Three short words, “Crisis. What crisis?” still send a shiver down the spines of Labour ministers, five decades after the tabloid Sun newspaper plastered the plangent headline across its front page. In January 1979, a tanned Prime Minister James Callaghan returned from West Indies summit with the leaders of France, Germany and the US, to be confronted by a wave of strikes in shivering Britain. Callaghan downplayed the gravity of the situation compared with the importance of high level diplomac

A massive winter storm looms this weekend, stretching from the desert Southwest to New England. Power grids are on high alert, mindful of the blackouts or near misses when similar conditions hit in re...

Washington lowers the volume on Greenland as potential financial repercussions emerge.

For those who think about politics in terms of ideology and rigid categories, the extraordinary events in Venezuela pose an uncomfortable question: what is the morally correct position to take in a dr...

And Europe’s open awareness of how to use it should give the US pause.

Europe has been through many ages in its busy history: the age of discovery, the age of reason, the age of expansion, the age of destruction, and the age of unification. Now it is entering a new one: the age of humiliation.

For those who think about politics in terms of ideology and rigid categories, the extraordinary events in Venezuela pose an uncomfortable question: what is the morally correct position to take in a drama this complex?

Investors who bet early on William Brown to turn around 3M Co. made the right call.

This month, as Americans who rely on Affordable Care Act plans opened their first bills of 2026 and experienced sticker shock, President Donald Trump began pitching them on an alternative: his “Great Healthcare Plan,” which would shift government support away from subsidizing insurance coverage toward putting money directly into accounts that consumers can use to pay for care.

The Environmental Protection Agency’s decision to stop quantifying the health benefits of regulating soot and ozone is a victory for polluters and a loss for the public. Masking the benefits will make it easier for the EPA to defend lax regulations on toxic emissions but harder to make America healthy again. More people will get sick and die, and the EPA will bear some of the blame.

So far, California Governor Gavin Newsom has been on something of a glide path to the Democratic presidential nomination in 2028 — should he ultimately decide to run, that is. But a few signs of trouble were apparent during his brief remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Thursday morning.

A massive winter storm looms this weekend, stretching from the desert Southwest to New England. Power grids are on high alert, mindful of the blackouts or near misses when similar conditions hit in recent years. How well they fare will be a test of the work done since to weatherize electricity supply — and a test of grid-stabilizing batteries. For the latter, this storm could be like an early Super Bowl ad.

President Donald Trump, confronted with European pushback and a mini-meltdown in financial markets, abandoned plans this week to launch a Greenland takeover and suffocate allies who didn’t support him with hefty tariffs. Europe has few tools at its disposal to exercise direct sway over Trump, but the continent may have finally abandoned the notion that it could use gentle courting and bargaining to avoid becoming a punching bag.

Cyberattacks have been a great business line for insurers selling cover against digital hijackings. But this lucrative opportunity has inevitably attracted greedy new entrants who’ve put downward pressure on pricing and profitability. Cue falling valuations for the specialist cyber insurers and now a takeover bid for a FTSE-100 player at an eye-catching premium.

Even as the world focuses on the future of Greenland, the Trump administration has effectively walked away from events in Iran. Following the largest protests in the country since the 1979 revolution, President Donald Trump put the theocratic regime on notice that further killing of protesters would provoke a US response. He later appeared to accept assurances that the executions had been halted — claims that many observers doubt. Credible human rights organizations believe that thousands, perha

It’s surreal living in a war zone when you can’t see the war. London is under assault: Crime is “through the roof,” creating no-go areas and rendering the city unrecognizable, according to US President Donald Trump — claims amplified by his MAGA allies, a growing social-media army and Reform UK’s leader Nigel Farage. At the same time, statistics this month showed the British capital’s homicide rate falling to a record low, below that of many global peers and at a fraction of the level endured by

I gave up drinking on Jan. 20, 2025. What has a year without alcohol been like? And has it been worth it?

Americans are spending down their savings, leaving them less cash to buy everything from houses to Harry Styles concert tickets.

With markets from Tokyo to New York on edge this week, the warning sign flashing around a large Mumbai builder didn’t get much attention. But Indian investors were keeping a close eye. When Oberoi Realty Ltd. missed analysts’ forecasts for sales and profit and posted a smaller operating margin in its residential unit, there was a stampede to get out of property stocks.

This time last year, the hottest Chinese tech product was DeepSeek’s market-moving artificial intelligence model. In 2026, it’s something far simpler: an app for people worried about dying alone.

The global monetary chiefs who flocked to the defense of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, under siege from the White House, were no doubt sincere in their desire for central bank independence. But that fellowship — from Frankfurt to Seoul — was also acting out of self-interest.

Also private credit liquidity, 10b5-1 abuse, Thinking Machines and Musk vs. O’Leary.

The US government released some long-delayed data Thursday that seemed to prove true the cliché about never betting against American consumers.