Trump would win today against Biden; what about in a year?
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Listen to this podcastEnjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.Were America’s pr...
Kane, Bellingham and the roads to European stardom
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Nov 19, 2023
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image: ReutersONE-THIRD of the way through the European football season, something unusual is happening in the German and Spanish ...
Why Hamas is so hard to destroy
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Nov 19, 2023
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VideoSubscriber eventsThe World Ahead 2024The forces set to shape voters’ choicesIn Gaza Hamas has spent the past 16 years develop...
The World Ahead 2024
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VideoExplainerWhy Hamas is so hard to destroyIsrael’s test lies underground in dangerous tunnel warfareFrom the green transition t...
What to read about Argentina
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Nov 19, 2023
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image: Bridgeman ImagesARGENTINA WILL vote on November 19th in a run-off election to decide whether Sergio Massa, the Peronist eco...
A guide to the 2024 presidential election
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Nov 19, 2023
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The Economist’s pick of the best television shows of 2023
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Nov 19, 2023
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image: HULU“Barry”The fourth and final season is the darkest and most gripping. Barry Berkman, a hitman, had reinvented himself as...
Jesmyn Ward returns with an evocative tale of slavery
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Nov 19, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesLet Us Descend. By Jesmyn Ward. Scribner; 320 pages; $28. Bloomsbury; £18.99On nights when the moon shines brig...
Why non-white voters are abandoning the Democratic Party
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Nov 19, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesParty of the People. By Patrick Ruffini. Simon & Schuster; 336 pages; $30Where Have All The Democrats Gone? By ...
Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
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Nov 19, 2023
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Despite its sympathies, Egypt is unlikely to help Palestinian refugeesTo understand why, look at another major conflict in the reg...
Was Israel’s attack on al-Shifa hospital justified?
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Nov 19, 2023
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image: AFPTHE LAWS of war give special protection to hospitals. They lose that protection if they are used for “harmful” acts. Isr...
The man in the forest
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Nov 19, 2023
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Listen to this podcastEnjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android.Your browser does not support the element.When separatists ...
What Sam Altman’s surprise sacking means for the AI race
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Nov 19, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesHOW QUICKLY the mighty fall. Ever since the release of ChatGPT a year ago, Sam Altman has been the human face o...
Is there too much football?
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Sep 10, 2023
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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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Sep 10, 2023
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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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Sep 10, 2023
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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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