This year marks a turning-point in the $19bn spectacle that is American college sports (see chart 1). Hidden behind the ...

Mr Trump’s executive order, “Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government”, draws on lurid examples to make its case. Top of ...

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Service stations are getting a glow-up. It takes around two minutes to fill up a petrol car, but around 25 minutes to charge ...

All it took was one after-dinner missive, fired off by the president on his social network, to turn the White House’s tussle ...

Indignity. By Lea Ypi. Allen Lane; 368 pages; £22. To be published in America by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in November; $28 ...

Donald Trump’s military parade astounded Chinese viewers in June. The sloppy marching, the corporate sponsorship, the paltry ...

Romans dreamed a lot about gladiators. Many imagined they were fighting themselves, down in the sandy arena, amid roaring ...

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson. By Leo Damrosch. Yale University Press; 584 pages; $35 and £25 Few writers ...

Brazil’s political landscape has been in disarray for much of the past decade. Intense polarisation has made it harder to pass reforms. Mr Bolsonaro’s removal from public life could give the country a ...

Since Bashar al-Assad’s fall, Syrians have begun to document and reckon with the half-century of repression that hollowed out their country. At the heart of that story are Syria’s prisons, none more ...