Before the election, I wrote a whole bunch of posts for my newsletter Noahpinion about why it was a bad idea to elect Donald Trump. But sadly, America elected him anyway. After he won, I wrote a post ...

“Folk” is the most slippery label in music, whether as a prefix to “song” or “singer.” It has long been used interchangeably with “traditional” to denote songs, the origins of which are buried ...

Once upon a time the novel was — well, novel. Some locate its beginnings in English in picaresque fictions such as George Gascoigne’s The Adventures of Master F.J. (1573), or with Aphra Behn’s ...

Books & arts History’s hinge Jon Richardson 9 December 2024 How will competition and cooperation between Russia and China in Central Asia affect the global balance of power?

As their encounters escalate, inside and outside the workplace, Romy is overwhelmed, barely able to control herself. There’s ...

Future MP Race Mathews had an insider’s view of policy development — not least health policy — in the office of the leader of ...

She’s lost track of the number of times she has been asked to quantify her Indian identity, “sometimes by complete strangers.” Blood quantum as a measure of heredity and skin colour, both ...

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party hit a bump in the road in 2024 when it lost its majority in the Lok Sabha general elections, held between April and June. The shock jolted passengers a little, ...