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The presidential candidates are largely ignoring one of the biggest economic issues facing Americans: more than half are struggling to save enough for retirement.
When you pick apart the strange economics of global energy markets, it becomes clear how the incredible power of Riyadh can take other countries to the brink.
The upcoming TTIP trade agreement could force EU to liberalise GM regulations such as labelling.
Could this relatively unknown virus become a household name in the Americas in the year to come?
How today’s policy around savings and pensions has worrying echoes of failed 19th century approaches.
100 years ago, America’s infamous racist group staged a near-takeover of the nation’s film and media industries. Here’s how they did it.
With economies in Europe and America forging very different recoveries, their central banks are having to navigate by different stars.
It’s a collosal business. But who gets the most out of ‘rewards’? And what if we all used ours at once?
The irascible, unassuming junior senator from Vermont is riding high – and the effect could echo for years to come.
Politicians hate secrecy when in opposition but grow to love it when in power.
The film’s exploration of a young Irish woman’s emigration to 1950s New York digs beneath nostalgic stereotype.
Legislation proposed in both the US and the UK suggest an aggressive path toward entrenching surveillance powers at the cost of citizens’ privacy.
50 years after the UK first experimented with removing the death penalty for murder, one name has become our bridge to the hangman’s noose.
Increased submarine activity is fuelling concerns at Russia’s capability to wage information warfare on the West.
For a growing number of people, the truth will never be enough.
The merest hint of a successful deal over Iran’s nuclear programme is enough to get people excited. And as the country emerges from economic isolation, nowhere is the enthusiasm more keenly felt than in…
Disneyland Paris has lost money every year but one since it opened. So why doesn’t Disney shut it down?
Russia has different goals in Syria than the US and its allies. As ISIS weakens, that will become more apparent.
The face-off between Russia and the West in Syria is giving both sides a chance to try out their new high-tech weaponry.
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