In his new memoir Evan Gershkovich, an American journalist, quotes a character of Tolstoy’s: „The only suitable place for an honest man in Russia…is prison.” A son of Russian-speaking Soviet emigrants ...

Democracy is not an effete or genteel pastime. It does not exist to select the most attractive politicians, then arrange them ...

The world is entering an era of supercharged industrial capacity with fast-shrinking human input, reckons Jeff Schneider.

So it has proved with effective altruism (EA), an ethical doctrine cooked up by philosophers in Oxford that has gone from the ...

Six in ten Britons have surgery at some point. So do lots of Americans, at a cost of perhaps $500bn a year, a third of all spending on adults in the world’s biggest health-care ...

When it comes to the written word, no writer is a neutral party. This newspaper has applauded technological progress for ...

MORE THAN ever, the big questions about artificial intelligence drive the ups and downs of financial markets. The bulls, who ...

A summit between the two „friends” could go horribly wrong. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un discussing the production of ...

This dearth of revolutionary momentum is not for lack of zeal among the true believers on the populist left. Two dozen ...

With his spitefulness to the press, Donald Trump is giving it the chance to reform how it covers the presidency.

For decades America has enjoyed hegemony over the Middle East. That is about to end.

Organised crime can be beaten, given political will. Members of the SAPS (South African Police Service) and state pathologists inspect the body of one of the women found dumped on the side of a road ...