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Her feminism is “rooted in an awareness of how race and gender and class all affect my ability to be educated, receive ...

The Economist’s forecast model suggests that the state—with its 19 electoral-college votes, the most of any swing state—is ...

I n June 2023 the Supreme Court banned race-conscious admissions at American universities. Many supporters of the practice ...

Flood warnings had been ringing out across Nigeria’s north-east for weeks. Schools in Maiduguri were closed for a fortnight ...

Western Balkan arms-makers are booming. Serbian arms exports have quadrupled since 2020; some €800m ($890m)-worth of its ammo ...

Pay is at the centre of the latest dispute. Boeing offered its employees a 25% rise over four years; its workers are ...

The firm, which now goes by PwC rather than PricewaterhouseCoopers, at least spares Edwin’s memory the indignity of having ...

As well as deploying police, China hosts Pacific officers for training and is showering cash-strapped forces with equipment.

These efforts are about to be given a big boost. Recent breakthroughs in recycling, together with a spate of technological ...

F or nearly a year Israel’s Supreme Court has been without a president, as the country’s right-wing government has tussled ...

Republicans love to blame everything they consider wrong with America on an epidemic of “wokeness”, by which they tend to ...