But in 2025, Academy Award guests also received a grimmer gift: a yearlong subscription to a white-glove disaster recovery ...

Whether you are a climate change denier or a sceptic, something is clearly going on - and it presents us with a choice, ...

When Violence Puts on a Flag Violence is universally condemned mdash;until it carries a passport, a press conference, and a ...

This audio recording features a public lecture delivered at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies (BCIS) in Colombo on 10 December 2025, following Cyclone Ditwah. The main objective of the ...

With the world in mortal crisis throughout the 1930s, the leading capitalist intellectuals of the day met in a series of fraught conferences. Horrified by the advances of totalitarianism, economists ...

Just as Canada’s social justice activist and writer Naomi Klein, in her highly celebrated book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, explains the relations between disasters—manmade or ...

As OpenAI marks its tenth birthday in December 2025, it can celebrate becoming one of the world’s leading companies, worth perhaps as much as US$1 trillion (£750 billion). But it started as a ...

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world There’s a large body of empirical evidence to show that countries with high levels of corruption also have weaker ...

The more it penetrates our daily lives, the less we seem to understand the “system that runs the world” By Dominik Leusder A well-known story by Jorge Luis Borges, “On Rigor in Science”, recounts the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Capitalism: A Global History is an exhaustive and exhausting economic history of the last thousand years, told ...