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On abortion and crime, artificial intelligence in health care, war novels, casual sex

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Downtown Georgetown in the Cayman Islands

On car safety, the UN and Palestinians, Chinese data, leaving work, museums

The front of an encroaching giant pickup truck

On bitcoin mining, social care, orange juice, dogs, Sudan, country music, contemporary compositions

The warehouse of a crypto mining operation in Texas

On Iranian hostages, handwriting, underground cables, love, Kamala Harris, artificial intelligence, gobbledygook 

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The world this week

Politics

Business

KAL’s cartoon

The Economist

This week’s cover

The rise of a new economic power

How strong is India’s economy?

Leaders

Good news, for now

America’s latest aid will give Ukraine only a temporary reprieve

Back on the road 

Don’t be gloomy about Tesla and its EV rivals

Brechrit?

Why leaving the ECHR would be a bad idea for Britain

Breakbone blues

A mosquito-borne disease is spreading as the planet warms 

American politics

A conservative strategist on how Joe Biden can win

By Invitation

Power in China

Desmond Shum on how Xi Jinping beat down China’s red aristocrats

Last-minute reprieve

America’s $61bn aid package buys Ukraine time

Briefing

Rights and flights

Why Britain’s membership of the ECHR has become a political issue

Britain

Court out?

The ECtHR’s Swiss climate ruling: overreach or appropriate?

A silent scandal

Why are so many bodies in Britain found in a decomposed state?

Put VAT on everything

How to fix Britain’s barmy VAT regime

Queering Ambridge

When academics meet “The Archers”

Local democracy

English local government is in a dire state

Bagehot

Britain’s Reform UK party does not exist 

Tackling the climate

Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe

Europe

Meloni and the media

Italy’s government is trying to influence the state-owned broadcaster

A weak link

The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia

Drama king

Will Spain’s prime minister suddenly quit?

Farewell to harms

Has the spectre of terrorism finally been excised from Spain?

Hard times

Two years of war have impoverished many Ukrainians

Charlemagne

Ursula von der Leyen is the favourite to keep leading the EU—right? 

Clumsy college crackdowns

Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly

United States

The centre holds

Will the dramatic burst of bipartisanship in Congress last?

What the FERC

The most important climate agency you’ve never heard of 

Back to square one

Will Joe Biden benefit from falling murder rates across America?

Termination disputation

In its latest abortion case the Supreme Court seems to back Idaho

Spoiler alert

A dispatch from Donald Trump’s courtroom

Lexington

The campus is coming for Joe Biden

Militia mayhem 

The Middle East has a militia problem

Middle East & Africa

Iran’s defensive tactics

How Iran covered up the damage from Israel’s strikes

Your money or your life

How much do Palestinians pay to get out of Gaza?

The Cyrus cylinder 

Why Iranian dissidents love Cyrus, an ancient Persian king

The destruction of Addis Ababa

The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished

Long walk to nowhere

How race and politics interact in modern South Africa

Mosquito-borne illness

Dengue fever is surging in Latin America

The Americas

Latin America’s tech superstar

Meet Argentina’s richest man

Trump-proof tiger

Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer

Asia

No longer just made in China

Chinese firms are expanding in South-East Asia

Banyan

The family feud that holds the Philippines back

Pacific pivot

The Maldives is cosying up to China

Jobs v the patriarchy

Can women-only factories help more Indian women into work?

Back to the future

Why do the Japanese love CDs?

Mules and motorcades

How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale

China

Friends, sorta 

Why China is unlikely to restrain Iran

Bean counting

China’s young people are rushing to buy gold

Chaguan

China’s ties with Russia are growing more solid

Autarky rules OK

The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase

International

The India express

For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda 

Special report

Surprise winner

India’s financial system has improved dramatically in the past decade 

Functioning anarchy

India’s difficult business environment is improving 

A tricky trio

India’s leaders must deal with three economic weaknesses

Stellar solar

Going green could bring huge benefits for India’s economy

Building for the future

India must make much deeper changes if it is to sustain its growth

Sources and acknowledgments

Joint adventures

How to build a global business empire in the 21st century

Wings of change

Can anyone pull Boeing out of its nosedive?

Tinderboxed in

Will war snuff out the Gulf’s global business ambitions?

Bartleby

Pssst! Want to read something about rumour and innuendo? 

Social media and security

Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it

Schumpeter

Tesla faces an identity crisis: carmaker or tech firm?

Broke capitalism

How American politics has infected investing

Finance & economics

Hop to it

Don’t like your job? Quit for a rival firm 

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