The People of the United States

...The long-beleaguered people of Darfur, where the majority of provinces are in the hands of the RSF, have borne a particularly brutal burden. Reports of ethnic cleansing are grimly credible....

April 17, 2024

Working from home

The rise of the supercommuter

...“The whole ‘Willies’ culture [work in London, live in Edinburgh] has been there for years and lots of people do it given the importance of London for finance.”...

March 31, 2024

FT Live

Future of the Car

The technology and new business models shaping the next decade in automotive

Letter

Letter: Trumpian parallels in the annals of Ancient China

...The “Guoyu”, or “Discourses of the States”, an ancient text from the fourth century BC, describes “when the state is about to perish its ruler is greedy, reckless, depraved and perverted....

March 25, 2024

Borderlands

The ‘brain waste’ of skilled migrants in Europe

...An EU-wide survey in 2021 found that 73 per cent of Portuguese people felt that the integration of immigrants in their local area was successful, well above the EU average of 42 per cent....

April 19, 2024

Working It podcast14 min listen

What the rise of ‘supercommuters’ tells us about work

...But now that in-office work is back, a rising number of people are looking to eat their cake and have it, too, combining good jobs in urban centres with a peaceful rural life....

April 9, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The surprising public health benefit of unemployment

...given everyone’s lungs a break, it is likely to do lasting harm to the health of young people who graduated into the teeth of that downturn....

March 8, 2024

FT Live

Bank of the Year Awards 2024

Recognising the best in banking globally

Trade Secrets

The geopolitical EU learns to play the hypocritical game Premium

...Defending the right to be bullied Speaking of EU member states, let’s drop in briefly on “economic security”, and the underwhelming plans the EU unveiled a couple of weeks back....

February 5, 2024

The Weekend Essay

The promise and perils of the egg-freezing revolution

...HFEA data shows that in 2020-21 the average age of people freezing their eggs was 35....

March 23, 2024

News in-depthUS immigration

How Mexico’s ‘kabuki pantomime’ fails to stop US-bound migrants

...“Mexico will do as much or as little as required of them,” said Carlos Trujillo, who was Trump’s ambassador to the Organization of American States....

April 21, 2024

InterviewVisual Arts

Artist Outi Pieski: ‘The world speaks to me through the details’

...In recent years some significant collections of items belonging to the Sámi people have been rehoused in their place of origin, including at the Sámi Museum Siida, in the Finnish village of Inari, where...

April 1, 2024

The Big Read

The next pandemic is coming. Will we be ready?

...The accord must not “violate international sovereignty or infringe upon the rights of the American people or the intellectual property of the United States”, he said....

April 4, 2024

FT MagazineRobert Shrimsley

Ask Shrimsley: Am I the asshole?

...I am afraid the same is true of all those people who write in to journalists for advice on their lives....

April 5, 2024

The Weekend Essay

What’s the point of private members’ clubs?

...There are multiple ways of contacting and meeting people, digitally and socially. No longer are they London homes from home for out-of-towners....

March 30, 2024

Janan Ganesh

The parable of Soho House

...But there is lots of it, lots of resentment in return and no understanding history without a sense of this eternal friction between people with cachet and people with cash....

February 16, 2024

Due Diligence

The never-ending Manchester United deal saga Premium

...On the other, a self-proclaimed “local lad” in Manchester-born chemicals tycoon Ratcliffe, who is a resident in Monaco and using an Isle of Man entity to buy into United. Got that?...

January 12, 2024

FT Live

Business Book of the Year Award 2024

The search for the best business book is under way

Climate legislation

Republican states step up legal threats to Joe Biden’s climate agenda

...“The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.” The lawsuits are stacking up as Republican states rush to launch challenges ahead of the election....

April 12, 2024

David Willer

To save the oceans, start eating ‘naked clams’

...Too often, fish isn’t feeding people — it’s being fed to other fish. Today over 11 per cent of the total wild fish catch — 12.6mn tonnes — is fed to farmed fish instead of to humans....

April 3, 2024

Pilita Clark

Has the push for female equality gone too far?

...This month, the people of Ireland did something shocking. They voted overwhelmingly not to boost female equality....

March 17, 2024

Sovereign bonds

The looming New York sovereign debt bills debacle

...Capturing the mood in Albany, New York State Senate finance chair Liz Krueger said at a recent press conference that: This is an international issue that is destroying the people of other countries....

April 22, 2024

Travel

The Copenhagen canalside hotel on a mission to bring people together

...together 364 days of the year (on New Year’s Eve, it holds a party for the people who work there instead)....

April 3, 2024

Letter

Letter: IMF can help fix the system of sovereign debt restructuring

...Reza Baqir Former Governor, State Bank of Pakistan (2019-2022); Global Practice Leader of Sovereign Advisory Services, Alvarez & Marsal, Dubai, United Arab Emirates...

March 14, 2024

Anjana Ahuja

Trump’s curious effect on trust in science

...range of people and places....

March 27, 2024

Undercover EconomistTim Harford

The real quandary of AI isn’t what people think

...This week, I’d like to suggest a final precursor: the iPhone. When Steve Jobs launched the genre-defining iPhone in 2007, few people imagined just how ubiquitous smartphones would become....

February 16, 2024

Israel-Hamas war

Israelis turn on peace activists amid trauma of war

...Most Israelis remain united in support for their state’s ferocious retaliatory offensive against Hamas in Gaza, which has killed more than 32,000 people, according to Palestinian health officials, even as...

April 2, 2024

FT Magazine

The young people sifting through the internet’s worst horrors

...United.” Lubega and Ranta were there. So was Kauna Malgwi, a striking-looking woman in an ochre-coloured dress from the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri....

January 11, 2024

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