Ken Paxton, Texas’s populist attorney-general, and John Cornyn, the four-term incumbent, advanced to a run-off on May 26th to ...

A MERICANS HAVE been arguing about immigration since the country’s founding. In his first message to Congress as president in ...

The record of Mr Theodore Roosevelt, who under the Constitution becomes President until March, 1905, as politician, as soldier in the Spanish War, and as Governor of New York, is acknowledged to be ...

The Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ), a six-nation club, bristles with modern air defences. Five of the six countries—Oman ...

Iran's attacks on Dubai have damaged key infrastructure including the airport and port, testing the emirate's reputation as a ...

D URING THE American Gilded Age of the late 19th century, economic booms and busts followed each other so regularly that they ...

Emmanuel Macron announces France will increase its nuclear stockpile and create a new deterrence partnership with seven European countries including Germany.

After America and Israel struck at the heart of the mullahs’ regime on February 28th, killing its supreme leader, what remains of the regime is desperate. And both aspects of the nightmare scenario ...

Mr Trump’s approval ratings have plummeted in recent months. Issues that once buoyed him—such as the economy and ...

An even bigger threat to investors than the prospect of rising defence budgets proving illusory is that governments are dead ...

T he rich, argues The Economist, are already paying more than their fair share, and any attempt to tax them more would be ...

Ms Reeves’s restraint was welcome. Her tenure has been plagued by feverish conjecture about tax changes, especially before ...