Isomorphic Labs, Google’s A.I. Drug Business, Raises Money From Thrive
Over the last 12 months, Google’s efforts to use artificial intelligence to accelerate drug design have achieved breakthrough...
Israel courts the Middle East’s minorities
The prize for Israel sounds tempting. After the Hamas attack on October 7th 2023 Palestinian labourers from the occupied terr...
Nigeria’s president pushes the limits of his power
After a Nigerian firm called Heirs Energies paid $1.1bn in 2021 to acquire an oil field in the Niger Delta, its boss found th...
A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives
WHEN PAULINE OTIENO’S second child caught malaria, a decade ago, it meant an anxious, feverish week in hospital. When her thi...
The cover-up is worse than the group chat
Leave it to Vice-President J.D. Vance, the most media-savvy and self-assured of Donald Trump’s media-savvy, self-assured disc...
Texas troopers are in more and more lethal car chases
A RED CAR weaves in and out of traffic on a highway in El Paso, Texas. It’s June 2022 and Texas Department of Public Safety (...
America’s Supreme Court tackles a thorny voting-rights case
Louisiana v Callais, a case the Supreme Court heard on March 24th, contains a political puzzle. Why is the solidly Republican...
MAGA is already rewiring American education
WHEN AMERICAN presidents announce education policies, they are inevitably flanked by a phalanx of pupils. The executive order...
Elon Musk is powersliding through the federal government
The United States Institute of Peace (usip) was established by Congress in 1984 to promote an end to conflict all over the wo...
The prospect of war has turned Europe into a continent of preppers
In the run-up to Christmas, Swedes opening their mailboxes in hopes of greeting cards instead got a chilling reminder of the ...