F or five years, observers of Middle East politics in Washington have tried to guess who would next join the Abraham accords, the 2020 agreements that saw four Arab states (the United Arab Emirates, ...
Interventionist fiscal policy may have stopped demand from collapsing. But the intervention is so large that politicians are ...
In 2020 and 2021 lockdown policies and fiscal largesse from governments were paired with the increasing provision of crypto trading by mainstream brokers. From late 2023 hopes began to build that ...
British media help the country punch above its weight. Although 53% of Brits now say they have little to no trust in the BBC, ...
The World Ahead 2026 is the 40th edition of The Economist’s future-gazing annual, published every November since 1986, to provide a guide to the trends, themes and people likely to shape the coming ...
THE WORLD has spent much of the past two decades in an increasingly bad mood. Levels of anger, sadness and stress crept up year after year according to polls; the pandemic pushed them higher still.
A dinner hosted by the London Metals Exchange every October is where “base” metals meet the West End. In a glitzy ballroom, 1,500 black-tied guests talk beneath chandeliers, take selfies on ...
British manufacturers reported the sharpest fall in output since August 2020 during the three months to the end of November, due to uncertainty ahead of next week's annual budget, and do not expect ...
Resource-driven migration pressures are rising just as the world is hardening its borders. In July 2025, the International ...
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV will pray at the site of the 2020 port blast in Beirut that killed over 200 people and compounded Lebanon’s economic and political crisis during his first foreign trip as pope ...
The Bank Group launched the 2020–25 Fragility, Conflict, and Violence (FCV) Strategy with the aim of strengthening its ...
The Economist has launched The World Ahead, the annual special year-end issue from The Economist that examines important themes, trends and events that will shape the coming year. The World Ahead 2026 ...