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Boom!
A new six-part podcast series about the generation that blew up American politics
“Dateline” history quiz
This week: Labour’s triumph; Beckermania
US in brief
Biden gives fiery NATO speech
United States
Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
And some senior Democrats may merely be holding their fire
Business
The EV trade war between China and the West heats up
But Elon Musk’s carmaker is somehow escaping the worst of it
Asia
Narendra Modi cuddles up to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
India’s prime minister visited amid fresh Russian atrocities in Ukraine
The world in brief
Jens Stoltenberg said that he expected NATO leaders to agree on a “substantial” aid package for Ukraine...
Nancy Pelosi, the former speaker of America’s House of Representatives, said that it was up to President Joe Biden to “make a decision” on whether he will run for re-election...
The Israel Defence Forces ordered civilians in Gaza city, in the north of the enclave, to evacuate, as the army escalated its offensive...
In his first public comments since parliamentary elections on July 7th Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, called on political parties with “republican values” to form a majority coalition...
The French far right may not have peaked
After winning 32% of the vote in parliamentary elections it will eye the presidency
Bagehot: The new frontline of British politics is just lovely
From the “left-behind” to the “well-ahead”
A short history of Taiwan and China, in maps
The Chinese Communist Party’s obsession with the island is about more than just territory
Pål Enger never quite knew why he had to steal “The Scream”
The petty criminal and former footballer died on June 29th, aged 57
Boom!
A new six-part podcast series about the generation that blew up American politics
“Dateline” history quiz
This week: Labour’s triumph; Beckermania
US in brief
Biden gives fiery NATO speech
Video
More on America’s election
Anguish about Joe Biden’s candidacy is rational, polls suggest
Would Kamala Harris fare better?
Why Biden must withdraw
The president and his party portray themselves as the saviours of democracy. Their actions say otherwise
A big donor says Joe Biden’s team has gone all Trumpian
The president is deluding himself. Democrats are better than that, says Ari Emanuel
Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the polls?
The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
NATO
World news
After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?
The country is scrambling to find a new prime minister
The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia
A new version of history is taking shape
Las Vegas’s power couple says goodbye to power
The Goodmans were mayors for 25 years. Their evolution mirrors that of Sin City
The political shifts beneath Kenya’s deadly “Gen Z” protests
Almost 40 people have died in violence
Business, finance and economics
How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
They can get Western governments and banks to crack down on exiled dissidents
Once high-flying Boeing is now a corporate criminal
Its woes illustrate the excesses of a lean-and-mean era in corporate America
The world’s richest countries in 2024
Our annual ranking compares economies in three different ways
Schumpeter: Lessons in risk-taking from buccaneering BBVA
The Spanish lender places brave political bets at home and abroad
Summer reads
The world’s most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
Even after a century of research, Barro Colorado in Panama continues to shed light on natural life
Finishing schools for the age of TikTok
Unsure how to be polite at work? Ask a digital etiquette guru
New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager
One Chilean hybrid has a spicy taste, with hints of clove
Can Saudi Arabia become a premier tourist hotspot?
It has sun, sea and (lots of) sand. But people are wary of visiting the kingdom
After Britain’s election
How did pollsters do in predicting the British election?
The biggest miss since 1992
How shallow was Labour’s victory in the British election?
The British party system may be fragmenting but voters delivered a coherent message
Labour has won the British election. Now it has to seize the moment
A volatile electorate and a strong showing for Reform UK are no reason for caution
Bagehot: What now for Britain’s right-wing parties
The Conservatives, Reform UK and the regressive dilemma
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The unsteady comeback of the California condor
The bird’s plight is a study in unintended consequences
Israel and its enemies
The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
It would feature kamikaze drones, mass blackouts and the largest missile barrage in history
Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
The Economist went to see
Is a Palestinian state a fantasy?
Amid war in Gaza, the prospect is at once more relevant than ever and more distant
Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
For all America’s optimism, the two sides look fundamentally irreconcilable
The war in Ukraine
How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
Four charts illustrate a grim new milestone
Ukraine’s war has created millions of broken families
Children and wives have been apart from their fathers and husbands for more than two years
Ukraine has a month to avoid default
Lending to a borrower at war entails an additional gamble: that it will win
Death and destruction in a Russian city
Russians in the border city of Belgorod have become victims too in the war Vladimir Putin launched against Ukraine
Edition: July 6th 2024
No way to run a country
The state we’re in
A tour of Britain—and of the past 14 years of Conservative rule
Imagining a war in Lebanon
It would feature kamikaze drones, mass blackouts and the largest missile barrage in history
In its prime: Amazon at 30
Three factors will define its next decade
Technology Quarterly: Spycraft
And so has the world in which they are used,
Special reports: July 13th 2024
Must try harder
Schools in rich countries are making poor progress. They need to get back to basics, argues Mark Johnson
