George Foreman welcomed at least 10 children and named all five of his sons George Many of George Foreman’s kids followed in their father’s footsteps in one way or another. The Olympic gold ...

In a recent review of the activist and sociologist Bela Bhatia’s magnificent India’s Forgotten Country, I wrote that her description of rapacious Indian capitalism, the brutality of democratic ...

Despite their claims to the contrary, neither the German industrialists nor their 21st-century American counterparts seem to care much about free markets and capitalism, at least not in the ...

Tens of thousands of dollars have poured in to support a Connecticut man who police say recently escaped his father and stepmother’s captivity of 20 years. The 5’9” man, whose name has not ...

That is, the enduring legacy of race and the changing nature of capitalism. If we look at the racial aspects, this country is far from unique in having a troubled history with race relations.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The backlash against corporate environmentalism may have its roots in the US, but its tendrils have started ...

This is the core argument of one of the seminal texts to be published in the last two years, Martin Wolf’s The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism. The Financial Times’ chief economics commentator ...

Beware of hyperbolic headlines. But in this case, I’m afraid, as Ulrike Herrmann’s very readable book The End of Capitalism makes clear, the choice between capitalism and civilisation really ...

Large pools of government money that can be obtained through various grant applications is a fertile ground soil for crony capitalism—and corruption. The book chapter by André Alves on Brazil’s ...

Adam Hanieh, an expert on oil and Middle Eastern history, argues that solutions to the climate crisis must also confront capitalism and imperialism. In his book, Hanieh offers a history of oil, which ...

Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics. A senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, she is author of “An Economist Walks Into a Brothel: And Other Unexpected Places ...