Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week our hosts travel to the state most likely to decide the election ...

IF YOU JUDGE how well-read someone is by the number of books they get through, your correspondent is a veritable bibliophage.

For more than a year, Hizbullah insisted it would not stop fighting Israel until Israel stopped fighting in Gaza. Israel has ...

“I fear the world is losing the fight against gangs and organised crime,” says Jürgen Stock, who on November 7th stepped down ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Donald Trump’s victory and the fallout from the US election in 2024.

Few world leaders have left office as lauded as Angela Merkel. When she stepped down as chancellor in 2021, after 16 years, ...

A report in the Wall Street Journal in November, citing anonymous Western intelligence officials, said that up to 200,000 Russian soldiers have died so far. The Economist ’s most recent estimate, ...

Nearly half of British employers say a degree is no longer important, according to Hays, a recruitment firm. That widens the applicant pool and boosts retention; hires without degrees are more likely ...