Is there too much football?
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image: ReutersLIFE WAS difficult for leading footballers in Victorian England. As amateurs many had to combine playing with arduou...
What makes a Great American Novel?
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image: Getty ImagesWe take a break from the news this week to convene the first ever Checks and Balance Book Club. All summer we’v...
Drawing Vladimir Putin’s foreign policy as a blood-stained bear
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Kaliningrad and its strategic importance to RussiaAnd why Russia has this tiny western exclaveFive decades of drawing current affa...
Families are beginning to look different in East Asia. Governments are worried
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Sep 10, 2023
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From japan to South Korea, from China to Taiwan, family structures are becoming less traditional. More premarital cohabitation, si...
India’s surging food prices are a problem not just for India
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Sep 10, 2023
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Which countries get the best night’s sleep?Asians sleep later, shorter and less wellTo read more of The Economist’s data journalis...
Xi’s broken economic model, why America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple and the challenge of making Palestinian wine
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Sep 10, 2023
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A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, why China’s economy won’t be...
Germany’s economy is in trouble and no one is prepared to deal with it
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Sep 10, 2023
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Owing to a host of deep-rooted economic and political challenges, it could be the only G7 economy to contract this year. How might...
China’s consumer-confidence dip
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Sep 10, 2023
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The end of China’s zero-covid restrictions was meant to revitalise its economy. But the rebound has fizzled, resulting in weak gro...
Ukraine’s drone strikes against Russia are working. Can it keep them up?
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Sep 10, 2023
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image: ReutersThree months into the counteroffensive, the military is reaping the fruits of several months of drone development. B...
Who is North Korea’s propagandist-in-chief?
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Sep 10, 2023
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Kaliningrad and its strategic importance to RussiaAnd why Russia has this tiny western exclaveNorth Korea’s Supreme Leader, Kim Jo...
El Niño is back, and could bring devastation far beyond extreme weather
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Sep 10, 2023
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Extreme weather is constantly in the news, but a new factor is just getting warmed up: El Niño. This Pacific Ocean phenomenon can ...
Gabon’s latest coup is a cautionary tale for the rest of Francophone Africa
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Sep 10, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesPutsches in Africa are becoming more common and there appears to be a trend. Are there more to come and is ther...
How to make your degree worth the investment
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Sep 10, 2023
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Kaliningrad and its strategic importance to RussiaAnd why Russia has this tiny western exclaveHigh fees and stagnating graduate wa...
As personal data get trickier to come by, AI is swallowing everything else
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Sep 10, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesThe mantra from the mid-2000s that “data is the new oil” is taking on a new sheen: tapping and refining it into...
Stirring up hatred to maintain power is dangerous. But in Tunisia it is working
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Sep 10, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesThe president is using racist hate-mongering as both a rallying tool and a distraction mechanism. It is the old...
How successful is egg-freezing at preserving fertility?
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Sep 10, 2023
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Which countries get the best night’s sleep?Asians sleep later, shorter and less wellA DECADE OR so ago, commercial egg freezing pr...
Falling population, rising costs: what is bedevilling the City of Angels?
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Sep 10, 2023
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The perfect weather and booming economy of the City of Angels has drawn in generations of California dreamers. But now America’s s...
What to read to understand cities
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Sep 10, 2023
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How our illustrators grappled with paranoid nationalism
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Sep 10, 2023
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Kaliningrad and its strategic importance to RussiaAnd why Russia has this tiny western exclaveThis week our cover leader explores ...
Ukraine’s counter-offensive is speeding up
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Sep 10, 2023
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Which countries get the best night’s sleep?Asians sleep later, shorter and less wellTo read more of The Economist’s data journalis...
America’s murder rate seems to be dropping—is a post-pandemic crime wave over?
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Sep 10, 2023
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The absolute numbers remain troubling but a close look at statistics reveals that, across American cities, fewer people are being ...
AI in a slew of coming elections, how paranoid nationalism corrupts and why everyone wants an airline
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Sep 10, 2023
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A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, will artificial intelligence...
An Armenian enclave inside Azerbaijan is on the point of starvation
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Sep 10, 2023
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A three-way nuclear-arms race is brewing
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Sep 10, 2023
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The calculus of the cold war is back, but there are new variables in the equation—namely China’s growing arsenal. We look at how t...
Inside Fortress China
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Sep 10, 2023
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Panzhihua used to be a state secret. The steel-making city, buried deep in the mountains of Sichuan, formed part of Mao Zedong’s T...
Is there a genetic link between endometriosis and the brain?
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Sep 10, 2023
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Which countries get the best night’s sleep?Asians sleep later, shorter and less wellFEW PEOPLE want to talk about women’s periods....
Amazon does not have to make the best shows to eat Hollywood’s lunch
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Sep 10, 2023
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image: AlamyThe retail behemoth is splashing tremendous amounts of cash on streaming content; critics are unimpressed with the out...
Women are not the same as men. Should the rules and kit of their sports be?
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Sep 10, 2023
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some sports use different rules and equipment in the women’s game; some do not. We consider the distinction through the lenses of ...
Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu needs to turn ideas for reform into real plans
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Sep 10, 2023
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Axing generous fuel subsidies was just one necessary reform promised by Bola Tinubu. A hundred days into the president’s term, we ...
New Zealand’s rugby supremacy is over. Good
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Sep 10, 2023
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image: Getty Images“PROBABLY THE best team that’s ever played the game.” This was how South Africa’s coach, Heyneke Meyer, describ...
A welcome return for Britain to the EU’s main research programme
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Sep 10, 2023
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Why wealth managers are targeting the not-so-wealthy
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Sep 10, 2023
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Wealth managers occupy a unique place in their clients’ lives. Not only do they advise on picking assets and tax-efficient investm...
America’s school day starts too early. That’s beginning to change
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Sep 10, 2023
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Why is Argentina’s economy in such a mess?
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Sep 10, 2023
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Kaliningrad and its strategic importance to RussiaAnd why Russia has this tiny western exclaveArgentina’s economy is one of the mo...
American house prices should be falling amid rocketing rates—why are they not?
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Sep 10, 2023
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The highest interest rates in years should lead to a fall in house prices. But peculiarities of America’s mortgage market are driv...
