This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our writers turn their gaze to ...

But what of the real world in which Donald Trump, a mercurial president with sole authority to fire thousands of nukes, displays deep confusion about nuclear weapons and his national-security staff ...

I T’S EVERY New Yorker’s lament: the city is full of yellow cabs, except when you really need one. And so, when Curtis Sliwa ...

Today the marches are smaller and, more importantly, climate policies are being rolled back. The Economist recently called ...

In a bonus edition of our defence newsletter, Richard Cockett takes us back to 1066—and the Battle of Hastings ...

B EFORE CO-FOUNDING Nvidia, the pioneer of artificial-intelligence (AI) chips, Jensen Huang was a busboy at Denny’s, a ...

After almost four years of war, the cost of fighting is huge. By the end of 2025, Ukraine’s military effort, defined as its ...

Iván Cepeda must win the support of centrists in order to lead the left into next year’s presidential elections ...

Start with fragmentation. Europe’s defence companies lag far behind their American counterparts in scale owing in part to the ...

Until recently, GLP -1s, a powerful new class of weight-loss drugs, were confined mostly to rich countries. Yet the World ...

Microsoft has pulled this off while relaxing its grip on Open AI by, for instance, letting it use alternative sources of ...

Luckily, Finland has just the thing: sisu—a personality trait or philosophy combining inner strength, perseverance and a ...