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?
Kevin
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
Kevin
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?
Kevin
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...
Ukraine at war: the conflict expands
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Sep 10, 2023
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Kaliningrad and its strategic importance to RussiaAnd why Russia has this tiny western exclaveAfter months of attritional fighting...
The old have come to dominate American politics
Kevin
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...
The escape of a terror suspect shines a light on Britain’s jails
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Sep 10, 2023
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What happens when we sleep?
Kevin
Sep 10, 2023
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Kaliningrad and its strategic importance to RussiaAnd why Russia has this tiny western exclaveEvery night almost every person ente...
Kaliningrad and its strategic importance to Russia
Kevin
Sep 10, 2023
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What happens when we sleep?Humans spend around one third of their lives asleep. What is really happening when we slumber?Sandwiche...
How will AI influence the 2024 election?
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Sep 10, 2023
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COUNTRIES WITH a collective population of four billion will vote for leaders next year. There are fears that recent advances in ge...
Which countries get the best night’s sleep?
Kevin
Sep 10, 2023
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The old have come to dominate American politicsVoters say they favour age limits for elected officialsSLEEP IS ESSENTIAL to human ...
Conspiracy theorists are obsessed with the Rothschild family
Kevin
Sep 10, 2023
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Latin American cities are struggling in the liveability ranking
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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Corals are bleaching and dying earlier in the year than ever beforeScientists are evacuating corals off the coast of Florida to sa...
Can the Biden administration revive left-behind parts of America?
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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image: AlamyJOE BIDEN has been on the road this week, touting his administration’s investment in American manufacturing. His gover...
How to draw US-China tensions
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Aug 19, 2023
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How to illustrate the perils of protectionism? This was the challenge facing The Economist’s cover designers. In this video we rev...
How Syria’s pariah president returned to the fold
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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Who is the Taliban’s de facto leader?Taliban rule has been disastrous for many of the country’s 40m citizensSyria’s president, Bas...
Why the fires in Hawaii have been so bad
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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image: APIn the Hawaiian language, Lahaina means “cruel sun”. The north-east trade winds provide the eastern shore of Maui with am...
Women’s football is growing and becoming more competitive
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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The rankings for international women’s football, which are calculated by FIFA, the sport’s governing body, demonstrate the growth ...
Turkey’s President Erdogan is rekindling fraught relationships with the West
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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DESPITE COSYING up with Russia and accusing America of trying to topple him, the newly re-elected president now appears to be flir...
Biden’s failing China strategy, Saudi Arabia’s plan to dominate global sport and how green is your electric vehicle, really?
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Aug 19, 2023
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A SELECTION OF three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, why Biden’s China strategy i...
The RICO Act has been used against Atlanta’s rappers. Now, it’s Trump’s turn
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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THE FORMER PRESIDENT has been hit with a new set of charges, under a catch-all racketeering act that has been used to prosecute ev...
Why female footballers are more likely to tear their ACLs
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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Who is the Taliban’s de facto leader?Taliban rule has been disastrous for many of the country’s 40m citizensAn anterior cruciate l...
How solo mums are redefining what a family looks like in China
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Aug 19, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesA growing number of Chinese women are pushing for control over family-planning decisions. That can cause discom...
What lessons can we learn from the fires in Maui?
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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AS THE DEATH toll surpasses 100, we report from Maui where fires have ravaged the island in the deadliest American wildfire in ove...
Women’s football is becoming bigger and better
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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Corals are bleaching and dying earlier in the year than ever beforeScientists are evacuating corals off the coast of Florida to sa...
Russian attacks would be far worse without NATO’s “proximity” deterrence, argues Rose Gottemoeller
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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DETERRENCE CLEARLY failed in Ukraine. In the run-up to Russia’s invasion in February 2022, America and its NATO allies took steps ...
Imran Khan’s legal troubles
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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image: ReutersFOR A MAN who faces multiple charges of terrorism and inciting violence across Pakistan, the case that eventually la...
Why the lunar South Pole is the latest focus in the new space race
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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IN THE COMING days, both Russia and India hope to land robotic probes near the South Pole of the Moon. Conquering the South Pole r...
An impending commodities boom could transform Latin America
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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THE REGION IS home to most of the world’s known lithium. Given the mineral’s usefulness in batteries and electric vehicles, could ...
How to sound like a local when speaking a foreign language
Kevin
Aug 19, 2023
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Who is the Taliban’s de facto leader?Taliban rule has been disastrous for many of the country’s 40m citizensHave you ever wondered...
