Health systems around the world are overstretched and underfunded. In 2023, low-income countries spent just $10 per person annually on health – less than 15%...
Low fertility rates are raising alarm bells across the advanced economies of the OECD, with the average having fallen to 1.5 births per woman –...
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...
