For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point

When Emil Bove, the acting deputy attorney-general, set off an avalanche of resignations in the Department of Justice (DoJ) b...

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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...

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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...

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Han Kang is South Korea’s pride—and its conscience

We Do Not Part. By Han Kang. Translated by e. yaewon and Paige Morris. Hogarth; 272 pages; $28. Hamish Hamilton; £18.99 MOST ...

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Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything

Plate tectonics is geology’s Theory of Everything. The realisation in the 1960s that Earth’s crust is made of fragments calle...

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Hollywood’s Trump-baiting Oscars

Donald Trump’s election marked a “cultural tipping point”, Mark Zuckerberg declared as he hastily reorganised his company las...

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British football hooligans are on the offensive once again

THE CONTEST between Arsenal and West Ham on February 22nd will be fierce. Probably not on the pitch: Arsenal is the strong fa...

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Egypt and Jordan are struggling to make themselves useful to Donald Trump

THE FIRST time was an honour. King Abdullah of Jordan was the first Arab leader invited to meet Donald Trump at the White Hou...

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Leaving the seat of power

The arc of management bends towards sitting on your arse. You may intend to get away from your desk, but it holds you there n...

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Only Asia can help America counter China’s shipbuilding prowess

AT THE Ulsan shipyard on the south-eastern coast of South Korea, vessels are assembled like Lego. Hulking cranes stack huge b...

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