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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?


United States

Does a civil-war-era ban on insurrectionists apply to Donald Trump?

So far, America’s judges have been reluctant to involve themselves in the 2024 election




The world in brief

Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, urged his government to back a proposed deal with Hamas to secure the release of some hostages...

Changpeng Zhao, the boss of the crypto firm Binance, pleaded guilty to federal money-laundering charges filed in Seattle, Washington...

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...

North Korea fired what is suspected to be a spy satellite, in its third launch attempt this year (both previous attempts failed)...


German bosses are heaping unexpected praise on France

It is not how things used to be

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

Inside OpenAI’s weird governance structure

Why investors had no say in Sam Altman’s sacking

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

Inside Hamas’s sprawling financial empire

Why Israel is powerless to dismantle the group’s finances

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



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Argentina and Javier Milei

In Argentina, Javier Milei faces a massive economic crisis

The radical libertarian is taking over a country on the brink

Meet Javier Milei

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


Video Film

Why is Argentina’s economy in such a mess?

Economic woes will be at the front of voters’ minds in the country’s forthcoming election


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



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


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

The World Ahead Europe in 2024

The war in Ukraine may be heading for stalemate

Some big decisions will need to be made

The World Ahead 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



Visual storytelling

Inside a month of America’s school shootings

The hidden impacts of gun crime are devastating and poorly understood

Mapping Israel’s war in Gaza

Our satellite tracking of the conflict with Hamas, updated regularly


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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