On May 26th Israel launched a distribution network, using “hubs” to hand out weekly rations. The next day thousands of hungry ...

Yet a new report from Catalist, a left-leaning political-data firm, shows that although Democrats still won a majority of ...

In February Mr Trump halted graft investigations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, blaming the law for erecting ...

D ONALD TRUMP insists that tariffs will bring back jobs and revitalise American industry, and that short-term pain would be ...

Cheese rolling is, for now, not officially recognised. That may soon change. This summer, the government will invite public ...

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A LMOST EVERY week the world takes another step towards artificial super-intelligence. The most powerful AI models can do an ...

A YEAR AGO, for 30 drones to strike Ukraine in a single night was considered exceptional. Now Russia is saturating Ukraine’s ...

The debt of other governments looks newly risky, too, with long-term yields rising across much of the rich world (see chart).

That might surprise people who had to cope with bubonic plague, ice ages, Vikings, world wars, colonisation and the rest. But ...

S EEN THROUGH the cold lens of statistics, Joe Biden’s statement on May 18th that he had been diagnosed with prostate cancer ...

Based on the data so far, both explanations are plausible. But if the partisan fertility gap grows sharply in 2026 and ...