After countless victory laps, Donald Trump has finally conceded that he needed to strike some kind of deal with Iran to avoid a global “economic catastrophe.” Speaking at the G7 summit in France, ...

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In “1873,” the historian and financier Liaquat Ahamed traces the political consequences of booming markets that left a lot of people behind. An 1895 illustration of the panic outside the New York ...

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President Donald Trump wants to cap credit card interest rates. My socialist mayor wants to freeze rents. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) wants politicians to decide what prices are "excessive." So I ...

From schoolboy failure to wartime hero, Winston Churchill's astonishing life has made him a British icon. Discover how he ...

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Europe, as the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk recently wrote, has ended a long “vacation from history.” We have crossed the threshold into a gloomier era that is once again characterized by power ...

Amid the ruins of a strategically vital city, Soviet and German forces clashed in a brutal struggle marked by encirclement, counterattacks, and street fighting. Elite armored units smashed through ...

WHEN PEOPLE PICTURE the Great Depression in Seattle, one scene usually comes to mind. It’s depicted in our “Then” shot looking north along the waterfront to downtown. Even in bright sunlight, it’s a ...

The federal budget deficit was roughly 6 percent of gross domestic product for each of the past three fiscal years. During a three-year span of low unemployment, economic expansion, increasing revenue ...