No-sanctuary cities: the Taliban’s latest surge
Sweeping rural gains made as American forces have slipped out are now giving way to bids for urban areas; an enormous, symbolic victory for the insurgents looms. Singapore has enjoyed relative racial ...
2 Aug 202121min
Neither borrower nor renter be: America’s coming foreclosures
America’s pandemic-driven measures granting relief on mortgages and rent arrears will soon expire, and millions of people are in danger of losing their homes. The Netherlands’ history of slavery is of...
30 Jul 202122min
Good news, ad news: Facebook’s big bucks and bets
The social-media behemoth revealed huge profits and stressed even bigger plans: to become an e-commerce giant and a hub for digital creators, and to pioneer something called the “metaverse”. After a b...
29 Jul 202122min
Borderline disorder: the UN’s refugee treaty at 70
An international convention devised after the second world war is ill-suited to the refugee crises of today—and countries are increasingly unwilling to meet their obligations. Vancouver’s proposed res...
28 Jul 202122min
Alight in Tunisia: a democracy in crisis
The president has sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament. It is clear that the country needed a shake-up in its hidebound politics—but is this the right way? A sprawling trial starting tod...
27 Jul 202121min
The blonde leading: Britain’s two years under Boris Johnson
As the country tests a bold reopening strategy in the face of the Delta variant, our political editor charitably characterises the prime minister’s tenure as a mixed bag. Hong Kong’s national-security...
26 Jul 202122min
A dangerous games? A muted start to the Olympics
Tokyo is under a state of emergency; covid-19 cases are piling up. But for Japan, a super-spreader event is just one of the potential costs of this year’s games. We ask why Britain’s government has es...
23 Jul 202123min
Three-degree burn: the warmer world that awaits
It seems ever more certain that global temperatures will sail past limits set in the Paris Agreement. We examine what a world warmed by 3°C would—or will—look like. Our correspondent speaks with Sudan...
22 Jul 202122min
