How Donald Trump is shaping other countries’ politics
THE PRESIDENT’S ability to bend reality is a political superpower. Before last year’s election, our YouGov polling showed tha...
Is it ever right to pay disabled workers pennies per hour?
IN A SMALL building on Hi Hope Lane, Jeffrey Pennington sits at a desk packing ten-piece sets of zip ties. A diagram on a pie...
Latin American migrants transfer money like never before
Antonio Orduña has lived in Arizona for 30 years as an undocumented migrant, now working as a gardener. In January, after Don...
How (and why) J.D. Vance does it
The safe choice for vice-president was not J.D. Vance. He arrived on Donald Trump’s presidential ticket with little political...
Marine Le Pen’s ban polarises France
For the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement i...
George Foreman’s career was about resurrection
Heavyweight champion of the world. George Foreman spoke the phrase so often in his life that it became a happy growl. He spok...
Myanmar’s junta takes advantage of a devastating earthquake
Since March 28th, when a powerful earthquake shook Myanmar’s central heartlands, the country’s brutal junta has tried to show...
Russia’s army is being subordinated to its security services
TWO WEEKS after Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Sergei Beseda’s mobile phone went dead. Mr Beseda, a general in the ...
Sneakernomics and the surprising future of sneakers
A FEW YEARS ago trainers were the footwear du jour. Rubber-soled shoes, the kind sported by sportsmen, strode down catwalks a...
State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard
BANK REGULATORS are seldom celebrities. But Ahsan Mansur, the governor of Bangladesh’s central bank, is an exception. Since h...