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 ...

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

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

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

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

E VERY BUSINESS in Ukraine has a reference point. For Mykhailo Travetsky, a farmer in Pryluky, it was the first six weeks of ...

Welfare is “a dirty word” in Singapore—or so a past prime minister, Lee Hsien Loong, once approvingly declared. What the city-state prizes, he explained, was not handouts, but self-reliance.

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