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Unrest and economic underperformance haunt the emerging world
The key to better times remains openness
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Remarkable progress has been made in understanding the folding of proteins
It will help open up almost limitless vistas
Middle East & Africa
Israel is loth to regulate its spyware exports
It may like to help its friends to snoop
The world in brief
Annual consumer-price inflation in Germany hit 3.8% in July, the highest since 1993...
Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Qatar’s emir, approved an electoral law allowing the Middle Eastern country to hold its first legislative elections in October...
Robinhood, a trading app used by small investors to buy and sell stocks, had a bumpy first day as a public company...
Theodore McCarrick, a former cardinal and archbishop of Washington, DC, was charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy in 1974...
In Ethiopia’s civil war, Tigrayan forces take the offensive
The conflict has entered its most dangerous phase yet
Charlemagne: How Europe’s proverbial voters explain a continent
What Irish breakfasts and Polish proboscis monkeys share in common
Olympic records are being broken at a record pace
Technology has helped mainly in equipment-based sports, but athletics is catching up
The global normalcy index
Is the world returning to pre-pandemic life?
What If?
Our annual collection of scenarios
German poll tracker
Who might succeed Angela Merkel?
Weekly edition: July 31st 2021
Dashed hopes: Emerging markets’ growth problem
Why people reject jabs
Surging covid infections and slow vaccinations in some states are caused by health illiteracy, not just partisanship
How far will China's tech-bashing go?
Online-education firms will not be the last victims
Robinhood and the merry mob
Our Wall Street correspondent participates
Proteinotopia: biological origami
Life can make extraordinary variety by following quite simple strategies
The Tokyo Olympics
Why are Russian athletes competing at the Tokyo Olympics despite the country’s ban?
Sporting authorities do not want to punish clean athletes, or cut off the money
Which is the strongest Olympic team of all time?
Politics and geography often determine national success at the Olympics
Chelsea Mitchell on the unfairness of trans women at the Olympics
Transgender women have advantages that make competition against females inequitable, says an American collegiate runner
Veronica Ivy on why it is right for trans Olympians to compete
Sport is a human right and trans women are women in the ways that matter, says a trans cycling champion
Sport is still rife with doping
Between 10% and 40% of athletes in Tokyo might be cheating
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Under Xi Jinping, the number of Chinese asylum-seekers has shot up
More and more people are fleeing his rule
Special reports: June 26th 2021
The Chinese Communist Party
The world’s most powerful political party was founded a century ago. James Miles says it is projecting ever greater confidence, while fortifying itself against collapse
The push to revamp the Chinese Communist Party for the next 100 years
Trying to heal the party’s wounds
Busybodies, backed by AI, are restoring the party’s visibility
The party is eager to expand its influence within business
Getting into the vanguard of the Chinese elite
As Chinese citizens head overseas, the party does likewise
A future, but with Chinese characteristics
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