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• The horrors of the reply-all email thread
• Huawei appears to still be using TSMC chips despite US sanctions
• How the financial system would respond to a superpower war
• India's Supreme Court refuses to recognise same-sex marriage
• The Physics Trick That Makes These New Super Cars So Insanely Fast
• Workouts for the face are a growing business
• Will Joe Biden's new plan bring relief to Gaza?
• CDC Says McDonald's E. Coli Outbreak Linked to 1 Death and 10 Hospitalizations
• Gigafactories and dashed dreams: the parable of Blyth
• Meet the French startup hoping to take on OpenAI
• A pager-bomb attack causes disarray for Hizbullah
• Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space
• Narendra Modi cuddles up to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
• Europe's biggest debt-collector has a debt problem
• How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine?
• Germany's new strategy for dealings with China
• 7 Tips for Mastering 'Metaphor: ReFantazio'
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Japan Inc is no longer in thrall to America
• To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936
• The rise and rise of e-sports
• Why Xi Jinping is not another Chairman Mao
• China's new GDP figures may restore faith in its economy
• Rishi Sunak's snap election is odd and illogical—much like him
• Five charts that show why the BJP expects to win India's election
• The last scraps of the Haitian state are evaporating
• After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out
• Covid-19 has pushed governments to find new ways to help the poor
• The Toughest Verdict in a Subway Killing
• Is America Inc's war for talent over?
• Attacks on shipping threaten to upend peace talks in Yemen
• Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending
• Business
• Politics
• Fethullah Gulen, Exiled Cleric Accused by Turkey of Attempted Coup, Dies in U.S.
• Physical proximity has big effects in the workplace
• Bianca Gascoigne says Mohamed Al Fayed sexually assaulted her
• China's youth are rebelling against long hours
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Trying to heal the party's wounds
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Tracking Israel's war in Lebanon, in maps
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How to escape from China to America
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A Belgian company wants to create woolly-mammoth burgers
• Finding a driving test in Britain is painful, slow and expensive
• Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News's ratings
• Super Trump and his mighty MAGA machine
• What will Indonesia look like after Jokowi leaves?
• Farewell to Foursquare's app
• Too many people take too many pills
• The Doctor Behind the 'Suicide Pod' Wants AI to Assist at the End of Life
• Covid-19 is here to stay. The world is working out how to live with it
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• The six rules of fire drills
• Few countries are better placed than Vietnam to get rich
• American productivity still leads the world
• Footballer, broadcaster, podcast mogul: the career of Gary Lineker
• Why bitcoin is up by almost 150% this year
• Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
• Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
• Max Martin knows how to create a number-one hit
• American exceptionalism exists, but other countries also have problems
• Mexico's president gives power and money to the armed forces
• AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns
• A short history of India in eight maps
• Kenya is belatedly granting citizenship to groups once deemed foreign
• This week's covers
• Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's dictator, thumbs his nose at Joe Biden
• Saleemul Huq lobbied ceaselessly to make poor countries heard
• The never-Trump movement has leaders. What about followers?
• California is gripped by economic problems, with no easy fix
• External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
• Business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Fossil Human Ancestor 'Lucy' Remains Pivotal 50 Years after Discovery
• McDonald's v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
• Donald Trump's populism is turning off corporate donors
• Why the Oil Market Is Not Shocked
• Xi Jinping is struggling to stamp out graft in the PLA
• A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
• China's push to create a single national identity
• Has private credit's golden age already ended?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
• America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
• Kamala Harris completes her reinvention
• Ethiopia is in the midst of a kidnapping epidemic
• What war mobilisation might look like in China
• The unsteady comeback of the California condor
• On shame, Liz Truss and the turnip Taliban
• How shallow was Labour's victory in the British election?
• A D-Day commemoration that was not just about beating Hitler
• Meet the Japanese Kurds
• New research exposes the role of women in America's slave trade
• Laws to catch human-rights abusers are growing teeth
• How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
• The 2023 crony-capitalism index
• Superbatteries will transform the performance of EVs
• How the NFL keeps fans transfixed even when there are no games
• Can the voluntary carbon market save the Amazon?
• Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt
• India is seeing a massive aviation boom
• Israeli retaliation in Lebanon seems inevitable
• India's difficult business environment is improving
• The wisdom in calling Donald Trump weird
• How to house the world's fastest-growing population
• Jacob Zuma's new party could swing South Africa's election
• Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?
• How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
• Starbucks scraps 2025 guidance after fall in sales and earnings
• Georgia's government cosies up to Russia
• Pakistan rolls out the red carpet for China's prime minister
• NATO sets its sights on China
• The WSJ Dollar Index Flat at 98.61
• Americans are fretting over their body odour
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Bought an iPhone 15 or 16? Try These USB-C Accessories First
• Oil Slips Amid U.S. Ceasefire Efforts, China Concerns
• What China means when it says "peace"
• China's wealthy elite rigs its university arms race
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Car shows in the West are in terminal decline
• Ebrahim Raisi was obsessed with the security of the people
• Kung fu gives Africans their kicks
• Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more
• A net-zero world needs new markets and institutions
• A spectre looms over Hong Kong's property market
• Blighty newsletter: Three takeaways from an interview with Sir Keir Starmer
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 'End justifies the means': high Russian death toll fails to shift opinion on Ukraine war
• America, Israel and Hamas are trapped in a dangerous impasse
• Renovation required
• The Fight That Nearly Destroyed the Letterboxd Community
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The effects on Turkey of Syria's civil war
• NASA's newest telescope can detect gravitational waves from colliding black holes
• Bring on the Vegas glitz! How Roma families are defying their persecutors with bling palaces
• The false promise of Indonesia's economy
• America's recession signals are flashing red. Don't believe them
• Germany's Free Democrats have become desperate spoilers
• How the hard right both reflects and creates prejudice
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How scared is China of Donald Trump's return?
• How Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use
• The Biden administration is trying to walk a fine line in arming Israel
• I Made a Wholesome OnlyFans to Try to Make Ends Meet
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China is struck by floods and drought—at the same time
• Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel
• Climate Change: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Colonies of bacteria could save the Pentagon billions
• After it ends, the war in Gaza will still continue to shape Israel
• How scientists are using artificial intelligence
• Does Israel's new plan for Gaza include withholding food?
• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up
• June Mendoza captured both the famous and the unknown
• Republicans are turning against Ukraine
• What makes Australia so liveable?
• Will IVF really be the next frontier in America's culture wars?
• South Africa's future is in the hands of a divided ANC
• The Chinese are working more hours than ever
• The Conservatives' world has disappeared. Don't tell Rishi Sunak
• China and Australia are beefing up their Pacific policing
• China views America's presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
• Millions of Chinese have embraced skiing
• What Donald Trump can learn from the Big Mac index
• Policymakers are likely to jettison their 2% inflation targets
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
• Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China
• The Final Weeks
• What is going wrong for Intel?
• Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier still
• Ex-SpaceX engineers land $14M to scale new method for 3D printing metal
• How to bring scents to the metaverse
• Election Disinformation Is Getting More Chaotic
• Russia's double-punch back against Ukraine's shock raid
• Heart attacks, strokes, dementia—can Biden and Trump beat the odds?
• The culture wars have come to Canada
• What is the least liveable city in the world?
• Enlightenment liberalism is losing ground in the debate about race
• The SNP feels the heat in Scotland's election campaign
• Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya
• Spies, trade and tech: China's relationship with Britain
• China will struggle to meet its new growth target
• Joe Biden is exasperated by Israel but will not stop its war
• Joe Biden's ABC interview will not quell doubts about his future
• Mikey Madison: from Tarantino bit part to hot tip for an Oscar playing a sex worker
• Science Crossword: Girl With Kaleidoscope Eyes
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Europe finds €50bn for Ukraine, and a way around Viktor Orban
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• Disputes over pay are hobbling Britain's public sector
• Business
• SAP Gains $26 Billion in Market Value, Surging Past ASML
• Defying China, Taiwan elects William Lai Ching-te as president
• India's businessmen like Narendra Modi. They also fear him
• How the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs made ants into farmers – podcast
• When central banks face sanctions
• There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine
• Defying China, Taiwan elects William Lai Ching-te as president
• Brian Niccol, Starbucks's new CEO, has a "messianic halo"
• The army-backed establishment in Thailand goes after its enemies
• 5' Animated Standing Witch
• Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema
• Europe's generosity to Ukrainian refugees is not so welcome—in Ukraine
• The tiny statelet of Transnistria is squeezed on all sides
• Do tips make for better service?
• 7' Inflatable Pumpkins w/ Black Cat
• Despite flaws, South Africa's democracy is stronger than its neighbours'
• Geopolitics helps reignite New Caledonia's anti-colonial unrest
• Australia's enthusiasm for immigration is being tested
• GPS Jamming Is Screwing With Norwegian Planes
• How a Knack for Provocation Fueled Mark Robinson's Rise
• Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
• Can Alibaba get the magic back?
• A peninsula that makes waves in policy formation
• Alzheimer's disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment
• Xi Jinping plays social engineer
• The Best Hearing Aids of 2024, Reviewed by Experts
• Giorgia Meloni has proved the doubters wrong
• The scandal-hit market for passports and long-term visas is booming
• A private company will send your ashes to the moon
• Romania's hard right looks strong in a year of four elections
• The four women who shook up philosophy
• How wild horses sparked a culture war in Australia
• Sausages, beans, soups – Nigel Slater's robust autumn recipes
• English local government is in a dire state
• The Economist's glass-ceiling index
• Why Agnes Chow fled Hong Kong and isn't likely to return
• Global temperatures have broken records three times in a week
• The scary new map of the South China Sea
• Toriyama Akira was probably Japan's greatest manga master
• Israel's offensive against Hamas enters its crucial stage
• The Bay of Bengal should be an economic superpower
• Ukraine is digging in as the Kremlin steps up its offensive
• Trumpcoin Launches With a Whimper
• Can Joe Biden bring order to the southern border without Congress?
• Is there a genetic link between endometriosis and the brain?
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• A Mysterious Hacking Group Has 2 New Tools to Steal Data From Air-Gapped Machines
• ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders
• Gazans are rapidly losing access to the internet
• Israel strikes a hostage deal, but says the Gaza war isn't over
• Four questions for every manager to ask themselves
• How should Britain handle £200bn in quantitative-easing losses?
• Video: Busting globalisation myths
• Doctors trial world's first vaccine against vomiting bug norovirus
• Blighty newsletter: Could the Labour Party fix lawmaking?
• Could the Kamala Harris boost put Florida in play for Democrats?
• Disney's Daredevil series lands March 4, 2025
• China wants to change, or break, a world order set by others
• Is it time for "ecocide" to become an international crime?
• TikTok is not the only Chinese app thriving in America
• Are manufacturing jobs really that good?
• Congo's crucial election may be heading for disaster
• A different way to measure the climate impact of food
• Israel Expands Lebanon Campaign With Strikes on Banks It Links to Hezbollah
• China's robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla's
• This week's covers
• The West still needs Russian gas that comes through Ukraine
• What to make of China's massive cyber-espionage campaign
• Is China understating its own export success?
• Countering China in Africa
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The Kamala Harris effect on the polls has been dramatic
• The head of the hard-right Alternative for Germany is riding high
• When China hides disasters in a memory hole
• Rail Biking Lets You Ride the Rails Using Pedal Power
• With its latest assassination, Israel is testing Iran
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sam Bankman-Fried is charged with defrauding investors
• Generative artificial intelligence on our "Babbage" podcast
• Will unions sweep the American South?
• Hizbullah's sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerable
• Global firms are tapping India's workers like never before
• Demand for chocolate causes more illegal deforestation than people realise
• Venezuela's dictator is less isolated than he once was
• The foreigners fighting and dying for Vladimir Putin
• How Brazilian lawmakers won extra powers to waste money
• App stores are hugely lucrative—and under attack
• Aston Villa keep up perfect start after McGinn and Durán polish off Bologna
• The battle over South Africa's spicy-chicken market
• Why Harris Is Joining Forces With the Never Trumpers
• Working from home and the US-Europe divide
• Why China's government is hushing up court rulings
• George Orwell's horticultural sensibilities
• Joe Biden's limits on LNG exports won't help the climate
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Mike Johnson may have to choose between Ukraine aid and his job
• Why economic warfare nearly always misses its target
• Latin American society is modernising, mostly for the better
• Brazil's presidential election will go to a run-off
• Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• The wish to respond to climate change
• A guide to the Chinese Communist Party's economic jargon
• The secret to good government? Actually trying
• The economics of American lotteries
• Vast amounts of the world's shipping sails unseen
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• Kazakhstan's referendum on nuclear energy could benefit Russia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Republicans who still haven't endorsed Donald Trump
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi had his own vision for a democratic South Africa
• Business
• The weekly cartoon
• The Hindu right's pro-cow policies are terrible for India's cows
• Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president
• First Steven Mnuchin bought into NYCB, now he wants TikTok
• As schools reopen, how can pupils make up for lost time?
• Our presidential election prediction shows Donald Trump in the lead
• Can America and China avoid another diplomatic crisis?
• Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?
• When to sell your stocks
• Martin Rowson on King Charles's attempts to woo Australia – cartoon
• Could AMD break Nvidia's chokehold on chips?
• The Morning After: We test Canon's new EOS R5 II
• The FBI Made a Crypto Coin Just to Catch Fraudsters
• Sri Lankans are squabbling over monuments
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Home Depot's "amazing era" return?
• The US AI Safety Institute stands on shaky ground
• The dividend is back. Are investors right to be pleased?
• The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
• The mystery of Britain's dirt-cheap stockmarket
• The pandemic is plunging millions back into extreme poverty
• What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?
• A museum in Rotterdam opens up its collection
• These are the world's most expensive cities
• How the "Magnificent Seven" misleads
• The new front in China's cyber campaign against America
• Li Qiang and China look to make up with Australia
• Politics is the law in Texas
• Virtual influencers are burning up South Koreans' Instagram feeds
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
• The pandemic has exacerbated existing political discontent
• A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
• Why skipping ropes are so expensive in China
• Peru's crazy drivers offer a data deluge for self-driving cars
• The British election is becoming an episode of mob justice
• Venezuela's Supreme Court tests President Joe Biden
• What does Xi Jinping want from Vladimir Putin?
• Talks at the WTO to save the world's fish fail to reach agreement
• Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?
• Baby-boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?
• How Implicit Bias Affects Your Medical Care
• What is Crispr Gene Editing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• The number of American students in China is going up again
• India tightens the screws on online dissent
• Disney Replaces Blade on Release Schedule with New Predator Movie
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Javier Milei, an Argentine libertarian, is rising in the polls
• Northern China has been hit by devastating floods
• Meet Gabriel Attal, France's young prime minister
• Perth man treated for scurvy as cost-of-living crisis brings back 'disease of the past'
• Gretchen Whitmer would like to be America's first woman president
• Peru's president survives because she's not in charge
• Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities
• Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald's and KFC
• Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad
• Is ticketing homeless people a cruel and unusual punishment?
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Turkey wants the EU to regulate the döner kebab
• How countries rank by military spending
• Is Ukraine's counter-offensive over?
• As covid-19 vaccines spread, so do underhand ways to get them
• Anosmia, the Inability to Smell, Changes How People Breathe
• The bid to make Florida's most famous city a tech hub
• Kamala Harris is outspending Donald Trump. Will it matter?
• South-East Asia is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave
• Why Germany's watchmakers are worried about the AfD
• Google's DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry
• Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
• Sources and acknowledgments
• El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is not paying off
• A thumping win for Tshisekedi in Congo's election raises eyebrows
• Lula's foreign-policy ambitions will be tempered by circumstances
• Mexico's gangs could be the country's fifth-biggest employer
• Amid turmoil in China's property market, the public seethes
• How did pollsters do in predicting the British election?
• How Beijing Recruited New York Chinatowns for Influence Campaign
• Ban it harder! An unwelcome new trend in British politics
• Jürgen Klopp and the importance of energy
• Is Argentina's new president too divisive to fix a broken economy?
• The Conservative Party's Oppenheimer syndrome
• What do Joe Biden and the boss of Starbucks have in common?
• Roman Polanski: lawsuit alleging director raped teenager in 1973 settled and dismissed
• University protests about Gaza spread to the Middle East
• The rise of the hard right threatens Europe's political stability
• The world's most, and least, walkable cities
• British Muslims' support for Labour is wobbling
• How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback
• A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third
• Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
• Is this a new age of warrior Japan?
• Giorgia Meloni would make Machiavelli proud
• China and America trade blame for a world on fire
• Married women in Japan are re-entering the labour market
• Democracy is under attack in Senegal
• A new psychological history of the cold war
• COP26 ends with a pact that is neither a triumph nor a trainwreck
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year
• A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
• Inside the shared studio of Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
• A history-lover's guide to the market panic over AI
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Thaksin Shinawatra joins Thailand's establishment
• Hurricane Milton inundates Florida
• Xi Jinping's chaos-loving friends
• A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
• Nvidia is now the world's most valuable company
• How Europe's cities stack up in the cost-of-living index
• The pandemic may be encouraging people to live in larger groups
• Covid-19 has stalled the wedding industry
• Our Quest to Find the Perfect Bed: Testing the Casper Snow Hybrid Mattress for 30 Nights
• Why is Vladimir Putin looking to North Korea for arms?
• Pssst! Want to read something about rumour and innuendo?
• Studio flats are now affordable in many more American cities
• Quantifying the rise of America's far right
• Is the most powerful teachers union in America overreaching?
• How to Stop Your Data From Being Used to Train AI
• Imperius - Make An Linux Kernel Rootkit Visible Again
• The secret to career success may well be off to the side
• How many books will you read before you die?
• However justified, more government intervention risks being counterproductive
• Thailand's top court tramples over the country's democracy
• Which country will be last to escape inflation?
• Canada's jade mines boomed on Chinese demand. Now that's over
• Radio Modi: How India's prime minister sweet-talks the nation
• Republicans are favoured to win the Senate. What would they do?
• Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurk
• The public wants to refund, not defund, the police
• KAL's cartoon
• The future could be brighter
• Northvolt announces more cuts, worrying investors
• Can India's garments industry benefit from Bangladesh's turmoil?
• Rwandan soldiers may outnumber M23 rebels in Congo
• Canada's miserly defence spending is increasingly embarrassing
• Eric Adams's friends keep having their phones taken away
• Suicide rates for girls are rising. Are smartphones to blame?
• Must try harder
• The pandemic puts a strain on elite private schools
• Europe's new-look winter: floods, high sea levels and melting glaciers
• The scourge of stolen bikes in Britain
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• The ICJ orders restraint from Israel in Rafah
• How tactical voting might affect the British election
• Justice Department Says It Has Received Complaints About Elon Musk's $1 Million Payments to Voters
• What tennis reveals about AI's impact on human behaviour
• Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy Into the 21st Century. Even He's Surprised by the Results
• The holes in British plans to ban cigarettes and disposable vapes
• An alternative look at the Trump-Harris debate, in five charts
• For 50 years the story of oil has been one of matching supply with increasing demand
• How to put boosters under India's economy
• How Robert F. Kennedy junior's effect on the election has shifted
• Even as war rages in Gaza, Israel's Arabs are feeling more Israeli
• Russia Turns Mariupol's Steel Mills From Battle Zone to Spoils of War
• Why do the Japanese love CDs?
• Fewer migrants are crossing America's southern border
• What are America's Libertarians for?
• How to entice Japanese couples to have babies
• America's border crisis in ten charts
• As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
• Insert coin
• A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
• How to nobble a political rival in Africa and get away with it
• All parties are blaming each other for the dire situation in Gaza
• Why Texas Republicans are souring on crypto
• SpaceX is NASA's biggest lunar rival
• Thunderstorm Gamma-Ray Flashes May Be Missing Link for Lightning Bolts
• The world's insatiable appetite for Canada's maple syrup
• Vienna's social housing, lauded by progressives, pushes out the poor
• American stocks are consuming global markets
• The search for Ukraine's missing soldiers and sailors
• India's biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking
• Hollywood enters a frugal new era
• At 58, I have the spine of an 80-year-old. Navigating osteoporosis has been difficult and expensive
• Evergrande's liquidation is a new low in China's property crisis
• Germany needs a reforming government
• Building an African multinational
• France is being thrown into uncharted territory
• Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
• Xi Jinping reaches into China's ancient history for a new claim to rule
• Even doctors can struggle to diagnose concussions
• Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing
• Myanmar's junta suffers startling defeats
• Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest
• Humans have altered other species as well as the environment
• School closures in poor countries could be devastating
• Ace of bases
• Over a million Paraguayans disappear in the latest census
• November 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago
• Xi Jinping wants China to have better toilets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Artificial intelligence is losing hype
• Emmanuel Macron in his own words (English)
• China's alleged theft of a pineapple cultivar has Taiwan livid
• New Nasal Vaccines Offer Stronger Protection from COVID, Flu, and More—No Needle Needed
• America's far right is increasingly protesting against LGBT people
• Politics
• In Death, Hamas Leader May Have Won Wider Support Than When He Was Alive
• How pop culture went multipolar
• Government action to hold down energy bills will save lives in Europe
• The House of Representatives gives Ukraine its best news in a year
• Ethiopia's gambit for a port is unsettling a volatile region
• Sources and acknowledgments
• KAL's cartoon
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
• At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
• Netflix has closed its AAA gaming studio
• These are the most liveable cities in Europe
• Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
• U.S. intel officials say Russia is behind attempts to smear Tim Walz
• Israel has just a few weeks left to destroy Hamas
• Blighty newsletter: The wonk verdict on British growth
• Bar culture has arrived in Saudi Arabia, albeit without the booze
• Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
• India throws another opposition leader in jail as elections loom
• Will China's ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?
• 6 days to go: TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 kicks off and ticket prices go up
• Hard times for China's micro-industrialists
• Gang violence is spreading across Latin America
• The fall of Libya's central banker triggers a new struggle
• India's economic policy will not make it rich
• France seeks a new government
• The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people
• Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
• China's fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa's coasts
• Tech bros love J.D. Vance. Many CEOs are scared stiff
• Places with high religious participation have fewer deaths of despair
• Should you send your children to private school?
• What could stop the Nvidia frenzy?
• Crunch time for Xi Jinping at China's annual political meeting
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's young people are rushing to buy gold
• Tokyo Metro gets retail investors on board Japan's biggest IPO since 2018
• AMLO is trying to bury the tragedy of Mexico's missing people
• She's the New Face of Climate Activism—and She's Carrying a Pickax
• Singapore cracks down on Chinese influence
• Donald Trump's promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
• A new TB vaccine could save 8.5m lives over the next quarter of a century
• Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences
• Can shooting some elephants save many others?
• What China's graduates really think about their job prospects
• Germany is flunking the education test
• Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
• Iran scores a pyrrhic victory in its cold war with Saudi Arabia
• Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine's drones
• The curse of the Michelin star
• Can the rich world escape its baby crisis?
• The states that will decide America's next president
• Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless
• Suitors are wooing Paramount
• Russia's opposition has lost a crucial leader but gained a martyr
• This week's covers
• Can dealmaking save Intel?
• Dobbs electrified supporters of abortion rights
• English kids are back in school. What about the teachers?
• Why it's so hard to tell which climate policies actually work
• Why online marketplaces have not killed the estate sale
• How a 12-Ounce Layer of Foam Changed the NFL
• Do undocumented immigrants have the right to own guns?
• What if China and India became friends?
• How to predict the outcome of a coin toss
• The Colors of Fall Leaves Are Shaped by Climate Change and Tree Health
• Under Joe Biden, America struggles to reassert itself in Africa
• Nukes and King Charles—but no door key
• Europe can't decide how to unplug from China
• Where will the next coup be in Africa?
• Donald Trump's legal fees are draining his campaign funds
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Questions surround a gun attack on Argentina's vice-president
• Joe Biden's horrific debate performance casts his entire candidacy into doubt
• Private markets are less rewarding than they used to be
• 'Absolution' Excerpt: Read the Beginning of Jeff VanderMeer's Newest Southern Reach Book
• The world's most violent region needs a new approach to crime
• The Economist's science and technology internship
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