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

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

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 ...

One firm’s attempt to create a more rested workforce.

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

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

A smattering of German words, such as Blitzkrieg and Schadenfreude, have made their way into other languages. Among the most recent to begin to do so are Zeitenwende („turning of the times”) and ...

The political style of Donald Trump is so sloppy and coarse that he rarely gets the credit he deserves for cunning and even subtlety. Take his handling of Ken Paxton, the attorney-general of Texas, ...

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 ...

It’s time Jewish political leaders acted on promises to work with moderate Arab parties, argues Yonatan Touval.