Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

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Welcome to the first bonus War Room of 2026. January has been so packed with geopolitical ructions—did we just narrowly avoid the break-up of NATO ?—that one of the most dramatic special operations in ...

Each attack has left Kyiv more vulnerable, as reserves and balancing capacities disappear. Yet the city may have been granted a brief reprieve. On January 29th Donald Trump said that he had secured an ...

Presumably ICE will play a role.” “The militia”, Mr Lindberg claims, “is recruited from roughly the same population that stormed the Capitol when Trump lost last time.” 50%, how much more children ...

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If flying to the Moon were like swimming the English Channel, no one in the 53 years since Apollo 17 splashed down in the ...

The fact that the yen has been so weak against a falling greenback is remarkable. It is doubly striking, because the gap ...

Nobody likes to be called normal, least of all billionaires. Those who believe AI could imperil humanity if not properly ...

Companies, too, must prepare. To thrive they need not only to make the best use of ai, but also to find and nurture the best ...

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R ISK COMES naturally to Cheng Li-wun, Taiwan’s opposition leader. She began her career as a student activist in the 1990s, ...