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How fear and caution hinder Africa’s giant.

BOSTON — Are successful businesspeople more like heroes or villains? In fictional accounts, one can find plenty of examples of each, from Charles Dickens’s miserly Ebenezer Scrooge to Ayn Rand’s rugged individualist entrepreneur John Galt. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan represents privileged old money, with its ruthlessness and incapacity for empathy,

Gwede Mantashe  - who is the minister of both mineral resources and energy - had the choice of attending the oil conference in Cape Town and/or the Joburg Mining Indaba. He chose to attend the oil conference, where he and a bunch of Africa oil ministers had an enormous love-in.

The blockbuster film The Woman King has resurrected the myth that slavery furnishes wealth. While irate critics argue that the film downplays the fact that the Dahomey Empire derived its wealth from slavery, however, this observation wrongly conflates political success with human flourishing.

Measures of the state of governance can flag regression and show where change is needed

President Joe Biden is working to create a manufacturing revival — even helping to put factory jobs in Republican territory under the belief it can restore faith in U.S. democracy. The latest development came Tuesday, when chipmaker Micron announced an investment of up to $100 billion over the next 20-plus years to build a plant…

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From his presidential campaign to the trade war with China to tariffs on allies, Donald Trump shattered the free-trade consensus of the post–Cold Wa...

Today’s protectionists cite Hamilton and Jackson, but policymakers follow a less distinguished playbook.

Biden is working to create a manufacturing revival — even helping to put factory jobs in Republican territory under the belief it can restore faith in U.S. democracy.