Each Christmas The Economist names a country of the year. Not the happiest: that would nearly always be Scandinavian, making for a dull, predictable contest. Nor the most influential: that would ...

The QSR industry has been through two radical reinventions in the last 75 years. And we are on the precipice of the third. I’ve dubbed the first wave of reinvention “Land & Expand,” which took place ...

PICKING A WORD of the year is not easy. In the past the American Dialect Society has gone with “tender-age shelters” (2018) and “-ussy” (2022). The Oxford English Dictionary (oed) has caused ...

Paul Whiteley has received funding from the British Academy and the ESRC. The resounding victories in recent elections by Democrats Zohran Mamdani in New York, Abigail Spanberger in Virginia and Mikie ...

The question “at first struck me as too open-ended to be usefully addressed by standard economics,” said Charles Jones of Stanford. He took a shot anyway. By Peter Coy The world is plowing trillions ...

A peculiar aspect of crypto has been the speed at which it has evolved, the polarised discussions around it and the incredible slowness of regulations as well as policy in contrast. It has also gone ...

LONDON, Nov. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ --The Economist has launched The World Ahead, the annual special year-end issue from The Economist that examines important themes, trends and events that will shape ...

Charles Gascon, an economist with the St. Louis Fed, presents at Greater St. Louis Inc.’s annual economic outlook breakfast. Uncertainty in the economy overall has driven some of the choppy conditions ...

An original black-and-white chart from a 2009 law review article written by Columbia Law School professor Bernard E. Harcourt was colorized by the Economist, and you’ve probably seen it on whatever ...

Jaxson O’Brien, maintenance supervisor at CHS Laurel Refinery in Montana, told attendees at the 2025 AFPM Summit about a compressor problem that initially seemed minor but ultimately required a ...

Neo-Nazi Trump ally Steve Bannon told The Economist magazine in an interview Thursday that President Trump will have “at least” one more term in office and that the leaders of his MAGA movement “have ...