What follows is one of the many merry articles in the Mercury's Winter Guide 2025. Find a print copy here, subscribe to get a ...

History teaches us that, if you tell a lie big enough and often enough, it will eventually be believed to be the truth.

It once possessed a coastline — a sliver of blue infinity stitched to its western hem like a divine indulgence. Then came the diplomats and the drillers, the wars wrapped in ledgers, and the ...