Each attack has left Kyiv more vulnerable, as reserves and balancing capacities disappear. Yet the city may have been granted a brief reprieve. On January 29th Donald Trump said that he had secured an ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

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Welcome to the first bonus War Room of 2026. January has been so packed with geopolitical ructions—did we just narrowly avoid the break-up of NATO ?—that one of the most dramatic special operations in ...

What would Mr Warsh’s Fed look like? Quantitative easing ( QE) is out the window. Mr Warsh has never wavered in his hatred of ...

After a single dose, they performed notably better on tests of memory and reaction speeds than participants who had popped a placebo. Green teas have also been shown to contain roughly a fifth more ...

The shah’s son and an ex-prime minister should team up to break the Islamic hierarchy and write a new constitution, argues Amir Hossein Ganjbakhsh, a dissident ...

Presumably ICE will play a role.” “The militia”, Mr Lindberg claims, “is recruited from roughly the same population that stormed the Capitol when Trump lost last time.” 50%, how much more children ...

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The killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti has become a test of how the federal government uses violence on America’s streets.

Residents have “raised their children there. Now, they’re raising their grandchildren there,” she says. “It’s a great model.” A new study backs her up. Led by Raj Chetty, a Harvard economist and a ...

In the tropics, the border between troposphere and stratosphere—the tropopause—sits at around 20km, far above any normal ...