Pregnant pause: India’s slumping fertility
After decades of overpopulation worries, the country now has the opposite concern. We examine India’s unusual demographic turn, and why it is a wider ...
A murder exploited: Britain’s George Floyd moment that wasn’t
Nigel Farage, leader of the populist-right Reform UK party, wants Britons to be enraged by a killing in the street. We ask why his tone has changed fr...
Focused group: Ukraine is now Europe’s war
Now that America has stepped back, Europe is at last stepping up. We examine the bloc’s tactics (if not yet a strategy) and how steady its support is ...
Head out of the cloud: Nvidia’s personal-computer shift
The AI world’s go-to chipmaker is blazing a trail toward your personal computer. We ask what moving out of the cloud indicates about the future of com...
Mistrusting the process: containing Congo’s Ebola outbreak
Aid is ramping up to the Democratic Republic of Congo, and vaccine work is progressing. But what the Ebola response most lacks is trust of the communi...
New world of warcraft: how conflict has forever changed
Our outgoing defence editor reflects on how war has changed during the eight years of his tenure. Wars have become easier to start and harder to finis...
Deal or ordeal: Trump’s bad options in Cuba
The American administration’s next round of sabre-rattling has been directed at Cuba. But more military adventures there would probably prove disastro...
What price victory? Ukraine on the front foot
Economic support, drone capability, defence under new management: the tide may have turned for Ukraine. But domestic politics and perceptions will def...
No big deal: murky Iran-war negotiations
More mixed messages from President Donald Trump and air strikes that seem to violate the ceasefire: all that is remotely in prospect is a deal to keep...
Pulp fiction v the classics: summer reading
What do we mean by a “good book”? Some people choose a holiday read that demands time and attention. Others pick rip-roaring novels that require littl...