PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES

Letter: Trumpian parallels in the annals of Ancient China

...The “Guoyu”, or “Discourses of the States”, an ancient text from the fourth century BC, describes “when the state is about to perish its ruler is greedy, reckless, depraved and perverted....

March 25, 2024

Working from home

The rise of the supercommuter

...“The whole ‘Willies’ culture [work in London, live in Edinburgh] has been there for years and lots of people do it given the importance of London for finance.”...

March 31, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Borderlands

The ‘brain waste’ of skilled migrants in Europe

...An EU-wide survey in 2021 found that 73 per cent of Portuguese people felt that the integration of immigrants in their local area was successful, well above the EU average of 42 per cent....

April 19, 2024

Zeinab Badawi

What the people of Sudan need from us

...The long-beleaguered people of Darfur, where the majority of provinces are in the hands of the RSF, have borne a particularly brutal burden. Reports of ethnic cleansing are grimly credible....

April 17, 2024

ReviewAlbums

St Vincent balances rawness and artifice on All Born Screaming

...Subsequent songs also take pleasure in extreme states of mind. “Reckless” treats sex as an all-consuming experience, the flipside of death....

April 24, 2024

Sovereign bonds

The looming New York sovereign debt bills debacle

...Capturing the mood in Albany, New York State Senate finance chair Liz Krueger said at a recent press conference that: This is an international issue that is destroying the people of other countries....

April 22, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Working It podcast14 min listen

What the rise of ‘supercommuters’ tells us about work

...But now that in-office work is back, a rising number of people are looking to eat their cake and have it, too, combining good jobs in urban centres with a peaceful rural life....

April 9, 2024

Borderlands

How Mexico’s ‘kabuki pantomime’ fails to stop US-bound migrants

...“Mexico will do as much or as little as required of them,” said Carlos Trujillo, who was Trump’s ambassador to the Organization of American States....

April 21, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The surprising public health benefit of unemployment

...given everyone’s lungs a break, it is likely to do lasting harm to the health of young people who graduated into the teeth of that downturn....

March 8, 2024

Palestine

US votes against move to give Palestinians UN membership

...“The United States is voting no on this proposed Security Council resolution,” state department spokesperson Vedant Patel said earlier on Thursday, adding that Washington saw direct negotiations between...

April 18, 2024

Donald Trump

Trump finds a sympathetic crowd in New York’s Harlem neighbourhood

...“Honestly, it should be 100 per cent of the Black people [that] vote for Trump because I did more for Black people than any president other than Abraham Lincoln,” he said at an event in Georgia in March....

April 20, 2024

Climate legislation

Republican states step up legal threats to Joe Biden’s climate agenda

...“The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.” The lawsuits are stacking up as Republican states rush to launch challenges ahead of the election....

April 12, 2024

US society

Columbia University’s ‘Gaza encampment’ becomes centre of US stand-off

...“Today, in the Gaza Solidarity Encampment, we are in high spirits. We are united in our cause. We are building community. We are eating together. We are keeping each other safe and warm....

April 24, 2024

Trade Secrets

The geopolitical EU learns to play the hypocritical game Premium

...Defending the right to be bullied Speaking of EU member states, let’s drop in briefly on “economic security”, and the underwhelming plans the EU unveiled a couple of weeks back....

February 5, 2024

How To Spend It In...

Louis Sarkozy’s guide to Washington DC

...Then I’d kick back with friends and contemplate the beauty of western civilisation. I’m in awe of Washington, this handsome city, the cultural capital of the USA....

April 24, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

Israel-Hamas war

Israelis turn on peace activists amid trauma of war

...Most Israelis remain united in support for their state’s ferocious retaliatory offensive against Hamas in Gaza, which has killed more than 32,000 people, according to Palestinian health officials, even as...

April 2, 2024

Due Diligence

The never-ending Manchester United deal saga Premium

...On the other, a self-proclaimed “local lad” in Manchester-born chemicals tycoon Ratcliffe, who is a resident in Monaco and using an Isle of Man entity to buy into United. Got that?...

January 12, 2024

The Big Read

The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?

...The accord must not “violate international sovereignty or infringe upon the rights of the American people or the intellectual property of the United States”, he said....

April 4, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Israel has not provided evidence to support UNRWA claims, report says

...7 attacks on the Jewish state, which killed 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials....

April 22, 2024

News in-depthMike Johnson

Inside House Speaker Mike Johnson’s conversion on aid for Ukraine

...Johnson also received briefings from top Pentagon officials, including those from United States European Command. The intelligence was persuasive....

April 24, 2024

Anjana Ahuja

Trump’s curious effect on trust in science

...range of people and places....

March 27, 2024

US economy

Biden is not getting the credit

...Yet RealClearPolitics’ polling average for the state puts Trump 5.7 per cent above the president. And views of the Georgia’s economic progress are as diverse as the state’s economy itself....

March 19, 2024

The Weekend Essay

What’s the point of private members’ clubs?

...There are multiple ways of contacting and meeting people, digitally and socially. No longer are they London homes from home for out-of-towners....

March 30, 2024

Inside BusinessSujeet Indap

Delaware, Inc agonises about Musk backlash as its lawyers seek changes

...The lawyers are members of the Delaware state bar association that customarily makes such proposals to update the state’s corporate law....

April 23, 2024

Janan Ganesh

The parable of Soho House

...But there is lots of it, lots of resentment in return and no understanding history without a sense of this eternal friction between people with cachet and people with cash....

February 16, 2024

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