Independent Analysis and Reportage
Most of Errol Flynn’s films now seem B-grade at best – but Patricia O'Brien’s biography of this Tasmanian devil is compulsive reading.
Camden, New Jersey’s homicide rate in 2025 was four times the national average – still high, but a marked change from when it was 18 times the national average in 2012.
As millions gather for Hajj, they will circle the Kaaba, which is draped in the black cloth known as the kiswah – a sacred object shaped by centuries of faith, politics and power.
For shoppers tying to avoid Amazon, its expansion into shipping and logistics for thousands of companies makes that choice more difficult.
The English assumed people they colonized would convert to their way of life, including Protestant Christianity – an assumption reflected in Pocahontas’ portrait.
After more than a decade, external security intervention has left the Sahel region more fragmented, militarised and violent.
News fatigue is not a personal failing, but a result of an evolutionary brain being asked to process a large volume of bad news from around the world.
Heart disease isn’t just a “man’s problem”. Men and women’s bodies handle fats differently in midlife. What are the cardiovascular risk factors and is hormone therapy good for heart health?
We are trading one problem — not enough teachers — for another and much deeper problem: lesser qualified teachers.
Donald Trump isn’t the first American president to fall prey to the allure of U.S. military might and to ignore its limitations.
In his first encyclical, Pope Leo XIV has called for much closer regulation of AI technology, particularly in military settings.
By 2100, 100 million Americans could breathe unhealthy air in the summer, seven times more than in 2000.