Conscious uncoupling or unconscious failure?
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WHEN IS ECONOMIC decoupling not economic decoupling? When it drives your allies to tighter commercial links with your adversary. T...
How dangerous is tranq, the new drug sweeping America?
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Aug 19, 2023
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image: Hilary Swift/NYT/Redux/eyevineIN THE EARLY 2010s reports emerged of a nightmarish drug appearing in Russia and eastern Euro...
Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
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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...
What the Inflation Reduction Act has achieved in its first year
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Aug 19, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesPRESIDENT JOE BIDEN has conceded that the name was a mistake: the success of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA),...
Niger’s coup stands, for now—and there are no good ways to change that
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Aug 19, 2023
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FOR WEEKS the regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to undo the putsch by force. But appetite for a military response—the ultimate d...
BRICS expansion would be a sign of China’s growing influence, says Oliver Stuenkel
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image: Dan WilliamsSINCE ITS transformation from an investment category into a political club in 2009—when the heads of state of B...
The women’s World Cup has broken new ground
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Aug 19, 2023
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image: EyevineON AUGUST 20TH England’s footballers face Spain’s in the women’s World Cup final. It is a fitting culmination to the...
Calls for actors’ identities to match their roles have gone too far
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Aug 19, 2023
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image: LandmarkPosterity holds much crueller fates for politicians than to be reincarnated as Helen Mirren. Such is Golda Meir’s l...
Who is the Taliban’s de facto leader?
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Aug 19, 2023
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How to sound like a local when speaking a foreign languageSome phrases can stump even the most seasoned linguistsIn the two years ...
A talking monkey is one of China’s most successful cultural exports
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Aug 19, 2023
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image: NetflixTHE MONKEY King, like many iconic fictional heroes—Harry Potter, Batman, Little Orphan Annie—had an unhappy childhoo...
What’s next for America’s China policy?
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Aug 19, 2023
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Washington has been busy debating what to do about China. Arguments abound about whether to try to engage with the Communist Party...
Corals are bleaching and dying earlier in the year than ever before
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Aug 19, 2023
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Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?A new paper shows that they attract some potential employees but may turn...
Why Ukraine may be choosing a war of attrition
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: APRead more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war
Ohio’s referendum is another win for abortion-rights campaigners
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: APEditor’s note (August 9th 2023): This article has been updated.OHIOANS ARE unused to voting in August. Previously, electi...
What does Xi Jinping’s fixation on food security mean for China’s countryside?
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: REX/ShutterstockXI JINPING has called food security a “guozhidazhe”, a national priority. He’s introduced new policies emph...
We’re hiring an experienced features writer
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Aug 11, 2023
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The Economist Group is the leading source of analysis on international business and world affairs. We deliver our information thro...
America’s CHIPS Act has had a strong start—but has its limits in a huge industry
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Aug 11, 2023
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BIG-MONEY LEGISLATION to bring microprocessor manufacturing to the country is off to a reasonable start — but dominance of the ind...
“Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” show that blockbusters could save the cinema
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Aug 11, 2023
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To help schoolchildren in poor countries, reduce lead poisoningDoing so could close the gap with rich places by a fifthTo read mor...
What to read to understand international relations
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: Getty Images“THE WORLD today is undergoing great changes, the likes of which we have not seen for 100 years.” This observat...
Who is Kim Yo Jong, North Korea’s propagandist-in-chief?
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesNORTH KOREA’S enemies have a busy August planned. First the leaders of America, Japan and South Korea will gath...
What is the future of the BRICS?
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesON AUGUST 22ND the 15th annual summit of the BRICS—a group comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Af...
How drumming, three-dimensional audio and technology from a Mars rover can benefit health
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: University of EssexATTENDING A SCIENCE festival or an exhibition can be an exciting day out, while also being hugely inform...
Why are so many Americans dying young?
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Aug 11, 2023
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AN APPALLING RECORD compared with much of the rich world is not just down to drugs and guns. We ask what changes, both in policy a...
The transformation of digital payments in America, China and India
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Aug 11, 2023
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What secret weapon sank Russia’s flagship?Destroying the Moskva helped secure Ukraine’s coast from invasionNon-cash payments are o...
To bury its dead, Ukraine is having to dig up victims of past wars
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesRead more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine crisis
Grocery dominance in the digital age
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: AlamyGROCERY SHOPPING is a giant prize–accounting for around $800bn of spending a year in America. But it is also a notorio...
To help schoolchildren in poor countries, reduce lead poisoning
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Aug 11, 2023
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Schoolchildren in poor countries perform worse on standardised tests than those in rich ones. They also have ten times more lead i...
Saudi Arabia’s big push into global sport: modernisation or mere sportswashing?
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Aug 11, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesCROWN PRINCE MUHAMMAD BIN SALMAN says a presence in top-level global sport is one route to modernising; critics...
This week in The Economist
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Aug 8, 2023
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image: ReutersDespite the deckchairs on the cover of our summer supplement in last week’s print edition, our journalists have not ...
What you need to know about Elon Musk
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Aug 8, 2023
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What secret weapon sank Russia’s flagship?Destroying the Moskva helped secure Ukraine’s coast from invasionElon Musk has revolutio...
China will become less populous, more productive—and more pricey
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Aug 8, 2023
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Our Carrie Bradshaw index: Where Americans can afford to live soloIn many cities even the most basic apartments are unaffordableTo...
America’s firefighters mostly do not fight fires
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Aug 8, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesIn sunnyvale, a city in Silicon Valley, police officers sometimes transform into firefighters before your eyes....
Italy’s scorching summer singes Giorgia Meloni
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Aug 8, 2023
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image: Getty ImagesANDREA GIAMBRUNO is a presenter for the TV network founded by the late Silvio Berlusconi. On July 18th, as temp...
Have scientists really found a room-temperature superconductor?
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image: ScienceCastSOLID-STATE PHYSICS very rarely goes viral. But that is what happened when a group of researchers at Korea Unive...
Authoritarians are on the march
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image: Ryan GillettTHE FALL of the Berlin Wall in 1989 held out the promise that the world was about to enter a virtuous circle. G...
What we’ve learnt from the great hike
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Aug 8, 2023
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AMERICAN ECONOMISTS are scratching their heads in confusion. The Fed’s aggressive rate hikes hasn’t produced the outcome many expe...
What to make of a surprise shake-up in China’s nuclear force
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Aug 8, 2023
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image: APTHE LAST time that China’s supreme leader, Xi Jinping, purged the top tiers of the military elite, he could blame their v...
Meet America’s disguised property investors
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image: Satoshi KambayashiWho really bought the house next door? In America purchasers of residential property typically fall into ...
The West’s de-risking strategy towards China will fail, says Chris Miller
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Aug 8, 2023
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image: Delphine LeeAMID HIGH tensions with China and the steep cost of confrontation, Western leaders have adopted a buzzword to d...
