What to read about the history of California
April 26, 2024
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IT IS DIFFICULT to wrap your mind around California. The Golden State is larger and more populous than many countries, with an economy to match. It is home to towering mountains, unforgiving desert and seemingly Read More
Will the dramatic burst of bipartisanship in Congress last?
April 26, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Something remarkable just happened in American politics. Despite intense polarisation, a burst of bipartisanship has Read More
The most important climate agency you’ve never heard of
April 26, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. THE CLEAN-ENERGY transition is doing wonders for energy nerds. Not because of any particular policy Read More
Will Joe Biden benefit from falling murder rates across America?
April 26, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Few politicians talk about violence as much as Donald Trump. In early April, when the Read More
A dispatch from Donald Trump’s courtroom
April 26, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Every trial involves two struggles, wrote Janet Malcolm, a shrewd observer of the American courtroom. Read More
The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
April 26, 2024
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. FLOWS OF INFORMATION and energy underpin all economic activity, and advanced technologies support both. Hence Read More
America’s $61bn aid package buys Ukraine time
April 25, 2024
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Since late February Russia’s army has been creeping across eastern Ukraine. First the town of Avdiivka fell—Russia’s biggest advance in almost a year. Next its soldiers occupied a series of villages farther west. Russia’s progress Read More
How far could America’s stockmarket fall?
April 25, 2024
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The sound of alarm bells is becoming harder to ignore. America’s stockmarket finished the first quarter of 2024 on an astonishing tear, with its benchmark S&P 500 index having risen in 18 out of the Read More
In its latest abortion case the Supreme Court seems to back Idaho
April 25, 2024
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IN 2022, five Supreme Court justices wrote that they were returning the issue of abortion to “legislative bodies”. Two years on, that sounds like wishful thinking: the court finds itself right back in the middle Read More
The campus is coming for Joe Biden
April 25, 2024
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Aconnoisseur of radical chic can find plenty to catalogue these days while observing pro-Palestine protests on Ivy League campuses: the black or red keffiyehs, the conga drums, the folk songs, the kitschy signs (“Dykes 4 Read More