W e have two covers this week. In one we focus on France, a country mired in a deep political crisis after the sacking of the ...

On November 26th Bushra Khan, wife of Imran Khan, a jailed former Pakistani prime minister, rode into the capital, Islamabad, ...

Jillian Snider of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a retired police officer, reckons the killer may have had advanced ...

Jillian Snider of John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a retired police officer, reckons the killer may have had advanced ...

Instead, Chinese lenders have almost always given them longer to cough up. As a consequence, cash-strapped governments might ...

Yet China’s love of wagering endures. In Macau, the world’s casino capital, it is an economic necessity. Gambling provides 85 ...

Measured in constant 2024 dollars, the industry has grown modestly from $545bn in 2017—just before mass American sports ...

Cronyism and rapid industrialisation existed side-by-side in America’s gilded age, which ran from the late 1870s to the late ...

France has not been the only big spender. Even countries usually renowned for their fiscal hawkishness, including Austria, ...

Adani, the corporate face of Mr Modi’s India, has played a big role in this push for influence. The group recently signed a ...

It is turning gambling into a mammoth business. Americans may wager as much as $630bn online by the end of the decade, ...

Steve Cohen, the owner of the New York Mets, a baseball team, wants to build an $8bn gambling mecca next to their stadium in ...