T HE PETITIONER in Trump v United States was not present on April 25th when the Supreme Court considered whether he and other ex-presidents should enjoy immunity from criminal lia ...

Seven years later, on April 25th, Mr Macron returned to the university with an altogether graver message: “Our Europe is mortal; it can die”. The underlying thread in Mr Macron’s long speech was one ...

And, like America, California is not just a place but an idea: a golden land of opportunity at the edge of the continent where generations of miners, migrants, farmers, actors and computer geeks have ...

In the vast majority of cases, including Giddings’s, this is usually because a body is too decomposed to examine properly.

The right to privacy was cited in an influential ECHR ruling in 2002 that let a British trans woman change her birth certificate. The court is also opaque; until recently, judges could issue emergency ...

In the speech that followed, Britain’s former prime minister set out his vision of a “united Europe” that would stand against tyranny. Central to it, he said, was the declaration of human rights by ...

Hull once had a powerful city council. Well before the second world war, it demanded money from the central government to pay for thousands of air-raid shelters—then, when Westminster demurred, built ...

The first is Europe’s biggest climate achievement: its carbon price. By 2023 sectors covered by the EU’s emissions-trading system (ETS), such as industry and electricity generation, had jointly ...

I T COULD BE the plot of a kitschy tear-jerker: a group of elderly Swiss ladies sue their government in an international court over greenhouse-gas emissions, and win. On April 9th ...

For all the shoe leather the author treads in pursuit of Amazon, her story is rambling, and there is no “gotcha” moment. Unexpectedly, Ms Khan has focused the FTC’s case against Amazon on different ...

Who’s Afraid of Gender? By Judith Butler. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 320 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25. T here was a time when outlandish theories about gender were confined to t ...

Argentina’s rugby team could have used a handy fly-half in the 1990s, but both Mr Galperin’s home country and Latin America are much better off for his choice of business. It is hard to overstate ...