Even amid a supply shock, tech stocks continue to drive indices higher. Is the optimism justified?
War on Iran is changing the currency calculations of Gulf energy exporters. But the dollar’s global role depends on far more than the denomination of a barrel of oil
Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops
Confronting the misogyny and get-rich-quick schemes of influencers means talking openly to young men about success
Planting, pruning, digging and tending can feel like an escape. But they are also a way of engaging with the world
Long regarded as dishonourable or counterproductive, the idea of targeting enemy leaders is becoming normalised. What do we lose along with the taboo?
Fuelled by new funding and transatlantic links, Christian groups are playing an increasingly prominent role on the UK right
Even defenders of the rules are speaking of them in the past tense. But they remain indispensable, argues historian Margaret MacMillan
US allies in the Arab world have been plunged into a conflict they neither wanted nor consented to. Historian Eugene Rogan on what it means for the Middle East
Viewed by some as a strategic necessity, the agreement has been complicated by shifting US priorities and political fragmentation at home
As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly
The organisation faces a potential rival in Donald Trump’s fledgling ‘Board of Peace’. But as a forum for US power, it would be a hard act to follow
Behind Russia’s victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain. To fight back, the ‘middle powers’ must work harder on their own story
As American cities have been left reeling by ICE federal agents, the acclaimed novelist explores the deeper conflict behind Donald Trump’s show of force
Behind the crisis caused by Donald Trump’s threats is a much bigger change: the waning of US hegemony and the coming of a multi-polar age
How isolation, intransigence and desperate economic hardship provoked an upsurge of protest that brought the regime to the brink
Long seen as defunct, the Monroe Doctrine is being invoked once again as a blueprint for assertive US foreign policy. Historian Greg Grandin charts the rise, fall and rebirth of an ambiguous creed
AI-fuelled market euphoria is a new telling of an old story that will not play out differently this time, writes John Plender — but it may have some way still to go
The ‘Impossible Creatures’ author explains what these magical beasts reveal about human imagination — and why they were once a feature of the nativity
The US has gone all-in on artificial intelligence. But the idea of an end-of-times battle with China over tomorrow’s key technology is part delusion, part lobbying tool for Silicon Valley
By maintaining stability and innovating to hold out against Russia, Kyiv has shown that size matters less in conflict than it used to
Nobel-winning economist Daron Acemoglu on Zohran Mamdani’s rise, the problem with cultural politics — and the case for pro-worker AI
As contentious claims over rising diagnoses get a presidential platform, Simon Baron-Cohen explains where talk of an ‘epidemic’ goes wrong — and why we need more recognition that autism comes in different forms
As complaints over the editing of a Donald Trump speech topple another director-general, leading the broadcaster is once again looking like an impossible job
Both sides must abandon false moral certainties and oversimplified historical narratives if the cycle of violence is to be broken
