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While wealthy countries chase supplies of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s highly advanced mRNA vaccines, Oxford-AstraZeneca’s jab is set to take over...

Around 90 years ago, president Franklin D. Roosevelt found the US in a similar state to most pandemic-hit economies today: beset by a severe...

Another rare earths company may soon be going public in the US, presenting new opportunities for private investment in the domestic critical...

There’s a new a helix on the horizon.In a Feb. 2 blog post, Amazon revealed the latest plans for its sprawling office complex in Arlington,...

Gregory Meeks, the new chairman of the United States House Foreign Affairs Committee, has promised that the Biden administration will seek t...

On Feb. 4, the Delhi police registered an official complaint against a “toolkit” containing information on how to support the farmers’ prote...

There was already plenty of controversy surrounding the Summer Olympics set to start in July, with the host nation of Japan still in a state...

Succession plans are a bit like airplane landings: They only make news when something goes wrong.On Feb. 2, Jeff Bezos announced that he wou...

In the summer of 2010, Nina Eichacker was an intern at the US Department of Energy, analyzing the successes and failures of energy projects...

Robinhood has long capitalized on the belief that the little guy gets screwed by Wall Street. Now that story has boomeranged on the eight-ye...

The leaders of the European Union are on the defensive.More than a year into the pandemic, only 3% of people living in the EU have received...

When Janssen, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson, announced that its Covid-19 vaccine could prevent 66% of symptomatic Covid-19 cases, the r...

The Indian government has distributed millions of tablets of a controversial drug as part of its Covid-19 relief programme.On Feb. 2, the go...

During a pandemic year, mental health crises have received renewed focus across the world, including in India. And yet, the country has no d...

There is little water cooler talk during a pandemic. Co-workers do not bump into one another on the elevator or in hallways. There are no im...

“If you do it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal,” Jeff Bezos told Amazon employees this week...

Robinhood is not shying away from the spotlight.Amid a Reddit-inspired trading brawl that has roped in Elon Musk, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,...

Tech watchers have been itching to write Silicon Valley’s epitaph for years (indeed, many already have). While America’s preeminent tech hub...

Amazon might seem an unstoppable force in the US, but the picture has often looked different overseas. For years, the company’s internationa...

When Chinese short video app Kuaishou marked its ninth anniversary in June, its promotional video for the platform didn’t feature well-known...

When it comes to climate change, the world is on two different timelines. Since 1988, or even the 1890s, scientists have said (with increasi...

Hip hop is many things. Most recently is has become more of commodity, a commercial venture, but it has always been and remains a global cul...

It might have seemed like excitement about exclusive audio-only chat app Clubhouse couldn’t get any more intense. Then, in the wake of the G...

Taiwan’s economy expanded 2.98% in 2020, making it Asia’s fastest-growing in a year beset by Covid-19 disruptions. It even edged out China f...

For nearly two months, the central government and its agencies have claimed that India’s economy is on the path to a clear “V-shaped recover...