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 ...

Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox. The Senate passed a $70bn bill ...

Of this, $9bn went to new research into boosting farm yields, up from $2.5bn in 2016. The boost comes at an opportune moment.

She popularised this idea in a bestseller of 2021, “Finding the Mother Tree”, and a series of TED Talks. Photograph: Panos ...

Iran and its militias in Iraq have lobbed missiles at them; Tehran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz is throttling oil and ...

T HE PETRO-MONARCHIES of the Gulf are celebrated big spenders—not least by the West’s defence industry. Their oil wealth pays ...

Meanwhile America’s belligerent trade policy and its repeated deployment of financial sanctions (whatever their merits) have ...

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 ...

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