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Three scholars have recruited 820 people from different language groups to rate a language’s attractiveness. The results may surprise you.
A resume is your first impression to prospective employers, and like a cocktail-party guest, employers don’t take long to decide if they want to keep talking. Here’s how to grab their attention.
Temperature fluctuations are unpredictable. Humans are even more so. Here’s why calculating the true cost of climate change presents major challenges.
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THE ECONOMIST: Watch professionals play poker, and one of the first things to strike you is how often they fold when the game has barely begun.
THE ECONOMIST: Oil giant Saudi Aramco has rivals over a barrel as it implements decarbonisation plans in the race towards climate targets — and green profits.
The Tories have campaigned exactly as they have governed - badly
The outcome would seem to vindicate a fundamental American principle, that no citizen is beyond the reach of justice. Yet this prosecution will probably do more to weaken than affirm the rule of law.
THE ECONOMIST: As birth rates decrease, many politicians want to pour money into policies that might lead women to have more babies.
They have amassed great wealth, but as baby boomers approach retirement they are being remarkably stingy.
From Rishi Sunak the technocrat to Rishi the populist, the UK Prime Minister’s tenure has been one of constant change and unconvincing ‘resets’.
Governments are splurging on handouts to avert demographic catastrophe...
A new generation of AI chips is on the way. Will Nvidia continue to dominate?
Naming a car model comes with its own problems...
Amid a regional war, a fight at home between the clerics and military looms.
Feckless war-making, a financial crisis and institutional rot have loosed a ferocity in America’s politics that has given presidential contests seemingly existential stakes.