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Over a billion have voted in 2024: has democracy won?
Half the world has had elections so far this year
Middle East & Africa
Wrath and sorrow rule in Israel on the anniversary of October 7th
A divided country is at war with multiple enemies, and fighting itself
United States
The Supreme Court begins another contentious term
Guns, vapes, online porn and health care for transgender youth dot the docket
The world in brief
Israel continued to bombard Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, overnight...
Ruben Brekelmans, the Dutch defence minister, pledged €400m ($440m) towards the development of Ukraine’s drone programme while visiting Kyiv...
Fewer than 28% of Tunisians bothered to go to the polls for Sunday’s presidential election...
Sue Gray quit as chief of staff to Keir Starmer, Britain’s prime minister...
What America’s presidential election means for world trade
The first in a series of eight concise briefs on the consequences of the 2024 election
Bartleby: What makes a good manager?
Hint: not someone who says I am a good manager
Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases
The isolation can be geographic or cultural
Why is football in Latin America so complex?
Money-grubbing and regulatory capture explain its Byzantine leagues
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On the cover: War in the Middle East
The year that shattered the Middle East
Kill or be killed is the region’s new logic. Deterrence and diplomacy would be better
What Hamas misunderstood about the Middle East
A war meant to draw in the militant group’s allies has instead left them battered
A year on, Israeli society is divided about the lessons of October 7th
Hawks and doves, religious and secular, right and left—all the old cleavages are resurfacing
The bloodshed in the Middle East is fast expanding
Israel seems certain to retaliate to Iran’s missile attack
Weekend highlights
Michael Kovrig, former hostage of the Chinese state
Three years after his release, the Canadian tells his story to The Economist
How humans invented good and evil, and may reinvent both
Over thousands of years humans domesticated themselves
Why is football in Latin America so complex?
Money-grubbing and regulatory capture explain its Byzantine leagues
The best new books to read about finance
The joys that can come from good writing about the dismal science
America’s politics
The states that will decide America’s next president
Insights from our election forecast model
Harris’s and Trump’s economic plans both promise utopia
High spending, low taxes—and don’t worry about the deficit
What is Kamala Harris’s record as a prosecutor?
Republicans say she was soft on crime. Progressives say she was too harsh
Many Americans can decide their own policies. What will they choose?
Three issues will dominate state ballot measures in November
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Business, finance and economics
Dismantling Google is a terrible idea
Despite its appeal as a political rallying cry
Don’t celebrate China’s stimulus just yet
It will take more than a spectacular stockmarket rally to revive the economy
Why is Canada’s economy falling behind America’s?
The country was slightly richer than Montana in 2019. Now it is just poorer than Alabama
The house-price supercycle is just getting going
Why property prices could keep rising for years
World news
A dangerous dispute in the Horn of Africa
Ethiopia and Somalia are courting escalation in a quarrel over port access
A ports strike shows the stranglehold one union has on trade
East coast longshoremen are already among America’s best-paid manual workers
Socially liberal and strong on defence, Japan’s new premier shows promise
But he must ditch his more eccentric ideas if he is to control his party
China is using an “anaconda strategy” to squeeze Taiwan
Taiwan’s navy commander warns that his forces are increasingly strained
The war in Ukraine
The war is going badly. Ukraine and its allies must change course
Time for credible war aims—and NATO membership
Ukraine is on the defensive, militarily, economically and diplomatically
Russian advances, fatigue among its allies and political divisions at home leave it in a bind
The Weekend Intelligence
Crunch time for Ukraine
Is Ukraine ready to redefine what victory looks like?
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Why China is awash in unwanted milk
Dairy farmers are dumping the stuff, as some call for culling cows
New media
YouTube’s do-it-yourself brigade is taking on Netflix and Disney
Legions of self-taught film-makers are coming for the television industry
YouTubers like MrBeast are coming for Hollywood
Scandals will not be enough to stop a new generation from taking over
Amazon has Hollywood’s worst shows but its best business model
It aims to make video pay by applying the techniques of e-commerce
YouTube in Africa offers a new kind of news
Demographics and the weakness of traditional media explain the rise of video news
Edition: October 5th 2024
The year that shattered the Middle East
House prices: just getting going
Why property prices could keep rising for years
Will China’s stimulus work?
It will take more than a spectacular stockmarket rally to revive the economy
Britain’s Nigerian moment
A story of modern migration has had extraordinary results
Mapping a fruit fly’s brain
The first “connectome” of the brain of a complex adult animal has just been completed
Technology Quarterly: September 21st 2024
Silicon returns to Silicon Valley
AI has returned chipmaking to the heart of computer technology, says Shailesh Chitnis
AI has returned chipmaking to the heart of computer technology
The semiconductor industry faces its biggest technical challenge yet
Node names do not reflect actual transistor sizes
How to build more powerful chips without frying the data centre
AI has propelled chip architecture towards a tighter bond with software
Researchers are looking beyond digital computing
The end of Moore’s law will not slow the pace of change
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