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America cannot serve as an example if its founding principles are discarded, writes Michael Beschloss
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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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It has spread to five provinces in Congo and may soon reach South Sudan
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For the first time in a generation, several indicators that track women’s progress at work are moving in the wrong direction. In one country the retreat from full-time work is particularly clear bit.ly/44M852a
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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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Crimea is looking vulnerable. Ukrainian drones are severing the roads, railways and waterways that connect the vital peninsula to Russia
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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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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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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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The United States no longer seems to care about democracy in its backyard. If Nicaragua formally becomes a one-party state and suffers no diplomatic consequences, other countries may follow
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When the Congolese government declared an outbreak in May, the disease had been spreading for at least six weeks. Health authorities are still failing to contain the epidemic
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After nine years of decline, democracy scores have risen in more than half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. That trend may happen elsewhere, too
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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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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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“An autocratic president need not purge every independent agency,” argues Victoria Nourse, a law professor, in a guest essay after the Supreme Court’s recent Trump v Slaughter ruling. “He need only target those that affect his ability to remain in power”
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Less than halfway through his second term, Donald Trump has turned the department from an arm of the law into a muscular limb of the presidency. The damage is likely to be profound
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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
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Mona Khalil dedicated herself to protecting turtles on her beloved beach in south Lebanon. When Israel attacked during nesting season in 2006, she asked Hizbullah point-blank to leave the shore. They did. And then set up rockets behind her house
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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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After nine years of decline, democracy scores have risen in more than half of the countries in Latin America and the Caribbean. That trend may happen elsewhere, too
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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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Scientists now feel they have a real handle on what Earth’s energy imbalance is doing. And what it is doing alarms them. This alarm takes two linked but distinct forms
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The late Lindsey Graham changed Donald Trump’s politics far less than Mr Trump changed his. And in his bid to promote democracy abroad, he helped corrode it at home
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