It is the narcotics traffickers who fill the town’s federal courthouse. Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, appointed by Donald Trump to preside over the vast rural division, spends most days overseeing trials ...

Mykhailivka, a village on the right bank of the River Dnieper in Ukraine, lies dangerously close to the front line of ...

Sir Keir Starmer had plenty of choices to take a victory lap after local elections in England on May 2nd. The Labour leader could have nipped to Swindon, home to a classic marginal constituency, where ...

Understanding how these harmonies conjure thoughts, memories and emotions is perhaps the greatest scientific question of all—the brain seeking to understand itself—and yet the question remains ...

For years the NHL has ranked a distant fourth in North American sports leagues, behind the National Football League ( NFL ), the National Basketball Association ( NBA) and Major League Baseball ( MLB) ...

To be published in America by Pantheon in August; $29 I N 1989 LARRY GAGOSIAN, who has since become the world’s most powerful art dealer, was asked whether there was anything he would like to see ...

More than a century on, financial globalisation’s second age has given the day trader tapping at her phone a menu of options that would put Keynes’s imaginary gentleman to shame. Though war has ...

It is tempting to conclude that the fragmentation described in this special report—of capital flows, payment networks and financial institutions—might be spurred by geopolitics, but has little bearing ...

The prioritisation of national security above unfettered investment is reshaping the movement of capital across borders. Global capital flows—especially foreign direct investment (FDI)—have plunged, ...

President Joe Biden condemned the violence that has swept university campuses all over America. “There’s the right to protest ...

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Indeed there would be. VTB’s shop front in the City of London kept busy for years (and briefly employed your correspondent). Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 finally prompted severe enough ...