The deal is also shameful for America. Mr Putin terrorises his own people, kills Ukrainian civilians and is helping Iran ...

Elections will sap what little resolve the continent has to make tough decisions.

The Bolsonaro clan promises to align with Donald Trump, and to attack democratic institutions.

Two years ago that approach was flawed but defensible. AI risks were mostly theoretical. Strangling a promising technology with overly onerous rules would have been a mistake. But in late 2026 „let it ...

To shore up the EU’s defences, France and Germany want it to use existing tools more aggressively, broaden the rules so that ...

A government-debt crisis is looming.

For most people, the answer is obvious. They know it when they see it printed on their shopping bill or posted outside a ...

In his new memoir Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist, quotes a character of Tolstoy’s: „The only suitable place for an honest man in Russia…is prison.” A son of Russian-speaking Soviet emigrants ...

Democracy is not an effete or genteel pastime. It does not exist to select the most attractive politicians, then arrange them ...

Vladimir Putin is about to subject Ukraine and Europe to a winter of horror. Each week Russia’s president plumbs new depths of cruelty and recklessness, enraged by his failure to break Ukraine in the ...

The world is entering an era of supercharged industrial capacity with fast-shrinking human input, reckons Jeff Schneider.

A summit between the two „friends” could go horribly wrong. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un discussing the production of ...