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

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

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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 ...

Mrs Merkel’s answer to both fans and naysayers came in the form of a phrase that came to mark her 16 years as chancellor: Wir schaffen das, We can handle this. Over 1m migrants soon made Germany their ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

I N MOST CRIME stories, detectives worry about wily criminals, unreliable witnesses and meddling do-gooders. In Richard Osman ...

Hansard is a quirky institution within a quirky institution. Founded in 1803, and named after a family of printers, it is treated as the gospel of what was said in Parliament. But an “um” or “ah” can ...