Politics

By Anton Zverev, Catherine BeltonMOSCOW (Reuters) - Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s movement has received bitcoin donations worth nearly $300,000 this year, outstripping the total amount it was given in the cryptocurrency in 2020 at the prices...

What Janet Yellen thinks The Treasury secretary opened the DealBook DC Policy Project yesterday, one of the few media interviews she has given since taking the job last month. Although she was typically understated in her conversation...

The 2011 Census of India said Christians in Tamil Nadu officially numbered 44 lakh.However, if one were to go by the large numbers of Christian religious edifices and the dominance of Christians in media, Tamil cinema, and...

Bitcoin and other soaring cryptocurrencies dominate the headlines. But this episode of What’s Ahead reveals that a far bigger story is brewing, which will rock the worlds of politics, economics and finance: the attempt by governments and...

Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer analyzes the origins of words in the news. Read previous columns here. Earlier this month, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to declare, “Dogecoin is the people’s crypto.” That tweet might...

At the rally -- which turned deadly -- he participated with gusto, carrying a banner that, according to court documents, said, "Gas the kikes, race war now!" during a march past a synagogue. But when Robert Warren...

It goes without saying that most works of art consist of a physical component, whether it be paint applied to a canvas or the threads that make up a tapestry. But Everydays: The First 5000 Days, a...

Mario Draghi got a straight A grade from Janet Yellen as quoted in a Wall Street Journal interview (Source: Wall Street Journal, February 12, 2021):“Whatever it takes will go down in the annals of central banking history...

US Deputy Press Secretary TJ Ducklo is resigning after he threatened to "destroy" a female reporter for investigating aspects of his private life. "I am devastated to have embarrassed and disappointed my White House colleagues and President...

A little over 100 years ago, there was a bubble asset that rose and fell wildly over the course of a decade. People who held it would have lost 100 per cent of their money five different...