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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
Leaders
The fallout from the weirdness at OpenAI
Sam Altman is set to return, but the episode holds deeper lessons
Europe
Geert Wilders’s election win leaves the Dutch in an awful quandary
Will the cordon sanitaire against the far right hold?
Leaders
Britain’s autumn statement got business taxes right
It also cynically handed out an illusory windfall
The world in brief
The Party for Freedom (PVV), a far-right outfit led by Geert Wilders, won a surprise victory in the Dutch election...
Officials from America and Israel said that Hamas would not free any Israeli hostages until Friday at the earliest...
Turkey’s central bank raised interest rates by a larger-than-expected five percentage points, to 40%...
The World Health Organisation made an official request to China for information on an increase in reported clusters of pneumonia in children...
Israel strikes a hostage deal but promises the Gaza war isn’t over
Hamas is desperate to split Israel and turn a pause into a ceasefire
Charlemagne: Tyrant, liberator, warmonger, bureaucrat: the meaning of Napoleon
It’s Napoleon’s continent, and Europeans are just living in it
Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women
The longest-working “Rosie the Riveter” died on November 12th, aged 104
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
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
World news
Spending on infrastructure has fallen in real terms in America
That is despite a huge push by the Biden administration
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
Did America thwart an Indian assassination plot?
Canada is not alone in worrying about Indian killers
Thanksgiving reads
Business in 2024
Travellers face another year of disruption in 2024
Demand is recovering faster than supply, which means delays and higher prices
What “Squid Game: The Challenge” reveals about the state of TV
Reality television is more important than you might think
The obesity pay gap is worse than previously thought
It affects men as well as women, and is wider for the well-educated
The best films of 2023, as chosen by The Economist
They featured cattle barons, chefs, composers, physicists and whistleblowers
Business, finance and economics
Why house prices have risen once again
Across the rich world, they have brushed off higher rates. Can that last?
Ray Dalio is a monster, suggests a new book. Is it fair?
The founder of the world’s largest hedge fund comes under scrutiny
Is Japan’s economy at a turning point?
Wage and price inflation is coinciding with an exciting corporate renewal
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
How maths can help you win your favourite games
A global history of gaming is educational and filled with practical tips
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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Featured read
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
