I don't think anyone would accuse Malala Yousafzai of being a "gradualist." Nor would Kailash Satyarthi embrace that description. Yousafzai, the Pakistani girl who became an advocate for children's ...

Internet usage is on the rise in China, especially amongst the younger generation. Faced with the problem of extensive online censorship, this generation has designed software packages to ‘scale the ...

Shortly after the Supreme Court's decision in May, 1954, outlawing segregation in public schools, sociologists warned that race relations in this country were likely to become worse before getting ...

Amid all the uncertainty about which combination of parties will form the next government, one thing seems almost certain on the policy front-foreign direct investment in multi-brand retail will ...

I lost my twins in the second trimester of my first pregnancy. One fetus died around 14 weeks, and a month later I went into preterm labor – likely caused by the death of the first and an infection. I ...

As a political contributor on major Nigerian issues, for some time I’d been in a hibernation – not triggered or inspired to write or comment on anything significantly. I’d rather I traced such ...

In the height of the civil rights movement and historic push for equality between blacks and whites in America, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. spoke of a certain tranquilizing drug that had found its ...

Mexico's central bank governors all agreed that greater gradualism and caution should guide future interest rate decisions, ‌citing trade uncertainty and new taxes going into 2026, minutes from the ...

With a September interest-rate cut all but certain and attention turning to the pace of future reductions, Federal Reserve officials are coalescing around a gradual approach to the last mile of their ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is managing director of global macro at TS Lombard The UK is relevant again in markets. I have spent ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Global Economy news every morning. Is the era of gradualism at the Federal Reserve over? After 125 basis points of interest rate cuts in ...