The defeat of political movements rarely follows the decisive ending imagined in literature. Even when an authoritarian leader loses power or an electoral movement suffers a major setback, the political ideas sustaining
Elon Musk has committed $360m to a last-ditch effort to help Republicans retain control of Congress in next month’s US midterm elections, adding a record-setting contribution to a campaign that has raised
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In 2018, a young Syrian named Youssef Juma was repairing a laptop belonging to a local security commander when he discovered footage of a mass execution. The videos showed blindfolded civilians being
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Elon Musk has accused Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man, of obstructing the expansion of Starlink into the country, turning a prolonged regulatory delay into a public dispute between two of the world’s
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At least 11 European countries have active contracts with Palantir, the US data analytics company whose software is used by defence ministries, intelligence services, police forces and public institutions, according to an
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A dispute over alleged forced labour in China’s salmon industry in Xinjiang has exposed competing accounts of the region’s expanding economic activity, with the state-backed Global Times accusing The New York Times
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Modi’s problems began over the summer. After the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET)—the exam Indian students take to qualify for medical school—leaked, India’s education department asked more than 2 million students
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Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary under US President Donald Trump, attracted widespread attention during her first briefing after accidentally referring to the president as “my husband” when she intended
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The United States and the Soviet Union came remarkably close to an agreement that could have transformed global security by eliminating nuclear weapons, according to previously secret documents released by the National
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Brazil’s presidential election has strengthened the political movement founded by former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro, with his son Flávio entering the run-off against incumbent Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva after securing 47
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Global efforts to reduce hunger and halt deforestation are falling short of international targets, with new reports documenting worsening food insecurity in dozens of countries and continued destruction of millions of hectares
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Bank of America has been ordered to pay more than $1.21 billion in penalties over failures to meet US anti-money-laundering and sanctions requirements, in an enforcement action that the Treasury Department described
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Asia has seen a surge of “Gen Z protests,” led by a generation tired of accepting the status quo and increasingly using social media to drive change in deeply entrenched political systems.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave a speech at the Pnyx in Athens on October 7, a place just below the Parthenon that I spoke at a few years ago. It sounds
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Morocco’s efforts to secure international backing for its proposed autonomy plan for Western Sahara face a renewed obstacle at the United Nations, where Secretary-General António Guterres has insisted that any future arrangement
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In Irkutsk, a Siberian city near Mongolia, the apparent absence of public alarm has become almost as striking as the unexplained health scare that brought the region international attention. More than a
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