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Israel and Hamas
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Finance & economics
Inside Hamas’s sprawling financial empire
Why Israel is powerless to dismantle the group’s finances
Leaders
In Argentina, Javier Milei faces a massive economic crisis
The radical libertarian is taking over a country on the brink
Business
Bartleby: How not to motivate your employees
Douglas McGregor’s prescient writing on management and motivation
The world in brief
Almost all of OpenAI’s employees signed on to an open letter urging their board to resign, after it sacked the company’s boss, Sam Altman, on Friday...
Joe Biden said that he believes that Hamas and Israel are nearing a hostage-release deal...
Argentina elected Javier Milei, a self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist”, as its president...
A court in America ruled that only the federal government could bring challenges under an important provision of the Voting Rights Act—in effect, barring private lawsuits alleging discrimination in election rules...
Jeremy Hunt wants to fix Britain’s public-sector productivity
AI and hybrid working might help, but how quickly?
The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world
Doomers and boomers are fighting for AI dominance
The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals
Progress has been made. But not nearly enough
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
Boss Class
Our podcast on management asks how to motivate staff
AI
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
Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence
Why predictions of an imminent economic revolution are overstated
Large, creative AI models will transform lives and labour markets
They bring enormous promise and peril. But how do they work?
The five best books to understand AI
Specialists outside the field do better at explaining the implications
Argentina and Javier Milei
Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina’s next president
The radical libertarian gives an interview to The Economist
Is Argentina’s new president too divisive to fix a broken economy?
Javier Milei’s libertarian policies may be too radical to pass, or to work
Argentina is pushing international lending to its breaking point
The IMF has no good options—but it may have just selected the worst
What to read about Argentina
Seven books shed light on a troubled and paradoxical country
War between Israel and Hamas
What happens to Gaza after the war?
No one wants responsibility for running and rebuilding the ruined enclave
Many Arab governments would like to see Hamas gone
And they worry that the war in Gaza will upset their economic plans
The battle of northern Gaza is almost over
But a dire humanitarian situation in the south is getting worse
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
World news
Some progressives are arguing for a religious right to abortion
The Supreme Court’s deference to faith-based objectors has buoyed their claims
Charlemagne: Fentanyl kills thousands every year in America. Will Europe be next?
The deadly drug may be coming to European shores
Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
Researchers pin down the role of climate change
Business, finance and economics
Is Japan’s economy at a turning point?
Wage and price inflation is coinciding with an exciting corporate renewal
Three climate fights will dominate COP28
Whether the summit ends in breakdown or breakthrough depends on one man
Schumpeter: How to think about the Google anti-monopoly trial
As told by “The Man Who Ate Microsoft”
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
Great reads
New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress
A new field hopes to apply science’s methods to science itself
Chaguan: Xi Jinping repeats imperial China’s mistakes
Lessons of a loyalty test that stifled innovation
1843 magazine | The Dutch farmers’ revolt
Can they convert protest to power at the general election?
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
Inside a month of America’s school shootings
The hidden impacts of gun crime are devastating and poorly understood
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?
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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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 25th 2023
The new economy net zero needs
Removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere is a necessity to which the world is not paying enough attention—and could be the foundation of a new carbon economy, our correspondents report
