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US in Brief
Trump courts the hospitality vote
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The Modi Raj
A new podcast series about the world’s most successful elected leader
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Europe
As the French hard right triumphs in EU elections, Macron calls snap vote
Outside France and Germany, the centre holds
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Middle East & Africa
Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot leave Israel’s war cabinet
Will this force Binyamin Netanyahu at last to decide to push for a ceasefire?
Britain
In search of the white British voter
The most important ethnic group in British politics is the one nobody talks about
The world in brief
Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, dissolved the National Assembly and called snap legislative elections after exit polls for elections to the European Parliament showed significant gains for far-right parties...
Shares in French banks dropped sharply following the election announcement...
Benny Gantz resigned from Israel’s war cabinet in a dispute with the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, over post-war plans for Gaza...
America requested a UN Security Council vote on a plan for a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas...
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Brandon Johnson, Chicago’s leftist mayor, is struggling
Incompetence rather than ideology is what’s hurting him
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Bartleby: Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl?
The promise and perils of waking before sunrise
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European elections 2024
European Parliament elections tracker: results and polls
The hard right has made some gains, but the centre-right EPP remains the largest group
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Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
Giant curtains to keep warm water away from glaciers strike some as too risky
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US in Brief
Trump courts the hospitality vote
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The Modi Raj
A new podcast series about the world’s most successful elected leader
Modi’s humbling
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A triumph for Indian democracy
The shock election result will change the country—ultimately for the better
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Narendra Modi could respond to disappointment in two different ways
He could become more moderate and focus on the economy, or double down on Hindu nationalism
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The people and places that turned away from the BJP
The heartland, and especially lower-caste voters, have soured on Narendra Modi
Podcasts
The Modi Raj: Episode 1
Born in a small town in Gujarat, Narendra Modi is looking for a way to escape. He finds it in the Hindu-nationalist RSS
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EU elections
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The three women who will shape Europe
At a crucial moment they encapsulate the dilemma of how to handle populism
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The rise of the hard right threatens Europe’s political stability
European elections could mean gridlock in Brussels and beyond
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Seven memoirs help explain Europe past and present
Their authors are very different, but the continent’s tumultuous history has shaped them all
How powerful is the European Parliament?
Upcoming elections show its growing clout
World news
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The SNP feels the heat in Scotland’s election campaign
And Labour is not the only party to see the benefits
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A D-Day commemoration that was not just about beating Hitler
Biden, Macron and Zelensky vowed to defend Ukraine and democracy
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Morena’s landslide win threatens to take Mexico down a dangerous path
The country’s newly elected president will need to show political courage
Why New York scrapped congestion charging
Back-seat drivers may have influenced Governor Kathy Hochul’s abrupt decision
Business, finance and economics
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The war for AI talent is heating up
Big tech firms scramble to fill gaps as brain drain sets in
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Why avocados are driving another sort of green economy in Kenya
A clement climate at high altitudes and an entrepreneurial spirit are giving Kenyans a fruitful future
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Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald’s and KFC
The healthy appetite comes from smaller cities
Buttonwood: Should you buy expensive stocks?
A new paper suggests the answer is “yes”
America’s election year
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America’s billionaires should resist the urge to support Donald Trump
A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks
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American business should not empower a criminal, says Reid Hoffman
No rational CEO would want a capricious strongman in the White House, argues the entrepreneur
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US election 2024
Who are the Americans switching from Biden to Trump?
Try our “Build a voter” tool—and see which attributes make voters likely to pick one candidate over the other
Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the polls?
The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
Britain’s election
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How the Labour Party could end Britain’s stagnation
Even if the economy peps up, taxes will have to rise
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Bagehot: Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency
The general election reveals the absurdities of Britain’s presidential turn
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Can Britain’s economy grow as fast as it needs to?
Labour is banking on a big upswing in growth. It will struggle to get one
UK election 2024
General-election forecast: will Labour destroy the Conservatives?
Our seat-by-seat prediction for Britain’s next Parliament
The Israel-Hamas war
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Joe Biden leaked Israel’s first plan to end the war in Gaza
But hardliners in Israel and Hamas may yet scupper it
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Talk of war between Israel and Lebanon is growing
Israel and Hizbullah would still prefer to avoid one, but that is getting ever harder to do
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Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
Arguments fly over Israel’s duty to maintain aid
Outrage at a strike in Rafah is unlikely to change policy
America has already said the incident does not cross its red lines
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American parents want their children to have phones in schools
But phones in the classroom are disruptive. What should schools do?
The war in Ukraine
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In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
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Russia’s explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects
A year after the blast and flood, Ukrainians disagree over whether to rebuild Kakhovka
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Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
Our satellite view of the conflict, updated daily
Ukraine’s desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
It is holding off Russia’s attack — for now
Other highlights
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How to hire a spy
Puzzles, games and free thinking are key to codebreaking
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Yuval Noah Harari on how to prevent a new age of imperialism
Non-Western powers have a stake in bringing peace to Ukraine, argues the historian
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Six non-fiction books you can read in a day
Resolved to read more? There may be no more rewarding genre than the short book
Charles III gets his own paper currency
But most Britons will see far less of him than they did his mother
Weekly edition: June 8th 2024
A triumph for Indian democracy
Billionares’ bad bet on Trump
A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks
Where Ukraine is beating Russia
Crimea is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
When to buy expensive stocks
A new paper considers the question
From chatbots to robots
There is more to AI than ChatGPT
Special reports: May 11th 2024
Worlds apart
The American-led financial order is giving way to a more divided one
The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
How crises reshaped the world financial system
The movement of capital globally is in decline
National payment systems are proliferating
The fight to dethrone the dollar
How the financial system would respond to a superpower war
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