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We have collectively stopped thinking about how, when legislation on financial regulation gets hammered out, political economy enters into the picture, says Chrystia Freeland, the U.S. Managing Editor of the […]
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Secretary of Defense nominee Charlie Wilson famously remarked in his 1953 confirmation hearing that he couldn’t imagine something in GM’s interests that ran contrary to the interests of the country. […]
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The U.S. Managing Editor of the FT addresses the validity of economists’ views, the alleged entanglement of news and opinion, and the ongoing attempt to build a “broad church.”
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A conversation with the U.S. Managing Editor of the Financial Times.
The US secret service is investigating an apparent hanging effigy of President Barack Obama slung from a storefront by a noose in Georgia.
Giving up smoking sharply increases the risk of developing type-two diabetes according to a US study which suggests an increased risk of 70 per cent for quitters in the first six years.
Blogger Steven Frischling, suspected of leaking a TSA document, has had his Twitter account implicated in a bizarre fracas with a TSA agent who allegedly posed as Frischling online.
A spill of diesel fuel in China’s second-longest river has been “effectively” contained by barricades according to the China National Petroleum Corp.
An exhibition of naturally sculpted rock from China’s Qing Dynasty opens in London this week – baffling onlookers with displays of elaborately eroded stone on wooded plinths.
The tallest building in the world, Dubai’s new Khalifa Tower, is “a frightening purposeless monument to the subprime era” writes The Telegraph’s Stephen Bayley.
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton has warned that Yemen poses a global threat and has pledged American support in the Yemeni government’s fight against al-Qaeda.
Solar physicists investigating the mysteries of the solar corona have unearthed further clues by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere during eclipses over the last five years.
NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are “too hot to be plants and too small to be stars” – neither of which fit any definition of known astro objects.
A “cocktail” of different nanometer-sized particles which can be used to target and kill cancerous tumours have been developed by researchers in California and Massachusetts.
For years, adolescents have yawned their way through an ever-growing crop of programs designed to prevent them from engaging in “bad” or dangerous behavior. From DARE to Driver’s Ed to […]
If sports clichés have taught us anything, it’s that any good sports team requires certain players that provide key elements to the overall collective. The debonair leader, the pugnacious underdog, […]
A conversation with the bestselling author and leading expert on business and business sociology.
Writing in the New York Times, Bono makes his case for anti-piracy legislation. For the first time in the Financial Times’ history, online and print subscribers now contribute more revenue […]
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Though modern science may present us with the unflattering image of human life as a “bottomless terror,” New Age attempts to disguise the truth and embellish this portrait are what […]
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The illusion that time moves and is distinct from space is one of our deepest misconceptions about the natural world.