Cache and carry: American states’ gun-law push

Cache and carry: American states’ gun-law push

Today another state will enact a “permitless carry” law—no licence, checks or training required. We ask why states’ loosening of safeguards fails to reflect public sentiment. Brexit has supercharged Scottish nationalism, and this week’s elections may pave the way to another independence referendum. And a long-forgotten coffee species may weather the climate-change era.

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Majority rules: Britain’s new Parliament sits

Majority rules: Britain’s new Parliament sits

Now that the prime minister has a thumping parliamentary majority, Brexit is assured—but on what terms? And what other legislative shake-ups are in the works? President Donald Trump has relied heavily...

17 Joulu 201921min

COP out: the UN climate talks

COP out: the UN climate talks

Again, the annual COP conference ran long and ended with disappointment. Why can’t countries agree on what so clearly must be done? One big contributor to the changing climate is meat-eating, and Chin...

16 Joulu 201921min

Bolt from the blue: Britain’s Conservatives triumph

Bolt from the blue: Britain’s Conservatives triumph

A thumping win for Boris Johnson’s Tory party is more complex than it seems; the returns cast a light on changes bubbling under the surface of the country’s politics. A renewed push for land restituti...

13 Joulu 201923min

Defending the indefensible: Aung San Suu Kyi

Defending the indefensible: Aung San Suu Kyi

Myanmar’s de facto leader appeared before the International Court of Justice to answer allegations of war crimes. We look at the stark turnaround of an icon of democracy. Storing renewable energy rema...

12 Joulu 201923min

Articles of faith: charges laid against Trump

Articles of faith: charges laid against Trump

House Democrats have issued their narrowly focused articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump. We look back on the history of impeachments and ask whether the process is working as first i...

11 Joulu 201921min

Running into debt: Argentina’s new president

Running into debt: Argentina’s new president

For the first time in decades, a non-Peronist president will peacefully hand over power. But the new president—and his deputy, former president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner—have their work cut out f...

10 Joulu 201920min

Oil be going: Canada’s separatist west

Oil be going: Canada’s separatist west

Long-simmering tensions in the oil-rich west of the country have boiled over, and now there’s an increasingly credible push for secession. Investors are gobbling up startups that turn reams of climate...

9 Joulu 201920min

Writing on the Wall: a revealing British-election hike

Writing on the Wall: a revealing British-election hike

Our correspondent walked the length of Hadrian’s Wall, in northern England, finding shifting party alliances and surprising views on Brexit. We take a look at the phenomenon of Japan’s hikikomori, who...

6 Joulu 201922min

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