Trump ushers in Europe’s high-stakes moment to defend Ukraine
Radchenko has studied the talks between Ukrainian and Russian officials in March and April 2022, which scoped out the broad outlines of a peace deal (although it was never clear whether either Putin ...
North Korea ‘supplying Russia’ with long-range rocket and artillery systems
Pyongyang has supplied Moscow’s army with long-range rocket and artillery systems, some of which have been moved to Russia’s Kursk region for an assault involving North Korean soldiers to push out ...
A small biotech fund gets a boost from Wall Street titans
Catalio has managed to ride out a choppy few years in the biotech VC industry, in which firms have struggled against rising interest rates and a shortage of capital available to biotechnology ...
Shareholder advisers fear clamp down in new Trump administration
Conservative groups and lawmakers eye restrictions on proxy firms as new era in Washington emboldens their critics ...
The Met’s secret employee art show is no longer secret
The man is Daniel Kershaw, senior exhibition designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This show is unlike any other under his purview. It’s the employee show, Art Work: Artists Working at the Met, ...
Transcript: Swamp Notes — How can Democrats rebuild?
Sonja Hutson This is Swamp Notes, the weekly podcast from the FT News Briefing where we talk about all of the things happening in US politics. I’m Sonja Hutson. And this week we’re asking: what’s the ...
Triumph to tragedy — a cautionary tale of politics
There is no question that the pandemic was an unparalleled peacetime crisis and one that derailed Johnson’s government. But as Shipman notes, the seeds of his destruction were also ever present and in ...
Squid Game is back — and darker than ever
Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of the most-watched show in Netflix history, on taking his ultra-violent critique of capitalism to the next level ...
The ski-in art crowd bringing cultural highs to resorts
It’s easy to see why prime property mountain villages are increasingly seductive prospect for galleries – but the benefits are a two-way play ...
The lawyer at the heart of the ferocious debate over assisted dying
Charles Foster believes he has a duty to defend against a state-sanctioned and medicalised means to self-obliterate ...
When love is not just romance but compassion, too
The two figures are personifications of Humanity and Love. Humanity, on the right side of the picture, has his hands on a set of oars but lies back unmoving, as if passed out from exhaustion. Love, ...
A deep dive into the Yucatán
Beyond the Mexican peninsula’s famous coast lies a spectacular, less-visited land of Mayan ruins, secret pools and somnolent villages ...