America’s foreign aid pause puts lives at risk
THE SPRAWLING al-Hol camp in north-eastern Syria is part of a network of prisons holding tens of thousands of detainees and f...
Magnus Carlsen on why the future of chess lies in freestyle
ON FEBRUARY 7th the inaugural tournament of the Freestyle Chess Grand Slam Tour will begin on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast. My ...
The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama
The market reaction, when it came, was brutal. On January 27th, as investors realised just how good DeepSeek’s “v3” and “R1” ...
A day of drama in the Bundestag
RARELY HAS the Bundestag known such drama. On January 29th, to scenes of uproar, a tiny majority of German mps backed a five-...
Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
TO GET a sense of what Donald Trump’s first week did to the federal government, talk to people who work in it. “I’ve been wit...
Catch up:Trump comments on Washington crash; Israel releases Palestinian prisoners
President Donald Trump said that America is “in mourning” after officials confirmed that there were no survivors of a mid-air...
Catch up:a plane crash in Washington; Trump’s Guantánamo plan for migrants
American officials said that they do not expect there to be any survivors of a mid-air collision in Washington, DC. On Thursd...
Catch up:Trump’s federal grants freeze rescinded; Alibaba’s AI model
The Trump administration rescinded an order to freeze federal aid funding. A judge temporarily blocked the pause on Tuesday, ...
Catch up:a plane crash in Washington; Israel suspends prisoner release
American officials said that they do not expect there to be any survivors of a mid-air collision in Washington, DC. On Thursd...
The rise of the Net-Zero Dad
How do you know if someone is vegan? They will tell you, runs the old joke. How do you know if someone owns a heat pump? They...