World

It’s hard to untangle Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin.

Behind every airline is an incident command centre where employees try to anticipate the world’s most disturbing ’what ifs’

On the brink of a new Cold War, Trump’s battle with U.S. intelligence services is ’unprecedented’ and dangerous, say former spies

There are ovations for Hillary Clinton, rowdy confirmation hearings, and inaugural events sinking deeper into partisan quicksand

How the cheap, scripted and retrograde ’Reality TV’ boom lowered the celebrity bar and gave the world the next U.S. president

Outrage over a student union’s alleged call for a ban on white thinkers is misplaced—and shows even philosophy isn’t immune to the toxic political climate

The scene was dangerously overcrowded and America’s President-elect was irritable, long on rant and short on revelation

Trump is a rule-breaking, oversharing, booty-calling, sarcastic Twitterer thumbing his nose at stuffy traditionalism

Security expert Brian Michael Jenkins on why terrorists are drawn to airports, and the massive cost of even a failed attack

The country’s own ruling party helped enable radicals. Why this may be the year it finally confronts the enemy within.