Tsai of the times: Taiwan’s defiant election
China has been getting more aggressive in its claims over the island, but voters have made it clear just how much they favour democracy. The relentless slipping of interest rates around the world isn’...
13 Jan 202021min
Scorched-earth policies: Australia and climate change
Evacuations are expanding as fast as the flames, and worse may yet be to come. We visit the fiery extremes that climate change is making more likely. At a museum dedicated to disgust, our corresponden...
10 Jan 202023min
Will you still feed me when I’m 62? Macron’s pension fight
He won a landslide victory campaigning on it, but like French presidents before him Emmanuel Macron is struggling to push through his grand pension reform; we ask why. The belief in guardian spirits i...
9 Jan 202022min
Return fire: Iran’s missile attacks
Attacks on bases that house American troops seem a dramatic retaliation to the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Suleimani—yet both sides seem to be tuning their tactics toward de-escalation. After ...
8 Jan 202022min
Two heads aren’t better than one: Venezuela
After chaotic scenes in the National Assembly, it seems the country’s legislature has two leaders. Has Juan Guaidó’s chance at regime change run out of steam? Allegations against Harvey Weinstein spar...
7 Jan 202022min
The general and specific threats: Iran
Killing Iran’s top military commander does not seem likely to further America’s aims for the region. What should America and its allies expect now? Biologists have long struggled to explain why homose...
6 Jan 202023min
Negative feedback: reversing carbon emissions
It is increasingly clear that putting less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will not be enough to combat climate change; we take a look at the effort to actively remove the stuff from the air. Our cor...
3 Jan 202023min
Made (entirely) in China: a tech behemoth rises
No longer content just to assemble devices, Chinese firms want to design them and the infrastructure around them—and in some sectors they look set to succeed. Our correspondent visits indigenous commu...
2 Jan 202023min
