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Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
Britain
Our first constituency poll has awful news for Britain’s Conservatives
Hartlepool is on track to lurch back to Labour in the election. Reform UK is in second spot
The world in brief
A senior official of Hamas said the group accepted a plan by the UN Security Council for a ceasefire with Israel...
Hunter Biden, President Joe Biden’s son, was convicted of three felony counts of lying on federal forms to purchase a gun...
Britain’s Conservative Party launched its election manifesto, promising to cut £17.2bn ($21.9bn) a year in taxes by 2030...
The leader of France’s centre-right party called for an alliance with the National Rally, a far-right party led by Marine Le Pen, ahead of a snap legislative election...
Politics overshadows a conference to raise money for Ukraine
Not to mention the continued fighting
Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?
Our investigation suggests it is
Why political centrists must rediscover their passion
They need to be clear about what opposing populism does and doesn’t mean, argues Yair Zivan
Chigozie Obioma’s visceral novel explores Nigeria’s civil war
The divisions described in “The Road to the Country” have not been reconciled
The US in brief
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World news
Who are the main contenders to be Iran’s next president?
After the death of the puritanical president, Iran’s reformists hope to win a portion of power
Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot leave Israel’s war cabinet
Will this force Binyamin Netanyahu at last to decide to push for a ceasefire?
Banyan: How the Philippines is turning the water-cannon on China
Ferdinand Marcos’s flip is a huge gift to America. But dangers lie ahead
South Africa stands on the brink of salvation—or catastrophe
To prevent a coalition of chaos, Cyril Ramaphosa and the Democratic Alliance must do a deal
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European elections
Emmanuel Macron wants a snap election to get him out of a deep hole
But he’s taking a big risk
Why France’s president called a snap election
The centre wants to weaken Marine Le Pen’s hard right, in or out of power
The three women who will shape Europe
At a crucial moment they encapsulate the dilemma of how to handle populism
European elections 2024
European Parliament elections tracker: results and guide to the vote
The hard right has made some gains, but the centre-right EPP remains the largest group
Business, finance and economics
Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought
The discovery has perturbed Chinese officials
China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
State purchases of shares are bad enough, but other measures are far more destructive
Bartleby: Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl?
The promise and perils of waking before sunrise
Schumpeter: Lessons in capitalism from Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s
How to build businesses that last
America’s election year
America’s billionaires should resist the urge to support Donald Trump
A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks
What Republicans make of Donald Trump’s conviction
The party is never as unified as when its members are defending the former president
US election 2024
Who are the Americans switching from Biden to Trump?
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Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the polls?
The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
Britain’s election
How the Labour Party could end Britain’s stagnation
Even if the economy peps up, taxes will have to rise
Bagehot: Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency
The general election reveals the absurdities of Britain’s presidential turn
The most Tory place in Britain
It isn’t that posh but its population is old
UK election 2024
General-election forecast: will Labour destroy the Conservatives
Our seat-by-seat prediction for Britain’s next Parliament
The Israel-Hamas war
Talk of war between Israel and Lebanon is growing
Israel and Hizbullah would still prefer to avoid one, but that is getting ever harder to do
Joe Biden leaked Israel’s first plan to end the war in Gaza
But hardliners in Israel and Hamas may yet scupper it
Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
Arguments fly over Israel’s duty to maintain aid
The war in Ukraine
In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
Russia’s explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects
A year after the blast and flood, Ukrainians disagree over whether to rebuild Kakhovka
Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
Our satellite view of the conflict, updated daily
Ukraine’s desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
It is holding off Russia’s attack — for now
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Black baseball players of yore get their due, at last
Major League Baseball recognition puts Josh Gibson ahead of Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth in the record books
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s a Chinese flying car
China is developing the vehicles faster than any other country
New Zealand is changing its place names
But many citizens struggle to pronounce Maori monikers
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Changes to China’s gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness
Extra points for minority students are going away
Edition: June 8th 2024
A triumph for Indian democracy
Billionaires’ bad bet on Trump
A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks
Where Ukraine is beating Russia
Crimea is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
When to buy expensive stocks
A new paper considers the question
From chatbots to robots
There is more to AI than ChatGPT
Special reports: May 11th 2024
Worlds apart
The American-led financial order is giving way to a more divided one
The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
How crises reshaped the world financial system
The movement of capital globally is in decline
National payment systems are proliferating
The fight to dethrone the dollar
How the financial system would respond to a superpower war
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