Ships crash in the North Sea
At around 10am on March 10th the Solong (pictured), a Portuguese-flagged cargo ship, and the Stena Immaculate, a tanker carry...
The education department is halved overnight
Republican presidential candidates have often promised to abolish the Department of Education. In 1983 Ronald Reagan said tha...
The race to elect the next head of the Olympics is heating up
On March 20th the 109 members of the International Olympic Committee (IOC)—a group that includes the grand duke of Luxembourg...
Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek
Two months on from its release, DeepSeek’s R1, which wowed experts and caused American tech stocks to crash in January, is st...
The importance of repetition in the workplace
If you had to define the indispensable power of a leader, which would you pick? Would it be probing intelligence? Boundless e...
Trump’s whims are overriding the national interest
WHEN ENVOYS of President Donald Trump travel the world making promises, demands and threats, do they speak for America’s nati...
With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open
Watching the automatic hand of the Manus AI agent scroll through a dozen browser windows is unsettling. Give it a task that c...
The struggle to defeat Russian censorship and propaganda
FOR the past three years Vladimir Putin has been fighting on two fronts. Just as his army has ruthlessly bombed Ukraine, his ...
The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
Righting Wrongs. By Kenneth Roth. Knopf; 448 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £30 A doctor in Syria under Bashar al-Assad was forced t...
Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?
The market moves were bigger than expected. On March 5th German long-term yields jumped by 0.3 percentage points, the largest...