Paid fellowships in the United States

The wheel was invented around 3500BC, but the belief that it is one of the greatest inventions in history only took hold in the 20th century ...

DeFi underpins an incorporeal casino: most of those using it do so to facilitate or leverage their bets on one of many speculative tokens ...

China and America are taking starkly divergent approaches to similar challenges. For the first time in years, China may make more mistakes #WorldAhead

Last month Andrew North told @1843mag about the scramble to get Afghans out of the country. Those left behind now face a winter of hunger

Women still face barriers to progress at work

Food-delivery apps like Deliveroo are disrupting the restaurant industry and transforming dining culture

Since covid-19 struck, cinemas have been on a slow path to recovery. They've had a big boost recently from the release of the long-awaited James Bond film

New research finds that if governments implement their climate pledges, but no more, temperatures will rise to 2.4°C above pre-industrial levels by the end of ...

It takes a “cohort of early adopters of green products to start the process,” argues @GernotWagner . “That inspires a wave of others to follow suit—the momentum that is ...

Do you want to write for The Economist? We’re hiring for a one-year paid fellowship in the US. The deadline for applications is December 31st

A hybrid future beckons, in which workers divide their time between home and office. Managers should not assume one is better than the other

The energy shock of 2021 brought a reality check about the future of energy policy. In 2022 attention will turn to making the energy system less fragile

New ideas can emerge seemingly overnight. These are the ones we think are worth watching in the coming year #WorldAhead

The CDC data show that people vaccinated with the Pfizer or Moderna covid-19 jabs are one-third as likely to die of other causes

“It’s hard to imagine back in 1979, that there’d be a 55-fold increase in the number of cameras, of all things, that we have ...  @halhod   @azeem

A new form of literary criticism is boosting sales of books—TikTok

Over 90% of New Zealand's population have received their first dose of vaccine. The country is beginning to reopen, transitioning from the zero-covid strategy ...