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A Case for Childlike Wonder in a Grown-Up World

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Abby Mccloskey

Casinos Are a Bad Bet for US Cities

With the announcement earlier this month that New York City will soon welcome three glittering new gambling houses, America’s multidecade...

wednesday 9

Editorial Board

What the West Keeps Getting Wrong About China

Britain’s so-called golden era of relations with China ended ignominiously and has few defenders left. Yet have the lessons of this epochal misstep...

wednesday 10

Matthew Brooker

How Birthright Citizenship Sort of Saved Christmas

In 1830, the US Supreme Court determined that despite having been born in New York City in the 1770s, Anglican Bishop John Inglis of Nova Scotia...

wednesday 10

Justin Fox

How the White House Lost the Public on Immigration

President Donald Trump spent much of 2025 squandering the public’s support on what was once his best issue: immigration. Yes, he quickly delivered...

wednesday 6

Patricia Lopez

Repeat After Me: Never, Ever Underestimate China

From US President Donald Trump’s trade war to AI developments, 2025 has been full of dramatic twists and turns. One of the most consequential...

23.12.2025 20

Shuli Ren

Marijuana Madness May Soon Get Worse

“A holiday from the facts.” That’s how the antagonist of Brave New World describes the wonder drug soma. The phrase might equally apply to US...

23.12.2025 3

Editorial Board

The Positive Climate News You May Have Missed This Year

So much climate news comes out in any given week that it can be hard to keep up with it all. Much is gloomy, but there are positive developments...

23.12.2025 2

David Fickling

Ford and GM Are Running Out of Time to Reinvent Themselves

The essential accoutrement for auto executives this year was a cap. As in, of the red baseball variety. Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk had one virtually...

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Liam Denning

A Bigger European Union Must Be a Better One, Too

Does the European Union — 27 states, 450 million people, politically fractious even in the best of times — need to expand even more? The answer, in...

22.12.2025 2

Editorial Board

Here’s the Bad Climate News You Missed This Year

It might have seemed in 2025 that every piece of bad news for the global climate and energy transition had some sort of connection to President...

22.12.2025 2

David Fickling

Islamic State Isn’t Back in Asia, But Its Ideas Endure

The deadliest domestic terror attack in Australia’s history is raising an uncomfortable question: Is there an Islamic State revival in Asia?...

22.12.2025 1

Karishma Vaswani

Britain Is Getting Bullied by France, America and Tiny Mauritius

Despite losing a series of disastrous battles to a coalition of European allies led by John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough and ancestor of Winston,...

22.12.2025 8