There is an era in the history of many cities that is inextricably linked, in the public imagination, to crime and ...

There are now a billion fewer people subsisting on less than $2.15 a day than in 2000. Each year since the turn of the ...

I n June 2023 the Supreme Court banned race-conscious admissions at American universities. Many supporters of the practice ...

Flood warnings had been ringing out across Nigeria’s north-east for weeks. Schools in Maiduguri were closed for a fortnight ...

Western Balkan arms-makers are booming. Serbian arms exports have quadrupled since 2020; some €800m ($890m)-worth of its ammo ...

The Economist’s forecast model suggests that the state—with its 19 electoral-college votes, the most of any swing state—is ...

Pay is at the centre of the latest dispute. Boeing offered its employees a 25% rise over four years; its workers are ...

The future of money, in other words, is attracting attention. What of its past? In a new paper, Adam Brzezinski of the London ...

The firm, which now goes by PwC rather than PricewaterhouseCoopers, at least spares Edwin’s memory the indignity of having ...

I N THEir QUEST to build a better battery, researchers have blazed a trail through the elements of the periodic table. The ...

At the turn of the millennium the four largest firms in the average European industry claimed a market share of less than 26% ...

These efforts are about to be given a big boost. Recent breakthroughs in recycling, together with a spate of technological ...