When you use supermarket discount cards, you are sharing much more than what is in your cart — and grocery chains like Kroger are reaping huge profits selling this data to brands and advertisers...
Rainbow Murray, Queen Mary University of London Leading two small countries on opposite sides of the planet, Nicola Sturgeon and Jacinda Ardern have both won widespread respect and admiration for...
All of the tolerable jokes about Chinese spy balloons have already been made. I don’t have any new ones. What I do have is a strange sense of unease. Several people whom I trust and respect predict...
Kazakhstan, the largest country in Central Asia, seeks to position itself as an important regional and global actor that has good relations with all major powers. Even though Astana is Russia’s...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains - and souls - need but that it's easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and...
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to Three Decades of Tragedy: A History of the Thirty...
Italy is one of the most special countries to experience romance, with passionate people, delicious food, architectural wonder, a seductive language and an appreciation for art. This place has all...
17th July 2025: This review has been amended to clarify that James Keene was the primary author of the book To correct the terminology around Keene’s conviction That Keene became an FBI operative...
Bakhmut, a small city in the Donbass, is the focus of a war of attrition between the Russian Wagner Group mercenaries and the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Judging by the current developments on the...
Every Monday on Global Comment, we share the slow, thoughtful, considerate words that our brains - and souls - need but that it's easy to miss in our busy world. We distil the best of the web and...
