Israel’s strikes may be only the start of a new offensive in Gaza
FOR TWO months a fragile ceasefire has held in Gaza. But on March 18th the truce ended abruptly as Israel launched air strike...
Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?
Installing more lifts in multi-storey buildings, extending the hours of children’s clinics during flu season, encouraging for...
Will Trump’s tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America?
For Global companies there is no place quite like America. As growth in China and Europe has slowed, its economy has continue...
Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth
THE SIGNALS were coming fast and furious by the first week of March. Ukrainian forces in the Kursk bridgehead, an area of Rus...
The pandemic hit pupils hardest in America’s Democrat-leaning states
ON AN UNSEASONABLY balmy March afternoon in Westbrook, Maine—a suburb of Portland, the state’s largest city—parents gather ou...
Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
In the summer of 2024 several groups of scientists published a curious finding: people vaccinated against shingles were less ...
Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes
ON MARCH 2ND Tulsi Gabbard, America’s director of national intelligence, accused Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, of ...
America is facing a beef deficit
THE WEST LOOP in Chicago was once the city’s meatpacking district. That is long gone, but people still come to the neighbourh...
Ageism is rampant in Chinese companies
On March 5th China’s prime minister, Li Qiang, in his annual speech at the National People’s Congress (npc), China’s rubber-s...
America’s strikes on the Houthis could whip up a regional tempest
America and its allies have repeatedly gone after the Houthis, Yemeni rebels backed by Iran, since they started attacking shi...