W HEN VOLODYMYR ZELENSKY arrived at the White House on February 28th the America-Ukrainian relationship was fragile and ...

Much is made of AI ’s potential to spread political misinformation. The “Trump Gaza” video exemplifies a different use of the ...

Britain has a record of consistently having hit the NATO minimum of spending 2% of GDP on defence. More than that, when there ...

The origin of Europe’s recent hard-right surge is difficult to pin down. Some theorise that, beginning with the financial ...

I t was 1986: Greed was good and the hours were punishing. Still, even round-the-clock dealmakers had to eat. That is how ...

Last January Tyler Cowen, an economist at George Mason University in Virginia, found himself being ushered into an open-air ...

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At the time of Mr Dube’s visit in 1995 almost half of India’s population still lived below the international poverty line, ...

W ork hard, children are told, and you will succeed. In recent decades this advice served the talented and the diligent well.

The leader of Turkey’s Kurdish rebels calls on his group to disband ...

Drug gangs have overwhelmed Ecuador over the past five years, turning it from a peaceful oasis into mainland Latin America’s ...

Instead, he took his brainchild to Tabletop R&D, an AI startup, where a game-playing algorithm allowed him to play thousands ...