Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published in The New Yorker two months after 9/11. The tragedy re-engineered the West while imposing a huge cost on the rest of the world. Twenty-five
Eight years after US prosecutors secretly charged Huawei Technologies with defrauding HSBC and other banks over its business dealings with Iran, the long-running criminal case is finally heading to trial in New
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Twenty-five years after the attacks that transformed the United States and were witnessed around the world, the country is preparing to mark the anniversary of 11 September in a strikingly different political
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As European central banks rethink where their gold should be held, Madrid faces a strategic choice over reserves stored in New York amid growing concerns about geopolitical uncertainty and financial autonomy. Spain
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C. discovered that he was being deported to Africa almost by accident. The 36-year-old Venezuelan had spent five years living and working in the United States. He had a temporary residence permit,
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Venezuela is emerging as a major testing ground for US President Donald Trump’s ambitions in the Western Hemisphere and a potential new arena of rivalry with China. After announcing plans to seize
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In an interview with El País, Scottish writer Douglas Stuart speaks about the subjects that have defined both his life and his fiction: poverty, fractured families, homosexuality, class and the enduring difficulty
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On a Monday evening in May, Japan’s Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama sat down for dinner with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent at a Japanese restaurant inside a 400-year-old garden in central Tokyo.
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