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Spain Has Voted. The Party That Came First May Still Not Govern.
Spain voted today in an election that has produced a result simultaneously clear and inconclusive. Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s conservative People’s Party has emerged as the largest force in parliament, defeating Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s governing…
The Kakhovka Dam Has Been Destroyed. Modern Wars Are Increasingly Fought Through the Systems Civilians Depend On.
The Kakhovka Dam in southern Ukraine was destroyed early on Tuesday, releasing an enormous volume of water from the reservoir behind it into communities along the Dnipro River. Thousands of people have been evacuated from…
Tsai Met McCarthy in California Instead of Taipei. China Still Surrounded Taiwan With Military Exercises.
Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen met US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy in California on Wednesday. Three days later, China’s People’s Liberation Army began major military exercises around Taiwan involving aircraft, warships and simulated operations against the…
If Banks Know Governments Will Rescue the System, Why Should They Ever Be Careful?
One week ago, Silicon Valley Bank was the sixteenth-largest bank in the United States. Today it no longer exists as an independent functioning bank, American authorities have guaranteed all of its deposits, financial markets are…
Two Trains Were Put on the Same Track. Calling That “Human Error” Does Not Explain Enough.
Late on Tuesday night, a passenger train travelling from Athens towards Thessaloniki collided head-on with a freight train near Tempi in central Greece. The passenger train was carrying around 350 people, many of them university…
India Blocked a BBC Documentary About Modi. The Argument Is Now About More Than the Documentary.
The BBC’s two-part documentary India: The Modi Question examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s political career, particularly his tenure as chief minister of Gujarat during the communal violence of 2002, when more than a thousand people…
Netanyahu Won an Election. How Much Power Should Winning Actually Give Him?
Israel held its fifth election in less than four years last November. Benjamin Netanyahu succeeded where several previous governments had failed: he assembled a parliamentary majority. His coalition controls 64 of the Knesset’s 120 seats,…
China’s Blank Sheets of Paper May Be Saying Something More Important Than Any Slogan Could.
Protesters in Shanghai, Beijing and other Chinese cities held up blank sheets of white paper. There was no printed manifesto, party logo or political programme. The emptiness was the message. In a country where criticism…
Iran Looked Stable Until Thousands of People Discovered They Were Not Alone.
For more than three weeks, protests have continued across Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who had been detained by the country’s morality police for allegedly violating rules requiring…
Liz Truss Can Change Britain’s Tax Rates. She Cannot Order Anyone to Trust Her.
Liz Truss has been prime minister for less than a month, and her government’s economic programme has already produced one of the most dramatic confrontations between politics and financial markets Britain has experienced in years.
The FBI Searched a Former President’s Home. That Should Be Both Normal and Extraordinary.
On Monday, FBI agents searched Donald Trump’s residence at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. By Friday, a federal judge had unsealed the search warrant and an inventory of material seized from the property, showing that investigators removed…
Sri Lanka’s Economy Collapsed. Yesterday, Its Government Nearly Did Too.
Videos showed people walking through the presidential complex, sitting inside rooms, gathering around the grounds and swimming in the president’s pool. Elsewhere in Colombo, protesters entered other government buildings. Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe announced that…
