Rough seas and safe seats: Caribbean elections
The outcome of Jamaica’s election isn’t much in doubt. What’s uncertain is how the wider Caribbean can handle rock-bottom tourism and looming hurricane risks amid the pandemic. North Korea’s leadershi...
3 Sep 202021min
In a class, by themselves: pupils head back to school
Millions of schoolchildren are heading back to classes, many of them online. We examine the evidence on virtual learning and how it deepens inequalities. Dubai is a glittering financial hub, connectin...
2 Sep 202021min
Integration, differentiation: migrants in Germany
Five years ago, a vast wave of migrants and refugees began to spill into the country. We examine their fates amid a tangle of bureaucracy. Even for the uninfected, the coronavirus has caused widesprea...
1 Sep 202022min
Ill be going: Abe Shinzo’s legacy
Japan’s longest-serving prime minister leaves behind a mixed bag of policy successes and shortcomings. We examine his legacy and ask what his successor faces. The annual meeting of central bankers in ...
31 Aug 202019min
Shot down, in flames: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Another shooting of an unarmed black man by police has reopened wounds still not healed after George Floyd’s killing—and, like all else, the unrest is being politicised. Montenegro’s president is Euro...
28 Aug 202020min
Team-building exercise: America’s Middle East diplomacy
American officials hope more Arab states will follow the United Arab Emirates in normalising relations with Israel; the groundwork for that has been quietly laid for years. Not every expectant mother ...
27 Aug 202022min
The grande scheme of things: corruption in Mexico
The former head of the state-owned oil firm has presented stunning claims of high-level graft. Are they credible, and will the president pursue them? Museum curators usually try to add to their collec...
26 Aug 202022min
Insecurity services? Alexei Navalny’s poisoning
Doctors believe Russia’s opposition leader was poisoned, and suspicion naturally falls on the Kremlin. Why might the country’s leadership have taken such a risk? For LGBT people coming out is, in many...
25 Aug 202022min
