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Why house prices are surging once again
In America, Australia and parts of Europe, property markets have shrugged off higher interest rates
Asia
Vladimir Putin’s dangerous bromance with Kim Jong Un
Russia’s dictator may arrive in Pyongyang this week
Europe
A hard-right 28-year-old could soon be France’s prime minister
Jordan Bardella is poised, social-media savvy and enigmatic
The world in brief
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, dissolved the country’s six-person war cabinet...
The London Stock Exchange regained its title of Europe’s biggest equity market as political turmoil in France spooked investors in Paris...
China opened an anti-dumping probe into pork imports from the EU, less than a week after the bloc hit China’s carmakers with hefty tariffs...
Reform UK, a hard-right party, proposed a staggering £88bn ($112bn) in tax cuts as part of its manifesto ahead of Britain’s general election on July 4th...
Israel’s northern border is ablaze
Can it fight Hamas and Hizbullah simultaneously?
Buttonwood: Has private credit’s golden age already ended?
A more competitive market is a less profitable one
Ray Kurzweil on how AI will transform the physical world
The changes will be particularly profound in energy, manufacturing and medicine, says the futurist
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Joke candidates reveal the carnival element of British democracy
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Dateline: The Economist history quiz
The US in Brief
Joe Biden’s record-breaking fundraising night
The Modi Raj
A new podcast series about the world’s most successful elected leader
World news
Li Qiang and China look to make up with Australia
The superpower is seeking to ease tensions with at least some of America’s allies
The new front in China’s cyber campaign against America
Big powers are preparing for wartime sabotage
A remarkable new era begins in South Africa
A national unity government can save democracy and the economy
Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
Peter Navarro’s dark vision of the global economy could shape Trump 2
Business, finance and economics
Rumours of the trade deal’s death are greatly exaggerated
Plenty of countries are in a dealmaking rush
America seems immune to the world economy’s problems
Elsewhere, political dysfunction and fiscal frailties are taking a toll
The EU hits China’s carmakers with hefty new tariffs
Duties will only hold them back for a while
Schumpeter: Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole
Tim Cook’s prayer to the almighty
The rapid rise of Chinese science
How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science?
If America wants to maintain its lead, it should focus less on keeping China down
China has become a scientific superpower
From plant biology to superconductor physics the country is at the cutting edge
A price war breaks out among China’s AI-model builders
It may stymie innovation
The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
America, China and the battle for supremacy
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America’s election
A second Trump term: from unthinkable to probable
Introducing our 2024 American election forecast model
Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
America’s presidential race is no coin flip, says our forecast
Lexington: Joe Biden’s best chance to shake up the race
But in debating Donald Trump, he faces graver public doubts and a greater challenge than he did in 2020
Might Wisconsin’s redrawn state-legislative districts help Biden win?
Democrats hope newly competitive local contests will boost turnout in the swing state
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If a bestseller list shuns authors it dislikes, it should say so
Bestseller lists are supposed to reflect sales, not political ideology
Britain’s election
Britain’s party manifestos lack detail but leave clues
Labour’s cagey plan would not give them a mandate for radical reform
What would a rout do to the Tories?
A historic electoral defeat would be unlikely to prompt a speedy reckoning
Bagehot: What separates Tony Blair’s Labour from the party today?
The approach to globalisation is the clearest dividing-line of all
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
Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
For all America’s optimism, the two sides look fundamentally irreconcilable
Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot leave Israel’s war cabinet
Will this force Binyamin Netanyahu at last to decide to push for a ceasefire?
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
Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
Arguments fly over Israel’s duty to maintain aid
The war in Ukraine
1843 magazine | “Monkeys with a grenade”: inside the nuclear-power station on Ukraine’s front line
Former employees say the plant is being dangerously mismanaged by the Russians
Politics overshadows a conference to raise money for Ukraine
Not to mention the continued fighting
Ukraine has a navy that needs no sailors
It does a surprisingly good job of destroying Russian vessels
In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
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Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?
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From mega to micro stars, this is a validation that cannot be paid for
Three charts assess England’s chances of winning the Euros 2024
Bookmakers’ odds may not tell the whole story
Is now the right time to publish a novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline?
A newly translated book by an antisemitic French novelist is sure to spark debate
Edition: June 15th 2024
The rise of Chinese science: Welcome or worrying?
Our US election-forecast model
Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
Macron’s gamble
France’s president wants a snap election to get him out of a deep hole
The war for AI talent
Big tech firms scramble to fill gaps as brain drain sets in
Is the New York Times bestseller list biased?
Our investigation suggests it is
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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