Pro-life post-Dobbs: America’s anti-abortion campaigns

Pro-life post-Dobbs: America’s anti-abortion campaigns

In the months since America’s Supreme Court gave states the power to ban abortions, those in support of the ruling have become more splintered. And with the help of leftist language, they are finding new recruits. A new discovery about the intelligence of a human-like species is changing how we understand evolution. And, a tribute to the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers.


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Fire, then fury: Hong Kong’s deadly blaze

Fire, then fury: Hong Kong’s deadly blaze

The dead are still being found; the displaced huddle in public spaces. Who or what will be blamed, and what policies will change after the tragedy? We visit Georgia, where protests have now lasted a y...

28 Nov 202528min

Growth negligence: Britain’s budget

Growth negligence: Britain’s budget

The tax-and-spend plan was fine-tuned to avoid immediate political jeopardy. But it will do little to help Britain’s chronic growth problem, and is likely to erode further the political centre. We mee...

27 Nov 202522min

Party likes it 1959: Cuba in crisis

Party likes it 1959: Cuba in crisis

The country’s Communist Party leadership continues to cling to old ideals amid on-again, off-again diplomacy with America—and the people’s suffering only deepens. Britain is making the most of its adv...

26 Nov 202523min

Wage against the machine: the distortions of minimum pay

Wage against the machine: the distortions of minimum pay

For decades governments have found minimum-wage rises a politically expedient means of redistribution. But the onward economic distortions have at last become clear. Of course AI can write a faster co...

25 Nov 202522min

Emission creep: a contentious COP closes

Emission creep: a contentious COP closes

It is telling and troubling that the annual climate talking-shop’s outcome did not even mention fossil fuels. We ask whether the COP process is still fit for purpose. Cryptocurrencies could be heading...

24 Nov 202525min

Flee country: Britain seeks to slash migration

Flee country: Britain seeks to slash migration

Britain’s home secretary Shabana Mahmood proposed a big shift in immigration policy this week. Our correspondent explains Labour’s reforms – and the reasoning behind them. Why military spy balloons ar...

21 Nov 202523min

War graft: scandal engulfs Ukraine

War graft: scandal engulfs Ukraine

Pentagon officials are meeting President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv to discuss a Russia-US peace proposal Ukraine had no part in writing. That merely adds pressure as a giant corruption crisis is alre...

20 Nov 202525min

Crown prince arming: Trump sells jets to MBS

Crown prince arming: Trump sells jets to MBS

Muhammad bin Salman’s first visit to the White House in seven years earned the Saudi crown prince new weapons, giant tech deals and a burnished reputation. Our correspondent explains Trump’s warm welc...

19 Nov 202521min

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