Amin and others saw the need for Africans to write their own accounts of Africa as part of postcolonial efforts towards decolonising societies often limited by neocolonial dependencies.

On every count he is wrong. Chart: The Economist Mr Trump’s dalliance with tariffs in his first term already shows that they did nothing to narrow America’s trade deficit. One reason is that ...

Tariffs are at the center of former President Donald Trump’s economic plan. It would be a dramatic shift in trade policy, but how would they work? WSJ explains what the proposals would look like ...

THE TRADITIONAL point of an inaugural address is to transcend the politics of the campaign and draw the country together. Donald Trump’s second inaugural was not that. But it stuck with ...

The bathetic scene will be familiar to many Jews who have traced their roots in eastern Europe. You go in search of der heim, your family’s cradle and the fulcrum of its lore, and discover there ...

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As they reach older age, they are not giving up their old habits. Chart: The Economist Among those for whom time’s winged chariot is hurrying a little nearer, drug and alcohol use—and abuse ...

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In 1937, when Benito Mussolini, then Italy’s fascist leader, opened Cinecittà, a sprawling film complex in Rome, his government adopted a variant of a slogan first ascribed to Lenin ...

The Economist’s recent article, “Africa Needs a Capitalist Revolution,” reflects their trend of oversimplified and paternalistic commentary on Africa. In May 2000, the same publication ...

More than half a century ago, the Nobel-prizewinning economist Robert Merton came up with a formula for happiness. The Merton share is a rule of thumb for determining an individual’s ideal ...