Why China hates the Panama Canal deal, but still may not block it
“We didn’t give it to China. We gave it to Panama, and we’re taking it back.” Thus spoke Donald Trump shortly after BlackRock...
What really happens to everything you recycle
Waste Wars. By Alexander Clapp. Little, Brown; 400 pages; $32. John Murray; £25 What happens to that single-use plastic bottl...
Why are North Korean hackers such good crypto-thieves?
FEBRUARY 21st was a typical day, recalls Ben Zhou, the boss of ByBit, a Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange. Before going to ...
Why apprenticeships are so rare in Britain
THOUGH IT SPENT a lot of time lambasting Britain’s universities, the Conservative government that left office last year did a...
Will Donald Trump shape the Mexican president’s domestic agenda?
Dealing with Donald Trump is a nightmare for many world leaders, not least Mexico’s. Yet Claudia Sheinbaum has been doing une...
Why the Indian diaspora has not yet embraced Donald Trump
On March 17th Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, sat down for a three-hour interview with Lex Fridman, a podcaster popula...
ZOE, a British personal-nutrition app, is growing fast
MOST PEOPLE mention the poo hammock. At this stage you would have already eaten (and digested) your blue cookie. The paper cr...
The British state has a bad case of long covid
Coronavirus in Britain is a story of individual grief and collective amnesia. The fifth-anniversary commemorations on March 9...
Why America has not passed a law to treat addiction better
M ethadone is “the best tool we have” to fight opioid addiction, says Ashish Thakrar, a doctor at the University of Pennsylva...
Why British spooks are reaching out to the private sector
FOR MOST of its 87-year history, the men and women of His Majesty’s Government Communications Centre (HMGCC), at Hanslope Par...