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Are Britain and France “friends” again?

2025-07-08

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President Macron’s state visit to the UK suggests the countries are closer than they have been in years. But there are still frictions, as our Paris bureau chief, Sophie Pedder, explains

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Can Donald Trump force a ceasefire in Gaza?

2025-07-07

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With Israel’s prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, heading to the White House, Donald Trump is hoping to announce an end to the war. Our deputy editor, Ed Carr, explains why it will depend on three factors #Israel #netanyahu #Gaza #DonaldTrump

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Our top five novels of the year (so far)

2025-07-05

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Looking for a new novel this summer? Rachel Lloyd, our deputy culture editor, shares five of our favourites published in 2025

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What Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” means for America

2025-07-04

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President Donald Trump called it a “Big Beautiful Bill”. It’s big, but definitely not beautiful. The three co-hosts of The Economist’s Checks and Balance podcast—Charlotte Howard, our New York bureau chief, Idrees Kahloon, our Washington bureau chief, and John Prideaux, our US editor—discuss the effects Trump’s budget bill will have on America’s lawmaking and on his voter base. 00.00 - Has the “Big Beautiful Bill" killed traditional...

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Why was Labour so unprepared for power?

2025-07-04

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Why was Keir Starmer’s Labour government so unprepared for power? After a shambolic end to its first year in power, The Economist’s British politics correspondent, Matthew Holehouse, analyses what went wrong for Britain’s ruling party.

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Klarna’s CEO on how AI will affect jobs

2025-07-04

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The boss of buy-now, pay-later provider Klarna recently admitted he went too far using AI to cut customer service roles and was rehiring people. In an interview with our business affairs editor, Rachana Shanbhogue, he explains why he still expects AI to have a significant impact on jobs in the years ahead

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America’s new ship-killer missiles near Taiwan

2025-07-03

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America has deployed its NMESIS ship-killing missile system to islands near Taiwan for the first time. Hosted on the Philippines' northern island of Basco, NMESIS is small, easy to move and hard to find. America hopes its deployment will help deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan

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Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” explained

2025-07-02

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It's big, but it's certainly not beautiful. After 27 hours of non-stop voting and debate the American Senate passed President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But, as our US editor, John Prideaux, explains, the bill will make the country more indebted, more unequal and less green.

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Our five favourite non-fiction books of 2025—so far

2025-06-28

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Looking for a new book this summer? Rachel Lloyd, our deputy culture editor, shares five of our favourite non-fiction books of 2025 so far.

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Has China become cool?

2025-06-26

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Is China becoming a cultural phenomenon? From Labubu dolls to high-tech exports China is making waves abroad. Our producer Jiehao Chen and China correspondent Gabriel Crossley speak on the Drum Tower podcast to discuss China’s pursuit of soft power. 00:00 - China’s softening image 01:07 - What does China’s Communist Party stand to gain? 02:23 - IShowSpeed’s livestream in China 04:08 - So is China cool? Listen to the rest of the episode:...

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Inside the world’s most sophisticated telescope

2025-06-26

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What is the universe made of? How is the Milky Way structured? And what is dark matter? A new observatory at the top of a mountain in Chile will try to answer these questions—and revolutionise astronomy in the process. The Economist’s science editor, Alok Jha, was granted access to understand how the world’s largest digital camera works.

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Zelensky: Putin Should Face Justice As A “War Criminal” For The 2022 Invasion Of Ukraine | WION

2025-06-26

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Zelensky: Putin Should Face Justice As A "War Criminal" For The 2022 Invasion Of Ukraine | WION Shorts

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Hollowed Out

2025-06-26

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2025-06-26

The status quo has pushed everything to an extreme of hollowed-out instability to maintain a superficial appearance of normalcy and stability. But it's all fake. The phrase that best describes the present era is hollowed out. By hollowed out I mean the exterior facade still looks pretty much the same as it did in the past, but the internal structure has corroded / eroded to the point that little remains of what provided strength and...

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What has America gained from its strike on Iran?

2025-06-25

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Donald Trump claims to have “obliterated” Iran's nuclear programme, but early defence reports suggest the damage has cased a delay of only a few months. As our deputy editor, Edward Carr, argues, the American president has gambled, but not yet won.

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How many years will it take until Europe can defend itself without America’s protection?

2025-06-24

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The director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, Rachel Ellehuus, examines the strengths and weaknesses of European military capabilities, in an interview with our defence editor, Shashank Joshi

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Meta-Thoughts on the War

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

Decades of 'The Fog Machine of War' have jaded the public's appetite for 'Narrative Control'. The Fog of War is perhaps better described as The Fog Machine of War, for everything presented to the public is some version of Narrative Control, the purpose of which is to establish a context and story that's beneficial to whomever is presenting "facts," "news," "information" and "commentary."

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Why do some people get sicker than others?

2025-06-23

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Do our genes determine how quickly we recover from illness? Dan Davis, professor at Imperial College London, discusses how biology, not just lifestyle, shapes every infection, with Alok Jha, host of Babbage, our science and technology podcast

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Weekly Market Pulse: The Turkey Leg

2025-06-23

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2025-06-23

Note: I wrote most of this commentary prior to the US strike on Iran and I decided to go ahead with it anyway. I don’t know any more than you do about what is going on in the Middle East and trying to predict what will happen in the coming days and weeks is a fool’s errand. We have a strategic allocation to commodities in our portfolios exactly because we can’t predict things like this.

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Has America destroyed Iran’s nuclear programme?

2025-06-22

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Have Trump’s vast strikes destroyed Iran’s nuclear capability? America attacked three nuclear sites in Iran, using 13-tonne GBU-57s—known as “bunker-busting bombs”—in combat for the first time. Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, analyses how much damage might have been caused #iran #america #trump #nuclear #israeliranconflict

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How effective is Israel’s air-defence system?

2025-06-21

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Israel's air-defence system is the world's most extensive missile shield. It's intercepting Iranian missiles which are striking deep inside Israel. How does the system work—and for how much longer can it hold?

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