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14.02 / 01:59

COST Manufacturing Election Trade President reports Trump’s team considers overhaul to steel and aluminum tariffs

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Trump administration is considering an overhaul of steel and aluminum tariffs that is in part likely to reduce levies on many consumer goods, according to people familiar with the administration’s plans. The U.S.

13.02 / 07:47

UPS Citi Citizens Waters Election country reports India’s booming economy can’t fix its cities—because no one’s in charge

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India is getting richer every year, but its cities don’t seem to be getting any more livable. Not because the country is too poor, or because leaders lack ambition, but because urban citizens are starved of funds and deprived of representation.

13.02 / 01:17

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. THE LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY (LDP) has dominated Japanese politics since its founding in 1955, ruling with only two brief interruptions. Never has it won as decisively as it did in a snap election on February 8th, when it took almost 70% of the seats in parliament’s powerful lower house.

12.02 / 01:49

Election Death country stars Will Bangladesh’s elections produce a ‘basket case’?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Henry Kissinger famously called Bangladesh a “basket case." As the nation goes to the polls Thursday—the first election since then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina fled the country in 2024 for India amid student protests—a question mark hangs over its future. Will Bangladesh become a basket case again? The country’s fate matters beyond its borders.

11.02 / 07:49

markets Remark Election Opinion President Relationships Meiji Restoration 2.0? Japan looks set to reinvent itself under the bold leadership of Sanae Takaichi

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A photo last month of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi wearing a bright electric blue outfit and playing the drums alongside Korean President Lee Jae Myung is only one of many of Japan’s prime minister to go viral. The image is also remarkable because Korea and Japan have long had a strained relationship.

11.02 / 07:49

Election students Universities country Schools Getting a job is harder than toppling a government for Bangladesh’s Gen Z

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. RANGPUR, Bangladesh—In July 2024, when young Bangladeshis frustrated with their job prospects were taking to the streets, Faruk Ahmed Shipon joined them each day. To the amazement of the 25-year-old, the demonstrations grew into a revolution that toppled Bangladesh’s authoritarian leader, Sheikh Hasina, who had ruled the country for most of Shipon life.

10.02 / 06:35

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s landslide election in Japan Sunday will be consequential for global markets. Her Liberal Democratic Party secured an overwhelming mandate to carry out its agenda of tax cuts and fiscal stimulus, despite the government’s extraordinarily high public indebtedness.

10.02 / 01:53

Progressive Election information rights Scandals Why Sir Keir Starmer remains on the brink

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. “The distraction has to end and the leadership in Downing Street has to change," said Anas Sarwar, the leader of Scottish Labour, on February 9th. He is the most senior figure in the party to call for Sir Keir Starmer to resign after a bruising few days during which Morgan McSweeney, the prime minister’s chief of staff, and Tim Allan, his director of communications, both quit.

09.02 / 08:51

UPS Citizens Election Bill country Big in Japan: Why Sanae Takaichi’s popularity alone won’t be enough in the face of steep challenges

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The streets of Tokyo were dusted with a rare snowfall as election day broke on Sunday as a blizzard gripped much of Japan. But bad weather couldn’t deter the electorate, which turned out in greater numbers than in the last vote in 2024.

09.02 / 01:25

security BURST Election Trade President show Takaichi rolls to a landslide victory in Japan

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Who says every political leader in the free world is unpopular? Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi defied that stereotype on Sunday by leading her Liberal Democratic Party to a sweeping victory in the lower house of Parliament. Returns show the LDP on a path to win a comfortable majority on its own, which amounts to a landslide.

08.02 / 14:19

UPS Election President performer track social Japan’s Takaichi is on track to score big in election gamble

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was on track to lead her party to a thumping victory in parliamentary elections, handing her a powerful mandate to deepen ties with the U.S. and rev up Japan’s economy.

07.02 / 07:05

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Bitcoin just suffered its largest weekly decline in more than three years. But the worst part for some of crypto’s permabulls is that they aren’t sure what exactly caused the crash.

07.02 / 05:51

UPS economy Election President social Young voters can’t get enough of Japan’s conservative prime minister

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. TOKYO—Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is on course for a big election win, according to polls, propelled by a section of the electorate that political leaders worldwide struggle to reach: young people.

05.02 / 11:13

markets UPS Citizens Election wellness country MGNREGA to VB-G RAM G: The overhaul of India’s rural job guarantee needs field trials before its full rollout

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The recent budget marks a shift in India’s approach to short-term state-backed employment support. It has reduced funds for the scheme under the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), which is expected to be phased out, to ₹30,000 crore from last year’s spending of ₹88,000 crore and allocated over ₹95,000 crore to the new Viksit Bharat Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission-Gramin (VB-G RAM G) scheme that will replace it.

02.02 / 07:57

UPS Waves Election Opinion Research Universities testing AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. POLLSTERS HAVE been burning through their nine lives. First, as caller ID spread, people stopped answering their phone calls.

29.01 / 07:45

markets UPS Strategy economy Sustainability Election politician Andy Mukherjee: Why India’s budget-makers can’t ignore Japan’s nervous market for government bonds

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The sharp selloff in Japanese bonds has a message for India’s budget. If bond vigilantes could bring such turmoil to a global safe haven on the mere hint of a tax slippage, they could rip apart any sign of fiscal recklessness in a developing economy faced with a chronic shortfall of resources to create jobs and provide welfare.

28.01 / 14:53

Citi Gap economy Election pandemic Interviews Mamdani presses for tax hike on New York’s wealthiest as budget deficit looms

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mayor Zohran Mamdani says New York City is facing an unexpected $10 billion projected budget deficit in the coming year and plans to push state lawmakers to increase taxes on high-income New Yorkers and corporations to close the hole. “We must raise taxes on the wealthiest few in New York City so that we can invest in the many," the newly elected Democratic socialist mayor of the country’s largest city said in an interview Tuesday.

28.01 / 14:53

Election War stage Relationships Can Israel move past Netanyahu?

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As President Trump ponders a second military strike on Iran, the relationship between the U.S. and Israel is evolving.

28.01 / 10:35

economy Election community wellness Trade President country Venezuelans suddenly have hope for the Economy. Less so for democracy.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. CARACAS, Venezuela—Weeks after a U.S. military raid ended the 13-year rule of Nicolás Maduro, Venezuelans are living through a whiplash transition that feels less like a democratic dawn and more like an economic takeover.

27.01 / 01:13

COST UPS Provident Election Bill President Trump’s high-stakes bid to dole out $100 billion more in tax refunds

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. WASHINGTON—Republicans and President Trump designed their tax cuts for this moment, creating a refund bonanza that will land in Americans’ bank accounts well ahead of the midterm elections. The annual tax-filing season that opened Monday will produce a cash surge estimated at $100 billion beyond last year’s $329 billion total, and it is engineered to buoy Republicans’ sagging voter approval.

25.01 / 09:07

Election Food film Actor show performer country Manu Joseph: Why one may choose not to vote—and why this choice needn’t be a moral failure

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. One way or another, the central message of all annoying people is ‘why can’t you be like me?’ I cannot think of a more foolish use of human speech. Often this message is conveyed as an insult to those who do not perform some sacred thing that is dear to the pontificator.

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