On April 30th Eli Lilly, maker of a hit weight-loss treatment, delivered another dose of strong quarterly results. On May 2nd ...

The main tenor was whether Mexicans want a sequel to the six-year feature that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has scripted, directed and starred in. Claudia Sheinbaum, the candidate for the ...

Since the start of the war in Gaza there have been protests at universities across America and, at many of them, arrests. Students say, sometimes rightly and sometimes wrongly, that they are ...

The Gaza protests have exposed three fault lines in American university governance. First, the demonstrations have destroyed an already tenuous compact governing free speech on campus. Second, they ...

Last week two planes were forced to turn around after their GPS signals were disrupted. GPS jamming has increased sharply in the Baltic region over the past two years. Who is behind it and how ...

Chart: The Economist Big movements of people have big economic consequences. According to the IMF, the foreign-born labour force in America is 9% higher than at the start of 2019. In the euro zone, ...

Figures released on April 30th by California’s Department of Finance should lessen the hand-wringing. In 2023 California’s population grew by nearly 0.2%, or by about 67,000 residents (see chart).

Maine has a state treat, the whoopie pie. South Carolina has a style of dance, the shag. State reptiles abound, from the horned toad (Wyoming) to the collared lizard (Oklahoma). New Mexico even has an ...

A change was needed because the old method of making steel is incredibly dirty. The Port Talbot plant is the single biggest emitter in Britain. Its two smokestacks account for one-fifth of Wales’s ...

The race between Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon to categorise all life had long-lasting consequences ...

Gregg Abbott, Texas’s Republican governor, instructed the state’s education agency to “ignore” the Biden administration’s ...

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