This, at least, is the portrait drawn by the State Democracy Index, developed by Jake Grumbach, a political scientist at the ...

The horror arrived on the evening of December 20th, when a BMW ploughed through the Christmas market in Magdeburg, a city in ...

The MOVE index, a similar metric for interest rates, has plummeted since America’s presidential election. Such benign ...

A national post-election poll by YouGov found that Americans without college degrees saw Democrats as more out of touch and ...

Civilian drones took off in the 2010s. Officially, America’s Federal Aviation Administration ( FAA) governs their use, but ...

T HE BRAZILIAN real holds an ignominious title this year: it is the worst-performing major currency, down by more than 20% to ...

E ACH DECEMBER China’s rulers gather for their Central Economic Work Conference, where they review the past 12 months and ...

How keen are you now? The expected profit is still $5,000, but the risk of losing at least $10,000 (by rolling a one or two) ...

Yet 13 years on, things in South Sudan have not gone to plan. The country is experiencing perhaps its worst economic crisis ...

The robust-looking outer covering is in fact a millimetre-thin “skin” of aluminium alloy covering a metal frame, insulated ...

Some in the industry fret that the days of heady growth may not return. There are, after all, only so many middle-class ...

In a surprise announcement on December 11th Ethiopia and Somalia appeared to make up. After negotiations in Ankara, brokered ...