One island, two worlds
A year of staggering violence in Haiti ended in the most brutal fashion. Over the course of five days in December, in a slum ...
Teams and extremes
If you are fed up with the other people on your team, remember this: it could be so much worse. Butch Wilmore and Suni Willia...
Texas troopers are in more and more lethal car chases
A RED CAR weaves in and out of traffic on a highway in El Paso, Texas. It’s June 2022 and Texas Department of Public Safety (...
The prospect of war has turned Europe into a continent of preppers
In the run-up to Christmas, Swedes opening their mailboxes in hopes of greeting cards instead got a chilling reminder of the ...
The strange revival of Liberal Canada
The dilemma facing Canada’s Conservative Party can be summed up in its campaign slogan: “Canada first. For a change.” Just th...
Heathrow’s outage raises questions about Britain’s resilience
AS THE FIRE blazed, planes were grounded and hundreds of thousands of passengers waited, a question rang out: deliberate sabo...
The war in Gaza has unsettled the Jewish diaspora
Nailed to the entrance of the Gun For Hire shooting range in Woodland Park, New Jersey, is a large mezuzah, the prayer-scroll...
What is the future of British hospitals?
SITTING IN the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH) in Smethwick, near Birmingham, Francis Gallagher, one of its a...
Ukrainian refugees may be in Europe for good
Three years into the war in Ukraine, the information centre for refugees in Krakow, in southern Poland, is doing brisk busine...
What space, submarines and polar research teach about teamwork
If you are fed up with the other people on your team, remember this: it could be so much worse. Butch Wilmore and Suni Willia...