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 ...

N ot so long ago, Westerners dismissed China as a copycat, a fast follower or a “fat tech dragon”, consuming vast amounts of money and manpower while rarely taking flight. But as China has triumphed ...

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

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

For politicians of the centre ground elsewhere, France’s troubles reflect something broader too: a worrying sign that the tools of technocratic politics—an appeal to reason, the marshalling of facts, ...

Since the last parade in 2019, the world’s largest armed forces—about 2m strong—have grown much more muscle. They have gained an array of new weapons from hypersonic missiles and stealth fighters to a ...

O n august 24th, six months after being selected as the new chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces ( idf ), Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir broke publicly with his government’s policy. On a visit ...

SABRINA CARPENTER’s career is anything but wooden. Last August she released “Short n’ Sweet”, one of the albums of the summer, which topped the charts in 19 countries. Three songs from the record, ...

In the most recent survey conducted by Ipsos, a pollster, Mr López Aliaga for the first time topped the voting-intention list for a general election scheduled for April 2026. That put him just ahead ...

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 ...

The accusations are ironic. Egypt has worked with Israel to restrict the flow of aid into Gaza, only to be criticised by Israel for restricting that same flow.

Most bizarrely, Lungu’s political party has suggested that Mr Hichilema wants to use the body for witchcraft, an unfounded allegation. “This whole case has gotten out of hand,” sighs an adviser to the ...