What to read to understand America’s opioid epidemic
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image: Getty ImagesMORE THAN 600,000 Americans and Canadians have died of an opioid overdose since 1999. Modelling suggests that 1...
A refresher on business air-travel etiquette
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image: Paul BlowThe covid-19 pandemic has, thanks to Zoom, killed off many work trips. But not all of them. Some in-person meeting...
An unlikely tech cluster exemplifies China’s economic vision
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image: ImagoA stroll down “Quantum Boulevard” reveals one of the world’s tightest concentrations of bleeding-edge technology firms...
America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
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image: Al Drago/New York Times/Redux/EyevineJUDGED BY ONE metric, America’s new industrial policy is off to a roaring start. Entic...
What broken ferries reveal about Scotland’s government
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image: MagnumWHEN OVER one-quarter of your population turns out to protest, something is seriously amiss. In June some 500 of the ...
How the Democrats lost Florida
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image: ReutersRATHER THAN simply making America great again Ron DeSantis, Florida’s governor, is bent on making America Florida. T...
In north-east Ukraine the war is close, upending daily life
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image: Tim JudahRead more of our recent coverage of the Ukraine war
Beyond the tech hype, how healthy is American business?
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image: Bloomberg via Getty ImagesTEN MONTHS ago the spectre of recession was haunting corporate America. Inflation was rampant, ea...
Our Carrie Bradshaw index: Where Americans can afford to live solo
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It’s moving season. Across American cities, ahead of new school and college terms, streets fill up with people sweating in the sum...
Meeting the soldiers and the civilians on Ukraine’s long front line
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image: Getty ImagesAS DIPLOMATIC EFFORTS played out in Saudi Arabia our correspondent recounts travels along the nearly unbroken f...
Ohio is deciding whether to make its constitution harder to change
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image: APOHIOANS ARE unused to voting in August. Previously, elections were held in the summer only in dire circumstances. Even th...
How Ukraine’s virtually non-existent navy sank the Moskva
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A SPECIAL EDITION of Editor’s Picks from The Economist’s summer double issue. This week, how Ukraine’s virtually non-existent navy...
What is nuclear fusion?
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image: ReutersCULHAM, A VILLAGE near Oxford, in England, is home to just 500 people. It is, though, next door to the nearest thing...
What makes ultra-processed foods so bad for your health?
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image: Getty ImagesFOOD SHOPPING has become a dangerous pursuit. Nutritional horrors lurk on every shelf. Ready-meals are packed w...
Sebastien Lai on the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong
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image: Delphine LeeHONG KONG’S authorities would have the world believe that the city, after three years of crippling covid restri...
Hong Kongers are bracing for an even wider clampdown on dissent
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image: APAN EXPLOSION OF anti-government discontent in Hong Kong in 2019 prompted China to impose a draconian national-security la...
Pedro Sánchez struggles to form a new government in Spain
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image: Getty ImagesHARDLY ANYONE predicted a draw in Spain’s elections, and yet the Socialists of Pedro Sánchez, the prime ministe...
Elon Musk’s plans could hinder Twitternomics
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image: Alberto MirandaElon Musk is no fan of the Federal Reserve. At least a dozen times over the past year the owner of X (a firm...
How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?
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image: ReutersAMERICAN CHIPMAKERS account for a third of global semiconductor revenues. They design the world’s most sophisticated...
After Niger’s coup, the drums of war are growing louder
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image: Getty ImagesNASSIROU MAHAMADOU, a vegetable seller perched on a stool in Niamey, the capital of Niger, does not look like a...
Richard Ford, Colson Whitehead and the tides of American fiction
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image: Mark HarrisBe Mine. By Richard Ford. Ecco; 352 pages; $30. Bloomsbury; £18.99Crook Manifesto. By Colson Whitehead. Doubleda...
Niger’s putschists may end up warring with ECOWAS—but it is jihadists who will win
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image: EPATHE ECONOMIC COMMUNITY OF WEST AFRICAN STATES may yet try to restore President Mohamed Bazoum militarily. Either way, Ni...
Trump Turned the GOP Into the Party of Wishful Thinking
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Aug 8, 2023
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Its leaders assumed he was a joke, tried to make peace with him, and reckoned he was finished after 2020. ...
The Wagner Group in Africa Serves Putin’s Global Ambitions
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Aug 8, 2023
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As in Syria in 2015, Russia’s intervention poses multiple dangers to the NATO alliance. The coup in Niger is the latest evidence....
DeSantis Deserves Another Look
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Aug 8, 2023
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His leadership in Florida continues to impress. By Readers ...
In Defense of Illinois’s Public-Union Contract
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Gov. J.B. Pritzker has the state in strong financial health. By Read...
The Life and Death of a Great American Company
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The Great Recession changed everything for Yellow Corp.’s trucking business. By ...
If the Justice Department Is Going to Prosecute Political ‘Frauds’...
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Aug 8, 2023
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The ObamaCare swindle ranks among history’s greatest. ...
‘Chrome Dreams’ by Neil Young Review: From Bootleg to Banner Release
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Aug 8, 2023
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The musician’s new album, a collection recorded for release in the ‘70s but then abandoned, cements his place among that decade’s...
Notable & Quotable: DeSantis on Trump
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Aug 8, 2023
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‘Let’s have those debates about the issues. I’m not going to insult somebody—somebody’s looks or somebody’s dress or something li...
‘First to the Front’ Review: A Leading Lady of Journalism
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Aug 8, 2023
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One editor tagged her the ‘bayonet border correspondent’ since she was usually among the first to arrive at a combat zone. ...
The Lesson My Student Taught Me
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Aug 8, 2023
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In George Gershwin style, he mastered a piece outside class. By Greg...
A Family Is Divided by Hong Kong’s Pursuit of U.S.-Based Activist
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Aug 8, 2023
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Elmer Yuen’s relatives, including a pro-Beijing lawmaker, were held and questioned in Chinese city as authorities step up pressur...
Kim Jong Un Touts North Korea’s Weapons
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Aug 8, 2023
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Leader’s recent arms-factory visits could signal an intent to export weapons, South Korea says, potentially to Russia ...
Drought Forces Spain to Source Drinking Water From the Sea
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Aug 8, 2023
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Mediterranean region is becoming warmer and drier more quickly than most places, prompting a costly revamp of infrastructure Rai...
Killing of Palestinian Highlights Divide in Israel
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Aug 8, 2023
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Diverging responses to a killing in the occupied West Bank highlight divide ...
China Reassures Russia on Ukraine After Meeting With Others on How to End the War
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Aug 8, 2023
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Chinese foreign minister vows Beijing will remain ‘independent and impartial’ in seeking solutions to the conflict ...
Tesla CFO Zach Kirkhorn Steps Down Ahead of Cybertruck Launch
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Aug 8, 2023
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Company veteran had been seen as possible successor to Elon Musk as CEO ...
The Croissant Theory, or Why Businesses Are Taunting Customers
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Aug 8, 2023
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Creating scarcity is helping bakeries entice customers and cut down on costly food waste Customers craving fresh croissants and ...
Donald Trump’s Last Hurrah
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Aug 8, 2023
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James Michael Curley shows that a federal prison sentence is no bar to elective office. ...
