Coming into the US elections, Democrats dreamed of flipping all of the rapidly growing and urbanising Sun Belt states and having the kind of landslide election result they haven’t had in decades. With larger-than-expected losses in Florida and Texas, and a third straight defeat likely in North Carolina, it didn’t turn out that way. Georgia, where Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ...

Jack Ma was right: You can’t use rules for a railway station to run an airport. Or, regulate a cutting-edge online lending platform like a traditional bank. Chinese authorities effectively took the founder of e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group Holding Ltd to task for such views by suspending the $35 billion initial public offering of its fintech offspring, Ant Group Co, ...

Suddenly, it seems all the world is heading to zero. Just a month after Chinese President Xi Jinping promised to reduce carbon emissions to net zero by 2060, the leaders of Japan and South Korea pledged to hit the same target 10 years sooner. The European Union and UK have already put their 2050 pledges into law. In total, countries ...