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New research reveals that EU fiscal tightening reduces output, raises unemployment, and widens income gaps — especially during recessions.

Europe’s new Right to Repair Directive will make it easier — and cheaper — for consumers to get their household goods fixed, rather than buy something new. Part of the E. U. ’s Green Deal, the plan is expected to slash waste, promote recycling, and cut greenhouse gas emissions.

As geopolitical tensions rise in the Horn of Africa, Cairo is flaunting its military might.

Anthropic doesn’t trust this administration with its technology—and it has a point.

The Indian leader has made a strategic bet on the bilateral relationship.

Eschewing a U. S. -style double-tap strike, the Cuban government rescued survivors.

Many regional leaders worry that the U. S. oil embargo on Cuba will have spillover consequences.

Many regional leaders worry that the U. S. oil embargo on Cuba will have spillover consequences.

How a dispute between Afreximbank and Fitch Ratings is challenging financial orthodoxy.

Democrats stayed seated as Trump attacked trans kids at the State of the Union. With midterms coming, there’s more where that came from.

Before Democrats can articulate a more humane foreign policy, they need to reckon with the mortal sin of the genocide in Gaza.

Targeting oil infrastructure that recalcitrant Hungary relies on lets Kyiv hit two birds with one drone.

Lasting impressions from a jaunt across China

Crime groups operate less like nations and more like banks.

Citing a ProPublica investigation that found that workers at federal lockups had been lured away to ICE, lawmakers asked how the Federal Bureau of Prisons plans to address the agency’s “unsafe conditions” and “pervasive” shortages of critical staff.

Beijing is less likely to risk an invasion while Trump is facilitating its pressure campaign against Taipei.

Akela Lacy, Jessica Washington, and Jordan Uhl on Trump’s speech and the Democratic Party’s response.

Some 20,000 Islamic State affiliates are now at large, and no one has a plan for what to do about it.

A new book shows why Europe’s broadening vs. deepening debate is a false choice.

This is the 150th anniversary of Rilke’s birth. Or, you might say, the 99th anniversary of his death. I asked a small group of students if they knew of