It cannot match China’s heft in foreign investment, but offers lessons for other investors

Depressed by your appearance on video calls? Men and women alike are splashing out on face-lifts, lip-plumping and more

It cannot match China’s heft in foreign investment, but offers lessons for other investors

New research shows the costs and benefits of remote work

Golf and tennis seek to restrain the march of tech. Athletics and swimming want more of it

The world is working out how to share them

Preventing them could lower crime rates

Despite reforms, a system that too often values soldiers’ safety over civilian lives may get worse

The old have become happier and the young more miserable

Women’s groups have been a force for change

But women’s campaigns are starting to have an effect

New power struggles among lenders are complicating negotiations

Not everyone is prepared to wait their turn

The blend of revanchism and conspiracism seen in America’s Capitol riots is crossing borders

A growing movement wants destruction of the environment to be treated like genocide and crimes against humanity

Some plan to carry on even after the pandemic

Touch is the only sense crucial to humans’ survival

The pandemic is giving them an excuse to gag reporters

The pandemic has left them fighting for their survival

A sorry tale of killings, kidnappings and technologically enhanced intimidation

While many poor countries are putting up obstacles

The pandemic has shown how risk-averse humans usually are. But there are always outliers

This has advantages—and risks

Plato’s “Republic” was, in part, a meditation on the evils of mob rule

The pandemic and online repression have given many governments the upper hand

Assailed from both right and left, the social-media giants will face ever closer scrutiny

The crowdsourced encyclopedia is a welcome oddity on the modern internet

From glee to embarrassment, the international reaction to the events of January 6th

Despite the best efforts of China, Russia and other illiberal powers to de-fang them

What a particle a ten-thousandth of a millimetre in diameter has taught the inhabitants of a globe 120 billion billion times its size

Those who are better organised have prospered more

A missed deadline is terrible news for the oceans

Promises at the Climate Ambition summit do not mark a real turning-point

Worries grow over treatments that can leave children sterile

MOSIP, an open-source platform developed in India, will be central to many of those efforts

In lockdown people see the appeal of housemates

Covid-19 means record numbers are in need of humanitarian assistance. But will a cash-strapped world respond?

But other ways of assessing students create new problems

Unpicking the causes of gaps in health outcomes requires better data than most countries currently collect

America, Australia, India and Japan are building a formidable diplomatic bloc

The president-elect will face a torrent of demands

Nowhere more so than in India

The International Olympic Committee will be just as worried as China

Global hipster culture is spreading to even the world’s poorest countries

And perhaps more in poor ones

Ensuring that cotton clothing comes from ethical producers is more difficult than it seems

They devastate seafood stocks and treat their crews abominably

The urge to escape covid-19 has given it a boost

Strongmen have taken advantage of covid-19 in numerous ways

Devolved decision-making helps; but tensions between tiers of government are inevitable