Mice have been genetically engineered to look like mammoths
FORGET THE elephant shrew—meet the mammoth mouse. On March 4th Colossal Biosciences, a company trying to revive long-gone spe...
AI unleashes a weird new genre of political communication
The leader of the free world basks on a sun lounger in his swimming shorts, sipping a beer next to the prime minister of Isra...
El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure
For much of the time since Nayib Bukele became president in 2019, El Salvador has teetered on the brink of default. The warni...
A thorny debate in Britain around the definition of “Islamophobia”
On the first day of Ramadan, February 28th, the government announced a new working group to provide a “definition of anti-Mus...
A new film is breaking box-office records in China
Film-makers in China have long tried to find the secret sauce for movies that wow audiences while pleasing the Communist Part...
A new kind of Brazilian music is poised for a global boom
The world is watching Brazil after the country won its first Oscar for “I’m Still Here”, a film set in Rio de Janeiro during ...
Camille Grand on why Ukraine’s future turns on security guarantees
THE NOTION of security guarantees has become critical to efforts to secure a sustainable peace in Ukraine. The country demand...
Chinese warships circumnavigate another island:Australia
Having built the world’s largest navy, China is keen to show it off. But officials from Australia and New Zealand have been s...
Jack Vettriano was a fantastic painter
His name was perfect. Jack is reassuringly British. Vettriano, a version of his mother’s maiden name, is chic and Italian. Th...
Europe sounds increasingly French
“THe real victim of this affair”, he concluded, is “the Atlantic alliance…If our allies have abandoned us in difficult, if no...