Politics

UK assets face underestimated risk event, analysts warn as PM hopeful swerves call to calm investor nerves

One analyst said markets would reprice U.K. fiscal risk "accordingly and quickly" if Burnham's political ambitions come to light.

Americans should be reassured by high prices, apparently. Does Trump's team really think we're that stupid?

According to chief economic adviser Kevin Hassett, living in the world’s richest superpower and witnessing food, electricity and housing become luxury items is a good thing

Police want to decide which journalists can cover the Delaney Hall protests. That’s not their job

New Jersey police must not deny streamers press freedoms

My 3-year-old has started yelling at e-bikers. I taught her well

Earlier this year, I met my first archnemesis in my new neighborhood. She and I accompanied our daughters to school at around the same time every morning, but while I pushed my then-2-year-old in a stroller, she put her 6- or 7-year-old on the back of an electric scooter and zipped along the brick sidewalks at 15 miles per hour. More than once, she almost ran us over.

How Pulte won Trump by being an attack dog

Housing finance guru Bill Pulte captured President Donald Trump‘s attention by referring the commander in chief’s political enemies to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution over allegations of mortgage fraud.

The Left Needs to Rediscover Its Patriotism

A left that rejects a hopeful, empathetic love of the United States can never win the country to its side.

Trump’s legacy will be defined by the Supreme Court and the Middle East

The Age of Trump, like the Jacksonian Era long ago, will only be fully understood decades after its conclusion — if ever.

Prediction markets: Odds are Washington claims supremacy

Prediction markets have wandered into the middle of a fresh constitutional fight.

Ukrainian drones hit St Petersburg as ‘Russian Davos’ opens in city

Energy and military sites targeted as guests gather for economic forum where Putin is due to speak on Friday

James Ellroy: ‘It’s satanic to me, the dependency people have on computers’

The outspoken crime novelist talks his provocative new book, his hatred of technology and why the film adaptation of LA Confidential is a ‘turkey’

Thank God for Pope Leo. He’s the leader our world desperately needs

Even for nonbelievers like me, the pope has become a reassuring – and all too rare – voice of moral clarity

United States should pull the plug on UNRWA

The federal government should put an end to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA. It has long connived at Islamist terrorism against Israel and has, to put it mildly, long been an impediment to peace.