Politics & Economics

What was history's biggest empire? Or the tallest building of the ancient world? What was the average life expectancy in medieval Byzantium? The av...

2008 saw one of the worst financial crises in generations, the global implications of which are still being felt today. Ten years later Ben Bernank...

Democracy has died hundreds of times, all over the world. We think we know what that looks like: chaos descends and the military arrives to restore...

Increasingly, the demands of identity direct the world's politics. Nation, religion, sect, race, ethnicity, gender: these categories have overtaken...

Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of cou...

What if you could peer into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with rumours that only they saw? In 2016, an ob...

Some questions you never think to ask. Others, you didn't know you didn't know. And some facts are so surprising they cry out for answers. What can...

The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capi...

Written in 1957, when North African independence movements were gaining momentum, The Colonizer and the Colonized studies the enduring legacy, poli...

In the second decade of each century, a new global order commonly starts to assert itself. In the 19th, Napoleon's defeat gave birth to the world o...

The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How did carrots become orange? What's stopping us from having a four-day ...

The world can be an amazing place if you know the right questions to ask: How much does a ghost reduce a house's value? How are winemakers respondi...

Lyndon Baines Johnson, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Barack Obama, Gordon Brown, Theresa May, and Donald Trump: each had different m...

America's political system isn't broken. The truth is scarier: it's working exactly as designed. In Why We're Polarized, Ezra Klein reveals the str...