Bloomberg Toyota Motor Corp. has sold its stakes in Californian electric carmaker Tesla Motors Inc., a spokeswoman for Japan’s largest carmaker said. The sale marks the end of collaboration between the two companies for now, Toyota spokeswoman Akiko Kita said by phone. Toyota held 1.43 percent in Tesla as of July 2016, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In 2010, …

Bloomberg Congressional Democrats might abandon their calls for raising the nation’s debt limit without any conditions, with House and Senate party leaders now discussing whether to use their leverage to try to prevent Republicans from enacting tax cuts for wealthy Americans. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi signaled the shift, telling reporters that “we’re not there to raise the debt ceiling …

When thinking about the abstract foreign policy framework known as the ‘liberal international order,’ it helps to personalize it by remembering the career of one of its strongest exponents, former national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. Brzezinski, who died recently, devoted most of his career to explaining and enhancing this idea of a robust, supple, US-led architecture for global security and …