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• Why investors can't agree on the financial outlook
• Mexico's president wants to develop the poorer south
• 'Talk to Me' Is Horror Made by and for the Internet Generation
• The American credit cycle is at a dangerous point
• Hollywood Is on Strike. This Entertainment Exec Is Busier Than Ever.
• The Explosive Legacy of the Pandemic Hand Sanitizer Boom
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• The origin of grapevines is a tangled vine itself
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Italy's scorching summer singes Giorgia Meloni
• How AI May Be Used to Create Custom Disinformation Ahead of 2024
• Tunisia's autocratic ruler adopts the "Great Replacement" theory
• India leads a boom in orders for passenger jets
• Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
• Sony's disc-based PlayStation 5 falls back to $449
• Why Ukraine may be choosing a war of attrition
• Meet the Peruvian indigenous singer inspired by K-pop
• The Putin Show
• Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis
• Ecuador's president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
• In Japan, festivals are boldly taking art into the countryside
• South Korea has America in its face and China breathing down its neck
• Boris Johnson strikes again
• Shane Warne believed that cricket should always be fun
• China floods: at least 14 killed after torrential rain in north-east
• Business
• 9 Best Carpet Cleaners (2023): Budget, Spot Cleaners, Hard Floors
• The Best Personal Safety Devices, Apps, and Wearables (2023)
• Apps Are Rushing to Add AI. Is Any of It Useful?
• Is the luxury sector recession-proof?
• Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
• The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
• China has its eyes on Okinawa
• Newfangled coins and mercenaries may have brought about democracy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What the West gets wrong about peacemaking in Sudan
• Threads is getting a web version and a search function 'in the next few weeks'
• Is Narendra Modi turning Bollywood against Muslims?
• Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership
• Why Ukraine needs American cluster bombs
• Stock Funds Are Up 16.7% for 2023
• If enough people think you're a bad boss, then you are
• He Thought He Saw Wrongdoing on Wall Street. It Took Over His Life.
• Can America's stockmarket rally last?
• Pain and pride around a vital American highway
• Latin America's left-wing presidents risk stoking inflation
• What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
• 'I look over my shoulder a little more': LGBTQ+ people on surviving hostile laws in US south
• Ian Hamilton masterminded one of the most daring heists of the last century
• 'Up all night worrying': 92-year-old debanked by NatWest after move to Jamaica
• European stocks follow Asia lower over concerns about US economy
• How to Automatically Delete Passcode Texts on Android and iOS
• 'Like playing a computer game': on the frontline with one of Ukraine's deadliest drone pilots
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Chairman Mao's victims are denied justice
• Is Social Justice for the Birds? Audubon Attempts an Answer.
• An ambitious plan for "total peace" in Colombia is faltering
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Narendra Modi's party takes a beating in Karnataka
• Call of Duty is publicly shaming cheaters in the kill feed
• This Is the Era of Zombie Twitter
• "Don't Look Up", Adam McKay's political farce, is bleakly realistic
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• America's other great migration
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan is favoured to win Turkey's presidential election
• Violent crime in America
• An expert on civil war issues a warning about America
• The trouble with reality in fiction
• Britain's new political sorcerer: the Reform Fairy
• Politics
• WhatsApp Made a Movie About Afghan Women's Soccer
• Why Vladimir Putin is not a pariah in China
• The Grand Old Opera House Hotel review – head-spinning operatic comedy
• The Palestinian Authority is being eclipsed by radical militants
• Big Oil's Talent Crisis: High Salaries Are No Longer Enough
• As NATO's leaders gather in Vilnius, Ukraine will dominate everything
• A pilgrimage to the mecca of mediumship
• Qualcomm, Stung by Sluggish Smartphone Market, Plans Layoffs
• Roman Ratushny believed in a better, purer Ukraine
• The life and career of Sinéad O'Connor: 'I was really a protest singer' - video obituary
• Mexico's gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates
• Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
• Ukraine is counter-attacking in multiple directions, with mixed results
• Doctors Suddenly Got Way Better at Treating Eczema
• Meta gets whacked with a €1.2bn penalty
• Swimming's ruling on transgender women continues a trend
• The Senate's AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
• How Seeing the Milky Way Helped Us Discover the Whole Universe
• Indians are flocking to study at British universities
• Alex Borstein Loved Watching SNL Growing Up | First Fandoms
• Mimi Reinhard typed up Schindler's list
• Can anything pop the everything bubble?
• This week's cover
• A new type of Palestinian militia is emerging
• Better camouflage is needed to hide from new electronic sensors
• Can a Czech billionaire rescue Casino?
• Japan's ageing society is finding creative ways to dispose of its dead
• Russia-Ukraine war live: Ukraine detains informer accused of helping Russia plot attack on Zelenskiy, says security service
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's guarding of genetic data is a drag on scientific research
• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
• How America plans to break China's grip on African minerals
• 'Even more proud to be Jamaican': Reggae Girlz defy the odds to reach World Cup knockout
• Muddled policies are harming British universities
• Can You Decode an Alien Message?
• Open Channel: What's Your Favorite Ninja Turtles Version?
• Science, Destroyer of Worlds--And Movie Scripts
• Saudi Aramco's quarterly profits drop nearly 40% but it still rakes in $30bn
• How Thomson Reuters is leveraging AI to enhance productivity, rather than replace jobs
• 15 Best Laptop Totes and Purses (2023): Sustainable, Weather-Proof, Durable
• What to make of China's military drills around Taiwan
• Rising Money Flows, Fueled by Record Migration, Prop Up Autocrats
• Our early-adopters index examines how corporate America is deploying AI
• Britain leads the world in online gambling
• Can academic joint ventures between China and the West survive?
• What Ukraine's bloody battlefield is teaching medics
• Military and financial support to Ukraine hits a record high
• After a decade of SNP dominance, Scotland's politics is suddenly in flux
• Who will succeed Shia Islam's top man?
• Sea ice in Antarctica is at its lowest-ever level, again
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The opposition looks set to win Thailand's election
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Pixar's Slow-Burn Hit Elemental Is Coming Home Soon, With Tons of Extras
• How Christopher Nolan Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI
• Who will be Taiwan's next president?
• UK Scouts says £1m cost of relocating jamboree will affect its work for years
• Deal Dive: Most secondary sales in venture won't look like Tiger's Flipkart deal
• Tyson Foods to Close Four Plants as Chicken Business Slumps
• What is Virtual Reality (VR)? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Indian firms are flocking to the United Arab Emirates
• Albert Woodfox found his true self in prison
• Politics
• Renovation required
• Brazil's new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
• The ticking bomb under Canada's constitution
• Brazil's new president faces a fiscal crunch and a fickle Congress
• Abe Shinzo believed that Japan should assert itself in the world
• The best apps are taking a page from mobile gaming
• Bashfuscator - A Fully Configurable And Extendable Bash Obfuscation Framework
• In America, school test results are still lagging behind pre-covid levels
• Shyam Saran Negi never failed in his democratic duty
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Loretta Lynn gave all struggling women a voice
• What war mobilisation might look like in China
• Israel launched its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
• Max: The 34 Absolute Best TV Shows to Watch - CNET
• Four charts that highlight this summer's freakish temperatures
• The Wagner Group halts its march on Moscow
• India's Internet Shutdown Means Manipur Is Burning in the Dark
• The best laptops for college students
• The First Pill for Postpartum Depression Is Almost Here
• Boots Riley Says a 'Gentler Capitalism' Won't Save Society
• Hollywood's blockbuster strike may become a flop
• Dick Ravitch, New York's fiscal superman
• Generative artificial intelligence on our "Babbage" podcast
• How Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use
• Why America's Supreme Court has ended affirmative action
• China's new "Top Gun" normalises war with America
• How one of Britain's oldest youth clubs is trying to stay relevant
• Cambodia is about to host arguably the world's biggest sporting event
• Inside the armed Burmese resistance
• A tiny, ancient hominin may have been surprisingly clever
• Uruguay is losing its reputation as Latin America's success story
• Google's Pixel 7a falls to a new all-time low at Amazon
• War crimes in Tigray may be covered up or forgotten
• A New Attack Impacts ChatGPT—and No One Knows How to Stop It
• Jihadists in Congo are extending their reach in the region
• Transcript: An interview with Sir Keir Starmer
• Anoint my caverns with oil
• Rising Oil Prices Are Bad News for Drivers---and the Fed
• There is more than one way to make green steel
• Fentanyl is spreading the opioid crisis into America's big cities
• The nose bidet: can nasal rinses cure hay fever? I tried them for two weeks to find out
• People of different opinions process political data differently
• Why chaos looms at the US-Mexico border
• Sunday brunch is the new Friday night
• Pervez Musharraf was one of Pakistan's better dictators
• Should you send your children to private school?
• Many Britons have changed their minds on gay marriage
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• A dictator and his entitled son are holding Uganda captive
• Egypt's army seems to want to make pasta as well as war
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
• Two of the most enigmatic phenomena in the cosmos may be linked
• The Dream of Geothermal Energy Is Alive in Utah
• As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
• China's data-security laws rattle Western business executives
• India's foreign minister on ties with America, China and Russia
• Antarctic sea ice has shrunk by an area nine times the size of Britain
• Europe has shaken off Putin's gas embargo
• Why African leaders shunned Vladimir Putin's summit
• Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad
• WhatsApp's latest feature lets you jump in and out of group voice chats
• Are greedy corporations causing inflation?
• America's debt-ceiling deal means it should now avoid Armageddon
• For Western democracies, the price of avoiding a clash with China is rising
• Investors brace for a painful crash into America's debt ceiling
• Antony Sher pushed the boundaries of Shakespeare's plays
• Tables and Gems
• If Mike Pence Is a Big Hero, We're in Big Trouble
• China's cancel culture is nationalist, not woke
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
• Artemis - APK Infrastructure Investigator
• Tesla's surprising new route to EV domination
• Volodymyr Zelensky's European trip secures a lot more military backing
• The Republican Party's Split on Economics
• A new way to clean up the steel industry
• How to Play All of Those Old Flash Games You Remember
• Politics
• The Government's Secret Footage of Nuclear Tests Is Still Eerie Decades Later
• Can AT&T and Verizon escape managed decline?
• This week's covers
• Private equity firms offer sweeteners to lure reluctant investors
• Hands On With Google Search's Answer to ChatGPT
• How the mutiny in Russia will shape the battlefield in Ukraine
• They wanted a Bollywood ending, not an arranged marriage. Their escape came at a cost
• Chinese bubble tea chains go viral in South-East Asia
• Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
• Politics
• The rise of the self-pitying MP
• Obituary: Mikis Theodorakis wrote the theme tune of "Zorba the Greek"
• Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela once ran 80% of the world cocaine market
• Bob Dole believed in hard work, not words
• The Senate's AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
• A "Divine Comedy" ballet, 700 years after Dante's death
• China wants the world to forget about its crimes in Xinjiang
• Amazon Delivers Surprisingly Strong Profit
• A battery supply chain that excludes China looks impossible
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky's highly methodical madness
• The choice between a poorer today and a hotter tomorrow
• A new start after 60: I yearned for freedom after raising kids – so I rode a motorbike across Australia
• EFL back with a bang and Arsenal shake City hoodoo - Football Weekly podcast
• Why Baghdad may have the worst traffic in the Middle East
• How Donald Trump damaged America's interests in Asia
• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• Brexit was wrong, say 57% of British voters
• Deflation is curbing China's economic rise
• Britain's Public Order Act goes too far
• Halloween News From Universal Studios Horror Nights, Disney Parks, and More!
• The South is fast becoming America's industrial heartland
• Regulators put the future of America's crypto industry in doubt
• Disney will cut 7,000 jobs as it restructures its business
• The case for a third-party campaign in 2024 is actuarial, not ideological
• Nikki Haley, like other long shots, sees a path to victory
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Google's latest bid to push hybrid work is a $99 rate at its on-campus hotel
• AI Can Give You an NPC That Remembers. It Could Also Get Your Favorite Artist Fired
• The market for dinosaur fossils is booming
• Politics
• India's deadly heatwaves are getting even hotter
• This week's covers
• Obituary: Jean "Binta" Breeze spoke for all Jamaican women
• The Supreme Court declines to upend American election law
• 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2' Players Hit With Worm Malware
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• How an east African country became an odd sort of global powerhouse
• Ukraine's missile cemetery
• Kyiv steeplejacks and surfing dogs: the weekend's best photos
• The coming years will be the hottest ever
• Horse-racing in America needs to improve its odds
• America's plan to vet investments into China
• Study drugs make healthy people worse at problem-solving, not better
• The Orlando Magic spat in the face of Black players by supporting Ron DeSantis
• Britain hands Microsoft's Activision deal an extra life
• Business
• Some of the new king's realms may become republics
• Talk to Me's Directors Hope to Terrify Us Again With More Talk to Me Movies
• Is big business really getting too big?
• How the war split the mafia
• Personal Data Collection: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Thousands of Ukrainian soldiers are missing in action
• America is losing ground in Asian trade
• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• A geopolitical setback for China in the Pacific
• SunRay Kelley wanted to build in rhythm with nature, his teacher
• One of Gaming's Biggest YouTubers Wants to Replace Himself With AI
• Richard Leakey established Kenya as a prime source of hominid fossils
• Xi Remade China's Military. Now a Purge Threatens its Image.
• Asia is rowing about Fukushima nuclear wastewater
• Journalism Is a Public Good and Should Be Publicly Funded
• Every Amazon division is working on generative AI projects
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Africa faces a mounting debt crisis
• Norway Took On Meta's Surveillance Ads and Won
• The scandal at the Confederation of British Industry may be terminal
• Why Walmart is trouncing Amazon in the grocery wars
• The revealing appeal of China's cheapest city
• The future is uncertain for the U.S. after crashing out of the Women's World Cup
• We Need Smart Intellectual Property Laws for Artificial Intelligence
• The Problem With 'Why Do People Live in Phoenix?'
• Demand for chocolate causes more illegal deforestation than people realise
• Argentina could help the world by becoming a big lithium exporter
• A sweeping campaign against corruption in Chinese football
• Why Chinese carmakers are eyeing Thailand
• Why Cape Town beats Johannesburg
• Bride wades through floodwaters after Philippines hit by typhoons – video report
• AI Set to Upend the Talent Search at Ad Agencies and Brands
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• Battlefield lessons
• Business
• Germany's new strategy for dealings with China
• Spyware maker LetMeSpy shuts down after hacker deletes server data
• Australia and Canada are one economy—with one set of flaws
• Is China's attitude to genetically modified crops changing?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the Human Genome Project revolutionised biology
• Meta Just Proved People Hate Chronological Feeds
• Can the debt-ceiling deal hold?
• China's new Great Wall
• Investors go back into battle with rising interest rates
• A film about Argentina's history sheds light on its politics today
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• Rapper Tory Lanez to be sentenced for shooting singer Megan Thee Stallion
• America's Latest Health-Care Debacle Has an Absurd Cause
• Sorry Folks, Jack Quaid Is Not Johnny Storm in Marvel's Fantastic 4
• The world's most, and least, affordable cities are in Asia
• Uber's CEO Says He'll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks
• LK-99 Is Fueling a DIY Superconductivity Race
• Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
• Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• Many of China's top politicians were educated in the West
• African governments say credit-rating agencies are biased against them
• Dan Gwak of Point72 Ventures on why defense tech is becoming the next big thing for investors
• Alexander Lukashenko is the clearest beneficiary of Wagner's mutiny
• How long will the travel boom last?
• Anonymous tipsters, angry at Russia, help detect sanctions-busters
• Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
• Geothermal Everywhere: Finding the Energy to Save the World
• A hit film recalling an ancient poem fuels Chinese nationalist fervour
• Why America and Europe fret about China turning inwards
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Uber's CEO Says He'll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks
• Silvergate is the latest victim of the crypto meltdown
• What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster
• Why Scientists Are Clashing Over the Atlantic's Critical Currents
• Underdogs bite back as Germany and Brazil crash out – Women's Football Weekly
• AiCEF - An AI-assisted cyber exercise content generation framework using named entity recognition
• China is exerting greater power across Asia—and beyond
• After debt-ceiling negotiations, America faces a debt deluge
• The jury is still out on Ukraine's big push south
• Creating Dracula for The Last Voyage of the Demeter
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh's liberation war
• Artificial intelligence is remixing journalism into a "soup" of language
• A Belgian company wants to create woolly-mammoth burgers
• Russian arms have fewer takers in South-East Asia
• How a tide of tech money is transforming charity
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Welcome to a new, humbler private-equity industry
• For Scotland, Independence Will Always Be an Option
• Political turmoil is tearing Peru apart
• Uber's CEO Says He'll Always Find a Reason to Say His Company Sucks
• YouTube's enhanced 1080p playback option is rolling out to Premium users on the web
• WhatsApp Made a Movie About Afghan Women's Soccer
• Turkish property prices are soaring
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• What to make of the Supreme Court's tumultuous term
• How an English miner's daughter rose to work in the White House
• The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not yet
• What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
• The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
• Does America need more unemployment?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• Urban Company Lured Women Into the Gig Economy—Then Pushed Them Out
• Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right
• Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
• The working-from-home illusion fades
• Bernard Haitink believed that genius should speak for itself
• China's new GDP figures may restore faith in its economy
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• Rivalry between America and China has spread to the Indian Ocean
• Turmoil over US abortions turns spotlight on safe havens for newborns
• Gloria Allen ran a charm school for young trans women
• Meet the Woman Who Supervised the Computations That Proved an Atomic Bomb Would Work
• The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'
• TikTok's Berberine Fad Is About More Than 'Nature's Ozempic'
• Jean-Jacques Sempé was an unparalleled observer of the human condition
• Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms
• Tell us: have you kept a pop music scrapbook?
• Cheap vaccines could prevent millions of deaths from cervical cancer
• How Japanese policymakers ended up in a very deep hole
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• The Supreme Court blocks Joe Biden's student-debt-relief plan
• Despite an explosion, Elon Musk is closer to his new space age
• Investors have reason to fear a strong economy
• Federal judge narrows scope of antitrust case against Google ahead of trial
• A new super-regulator takes aim at rampant corruption in Chinese finance
• Twitter Scammers Stole $1,000 From My Friend—So I Hunted Them Down
• Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than covid-19 last winter
• Singapore is the world leader in selling cultivated meat
• Daniel Ortega expels 222 political prisoners from Nicaragua
• The world's peak population may be smaller than expected
• P.J. O'Rourke hoped to make life hell for do-gooders everywhere
• 37 Best Back-to-School Deals (2023): Laptops, Backpacks, Household Essentials
• Cashless talk
• Uber's Fatal Self-Driving Car Crash Saga Ends With the Operator Avoiding Prison
• America's closest Indo-Pacific allies are cosying up
• Criminals Have Created Their Own ChatGPT Clones
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• Beats Studio Pro Review: Good, Not Great
• Britain takes a more sensible approach to post-Brexit regulation
• Germany tries to stop brawls in public swimming pools
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• 'People are under siege': why Ethiopia's war in Tigray isn't over
• A Tiny Gap Reveals a Yawning One for the U.S. Women's Team
• China has chilling plans for governing Taiwan
• Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News's ratings
• The Anglophone military alliance in Asia is seriously ambitious
• What happens if America defaults on its debt?
• Spoutible's Low-Budget, Audacious Quest to Be the Next Twitter
• Young South Koreans are embracing fractional investing
• The Musk-Zuckerberg social-media smackdown
• Will the Law Commission's digital assets final report make the UK a DeFi jurisdiction of choice?
• This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer's Nerves
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• Steve Jobs' son launches a fund, NASA debuts a streaming service, and writers protest a proposed surveillance law
• Hip Hop's Surprising, Never-Ending Evolutions
• Venezuela's autocrat launches a massive corruption probe
• Charles McGee faced adversity at home as much as abroad
• Brother Andrew secretly carried Bibles behind the Iron Curtain
• This week's covers
• A war correspondent's intimate portrait of an embattled minority
• Britons still do like to be beside the seaside
• Business
• Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape
• Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
• The world divided
• Catholic reformers want big changes to a church marred by sex abuse
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• X, Formerly Known as Twitter, Reinstates Kanye West's Account
• New Dungeons & Dragons Sourcebook Features AI Generated Art
• El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is not paying off
• American policing has changed since George Floyd's murder
• Why Africa is poised to become a big player in energy markets
• Brazil's new president is visiting Joe Biden to boost relations
• Frontline Formosa
• Ham Radio Enthusiasts Battle High-Frequency Traders for the Airwaves
• Doug Rushkoff Is Ready to Renounce the Digital Revolution
• Europe will need to fundamentally reset its fiscal policies
• China's new head of government, Li Qiang, has Xi Jinping's ear
• Large language models' ability to generate text also lets them plan and reason
• How to Survive a Devastating Earthquake—and Firestorm
• Are Thailand's gay TV dramas the next K-pop?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
• South-East Asia is crying out for regional leadership
• European countries have no idea how to woo India
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Business
• Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
• Autherine Lucy was an unlikely pioneer
• How white-collar warriors gear up for the day
• Press freedom is under attack
• America has a shortage of lab monkeys
• How to survive a superpower split
• What China's graduates really think about their job prospects
• The pet I'll never forget: I had to choose between my baby and my dog. A year later, I still miss her
• The Trillion-Dollar Auction to Save the World
• England 0-0 Nigeria: Women's World Cup last 16 player ratings
• This week in The Economist
• Southern Baptists are arguing about the extent of male authority
• Britain's NHS has never seen industrial action on this scale
• The hard-right Vox could be in Spain's next government
• Los Angeles Has a Growing Typhus Problem, Thanks to the Fleas
• Bazball is battering WinViz, but here's why we all hate sporting AI stealing our turf | Emma John
• I was a terrorist. Now I run a kindergarten – video
• Would Labour turn to the left in office?
• French bulldogs are taking over America
• South Korea has given up on talking to the North
• What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?
• A battle against spies in China is spooking locals and foreigners
• The death of Silvio Berlusconi creates uncertainty for his party
• Sudan's spiralling war, in maps
• Peru's political chaos looks likely to persist
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Wines That Entertain as Well as Impress
• KAL's cartoon
• Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
• Want to be a nun? You need to pass these tests
• The 12 Best Games on Xbox Game Pass (August 2023)
• The last, unfulfilled dream of Jamie Dimon, king of Wall Street
• Apple Admits to Bug in Screen Time Parental Controls
• The challenge of the age
• Why the EU will not seize Russian state assets to rebuild Ukraine
• Politics
• Elon Really Wants to Turn Twitter Into Wall Street
• The Tories v the institutions
• Why Homes Often Feel Warmer Than the Thermostat Suggests
• 'His last day was a joyful one': mother of Angus Cloud says death not intentional
• The end of Western naivety about China
• The world's worst central banker retires
• Can Sweden's two-track economy avoid a recession?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new generation of Argentine musicians is topping the charts
• Meet the Psychedelic Boom's First Responders
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An acrimonious debate about covid's origins will rumble on
• The West struggles to respond forcefully to Russia's war in Ukraine
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What does Xi Jinping want from Vladimir Putin?
• Pressurised natural caves could offer a home from home on the Moon
• Economists draw swords over how to fix inflation
• How Russia dodges diesel sanctions
• Life under the rule of the Taliban 2.0
• How generative models could go wrong
• America's culture wars threaten its single market
• Can British seaweed farms bloom?
• How a front-line city became Ukraine's romantic capital
• Is mining set for a new wave of mega-mergers?
• Donald Trump has become more dangerous
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Poland's government may seek to bar opponents from politics
• Lorcana Hopefuls Wait in Line for 14 Hours for Disney Magic
• FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress
• Is America's inflationary fever breaking?
• Step inside The Economist's summer issue
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
• For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
• The Americas face a historic opportunity. Will the region grasp it?
• The Senate's AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• America's state lawmakers are passing ineffective anti-porn laws
• Obituary: Gino Strada believed health care was a human right
• European cannabis legalisation moves into the slow-dopey lane
• Full clean ahead: can shipping finally steer away from fossil fuels?
• Man City v Inter Milan is the most lopsided final in Champions League history
• If All You Want Is Money, These Financial Advisers Might Say 'No Thanks'
• To ensure vaccines work properly, men should get a good night's sleep
• Russian hackers are preparing for a new campaign in Ukraine
• DeSantis is a truer believer, if a lesser politician, than Trump
• China's Communist Party is tightening its grip in businesses
• Sir Keir Starmer on "Starmerism"
• How ChatGPT could help teachers and lower the cost of college
• Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
• The Senate's AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past
• A pandemic is not just a disease – it's a crisis fuelled by inequality | Mia Malan
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Conservatives dominate Chile's constitutional assembly this time around
• Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
• Costly climate rules are turning Germans away from the Greens
• Can Ukraine capitalise on chaos in Russia?
• Latin America's prisons are overcrowded and violent
• Business
• Red Meat Allergy Caused by Tick Bite Is Spreading--And Nearly Half of Doctors Don't Know about It
• How Ukrainian refugee entrepreneurs are changing Poland
• This week's covers
• How Kyiv fended off a Russian missile blitz in May
• Massachusetts is not the gun-control beacon it once was
• One year after Dobbs, America's pro-life movement is in flux
• Sources and acknowledgments
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• Meme Stocks Are a Thing---Again
• Big tech's dominance is straining the logic of passive investing
• Business
• The growth of Africa's towns and small cities is transforming the continent
• 'I gravitate towards the uncomfortable': how John Wilson made TV's most bizarre and brilliant docuseries
• Glenda Jackson left acting for politics—and then returned
• Nigeria's new president acts fast
• Barbie Is Now a $1 Billion Hit
• A WHO report shows that pregnancy is killing 800 women a day
• NRG Energy stands up to Elliott after $5bn move into home security
• Devolver Digital will proudly delay a bunch of games in its next showcase
• Wildfires cross US border into Canada triggering evacuation order – video
• Siemens's wind-turbine business is blown off course
• How to beat desk rage
• Software is now as important as hardware in cars
• Rebuilding Ukraine will require money, but also tough reforms
• British people are kinder and less divided than politicians give us credit for | Nesrine Malik
• Twitch Star's NYC Event Devolves Into Chaos, Transforming Union Square Into Thunderdome
• Why activist investors are going to have a busy year
• North Korea's hackers are after intel, not just crypto
• The world's biggest democracy is becoming less free
• Is there more to Alphabet than Google search?
• South Korea's government and business are over-close
• How to recruit with softer skills in mind
• A critical genetic database is under fire
• Sooner or later, America's financial system could seize up
• This week's cover
• Why right-wing Europeans are flocking to an English thinker
• The dark and bright sides of power
• A farewell to small cars, the industrial icons that put Europe on wheels
• California may punt on paying reparations to the descendants of slaves
• The Glasgow summit left a huge hole in the world's plans to curb climate change
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• Argentina's slum policy is a rare bright spot in the country
• Birds are just as fashion-conscious as people
• Weekend podcast: at home with world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, John Crace on Rishi's climate retreat, and comedian Michelle Brasier on befriending her scammer
• The new king of beers is a Mexican-American success story
• LIBOR will at last be switched off in June
• Senegal's President Macky Sall says he won't stand for a third term
• John Romero's Doom Memoir Is Full of Fascinating Details
• Apps Are Rushing to Add AI. Is Any of It Useful?