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In failing to look past Joe Biden, Democrats have shown cowardice and complacency

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Another war could break out on the Israel-Lebanon border

Israeli officials see Hizbullah as an unacceptable threat





The world in brief

Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defence minister, said his country would do everything needed to “ensure that Gaza will pose no threat to Israel”, but insisted there should be “no Israeli civilian presence” in the enclave when fighting had finished...

Islamic State, a Sunni jihadist terrorist group that once controlled swathes of Iraq and Syria, claimed responsibility for an attack in Iran on Wednesday that killed at least 84 people...

Russia is using ballistic missiles from North Korea to attack Ukraine, according to the White House...

China’s government and state-owned firms spent $5.5m at properties owned by Donald Trump while he was president, according to a report released by Democrats...


Imran Khan warns that Pakistan’s election could be a farce

His party is being unfairly muzzled, the former prime minister writes from prison

Free exchange: Robert Solow was an intellectual giant

His criticisms were energetic and witty, which could make them harder to take

Places ravaged by opioids are giving Republicans the upper hand

Could the opioid epidemic have driven legions of voters to the right?

Social media’s online diarists have a long lineage

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Economists had a dreadful 2023

Mistaken recession calls were just part of it

The World Ahead Obituary

Reflections on paperlessness, in the spirit of Ogden Nash

As several airlines prepare to phase out paper boarding passes in 2024, our obituarist laments the decline of paper tickets of all kinds


Why more women are picking up power tools

Where capitalism and conservation meet


Gao Yaojie uncovered a scandal that shocked and shamed China

The gynaecologist and AIDS campaigner died on December 10th, aged 95


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The World Ahead China in 2024

The Chinese Communist Party is struggling to inspire the young

Youth unemployment will remain high


The World Ahead The Americas in 2024

Mexico will elect its first female president

The question is how much she will be like her predecessor


The World Ahead Science and technology in 2024

AI models will become smaller and faster

They will improve in plenty of other ways, too



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Cuba’s private-sector experiment is faltering

Mostly because it is not bold enough

The decline and fall of Harvard’s president

Claudine Gay’s sloppy citations added to the embarrassment of her recent congressional testimony


Taiwan’s foreign minister on what’s at stake in the coming election

The vote is a front in the global war between democracy and autocracy, says Joseph Wu


Some German Jews say their country goes too far defending Israel

And they find themselves attacked for antisemitism


Business, finance and economics

How to get rich in the 21st century

The race to become the next economic superpower

Has America really escaped inflation?

The country’s extraordinary economic vigour keeps the threat alive



The Communist Party wants (a bit) less consumer internet

The signals it is sending to investors are loud, if somewhat cacophonous


Strife in the Middle East

Binyamin Netanyahu is botching the war. Time to sack him

To be safe, Israel needs new leadership

Israel prepares for a long war in Gaza

But it is unclear how it will end


War, hunger and disease stalk Gaza’s 2.2m people

The territory is on the verge of famine after three months of war


Mapping Israel’s war in Gaza

Our satellite tracking of the conflict with Hamas, updated regularly


极速赛车一分钟查询开奖结果记录 168官方开奖历史记录,168开奖官网计划直播 Ukraine, Russia and the long war

A New Year’s interview with Volodymyr Zelensky

The Ukrainian president remains defiant, despite the prospect of a bleak year ahead

Ukraine’s army is struggling to find good recruits

Russia is suffering immense casualties—but it has the edge in manpower


The truth about the passenger jet Putin’s men shot down

Investigating MH17, the crime that presaged the war in Ukraine


How Putin is reshaping Russia to keep his war-machine running

He is creating a class of wealthy bureaucrats, who are the war’s biggest supporters


Economic winners and losers

American journalism

1843 magazine | When the New York Times lost its way

America’s media should do more to equip readers to think for themselves

Can you have a healthy democracy without a common set of facts?

America’s presidential election is a test of that proposition


Donald Trump is the conservative media

No institution that enjoys the trust of Republican voters can successfully stand up to him


American journalism sounds much more Democratic than Republican

Whether this reflects bias or reality is in the eye of the beholder


Visual storytelling

Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time

His attempt to conquer Ukraine ignores the lessons of history

Inside a month of America’s school shootings

The hidden impacts of gun crime are devastating and poorly understood


Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world’s

People’s principles were expected to align as countries got richer. What happened?


Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets

They bring enormous promise and peril. But how do they work?


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