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Beirut watch: can Lebanon subdue Hizbullah?
Can peace hold in Lebanon while Hizbullah remains? Our correspondent weighs the balance of power between government forces and the Iran-backed militi…
18 hours ago
Drill pickle: oil prices still misjudge shock
Oil prices are at their highest since 2022, as a swift end to the Iran conflict proves elusive. Yet, our commodities editor says, markets do not yet …
1 day, 19 hours ago
Power ranges: AI faces supply crunch
Artificial Intelligence is becoming ubiquitous, but the industry that powers it is struggling to keep up with demand. The host of our award-winning p…
2 days, 19 hours ago
The regal has landed: can Charles boost US bond?
The “special relationship” between Britain and America is at its weakest since the Suez crisis of 1956. Will a state visit by King Charles III to Ame…
3 days, 19 hours ago
Security banquet: queries over Trump protection
After a gunman stormed Donald Trump’s dinner with the press, questions are being revived about the president’s security. Germany’s top general explai…
4 days, 18 hours ago
An explosion still echoing: Chernobyl at 40
We go deep inside the Chernobyl nuclear-power plant and the surrounding exclusion zone, recounting the history of the accident on April 26 1986, and …
1 week ago
Bringing the House down: our American midterms model
We examine what our forecast model predicts so far—and consider what might change its confident prediction for one house of Congress and toss-up call…
1 week, 1 day ago
White hat, black box: AI’s next chapter
The decision of Anthropic, an AI giant, to keep its Mythos model sequestered surely makes for good press. But there seems to be more to it than that—…
1 week, 2 days ago
Mac daddy: Apple’s new boss
Tim Cook is stepping down after overseeing 15 years of spectacular growth. We take a look at his successor. Japan’s rural women are disproportionatel…
1 week, 3 days ago
Now boarding: America seizes an Iranian ship
This week’s peace talks are endangered after American forces fired on and boarded a cargo ship in the Strait of Hormuz. We visit Chernobyl’s ruined r…
1 week, 4 days ago