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Leaders
America seems immune to the world economy’s problems
Elsewhere, political dysfunction and fiscal frailties are taking a toll
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Business
The EU hits China’s carmakers with hefty new tariffs
Duties will only hold them back for a while
United States
Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction is good for nobody politically
The trial showed the ruin of addiction, and the wheels of justice turning
The world in brief
Israel continued its offensive on Rafah, as America pressed for a ceasefire deal...
Britain’s Labour Party launched its election manifesto, promising to raise £8.5bn ($10.9bn) in taxes...
Argentina’s Senate approved an economic reform bill in a significant victory for Javier Milei, the president...
America’s Republican-led House of Representatives voted to hold Merrick Garland, the attorney-general, in contempt of Congress—the latest Republican attack on the Department of Justice...
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Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
For all America’s optimism, the two sides look fundamentally irreconcilable
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Bagehot: What separates Tony Blair’s Labour from the party today?
The approach to globalisation is the clearest dividing-line of all
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The drug-overdose capitals of Europe
Will synthetic opioids take root across the region?
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William Anders took the photo that kicked off the environmental movement
The Apollo 8 astronaut and nuclear engineer died on June 7th, aged 90
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The US in brief
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Our US election model
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Donald Trump has a two-in-three chance of winning in November
Our forecast puts the former president ahead of Joe Biden
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Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
America’s presidential race is no coin flip, says our forecast
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What Donald Trump’s 34 convictions mean for the presidential election
Come election season, it could be Hunter Biden’s trial that hogs the headlines
US election 2024
Who are the Americans switching from Biden to Trump?
Try our “Build a voter” tool and see which attributes make voters likely to pick one candidate over the other
World news
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Britain’s NHS reels from a ransomware attack
An assault on a health-care provider prompts an urgent call for blood donations
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Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot leave Israel’s war cabinet
Will this force Binyamin Netanyahu at last to decide to push for a ceasefire?
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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
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Emmanuel Macron wants a snap election to get him out of a deep hole
But he’s taking a big risk
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Why France’s president called a snap election
The centre wants to weaken Marine Le Pen’s hard right, in or out of power
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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
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Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought
The discovery has perturbed Chinese officials
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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
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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
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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
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America’s billionaires should resist the urge to support Donald Trump
A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks
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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
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How the Labour Party could end Britain’s stagnation
Even if the economy peps up, taxes will have to rise
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Bagehot: Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency
The general election reveals the absurdities of Britain’s presidential turn
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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
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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
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Joe Biden leaked Israel’s first plan to end the war in Gaza
But hardliners in Israel and Hamas may yet scupper it
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Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
Arguments fly over Israel’s duty to maintain aid
The war in Ukraine
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In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
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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
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Ukraine has a navy that needs no sailors
It does a surprisingly good job of destroying Russian vessels
Ukraine’s desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
It is holding off Russia’s attack — for now
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1843 magazine | Can fasting help you live to 100?
An Italian doctor thinks it can – and he’s got a diet to sell you
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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
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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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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
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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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