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Israel and Hamas
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The best of 2023
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The Intelligence
Today’s podcast: Israel’s aims in Gaza, with time running out
Business
The renewables business faces a make-or-break moment
Supply-chain dysfunction, rising interest rates and protectionism are making life tough
The Americas
Venezuela’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana
An unpopular president holds a referendum to distract voters from his failings
Middle East & Africa
Why Yemen’s Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea
The risk to shipping from the Iran-backed rebels has increased significantly
The world in brief
Binyamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial resumed on Monday, after a suspension expired that had halted work at Israel’s courts following Hamas’s attack on October 7th...
The Supreme Court heard arguments over whether a high-profile bankruptcy settlement for Purdue Pharma, the firm that helped spawn America’s opioid epidemic, can go ahead...
Meta and IBM, two technology giants, helped to launch the “AI Alliance”, a group of more than 50 artificial-intelligence companies and research institutions...
Jon Finer, the White House’s deputy national security adviser, met Indian security officials and discussed a recent alleged unsuccessful plot to kill a Sikh separatist in America...
An accidental discovery in rural California raised biosecurity fears
Now Congress is getting involved
Free exchange: Why economists are at war over inequality
Income gaps are growing inexorably—aren’t they?
Britain is failing citizens who are unlawfully detained overseas
Other countries manage to take a more robust diplomatic approach
What to read about dementia
How the disease will change the world and what the prospects are for treating it
Israel and Hamas
All of our coverage of the conflict in one place
The best of 2023
Our annual guides to the finest cultural treats
The Intelligence
Today’s podcast: Israel’s aims in Gaza, with time running out
War between Israel and Hamas
A brutal battle for southern Gaza beckons once the truce ends
The next stage of fighting will be harder and more controversial
What happens to Gaza after the war?
No one wants responsibility for running and rebuilding the ruined enclave
Climate change and COP28
Rainforests provide a public good. The world should pay to conserve them
An ambitious Brazilian plan launched at the COP could help
Saleemul Huq lobbied ceaselessly to make poor countries heard
The biologist and climate activist died on October 28th, aged 71
Progress on climate change has been too slow. But it’s been real
And the world needs to learn from it
Will China save the planet or destroy it?
The country’s carbon emissions will soon peak. Then comes the hard part
World news
Narendra Modi’s party sweeps in north and central India
A bundle of state polls suggests the Bharatiya Janata Party is well-placed for next year’s general election
French fighter jets join the Baltic mission
How to intercept Russian aircraft approaching NATO airspace
China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country
Can its scientists solve the fusion problem?
What does it take to expel an American congressman?
George Santos has joined a select group
Business, finance and economics
Is the world’s most important asset market broken?
Regulators have proposed radical changes to how Treasuries are traded, to the dismay of investors
1843 magazine | Give us our flats! The angry victims of China’s property crisis
Millions of people are waiting for homes that may never be built
Schumpeter: Charlie Munger was a lot more than Warren Buffett’s sidekick
In business, he was a paragon of common sense
An unruly OPEC is causing problems for Russia and Saudi Arabia
The cartel is failing to drive up oil prices
Cultural picks of the year
The best films of 2023, as chosen by The Economist
They featured cattle barons, chefs, composers, physicists and whistleblowers
The Economist’s pick of the best television shows of 2023
Exceptional comedies, crime dramas, and psychological thrillers have come to the small screen this year
These are The Economist’s favourite podcasts of 2023
They covered subjects including empire, medical scandals and war
The best books of 2023, as chosen by The Economist
This year’s picks transport readers to mountain peaks, out to sea and back in time
American politics
Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024
What his victory in America’s election would mean
Spending on infrastructure has fallen in real terms in America
That is despite a huge push by the Biden administration
Why non-white voters are abandoning the Democratic Party
America’s demographic changes are not playing out as anticipated
Ukraine’s long war
Russia is poised to take advantage of political splits in Ukraine
Politics has returned, but the fighting has gone nowhere
Ukraine’s new enemy: war fatigue in the West
Congress holds up military aid as unsupportive populists make gains in Europe
Russia is starting to make its superiority in electronic warfare count
There may not be much the West either can or will do to help Ukraine
Europe in 2024
The war in Ukraine may be heading for stalemate
Some big decisions will need to be made
Great reads
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
1843 magazine | Sorry you feel that way: why passive aggression took over the world
From Slack to the dinner table, honesty really is the best policy
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?
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
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Is Putin winning? Inside Russia’s war machine
The rich world’s bluecollar bonanza
The conventional view that inequality is rising inexorably is wrong
America’s most conservative court
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals makes the Supreme Court look moderate by comparison
Time for a methane deal
A chance at cop28 to limit a nasty source of emissions
Political Islam after Gaza
A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
Special reports: November 25th 2023
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