What is The Economist’s country of the year? On “The Intelligence” @chrislockwd, @josiedelap, @halhod and @NoahSneider reveal the contenders—and our choice https://t.co/ZHCaFQo6K4 ...

There are too many awful Christmas films. If you are sick of seeing snowmen, Santa and smooching on screen, try our list of alternative festive flicks https://t.co/vFjU3hRaTU ...

The “total fertility rate” captures what demographers call “tempo”—the timing of an event, like a birth. But as a measure of the total number of births, it is likely to mislead https://t.co/33sIXPx05r ...

Novo Nordisk’s investors are rattled. The drugmaker’s market value is down by two-thirds from its peak. Even so, the firm’s chief executive sounds confident that it can recover https://t.co/Gf3KaE49ny ...

The shores of the Arctic ocean are thrumming with ever more activity. Expect more in spring 2026, when the ice breaks up. The region is becoming less remote and forbidding https://t.co/D9EeveEViD https://t.co/QtEFoWBBGo ...

LA’s palm-fringed coastline may be the last place you expect to find an enclave of Bible-thumping space nerds. But it has become a hiding-place for engineers building an anti-China beachhead https://t.co/YO09A4dGBF ...

If completed, the airport will ultimately be able to handle some 110m passengers a year, according to Ethiopian Airlines’ plans. That would make it one of the world’s busiest https://t.co/kV5dappm2M ...

For many, Christmas means indulging in the sugary food you know is unhealthy. Is there a way to minimise the impact on your body? Listen to “Babbage” for more https://t.co/Vb790Lw3YZ ...

When the “Wealth of Nations” came out, everyone agreed it was a Very Important Book. But does it make Adam Smith the “father of economics”? That may be going too far, for three reasons https://t.co/h2miHU5Zxa ...

Over a century since its first use in Italy, geothermal power provides less than 1% of global electricity. In the coming year, that figure could surge https://t.co/InqT5U6TfY ...