Of the world’s 7,000-odd languages, almost half are expected to disappear by the end of the 21st century. Two culprits are usually considered…

For the first time, a former American president has been convicted of a felony—34 felonies, in fact. This historic disgrace should both shock the…

What is the ideal job to outsource to artificial intelligence? Today’s AIS, in particular, the Chatgpt-like generative sort, have a leaky memory,…

Three years ago, when Ebrahim Raisi won the presidency in a rigged election, some Iranians thought it was a stepping stone to a bigger position. Ali…

At first glance, the world economy looks reassuringly resilient. America has boomed even as its trade war with China has escalated. Germany has…

A new instalment of Fallout, a long-running series of video games, was released recently to rave reviews. Critics called the post-apocalyptic…

In March last year, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, paused at the door of the Kremlin. Before bidding farewell to Vladimir Putin, he offered him a final…

Just over six years ago, when Donald Trump first announced tariffs on Chinese goods, it was as if a bomb had gone off. American stocks fell sharply…

There are plenty of reminders of the colonial past in Swakopmund, a town on Namibia’s coast if you know where to look. Mechanics work beneath…

In 1940, after France had been defeated by the Nazi blitzkrieg, the historian Marc Bloch condemned his country’s inter-war elites for having failed…