Catch up:Trump belittles Zelensky; Netanyahu vows revenge on Hamas
In an interview with Fox News Donald Trump dismissed Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, as powerless, saying he has “no...
Africa’s young “generation hustle” hits the big time
She is training to be a seamstress four days a week and works as a cook on two other days. In between, Grace Garus Dalop find...
Bean there, done that
THERE were rules at Pableaux Johnson’s Monday dinners. No phones: pay attention to the people around you. Don’t sit next to s...
Britain’s government can ignore objections to its asylum policies
The objections are flying in. On February 16th refugee groups and religious figures, including some bishops, complained that ...
China’s alarming sex imbalance
“Of course I want to get married,” says Fu, a lorry driver in Yiyang, a far-flung county in Jiangxi province. Once a migrant ...
Chinese authorities try to stop parents gaming the exam system (again)
An ancient Chinese saying states that meng mu san qian: the mother of Mencius, a sage, “moved three times” to find him the ri...
DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalism
A mix of MAGA purists and internationalist Republicans staffed Donald Trump’s first administration, with the old establishmen...
Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts threaten his rural voters
THE TALLEST structures in Pawnee County, Kansas are the grain elevators. They loom over the cows, the low-slung buildings and...
Germany’s mind-bending electoral maths
IT HAS been a dramatic few months in Germany. November saw the collapse of the three-party coalition led by Olaf Scholz, trig...
Europe is set to start cutting red tape—lightly
If red tape could be said to have a spiritual home, it would be the corridors of the European Commission in Brussels. The bea...