ARMSMAKING IS NOT like other businesses. It is impervious to macroeconomics and sheltered from fickle consumer tastes. Its ...

In a secondary school on the outskirts of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, a pupil scrawls the solutions to mathematical equations on a whiteboard. His teacher, a young woman, stands at the back ...

Even before the covid-19 pandemic ejected millions of children from their classrooms, schools across America were stuck in a rut. For 50 years the country has tracked pupils’ performance in maths and ...

O n paper, Mercia School in the north of England is a forbidding and unfashionable place. Teachers focus unrelentingly on “the acquisition of knowledge”, if its intimidating w ...

In April the OECD—an outfit that for years has carried out international tests in maths, reading and science—published data purporting to show which of a dozen or so character traits best predict ...

THE CRY for change could hardly be clearer. In the presidential election on July 5th, 16.4m Iranians voted for Masoud Pezeshkian, a reform-minded heart surgeon who wants talks with the West and women ...

No wonder that, at a victory rally at the Tate Modern gallery in central London in the early hours of July 5th, the normally ...

DONALD TRUMP has been teasing his choice of running-mate for months. Like contestants on “The Apprentice”, the reality show ...

W ORKERS AT POULTRY and fur farms in Finland will, in the coming days, receive vaccines against bird flu. Fourteen other EU ...

THE PRESIDENT was tanned, rested and largely coherent during a high-pressure prime-time interview with ABC News on July 5th.

A FEW DAYS before Donald Trump is formally nominated as the Republican presidential candidate, the 32 members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) will gather in Washington, DC to ...

B ritain is, in general, ruled by the Conservative Party for a simple reason: small-“c” conservative voters unite behind one ...