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On December 3rd the European Commission unveiled a long-awaited proposal to use frozen Russian assets, some €210bn ($245bn) ...
Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, on the president’s efforts to stretch America’s war powers—and lawmakers’ ...
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A new survey of labour-force data by Amory Gethin of the World Bank and Emmanuel Saez of the University of California, ...
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