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America needs a new environmentalism
Preventing clean-energy infrastructure from being built is no way to save the planet
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How Russia dodges oil sanctions on an industrial scale
As another embargo looms, the grey trade is about to explode
China
A new threat to relations between America and China
As Xi Jinping tries to ease tensions, a congressional committee risks exacerbating them
The world in brief
America’s secretary of state, Antony Blinken, encouraged Palestinians and Israelis to calm tensions amid “a new and horrifying surge in violence” as he landed in Tel Aviv on Monday...
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, called on allies to speed up the delivery of weapons and asked them to send more equipment, including long-range missiles...
Germany’s GDP in the fourth quarter of 2022 was slightly worse than expected, shrinking 0.2% compared with the previous quarter...
International Holding Company, the most valuable company listed in Abu Dhabi, promised to buy $400m in shares of the besieged Indian conglomerate the Adani Group...
Bartleby: The curse of the corporate headshot
A strangely pervasive custom of odd poses and forced smiles
As Lula takes over, Brazil’s economic prospects are looking up
But he still has his work cut out: inflation is high, and debt and poverty rates soaring
1843 magazine | Bypassed: are heart surgeons dying out?
For years, they swaggered atop the medical profession. Now the machines are coming for their jobs
War in Ukraine
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Business, finance and economics
How Goldman Sachs went from apex predator to Wall Street laggard
Its attempts to diversify out of volatile businesses and into consumer lending have disappointed
A short-seller rattles Gautam Adani’s empire
What is at stake as Hindenburg Research picks a fight with India’s mightiest tycoon?
Buttonwood: When professional stockpickers beat the algorithms
Just occasionally, their fees are worth it
Elliott and fellow activist investors take on big tech
Languishing Silicon Valley stocks attract Wall Street’s mischief-makers
World news
After a steady first 100 days, choppier waters await Giorgia Meloni
Division and disunity could rock her boat
Congress is gridlocked. America’s statehouses are very much not
Bans on electric cars and drag shows are on the menu in 2023
A white, gay, Zulu-speaking mayor is shaking up South African politics
Chris Pappas is an unlikely but effective trailblazer
Inflation
Free exchange: Have economists misunderstood inflation?
Government debt is at the core of rising prices, argues an important new book
Could Europe end up with a worse inflation problem than America?
The new transatlantic divide
The war in Ukraine
Patriots promise Ukraine its first defence against ultra-fast Russian missiles
Ukraine says they also bring it a step closer to NATO
By InvitationUkraine should—and, properly supported, can—seize Crimea, argues Ben Hodges
A retired American general writes as part of a series debating the wisdom of peace negotiations
By InvitationTalks between Russia and Ukraine would save lives, argues Christopher Chivvis
The foreign-policy expert writes as part of a series debating the wisdom of peace negotiations
NATO members are right to send tanks to Ukraine
But their dithering has served no one except Vladimir Putin
Weekly edition: January 28th 2023
Goldman Sags
Pulling the plug on the car industry
Britishvolt’s collapse is not the only bad omen for battery-powered cars
The dismal state of Germany’s army
A critical year to reform was lost
Debt on the Nile
To save Egypt’s economy, get the army out of it
How to conduct a sex survey
A British survey of sexual habits is precise, clear and involves absolutely no smut
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International
Most children in poor countries are being failed by their schools
Having teachers follow pre-baked lessons could help
Special reports: January 21st 2023
Erdogan’s empire
Approaching its centenary, Turkey faces an election that could decide its future as a democracy, argues Piotr Zalewski
Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s relatives are becoming increasingly powerful
The effects on Turkey of Syria’s civil war
Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad
Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
