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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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Editor’s Picks: August 21st 2023

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

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Latin lessons: two contrasting elections

Ecuador and Guatemala faced similar preoccupations with violence and corruption—one of Ecuador’s...

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Checks and Balance: All the committee in China

Washington has been busy debating what to do about China. Arguments abound about whether to try...

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Gun-shy: why Niger’s coup stands, for now

For weeks, the regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to undo the putsch by force. But appetite for...

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Money Talks: Is America’s China policy working?

When is economic decoupling not economic decoupling? When it drives your allies to tighter...

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Make ore break: Latin America’s commodities

The region is home to most of the world’s known lithium. Given the mineral’s usefulness in...

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Babbage: The race to the Moon’s South Pole

In the coming days, both Russia and India hope to land robotic probes near the South Pole of the...

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Through the fire: an update from Hawaii

As the death toll surpasses 100, we report from Maui where fires have ravaged the island in the...

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Drum Tower: Solo-motherland

A growing number of Chinese women are pushing for control over family-planning decisions. That...

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“Witch hunt”, Part Four: Trump indicted, again

The former president has been hit with a new set of charges, under a catch-all racketeering act...

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Editor’s Picks: August 14th 2023

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

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West-siding story? Turkey’s tactical shift

Despite cosying up with Russia and accusing America of trying to topple him, the newly re-elected...

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Checks and Balance: Place and CHIPS

Joe Biden has been on the road this week, touting his administration’s investment in American...

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In the big leagues now: Saudi Arabia’s push into sport

Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman says a presence in top-level global sport is one route to...

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Money Talks: Click and collect a grocery victory

Grocery shopping is a giant prize–accounting for around $800bn of spending a year in America. But...

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Taken too soon: why so many Americans die young

An appalling record compared with much of the rich world is not just down to drugs and guns. We...

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