America aims for nuclear-power renaissance (www.economist.com)
A farewell to small cars, the industrial icons that put Europe on wheels (www.economist.com)
Why a continent with ever-smaller families is driving ever-bigger automobiles
The Economist: Live tracking of fights using fires and ML (www.economist.com)
Our tracking system is based on data from firms, a publicly available system set up by America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa), which was originally designed to detect forest fires. We have built a machine-learning algorithm that evaluates the location of each fire detected by firms, and assesses whether...
Auckland 10th-equal most liveable city in world, up 25 places from last year. Wellington up 35 places to 23rd place. (www.economist.com)
Top 10 cities in EIU's Global Liveability Index 2023:...
War is reshaping the Ukrainian state—for the better (www.economist.com)
I personally am hopeful of all the changes sticking and continuing after the war to make Ukraine a leader among European democracies.
Prague 2nd most liveable city in Eastern Europe far behind Budapest, basically on par with Bratislava, also far behind neighboring Vienna, Berlin and Munich (www.economist.com)
England may soon become the world’s best cricket team (www.economist.com)
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The world’s deadliest war last year wasn’t in Ukraine (www.economist.com)
Canada’s wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal (www.economist.com)
The spy who read me: authors under surveillance (www.economist.com)
The books that show espionage agents are not the most subtle literary critics
Why Kenya could take the lead in carbon removal (www.economist.com)
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Abominable showman: the rise of Wagner’s Yevgeny Prigozhin (www.economist.com)
Archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20230613210316/https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/06/12/abominable-showman-the-rise-of-wagners-yevgeny-prigozhin
Cormac McCarthy was the great novelist of the American West (www.economist.com)
His fiction faces a bloody past and never looks away
Donald Trump and due process The real injustice would have been not to indict him (www.economist.com)
I cannot believe I'm saying this, but it looks like this could be the one that does him in. Everyone's turning, except obviously for the airheads on the street. He may have really finally overplayed his hand after more than 70 years of getting away with everything.
Is the global housing slump over? (www.economist.com)
Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences (www.economist.com)
What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory?
Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine (www.economist.com)
Turns out that despite all the rhetoric, it's not clear how EU could actually decouple from China in practical terms (www.economist.com)
Yuval Noah Harari argues that AI has hacked the operating system of human civilisation (www.economist.com)
Storytelling computers will change the course of human history, says the historian and philosopher
Drug decriminalisation in Europe may be slowing down (www.economist.com)
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France and Germany are at loggerheads over military aid to Ukraine (www.economist.com)
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How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback (www.economist.com)
Whenever a global economic transformation takes place, a single city usually drives it forward. Ghent, in modern-day Belgium, was at the core of the burgeoning global wool trade in the 13th century. The first initial public offering took place in Amsterdam in 1602. London was the financial centre of the first wave of...
China’s leaders are flailing as markets drop: The government is not used to being bullied (www.economist.com)
In recent weeks, China’s economic policymaking has been not just inadequate but a little skittish. On January 23rd draft rules on video games disappeared from the regulator’s website a month after their appearance, as if they had never existed. The regulations, which would have sprinkled games with pop-up warnings against...
What economists have learnt from the post-pandemic business cycle (www.economist.com)
The curious and furious recovery has brought some old ideas back to the fore...
The British army mulls allowing beards (www.economist.com)
