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Adrift

Rishi Sunak’s strategic genius

Leaders

The media and the message

Can you have a healthy democracy without a common set of facts?

Wobbly in Tehran

Iran’s regime is weaker than it looks, and therefore more pliable

The Powell pivot 

The Fed gives in to the clamour for looser money

Metropolished

London’s resilience is a lesson to policymakers everywhere

Green shoots

In a first, COP28 targets the root cause of climate change

Artificial intelligence

AI’s big rift is like a religious schism, says Henry Farrell

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Humanitarian needs

David Miliband sees a new global geography of crisis

Invincible city

Brexit? Hah! Lockdowns? Shrug! Can nothing stop London?

Briefing

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How a Rwandan gambit consumed the Conservative Party

Britain

Expelliarmus!

The magical thinking behind Britain’s Rwanda bill 

Health tourism

Wes Streeting, a Labour frontbencher, visits Singapore

Grand designs

Britain needs more houses. Does the industry want to build them?

Pedicabonomics 

London’s riotous pedicabs are about to be regulated 

First, take one live goose… 

How to kill a goose quickly

Bagehot

Cheer up, Sir Keir! It might never happen  

Return to the rule of law

Donald Tusk must undo years of populist subversion in Poland

Europe

Return to sanity

Turkey’s economy has improved, but its foreign policy is still messy

Unfair play

Spain’s institutions are groaning under partisan pressure

Gangsters of glasnost

The crime drama Russia and Ukraine want to ban

Charlemagne 

Stolpersteine grieve for victims of the Nazis, one at a time

Right nation

Donald Trump is the conservative media 

United States

The partisan press

How American journalism lets down readers and voters

Measuring media ideology

American journalism sounds much more Democratic than Republican

University presidents skewered

American universities face a reckoning over antisemitism 

Jack Smith, Trump and SCOTUS

The Supreme Court will decide how quickly Donald Trump is prosecuted

Biden-gnomics

Regulatory changes hint at what might be in store in a second Biden term

First bins, now congestion charging

Why New York wants to be more like London

Taming Tehran

Iran rethinks its role as a regional troublemaker

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Cobalt and chaos

Congo’s crucial election may be heading for disaster 

The end of the beginning 

Israel’s current large-scale operation is the last one in Gaza

Will he, won’t he?

Could Mark Carney lead Canada?

The Americas

The whirr of the chainsaw

Javier Milei implements shock therapy in Argentina

Dissing Miss Universe

Nicaragua’s dictator goes after Miss Universe 

Japan and ASEAN

Japan is a cuddlier friend to South-East Asia than America or China 

Asia

Pooch raj

Indians are going gooey over dogs

Kashmir

India’s top court upholds the central government’s grab at Kashmir

Bangladesh’s election

Sheikh Hasina’s party is set to be re-elected in January

Banyan

Hsiao Bi-khim is Taiwan’s cat warrior 

A big wager on the future

Macau, China’s sin city, wants to be more like Las Vegas 

China

High-risk pregnancies

The dangers of carrying a child for someone else in China

Lost in translation 

The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping

Chaguan 

China’s cities compete for kids

COP28 concludes

Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use 

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When the New York Times lost its way

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Welcome to the ad-free internet

Un-appy returns

What Google’s antitrust defeat means for the app economy

Season’s grumblings

German business is fed up with a government in disarray

Toko-Tok 

Will TikTok’s GoTo gambit save its Indonesian business?

Bartleby

How to master the art of delegation

Schumpeter 

Boneheaded anti-immigration politicians are throttling globalisation

Financial flows

How to sneak billions of dollars out of China

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A surplus of anomalies

Is China understating its own export success?

Buttonwood

The mystery of Britain’s dirt-cheap stockmarket 

Sticking to his guns

Vladimir Putin is running Russia’s economy dangerously hot

Road trader 

Why stockpickers should get out more 

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Europe’s economy is in a bad way. Policymakers need to react

Free exchange

How to put boosters under India’s economy 

The chicken of tomorrow

Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?

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Seismology (Taylor’s version)

The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth

Future of chipmaking

Jensen Huang says Moore’s law is dead. Not quite yet

The alt-write

Conservatives are trying to disrupt Hollywood, with some success

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When Charlie Chaplin was cancelled

A hymn for all seasons

“Amazing Grace” is a 200-year-old song with a surprising history

Pandemic fiction

Some thought covid would change literature. It has not

Good to hear

The best albums of 2023, as chosen by The Economist

Economic history

Is the age of Milton Friedman over?

The Economist reads

What to read about Congo

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

Let’s talk about now

Benjamin Zephaniah stayed angry all his life

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The media and the message: Journalism and the 2024 presidential election

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