We spoke to diplomats, advisers, scholars, experts and current and former officials in China. Almost all of them see the war in Iran as a grave American error. Register for free to read why: econ.st/4tloDIy
EXCLUSIVE: A quiet revolution happened at Great Ormond Street Hospital last week. A girl with a rare fatal condition received a custom drug under a new MHRA protcol that is 1st step towards process approval, a shift that could one day save millions of lives. www.economist.com/science-and-...
Treatment of a teenager with an ultra-rare condition is a medical milestone
It will change regulators’ rule books
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it's worth noting that the shift from Wikipedia to AI for factual summaries also removes our ability to audit the information trail and reveal systematic manipulation like this. AI can offer sources, but nothing like the timestamped/IP address-linked edit history of wikis bsky.app/profile/timb...
Tim Bale@timbale.bsky.social · 7mo agoShocking but not surprising.
Punting Greenland's security to a working group and sending a symbolic troop deployment is probably the best Europe can do, for now. But in time a more considered strategy may be needed to counter Trump's covetousness. My take on Europe's Greenland options www.economist.com/europe/2026/...
Europe has three options for defending Greenland
Fending off Donald Trump may yet prove agonisingly difficult
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wild that Trump calls Delcy a "terrific person" when she's been running cover for a brutal regime for years here she is with Al Jazeera in Sept 2017, right after the most vicious crackdowns in chavismo history none of this was true. and she wasn't even asked about the torture
After kidnapping Maduro, Trump is as about as popular in Venezuela as the opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado. This according to our new polling www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
Photovoltaics fed about 16.9% of German-generated electricity into the grid in 2025, according to the Bundesnetzagentur (this excludes selfconsumption). Renewables at 58.8% overall. www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/P...
Bundesnetzagentur - Presse - Bundesnetzagentur veröffentlicht Daten zum Strommarkt 2025
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In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can. That will be bad for America—and everyone else: econ.st/4qcajRx
The worst-case scenarios that Canada's military planners must account for now include incursions on Canadian territory by the Donald Trump's America www.economist.com/the-americas...
Canada’s armed forces are now planning for threats from America
They started rebuilding in 2025, before Donald Trump’s most recent bid for hemispheric dominance
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love this story by Tom Graham on Die Mennonitische Post, the newspaper printed in Canada and distributed to conservative Mennonites across Latin America www.economist.com/the-americas...
A German newspaper for Bolivian blondes
For Mennonites from Bolivia to Belize, Die Mennonitische Post is often the only connection to the outside world
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My take on England’s daftest sport: Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage? economist.com/britain/2025...
Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage?
The government mulls making England’s daftest sport official
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Middle class consciousness is on the rise: Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite! economist.com/britain/2025...
Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite!
The rise of middle-class consciousness
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Trump is wrong about almost everything But he's right to pursue deep-sea mining, even though he *probably* isn't motivated by the real reasons it's a good idea (a supply of essential metals with lower emissions and ecological harms than the largest sources today)
Donald Trump is right to go after metals in the deep sea
Environmentalists should push the UN body that governs deep-sea mining to pass regulations to allow it
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Heroically spent this week at The Crucible. Please reward my shoeleather reporting with a click. The strange success of snooker: immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going economist.com/britain/2025...
The strange success of snooker
Immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going
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enjoyed this enormously lemonslice.com/replay?id=95... (video call with LLM-driven Baron Harkonnen)
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Angus Reid shows the Liberals with a 5pt lead. LPC 42 (+26 vs December) CPC 37 (-8) NDP 9 (-12) BQ 8 (-3) GPC 1 (-2) Gives them a 2pt lead in our tracker: www.economist.com/interactive/... 🇨🇦
First (highly respected) Abacus poll post-Carney shows the Conservatives down 3, Liberals up 5
David Coletto@davidcoletto.bsky.social · last yr.🆕New Abacus Data #cdnpoli poll reported by Susan Delacourt in her latest column 🔵CPC 38% 🔴LPC 34% 🟠NDP 15% Full details out on Sunday on our website or today for paid subscribers to my newsletter (link in bio) www.thestar.com/politics/pol...
this is a really good point. one way of thinking about Apple's failure to ship genAI products is that the features inherent to genAI tech don't fit well with Apple's brand
James Vincent@jjvincent.bsky.social · last yr.also, it's interesting thinking about apple x AI crossover, because the failure modes of genAI are those that apple, i think, *particularly* tries to avoid (e.g. failing in a way that is inscrutable/invisible for average users; generating nsfw/toxic outputs; etc)
Trump fentanyl riffs are just not credible the CBP seized 13 grams (grams!!!) of fentanyl at the Canadian border in January. That is down by a factor of 180x since Trump was elected The CBP seized 16x more fentanyl at interior ports in 2024 than it did at the Canadian border
This is beautiful (love the arcing) cc @halhod.bsky.social
Anton Gerashchenko@antongerashchenko.bsky.social · last yr.⚡️ The historic moment of Estonia leaving the Russian-fed power grid. On February 8, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left Russia and Belarus energy system. By the end of the day today, they will have joined the European grid.
For the past year, I've been investigating the global rise of online scams - a predatory, multi-billion dollar industry that rivals the size of the illicit drug trade. Scam Inc, a new 8-part podcast from The Economist and hosted by me, is out in February: econ.st/3CoAdxJ
Scam Inc from The Economist: Trailer: Scam Inc
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It is already more lucrative than the illicit drug trade. And it’s about to get bigger and much more powerf...
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Shock: Greenlanders are 85% to 6% against joining Team America. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
New opinion poll shows 85% of Greenlanders do not want to join US
Despite Donald Trump claiming the island’s population ‘want to be with us’, Greenlanders overwhelmingly rejected the idea
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I've been following Brad Zamft's thinking and work ever since we met at an ARPA-e over a decade ago. Enjoyed every bit of it. There isn't too much journalism ten years in the making, but this story is just that www.economist.com/science-and-...
Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding
By reducing the cost of breeding, the firm hopes to improve yields and other properties for an array of important crops
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And yet there's more to the DeepSeek story. Building a very efficient model that uses few chips probably requires building one (or more) inefficient models that use a lot of chips first. TLDR don't bet against Big Chip yet This is good blog.heim.xyz/deepseek-wha...
