“A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY”, Mary Karr, an American author, once said, “is any family with more than one person in it.” Acerbic ...

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 ...

W HEN IT RAINS it pours. In August some parts of India received as much precipitation in one week as they usually do all ...

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

The Tesla Diner, an electric-vehicle (EV) charging hub and roadside restaurant that opened in July in Los Angeles, is not ...

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

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 ...

And despite its troubles in America, Orsted has a number of promising projects under way in Britain, Germany, Poland and Taiwan that are expected to start operating this decade. In July it signed a 20 ...

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, ...