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Only Asia can help America counter China’s shipbuilding prowess (www.economist.com)
Syria’s next steps towards a new order (www.economist.com)
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Rwanda tightens its grip over eastern Congo (www.economist.com)
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DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalism (www.economist.com)
Germany’s mind-bending electoral maths (www.economist.com)
Right-wing Britons are turning to e-petitions (www.economist.com)
Britain’s government can ignore objections to its asylum policies (www.economist.com)
Hollywood’s Trump-baiting Oscars (www.economist.com)
Leaving the seat of power (www.economist.com)
Europe is set to start cutting red tape—lightly (www.economist.com)
Xi Jinping wants the private sector to thrive again (www.economist.com)
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The weekly cartoon (www.economist.com)
Why Britain has so far dodged Donald Trump’s tariffs (www.economist.com)
The US-Russia dogfight to sell India fighter jets (www.economist.com)
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Javier Milei’s crypto misadventure (www.economist.com)
China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off (www.economist.com)
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Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd (www.economist.com)
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India’s other, little-known infrastructure revolution (www.economist.com)
For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point (www.economist.com)
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Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be right (www.economist.com)
Should all knives with pointed ends be banned? (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump is a reckless president, but not yet a lawless one (www.economist.com)
A moment of great peril for Ukraine and Europe (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump: the would-be king (www.economist.com)
Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals (www.economist.com)
Can Europe withstand four years of Trumpian assault? (www.economist.com)
How Britons became happy hawks on Russia (www.economist.com)
Reciprocal tariffs really mean chaos for global trade (www.economist.com)
Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything (www.economist.com)
How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science (www.economist.com)
Behind DeepSeek lies a dazzling Chinese university (www.economist.com)
Team Trump wants to get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky (www.economist.com)
Do lonely people have shorter lives? (www.economist.com)
New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia (www.economist.com)
Which countries provide the most, and least, support to Ukraine? (www.economist.com)
Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world (www.economist.com)
Is Elon Musk’s war on fraud just cover for a power grab? (www.economist.com)
American inflation looks increasingly worrying (www.economist.com)
How Vladimir Putin plans to play Donald Trump (www.economist.com)
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The nightmare of a Trump-Putin deal leaves Europe in shock (www.economist.com)
Why Xi Jinping is making nice with China’s tech billionaires (www.economist.com)
Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow? (www.economist.com)
Rachel Reeves is not alone in inflating her résumé (www.economist.com)
Team Trump’s shakedown diplomacy (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump’s assault on Europe (www.economist.com)
It’s not just AI. China’s medicines are surprising the world, too (www.economist.com)
Will Europe return to Putin’s gas? (www.economist.com)
Javier Milei is betting big on an Argentine oil gusher (www.economist.com)
So far, mass deportation has been more rhetoric than reality (www.economist.com)
Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s pick-and-choose federalism (www.economist.com)
Alice Weidel, Germany’s most vilified—and powerful—female politician (www.economist.com)
How will the German election be decided? (www.economist.com)
Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health? (www.economist.com)
Donald Shoup knew how to get cities going (www.economist.com)
Panama symbolises the Sino-American struggle for influence (www.economist.com)
Hail China’s new “ice-and-snow economy” (www.economist.com)
Tensions with the West are fuelling China’s anxiety about food supplies (www.economist.com)
Can Indonesia make its Top Gun dreams a reality? (www.economist.com)
New Zealand and the Cook Islands fall out over China (www.economist.com)
South-East Asian producers are being hammered by Chinese imports (www.economist.com)
Hizbullah’s decline is a boon for Lebanon’s new government (www.economist.com)
Israel mounts an attack on Palestinian intellectual life (www.economist.com)
Homs’s troubles show the challenges facing Syria’s leaders (www.economist.com)
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For Donald Trump, South Africa is DEI in the form of a country (www.economist.com)
Javier Milei’s liberal reforms are hurting yerba mate growers (www.economist.com)
Most Latin American migrants no longer go to the United States (www.economist.com)
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Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury (www.economist.com)
What happened next at USAID (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump wants states and cities to do as they are told (www.economist.com)
Is France’s Le Chat in fact a cat? (www.economist.com)
A new crackdown is gathering strength in Turkey (www.economist.com)
Robert Fico’s pleas for cheap Russian gas bring Slovaks onto the street (www.economist.com)
Valentine’s Day may need to adjust to the times (www.economist.com)
A British incubator of businesses often bound for the Bay Area (www.economist.com)
Parliament is advertising for a new Black Rod (www.economist.com)
Britain’s review body for criminal convictions is struggling (www.economist.com)
Defence tech is blowing up Silicon Valley’s beliefs (www.economist.com)
How to get people to resign (www.economist.com)
Could a German startup disrupt Europe’s arms industry? (www.economist.com)
Chinese cars are taking over the global south (www.economist.com)
The Lucy Letby case shows systemic failure and a national malaise (www.economist.com)
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The weekly cartoon (www.economist.com)
London is ageing twice as quickly as the rest of England (www.economist.com)
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Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter? (www.economist.com)
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How AI will divide the best from the rest (www.economist.com)
The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research (www.economist.com)
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America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy (www.economist.com)
Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon? (www.economist.com)
Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe? (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump and the art of the quid pro quo (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump starts “immediate” talks with Vladimir Putin on Ukraine (www.economist.com)
After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump’s first 100 days (www.economist.com)
Instead of luxury condos, Gaza faces a resumption of war (www.economist.com)
Which goods are most vulnerable to American tariffs on China? (www.economist.com)
Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending (www.economist.com)
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Is Sir Keir Starmer a chump? (www.economist.com)
Ukraine’s president fears Donald Trump is keeping him out of the loop (www.economist.com)
Transcript: An interview with Volodymyr Zelensky (www.economist.com)
Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still (www.economist.com)
Elon Musk’s 97bn offer is a nuisance for Sam Altman’s OpenAI (www.economist.com)
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Is MAGA great for India? (www.economist.com)
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Blighty newsletter: A country trapped in zero-sum thinking (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm (www.economist.com)
It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafe (www.economist.com)
Germany’s “business model is gone”, warns Friedrich Merz (www.economist.com)
Avian flu in America is a political problem and a health threat (www.economist.com)
German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape (www.economist.com)
China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan (www.economist.com)
What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system? (www.economist.com)
Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s scheming is costing America (www.economist.com)
Guatemala is grappling with a globetrotting Jewish “cult” (www.economist.com)
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Marianne Faithfull battled labels all her life (www.economist.com)
Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare (www.economist.com)
Cuts in American aid are crippling groups promoting rights in China (www.economist.com)
China is infiltrating Taiwan’s armed forces (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump and Japan’s Ishiba Shigeru make for an odd couple (www.economist.com)
Pakistan is furious with the Afghan Taliban (www.economist.com)
Japan could finally face its own #MeToo crisis (www.economist.com)
India’s attempt to save the tiger has been a remarkable success (www.economist.com)
A leader of Congo’s rebels vows to fight on (www.economist.com)
Why Islamists in the Arab world speak the language of free markets (www.economist.com)
Ecuador chooses a leader amid murder, blackouts and stagnation (www.economist.com)
How Mexico and Canada handled Trump’s tariff threat (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump is turning payback into policy (www.economist.com)
New York City commits to involuntary commitment (www.economist.com)
Florida comes to Washington, DC (www.economist.com)
Can Europe afford to be the world’s last free-trader? (www.economist.com)
Turkey is building a spaceport in Somalia (www.economist.com)
Can Georgia’s shadowy despot survive? (www.economist.com)
The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible (www.economist.com)
British “equal value” lawsuits have become an absurd denial of markets (www.economist.com)
Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no one (www.economist.com)
Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdone (www.economist.com)
Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow (www.economist.com)
Oxford and Cambridge are too small (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump loves big oil. Does big oil love him back? (www.economist.com)
An encounter with the reception desk (www.economist.com)
Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs (www.economist.com)
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The meaning of Donald Trump’s war on woke workers (www.economist.com)
The weekly cartoon (www.economist.com)
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Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth (www.economist.com)
Europe has no escape from stagnation (www.economist.com)
When will remote workers see their pay cut? (www.economist.com)
Tariff uncertainty can be as ruinous as tariffs themselves (www.economist.com)
Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs (www.economist.com)
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It’s not over: Donald Trump could still blow up global trade (www.economist.com)
The vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that is Scam Inc (www.economist.com)
America’s scheme for Gaza contains much to regret (www.economist.com)
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Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes (www.economist.com)
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Donald Trump’s eye-popping plan to make Gaza American (www.economist.com)
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Allies will not appease Donald Trump forever (www.economist.com)
Blighty newsletter: Inside Starmer’s Brexit reset (www.economist.com)
Xi Jinping shows how he will return American fire (www.economist.com)
The Trump tariff saga offers Canada’s Liberals a lifeline (www.economist.com)
Binyamin Netanyahu is about to discover if Donald Trump is friend or foe (www.economist.com)
Elon Musk is shredding America’s government like he did Twitter (www.economist.com)
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Donald Trump’s tariffs defy geopolitical logic (www.economist.com)
Warlord, jihadi or nation-builder? (www.economist.com)
An interview with Ahmed al-Sharaa, Syria’s president (www.economist.com)
Europe races to confront America’s trade war (www.economist.com)
Canada, China, Mexico and the art of retaliation (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump’s new trade war on China is also an opioid war (www.economist.com)
Corporate America’s diversity wars are just getting started (www.economist.com)
Trump’s brutal tariffs far outstrip any he has imposed before (www.economist.com)
France’s bitter retreat from west Africa (www.economist.com)
Checks and Balance newsletter: What 1970s television reveals about America (www.economist.com)
What Israel and Gaza can learn from past ceasefires (www.economist.com)
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Mauro Morandi needed to abandon consumer society (www.economist.com)
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The bad side-effects of China’s campaign to cut drug costs (www.economist.com)
China needs its frightened officials to save the economy (www.economist.com)
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Is Cambodia slipping out of China’s orbit? (www.economist.com)
Who is Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s possible next president? (www.economist.com)
Ahmed al-Sharaa declares himself president of Syria (www.economist.com)
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Brazil’s ragged finances are holding back its green ambitions (www.economist.com)
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Donald Trump turns an angry gaze south (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump’s Defining Decade (www.economist.com)
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Donald Trump revives ideas of a Star Wars-like missile shield (www.economist.com)
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The EU is worried about sensitive exports to competitors and foes (www.economist.com)
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Britain’s oldest newspaper is a treasure trove of trivia (www.economist.com)
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No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada (www.economist.com)
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Despite fears of a global tax war, Donald Trump has a chance to make peace (www.economist.com)
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The Quad finally gets serious on security (www.economist.com)
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Georgia Meloni has grand banking ambitions (www.economist.com)
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Donald Trump’s economic warfare has a new front (www.economist.com)
Many governments talk about cutting regulation but few manage to (www.economist.com)
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By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself (www.economist.com)
America’s foreign aid pause puts lives at risk (www.economist.com)
The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama (www.economist.com)
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Donald Trump goes to war with his employees (www.economist.com)
The rise of the Net-Zero Dad (www.economist.com)
DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley (www.economist.com)
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How covid contributed to a crisis of trust in America (www.economist.com)
Nvidia is in danger of losing its monopoly-like margins (www.economist.com)
Iran’s alarming nuclear dash will soon test Donald Trump (www.economist.com)
America and China are talking. But much gets lost in translation (www.economist.com)
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Rwanda does a Putin in Congo (www.economist.com)
What the rise of bubble tea says about British high streets (www.economist.com)
DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets (www.economist.com)
Syria’s new rulers say they are keen to integrate foreign fighters (www.economist.com)
The White House has been fluid on gender for a decade (www.economist.com)
Rwanda’s reckless plan to redraw the map of Africa (www.economist.com)
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Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling (www.economist.com)
A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president (www.economist.com)
Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster? (www.economist.com)
François Hollande hopes to make the French left electable again (www.economist.com)
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