What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist
What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common
How a Harvard polymath thinks people think
economist.com
Don’t panic about the global fertility crash economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist
Don’t panic about the global fertility crash
A world with fewer people would not be all bad
economist.com
The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre economist.com/united-state... from The Economist
The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre
How the president presents himself as America’s protector
economist.com
America’s Democrats all agree they messed up horribly to let Trump win. I went to Iowa, North Carolina and New York to ask them how they can win again economist.com/briefing/202...
How America’s Democrats might win back power
The party is trying to talk less about pronouns, more about prices
economist.com
How climate change could spread malaria economist.com/middle-east-... from The Economist
How climate change could spread malaria
And how scientists are scrambling to stop it
economist.com
Across the rich world, politicians decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. Might this be the least bad way to fix it? econ.st/4lX8x4m Photo: WFP/Julian Civiero
What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage? economist.com/united-state... from The Economist
What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?
People move to the sunbelt for affordable homes. But it is getting harder to build there
economist.com
There is nothing wrong with seeking a better life. But when jobseekers and refugees crowd into the same funnel, malign consequences follow. Here is how the world’s asylum system could be redesigned
The global asylum system is falling apart
What should replace it?
econ.st
In war, incentives matter more than courage economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist
In war, incentives matter more than courage
Economics is a useful tool for understanding conflict, as a new book shows
economist.com
The TV shows people risk death to watch economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist
The TV shows people risk death to watch
Why fluffy, glossy K-dramas tempt North Koreans to brave the firing squad
economist.com
The stunning decline of the preference for having boys economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist
The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them
economist.com
America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist
America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs
Provisions in the Republican budget are a dangerous step
economist.com
Why the best time to be a dad is now economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist
Why the best time to be a dad is now
The bloody history of fatherhood bends towards co-parenting
economist.com
Europe’s free-speech problem economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist
Europe’s free-speech problem
J.D. Vance was right
economist.com
How golden ages really start—and end economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist
How golden ages really start—and end
The greatest civilisations of the past 3,000 years were the opposite of MAGA
economist.com
Reversing state capture is hard. Just ask South Africa, Bangladesh or Poland. Far better not to let it take root in the first place. economist.com/internationa... from The Economist
State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard
The 15-70-15 rule and other ways to prise powerful fingers from the public coffers
economist.com
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
Is Elon Musk remaking America’s government, or breaking it? There are three possible outcomes for DOGE econ.st/42bGqGf
The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist
The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground
The rule of law is at stake
economist.com
The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes economist.com/culture/2025... from The Economist
The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
First get your facts straight, argues Kenneth Roth, a top human-rights campaigner
economist.com
This is the best podcast I have heard in a long long time. It's so good to be addicted to a series again... even though it also leaves me also shocked and horrified.
Sue-Lin Wong@suelinwong.bsky.social · last yr.My year-long investigation into the multibillion dollar world of online scams is out today — on the cover of The Economist and in my new 8-part podcast series, Scam Inc Read the article: bit.ly/scam-inc Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3CFzGaL
Rwanda does a Putin in Congo www.economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist
Rwanda does a Putin in Congo
To understand the seizure of Goma, consider a parallel with Ukraine
economist.com
In Putin’s new Russian economy, even a harmless digital retailer can attract the attention of warlords www.economist.com/1843/2025/01... from The Economist
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Why most countries should import more electricity www.economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist
To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world’s grids
Less than 3% of the world’s power is internationally traded—a huge wasted opportunity
economist.com
How Donald Trump draws on ideas from 1897 www.economist.com/leaders/2025... from The Economist
America has an imperial presidency
And in Donald Trump, an imperialist president for the first time in over a century
economist.com
Good summary of Donald Trump’s extraordinary list of immigration curbs, including the flagrantly unconstitutional www.economist.com/united-state... from The Economist
Donald Trump cries “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown
His first immigration executive orders range from benign to belligerent
economist.com
The awful economics of piracy: the Houthis make $2bn a year by extorting money from shippers, while inflicting $200bn of costs on the world. www.economist.com/interactive/... from The Economist
Inside the Houthis’ moneymaking machine
After a ceasefire in Gaza, they may continue their Red Sea racket
economist.com