All our coverage tagged “Explainer”.
IndiaCostly oil, a strong dollar and foreign selling have kept the currency near record lows for months. Here is what is driving it — and who gains and who loses.
IranEight months after US and Israeli strikes began, a ceasefire has collapsed, the Strait of Hormuz is still under attack and diplomats are testing a Qatari plan.
IndiaThe government is examining whether to lower the 12.5% LTCG rate before the next Budget. Here is how the tax works today, with a worked example.
Israel120 seats, a 61-seat majority, and a clock that starts ticking once the president hands someone the mandate.
The strain behind the DR Congo outbreak is a different species from the one targeted by the licensed Ebola vaccine.
IndiaThe DPDP Act makes consent the default for handling personal data — and has no journalism exemption. Here is what that means, in plain language.
From Canberra to Athens, governments are drawing legal lines. Here are the arguments — and the practical problems.
A quick guide to oil benchmarks, the “risk premium”, and why a missile in Saudi Arabia can raise prices at an Indian petrol pump.
Who is speaking, how do they know, and what is missing? Simple questions that make anyone a sharper reader.
Before a fact reaches you, it should survive a few hard questions. These are the ones we ask.
Light-switched brain cells, neutrinos from deep space, the chemistry of left- and right-handed molecules, a poet of the classics, a judge of international law and two economists of shocks.
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