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A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
A deadly strike raises stark questions about America’s anti-drug war
Centrist governments across the continent rightly sense a trap
Large language models can answer surveys and pass the tests to check that a respondent is human
President Trump should choose the technocrat over the partisan
Tom Carter, our Britain economics correspondent, argues that last week’s budget shows why the Office for Budget Responsibility is needed more than ever
Even at an accelerated recent pace, seizing Ukraine’s eastern regions would take more than two years
Our weekly podcast on China. This week, what a leaked document reveals about China’s foreign policy
Hostile policies and attacks on science are driving them back into China’s arms
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