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The US in brief
Biden gears up for ABC interview
Boom!
A new six-part podcast series about the generation that blew up American politics
“Dateline” history quiz
This week: Labour’s triumph; Beckermania
United States
Joe Biden’s ABC interview will not quell doubts about his future
Nor will it resolve the Democratic Party’s dilemma
Middle East & Africa
A reformer wanting a nuclear deal with America wins Iran’s election
Voters turned their backs on hardliners for Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate
Britain
How shallow was Labour’s victory in the British election?
The British party system may be fragmenting but voters delivered a coherent message
The world in brief
A fifth Democrat legislator–Angie Craig, a congresswoman from Minnesota–called on President Joe Biden to step aside, suggesting that his television interview on Friday has failed to quell an uprising in his party...
Masoud Pezeshkian, a reformist candidate, won Iran’s presidential election...
Sir Keir Starmer held the first meeting of his newly appointed Labour cabinet...
An Israeli strike hit a school run by UNRWA, the UN’s refugee agency in Gaza, killing at least 16 people and injuring many more, according to Palestinian officials...
China’s presence in Latin America has expanded dramatically
The region’s leaders are failing to consider the risks of growing dependence
Charlemagne: Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
Sharing power will weaken the federalist president’s sway in Brussels
How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
Four charts illustrate a grim new milestone
Political strategies, courtesy of “House of the Dragon” and “Shogun”
One swords-and-scheming TV show seems more relevant today than the other
The US in brief
Biden gears up for ABC interview
Boom!
A new six-part podcast series about the generation that blew up American politics
“Dateline” history quiz
This week: Labour’s triumph; Beckermania
Video
More on Britain’s election
Labour has won the British election. Now it has to seize the moment
A volatile electorate and a strong showing for Reform UK are no reason for caution
Bagehot: What now for Britain’s right-wing parties
The Conservatives, Reform UK and the regressive dilemma
Labour’s landslide victory will turn politics on its head
But even with a majority this big, running bad-tempered Britain will not be easy
Labour’s victory is good for Britain’s union of four countries
It is not clear how long that will last
World news
Le Pen’s hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
Even without a majority
Meet the victors in Africa’s coup belt
They are militaristic, nationalistic and keen to cut a deal
The EU should be the world’s heat-pump pioneer
But the union is falling behind in its efforts
How Germany’s football is tied to its politics
Lessons in government from Julian Nagelsmann and his team
Business, finance and economics
The world’s richest countries in 2024
Our annual ranking compares economies in three different ways
Why Finland and others are vaccinating people against bird flu
The virus is spreading undetected in mammals
What next for Amazon as it turns 30?
From Prime Video to AWS, the e-empire is stitching together its disparate parts
What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
So far the technology has had almost no economic impact
Summer reads
The rise of Mollywood, India’s more subtle film hub
Instead of relying on big dance numbers, Malayalam movies tell stories
Why travel guidebooks are not going anywhere
Despite predictions that the internet would kill them
Mexico has become a testing ground for psychedelic therapies
From ibogaine to LSD, the benefits of psychedelics are not yet backed up by strong medical evidence
Books (and films) about the joy and pain of music festivals
From Bethel to the Bahamas
More on America’s election
Joe Biden is fooling only himself
A president who prides himself on the common touch is insulting everyone’s common sense
Why Biden must withdraw
The president and his party portray themselves as the saviours of democracy. Their actions say otherwise
1843 magazine | America’s gerontocrats are more radical than they look
A conservative writer argues that his country’s rulers exhibit the vices of youth, not old age
Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the polls?
The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
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Featured read
How spies should use technology
Digital tools are transforming spycraft, but won’t replace human agents
Israel and its enemies
The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
It would feature kamikaze drones, mass blackouts and the largest missile barrage in history
Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
The Economist went to see
Is a Palestinian state a fantasy?
Amid war in Gaza, the prospect is at once more relevant than ever and more distant
Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
For all America’s optimism, the two sides look fundamentally irreconcilable
The war in Ukraine
Ukraine’s war has created millions of broken families
Children and wives have been apart from their fathers and husbands for more than two years
Ukraine has a month to avoid default
Lending to a borrower at war entails an additional gamble: that it will win
Death and destruction in a Russian city
Russians in the border city of Belgorod have become victims too in the war Vladimir Putin launched against Ukraine
Russia’s latest crime in Mariupol: stealing property
It is seizing homes in order to consolidate control
Edition: July 6th 2024
No way to run a country
The state we’re in
A tour of Britain—and of the past 14 years of Conservative rule
Imagining a war in Lebanon
It would feature kamikaze drones, mass blackouts and the largest missile barrage in history
In its prime: Amazon at 30
Three factors will define its next decade
Technology Quarterly: Spycraft
And so has the world in which they are used,
Technology Quarterly: July 6th 2024
Watching the watchers
Tools of the spy trade have changed and so has the world in which they are used, says Shashank Joshi
The tools of global spycraft have changed
Ubiquitous technical surveillance has made spying more difficult
Signals intelligence has become a cyber-activity
Sometimes the old ways of espionage are the best
Artificial intelligence can speed-sort satellite photos
Private firms and open sources are giving spies a run for their money
Sources and acknowledgments
