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The Economist
January 23, 2025
How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party?
As the economy falters and the social compact frays, Xi Jinping wants to know
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Europe faces a new age of gunboat digital diplomacy
Can the EU regulate Donald Trump’s big tech bros?
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Why don’t more countries import their electricity?
The economics make sense, but the geopolitics are nerve-racking
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Ross Ulbricht, pardoned by Donald Trump, was a pioneer of crypto-crime
His dark website, the Silk Road, was to crime what Napster was to music
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Sex, drugs or chastity?
Pope Francis has written the first memoir by a sitting pope. God help us
The Economist
January 23, 2025
China’s AI industry has almost caught up with America’s
And it is more open and more efficient, too
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Can Brazil’s left survive without Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?
Brazil’s current president, a titan of the Latin American left, has no apparent heirs
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Germans are world champions of calling in sick
It’s easy and it pays well
The Economist
January 23, 2025
To end birthright citizenship, Donald Trump misreads the constitution
A change would also create huge practical problems
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Donald Trump is targeting Mexico like no other country
The United States’ southern neighbour is bracing for a wave of deportees and trapped migrants
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Ukrainian scientists are studying downed Russian missiles
And learning a lot about sanctions-busting
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th
By pardoning violent offenders, he ignored his own team’s advice
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Politics | Jan 25th 2025 Edition
The world this week
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Business | Jan 25th 2025 Edition
The world this week
The Economist
January 23, 2025
The weekly cartoon | Jan 25th 2025 Edition
The world this week
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Letters to the editor | Jan 25th 2025 Edition
A selection of correspondence
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Sir Keir Starmer should aim higher in his reset with the EU
And he needs to be clearer about what Britain wants
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump
The success of cheap Chinese models threatens America’s technological lead
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Do tariffs raise inflation?
Usually. But the bigger problem is that they harm economic growth and innovation
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?
Its central bankers are increasingly hopeful
The Economist
January 23, 2025
The Rachel Reeves theory of growth
The chancellor says it’s her number-one priority. We ask her what that means
The Economist
January 23, 2025
China’s financial system is under brutal pressure
When will something break?
The Economist
January 23, 2025
The Arctic: climate change’s great economic opportunity
An enormous prize is on offer. When might it be grasped?
The Economist
January 23, 2025
America has an imperial presidency
And in Donald Trump, an imperialist president for the first time in over a century
The Economist
January 22, 2025
The Gaza ceasefire is stoking violence in the West Bank
Hamas and the Israeli far right both want to destabilise the West Bank
The Economist
January 22, 2025
A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump’s AI priorities
It’s build, baby, build
The Economist
January 22, 2025
Donald Trump has again rewritten the history of January 6th
By pardoning violent offenders, he ignored his own team’s advice
The Economist
January 22, 2025
David Lynch mesmerised filmgoers with mystery, beauty and horror
America’s strangest and most surreal film-maker died on January 16th, aged 78
The Economist
January 22, 2025
America’s departure from the WHO would harm everyone
Whether it is a negotiating ploy remains to be seen
The Economist
January 22, 2025
How Poland emerged as a leading defence power
Will others follow?
The Economist
January 21, 2025
America really could enter a golden age
Donald Trump would need to build on its strengths, and subdue his own weaknesses
The Economist
January 21, 2025
To end birthright citizenship, Trump misreads the constitution
It would also create huge practical problems
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth
Donald Trump’s pursuit of tariffs will make the world poorer—and America, too
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Tariffs will spark retaliation, not a manufacturing renaissance
Donald Trump’s pursuit of tariffs will make the world poorer—and America, too
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Trump unmasks American selfishness, say cynics
But sceptics are wrong to call America First business as usual
Vanity Fair
January 21, 2025
Elon Musk Sure Isn’t Denying That His Inaugural Gesture Was a Nazi Salute
There’s an easy way to say “I wasn't Sieg heiling all my pals” on the world stage. Musk isn’t saying it. Silly libs!
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy
Reasons not to panic about the tech-industrial complex
The Economist
January 21, 2025
The race to lead Canada’s Liberal Party hinges on handling Trump
Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland are the front-runners
The Economist
January 21, 2025
In the race to lead Canada, handling Trump is the biggest issue
Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland are the front-runners
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Witty and wise, “A Real Pain” is a masterpiece in a minor key
Jesse Eisenberg’s deceptively slight film asks big moral questions
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Donald Trump cries “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown
His first immigration executive orders range from benign to belligerent
The Economist
January 21, 2025
The new American imperialism
Donald Trump is the first president in more than 100 years to call for new American territory—including Mars
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Turkey is determined to expand its influence in the new Syria
That could cause tensions with the Arab world—and Israel
The Economist
January 20, 2025
Why has Donald Trump held fire on tariffs?
The president had promised hefty levies immediately
The Economist
January 20, 2025
Donald Trump issues fresh tariff threats
But it may be a while before he unleashes a universal levy
The Economist
January 20, 2025
OpenAI’s latest model will change the economics of software
The more reasoning it does, the more computer power it uses
Vanity Fair
January 20, 2025
Donald Trump Flaunts Tech World Clout at Inauguration
Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, and Elon Musk got prime seats at the Donald Trump inaugural address, while elected officials were on...
The Economist
January 20, 2025
Britain’s family courts are opening up to reporters
Transparency and privacy can work together
The Economist
January 19, 2025
The start of a fragile truce in Gaza offers relief and joy
But the ceasefire is not yet the end of the war
Vanity Fair
January 19, 2025