O VER THE past decade commercial-satellite images have become the lifeblood of open-source intelligence (OSINT), allowing ...

The anxiety has been heightened by the opacity of the private-credit market, which has expanded dramatically over the past ...

Yet the strait has become the focus of the war. Iran has imposed a de facto closure by threatening commercial ships and attacking a few of them. That has blocked roughly 15% of the world’s oil supply, ...

On Kalshi, a prediction market, the odds of the party winning back the House of Representatives in the midterm elections this November have risen from 81.5% before the war to 84.7% today. The odds of ...

At ground level, though, it becomes apparent that this is Bihar, India’s poorest state and home to some 130m people. It is the preponderance of bicycles that does it. They long ago receded from much ...

By some measures this has been a success. Britain now recycles around 45% of its household waste, up from 5% in 1996. But landfill tax also makes illegal dumps exceedingly profitable. Whoever is ...

Cover Story shares preliminary sketches and documents the—often spirited— debates that lead each week to a design seen by ...

GLP-1 receptor agonists like semaglutide are being used off-label by healthy people hoping to slow ageing, despite limited evidence and unknown long-term risks.

Now Brent is back to where it was on average in the year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Should Hormuz stay closed for much longer, Russia could reap another “2022-style windfall”—enough ...

That is roughly twice the disruption the world suffered in the 1970s, offsetting the fact that the energy-intensity of the world economy has fallen by half since then. Although the International ...

Jon Fasman, our senior culture correspondent, explores the making of a national pastime in an age of immigration and ...

Qatar's LNG production halt after Iranian strikes threatens global energy supplies, with the country producing a fifth of ...