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That is because the Big Mac, though a single product, has over 60 distinct ingredients, from beef to xanthan gum. It also ...

The most influential, published in the Lancet in July 2025, estimates that by 2030 14m people will die as a result of USAID’s demise. Neither a claim of zero nor one of so many millions survives a ...

It’s a good thing that AI writing is getting better. Sifting through today’s slop is a drain on your brain and your time. LLMs have tripled the number of new e-books published on Amazon every month, ...

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In an era of change, Andy Burnham promises to rewind the clock.

Mr Musk is divisive. His political views, disseminated to his 240m followers on X, strike many as plain-speaking and strike ...

Playgrounds the world over have done their utmost to eliminate risk. Why expose children to injuries, even minor ones, if ...

Of the qualities the American right has come to despise in the left, empathy is the most puzzling. Boy, do they hate it. A ...

Then Mr Trump launched his war with Iran, upending Gulf business models. It is hard for Arab states to build billion-dollar ...

Forget the gibes about the old continent being a museum in which Europeans can live out their unambitious dolce vita. These ...

This is just one symptom of a much broader problem that China’s old, male rulers have with the opposite sex. Unlike Asia’s ...