Yet in hindsight it is also wholly predictable: the list of internal disputes is long and the weaknesses of the SNP self-evident. The scale of preference falsification during the leadership of Nicola ...

But Donald Trump may soon break that precedent, too. Manhattan prosecutors are weighing whether to arrest the former president for covering up hush-money payments in the waning days of the 2016 ...

Bin collectors have joined strikes against the decision by the current president, Emmanuel Macron, to raise the minimum pension age from 62 to 64. So it was with some relief that on March 20th his ...

Mr Xi has cynically proposed a “peace plan” for Ukraine that would reward Russian aggression and which he knows Ukraine will not accept. It calls for “respecting the sovereignty of all countries”, but ...

Recent polling from The Economist and YouGov shows the startling difference in Americans’ views of China by age group. Roughly 25% of Americans aged 18 to 44 said they view China as an enemy, compared ...

The agency set up a programme in the cold war to resettle foreign spies in America. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it may get busy again ...

Robin Thicke is not equivocating. “I know you want it,” the R&B star croons without a shred of irony in “Blurred Lines”, his chart-topper of 2013. His fictitious interlocutor is “a good girl” who, the ...

Busloads of fellow Shias—from Lebanon and Bahrain as well as Iraq and Iran—come to the shrine to hail the pair for carving out a Shia domain that gave their sect, which caters for about 15% of Muslims ...

ONCE AGAIN, Florida is booming. Home to just 250,000 people at the end of Reconstruction in 1877, it now has over 22m—more than any other American state except California and Texas. Hurricanes and ...

Mr Chew’s goal in appearing on Capitol Hill was to convince the committee, the American government and, since the hearing was live-streamed, the American public that TikTok is eager to respond to ...

Mr Museveni, who is 78, may indeed want his son to succeed him when he dies. But he is not going anywhere yet. And so the 48-year-old General Kainerugaba, who styles himself as the voice of youth, ...

Though many of these problems also apply to other social-media platforms, TikTok’s enormous popularity among teenagers makes concerns over user safety more acute and emotional. But national-security ...