“The fragility of the post-cold-war system has been revealed,” writes Mark Carney in a guest essay. “To re-establish resilience, a new web of ad hoc co-operation is beginning to emerge” https://t.co/QnavtGBnKU ...

As Rupert Murdoch nears his 95th birthday and the question of succession looms, Gabriel Sherman has written a family saga that gallops through 100 years of history in around 200 lively pages https://t.co/j4rfyKj3SO ...

By 2050 Africa will be home to 2.5bn, a quarter of humanity. Thought-provoking new books about the continent are therefore sorely needed. We review one of them https://t.co/XlsxX3VSgO ...

Rather than being fixed, estimates of economic growth evolve over time. According to our analysis, quarterly GDP growth stabilises only after about ten years https://t.co/jjgld9cxqo ...

Many species reproduce sexually. Homo sapiens is the only one to write books worrying about how the process is changing. We review two of them https://t.co/GUzdP1al0j ...

The diffuse nature of the threat makes it hard for Nigeria’s government to know whom to target. Jihadism has evolved https://t.co/ze19DTSU22 ...

Our data analysis of the files suggests that Jeffrey Epstein was careful about mixing his prolific sexual abuse with his broad network of influence-peddling. The sheer volume of emails has at times mashed these categories together https://t.co/f3PFO0RVD7 ...

Labour’s MPs have proved incapable of taking any tricky decision voluntarily. When it comes to the prime minister, external circumstances will, eventually, force a choice https://t.co/VlElGSLsPs ...

Private-equity firms have refashioned themselves as all-weather lenders rather than investors beholden to cyclical performance fees. But the troubles will not be easily brushed aside https://t.co/a3NO9Kwohr ...

Spain’s el mar de plástico—the plastic sea, as it’s known—covers more than 30,000 hectares of land. Like the cooling dam at Chernobyl, or Dubai’s Palm Jumeirah, it is visible from space https://t.co/wHQUvL7r77 ...