When Mr Niccol takes over as chief executive of Starbucks on September 9th life will become a lot less simple. His new office ...

The debates in 2020 stood out—not because of their effect on the polls, but because they were little more than slanging ...

Ms Harris, a far less familiar politician, is running more ads introducing herself and outlining her priorities (as I write ...

By Yuval Noah Harari. Random House; 528 pages; $35. Fern Press; £28 “L et Truth and falsehood grapple,” argued John Milton in ...

That view jars with the impression conveyed by another, far more conspicuous, trend: the rise of Chinese nationalism. In ...

W HEN DONALD TRUMP and Kamala Harris debate for the first time on September 10th, two very different speaking styles will be ...

Ask almost anyone in Nigeria and they will tell you that they know someone who knows someone who has been trafficked. Human trafficking in Nigeria is pervasive. It happens to thousands inside and ...

Technology is crucial in honouring this promise. In the decade that he has been in power, India has rolled out a ...

An obvious result is the retreat of individual liberty. In a reversal of its partial opening, China has become a more ...

Yet unlike the television series that drew inspiration from the Murdoch family’s squabbling, the real-life saga is not, in ...

The two rival explanations for China’s confidence problem thus have quite different implications for policy. If gloom is ...