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• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on
• Why Canada should join the EU
• Cycling to school almost became extinct – until one man revived the bike bus
• Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago's teachers' union everything
• An ambitious plan for "total peace" in Colombia is faltering
• The weekly cartoon
• New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager
• Atheism is still a taboo for American politicians
• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• A major earthquake in Japan highlights the country's resilience
• A death, an illness, and an uncertain Middle East
• Jacqueline Gold freed women to shamelessly enjoy themselves
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up
• A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
• The Economist's science and technology internship
• The power and limits of Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic charm
• Immigration Fuels Innovation in Science to Make the U.S. More Competitive
• New industrial policies will not help economic stability
• Germany's fractious coalition falls apart—and how!
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• European gangs are getting better at making their own illegal drugs
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Oriental hornets can't get drunk
• Europe, not America, is now Ukraine's largest backer
• Failure to prepare for climate change is costing Honduras dear
• Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again
• When will remote workers see their pay cut?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's cover
• After an unsuccessful boycott, women's tennis is back in China
• This week's covers
• Poor areas suffered 3.5 times more damage in Turkey's earthquake
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• I love my kids but I regret having them. How can I accept my life as a parent? | Leading questions
• China's stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
• Roman Ratushny believed in a better, purer Ukraine
• Can Germany's economy stage an unexpected recovery?
• Why AI needs to learn new languages
• Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought
• Elon Musk's SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary
• Donald Trump's America will not become a tech oligarchy
• A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president
• How China is trying to win back foreign tourists
• xAI's Grok 3 is available for free to everyone 'for a short time'
• Sticking together makes bacteria nearly invincible
• Trade unions have their eye on Britain's tech sector
• A Nigerian's guide to weddings during the cozzie livs
• What does the Australian submarine deal mean for non-proliferation?
• The Hidden Costs of Men's Social Isolation
• A promising technique could make blood types mutually compatible
• After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception
• Memecoin Scandal Threatens Argentine President Javier Milei
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India's consumers are changing how they buy
• Why fake research is rampant in China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Checks and Balance: Fires, Greenland and the systematic organisation of hatreds
• DJI's RS4 Mini stabilizer can now track subjects automatically
• China is struggling with a surge of respiratory ailments
• Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
• Britain's justice system has responded forcefully to the riots
• China tries to figure out whom a hit song is mocking
• The Odds of a City-Killing Asteroid Hitting Earth Keep Rising
• Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head
• How Vladimir Putin plans to play Donald Trump
• The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical
• Plunging fertility rates are creating problems for Latin America
• Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
• The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
• The story of Britain's "ginaissance"
• How Vladimir Putin provokes—and complicates—the struggle against autocracy
• Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
• Business
• Can China's consumers save its economy?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Canada, China, Mexico and the art of retaliation
• Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit
• How to take proper breaks from work
• Changes to China's gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness
• Kemi Badenoch, the Tories' new leader, plans war on the "blob"
• How FIFA was outplayed by Electronic Arts
• A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style
• Michael Collins died on April 28th
• Matthew Perry changed the way America spoke
• Fortnum & Mason caters to a demand for festive fun
• The rape and murder of a doctor in India is fuelling outrage
• Foxconn and other gadget-makers are expanding their empires
• North Korea's hackers are after intel, not just crypto
• Can Benetton be patched up?
• Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?
• Israel's limited missile strike on Iran may be the start of a wider assault
• The deep sea is home to "dark oxygen"
• China wants to export education, too
• The United States says corruption in Paraguay starts at the top
• China develops a divorced dating scene
• Across the Arab world, Islamists' brief stints in power have failed
• Northvolt announces more cuts, worrying investors
• Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes
• Espionage scandals are hurting Germany's far right
• Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's pick for commerce secretary
• The threat of war is empowering the Islamic republic's hardliners
• How to frame the argument over clean power
• Covid-19 is helping wealthy countries talk about death
• Lula's gaffes are dulling Brazil's G20 shine
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• These countries could lure manufacturing away from China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The end of oil, then and now
• Hamas talks a big game but is in chaos
• An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
• How China uses Russia to chew up the UN
• Obituary: A.Q. Khan was the world's biggest nuclear proliferator
• Politics
• Bolsonaro's bid to regain Brazil's presidency may end in prison
• Vast amounts of the world's shipping sails unseen
• Elon Musk wants to 'fix' Community Notes on X
• Some Australians are increasingly sceptical of AUKUS
• Another comeback for China's street merchants
• Americans' confidence in air travel falls after string of plane crashes, poll shows
• Obituary: Stephen Cleobury died on November 22nd
• Wally Amos built, and lost, a delicious empire
• Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus
• Jacob Zuma's new party could swing South Africa's election
• An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
• Netflix's content briefly showed up in the Apple TV app
• Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court
• Moon landing apart, Indian science punches far below its weight
• The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service
• What is the effect of the Supreme Court's affirmative-action ban?
• The weekly cartoon
• Israel's northern border is ablaze
• Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned rhesus monkey
• Meet the maharajas of the world's biggest democracy
• The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
• Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Politics
• A new book celebrates Annie Leibovitz's fashion photography
• Rivian will launch hands-off highway driver assist 'in a few weeks'
• As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
• Warlord, jihadi or nation-builder?
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
• Politics
• India throws another opposition leader in jail as elections loom
• "Aftermath" is a piercing study of Germany after 1945
• Russia is attacking Ukraine's agricultural exports
• A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends
• Israel Says Shiri Bibas Is Missing After Hamas Returns Her Sons' Remains
• Obituary: Li Peng died on July 22nd
• What does China want from Latin America and the Caribbean?
• Prabowo Subianto will be Indonesia's next president
• How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own
• Eric Freeman hoped to save the Gloucestershire of old
• Lebanon faces its worst crisis since the end of the civil war
• Bolivia's slow-motion economic crisis is accelerating
• The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished
• Britain's Labour government has declared war on NIMBYs
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• Iran's leader must choose how to fight his war with Israel
• Nawal El-Saadawi died on March 21st
• Millions are travelling across China for lunar new year
• Why Trump's water releases were dangerous for California's levees
• Brazil's hinterland now resembles Texas
• Labour's victory is good for Britain's union of four countries
• China's ties with America are warming, a bit
• The clues in Kamala Harris's championing of reproductive rights
• As covid-19 vaccines spread, so do underhand ways to get them
• Blighty newsletter: Three (early) observations about Britain's new government
• Claudia Sheinbaum's landslide victory is a danger for Mexico
• The Official DOGE Website Launch Was a Security Mess
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• China Signals It Is Open to a Deal Keeping TikTok in U.S.
• Amazon shuts down Chime, its Zoom alternative
• Blighty newsletter: Why Labour has a soft spot for Stevenage
• How America learned to love tariffs
• Donald Trump is bad news for German business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• P.J. O'Rourke hoped to make life hell for do-gooders everywhere
• DOGE Puts $1 Spending Limit on Government Employee Credit Cards
• Self-Driving Cars: The Complete Guide
• Is the era of the mega-deal over?
• This week's covers
• The state of democracy in Africa and the Middle East
• Kamala Harris's post-debate bounce is now visible in the polls
• Canada to Review Amazon Contracts After Quebec Layoffs
• Poem: '(origins, positrons)'
• The women's Euros are selling out stadiums
• How the best British employers find and promote their staff
• The Rise of the Drone Boats
• Turkey's asset-price boom is good for some but terrible for most
• Kim Jong Un Is Doing Everything He Can to Keep North Korea's Youth in Line
• How to get hired by Donald Trump
• Countries need to pull more carbon dioxide out of the air
• Why the hard-right Herbert Kickl is unlikely to be Austria's next chancellor
• Australia needs to rethink its approach to its Pacific island neighbours
• Dinesh D'Souza admits his documentary was fiction
• Why do penguins struggle with modernist architecture?
• Britain's government plans drastic changes to local democracy
• Meet the Peruvian indigenous singer inspired by K-pop
• Sources and acknowledgments
• A new psychological history of the cold war
• 'Beware of the bat': how a mine in Kigali became the focus of Marburg virus research
• Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating
• A common food dye can make skin transparent
• Obituary: Terry O'Neill died on November 16th
• Trump administration can continue mass firings of federal workers, judge rules
• Cicely Tyson died on January 28th
• Ukraine's desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
• Business
• Peter Magyar is reinvigorating Hungary's struggling opposition
• BYOSI - Evade EDR's The Simple Way, By Not Touching Any Of The API's They Hook
• A Hacker Group Within Russia's Notorious Sandworm Unit Is Breaching Western Networks
• A growing number of Britons live on canal boats
• Economic data, markets and data
• The covid-19 pandemic is hanging over Britain's election
• Parts of Colombia are now awash with cocaine
• Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
• France's new prime minister faces a looming mess
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Places with high religious participation have fewer deaths of despair
• Why warriors should welcome laws of war
• The world's richest countries in 2024
• Do Britons even like the royal family?
• This week's cover
• Why Friendships Matter More Than You Think
• Who are the main contenders to be Iran's next president?
• Afghans are suffering. Don't expect any tears from the Taliban
• Why the AI revolution is leaving Africa behind
• Checks and Balance newsletter: The alternate-reality Democratic National Convention
• Giants, saints and dragons on the Llŷn peninsula in north Wales
• China is catching up with America in quantum technology
• Can the good ship Europe weather the Trumpnado?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Caribbean leaders vow to maintain pursuit of slavery reparations
• Move fast and mend things
• Gang violence is spreading across Latin America
• China approves the world's first flying taxi
• Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs
• Putin's plan to dethrone the dollar
• Ursula von der Leyen is the favourite to keep leading the EU—right?
• Blighty newsletter: Why Keir Starmer is underwhelming
• The Economist's science and technology internship
• A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
• Why Agnes Chow fled Hong Kong and isn't likely to return
• The cost of Britain's cast of ex-prime ministers is mounting
• The weekly cartoon
• Horror game Mouthwashing will land on consoles later this year
• A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
• A riot in Southport shows how the British far right is changing
• The Islamic State's branch in Afghanistan is at war with the world
• The new order of trade
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• Regime change
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• Ann Shulgin pioneered the use of psychedelics in therapy
• Obituary: Alexei Leonov died on October 11th
• How digital gaming spreads far and wide
• Defying China, Taiwan elects William Lai Ching-te as president
• What the Paris agreement of 2015 meant
• Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
• War is not the only reason some Muslims are ditching the Democrats
• Why some doctors are reassessing hypnosis
• How far-right extremism is becoming a global threat
• Is America's last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
• A gruesome corpse scandal sparks outrage in China
• The pandemic made the world realise the importance of human contact
• David Lynch mesmerised filmgoers with mystery, beauty and horror
• Who will rule Syria now the Assad regime has been toppled?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why elite MBA graduates are struggling to find jobs
• What a takeover offer for 7-Eleven says about business in Japan
• Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas's tunnels
• Europe faces a new age of gunboat digital diplomacy
• Peak Europe turns 25: why June 1999 marked the continent's zenith
• Abe Shinzo believed that Japan should assert itself in the world
• The West is making a muddle of its Syria sanctions
• A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move
• BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions
• Donald Trump's terrifying closing message
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Few countries are better placed than Vietnam to get rich
• Germany's urgent need for greater public investment
• Seals, sharks and spiny squat lobsters: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2025 – in pictures
• Tunisia's strongman president looks set to win another term in office
• Shippers Wary of Red Sea Routes Despite Houthi Pledge to End Targeting
• Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole
• The CFPB Work Freeze Is Putting Big Tech Regulations 'On Ice'
• Britain's House of Lords purges itself
• Meta slashes staff stock awards as group embarks on AI spending drive
• Naval drills in the Indian Ocean give bite to the anti-China "Quad"
• Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America
• Latin America's new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
• Lenovo Legion Go S review (Windows version): Not so fast
• Britain's general election was its least representative ever
• Donald Trump's first month in charts
• America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
• An angry culture war surrounds Australia Day
• What ChatGPT's corporate victims have in common
• A hidden refuge in Sudan that the internet, banks—and war—can't reach
• The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• New railways could transform South-East Asia
• KAL's cartoon
• Britain's birth rate has crashed. It is likely to recover
• Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
• How will calamity change Los Angeles?
• Conservatives dominate Chile's constitutional assembly this time around
• Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer-Research Startup
• KAL's cartoon
• Trump and other populists will haunt NATO's 75th birthday party
• What the world wants from Joe Biden
• Business
• Beware, global jihadists are back on the march
• Will Europe return to Putin's gas?
• Venezuelan mothers organize on chat group to fight Guantánamo detentions
• A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI
• Saotome Katsumoto insisted that Japan should not forget
• Ukraine's war has created millions of broken families
• China's stimulus falls short, as a showdown with Trump looms
• A leader of Congo's rebels vows to fight on
• How South-East Asia can weather the Trump trade typhoon
• A tonne of public debt is never made public
• The bunkers on Beirut's golf course are in the crosshairs
• Latin America's farmers are cashing in on hot hot-cocoa prices
• A Player Has Defeated Punch-Out's Mike Tyson in Under 2 Minutes for the First Time
• The first week of COP26 was less substantive than it seemed
• Investors rely more and more on higher returns from private markets
• TurboTax Discount Codes: 20% Off | February 2025
• Why is Thai health care so good?
• The Netherlands' new hard-right government is a mess
• Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
• China views America's presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Is China a climate saint or villain?
• Can shooting some elephants save many others?
• The Dutch are getting a half-populist, half-pragmatist government
• Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
• The world's religions face a post-pandemic reckoning
• Japan's new prime minister is his own party's sternest critic
• The US-Russia dogfight to sell India fighter jets
• Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad
• Britain's prison service is caught in a doom loop
• Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease
• Dreams of asteroid mining, orbital manufacturing and much more
• Watch out Beijing, China's second-tier cities are on the up
• New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia
• Britain's budget choices are not as bad as the government says
• Jeremy Corbyn wants more nice things, fewer nasty ones
• This week's covers
• The best microSD cards in 2025
• Harris's and Trump's economic plans both promise utopia
• Pakistan rolls out the red carpet for China's prime minister
• Does intermittent fasting work?
• Congo-Brazzaville has lost a big chunk of its oil revenue
• How independent is India's Supreme Court?
• Duelling arguments take shape in the TikTok-ban case
• The fall of Goma heralds more bloodshed in eastern Congo
• A Fascinating Sparrow, Aha! Moments and Local Flowers
• Gloria Allen ran a charm school for young trans women
• Paris's stunning vision for the Olympics wins a gold medal
• Why China's companies are recruiting their own militias
• Indonesia election tracker: Prabowo Subianto wins the presidency
• Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
• Defying China, Taiwan elects William Lai Ching-te as president
• Chris Imler: The Internet Will Break My Heart review | Safi Bugel's experimental album of the month
• India's difficult business environment is improving
• How shallow was Labour's victory in the British election?
• A palatial museum of Edvard Munch's art opens in Oslo
• The Economist's glass-ceiling index
• Apple's M4 Mac mini is back on sale for $549
• Amid Russian bombing, Ukraine is planning more nuclear reactors
• Netanyahu says Israel working closely with US on Trump's 'bold vision' for Gaza – video
• Maggie Smith, the dowager countess of comic timing
• America and China are talking. But much gets lost in translation
• Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety
• Is inflation morally wrong?
• Antony Blinken swoops into a violent hotspot close to home
• The Philippines bans some genetically modified foods
• Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing
• Maia Sandu, Moldova's president, dares to stand up to Russia
• How Jim Simons revolutionised investing
• The EU hits China's carmakers with hefty new tariffs
• Business
• The Caribbean is awash with illegal American guns
• The wisdom in calling Donald Trump weird
• Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
• The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting
• A price war breaks out among China's AI-model builders
• Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?
• Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
• After 100 brutal days, Javier Milei has markets believing
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Elon Musk's $97bn offer is a headache for Sam Altman's OpenAI
• Hizbullah seems to have miscalculated in its fight with Israel
• Three big lawsuits against Meta in Kenya may have global implications
• The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy
• How Baltimore became a sad harbinger of the future
• Can bonds keep beating stocks?
• America's presidential election marks a fork in the road for Ukraine
• Ashok - A OSINT Recon Tool, A.K.A Swiss Army Knife
• The best iPhones for 2025: Which model should you buy?
• China unites America and Europe in alarm
• Instagram adds a whole slew of new DM features in latest update
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
• Why do some people risk their lives for fun?
• Is British justice too secretive?
• Why country music is booming in Britain
• Wanted: new business, finance and economics interns
• Sources and acknowledgments
• England's school reforms are earning fans abroad
• A four-pack of Chipolo One Bluetooth trackers is on sale for 32 percent off
• Politics
• The great cover-up: Europe is losing its penchant for public nudity
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Get ready for "Maximum Pressure 2.0" on Iran
• Vladimir Putin says the world's energy infrastructure is "at risk"
• China makes love and war with Taiwan
• What happens in the days after America's election
• N.Y. governor won't remove NYC Mayor Adams from office, another win for President Trump
• The perils of expanded balance-sheets
• Plankton are much more interesting than you might think
• Obituary: Jean Vanier died on May 7th
• Can Europe withstand four years of Trumpian assault?
• Trump Says He Wants to 'Clean Out' Gaza, Send Refugees to Egypt and Jordan
• How to fix palliative care in Britain
• Wines That Entertain as Well as Impress
• A growing industry is emerging to make philanthropy simpler
• China's satellites are improving rapidly. Its army will benefit
• Musk sets up clash with Republican hawks over 'Doge dividend cheques'
• In Relationships, Am I the Asshole?
• India's economic policy will not make it rich
• Patriotism is replacing purpose in American business
• Canon's New Camera Is in a Category Once Thought Practically Dead
• Are Dating Apps Getting Worse?
• When will Ukraine join NATO?
• What J.D. Vance is learning from Donald Trump
• Latin America is set to become a major oil producer this decade
• The end of cricket's Indian monopoly
• A battle royal over deep-sea archaeology in the Caribbean
• OpenAI's GPT-4.5 May Arrive Next Week, but GPT-5 Is Just Around the Corner
• America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom
• Brazil's new president is visiting Joe Biden to boost relations
• File-Unpumper - Tool That Can Be Used To Trim Useless Things From A PE File Such As The Things A File Pumper Would Add
• KAL's cartoon
• China's alarming sex imbalance
• The iPhone 16e was just announced, here's when to pre-order the new smartphone
• This week's cover
• Why Trump's Clean Energy Rollbacks Could Derail a Factory Boom
• Pennsylvania, the crucial battleground in America's election
• Nell Gifford died on December 8th
• Britain's government has spooked markets and riled businesses
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The potential listing of Shein is a test of London's allure
• Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
• Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
• How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy
• How China uses UNESCO to rewrite history
• Philanthropy in Asia is becoming more professional
• Mexico and Brazil dither as chip supply chains are reforged
• Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty
• Extrude - Analyse Binaries For Missing Security Features, Information Disclosure And More...
• Elon Musk's praise for the far right infuriates most of Germany
• Pam Bondi Derides Eric Adams Indictment in New York as 'Incredibly Weak'
• The global backlash against climate policies has begun
• Can markets reduce pollution in India?
• Why Japanese markets have plummeted
• Economically, covid-19 has hit hard-up urbanites hardest
• Germany's party system is coming under unprecedented strain
• Should every schoolchild eat free?
• Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
• Business
• Syria's next steps towards a new order
• Chokepoint 2.0: An Investigation Promises the Truth About Crypto's Biggest Conspiracy
• China's tin-eared approach to the world
• Economic and financial indicators
• The IEA warns much more ambition is needed to curb global warming
• South Korea's writers and directors play Squid Game
• Lessons in risk-taking from buccaneering BBVA
• Memorable images make time pass more slowly
• As Syria's regime collapses, Erdogan eyes victory over the Kurds
• Another African war looms
• Argentina could get its first libertarian president
• The maths of Europe's military black hole
• Britain's government is mapping underground cable and pipes
• Who shaved $250bn from Kweichow Moutai's market value?
• What is The Economist's word of the year for 2021?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Europe is bidding a steady farewell to passport-free travel
• Health-care reform is upending the lives of China's doctors
• A big transgender-rights case heads to America's Supreme Court
• Trump's picks to oversee Medicare and biomedical research will divest stock
• Much of Russia's intellectual elite has fled the country
• Microsoft's Satya Nadella Pumps the Breaks on AI Hype
• Life on Earth Depends on Networks of Ocean Bacteria
• Politics
• Who is up and who is down on China's economic team
• Chinese cars are taking over the global south
• Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump
• Taiwan is trying to learn from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine
• Donald Trump's potential SCOTUS picks
• An encounter with the reception desk
• Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Feb. 21, #151
• This week's cover
• The EV trade war between China and the West heats up
• How a CEO knows when to quit
• Daniel Ortega expels 222 political prisoners from Nicaragua
• How to avoid Oval Office humiliation
• The fall of Libya's central banker triggers a new struggle
• American stocks are consuming global markets
• Britain's government can ignore objections to its asylum policies
• A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone
• Video: insights from the author
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Turkey wants the EU to regulate the döner kebab
• This USAID Program Made Food Aid More Efficient for Decades. DOGE Gutted It Anyways
• Are Dating Apps Getting Worse?
• This week's covers
• Mimi Reinhard typed up Schindler's list
• A controversial general is likely to be Indonesia's next leader
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Wind turbines keep getting bigger
• Letting more migrants in by stealth
• RFK junior and Tulsi Gabbard, set to sail through a cowed Senate
• "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" show that blockbusters could save the cinema
• A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
• The 25 Best Movies on Apple TV+ Right Now (February 2025)
• Taylor Swift, imperfect capitalist?
• Why Microsoft Excel won't die
• Ukrainians: share your views on the US-Russia peace talks about the war in Ukraine
• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
• Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer's?
• Manmohan Singh was India's economic freedom fighter
• A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
• Birubala Rabha fought to end the stigmatisation of women
• How to manage politics in the workplace
• Is Kamala Harris "brat"?
• Perilous migrant crossings of the Mediterranean are rising
• CaixaBank's CFO Sees Case for Dealmaking Among Europe's Banks
• Will artificial intelligence transform school?
• Guatemala's new president promises a better sort of government
• Greenland faces one of history's great resource rushes—and curses
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• Two-thirds of the Earth's surface experienced record heat in 2024. See where and by how much – visualised
• Obituary: Colin Powell thought America should tread carefully in the world
• Trump's DEI Purge Is Hitting NASA Hard
• Turkey is trying to deport Syrian refugees back to a war zone
• Tracking ships in the Red Sea
• Can Brazil's left survive without Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• Le Pen's hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
• Politics
• Russ Vought: Donald Trump's holy warrior
• Kamala Harris introduces "Coach" Tim Walz, her trusty running-mate
• In South-East Asia, the war in Gaza is roiling emotions
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Have Israel's far-right religious nationalists peaked?
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Joe Biden's farewell shot at the oligarchy
• China's "demographic dividend" appears to be a myth
• An alternative use for The Economist's Big Mac index
• Jeff Bezos Is Already Soliciting Ideas for the Next James Bond
• Why foreign law firms are leaving China
• Sudan's national army is on the brink of retaking the capital
• KAL's cartoon
• Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?
• The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world
• How to charge more
• A new tragedy shows anarchy rules in Gaza
• How China sees Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny
• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• A different way to measure the climate impact of food
• Charting Ukraine's soaring exports to the EU
• China's influence in South-East Asia has grown. America's has waned
• KAL's cartoon
• Joseph Lowery died on March 27th
• Private markets are less rewarding than they used to be
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is growing
• A clue to China's true covid-19 death toll
• Why investors are not buying Europe's revival
• The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping
• Chuck Yeager died on December 7th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
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