firms most exposed to China are suffering. But many are adapting

We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

A star-studded new play brings back an old star economist

In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.

In “Profiles in Cowardice,” Jacob Weisberg offers a grim twist on John F. Kennedy’s collection of heroic biographies.

Antonin Baudry's imaginative adaptation of my biography of de Gaulle, ‘A Certain Idea of France’, raises questions about which liberties film-makers may take when depicting the past.

Pro-fractievoorzitter Jesse Klaver vraagt premier Rob Jetten nogmaals of het kabinet bereid is om de bezuinigingen op het sociale vangnet „uit de boeken te halen”. Jetten hapt niet toe. Volgens hem he...

Huisvestingskosten: Over het plan, dat de positie van arbeidsmigranten in Nederland moet verbeteren, ontstond eerder grote politieke ophef. Toenmalig minister van Sociale Zaken Mariëlle Paul (VVD) inf...

The French-size problem at the heart of the EU

But Kevin Warsh has bought himself time

De Bedrijfskantine over de grens: Deze zomer luncht NRC mee bij bedrijven en werkenden in het buitenland. Deze week: de melkbar in Polen.

VVD-fractievoorzitter Ruben Brekelmans staat bekend als een koele politicus. Maar misschien blikt zelfs hij met enige nervositeit vooruit naar de Algemene Politieke Beschouwingen over twee weken. Dan ...

And markets like it

Britain needs something to cheer it up. This will do

A Rorschach test with a side of meatballs

French art experts insisted the fragile 900-year-old masterpiece could never travel. Political will, cutting-edge engineering and unorthodox diplomacy proved them wrong.

At 150 years old, Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle still commands attention

His 1960s science-fiction visions are a guide to our age of erratic billionaires, wild space fantasies and glitchy, invasive technology

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