How bad will the smoke be for Angelenos’ health?
Where there is fire, there is smoke. For the people of Los Angeles, this will add to the misery. Some are already suffering f...
Canada has adopted assisted dying faster than anywhere on Earth
Sandra Demontigny watched early-onset Alzheimer’s transform her athletic father from a robust patriarch into a battered shell...
How the AfD got its swagger back
IT IS A bitingly cold evening in Bautzen, a handsome town nestled in the hills of the Oberlausitz, deep in the east German st...
Inside the Houthis’ moneymaking machine
“IT’S A REALLY surprisingly user-friendly experience,” says Stephen Askins, a shipping lawyer, of his interactions with the H...
One of the biggest energy IPOs in a decade could be around the corner
THE DISRUPTIVE innovator of the global gas industry is stepping out of the shadows. On January 13th Venture Global, a private...
How to improve clinical trials
Last year Roche, a Swiss pharmaceutical firm, published a review of the clinical trials on neurological drugs it had held bet...
Joe Biden wound up serving Donald Trump
Remember “Infrastructure Week”? Donald Trump declared it in his first year as president to build support for fulfilling his p...
The right in Congress and the courts will reshape Donald Trump’s agenda
HE WON WHAT was supposed to be a close election by a convincing margin, even clinching the popular vote. His fellow Republica...
West African booze is becoming a luxury product
WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm win...
Want to spend time with a different American president?
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, his inauguration on January 20th is the capstone of the greatest ever comeback in America...