Get down to Syria’s business: coming talks with Turkey
Through years of Syria’s messy civil war, Turkey has been a foe. As the conflict slowly fades, the countries have a mutual interest in rapprochement. Can they find common ground? Luiz Inácio Lula da S...
17 Jan 202325min
What did the president stow and when did he stow it? Biden‘s mess
A drip-feed of discoveries of classified material in Joe Biden’s home and offices—and the president’s botched messaging around them—are a gift to Republicans and to Donald Trump, who is under investig...
16 Jan 202323min
Zero-sum: the imperilled global economic order
Countries across the world are turning inward, embracing protectionism, subsidies and export controls. This threatens the global order that has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, and risks ec...
13 Jan 202325min
Unveiled threats: Iran's patient protesters
Iran’s protests may have gone quiet for the moment, but that does not mean they’ve been defeated. Beneath a calmer surface, Iranians are seething and biding their time. India’s pharma sector is huge, ...
12 Jan 202324min
Doctors’ disorders: Britain’s overwhelmed health service
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are striking, and doctors are overworked—leading to hundreds of excess deaths each week. We visit the front...
11 Jan 202332min
Unquiet on the eastern front: fighting in the Donbas
Russian troops have turned Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, into a charnel house—and a proving ground for its mercenary army. The booming North Sea region could reshape Europe’s economy. And how women acr...
10 Jan 202325min
Cloud coup-coup land: riots in Brazil
In a scene reminiscent of the US Capitol riot two years ago, supporters of Brazil’s defeated president rampaged through government buildings yesterday. Our Brazil correspondent surveys the damage. We ...
9 Jan 202321min
Bibi’s got backup: Israel’s right-wing government
Israel’s new government is its most right-wing ever—but, in a break from the past, that may not derail deepening relations with neighbouring Arab countries. Thousands of Africans are killed each year ...
6 Jan 202327min
