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Six centuries later tight-lipped priests are once again being tested—this time in America’s state legislatures. Various state ...

For players and fans, even whole countries, winning the World Cup is a secular rapture. One team and nation will experience ...

In “Among the Thugs” an American journalist follows a group of lager-gargling, bottle-throwing Manchester United fans, who ...

All of these harm the collagen and elastin fibres in the extracellular matrix, the skin’s structural scaffolding, causing ...

California accepts mail-in ballots postmarked by election day, so the process can take days, sometimes weeks. This year many ...

W HEN EUROPEAN regulators were tweaking the continent’s wholesale electricity markets some years ago, they added a price ...

To be published in America by St Martin’s Press in September; $33 How do you measure the greatness of Alexander the Great?

The Franco-German link was forged around an implicit equilibrium: France carries the military burden, while Germany provides ...

Weaponisation Fund” for victims of “lawfare” by previous administrations. The Justice Department said it was complying with a ...

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Data released by America’s Bureau of Labour Statistics on June 5th all but buried last year’s labour-market gloom. Employers ...