A new star rises

Mistakes have their place. As a society matures, its elites seek to get more and more of its surplus output for themselves. They “milk the system”, becoming more corrupt over time. They get richer. Th

The soundtrack to Japanese politics was once “quiet, calm, ambient”, says The Economist. No longer. New prime minister Sanae Takaichi, a one-time heavy-metal drummer, is setting a new beat that is “br

The world is full of recurring patterns, not just in the natural world but in the social realm, too. There is the boom-bubble-bust cycle of the stockmarket. There is what we call the Primary Trend, in

When General Francisco Franco died on 20 November 1975 – 39 years after the start of the brutal civil war that brought him to power – the prospect of a bloodless transition to democracy in Spain appea

Few politicians have risen to power with such ...

On Tuesday, the US Senate voted with “rare” bipartisan support to end the national emergency underpinning Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, says Lauren Gambino in The Guardian. Although it is all but