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| Aug 10th 2024 |
| Bangladesh begins again |
| The world this week |
| Politics |
| Business |
| KAL’s cartoon |
| This week’s covers |
| Leaders |
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| A week of violence |
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| How to respond to the riots in Britain |
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| Punish the thugs. Stand up for immigration. And improve local services |
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| Growth scares |
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| Will America’s economy swing the election? |
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| It is not entering recession, but it is slowing down. That is bad news for Kamala Harris |
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| Leaders |
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| Is Tim Walz the right vice-presidential running-mate for Kamala Harris? |
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| Progressives like him, but the presidential candidate will need to find ways to win over moderates |
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| A desperate dissolution |
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| Banning the opposition won’t save Thailand’s unpopular regime |
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| Once again, the army pretends its critics are anti-royal |
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| Glass half full |
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| Why Ethiopia and Nigeria must press on with reforms |
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| Currency liberalisation alone is not enough |
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| People power |
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| Bangladesh has ousted an autocrat. Now for the hard part |
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| A caretaker leader, Muhammad Yunus, must try to rebuild democracy |
| Letters |
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| On nutrition and IQ, the Paris Olympics, Kamala Harris, Mark Zuckerberg |
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| Letters to the editor |
| By Invitation |
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| Bangladesh |
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| Bangladesh has achieved its second liberation, says Muhammad Yunus |
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| Venezuela |
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| The real winner of Venezuela’s election urges the regime to face facts |
| Briefing |
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| Pursuing happiness |
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| Can Kamala Harris win on the economy? |
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| A visit to a crucial swing state reveals the problems she will face |
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| Nevada gets lucky |
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| Swing-state economies are doing just fine |
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| They would be doing even better if the Biden-Harris administration had been more cynical |
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| The left-behind |
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| America’s “left-behind” are doing better than ever |
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| But manufacturing jobs are still in decline |
| Asia |
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| A second liberation |
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| Can hope beat hatred in Bangladesh? |
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| Democratic deficit |
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| Thailand’s top court tramples over the country’s democracy |
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| Is the future female? |
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| Could Kamikawa Yoko be Japan’s next prime minister? |
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| Banyan |
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| India cannot fix its problems if it pretends they do not exist |
| China |
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| Selling the farm |
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| One way to turbocharge the Chinese economy |
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| Digital papers please |
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| China’s new plan for tracking people online |
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| Increasingly caffeinated |
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| China is now the world leader in coffee shops |
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| Revolution-coloured glasses |
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| How China views the popular uprising in Bangladesh |
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| Chaguan |
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| China develops a divorced dating scene |
| United States |
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| Minnesota nice |
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| Tim Walz’s life story is appealing, but his record is complex |
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| Pouches of resistance |
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| Why do conservatives in America love Zyn? |
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| Head to head |
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| Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in our nationwide poll tracker |
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| The Irish hello |
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| A short-term work visa shows the benefits of immigration |
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| Yes in God’s backyard |
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| Can churches fix America’s affordable-housing crunch? |
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| Turning pro |
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| How the Trump campaign has become more professional |
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| Lexington |
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| The wisdom in calling Donald Trump weird |
| Middle East & Africa |
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| Swinging back to the centre |
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| South Africa’s foreign minister wants better relations with the West |
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| Soldiers of misfortune |
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| Why South Africa’s army is floundering in Congo |
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| Iran v Israel |
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| Iran’s frightening new playbook for war |
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| Up with extremism |
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| Hamas’s pick of Yahya Sinwar as leader makes a ceasefire less likely |
| The Americas |
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| Venezuela’s election |
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| How the mad, bad Maduro regime clings to power |
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| Perfume of the Pacific |
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| Colombia prepares for a vanilla boom |
| Europe |
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| Pushing hard |
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| Russia’s bloody summer offensive is hurting Ukraine |
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| Late arrival |
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| How much of a difference will Ukraine’s new F-16s make? |
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| Shell and shock |
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| Ukraine surprises with a high-stakes raid into Russia |
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| Flatlining |
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| Can anything rouse Germany from its economic slumber? |
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| Dog gone |
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| Turkey’s president refuses to let sleeping dogs lie |
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| Choose the snooze |
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| The siesta is still a serious business in Europe’s south |
| Britain |
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| The haters |
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| The evolution of Britain’s extreme right |
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| Attitudes to immigration |
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| Are Britain’s rioters representative of views on immigration? |
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| Insanity and asylum |
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| How hotels became targets for British rioters |
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| One weird trick |
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| How should Britain handle £200bn in quantitative-easing losses? |
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| House-building |
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| Would building 1.5m homes bring down British house prices? |
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| Sea change |
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| Plankton are much more interesting than you might think |
| International |
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| Tipping the balance |
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| Why the war on childhood obesity is failing |
| Business |
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| Swiped out |
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| Why people have fallen out of love with dating apps |
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| Industrial involution |
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| China’s manufacturers are going broke |
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| Code-breaking |
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| China is overhauling its company law |
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| Bartleby |
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| What can Olympians teach executives? |
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| Searching questions |
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| A court says Google is a monopolist. Now what? |
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| Schumpeter |
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| A history-lover’s guide to the market panic over AI |
| Finance & economics |
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| Cigarettes, coffee and panic |
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| The stockmarket rout may not be over |
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| Marching on |
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| A global recession is not in prospect |
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| Burgernomics |
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| The Big Mac index: where to buy a cheap hamburger |
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| Sour taste |
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| How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition |
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| Buttonwood |
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| Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountain |
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| Bitter pills |
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| Africa’s two most populous economies brave tough reforms |
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| Free exchange |
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| Should central bankers argue in public? |
| Schools brief |
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| Artificial intelligence |
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| How AI models are getting smarter |
| Science & technology |
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| Keeping your marbles |
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| How to reduce the risk of developing dementia |
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| Gendered medicine |
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| Do women make better doctors than men? |
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| Soft power |
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| New batteries are stretchable enough to wear against the skin |
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| Purple patches |
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| Lavender extract makes excellent mosquito-repellent |
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| Terraforming Mars |
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| Engineered dust could help make Mars habitable |
| Culture |
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| The souls in a new machine |
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| These are the two new books you need to read about AI |
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| Gross-out |
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| “Deadpool & Wolverine” is revolting, but popular |
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| On the make |
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| The mysterious people who have shaped the books people read |
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| Fight club |
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| Humans have engaged in warfare throughout their existence |
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| New fiction |
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| What should you write about your homeland when you cannot return? |
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| The best of times is now |
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| Why history podcasts are booming now |
| Economic & financial indicators |
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| Indicators |
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| Economic data, commodities and markets |
| Obituary |
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| Out of Stalin’s terror |
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| Inna Solovyova studied both stagecraft and the Russian soul |
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