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The economist has spent her career calculating the cost of discrimination

A think tank says a new bank tax could raise £8bn a year, a suggestion that sent bank shares tumbling.

We have identified five Republican tribes. This is what they mean for the party

Also on the daily podcast: college sports go pro and tea master Sen Genshitsu

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Family drama is the theme of this week’s list

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, how Donald Trump’s fight with the Fed escalated in a usually quiet corner of Wyoming

The president has accused Cook of mortgage fraud, and cited constitutional power that he says allows him to fire her.

Reports suggest the government is considering shaking up the property tax system to raise revenue.

The 15th master of the Urasenke tea ceremony died on August 14th, aged 102

The hitmaker has returned with a new album, “Man’s Best Friend”

To write her grandmother’s story, Lea Ypi visited the archives of the communist-era secret police

The author of “Treasure Island” and “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” is the subject of an excellent new biography

Attendees witnessed grisly deaths. Sometimes they were also given gifts

Too many chips, too little juice

Welcome to the dark side of the workplace

Orsted is suffering from Donald Trump’s grudge against “windmills”

EV drivers want a more pleasant experience while they wait for their cars to charge

“Marxist lunacy” is out. But unbiased chatbots may be impossible

Diplomats are disappearing at an extremely busy time

Military pomp follows the removal of top military commanders

In Rafael López Aliaga, or “Porky”, many voters see a man of action

It could one day be used in trials against members of the regime

Weak finances and security fears limit how much it can help with aid and reconstruction

And what it says about African politics

Netanyahu is concerned with both his immediate and long-term political survival

But it’s an important moment to celebrate what made the city great

Our analysis of whether the country is losing its international appeal among holidaymakers

The economics of American college sports have been upended

The providential folly of Angela Merkel’s migration policy

Voters want to talk about housing, but Geert Wilders wants to talk about asylum-seekers

Thanks to energy and security concerns, its centre of gravity is shifting north

The leaders of France and Germany meet to kickstart Europe

Even in an age of artificial intelligence, it’s harder than you might think

Also this week, Israel and Gaza, net zero, playback speeds, “Moby-Dick”

China’s industrial policy attracts fans abroad, critics at home

Emmanuel Macron looks likely to lose another prime minister over an attempt to curb public debt

Investors want access to the hottest unlisted companies, however they can get it

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

It is rethinking its relationship with America. The ramifications will be huge

Narendra Modi needs a new approach after Donald Trump’s tariffs

How Brazil’s ex-president and his cronies tried to take down democracy

Low inflation, tax cuts and falling interest rates will boost an economy hit by tariffs

New research shows the importance of central-bank credibility

Bet on stocks in a prediction market run by a sports-betting firm and a futures exchange

Just consider what happens if inflation starts to rise again

Also on the daily podcast: Palantir is overvalued and analogue media revives

The increase comes after three months in a row of falling sales, according to industry data.

It is a test case for how countries recover from a populist fever

Moderates on both sides see a chance to draw a line, and start fixing deep-seated problems

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Our podcast on science and technology. Sudden, irreversible changes to the climate could be dangerously close

How strong is the evidence, and how bad would it be if the claims were true?

Even though doing so flies in the face of most financial advice

Customers love it

Youth used to be cheerful. No more

Trump has triggered a trade and defence crisis: how should Modi respond?

Whether Lisa Cook stays or goes, important norms have been broken

An unfashionable view of why the divorce happened

In turbulent times, people want even their crime stories to be comforting

The engineering is working at last, but the schedule is still a fantasy

The process of ever-closer regulations

We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme

Two years after Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death, the Wagner Group is in meltdown in Mali

The Shanghai composite is defying gravity

But sceptics wonder if it is too good to be true

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Also on the daily podcast: assisted dying in Uruguay and German shooting festivals

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

The central bank governor says the US president "has no authority to do so" in defiance of Trump's escalatory move against the Fed.

His policies may ultimately help Detroit go electric

Dark lessons from history that explain Vladimir Putin’s “peacemaking”

Is the goal mere theatre or Venezuelan regime change?

Our analysis of whether the country is losing its international appeal among holidaymakers

James Talarico wants his party to fight for the Christian vote in Texas

The JUNO detector, hidden deep beneath a mountain, will hunt for the universe’s most elusive particles

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, why the country’s alcohol business is getting hammered

Duncan Robinson, our political editor and Bagehot columnist, on Britain’s calm consensus on migration

Distillers of mahua, an Indian tipple made from dried blossoms, have big ambitions

The National Security Law has been pivotal in curbing disorder, he says

Why Macron’s prime minister called a shock confidence vote over its debt

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Fraser McIlwraith, a news editor, reflects on an eight-month project about the second world war 

Also on the daily podcast: Consult your economist and private chefs proliferate

A survey says food inflation is at its highest level for 18 months, as the cost of staples grow.

There is little precedent: no Fed governor has been dismissed for cause before

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Hundreds of council-owned buildings being sold as local authorities seek to reduce debts of £122bn.

The president’s threats loomed over this year’s Jackson Hole conference

Both foreign executives and political dissidents have been affected

Its state-led model has generated impressive results. But the costs are mounting

Lobby group calls for urgent action to lower taxes, but the government says it is helping establishments.

Also on the daily podcast: China’s food-delivery race to the bottom and competitive python-hunting in Florida

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

It’s time to prioritise code over concrete, writes Christian Klein

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Heavy-handed regulation of a flourishing industry could backfire

The never-ending struggle to keep out the Black Sea fleet

A few reasons to be relaxed about the plans of the Democratic front-runner to be New York’s mayor

“The Archers” captures deep changes in country ways

More people, more homes, more solar farms

Politicians, particularly in Europe, are in a terrible bind

Human espionage has never been harder, costlier—or more important

For the first time, catastrophic levels of hunger have been confirmed in the strip

The evidence for sweating it out is promising but incomplete

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, President Trump reversed the ban on certain Nvidia exports to China. And now the U.S. government will take a share of Nvidia’s profit. W

And the legacy of survival

Many of our titles this week examine rebellion

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Also on the daily podcast: Britain’s radical pensioners and remembering actor Terence Stamp

Nearly 200 volumes have gone missing from libraries across Europe. Some suspect it is another “special operation” 

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, the premier of the Money Talks film club

The move will have a chilling effect inside American spy agencies

The film face of the 1960s died on August 17th, aged 87

An experiment looked at how religious folk responded to psychedelic drugs

In “That Book is Dangerous!” Adam Szetela argues that the industry has become Orwellian

The pandemic polarised voters and undermined trust in institutions

Enjoy the peculiar melange of whiteboards and humans while you can

Communist party officials disapprove of the trend

How worried should OpenAI and other labs be?

Can science solve the problem of a shortage of beans?

Alarming new research on the link between heat and dangerous pregnancies

Jimmy Lai’s trial raises questions about how justice now works

Drama, language and music in one direction; rising numbers of Mexican tourists in the other

The industry is melting just as it was starting to take off again

The privileged status they have enjoyed since the cold war is slipping away

That was not the only surprise in the general election’s first round

The country’s effective public-health messaging is a model for the rest of Africa

A raft of recent cases raises a disturbing suspicion

They include a bodybuilder, a would-be American-college student and skateboarders

Controversies about names are more about politics than history

The “transitional” regime is losing the confidence of minority groups

The politics are particularly potent today, but their origins are older than the republic itself

Twenty years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans faces a different kind of risk

But beware the pitfalls of photo-op peacemaking

New records are being set for devastation

Paradoxically, it may have to do with the country’s troubled economy

The chancellor may be Germany’s last chance to avoid a hard-right government

Blame rising absenteeism

Also this week, higher education in Britain, AI security, greeting colleagues at work

What to do about its rampant steal-and-export industry

As temperatures rise, so must understanding of the risks

The problem with Donald Trump’s fast-moving, unpredictable diplomacy

Also on the daily podcast: violence in Colombia and England’s snail races

The government experiments with small handouts to households

Publicly traded startups aren’t what they used to be

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Their discipline is famous for its fissiparousness

Forget about northern Europeans, with their coalition governments and love of cycling

Communist Party officials face a difficult ideological turn

Four years after the fall of Kabul, governments are quietly recognising the insurgents

It is helping the West but wants arms and intelligence in return

Rahul Gandhi, an opposition leader, raises some uncomfortable questions

And it should do so before it is too late

Its “Silicon Island” is getting a second chance at success

The country used to be a semiconductor powerhouse. Can it be one again?

Easier said than done

The state borrows to fund day-to-day spending as well as long-term infrastructure projects.

To remain the world’s foremost technological power, the country needs its friends

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

Lisa Cook says she plans to take questions about her financial history seriously.

A lesson in affordability from a humble burger

What the Bell Hotel in Epping means for migrants

Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new president, needs to bring his critics closer

Even diet might have an effect

The dirtiest parts of the energy system could help build the cleanest 

They will make recycling electronics much more efficient

His cuts will not just hurt vaccines

The opponents of cloud-seeding come for geoengineering

A desperate political class is out of ideas 

And China is gaining in the process

Our podcast on science and technology. Why government policy is key to increasing life expectancy

The devil is in the detail on proposals from Trump, Putin and Europe 

She made viewers cross. But “Sex and the City” was unlike anything that had come before

Food and drink prices have risen by 4.9% over the last year, according to ONS inflation data.

Prices are now rising slightly quicker than expected and at their fastest pace since January 2024.

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Also on the daily podcast: climate-tech innovation and Hello Kitty

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

The interest rate set by the Bank of England affects mortgage, loan and savings rates for millions.

UK Inflation has fallen from record highs but remains above the Bank of England's 2% target.

A call for more building runs into trouble in NIMBY-land

The Trumpian assault on globalism, as seen from Singapore

Business is booming for cyber-security firms

An app that Congress considers to be a national-security risk helps to recruit soldiers

He bets on a military breakthrough or a Trump-brokered stitch-up

Our weekly podcast on China. Have Chinese EV companies become a victim of their own success?

The delay raises fresh questions over the reliability of ONS data, which influences policy decisions.

Daniel Franklin, our senior editor, on why Britain is a world-leader in the business of stealing luxury goods

Indian crowds greet his new film with prayer, confetti and milk

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Also on the daily podcast: Europeans stop sinning and “Bangla Teslas” 

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

He wants Trump to secure for him what Russia’s army cannot

America hints at providing security guarantees for Ukraine

Leaders’ set-pieces have become more common, but not always more productive

To understand markets, forget Occam’s razor

Beware the data-centre takeover

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, explains how Ukraine’s future hangs in the balance

Gangs hack into electronic systems with increasingly sophisticated kit

“Tart”, a new memoir, is a woman’s take on “Kitchen Confidential”

They are likely to feature in the Oval Office showdown

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Also on the daily podcast: Rise of the “solopreneur” and Chinese cough syrup

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

The US President has been critical of the Chair of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell

We update our entrenchment measure

Pierre Poilievre can now return to Parliament to take on Mark Carney, the prime minister

Lessons for the country, from a few blocks north of the Capitol

Cars, phones, tractors: how high-end products are increasingly stolen to serve distant markets 

Officials worry Trump backs the Kremlin’s land grabs and fantasies

A new Oval Office showdown with Zelensky looms after Alaska

The truth will catch up with you, but will readers want to hear it?

How the Catholic organisation has come to have so much influence on Spanish life

Russia’s leader is honoured, but offers little in return

The president is behaving like an activist investor on Wall Street

Can the world's largest economy skirt damage from tariffs?

Our weekly podcast on democracy in America. This week, President Donald Trump welcomed Russian leader Vladimir Putin to the United States for the first time in a decade. We look at how the fa

The benefits are real, but seem to vary with age

Our recommendations this week explore mythmaking

Plants in Hull and Redcar had warned they would close without support after deal to allow US ethanol to come in tariff-free.

The region has already experienced thousands of deaths this year

Our guide to a fiendishly complicated calculation

Also on the daily podcast: the overlooked emotion driving the markets, and our last “Archive 1945” instalment, on VJ day

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

The historian on how soldiers struggled to rebuild their lives amid a hidden epidemic of psychological damage

A visit to the seaside once risked arrest and torture. Now people are soaking up the sun

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, the seemingly arbitrary levies are taking a toll on the region

US producers raised prices at the fastest pace in more than three years last month, stoking concerns about higher prices for consumers.

The fearless teacher and campaigner died on July 20th, aged 81

A hit Broadway show brings “The Crucible” into the era of #MeToo

He won a Nobel prize in 1968 for his work on particle physics. But his interests ranged far beyond that field

What lies beneath the pumice in the ancient city is magnificent

How to make sense of online customer reviews

Donald Trump’s attacks on wind and solar will not stop it

Will she squander her chance?

Clever optimisation will only get them so far

Young shoppers in particular are going gaga for Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa

How The Economist reported on the war, week by week

Readying for a rumble in the jungle

But special “mum jobs” are hardly helping

Why prophetic artists and feng-shui masters hold such sway

She could be the front-runner for the election in 2028

Prabowo Subianto wants to imitate his father. Good luck with that

Former leader Evo Morales is hiding out there

Elbridge Colby and others push allies to ramp up defence spending

The killing of a senator may reshape Colombian politics

Could its approach spread across Latin America?

Almost 200 journalists have now been killed in Gaza

Dissent against it builds inside and outside the strip

Anger at the Shia militia is giving its opponents an opening

His plan to run for a fourth term raises the risk of violence ahead of elections in October

With the lawmakers in suburban Illinois

The strange case of vaccine-injury courts

Clubs for shooting, rabbit-keeping and everything else are the backbone of its society

A continent on holiday from geopolitical reality

When they do it could spell trouble for TOGG, Turkey’s domestic EV maker

No more coach parties

Football is becoming nerdier

Also this week, the Onion, the spread of electricity, religion and video games, Superman

The ruling party’s flagship policy is a cause of the country’s problems, not a solution

When climate change poses a strategic threat, it needs a strategic response

It should be a two-way street

The economy expanded by 0.3% in the April-to-June period, ahead of economists' expectations.

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

It may be scarier than their critics long suspected

Donald Trump’s capricious dealmaking destabilises the world

In Asia, East Africa and the Gulf leaders now face an unpleasant choice

Our daily podcast today reports from Svalbard, examining the high north as Russia’s next potential focus of aggression

Kandinsky, Monet and Rembrandt were economists as well as artists

New rates mean new “China plus one” locations

Investor optimism means the duo are outperforming Nvidia

Depending on the timeframe you look at, the GDP figures can be seen as glass half full or half empty.

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

There are lots of ways for the West to get around its near-monopoly

His dealings with business borrow from China’s playbook

The administration is trying to erase climate-change regulation

“Whole-body” biometrics are on their way

But the damage such blazes cause outweighs their benefits

Scientists are racing to work out just how close they might be

The borrowers, including Harvard, Princeton and Yale, benefit from a “prestige premium”

As the leaders prepare to meet, Russian forces break Ukraine’s defensive line

Our podcast on science and technology. With China hot on America’s heels, the battle for AI dominance is heating up

The rise of the revolutionary retiree 

How the West can break China’s grip on these vital minerals

Blame declining confidence, a lack of convenience and rising complacency

Young people, in particular, want audiobooks, podcasts and videos to go faster

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Also on the daily podcast: the low points of America’s fertility crash and Provence becomes as much brand as destination

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

EJ Antoni's comment raised new alarm about the future of an agency that tracks how the economy of the world's richest country is faring.

Russian troops surge in Ukraine as Europe fears betrayal  

Xi Jinping masters the dark arts of the trade war

The staggering costs of Black Economic Empowerment

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, we meet the middle-class borrowers struggling with repayments

Great-power competition in the far north puts renewed attention on Svalbard

Matthew Holehouse, our British political correspondent, on the Conservatives’ changed view of Britain’s labour market

Florida gamifies conservation in the Everglades

What would make it worth buying?

Inflation remained at 2.7% as investors weighed-up whether the US Fed will cut interest rates.

Can it remain one?

Some of America’s most outlandish politicians also made their debuts in 1986-89

Also on the daily podcast: why Japan has investing fever and a revealing look at America’s indie wrestling leagues

Data suggests companies are not recruiting or are holding off replacing people who have left.