Pete Hegseth, the secretary of war, came under growing pressure from Democratic and Republican lawmakers who said that a ...

A DVENT CALENDARS never used to be much fun. Each day in December, as part of the lead-up to Christmas, you would peel back a ...

Chinese-born boffins have long made up the largest group of foreign researchers in America. An exodus just now, as the ...

Welcome to The War Room. This newsletter regularly covers Ukraine, Gaza and other geopolitical flashpoints, and rightly so.

Much of this is posturing. A company looks better in investors’ eyes if it attributes staff cuts to its technological prowess ...

And then there are leaf blowers. In recent years dozens of municipalities have enacted ordinances restricting or entirely ...

Between 2011 and 2021 the number of members in Africa increased by 120%, compared with 19% globally. Matt Martinich, a ...

The other is the National Escape Clause (nec), which allows countries to increase defence spending by up to 1.5% of gdp over ...

Jacqueline Harpman was born into a Jewish family in Belgium in 1929 and “ IWHNKM ” evokes the horrors of Nazism. Her slim, ...

The rebels have a point. Across Europe playgrounds are emptying while care homes fill up. The European Commission reckons that by 2070 there will be barely two working-age adults on the continent for ...

Even for the very best investors, in other words, identifying a bubble is a good deal easier than judging when it will burst.