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Editor’s Picks: September 4th 2023

A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This...

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Held fire: America’s murder rate slips

The absolute numbers remain troubling but a close look at statistics reveals that, across...

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Checks and Balance: Los diablos de Los Angeles

The perfect weather and booming economy of the City of Angels has drawn in generations of...

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Paranoia politics: a Tunisian lesson in demagoguery

The president is using racist hate-mongering as both a rallying tool and a distraction mechanism....

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Money Talks: Information used to want to be free

The mantra from the mid-2000s that “data is the new oil” is taking on a new sheen: tapping and...

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Going, going… Gabon: another African coup

Putsches in the Sahel are becoming more common and there appears to be a trend. Are there more to...

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Babbage: El Niño is back, and he looks angry

Extreme weather is constantly in the news, but a new factor is just getting warmed up: El Niño....

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Game of drones: can Ukraine pull ahead?

Three months into the counteroffensive, the military is reaping the fruits of several months of...

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Drum Tower: Hey, big spenders

The end of China’s zero-covid restrictions was meant to revitalise its economy. But the rebound...

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Teutonic plague: is Germany the sick man of Europe?

Owing to a host of deep-rooted economic and political challenges, it could be the only G7 economy...

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Editor’s Picks: August 28th 2023

A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This...

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Going non-nuclear: East Asia’s changing families

From Japan to South Korea, from China to Taiwan, family structures are becoming less traditional....

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Checks and Balance: A novel approach

We take a break from the news this week to convene the first ever Checks and Balance Book Club....

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Fellow-BRICS road: a club expands

The alliance was always based more on common fortunes than common interests. We ask what to make...

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Money Talks: Counting the cost of education

Is a college degree worth it? That question hangs over millions of would-be students, as they...

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Flight of the long knives: Prigozhin’s reported death

History would suggest that the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was an assassination. Our...

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Babbage: How to learn to love maths

While some people enjoy learning maths, the subject haunts many children throughout school and...

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Vote with no confidence: Zimbabwe goes to the polls

Arranging friendly media coverage, giving handouts to voters, stifling opposition rallies: once...

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Drum Tower: For richer, for poorer

A harsh custom courses through rural China. If a woman marries a man from outside her village,...

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Home groan: China’s housing-sector crisis

Once again, fears are ripping through the industry—this time starting from a firm once thought...

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