In a private group chat, an elite crew of prediction-market bettors turn elections, wars and disasters into ‘free money on the floor’

Complaining about the capital is a national pastime — for good reason

How worried should we be about the multitrillion-dollar market’s influence over the cosmos of central banks, bonds, pension plans and private credit firms?

Reform’s policy head is a Cambridge theologian with an enviable contact book and a belief in ‘faith, family and flag’

Public confidence in the privatised water suppliers has collapsed. How did they get away with poisoning our water for decades?

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Hundreds of Colombian fighters were brought to Sudan by a shadow network. At the end of the journey lay a city of corpses

When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution

How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety

How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety

How the quest to detoxify our household items became charged with anxiety

The story of a life shaped by a radical social policy

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

Artists, thinkers and leaders from the US and beyond pick the person they think deserves to be honoured: from Abraham Lincoln to Dorothy Parker

A racist takeover in Wilmington, North Carolina, in 1898, has reverberated across generations as a reminder of American democracy’s terrifying vulnerability.

What 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain

What 10 years covering the Manchester mayor’s many reinventions taught me about the man who wants to lead Britain

The inside story of a climate summit unlike any other

The poet and curator was at the forefront of US efforts to project its high art as forcefully as its military might abroad — an idea that now looks dead

What the union of Stephen and Katie Miller says about Maga world

Through regional wars, terrorism and mass migration, an area of the old city was transformed by forces beyond its residents’ imaginations

A drone pilot and her all-women unit are waging a new kind of warfare on Ukraine’s eastern front

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[FREE TO READ] John Hume bred 2,000 rhinos in captivity. Were they a cover for one of the most successful horn-trafficking networks in history?

The true story of two strangers and an extraordinary act of courage

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[FREE TO READ] The messaging app’s founder has become a poster boy for the backlash in Europe over CEO accountability — and a target for Russia

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An FT Magazine special feature on how to map a changing world

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An aspirational generation of Chinese arrivals are beginning to shape Japan’s demographic, social and perhaps even political destiny

There is a child. There is a phone. And there is an endless struggle with the bonds of love

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