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　WHAT do Arkansas and Idaho have in common? Both have rural charm—Idaho’s licence plates even boast of its “Famous Potatoes”. Both vote Republican in presidential elections. And both have just legalis...

ASHTON CARTER once urged the pre-emptive bombing of North Korea’s nuclear facilities. (It was in an article he wrote in 2006, while out of office.) He also wanted American troops to stay on in Iraq af...

THE rhythms of Christmas used to be so simple. Buy presents in December, eat and drink too much, return unwanted gifts, then hunt bargains in the January sales. Such habits may now be altered by the a...

　ORYX and buffalo heads stare glumly from the walls of James Purdey & Sons, a swanky London gunmaker. In cases beneath them stand some of the priciest weapons in Britain. The firm’s elaborately en...

　“THE past is never dead. It’s not even past,” wrote William Faulkner in “Requiem for a Nun”. In his house, Rowan Oak, you can almost touch the typewriter on which he tapped out those words. It sits o...

　IT HAS long been known that in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) increases the chances of multiple births, as several fertilised eggs are implanted in a woman to improve the chances of pregnancy. A fifth of ...

　ALEX SALMOND, Scotland’s most famous secessionist, is prone to displays of grandeur. During the campaign for independence over the summer the first minister took to comparing himself to Robert the Br...