Under Donald Trump, the United States no longer operates as a serious nation. Being serious about power and interests should be the simple first step of any nation, especially a superpower. A serious ...

Books & arts Now, down to business Patrick Mullins 2 October 2025 “A catalyst, a provocation, and a reassurance”: Asa Briggs combined prolific history-writing with an extraordinary range of other ...

Leftist online personality Hasan Piker recently took a trip to China and — like many other influencers who have been there — declared it to be a paradise, praising “abundance-style consumption paired ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin’s 1929 is a well-told story about the great Wall Street crash. It has vivid characters, a thrilling plot and sensible observations. It is not too long, not too technical and not too ...

Accusations that her grandmother was a communist spy or a fascist collaborator — or both — sent Lea Ypi back to Albania and into her own imagination ...

Books & arts Map-making and myth-busting Zora Simic 14 December 2024 Joni Mitchell’s latest biographer creates a new geography of her work and influence Books & arts Baked into our bricks Zora Simic 7 ...

Donald Trump always demands public adulation, and he probably feels that it should be peaking now. He’s realised such long-time conservative dreams as damaging America’s social safety net and ...

Whatever the short-term advantages of dumping net zero, the Libs have also created electoral challenges for themselves ...

The website pepysdiary.com has been posting daily entries from Samuel Pepys’s 1660s diary since 2003, each entry inviting comments from readers. Since the diary itself ran for nine years, we are in ...

The proceedings of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization don’t normally make headline news. (Except perhaps in Ocean Freight Times.) But the ...

Indo-Pacific leaders have gathered in Malaysia and South Korea this week to gauge how the power game is going. The ceremony couldn’t conceal the apprehension, even fear. Power-balance calculations are ...