Today
- Opinion
- Russia-Ukraine war
Vladimir Putin’s preparing for a long war
The Russian president’s idea of the motherland is much larger than the country’s globally recognised borders, an atavism that’s widely shared within his nation.
- Marc Champion
How 18-year-old Barron Trump could follow in his father’s footsteps
The youngest of Donald Trump’s children graduates high school this week, which makes him a target for the press.
- Kate Wills
Yesterday
The reclusive billionaire turning Georgia towards the Kremlin
Georgia’s former prime minister Bidzina Ivanishvili has returned to politics for a third time, and is taking a risk by supporting an inflammatory new law.
- Cameron Henderson
- Opinion
- Refugees
Chinese asylum seekers are paying $15,000 to reach the US via Mexico
About 37,000 people from the Asian nation were detained at the United States’ southern border last year.
- Slavoj Žižek
This Month
- Analysis
- EU
Europe’s far right is becoming mainstream
Anti-immigration parties with fascist roots, and an unclear commitment to democracy, are emerging as Europe’s new leaders, the New York Times reports.
- Roger Cohen
- Opinion
- Legal industry
How the US Supreme Court became a political organisation
When judges make decisions that should be left to politicians, they undermine democracy.
- Amanda Stoker
- Opinion
- USA
Campus protests may help Donald Trump win
History suggests the intellectual conformism sweeping university life could trigger a popular backlash that ends in conservative rule.
- David Brooks
Big US companies are pulling back diversity policies
Facing a legal, social and political backlash, America’s diversity, equality and inclusion industry is starting to reassess and rebrand.
- Taylor Telford and Julian Mark
- Analysis
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Can the ICC actually arrest Benjamin Netanyahu?
The International Criminal Court is entitled to judge Israeli and Hamas officials, writes one of its former presidents.
- Chile Eboe-Osuji
Famous, poor and gay, this lawyer scandalised her class, and country
Constance Debré left her husband for women. Denied custody of her son, she turned the story into a book that shocked France.
- Claire Allfree
- Analysis
- UK leadership
Jeremy Clarkson, patron saint of the Great British bore
In barely a decade he has gone from disgraced Top Gear presenter to beloved guardian of the British countryside, due to the success of Clarkson’s Farm.
- The Economist
- Opinion
- India
India is starting to look like a Central Asian dictatorship
As the country holds its national election, Narendra Modi’s government is undermining democratic institutions and building a cult of personality around the PM.
- Debasish Roy Chowdhury
- Analysis
- Banking products
Good banks today want to be seen as boring
Regional US financial institutions are promoting themselves as stodgy, stuffy and dull in response to industry failures.
- Bre Bradham
How to get a meeting with the UAE’s $2.3 trillion man
Deals with hard-to-reach decision maker Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan are often built on years of relationships with one of his network of gatekeepers.
- Ben Bartenstein
- Opinion
- Workplace
Business school blather can’t beat real-world CEO know-how
What’s needed is a new management theory that avoids the deceptive certainties of neoliberalism and the equally deceptive vagaries of stakeholder capitalism.
- Adrian Wooldridge
Don’t swat fruit flies – they’re smarter than you probably think
Researchers say many species, from insects to invertebrates, have consciousness. It turns out humans aren’t so special, after all.
- Ed Cumming
Why Indian workers head to war zones, from Israel to Russia
The promise of well-paid jobs is too strong a lure to resist, despite the lack of protection from their home government and those they work under.
- Swetasree Ghosh Roy
What will central banks do in a cashless world?
The development puts new pressure on such institutions to reimagine their role and become more innovative.
- Mariana Mazzucato and David Eaves
Our world is already ravaged by nuclear war
Annie Jacobsen’s new book, written in the style of a techno-thriller, sets out what might happen if that fateful button is pushed.
- Erik Baker
There hasn’t been a series this complex – and funny – in a long time
One of the bigger gags in this Vietnam War tale, is the casting of Robert Downey jnr in several make-up-heavy roles.
- Jordan Hoffman
