T he Republicans should pray for rain”—the title of a paper published by a trio of political scientists in 2007—has been an ...

America reassured nervous Asian friends that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan was “neither imminent nor inevitable”. But in a ...

In the rich world, AI and other e-learning tools have yet to prove better than traditional teaching. Chatbots can get sums ...

Many of the tariffs rest on a law Congress passed in 1977, giving the president the authority to “regulate” aspects of ...

This suggested coffee might be good for fending off cancer. One follow-up study led by Jin-Kyoung Oh of the Karolinska ...

I N 2018 TADEUSZ BATYR, a previously unknown author, published a book about the life of a notorious gang boss in communist ...

Stories of assassins, detectives and singer-songwriters ...

For years British and Irish journalists have treated Mr Adams’s denials as they would a claim that water isn’t wet. The ...

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Mr Xi was used to leftovers. As a boy, he would wash in his father’s bathwater. (The next morning the water would be used for ...

Four months into the president’s term, detention centres are full. The newest data released by ICE show a drop in the number ...

T ariffs particularly enthuse Donald Trump because foreigners pay them—at least as he sees it—and merely threatening them is ...