Business
Corn growers seek markets, not handouts, as economic woes mount
Corn growers are pleading with Washington to allow year-round sales of higher ethanol-blended fuel and to clinch trade deals that open new…
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News
We Can Smash Antifa Without Designating Them
The tools are already in the hands of law enforcement to treat violent members of Antifa with the seriousness they deserve. Source link
Fashion
US: Wall Street opens lower after rally, Trump’s visa crackdown weighs
WALL Street’s main indices opened lower on Monday (Sep 22) after rallying to record highs in the previous session, while uncertainty…
Business
Gold scales record high as markets brace for further rate cuts
GOLD surged to a record high on Monday (Sep 22), buoyed by investors’ heightened expectations of a dovish rate-cut path, ahead of remarks…
News
Colleges hustle to adapt as Trump administration reshapes higher education
Colleges nationwide are scrambling to adjust to the Trump administration's overhaul of higher education as the fall semester has kicked…
Business
AliExpress tries to draw brands on Amazon: sources
Alibaba Group Holding is trying to attract established brand names on Amazon.com to its global e-commerce site AliExpress, stepping up…
News
The Wrong Tool for Protecting Women from Abortion
There is no reliable evidence that prosecuting women would lead to the elimination of abortion. Source link
News
The Fed Should Do One Thing — and One Thing Only
We don’t want a Democratic Fed or a Republican Fed. We want an American Fed. Source link
News
The Roots of Trans Fanaticism
Why is the trans cause advanced with such fever and hate? Source link
News
Do Not Kill
The British debate doctor-assisted suicide, even while advocates try to hide what it is. Source link
Culture
“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Some actors you can watch doing the same thing over and over again. Cary Grant built a career on smirking suavity; Cate Blanchett has made…
Culture
The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith
If it were up to me, for example, I would very happily switch that rickety, always ill-fitting term “humanism” with something broader,…
Culture
The Autocrat of English Usage
In 1940, St. Clair McKelway typed a memo to William Shawn, The New Yorker’s managing editor for fact. McKelway was writing a six-part…
Culture
Ian McEwan Casts the Climate Crisis as a Story of Adultery
At the start of “What We Can Know,” Ian McEwan’s eighteenth novel, the year is 2119 and the humanities are still in crisis. Thomas…
Culture
The Uses and Abuses of “Antisemitism”
How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a rallying cry.…
Culture
Reading the New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
As for pace, “Shadow Ticket” reads like one of its subplots, about the Trans-Trianon 2000, a two-thousand-kilometre motorcycle circuit…
Business
Singapore stocks slip on Monday as US futures fall; STI down 0.1%
Decliners outnumber advancers 315 to 233 after 1.9 billion shares worth S$1.6 billion change hands Local stocks inched down on Monday (Sep…
Business
Singtel faces another Optus crisis after fatal outage linked to three deaths in Australia
Singtel faces a fresh crisis at its Australian division Optus after the government started an investigation into an emergency call outage…
Business
HSBC’s Roberts says the bank’s future in Asia, Middle East
The future of HSBC Holdings is in Asia and the Middle East because of the amount of wealth and the capital flows between the two regions,…
Business
China’s central bank revives liquidity tool before long holiday
CHINA’S central bank has dusted off a liquidity instrument it last used eight months ago, part of a move to flood the banking system with…
Business
Tariffs spark caution but no financing rush this time round: Citi’s Damien Tan
‘The key difference is that during the Covid-19 pandemic, there were a lot of demands for funding, bolstering of balance sheets, and…
News
Hong Kong airport to shut for 36 hours due to Typhoon Ragasa
HONG Kong International Airport will suspend all passenger flights for 36 hours from Tuesday evening, Qantas Airways said, as the Asian…
Business
Chery Automobile set to price Hong Kong IPO at higher end of range
Chery Automobile is set to price its Hong Kong initial public offering (IPO) at the high end of a marketed range after strong demand for…
News
China’s steel work plan vows to ban new capacity, promote demand
Beijing has been expected to lay out its plans for the world’s biggest steel industry since promising to cut output at its annual policy…