This is a prolific poster! Showing posts since September 30, 2025.
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America cannot serve as an example if its founding principles are discarded, writes Michael Beschloss
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Crimea is looking vulnerable. Ukrainian drones are severing the roads, railways and waterways that connect the vital peninsula to Russia
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For most of the past 30 years, the person in charge of The Economist’s covers has been Graeme James. We remember our dear friend and colleague
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Vladimir Putin’s biggest problem is that he has nothing to show for his war. The perception of failure and weakness undermines his legitimacy
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It pays to watch Russia for warnings of fatigue or discontent. Our cover this week features the most stunning such warning so far. A leading oligarch speaks out, warning of the looming disaster facing his country bit.ly/4eTHOoB
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Around Westminster he is known as self-serving and territorial. But after being in post for 15 years Britain’s “Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office” has a few tips for his next housemate
47 7Jul 17, 2026 -
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Donald Trump may hate to hear it, but Barack Obama was right about avoiding “stupid shit”
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His plans for constitutional amendments that would remove Hungary’s president and judges from their jobs signal that the state’s capture by Viktor Orban is over
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One of the most exciting scientific findings in recent years is that a course of the shingles vaccine may reduce the risk of dementia by about 20%. Health authorities should make it more accessible
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In December over 1,000 Chinese fishing boats lined up to form an L shape in the seas north of Taiwan. Over the next few months they coalesced again on four more occasions. Our animated maps visualise the unprecedented activity bit.ly/4wP6qoq
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The permanent appointment of Todd Blanche as attorney-general is unlikely to mark an improvement. He has done as much as anyone to advance the president’s agenda of prosecuting his enemies and protecting his friends
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Ukraine’s drone operation is bringing the war to Russia in a new way. Our charts and map show how
38 10Jul 18, 2026 -
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More than 300 strikes on Iran have not changed the regime’s behaviour over the past five nights. There is no reason to think that a sixth night, or a sixtieth, would make the difference
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Ukraine is increasingly squeezing the supply routes into Crimea. Volodymyr Zelensky hopes that the pressure could push Russia into serious negotiations
37 3Jul 5, 2026 -
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Sweden previously lacked a foreign-intelligence service outside the command of the armed forces, and designed to report chiefly to government. That is now changing
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Mona Khalil was killed by an Israeli airstrike in Lebanon last month. A committed conservationist, she refused to be swayed and had a dogged belief in just getting on with it
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Donald Trump’s understanding of reality seems to be based on snippets he once heard and wishes were true. “Regime Change”, an eye-popping account of his second term, brims with examples
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The nuclear deal may be a sop to a country furious at Donald Trump’s bungling of his war with Iran. It is typical Trump: a flawed deal as compensation for an incompetent war
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Canny political manoeuvring has blessed Larry the cat, “Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office”, with public-approval ratings that most British politicians could only dream of
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It has spread to five provinces in Congo and may soon reach South Sudan
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Ukrainian drones hit two giant warehouses belonging to Russia’s largest online retailer. The attacks will drive home the Russian authorities’ failure to defend their own people
33 11Jul 26, 2026 -
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A groundbreaking series of studies in recent years has transformed scientists’ understanding of the condition. Register for free to learn how researchers are continuing to discover new risk factors
33 13Jul 19, 2026 -
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It is growing common to hear academics shrug that perhaps students no longer need strong basic skills. That is not pragmatism—it is surrender
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He wants a technology that he expects to determine the future of humanity to lie in the hands of a few people like him, each with their own values. But his largely institution-free regulatory proposal is flimsy and self-serving
32 7Jul 25, 2026
