Gu Lin chose the apartment at One Riviera because of its location: a quiet residential neighbourhood just a few kilometres ...

Craving a steady guide to the frenzied world of American politics? Checks and Balance cuts through the noise to put all the ...

DEMENTIA IS A global emergency. More than 55m people are estimated to live with it. That is more than can be looked after humanely. Most new cases are in the developing world, where populations are ...

And a whopping 29% of the Brazilian Amazon is “undesignated”, meaning it is public land but no one has decided whether it should be a nature reserve, an indigenous reserve, or something else.

For those who thrive in Washington, DC, the city is so pleasant they often lose sight of how smug and insular it can be—how abstracted from the country it is meant to serve. They arrive with dreams of ...

To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Graphic detail page. The PDA accounts for $25bn of the $44bn-worth of military aid supplied by America to Ukraine since the start of the war.

America’s first female justice, who died on December 1st aged 93, once steered the Supreme Court—but it has since changed course ...

What happens in the coming weeks and months depends mainly on how much deeper and longer Israel’s offensive goes into Gaza ...

Facing an ever-growing demand for energy, China isn’t letting up. It aims to install between six and eight nuclear reactors ...

Since the early 2000s the number of Mexicans who have disappeared has rocketed to more than 100,000. A former bureau chief for the New York Times in Mexico tracks Miriam, whose youngest daughter is ...

As lawmakers have scrambled to plug fiscal holes, members of the ruling coalition have resorted to squabbling and the ...

This mental link helps explain Germany’s peculiar concern with saving governments from the imagined sin of borrowing money.