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Business
What revolt at OpenAI means for Microsoft
Wherever Sam Altman ends up, the tech giant hopes to protect its interests
Finance & economics
Why house prices have risen once again
Across the rich world, they have brushed off higher rates. Can that last?
Leaders
In Argentina, Javier Milei faces a massive economic crisis
The radical libertarian is taking over a country on the brink
The world in brief
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said that his government was “making progress” on a deal with Hamas for the release of hostages...
Changpeng Zhao, the boss of the crypto firm Binance, reportedly agreed to plead guilty to federal money-laundering charges filed in Seattle, Washington...
Almost all of OpenAI’s employees signed an open letter urging the company’s board to resign, after it sacked the company’s boss, Sam Altman, on Friday...
Xi Jinping, China’s president, called for an international peace conference to resolve the war between Israel and Hamas during an online meeting of the BRICS, an economic bloc...
Buttonwood: Ray Dalio is a monster, suggests a new book. Is it fair?
The founder of the world’s largest hedge fund comes under scrutiny
A centre-right maverick, Pieter Omtzigt, could win the Dutch election
Many voters will be looking for integrity in government on November 22nd
What “Squid Game: The Challenge” reveals about the state of TV
Reality television is more important than you might think
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
The Sam Altman drama points to a deeper split in the tech world
Doomers and boomers are fighting for AI dominance
Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence
Why predictions of an imminent economic revolution are overstated
The five best books to understand AI
Specialists outside the field do better at explaining the implications
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
Mapping Israel’s war in Gaza
Our satellite tracking of the conflict with Hamas, updated regularly
Argentina and Javier Milei
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
World news
The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals
Progress has been made. But not nearly enough
Jeremy Hunt wants to fix Britain’s public-sector productivity
AI and hybrid working might help, but how quickly?
Some progressives are arguing for a religious right to abortion
The Supreme Court’s deference to faith-based objectors has buoyed their claims
Britain’s native farm animals can be rarer than giant pandas
To survive, some must be eaten
Business, finance and economics
Bartleby: How not to motivate your employees
Douglas McGregor’s prescient writing on management and motivation
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
How the young should invest
Markets have dealt them a bad hand. They could be playing it better
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
Great reads
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
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
Europe in 2024
Vladimir Putin cannot keep funding his war for ever
But after winning Russia’s presidential election in March, he will try
From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up
How diplomats and generals are running out of bandwidth
As Ukrainian men head off to fight, women take up their jobs
Mining is one big example
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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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 25th 2023
The new economy net zero needs
It is vital to climate stabilisation, remarkably challenging and systematically ignored
