Mr Xi has cynically proposed a “peace plan” for Ukraine that would reward Russian aggression and which he knows Ukraine will not accept. It calls for “respecting the sovereignty of all countries”, but ...

In recent weeks, euro-zone investors have experienced a sense of disbelief. Could banking turmoil really stay confined to America and Switzerland? On March 24th, as European bank stocks slumped, the ...

The agency set up a programme in the cold war to resettle foreign spies in America. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it may get busy again ...

IN AMERICAN SPORTS, March is usually synonymous with the country’s annual college-basketball tournament, “March Madness”. The chaotic knockout competition is famous for its dramatic upsets. But this ...

DRONES HAVE become a ubiquitous part of the war in Ukraine. Both sides use consumer quadcopters to track the enemy and drop grenades. Russia has used Iranian Shahed-136 drones to torment Ukrainian ...

Finance is prone to cycles of boom and bust. Turmoil in global banking since the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the takeover of Credit Suisse naturally raises the question of whether this moment ...

Mr Chew’s goal in appearing on Capitol Hill was to convince the committee, the American government and, since the hearing was live-streamed, the American public that TikTok is eager to respond to ...

WHAT IS GOING on in France? A night of rioting on March 23rd saw 903 acts of arson in Paris, as bins overflowing with uncollected, stinking rubbish were torched. In Bordeaux rioters set the town-hall ...

Over the past couple of decades, video games have grown from a niche hobby into a mass-market industry with annual revenues of $200bn. While toddlers play PAW Patrol, their grandparents are busy ...

The targets of the raids were not typical criminals, but eight soft-spoken intellectuals, several of them elderly, who work for Memorial, a human-rights group now banned in Russia. The eight were ...

Though many of these problems also apply to other social-media platforms, TikTok’s enormous popularity among teenagers makes concerns over user safety more acute and emotional. But national-security ...

One is that the state contains another ego as big as Mr Trump’s (according to Mr DeSantis, the vote that made him governor in 2018 was the “most consequential election in the history of our state”).