There are now a billion fewer people subsisting on less than $2.15 a day than in 2000. Each year since the turn of the ...

Russia would need to take Aland to dominate the Baltic in any conflict with the West. Sweden remilitarised nearby Gotland ...

Her feminism is “rooted in an awareness of how race and gender and class all affect my ability to be educated, receive ...

I n June 2023 the Supreme Court banned race-conscious admissions at American universities. Many supporters of the practice ...

Both campaigns see Pennsylvania as a fulcrum of the 2024 election, and for good reason. The Economist’ s forecast model ...

Pay is at the centre of the latest dispute. Boeing offered its employees a 25% rise over four years; its workers are ...

The Economist’s forecast model suggests that the state—with its 19 electoral-college votes, the most of any swing state—is ...

L ast month the Taliban published a new consolidated code of religious laws. It has left Afghan women reeling, with many now ...

Republicans love to blame everything they consider wrong with America on an epidemic of “wokeness”, by which they tend to ...

If the trend towards smaller and more specialised models continues, then the ai universe could contain a constellation of ...

The future of money, in other words, is attracting attention. What of its past? In a new paper, Adam Brzezinski of the London ...

As well as deploying police, China hosts Pacific officers for training and is showering cash-strapped forces with equipment.