Greenland 'Freedom City'? Rich donors push Trump for a tech hub up northAs the Trump administration pushes to acquire Greenland, tech investors are promoting the island as a site for a libertarian "freedom city"...
10 Apr, 2025, 04.04 PM IST
Trump is the only one threatening the dollarDonald Trump’s reelection strategy involves addressing fears about migrants, crime, and the economy. He claims the dollar is under threat f...
10 Sep, 2024, 03.48 PM IST
Embrace debt-to-GDP ratio, instead of rigid deficit targetsDebt-to-GDP ratio compares a country's debt with its productive capacity, sending policymakers more appropriate and incentive-compatible si...
27 Aug, 2024, 11.25 PM IST
OpenAI's Sam Altman, sugarcoating the apocalypseThe government has nibbled the edges of regulation, but the quicksilver AI has already leaped ahead of the snaillike lawmakers and bureaucr...
02 Dec, 2023, 11.54 PM IST
Israel-Hamas War: Does a two-state solution, long discounted, still have a future?Israeli officials say they are focused on the battle against Hamas, which could last for months, and that any discussion of a peace process...
02 Nov, 2023, 10.33 AM IST
Elon Musk's quixotic quest to turn X into an 'everything app'In Silicon Valley, the pursuit of an everything app has come up time and again as tech leaders have strained to expand their digital empire...
29 Jul, 2023, 08.17 AM IST
Spike in covid cases in China's Zhejiang renews concern of impact on supply chainsZhejiang, located near Shanghai, has a population of about 65 million people. It is home to Japanese automaker Nidec and a slew of other fo...
27 Dec, 2022, 09.45 AM IST
View: Europe doesn’t want to fight America’s battles anymoreIn pretty much every European country, the credentialed, the educated and the empowered want “more Europe.” They are opposed by defenders o...
04 Sep, 2021, 11.03 PM IST
The Amazonification of space: Those who sold you the internet will now sell you the moon and starsA swelling ecosystem of startups is attempting to commercialize space by building everything from cheaper launch technology to smaller sate...
22 Jul, 2021, 10.30 AM IST
Mogul vs Mogul: Australia's tech law pits Rupert Murdoch against Facebook's Mark ZuckerbergEfforts in Australia to make Google and Facebook pay for news has garnered worldwide attention, creating what some call a defining moment f...
22 Feb, 2021, 02.07 PM IST
Donald Trump floats idea of 2024 White House runRefusing to accept defeat, Trump's lawyers and supporters continued Wednesday to file lawsuits and even call for extraordinary intervention...
03 Dec, 2020, 07.18 AM IST
As Biden marches forward with Cabinet, Trump hopes likely to fade in key statesTrump, a Republican, lost both battleground states in the Nov. 3 election, but he has refused to concede defeat and has, instead, launched ...
23 Nov, 2020, 11.48 AM IST
The forgotten founders of IndiaMany of our republic’s founders are national icons. But beyond the inner circle, there were hundreds of others.
26 Jan, 2020, 10.34 AM IST
New Orleans' French Quarter: The lounging pad for some of America’s greatest writersThe French Quarter was where Tennessee Williams dreamt of streetcar & Faulkner entertained.
07 Aug, 2016, 07.57 AM IST
How can we get investor confidence back if taxmen treat businesses as per se shady?In his Budget speech on February 28, P Chidambaram declared that foreign investment was not a choice but an “imperative”. But the tax depar...
11 Apr, 2013, 07.59 AM IST
Deconstructing dharma\In 2002 when Gurcharan Das decided to go on an academic holiday, the former MNC-head-honcho-turned commentator had no idea of the minefiel...
14 Oct, 2009, 02.17 AM IST