I N THE THROES of the covid-19 pandemic—when hospitals overflowed, schools and offices shut, and economies seized up—many ...

It’s difficult but not impossible. Modern history offers many examples of leaders who inherited thriving countries and drove them to collapse. Some of those countries never recovered.

Romania has overtaken Poland as the worst country in the EU for LGBTQ+ people, according to a ranking published by the Brussels-based non-governmental organisation ILGA-Europe. Poland had occupied the ...