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A Russian American girl straddles the worlds of her Ukraine-born Bolshevik father and her Montana-raised cowgirl mother in the 1920s and ’30s in Neal Stephenson’s “Polostan.”

A people highly dependent on government show unusual patience as a reformist president drives down inflation and opens up the economy.

Elections worldwide in 2024 saw incumbents defeated as voters registered displeasure with their economies. New leaders will find that hard to remedy.

Donald Trump’s potential SEC commissioner, as well as his campaign promises, have encouraged investors to put more money in the cryptocurrency. Though the value of bitcoin more than doubled this year, some experts continue to warn of investment risks.

A masked man shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the early morning of Dec. 4 in Manhattan. After mounting a bike, he vanished into Central Park. Police, who say the shooting was targeted, are still searching for any trace of his whereabouts.

Farm Radio Trust harnesses the power of radio to help the young people of Malawi share their experiences on difficult subjects.

The carbon-intensive U.S. construction industry is scrambling to help ease a nationwide housing shortage. Startups are trying to find climate-friendly solutions, but the challenges they face are emblematic of the barriers to industrywide change.

Ukrainians are assembling drones at home to help supply the military with the thousands it uses every month in the war with Russia.