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The baby-bust economy
Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences
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A holiday from reality
The collapse of the Scottish National Party holds lessons for populists everywhere
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Erdogain
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been re-elected as Turkey’s president. Time to make the best of a bad lot
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Soldiers, go home
Imran Khan, Pakistan’s most popular politician, must be free to contest timely elections
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Nvincible?
The AI boom has turbocharged Nvidia’s fortunes. Can it hold its position?
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The old and the zestless
SINGAPOREAgeing economies will suffer not just fiscal problems, but also a dearth of new ideas
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Five more years
SEKEROBA AND ISTANBULRecep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey’s president
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Going for broke
MADRIDSpain’s prime minister gambles on a snap general election
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Better late than never
The political backing may matter even more than the elderly fighters
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Lex Tusk
WARSAWA new panel supposed to hunt Russian agents could be misused
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Grain water
IZMAILHow Ukraine’s Danube ports have become a lifeline
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Bakhmut and the spirit of Verdun
Two small front-line towns that symbolise the horrors of war
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Up in the air
GLASGOW AND EDINBURGHAfter a decade of SNP dominance, Scottish politics is suddenly in flux
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Decline and pall
The questions that dog boarding schools in Britain
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Beware the Reform Fairy
Forget the Magic Money Tree. Another mythical being rules British politics
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Too hot to handle?
It may be too late for America to stop Iran getting the bomb
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Make it clearer
DUBAINew laws are needed to help resolve disputes among family firms
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The worst of a bad lot
What next for Sudan’s most notorious rebel leader?
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A harsh anti-gay bill is now law
KAMPALAAfrican homophobia is homegrown but pepped up by Western culture wars
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Debt trap
WASHINGTON, DCAmerica avoids financial Armageddon but stays in fiscal hell
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Forgive and forget
A bad policy has bad consequences
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Where the neon signs are pretty
CLEVELANDCan downtown densification still rescue rust-belt cities?
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The prodigal son
CHICAGOJoe Biden may yet be hurt by Hunter Biden’s activities
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Now showing in local theatres
State legislatures are becoming another front in America’s clash with China
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For-profit polarisation
WASHINGTON, DCConservative Americans are building a parallel economy
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Dreaming the Iowa dream
Nikki Haley has some reason to hope the state will propel her long-shot candidacy
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Bad Bunny, good business
MADRIDOn Spotify and Netflix Spanish seems to be taking over the world
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Cosying up to an autocrat
CARACAS AND SÃO PAULONicolás Maduro receives a warm welcome in Brazil
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The search for a middle way
TAIPEIThe presidential election will be fought on how Taiwan should navigate a superpower confrontation
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Monumental Modi
DELHI|The Hindu-nationalist government is rebuilding New Delhi
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Military victory
ISLAMABADImran Khan loses his party and his battle with the army
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In hot water
TAKAYAMA CITY, GIFUA venerable leisure industry is blocking energy development
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The rise and fall of Tae Yong Ho
A prominent defector from North to South Korea illustrates the flaws of both
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The job search goes on
HONG KONGThe high rate of graduate unemployment reflects a mismatch of timing, skills and aspirations
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Stuck in the trap
China’s birth rates remain stubbornly low. New research helps explain why
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Surfing the second wave
SHANGHAIFrom zero-covid to zero restrictions
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Bunny power
A favourite brand reinvents itself again
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Enter the speech police
Governments are preparing tougher laws on who says what on social media
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There’s AI in them thar hills
SAN JOSEThe companies selling the picks and shovels in the artificial-intelligence gold rush are cashing in
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A tale of three tie-ups
Dealmaking has slowed—except, it seems, among dealmakers
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Going broke? Go slow
MUMBAIEfforts to fast-track insolvencies get bogged down in the courts
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Keeping their shine
Some bauble merchants are more recession-proof than others
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Desk rage
The health condition that blights office workers everywhere
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Welcome to Ozanada
Australia and Canada are one corporate country—with one set of flaws
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Exodus
ST JOHN’S, NEWFOUNDLANDAn unprecedentedly large wave of mass migration is under way
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New anchor
Radical reform of the world’s oil-price benchmark seeks to avert chaos
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A pricey shot
America will struggle to pay for ultra-expensive gene therapies
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Monetary madness
ISTANBULTurkey’s bizarre macroeconomic experiment enters a new phase
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Tiny toolbox
HONG KONGWhy China’s government might struggle to revive its economy
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Back into battle
Investors return to their confrontation with rising interest rates
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The perfect carbon price
How to make the best method of tackling climate change even better
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Fishy business
BODØ, NORWAY High-tech fish farming can cut pollution, boost productivity and allow fish to be grown anywhere in the world
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This will only hurt a little
Insects and worms could improve the humble hypodermic needle
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Melting the Med
Temperatures of 50°C will become much more common in the Mediterranean and Middle East by the end of the century
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Why legal writing is so awful
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by mere convenience
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David and Goliath
WOBURN, MASSACHUSETTSElectricity may be better than hydrogen for making green steel
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The powers that be
A dual biography of Winnie and Nelson Mandela offers an important corrective to recent historical revisionism
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United Nations of the Lone Star State
ARLINGTON, TEXAS Immigrants and first-generation Texans are changing barbecue for the better
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Requiems and echoes
A new book tells the story of Aleksander Kulisiewicz, who preserved the secret cultural life of the Nazi camps
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England, the opera
Glimpsing the state of the nation at Glyndebourne, just not as you might expect
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Low-hanging fruit
Cheap, single-dose HPV vaccines could save millions of lives
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Shine, no matter what
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock), singer and dancer, died on May 24th, aged 83
