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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

India’s population will still continue to grow from its current tally of 1.45bn: it takes time for fewer births to translate ...