2025-11-29 15:00:33
At the height of Brexit wars six years ago, Prime Minister Boris Johnson locked horns with Keir Starmer over a second referendum that might reverse the voters’ 2016 decision to quit the European Union. The stakes then seemed hugely consequential: Johnson’s government, it was widely believed, would complete the Thatcher revolution by turbocharging its economic and social model once free of the EU straitjacket. Watching anxiously in the wings were Germany and France, both fearing the UK would bec
2025-11-29 00:00:33
The danger for Kyiv comes from the kind of peace that resulted from the Punic Wars
2025-11-28 21:00:37
A big subject requires a big book — and few subjects are bigger than global capitalism. Karl Marx’s Das Kapital came to 3,000 pages in three volumes, and Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century to seven hundred pages. Now along comes Sven Beckert’s Capitalism: A Global History at 1,325 pages, reportedly one of the longest books ever produced by Penguin Press.
2025-11-28 21:00:33
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2025-11-28 19:30:33
More plainclothes delivery drivers are likely to appear on Ring cameras this holiday season.
2025-11-28 19:00:34
With the deployment of the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world’s largest aircraft carrier, the US has amassed a fearsome array of assets off the shores of Venezuela: dozens of advanced fighter jets, thousands of troops, guided-missile destroyers, special operations forces, armed drones, gunships, possibly a nuclear submarine. More useful, however, would be a strategy.
