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In the 1990s and the early years of this century, the United States' global dominance could scarcely be questioned. No matter which metric of power one looked at, it showed [...]

As relations between China and the United States grow more antagonistic, the rest of the world is watching with unease. Washington has repeatedly accused Beijing of spying on Americans and [...]

When Russian forces marched on Kyiv in February 2022, few thought Ukraine could survive. Russia had more than twice as many soldiers as Ukraine. Its military budget was more than [...]

Over the course of many evenings in 1952 and 1953, when I was a kindergartner, my family gathered around a hand-medown TV in the Chicago housing project where we lived [...]

For over a century, people around the world have lived through an American era: a period dominated by U.S. power, wealth, institutions, ideas, alliances, and partnerships. But many now believe [...]

We stand at the beginning of history. For every person alive today, ten have lived and died in the past. But if human beings survive as long as the average [...]

For more than 70 years, starting in the middle of World War II, the United States bestrode the world like a colossus. Its economy and military emerged from the war [...]

For years, analysts have debated whether the United States incited Russian President Vladimir Putin's interventions in Ukraine and other neighboring countries or whether Moscow's actions were simply unprovoked aggressions. That [...]

'It's worse than you think' can be a hard message to get across—because the cover assumes how bad you actually think 'it' is. At The Economist, we have long reckoned [...]

Multiple signs point to a crisis in global order. The uncoordinated international response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the resulting economic downturns, the resurgence of nationalist politics, and the hardening of [...]

No one can say we didn't see it coming. Since the end of the Cold War, and even before, it has been obvious that a rapidly rising China could eventually [...]

As this issue goes to press, the war in Ukraine is far from over. It seems likely to go on for weeks or months or even years, whether as a [...]

Being in charge is hard work, but it has its perks TO BE CALLED an isolationist these days is a bit like being called a climate-change denier or a free-market [...]

IT'S NO SECRET THAT THE HOLLYWOOD studios have gone global in their push to appeal to audiences worldwide. As domestic box-office growth slows, Hollywood is looking to the exploding markets [...]

THE LIBERAL ELITE has been redefined. Call it the Ruling Class, and the rest of us the Country Class. In the last issue we published one of the longest pieces [...]