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1. An unrestrained Israel is reshaping the Middle East
2. Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science fiction
3. If it comes to a stand-off, Europe has leverage over America
4. Syria has got rid of Bashar al-Assad, but not sectarian tensions
5. Syria’s economy, still strangled by sanctions, is on its knees
6. The transactional world Donald Trump seeks would harm not help America
7. Donald Trump is a reckless president, but not yet a lawless one
8. America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy
9. Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs
10. Even in India, bureaucracy is being curtailed
11. Many governments talk about cutting regulation but few manage to
12. Why Chinese AI has stunned the world
13. The right in Congress and the courts will reshape Donald Trump’s agenda
14. How far will Donald Trump go to get rid of illegal immigrants?
15. Young customers in developing countries propel a boom in plastic surgery
16. The Assad regime’s fall voids many of the Middle East’s old certainties
17. Syria has exchanged a vile dictator for an uncertain future
18. Gambling is growing like gangbusters in America
19. The Adani bribery case could upend Indian business and politics
20. The war in Ukraine is straining Russia’s economy and society
21. How will Donald Trump handle the war in Ukraine?
22. Elon Musk’s transformation, in his own words
23. Elon Musk and Donald Trump seem besotted. Where is their bromance headed?
24. The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think
25. Donald Trump’s victory was resounding. His second term will be, too
26. How bad could a second Trump presidency get?
27. GLP-1s like Ozempic are among the most important drug breakthroughs ever
28. The rockets are nifty, but it is satellites that make SpaceX valuable
29. Who will control the next Congress?
30. Has the war in Gaza radicalised young Palestinians?
31. A year on, Israeli society is divided about the lessons of October 7th
32. The bloodshed in the Middle East is fast expanding
33. What Hamas misunderstood about the Middle East
34. After the decapitation of Hizbullah, Iran could race for a nuclear bomb
35. Ukraine is on the defensive, militarily, economically and diplomatically
36. America is becoming less “woke”
37. What will happen if America’s election result is contested?
38. The Chinese authorities are concealing the state of the economy
39. “Hell on earth”: satellite images document the siege of a Sudanese city
40. The ripple effects of Sudan’s war are being felt across three continents
41. Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
42. Kamala Harris has revealed only the vaguest of policy platforms
43. Talent is scarce. Yet many countries spurn it
44. America’s “left-behind” are doing better than ever
45. Swing-state economies are doing just fine
46. Can Kamala Harris win on the economy?
48. A shift in the media business is changing what it is to be a sports fan
49. Optimistic plans for post-war Gaza have little basis in reality
50. Will Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to America repair or weaken ties?
51. Small investments in nutrition could make the world brainier
52. Introducing “Boom!”
53. One generation has dominated American politics for over 30 years
54. Senility in high office
55. Democratic bigwigs are starting to call for Joe Biden to step aside
56. What would Joe Biden actually do with a second term?
57. How AI is changing warfare
58. America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring
59. The people and places that turned away from the BJP
60. Narendra Modi could respond to disappointment in two different ways
61. The undoing of Roe v Wade has created a mighty political movement
62. Why this is South Africa’s most important election since 1994
63. Why America is vulnerable to a despot
64. The world’s economic order is breaking down
65. America’s fiscal outlook is disastrous, but forgotten
67. America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population
68. Homeowners face a $25trn bill from climate change
69. America and its allies are entering a period of nuclear uncertainty
70. How to predict Donald Trump’s foreign policy
71. The war in Gaza may topple Hamas without making Israel safer
72. America’s economy has escaped a hard landing
73. Third-party candidates could be decisive in America’s election
74. America’s ten-year-old fentanyl epidemic is still getting worse
75. Can Europe defend itself without America?
76. First electric cars. Next, electric factories?
77. “National conservatives” are forging a global front against liberalism
78. China’s well-to-do are under assault from every side
79. As Facebook turns 20, politics is out; impersonal video feeds are in
80. Could AI transform life in developing countries?
81. Ram and the strongman: Modi looks unstoppable in India’s election
82. Western firms are quaking as China’s electric-car industry speeds up
83. Joe Biden’s chances do not look good. The Democrats have no plan B
84. Brexit? Hah! Lockdowns? Shrug! Can nothing stop London?
85. Despite the war in Gaza, talk of a two-state solution persists
86. How Putin is reshaping Russia to keep his war-machine running
87. The messier the world gets, the more the UAE seems to thrive
88. Now AI can write, sing and act, is it still possible to be a star?
89. Markets think interest rates could stay high for a decade or more
90. Why Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been delayed
91. Israel’s prime minister and its army are damagingly divided
92. The overstretched superpower
93. Iran’s ayatollahs play the Middle East’s most dangerous game
94. Can the Palestinian Authority control Gaza if Hamas is ousted?
95. Why Saudi Arabia and the UAE want to keep links with Israel
96. Mapping the destruction in Gaza
97. Israel’s four unpalatable options for Gaza’s long-term future
98. As Israel’s invasion of Gaza nears, the obstacles get more daunting
99. The Arab world thinks differently about this war
100. Mapping Israel’s war in Gaza
101. Vladimir Putin’s plan to profit from the Israel-Hamas war
102. Hamas tunnels under Gaza will be a key battlefield for Israel
103. Israel’s tank commanders are studying Russia’s mistakes
104. Is Israel acting within the laws of war?
105. Hamas’s attack was the bloodiest in Israel’s history
106. Hamas’s atrocities and Israel’s retaliation will change both sides for ever
107. Hamas has failed to rally the Middle East to its cause
108. The war in Ukraine is threatening to wash across the Black Sea
109. How Microsoft could supplant Apple as the world’s most valuable firm
110. Western help for Ukraine is likely to diminish next year
111. To endure a long war, Ukraine is remaking its army, economy and society
112. The hard right is getting closer to power all over Europe
113. The Gulf countries want to reshape the Middle East in their image
114. How cynical leaders are whipping up nationalism to win and abuse power
115. El Nino and global warming are mixing in alarming ways
116. China’s defeated youth
117. Saudi Arabia is spending a fortune on sport
118. Could America’s economy escape recession?
119. The meticulous, ruthless preparations for a second Trump term
120. Why China should be friendlier to its neighbours
121. The surprising upside of climate migration
122. War is reshaping the Ukrainian state—for the better
123. Inflation is as corrosive to investing as it is to the real economy
124. Pretending that everything is under control in Russia
125. Ukraine’s counter-offensive is gathering pace
126. The geopolitical stakes of Ukraine’s counter-offensive
127. It’s not just a fiscal fiasco: greying economies also innovate less
128. Ron DeSantis has little chance of beating Donald Trump
129. Henry Kissinger explains how to avoid world war three
130. China learns to manage decline
131. The fall of empires preys on Xi Jinping’s mind
133. How soon and at what height will China’s economy peak?
134. China v America: how Xi Jinping plans to narrow the military gap
135. Could Erdogan be ousted in Turkey’s coming election?
136. Russia’s economy can withstand a long war, but not a more intense one
137. America’s economic outperformance is a marvel to behold
138. The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak
139. America’s commercial sanctions on China could get much worse
140. Iran wants a detente with its neighbours but not with America
141. Texas’s latest boom is its biggest yet
142. America and China are preparing for a war over Taiwan
143. A new class of drugs for weight loss could end obesity
144. Data from satellites reveal the vast extent of fighting in Ukraine
146. The invasion has stalled, but Putin’s war on dissent marches on
147. The West is struggling to forge a new arsenal of democracy
148. Ukraine’s fate will determine the West’s authority in the world
149. Lots of investors think inflation is under control. Not so fast
150. Why Adani Group’s troubles will reverberate across India
151. America’s government is spending lavishly to revive manufacturing
152. How Goldman Sachs went from apex predator to Wall Street laggard
153. As Disney turns 100, its business is on a rollercoaster ride
154. Globalisation, already slowing, is suffering a new assault
155. How Elon Musk’s satellites have saved Ukraine and changed warfare
156. Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals explain why the war hangs in the balance
157. Ukraine’s top soldier runs a different kind of army from Russia’s
158. “Anyone who underestimates Russia is headed for defeat”
159. Rising interest rates and inflation have upended investing
160. China’s failing covid strategy leaves Xi Jinping with no good options
161. The costs and consequences of Europe’s energy crisis are growing
162. What Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall means for effective altruism
163. The failure of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried will leave deep scars
164. Indonesia is poised for a boom—politics permitting
165. On what terms could the war in Ukraine stop?
166. The world is going to miss the totemic 1.5°C climate target
167. Joe Biden attempts the biggest overhaul of America’s economy in decades
168. Will India become a green superpower?
169. China and the West are in a race to foster innovation
170. Elon Musk’s foray into geopolitics has Ukraine worried
171. Ukraine’s military success is reshaping Russia as well as the war
172. An investigation into what has shaped Xi Jinping’s thinking
173. The war in Ukraine has reshaped the world’s fuel markets
174. Jair Bolsonaro is poised to lose the Brazilian election
175. Huge “foundation models” are turbo-charging AI progress
176. Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party is unquestionable
177. American policy is splitting, state by state, into two blocs
178. Gene therapies must become miracles of medicine
179. The structure of the world’s supply chains is changing
180. As TikTok grows, so does suspicion
181. Germany is facing dramatic change in many dimensions all at once
182. Vladimir Putin is in thrall to a distinctive brand of Russian fascism
183. How has Turkey’s economy kept growing despite raging inflation?
184. Democrats in America are realising they must moderate or die
185. Does a protracted conflict favour Russia or Ukraine?
186. Energy security gives climate-friendly nuclear-power plants a new appeal
187. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has eroded the nuclear taboo
188. China is trying to protect its economy from Western pressure
189. A world grain shortage puts tens of millions at risk
190. India is likely to be the world’s fastest-growing big economy this year
191. America’s Supreme Court faces a crisis of legitimacy
192. Russia’s army is in a woeful state
193. What Taiwan can learn from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
194. What will it cost to rebuild Ukraine?
195. Volodymyr Zelensky’s Ukraine is defined by self-organisation
196. France looks likely to re-elect Emmanuel Macron
197. What next for Russia?
198. Ukraine’s president tells The Economist why Vladimir Putin must be defeated
200. An uncertain outlook across Ukraine
201. The risk that the war in Ukraine escalates past the nuclear threshold
203. Russian soldiers expecting to be welcomed to Ukraine were soon disabused
204. Vladimir Putin is pushing Russia into the past
205. The war in Ukraine is going to change geopolitics profoundly
206. Western sanctions on Russia are like none the world has seen
207. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is wrecking two countries
208. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
209. A new era of transparent warfare beckons
210. Vladimir Putin’s attack on Ukraine also damages Russia
211. The elections in Uttar Pradesh will show where India is heading
212. Why the world is saving too much money for its own good
214. What America’s largest technology firms are investing in
215. Kazakhstan’s bloody turbulence will affect all of Central Asia
216. Russia’s menacing of Ukraine is unlikely to induce NATO to retreat
217. The Republicans are still Donald Trump’s party, and they can still win
218. The world that the West built after Pearl Harbour is cracking
219. Omicron looks ominous. How bad is it likely to be?
220. As America retreats, regional rogues are on the rise
221. Governments are not going to stop getting bigger
222. Vladimir Putin has shifted from autocracy to dictatorship
223. The Democrats’ social-spending package cannot repair the American Dream
224. Many more Africans are migrating within Africa than to Europe
227. Creating the new hydrogen economy is a massive undertaking
228. The decline of Britain’s stockmarket should be seen in a broader historical context
230. AUKUS reshapes the strategic landscape of the Indo-Pacific
231. Adventures in DeFi-land
233. How America wasted its unipolar moment
234. Left-wing activists are using old tactics in a new assault on liberalism
235. How did American “wokeness” jump from elite schools to everyday life?
236. America’s flight from Afghanistan will embolden jihadists around the world
237. From Saigon to Kabul: what America’s Afghan fiasco means for the world
238. China’s future economic potential hinges on its productivity
239. Open-source intelligence challenges state monopolies on information
240. The prospects for developing countries are not what they once were
241. Three degrees of global warming is quite plausible and truly disastrous
242. Joe Biden is determined that China should not displace America
243. Will surprisingly high global inflation last?
244. The unvaccinated are at risk as evolution accelerates the covid-19 pandemic
246. Ransomware highlights the challenges and subtleties of cybersecurity
247. The bottlenecks which could constrain emission cuts
248. Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its footing?
249. Mexico’s populist president faces a crucial test in elections in June
250. How Israel and Hamas returned to armed conflict
251. How can more covid-19 vaccines be made available?
252. There have been 7m-13m excess deaths worldwide during the pandemic
253. The new rules of the “creator economy”
254. China’s growing military confidence puts Taiwan at risk
255. The Kremlin has isolated Russia’s economy
256. Vladimir Putin is growing ever more repressive as he loses support
257. Brexit has reinvigorated Scottish nationalism
258. The Kurdish spring did not happen
259. Europe’s radical economic response to covid-19
260. Why the EU’s covid-19 vaccination programme went wrong
261. Covid-19 vaccines have alerted the world to the power of RNA therapies
262. China is not just shackling Hong Kong, it is remaking it
263. Most democracies see only a limited role for supermajorities
264. The filibuster is an oddity that harms American democracy
265. Covid-19 has transformed the welfare state. Which changes will endure?
266. In no region is China’s influence felt more strongly than in South-East Asia
267. Joe Biden’s climate-friendly energy revolution
268. The search for ET hots up
269. When covid-19 vaccines meet the new variants of the virus
270. Vaccine hesitancy is putting progress against covid-19 at risk
272. Nuclear proliferation is not fast, but it is frightening
273. After the chaos of the Trump era, what can Joe Biden hope to achieve?
275. The great task
277. A surge in inflation looks unlikely
279. Narendra Modi threatens to turn India into a one-party state
280. Democracies must team up to take on China in the technosphere
281. Value investing is struggling to remain relevant
282. An effective covid-19 vaccine is a turning point in the pandemic
283. The second wave of covid-19 has sent much of Europe back into lockdown
284. President Trump’s criticisms of the world order had some merit
285. President Trump has had real achievements and a baleful effect
287. Social media’s struggle with self-censorship
288. Thailand’s king seeks to bring back absolute monarchy
289. What Ant Group’s IPO says about the future of finance
290. Joe Biden would not remake America’s economy
291. The covid-19 pandemic is worse than official figures show
292. America’s domination of oil and gas will not cow China
293. Covid-19 has forced a radical shift in working habits
294. Covid-19 and an atmosphere of distrust pose grave risks to America’s election
295. The uprising in Belarus and the poisoning of Alexei Navalny
296. Xi Jinping is trying to remake the Chinese economy
297. Covid-19 could push some universities over the brink
298. Google’s problems are bigger than just the antitrust case
299. The covid-19 pandemic is forcing a rethink in macroeconomics
300. America’s war on Huawei nears its endgame
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