“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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The falling out between America and India has prompted the emerging economic giant to think deeply about its present course. Mr Trump has vexed plenty of America’s friends. To understand why the ...

One reason Brazil promises to be different from other countries is that the memory of dictatorship is still fresh. It restored democracy in 1988. The supreme court, shaped by the “citizens’ ...

On August 22nd Caspar Veldkamp, the Dutch foreign minister, resigned after other cabinet members frustrated his modest efforts to toughen Dutch policy towards Israel. The four other ministers from his ...