Following its failed crypto scheme, authoritarian president Nayib Bukele’s cash-strapped government is making moves to reverse El Salvador’s metal mining ban. Its reintroduction would be
Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina, is expected to announce her bid for president this month. As a South Carolinian, I can tell
Climate protesters target Shell in Pittsburgh, United States (Picture: Mark Dixon) Planet killing oil and gas company Shell stole its highest profits in its 115‑year history
Pakistan’s finance minister senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar The Pakistani state could soon follow Sri Lanka into a crisis of bankruptcy and spiralling inflation. If it
Underpaid, overworked, and struggling to hold up a health service collapsing in on itself – junior doctors speak to Tribune about why NHS workers can’t
Given the programs’ popularity, the only way to break Social Security and Medicare is an economic shock. It’s possible that manufacturing such a shock is
Before their illiberal turn, Poland and Hungary were lauded as postcommunist poster children. Both nations have combined moderately redistributive welfare states with attacks on civil
The coffin was inscribed with 13,400, the number of excess winter deaths in 2021-22 (Picture: NPC on Twitter) Campaigners staged an angry “death march” to
The Right plans to seize on the debt ceiling to ram through unpopular ideas. The strategy could force Democrats to choose between government paralysis or
The bipartisan establishment is having a freak-out over the prospect of a modest cut to the defense budget. It’s not clear it will actually happen
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