In Texas, vaccine-choice activists are ascendant

In the oil towns of west Texas a measles outbreak is spreading. At least 58 people have been infected and 13 are in hospital,...

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Singapore’s leader of the opposition is convicted of lying

On February 17th Pritam Singh, the leader of Singapore’s opposition, was convicted of “wilfully” lying twice to a privileges ...

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Why are pop singers popping up in films?

YOU COULD tune out for a few seconds and miss it. There is a brief moment in “Popular”, one of the song-and-dance numbers in ...

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Why so many children in America have ADHD

Few things agitate Robert F. Kennedy junior, America’s new health secretary, more than the rate of attention-deficit hyperact...

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Xi Jinping wants the private sector to thrive again

Successful stockpickers need a particular set of skills—the ability to parse financial statements, decipher corporate strateg...

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Sudan’s national army is on the brink of retaking the capital

It was the first time the militia commander had been seen in public for months. “Please don’t listen to any rumour-mongers,” ...

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Syria’s next steps towards a new order

Almost three months have passed since the toppling of Bashar al-Assad’s decaying regime in Syria, and a raft of self-imposed ...

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Donald Trump is taking presidential power to alarming places, writes Jack Goldsmith

“THEY HIT me and I hit them back harder and they disappear,” Donald Trump said in 2016, during his first presidential campaig...

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Why Britain has so far dodged Donald Trump’s tariffs

Donald Trump’s trade officials are run off their feet. China was just the beginning. Since the start of February, the preside...

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The US-Russia dogfight to sell India fighter jets

As one of Asia’s biggest air and defence shows, Aero India always generates a buzz in the arms trade, not to mention the skie...

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