Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is keen to bask in the goodwill: in her conference speech last month, she highlighted the cap ...

Her candidacy for Venezuela’s presidential election last year unified a normally fragmented opposition and inspired hope of change. Her feat, in October 2023, of winning 2.3m votes, or 92% of the ...

The idea that running barefoot might be good for you took off in 2009 when Christopher McDougall, a journalist, published a best-selling book about the Tarahumara, a group of people in Mexico who run ...

Britain’s success in this field is partly down to climate. One key to growing giant veg is the avoidance of stress. That means ensuring things are never too hot, too cold or too dry. The British ...

The president has targeted Ms James after she sued him successfully for fraud at his real-estate business. Last year a judge ordered him to pay a fine of nearly half a billion dollars. The penalty was ...

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IN RECENT WEEKS as many as 3.9bn people—half of the world’s population—have been living under lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many have sought to recreate what is lost. Unable to meet in ...

Africa’s “leaders for life” are easy to mock. Mr Biya sometimes runs his country from the Intercontinental Hotel in Geneva.

Though robotaxis have notched up impressive growth, they look ploddingly pedestrian compared with far zippier pedal-powered rivals. Waymo, Alphabet’s self-driving taxi firm, proudly proclaims that its ...

To understand why, look to the part of the world where strongman rule is most common: Africa. For a time in the 1990s the ...

L OOK AROUND the world of artificial intelligence and OpenAI is everywhere. In early September ChatGPT’s creator reportedly ...