Forget lame ducks. America’s president will defend his dominance like an ageing silverback gorilla

The growing shortage is causing panic in Ukraine and elsewhere

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AI founders pledge to give away hundreds of billions of dollars. How will they be spent?

Self-interested Taiwanese politicians are making the country increasingly ungovernable. China is the only winner

Anshel Pfeffer, our Israel correspondent, examines why so few of the country’s former generals succeed in politics

The country’s future depends on events beyond its borders, as well as within them

In a gangsterish age, the UN needs an ultra-pragmatist as secretary-general

Jonathan Rosenthal, our international editor, takes an infantry fighting vehicle for a spin 

Entire campaigns—and the fate of civilisations—have turned on a siege, writes Richard Cockett, a senior editor

Blame technology, inflation and customers’ shifting habits

Europeans are keen on nuclear collaboration with Emmanuel Macron. What if Marine Le Pen becomes president?

Heatwaves are making access to AC a political problem around the world

Donald Trump may hate to hear it, but Barack Obama was right about avoiding “stupid shit”

The World Cup finalists are strikingly different teams 

But a degree of protection from coercion remains possible

America’s quest for AI dominance is scary. China is not the solution

Some governments are lowering the age of criminal responsibility. That may backfire

The NATO chief Mark Rutte is quite annoying. It is in a worthy cause

German tanks are returning to a region they once razed