In March 2025, the Urban Company — an app service based in India — published the following advertisement: Your maid left you hanging? We leave your home spotless! InstaMaids at your service in 15 ...

Public dissatisfaction with democracy continues to outweigh satisfaction across 12 high-income countries that Pew Research Center has surveyed consistently since 2017. Across that set of countries – ...

Editor’s Note: Jill Dougherty is a former CNN Moscow bureau chief, an adjunct professor at Georgetown University and a CNN contributor on Russia. A decade ago, Georgia was the poster child of ...

Mr. Rodrik is an economist who has researched globalization and development for more than three decades. From the White House Rose Garden, President Trump called it “Liberation Day” for the United ...

Protectionism has met with plenty of criticism over the last several months, but the magnitude of the danger it poses is not yet fully appreciated. Much of the discussion surrounding the tariffs ...

President Trump and Elon Musk's plans for a wholesale reduction of the federal workforce have brought turmoil to a sector long seen as a bastion of stability. The Trump administration says more cuts ...

WASHINGTON — A survey of more than 500 political scientists finds that the vast majority think the United States is moving swiftly from liberal democracy toward some form of authoritarianism. In the ...