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The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world
Doomers and boomers are fighting for AI dominance
Middle East & Africa
What happens to Gaza after the war?
No one wants responsibility for running and rebuilding the ruined enclave
Britain
Why Britain’s Treasury must change its ways
The problems with the most powerful department in Whitehall
The world in brief
Israel released evidence it claims proves “Hamas is waging terror from hospitals”...
Argentina elected Javier Milei, a self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist”, as its president...
Investors in OpenAI are reportedly trying to reinstate Sam Altman as the firm’s boss after he was sacked by its board...
Around 170,000 people joined a protest in Madrid against an amnesty for those involved in a referendum on Catalan independence in 2017...
A centre-right maverick, Pieter Omtzigt, could win the Dutch election
Many voters will be looking for integrity in government on November 22nd
Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
Researchers pin down the role of climate change
India seemed a safe bet for the cricket World Cup. Did they “choke”?
To blame a lack of bottle is unfair
Israel and Hamas
All of our coverage of the conflict in one place
The best of the year
Our annual guides to the finest cultural treats
The Intelligence
Our daily podcast. Today: Donald Trump’s chances in 2024
War between Israel and Hamas
Was Israel’s attack on al-Shifa hospital justified?
Israel has so far offered little evidence that it was. More may yet turn up
The rights and wrongs of Israel and Hamas at al-Shifa hospital
Why Israel must meet and exceed the requirements of the laws of war
The battle of northern Gaza is almost over
But a dire humanitarian situation in the south is getting worse
World news
The world is ignoring war, genocide and famine in Sudan
America is distracted, the UN is not interested
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping rediscover the joy of talking. Good
Military contacts between America and China resume. Will they last?
Charlemagne: Fentanyl kills thousands every year in America. Will Europe be next?
The deadly drug may be coming to European shores
Business, finance and economics
What Sam Altman’s surprise sacking means for the AI race
It is a big setback for OpenAI, and could slow the industry as a whole
Three climate fights will dominate COP28
Whether the summit ends in breakdown or breakthrough depends on one man
Joe Biden’s failures on trade benefit China
A new disappointment for Asian free-traders
The World Ahead 2024
Future-gazing analysis, predictions and speculation
Ten trends to watch in 2024
2024 will be stressful for those who care about liberal democracy
America will need a new vocabulary to discuss its presidential election
Europe needs to step up support for Ukraine
Don’t give up on peace in the Middle East
The world must try to break a vicious cycle of insecurity
China’s leaders will seek to exploit global divisions in 2024
Demand for “green” metals will redraw the global mining map
Don’t count on a soft landing for the world economy
Generative AI holds much promise for businesses
A cricket World Cup comes to America
The Economist reads
Six books you didn’t know were propaganda
Governments influence a surprising amount of literature. Some of it pretty good
What to read to understand international relations
Five books that explain the forces shaping geopolitics
What to read to understand America’s opioid epidemic
Five books and one TV series lay bare the corruption, criminality, heartbreak and hope that are all facets of a decades-long crisis
Best of the year
The Economist’s pick of the best television shows of 2023
Exceptional crime dramas, comedies and psychological thrillers have come to the small screen this year
The best films of 2023, as chosen by The Economist
They featured cattle barons, chefs, composers, physicists and whistleblowers
These are The Economist’s best books of 2022
Their subjects include financial scandals, a witness to the Holocaust and cell theory
The best albums of 2022
Ten records that The Economist’s music critics enjoyed this year, from pop to hardcore punk
Great reads
Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” cuts the emperor down to size
His epic new film shows how hard it is to make a good biopic
Vivian Silver knew no good could ever come of war
The veteran Canadian-Israeli peace activist has been confirmed killed on October 7th, aged 74
The business of mining literary estates is booming
As “Wonka” shows, long-dead authors’ work has become lucrative
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping
Tech upstarts are selling their wares to America’s police
Ukraine’s long war
Europe in 2024
The war in Ukraine may be heading for stalemate
Some big decisions will need to be made
From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up
How diplomats and generals are running out of bandwidth
A year after its liberation, Kherson still knows fear—and defiance
Russia continually lobs shells at the Ukrainian city
Visual storytelling
Why Gaza’s refugee camps are so vulnerable
More than half of the enclave’s population are registered refugees
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?
How intrepid Victorian surveyors mapped the length and breadth of Britain
Today’s country walkers owe much to the theodolite-lugging cartographers of the early Ordnance Survey
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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Some progressives are arguing for a religious right to abortion
The Supreme Court’s deference to faith-based objectors has buoyed their claims
Weekly edition: November 18th 2023
Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024
How the young should invest
Markets have dealt them a bad hand. They could be playing it better
The Treasury: high and overmighty
The problems with the most powerful department in Whitehall
Better ways to fund science
Too much of researchers’ time is spent filling in forms
The best films of 2023
They featured cattle barons, chefs, composers, physicists and whistleblowers
Special reports: November 11th 2023
Unknown soldiers
Overestimating China’s armed forces would be dangerous, argues Jeremy Page
The People’s Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
China is struggling to recruit enough highly skilled troops
From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
Xi Jinping worries that China’s troops are not ready to fight
Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
Invading Taiwan would be a logistical minefield for China
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