Immigration sometimes needs brakes, but the proposal would be like driving into a wall

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Choosing where to focus is among the most important skills

As the continent’s markets mature, high-quality financial analysis is more essential than ever

Why monoculture events like the World Cup are becoming the exception

A molecular signature can identify those most at risk

A bad reputation and cultural ignorance are probably responsible

Is that a rocket in your lobby, or are you just happy to see me?

The iPhone-maker does not need to build models to cash in on the technology

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, examines why conflict exerts a “strange pull”

At the moment, balmy. But it wouldn’t take a lot to require some Fed air-conditioning

From Kafka’s “The Trial” to Orwell’s “1984”

Toys and media brands are increasingly joining forces

It is not just rich places that are becoming less fertile

They must learn to deal with it

The world’s leftists are embracing a new set of economic ideas

The phenomenal explosion could blow a hole in Amazon’s plans and NASA’s too

Share prices are buffeted by far more than just new information

Shashank Joshi looks back on eight years as defence editor

Exxon’s reincorporation is one more feather in the state’s cowboy hat

A promising drug could be the first of an entirely new class of treatments

A booming industry of advisers is easing their passage

Probably not big enough to offset the drag from the old

They cannot hold back the energy crunch for ever

Being rich helps, but being open to immigration works best of all

So has FIFA, the outfit that administers it

He must swallow his pride and accept a deal worse than the pre-war status quo

The leaders of America, China and Russia scorn consensual politics. That is a mistake

Which will win out?

What does “recursive self-improvement” mean for the technology?

Vitamins, applied properly, can partially reverse the effects of ageing

A new defence champion is rising up from the region

The EU should start drafting a full accession treaty now

Neither widespread poverty, nor high rates of marriage nor relatively young mothers are sustaining fertility

The me-first doctrine is a threat to prosperity

High debt, disjointed markets and pugnacious trade policy all threaten the world’s safe asset

The Chinese electric-vehicle giant is struggling to stay ahead in an industry defined by software

Jensen Huang is bringing the firm’s AI act to the PC

Watch out for indigestion

They are pretty accurate. But they could keep you up at night

Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire

Will Hein Schumacher’s turnaround plan for Barry Callebaut work?

It is suffering economic costs for its industrial dominance

From Trump to Sam Altman, the idea is catching on. Does it make sense?

They hide in plain sight—and wield enormous power

A local-content boom is rewriting the rules of entertainment—and of soft power

Software once ate the world. Now it is in danger of eating itself

Kevin Warsh, the unlucky new chairman, has seen his case for lower interest rates disintegrate

Monte dei Paschi di Siena is suddenly all the rage

An Estonian startup says its machines are now cheaper than human couriers

Caesars and MGM may soon be under new ownership

Startups are combining AI and genetics to make more food for less money

The World Cup is wonderful. It could be even better

Heatwaves may be more important

But the case for levies on wealth is unconvincing

Millenarian thinking permeates business and markets

Ideological certainties have hurt Cubans for 70 years. Time to give Trumpian cynicism a chance

Even though his views are awful

Acoustics and innovative radar could help

Employees are being asked to embrace a technology that causes fear