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Vladimir Putin has been a mysterious exception. Mr Trump has blamed his travails over Russia’s interference in the 2016 ...

Most regimes are failing to meet their own lofty goals. In 2000 Mr Kagame said he wanted Rwanda to be a middle-income country ...

And it will mean clarifying exactly what the Trump administration hopes to achieve with the process. The first challenge is ...

Great paintings can inspire entire volumes of interpretation. The ArtEmis project, which concluded in 2021, took a more ...

T HE TIMING could not have been worse. Days before a crucial summit in Alaska between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, ...

Pollution was real, he argued, but he was “extremely pro-business” and, in fact, some environmentalists were “enemies of the ...

Treasurers can take comfort from the size of their funds—Harvard’s comes to $53bn, for instance—and the fact that, over the ...

Amazon dieback”, as this grim scenario is known, is just one example of what climate scientists refer to as a tipping point: ...

Rare earths are rare only in the sense that they tend to be found in very low concentrations and are chemically difficult to ...

The more China uses its rare-earths weapon, therefore, the weaker it will become. Time and again, enterprise and ingenuity ...

The other problem is that they sound like good news. Negative feedbacks face the opposite problem. In a negative feedback, ...