The Taliban were supposed to remain in the diplomatic doghouse until they abandoned their abhorrent treatment of women and broadened their all-male Pashtun cabinet. Neither has happened. Girls are ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already made many people very rich. Anyone who in 2021 bought shares in Nvidia, which makes ai chips, has by now octupled their money. The firm’s founder, Jensen Huang ...

If anything, 2024 taught us to expect the unbelievable, says Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist magazine, and we can expect more of the same this year. Every year, the magazine looked at ...