Catch up:Protests in Congo; Trump pauses federal grants
Angry crowds attacked the embassies of Rwanda, Belgium, Uganda, Kenya and France in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic R...
The burned and the saved:what the LA fires spared
On January 7th a lethal combination of powerful winds and recent drought sent the greater Los Angeles area up in flames. A we...
Catch up:Trump pauses federal grants; investors react to AI turmoil
The White House Office of Management and Budget told government agencies to pause almost all grants, loans and other financia...
Rwanda’s reckless plan to redraw the map of Africa
THE RESIDENTS of Goma are no strangers to war. The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has lon...
The warlord, the oligarch and the unravelling of Russia’s Amazon.com
One bright afternoon last September, a 47-year-old Russian entrepreneur walked down an elegant street near the Kremlin toward...
Tom Homan, unleashed
IN 2003 Tom Homan was in Dallas talking about a new agency he was helping to set up. It would eventually be known as Immigrat...
A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president
LEADING THE Office of Management and Budget (OMB) may sound mundane, but the role is one of Washington’s most important. Russ...
The White House has been fluid on gender for a decade
ON THE FIRST day of his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Defending Women from Gender Ide...
Catch up:tech stocks plunge; Bessent confirmed as Treasury secretary
Global stockmarkets slumped as investors panicked over the Chinese startup DeepSeek’s low-cost artificial-intelligence model....
Catch up:tech stocks plunge; Justice Department officials sacked
Nvidia’s share price fell by 17%, wiping more than $589bn from the American chipmaker’s market value—the biggest daily declin...