When the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) published its annual Global State of Democracy 2025 report on 11 September, the message...
Ever since the Reagan boom of the 1980s, many elites outside the United States have been telling Americans that they had been hoodwinked – that...
US President William McKinley died in 1901 from gunshot wounds that modern medicine could easily have treated. Though X-rays had been invented, they were not yet...
When the United States and its allies signed the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1947 and later founded the World Trade Organisation...
Soaring temperatures and extensive wildfires in southern Europe have broken so many records they have become hard to track, with Greece, Turkey, France, Slovakia and...
The World Youth Forum concluded dual summits in Hong Kong and Macau in mid-August, with programmes combining business, technology and social sciences. According to the organisers,...
The global conference on solving plastic pollution did not pass a legally binding treaty, thus leaving one of the biggest environmental problems unresolved. Fears that the...
