Politics

Allison Schrager To President Joe Biden’s credit, his policies didn’t cause many of the economic problems we face today. But they did make them worse. Even more troubling, his policies might reduce growth in the future and make the economy less equal and resilient. The president normally doesn’t have much impact on the current economy; he doesn’t set energy or ...

Northern Ireland is set for a second election this year after the biggest unionist party again prevented the region’s government from forming, amid a row over post-Brexit trade rules that has major implications for the UK. The Democratic Unionist Party stopped the election of an Assembly Speaker and prevented the election of an Executive for a fourth time Thursday, after ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping said his nation is willing to work with the US to find ways to cooperate, comments that come before a potential meeting with President Joe Biden at a Group of 20 summit next month. Better communication between the two nations would bolster global peace and development, Xi said in a letter to the National Committee on ...

Citing burgeoning threats from Russia and China, the Pentagon’s new National Defense Strategy rejects limits on using nuclear weapons long championed by arms control advocates and, in the past, by President Joe Biden. “By the 2030s the United States will, for the first time in its history face two major nuclear powers as strategic competitors and potential adversaries,” the Defense ...

Brazil’s presidential race is still tightening according to a new opinion poll that takes into account voters most likely to show up on election day. The Quaest poll published Wednesday followed a trend seen in other surveys this week that showed President Jair Bolsonaro’s overall momentum fading, but it also gauged the possible impact of abstention rates on Sunday’s runoff ...

Russia carried out military exercises simulating a retaliatory nuclear strike as President Joe Biden warned Vladimir Putin that any use of an atomic weapon would be an “incredibly serious mistake.” As he oversaw the drills, Putin was told by his defense chief that the maneuvers on Wednesday were meant to simulate a “massive nuclear strike” in response to an attack, ...

President Jair Bolsonaro’s momentum in opinion polls seemed to stall after a series of blunders and incidents over the past few days, including the arrest of one of his most outspoken supporters —an episode that turned violent and shook Brazilians ahead of Sunday’s presidential runoff. Leftist challenger Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 76, would take 54% of valid votes, which ...

President Joe Biden’s advisers are working on setting up a meeting with Xi Jinping and maintaining a dialogue after the Chinese president emerged from the Communist Party congress last week with a tighter grip on the country, a White House spokesman said. John Kirby, a spokesman for Biden’s National Security Council, said the US would have no official comment on ...

Six Palestinians were killed in the West Bank overnight, and more than 30 were injured, in an Israeli military operation. The operation against the Lion’s Den group, which the military says was planning a number of attacks against Israelis, was the deadliest night of violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem since the start of the year. It comes a ...

Ukraine’s allies are increasingly concerned that desperation in the Kremlin over an unrelenting string of battlefield failures may lead Russia to escalate its war, possibly using a massive attack on a target like a dam or even a weapon of mass destruction. For the moment, there’s no sign Moscow is actually making preparations for such a strike, even as it ...