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• The world's most violent region needs a new approach to crime
• A new hate-crime law in Scotland causes widespread concern
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• Simple Ways to Keep Your Internet On During Power Outages
• Disney's Flywheel Picks Up Some Speed
• Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald's and KFC
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• The Labour Party's grand bargain with business
• US election forecast: who will control the House of Representatives?
• The pandemic's toll on schooling emerges in awful new exam results
• Why is football in Latin America so complex?
• Challenging the stigma associated with single mothers in China
• What fiscal rules should Britain have?
• The future of philanthropy will involve a mix of different approaches
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister
• Three reasons why Donald Trump might outperform the polls
• Some corals are better at handling the heat
• America's border crisis in ten charts
• It is time to divert Taiwan's trade and investment from China
• Are America's leading presidential candidates up to it?
• The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation
• Pakistan's politicians seize control of the judiciary
• How popular is Joe Biden?
• China is beating America in the nuclear-energy race
• The sweet story of Peru's blueberry boom
• Can the stain of forced and child labour be removed from cotton?
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China
• Zvi Zamir oversaw a programme of Israeli assassinations
• Smoke blackens the air in America's north-east
• How EU do-goodery risks harming Africa's small farmers
• An English ruling on transgender teens could have global repercussions
• Ukraine's European allies are either broke, small or irresolute
• China has its eyes on Okinawa
• The states that will decide America's next president
• Poor areas suffered 3.5 times more damage in Turkey's earthquake
• Why Joe Biden won't go
• The Best Cookbooks of 2024 (So Far): Big Dip Energy, Koreaworld, and More
• Europe's green trade restrictions are infuriating poor countries
• Will El Mayo's arrest slow the spread of fentanyl?
• Why many young Asians are no longer studying history
• Macau, China's sin city, wants to be more like Las Vegas
• Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
• How Robert F. Kennedy junior's effect on the election has shifted
• America is concerned about social media. China is, too
• The bid to make Florida's most famous city a tech hub
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A typhoon hits Shanghai and the Chinese economy groans
• Ángeles Flórez Peón, "Maricuela", made sure Spain did not forget its history
• Will war snuff out the Gulf's global business ambitions?
• An alternative use for The Economist's Big Mac index
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• As wildfires continue to ravage America, floods are wreaking havoc elsewhere
• Could an "October surprise" upset America's election?
• As Xi and Biden Meet, Trump and Uncertainty Loom Large
• Floods in Spain cause death and devastation
• What will Prabowo Subianto's foreign policy look like?
• ADL report finds Steam is 'rife' with racist posts and images
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Fifty shades of brown: how splits in Europe's hard right sap its power
• Why Kamala Harris has the advantage in debating Donald Trump
• Xi Jinping's belated stimulus has reset the mood in Chinese markets
• Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
• In New York, the Democratic establishment strikes back
• Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
• China has chilling plans for governing Taiwan
• Turkey's long hard struggle with inflation
• Criminal gangs are showing their muscle as Mexico's elections loom
• Poland's ruling coalition divides over women's rights
• Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology's credibility crisis
• The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives
• The insidious campaign to demolish mosques in India
• Benjamin Zephaniah stayed angry all his life
• How Asia's wild west shakes up the modern world
• Zero-Click Flaw Exposes Potentially Millions of Popular Storage Devices to Attack
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• For Early Black Friday, Samsung Offers The Galaxy Tab S10 Ultra at up to 84% Off
• How Musk's Department of Government Efficiency May Try to Slash Federal Spending
• Blighty newsletter: Mind the budget gap
• Japanese businesses are trapped between America and China
• Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
• The US tax code will change next year; the presidential election will determine how
• Governing the atmosphere
• European Parliament elections tracker: results and guide to the vote
• Business
• Wall Street titans are betting big on insurers. What could go wrong?
• Boaz v BlackRock: Whoever wins, closed-end funds lose
• The best wireless chargers for 2024
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president, wants to smother the gig economy
• To hold the Senate, Democrats have to do something extraordinary
• Obituary: Anwar Congo died on October 25th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Latin America is the world's trade pipsqueak
• Would building 1.5m homes bring down British house prices?
• Business
• China will struggle to meet its new growth target
• Russia is losing the battle for the Black Sea
• America is becoming less racist but more divided by racism
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• Joan Didion's radical curiosity
• Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
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• Solo Stove's Black Friday sale discounts fire pit bundles by up to 30 percent
• A country that is on the front line
• The world court says Israel's occupation is illegal
• Kamala Harris's cost-of-living plan will end in failure
• Taylor Sheridan's 'Landman' — Here's a Paramount Plus Release Schedule
• The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
• Football clubs' revenues rebound from covid—especially in England
• China's New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX's Starship
• Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world's
• Why "The Rest Is Politics", a British podcast, is a hit
• China's "demographic dividend" appears to be a myth
• Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine's war
• Obituary: Richard Booth died on August 20th
• Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump's victory
• Ingenious medicine
• How to benefit from the conversations you have at work
• What Florida can teach America
• The rich world's teachers are increasingly morose
• Perplexity Dove Into Real-Time Election Tracking While Other AI Companies Held Back
• Can anyone besides Nvidia make big bucks from chips?
• What taxes might Labour raise?
• Inside the shared studio of Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
• In search of resilience
• How China uses Russia to chew up the UN
• Blighty newsletter: Can Labour fix the British state?
• Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge
• Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• UN warns of 'economic carnage' if G20 leaders cannot agree on climate finance for poor countries
• China is now the world leader in coffee shops
• The race to become leader of Britain's Conservatives
• Business
• Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News's ratings
• South American governments are trying to curb illegal fishing
• The Dutch are getting a half-populist, half-pragmatist government
• Beware, global jihadists are back on the march
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• Bitcoin ETFs are off to a bad start. Will things improve?
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• Britain's big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
• Economic and financial indicators
• Western multinationals' Russian dilemmas
• Should central bankers argue in public?
• Homeland Economics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• American restrictions on hitting Russia are hurting Ukraine
• When covid-19 recedes, will global migration start again?
• The biggest losers from Trumponomics
• KAL's cartoon
• Politics
• Why it's so hard to tell which climate policies actually work
• The Man Expected to Lead Germany Is Ready to Strike Deals With Trump
• Jensen Huang says Moore's law is dead. Not quite yet
• An unusual museum in China is dedicated to Vinegar Joe
• Kamala Harris is outspending Donald Trump. Will it matter?
• Which countries get the best night's sleep?
• Meet Gabriel Attal, France's young prime minister
• The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy
• What happens in the days after America's election
• A landslip in Hong Kong fuels resentment of the rich
• Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
• Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk?
• What to make of the US Supreme Court's latest abortion ruling
• How India can compete in labour-intensive manufacturing
• Voting Has Never Been More Secure Than It Is Right Now
• Obituary: Jan Ruff O'Herne died on August 19th
• Millions of African-Americans remain stuck
• China's currency is not as influential as once imagined
• The public wants to refund, not defund, the police
• Gold suffers worst week in 3 years as investors weigh Trump victory
• What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang
• Might Wisconsin's redrawn state-legislative districts help Biden win?
• Six-Word Sci-Fi: Stories Written by You
• A second human case of bird flu in America is raising alarm
• Why Agnes Chow fled Hong Kong and isn't likely to return
• A troubled road lies ahead for German carmakers
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• KAL's cartoon
• Millions of Chinese have embraced skiing
• Pedro Sánchez clings to office at a cost to Spain's democracy
• These Netflix Sci-Fi TV Shows Will Keep You on the Edge of Your Seat
• The world's population has reached 8bn. Don't panic
• Javier Milei finally lugs key reforms through Argentina's Senate
• A year of war in Ukraine, in maps
• Agitu Gudeta was killed on December 29th
• Could the Greens become a force in British politics?
• Why India should create dozens of new states
• China goes from zero-covid to zero restrictions
• A weakened Narendra Modi subsidises jobs and doles out pork
• KAL's cartoon
• Turmoil awaits Michel Barnier, France's new prime minister
• Britain's budget is heavy on spending but light on reform
• Europe's generosity to Ukrainian refugees is not so welcome—in Ukraine
• In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
• America's Asian allies are trying to Trump-proof their policies
• The warm glow
• The unfair trial of Jimmy Lai begins in Hong Kong
• Amazon dropped a new Fire TV line just before Thanksgiving
• These are the most expensive cities in North America
• India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How much of a difference will Ukraine's new F-16s make?
• Geopolitics helps reignite New Caledonia's anti-colonial unrest
• A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
• England's gamble pays off with smooth win in Greece: Football Weekly Extra - podcast
• Hurricane Helene was America's deadliest storm in nearly two decades
• How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
• How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
• China tells bankers to be more patriotic
• What Israel's killing of aid workers means for Gaza
• Car shows in the West are in terminal decline
• Donald Trump is preparing an assault on America's immigration system
• T.S. Shanbhag died of coronavirus on May 4th
• Hopes for a truce in Gaza give way to fears of a long stalemate
• Disneyland debuts its first ride to celebrate a Black princess: 'It's about time'
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A shift towards green investment is under way in Africa
• A Tokyo district cracks down on Halloween
• Japanese firms are leaving Tokyo for the sticks
• Obituary: Jean "Binta" Breeze spoke for all Jamaican women
• Travel chaos will last well beyond summer
• The last scraps of the Haitian state are evaporating
• Spies, trade and tech: China's relationship with Britain
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• In drought-stricken Europe, leaky pipes are worsening the problem
• Israel's ground assault hits Gaza's communication network
• Why the next Westminster scandal is already here
• If Israel invades, hell looms in Rafah
• Making Government Efficient Again
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why China banned international adoptions
• A Sudanese gathering outside the country proposes a third way
• The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting
• Physicists are reimagining dark matter
• Don't blame "quiet quitting" on Gen-Z
• A tiny, ancient hominin may have been surprisingly clever
• This week's cover
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Every location has got worse for getting actual work done
• How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
• China seeks a world order that defers to states and their rulers
• Josep Almudéver died on May 23rd
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Mexico's president wants to develop the poorer south
• Blighty newsletter: Labour's twin pivots
• The evolution of Britain's extreme right
• Beyond France, the European elections will deliver more of the same
• Shirley Chisholm is still winning
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China is going crazy for durians
• The 32 Best Shows on Apple TV+ Right Now (November 2024)
• Assessing the theory that covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• Britain's obsession with baked beans
• The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
• Joss Naylor never let any mountain defeat him
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• Obituary: Mags Portman died on February 6th
• Why most people regret Brexit
• Britain is a world leader in pet health care
• The power and limits of Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic charm
• Who could replace Narendra Modi?
• US election forecast: who will win control of the Senate?
• AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics
• Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?
• The West's armies are getting more serious about climate change
• How the last mammoths went extinct
• Norway's Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
• Can Big Oil run in reverse?
• Award: Natasha Loder and Simon Akam
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Perverse Logic of Trump's Nomination Circus
• Studio flats are now affordable in many more American cities
• Auto-Rebooting iPhones Are Causing Chaos for Cops
• Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation
• What the world wants from Joe Biden
• The Capitol riot is a godsend for America's critics
• Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible
• Jürgen Klopp and the importance of energy
• Moldova's pro-EU president has won re-election
• A new study of studies reignites controversy over mask mandates
• Lenovo IdeaPad 5x 2-in-1 Review: Too Many Corners Cut
• Introducing Essential India, our latest newsletter
• India's Supreme Court delivers a rare setback for Narendra Modi
• Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump
• India's government implements a controversial citizenship law
• Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl?
• The next American president will be a China hawk
• People are splurging like never before on their pets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Some good news about America's fertility problem
• To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Three reasons why oil prices are remarkably stable
• Many Austrians feel their way of life is under threat
• Here's the full list of 44 US AI startups that have raised $100M or more in 2024
• Thailand's new government is handing out cash
• A new breed of protest has left Kenya's president tottering
• Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
• The party is eager to expand its influence within business
• Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
• Missionary creep
• Epic Gravity Lens Lines Up Seven-Galaxy View
• Anne Saxelby was a champion of artisan farmers and their wares
• Why vaccine passports are causing chaos
• Many Ukrainian drones have been disabled by Russian jamming
• Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger
• U.S. Stocks Trade Lower
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
• Business
• Elon Musk's Starship makes a test flight without exploding
• UN peacekeeping is hamstrung by national rules for its troops
• Big tech's great AI power grab
• Europe could become Trump's geopolitical roadkill
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
• Taiwan's elections are about more than China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• General-election forecast: Labour beat the Conservatives
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• Inside the world of crazy rich Indians
• Colombia's first avowedly left-wing president is mired in scandal
• As schools reopen, how can pupils make up for lost time?
• The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time
• Economic and financial indicators
• Can MSCI drag private markets out of the shadows?
• Is working from home about to spark a financial crisis?
• Taiwan election poll tracker: Lai Ching-te wins the presidency
• Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
• Obituary: Robert Mugabe died on September 6th
• When China hides disasters in a memory hole
• The weekly cartoon
• Latin America is set to become a major oil producer this decade
• Chinese art students scrawled Communist graffiti in London's Brick Lane
• How to take proper breaks from work
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Which languages take the longest to learn?
• Business
• Israeli strikes on Beirut and Tehran could intensify a regional war
• Violence mars Mexicans' biggest elections ever
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• India will soon overtake China as the world's most populous country
• How Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would govern Brazil
• Three charts show that America's imports are booming
• The Germany-shaped void at Europe's heart
• America's fentanyl epidemic, explained in six charts
• Climate Change: The Complete WIRED Guide
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 years ago
• Tesla faces an identity crisis: carmaker or tech firm?
• Happy Martian New Year!
• What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?
• KAL's cartoon
• Lata Mangeshkar was the soundtrack of newly independent India
• How to build a global currency
• China's message to the global south
• On polling day, Kamala Harris moves into a narrow lead
• India's biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking
• France is desperately searching for a government
• TSMC's American chipmaking plans grow $25bn more ambitious
• People in Valencia: share your experience of recent protests
• Israel's invasion of Lebanon may bolster support for Hizbullah
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can António Costa make a success of the world's hardest political gig?
• Ancient artistic loot will finally make its way back to Cambodia
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• Israeli Forces Push Deeper Into Lebanon in Widening War Campaign
• Trump, Putin's Avowed Personal Rapport Masks Deeper Tensions
• A fraying system
• Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned rhesus monkey
• On energy and climate, Trump and Harris are different by degrees
• France seeks a new government
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• CIA Official Arrested for Intelligence Leak on Israeli Plans to Strike Iran
• Haiti's transitional government must take office amid gang warfare
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is found guilty of corruption
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will oversee a more divided Brazil
• Introducing El Boletín, our new weekly newsletter on Latin America
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Indian tourists are conquering the world
• India's electronics industry is surging
• A future, but with Chinese characteristics
• Reliable numbers on Trump v Harris are scarce for now
• Asia's commercial heft helps keep Russia's war economy going
• Europe can't decide how to unplug from China
• The most important climate agency you've never heard of
• America's strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
• Another attempt to kill Trump raises fears of political violence
• Obituary: David Esterly died on June 15th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Colonies of bacteria could save the Pentagon billions
• Israel has seen arms embargoes before
• African governments return to international bond markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China has embraced pets, but animal welfare is still a problem
• The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
• Nicaragua shows how poor countries can reduce domestic violence
• Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners
• The world has to adapt to the climate change it will not avoid
• Xi Jinping's chaos-loving friends
• How to bring scents to the metaverse
• Productivity has grown faster in western Europe than in America
• Talks at the WTO to save the world's fish fail to reach agreement
• TikTok Parent ByteDance's Valuation Rises to About $300 Billion
• Obituary: Stephen Cleobury died on November 22nd
• How China's delivery drivers quietly fight to improve their lot
• Nayib Bukele wants to abolish term limits in El Salvador
• Costa Rica no longer seems a Latin American success story
• How Yemen's dominant Houthis blackmail foreign aid agencies
• Australians are no longer united on Aboriginal rights
• China's low-fertility trap
• How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again
• Chinese weapons are taking over in Africa
• What campus protesters get wrong about divestment
• Japan ends the world's greatest monetary-policy experiment
• After it ends, the war in Gaza will still continue to shape Israel
• The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth
• The Economist commodity-price index
• Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless
• Narendra Modi has seized and politicised Indian cricket
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• The Biden administration is trying to walk a fine line in arming Israel
• Business
• El Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The pandemic will spur the worldwide growth of private tutoring
• India has proved to be a popular—and clever—investor in poor countries
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• Ramadan could see respite for Gaza, or widening violence
• Argentina's football clubs are resisting privatisation
• What Lee Zeldin's Nomination Means for the EPA
• China heaps pressure on Taiwan ahead of a big election
• To get more capital, Africa needs more data
• Xiongan is Xi Jinping's pet project
• Hal Willner died on April 7th
• Mark Robinson has hijacked his own campaign in North Carolina
• British Muslims' support for Labour is wobbling
• Why Republicans have failed to scrap the Department of Education
• Nigel Farage takes over as leader of Reform UK
• 11 Best Gifts for Men, Manly Men, and Menly Man Men (2024)
• How fast is India's economy really growing?
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Joe Biden must face the sad truth
• What is going wrong for Intel?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A ports strike shows the stranglehold one union has on trade
• Xi Jinping is trying to love-bomb China's entrepreneurs
• The bungee-jumping, sandal-clad right-wingers of British politics
• Could the Labour Party blow its big opportunity?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Iran's damage-limitation efforts may not go to plan
• Charles III gets his own paper currency
• Business
• Death, debts and democratic doubts in Africa
• Regime change
• Dobbs electrified supporters of abortion rights
• Lockdowns could have long-term effects on children's health
• A northern Italian town bans cricket
• Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole
• Why China needs to fill its empty homes
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vivian Silver knew no good could ever come of war
• Sadiq Khan's London offers a taste of Starmer's Britain
• How to frame the argument over clean power
• Where is the "motherhood penalty" greatest?
• Britain's last coal-fired power station closes
• The end of cricket's Indian monopoly
• An American-backed foreign force may be sent to Haiti
• The southern border is Kamala Harris's biggest political liability
• Anne Innis Dagg devoted her life to the world's tallest creature
• Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
• How American states squeeze athletes (and remote workers)
• France heads to the polls in a critical parliamentary vote
• Britain's Conservatives adopt the bad habits of the Labour left
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• Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?
• Olivia de Havilland died on July 26th
• The relationship between Israel and Turkey is at breaking point
• The rebuilding of Berlin's Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
• China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
• Frontline Formosa
• Narendra Modi wants a lot more women in Indian politics
• Marvin Creamer died on August 12th
• Elon Musk's Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt
• Europe is bidding a steady farewell to passport-free travel
• Without realising it, Britain has become a nation of immigrants
• These Bird Nests Show Signs of an Architectural 'Culture'
• The Economist commodity-price index
• China's presence in Latin America has expanded dramatically
• America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
• The rise of the truly cruel summer
• Why financial markets are so oddly calm
• China views America's presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
• Far-right ideas are gaining a renewed respectability in France
• France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe
• South-East Asian Muslims are incensed by the war in Gaza
• KAL's cartoon
• African leaders want debt relief for climate action
• Political turmoil is tearing Peru apart
• Britain's ban on arms sales to Israel mixes politics and legalism
• Trying to heal the party's wounds
• Javier Milei implements shock therapy in Argentina
• Covid-19 has shone a light on racial disparities in health
• Can Britain's "mission-led" government defy gravity?
• After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception
• The captain and his country
• China's new "Top Gun" normalises war with America
• What's the Roundest Object in the Universe?
• Iran's new leaders stand at a nuclear precipice
• The first week of COP26 was less substantive than it seemed
• A short history of Russia and Ukraine
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Demand for uranium is booming. Who is benefiting?
• China will become less populous, more productive—and more pricey
• China's rulers play the law-and-order card, and lose
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• Globalisation may not have increased income inequality, after all
• Australia and China patch things up
• Why MAGA is the future, not just present, of the GOP
• Jair Bolsonaro's challenge to Brazil's election was rejected
• Hispanic men helped propel Donald Trump back to the White House
• Crypto cowboys have found paradise in Paraguay
• The super-rich are trying new approaches to philanthropy
• Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets
• Espionage scandals are hurting Germany's far right
• Video: insights from the author
• Why fake research is rampant in China
• The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain's DIY-investing titan
• After an unsuccessful boycott, women's tennis is back in China
• How pop culture went multipolar
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• The "effective altruism" movement is louder than it is large
• The best podcasts of 2021
• Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine's drones
• OpenAI's tumultuous early years revealed in emails from Musk, Altman, and others
• The world's most liveable cities in 2023
• Xi Jinping is trying to fuse the ideologies of Marx and Confucius
• Do women make better doctors than men?
• China takes a step to curb anti-Japanese rhetoric online
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Choosing party candidates
• Israel is more popular than social-media posts suggest
• Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
• KAL's cartoon
• Argentina's populist political movement is at its lowest ebb
• Obituary: Lyra McKee died on April 18th
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• Bob Iger has defeated Nelson Peltz at Disney. Now what?
• Relations between Japan and South Korea are blossoming
• Tanzania's opposition, once flat on its back, is now on its knees
• Election lawsuits are flooding America's courts
• A strange snafu and a cross-ideological coalition at America's Supreme Court
• Argentina's Javier Milei begins his radical experiment in libertarian rule
• Could war in the Gulf push oil to $100 a barrel?
• One way to turbocharge the Chinese economy
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• What now for Britain's right-wing parties?
• This week's covers
• After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
• AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions
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• The stockmarket rout may not be over
• Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
• What would Elon Musk do in government?
• Japan needs more sperm donors
• OpenAI at one point considered acquiring AI chip startup Cerebras
• Russia is ramping up sabotage across Europe
• Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
• Catholic reformers want big changes to a church marred by sex abuse
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• Business
• Obituary: A.Q. Khan was the world's biggest nuclear proliferator
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Poland's new modern-art museum wants to give the capital a fresh look
• Britain is a home but not a haven for Hong Kongers
• How to get kicked out of China's Communist Party
• Unexpectedly, the cost of big cyber-attacks is falling
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• Economic data, commodities and markets
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• KAL's cartoon
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• When will Ukraine join NATO?
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