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Students across the country will open their A-level results next week and discover whether they have secured a place at their preferred university or college. But if you have missed out on the grades needed for your chosen course, or you have changed your mi…

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The Secret Life of Kudzu Scientific American How Climate Change Could Trigger the Next Global Financial Crisis The Atlantic. Are we likely to see a climate Minsky moment? Temperature impact on GDP growth is overestimated vs. Reply to Rosen: Temperaturegrowt…

Kristalina Georgieva. (Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg) Written by Alan Rappeport The European Union on Friday nominated Kristalina Georgieva, a Bulgarian economist, to replace Christine Lagarde as managing director of the International Monetary Fund …

It is reasonable to believe that some beneficial domestic policies will emerge from the American nationalist movement. Tucker Carlson, Oren Cass, Julius Krein, and others are capable advocates of economic and social policies that would serve ordinary American…

As a child growing up in a vividly violent Jamaican ghetto, Ian Salmon remembers being regularly beaten by his father, who once reached for a hammer while holding a nail in his ear after a family friend complained the boy had cursed at her. Decades later, Sa…

As Captive Nations Week came to a close earlier this month, three nations in Latin America were still far from escaping the death grip of communist regimes. What were talking about here is not just politics and policy, said Marion Smith, executive director o…

The hotel charged by the hour, but the two young Cubans dirty, hungry and dazed after being released from detention in the United States and pushed back into Mexico had nowhere else to go. The pair and some fellow Cubans detained with them pooled a few crump…

HONG KONG/PARIS - Billy has been the butt of criticism from friends for taking part in Hong Kong’s protests. Undeterred, he sees his marching days as just beginning. “We have to continue to protest until our demands are met,” said the 28-year-old accountant,…

BOGOTA - Its six in the morning and Samuel Romero is already pulling his bicycle out of a small garage. The 21-year-old Venezuelan migrant turns on his phone and logs on to Rappi, an app through which freelance cyclists get paid to make deliveries around Bog…