How Cuba competes with Uncle Sam in the Caribbean islands
In the middle of the covid-19 pandemic one Cuban asset was in high demand from all corners of the world: its exported doctors...
How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill
Who is to blame for America’s enormous health-care costs? The sector accounts for almost a fifth of the country’s GDP, twice ...
Europe’s armsmakers have ramped up capacity
For years European officials have talked a big game on defence. The European Union has made numerous proposals to boost the c...
Nigerian politics is a nasty place for women
When she ran for governor of Nigeria’s Kogi state in 2019 gunmen shot at Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan’s cars, her party’s offices ...
Richard Fortey remade the world with fossils
The map on the hotel wall said “Good fossils here”, so Richard Fortey, then 14, did not hesitate. He seized his geologist’s h...
North Korea is remarkably entrenched in global supply chains
What do salmon fillets, fake eyelashes and animated children’s TV shows all have in common? All these familiar parts of Weste...
Should BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale learn from Chinese rivals?
MANY OF THE world’s richest deposits of iron ore and copper predate the breakup of the last supercontinent, Pangaea, around 2...
East Asia’s armsmakers are on the rise
This month a group of South Korean defence-industry bosses and government officials visited Ottawa. Their pitch: howitzers, r...
Taiwan’s president takes on alleged Chinese infiltration
Taiwan’s president, Lai Ching-te, broke with tradition on March 13th when he declared China to be a “foreign hostile force” t...
The Bundestag approves the biggest fiscal expansion in post-war history
When a german party triggers a Zählappell, or parliamentary roll call, it is serious business. As a television commentator re...