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The coronavirus pandemic has sped up a revolution in home working, leaving offices around the world empty. But what was the point of them anyway? | Continue reading
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The weakest link in America’s national security may not be foreign technology but its own people. Mara Hvistendahl traces the story of the single mother who sold out to China | Continue reading
Adrian Wooldridge fears isolating earmuffs have become a licence for deplorable behaviour | Continue reading
In July 2019 Nicolas Pelham, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, received a rare journalist’s visa to Iran. On the day he was due to fly home, he was detained | Continue reading
An Insta-friendly assisted-dying “pod” is on standby to deliver its first patient to the afterlife. Mark Smith drops in for tea with its inventor | Continue reading
Picking a voice out a crowd is not just useful for cocktail parties: it’s a crucial sensory tool | Continue reading
Dan Richards visits the landscape that inspired Finland’s most famous export, “The Moomins”, and traces the footsteps of the books’ author Tove Jansson | Continue reading
Board games are back, thanks to the lessons their designers have learned from computer games. Tim Cross rolls the dice | Continue reading
Half a century on from the summer of love, marijuana is big business and mindfulness a workplace routine. Nat Segnit asks how the movement found itself at the heart of capitalism | Continue reading
Kahve was a favourite drink of the Ottoman Empire’s ruling class. Little did they know it would one day hasten the empire’s demise | Continue reading
Japan’s most famous artist believed that the longer he lived, the better he’d get. A new exhibition in London proves him right | Continue reading
Manufacturers claim they make us live longer and healthier lives. Bee Wilson chews over the evidence | Continue reading
Our jobs have become prisons from which we don’t want to escape | Continue reading
For the Portuguese, salted cod is more than just an ingredient: it's a way of life. Isabel Vincent finds comfort in the food wherever she is in the world | Continue reading
A new collection celebrates a master of candid photography | Continue reading
Will technology always be at the mercy of human error? | Continue reading
Plunging into the ocean near Antarctica, Lewis Pugh was determined to push the limits of human endurance | Continue reading
Female runners have long fought for the recognition and status of male ones. Rachel Hewitt asks why running doesn’t offer women the freedom it should | Continue reading
When Hal Hodson moved into a communal house near Silicon Valley, drinking alcohol was his first mistake | Continue reading
Technology has been used to outsource memory since the invention of writing. Now it is being brought in-house | Continue reading
It can feel like torture, destroy your life and cause you to doubt your own sanity. Sophie Elmhirst scans the horizon for a solution | Continue reading
In Los Angeles, donuts have brought wealth (if not health) to new arrivals. David Samuels hits the road in search of the lord of the rings | Continue reading
Grand, central, these spectacular edifices were once stations, humming with humanity. Now they are colossal relics, vessels of nostalgia and irony. Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre capture them for our photo essay, from the Great Lakes to the Pyrenees | Continue reading
The Ilha de Mozambique was the destination for apartheid activist Ruth First’s final holiday in Mozambique. Nearly 40 years later, her daughter Gillian Slovo returns | Continue reading
It’s not as modern as you think. As an enthralling new exhibition shows, people have been cutting and pasting for almost a millennium | Continue reading
The Man Booker prizewinner from Jamaica on his personal possessions, from a pair of jeans to a much-loved comic | Continue reading
Nomads have been central to the country’s history for centuries. Anthony Sattin joins the roaming empire | Continue reading
Go to Berlin for doners you don’t have to be drunk to enjoy | Continue reading
The Moon lured humanity into its orbit a long time ago. A new exhibition in London chronicles a bewitching relationship | Continue reading
In “UpDating”, a stage show in New York, singletons meet each other in front of a live audience. Alice Fulwood takes a seat | Continue reading
How did hunger for the humble pod lead to greed, crime and riches? Wendell Steavenson travels to Madagascar to meet the new spice barons | Continue reading
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We see exceptional intelligence as a blessing. So why, asks Maggie Fergusson, are so many brilliant children miserable misfits? | Continue reading
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Influencers love Santorini’s blue domes and dramatic landscapes. But the tourists who follow in their wake are proving hard to manage | Continue reading
Ukrainian audiences liked the TV character played by Volodymyr Zelensky so much, they elected him. The show’s producer tells 1843 why he thinks he’s opened a Pandora’s box | Continue reading