Yesterday
The most expensive mistake in sports history
Mercedes’ decision to introduce a radical new design into Formula 1 may have cost the company $1 billion.
- Jonathan Clegg and Joshua Robinson
- Opinion
- Global economy
Why Europe is becoming poorer than America
Oversized governments in Britain and on the Continent have crushed productivity growth, allowing US incomes to grow twice as fast.
- Ruchir Sharma
This Month
America’s campaign to kill Huawei has failed
After international sanctions drove profits down 70 per cent, the Chinese telecommunications company learnt that it didn’t need to rely on the West.
- The Economist
The #MeToo lawyer accused of being a tyrant
Roberta Kaplan’s poor treatment of colleagues, including micromanagement, insults and personal attacks, triggered her expulsion from the firm she founded.
- Katie J.M. Baker
- Opinion
- AI
The bear case against Nvidia and artificial intelligence
The computer chip company will struggle to sustain its growth as interest in AI wanes.
- Parmy Olson
- Editorial Of The Times
- US Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court gives a free pass to Trump and future presidents
In a step towards monarchy, the bedrock principle that presidents are not above the law has been set aside.
- The Editorial Board
Indonesia’s remote new capital looks like a disaster
President Joko Widodo’s plan to create a city on an old timber plantation is late and over budget.
- Joseph Rachman
June
- Opinion
- China relations
We must consider imposing non-military costs on China
We are failing to deter China from committing increasingly frequent acts of aggression and intimidation against Taiwan.
- John Lee
The rise of Keir Starmer, from ‘superboy’ to Labour leader
Born without privilege, he raised himself to high office through his own endeavours; yet he is somehow reluctant to celebrate this success.
- Gordon Rayner
- Opinion
- Investing
A stock trader’s guide to navigating the French election
The prospect of a change in the balance of power in France has investors on edge. These are the sectors most affected by the coming political upheaval.
- Sagarika Jaisinghani, Verena Sepp and Julien Ponthus
- Opinion
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
What Israel’s ultra-orthodox draft means for Netanyahu
The Israeli Prime Minister relies on the support of minority parties to hold on to power. The court ruling has put some of them offside.
- Melanie Lidman
The insiders: the three men at the core of Biden’s brains trust
The US president is surrounded by a diverse, multigenerational crowd of operatives, but his full trust is in a small circle who are the definition of old school.
- Katie Rogers and Michael D. Shear
The Ozempic effect: How weight loss wonder drug gobbled up an economy
Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has grown so large in its native Denmark that it’s hard to find staff. Meanwhile, its philanthropic foundation is running out of local causes to support.
- Sanne Wass and Naomi Kresge
A Las Vegas residency is a nice little earner for top stars
When flamboyant pianist Liberace settled in for a prolonged stay in 1955, it started a trend that’s proved lucrative for performers and the city as a whole.
- Christopher Palmeri
Why Israel doesn’t care what the world thinks
The international community thinks Israel is fighting a war of choice. Israel doesn’t see it that way, says US writer and author Bret Stephens.
- Emma Connors
The man who foresaw the rise of campus antisemitism
Melbourne philosopher Frank Knopfelmacher was a world-class critic of totalitarianism who watched the left turn on Israel.
- John Carroll
How the tech elite went from disruptors to disrupted
Some of the world’s most powerful business executives allowed themselves to be seduced by Donald Trump.
- Kara Swisher
- Opinion
- Culture wars
Britain’s arts sector learns the cost of being too pure for finance
A bank and asset manager have withdrawn their sponsorship of music and book festivals in the UK after activists called for boycotts.
- Celia Walden
Online shopping has become a giant fake-product machine
TikTok is better than any other digital platform for turning cult favourites into global bestsellers – and making counterfeiters money.
- Amanda Mull
- Opinion
- Culture wars
The educated elite is destroying America
Progressive culture has spread from the universities to national life, triggering a backlash that benefits political populists such as Donald Trump.
- David Brooks