Zug, Switzerland is known for a few different things. Great views of an Alpine peak once depicted in affectionate detail by Mark Twain. A reputation as a “low-tax paradise.” And a control...
Something to ponder if you’re stuck in one of the many places so hot now that sitting in a darkened room is recommended, giving you more time alone with your thoughts: are we paying the p...
The “world's most sanctioned nation” seems to be suffering less than many people anticipated.
It’s been called NATO’s “soft underbelly,” and the “most dangerous place on Earth.”
“The farmers got out of hand.”
To some, it might seem like a relatively obscure Americanism. Even in America, it was only made a federal holiday a year ago.
Even Singapore hasn’t been spared.
Cuando el huracán Katrina arrasó la costa del golfo de Estados Unidos en 2005, una entidad que aparentemente improbable acudió en ayuda de las personas que necesitaban desesperadamente al...
About a decade ago, Swiss banks did something unthinkable. One by one, they set aside secrecy previously upheld for centuries and handed sensitive information to a US government in search...
When Hurricane Katrina ripped through the US Gulf Coast in 2005, one seemingly unlikely entity came to the aid of people in desperate need of food and medical supplies: a transatlantic mi...
A lively panel gathered on the first day of Davos 2022 to discuss the future of democracy, demonstrating the sort of healthy debate required to nourish it.
China’s plan to “gradually delay” the country’s legal retirement age has managed to unify a wide variety of people around a single sentiment: they don't like it.
After a pair of populist candidates were defeated in European elections last Sunday, some of the reaction sounded like advice we get during the downslope of a COVID-19 wave – this is good...
It seems clear now that buying Russian oil and gas means funding an attempt to dismantle a sovereign country, and indirectly enabling carnage.
A confession: during the earliest days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine I’d steal an occasional glimpse at RT, the Russian broadcaster accused of peddling propaganda, before it was yanked ...
