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What Keir Starmer’s humbling 100 days in office means for his leadership
Dateline
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China
How to escape from China to America
We travel with Chinese migrants on the deadly journey to America’s border
Finance & economics
How America learned to love tariffs
Protectionism hasn’t been this respectable for decades
Europe
The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
The families of missing loved ones are trying to find them, alive or dead
The world in brief
Israeli strikes killed at least 30 people and injured 110 in Jabalia, a city in northern Gaza, according to Gazan authorities...
Boeing will cut 17,000 jobs—10% of its workers—and further delay the launch of its massive 777x plane...
China’s finance minister said the country will “significantly increase” debt issuance to fight its economic slowdown...
President Joe Biden will travel to Florida on Sunday to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Milton, which experts reckon to be worth $50bn...
Why the world is so animated about anime
Japan’s cartoons have conquered its screens, and more
Charlemagne: Europe could become Trump’s geopolitical roadkill
A second dose of MAGA will put the EU in a pickle
Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?
A spacecraft heading to Europa is designed to find out
Yoshioka Masamitsu saw Pearl Harbor from the air
The last of the attackers on the “day of infamy” died on August 28th, aged 106
Opinion newsletter
A new weekly round-up of our best leaders, columns and guest essays
The Intelligence
What Keir Starmer’s humbling 100 days in office means for his leadership
Dateline
Guess the year in which these extracts were published in The Economist
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The Trumpification of American policy
No matter who wins in November, Donald Trump has redefined both parties’ agendas
Donald Trump is preparing an assault on America’s immigration system
The divide between the two candidates on migration is stark, but it has narrowed
On energy and climate, Trump and Harris are different by degrees
Green subsidies will probably survive Mr Trump’s re-election, and Big Oil will probably do just fine under Ms Harris
The next American president will be a China hawk
Donald Trump may seek to decouple America’s economy, while Kamala Harris favours more targeted pressure
Our election prediction model
Who will control the next Congress?
The new president is much less likely than usual to see allies take charge on Capitol Hill
Kamala Harris v Donald Trump
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US election forecast: who will control the House of Representatives?
Our prediction model assesses each party’s chance of winning the chamber
US election forecast: who will win control of the Senate?
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Weekend highlights
1843 magazine | Escape from the meat grinder: the making of a Russian deserter
Thousands are refusing to go into battle for Putin. These are two of their stories
AI wins big at the Nobels
Awards went to the discoverers of micro-RNA, pioneers of artificial-intelligence models and those using them for protein-structure prediction
How complicated is brain surgery actually?
A doctor reveals the myths and realities of his profession
Britain’s obsession with baked beans
Health trends and gourmet beans are driving demand for other varieties
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War in the Middle East
Israel has these four options for attacking Iran
Its politicians, and some generals, are gung-ho that the moment has come
Can Israel’s mighty tech industry withstand a wider war?
Its resilience is being tested
Israel’s invasion of Lebanon may bolster support for Hizbullah
The group is deeply embedded in Lebanese politics and society
Tracking Israel’s war in Lebanon, in maps
The latest data on the conflict
Business, finance and economics
How high could the oil price go?
Geopolitical risk is rising. But so is the supply of oil
Schumpeter: Masayoshi Son is back in Silicon Valley—and late to the AI race
This isn’t the first time the Japanese tech investor has missed the hot new thing
Turkey’s long hard struggle with inflation
High interest rates are starting to do the trick
China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Unsold homes are contributing to a balance-sheet recession
World news
America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?
Amid an explosive data and AI boom the superpower contest hots up
Bagehot: Britain’s last imperialists
The core of the British state still believes it can lead by example
American women go to Mexico for abortions
They are more readily available than in the past but no less controversial
Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse
Matteo Salvini is making feeble excuses
Hurricanes
How Florida should respond to Hurricane Milton
Storms like it raise uncomfortable questions about the state’s future
Hurricane Milton inundates Florida
Three factors laid the ground for its destructiveness
Is climate change making hurricanes worse?
They are becoming more damaging, but not more frequent
Hurricane Milton exposes the dangers of Florida’s development boom
Subsidised flood insurance hinders more than it helps
The war in Ukraine
Russia continues to advance in eastern Ukraine
But it is encountering growing problems
The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
The families of missing loved ones are trying to find them, alive or dead
How a second nuclear disaster was avoided at Chernobyl in 2022
The Russian occupation underscored the risks posed by nuclear sites in wartime
The Weekend Intelligence
Crunch time for Ukraine
Is Ukraine ready to redefine what victory looks like?
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Han Kang wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2024
The South Korean author offers another example of the country’s cultural clout
Edition: October 12th 2024
The Trumpification of American policy
How high could the oil price go?
Missiles are flying over a region that supplies a third of the world’s crude
A bad Chagos deal
Britain should not hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Asia’s new tech war
The two superpowers are vying for influence. China will not necessarily win
AI wins big at the Nobels
Awards went to the discoverers of micro-RNA, pioneers of artificial-intelligence models and those using them for protein-structure prediction
Technology Quarterly: September 21st 2024
Silicon returns to Silicon Valley
AI has returned chipmaking to the heart of computer technology, says Shailesh Chitnis
AI has returned chipmaking to the heart of computer technology
The semiconductor industry faces its biggest technical challenge yet
Node names do not reflect actual transistor sizes
How to build more powerful chips without frying the data centre
AI has propelled chip architecture towards a tighter bond with software
Researchers are looking beyond digital computing
The end of Moore’s law will not slow the pace of change
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