A lighter take on the news
Unlike rich Westerners, many around the world feel hopeful about the technology
Can roads and villages secure a state that China claims?
Centrist rulers have fallen dangerously short—and are now paying the price
A string of cyber-security incidents has caused websites to go dark
The untold story of the last hospital in el-Fasher
Also on the daily podcast: Sam Bankman-Fried phones from prison and Singapore’s toxic smog
An almighty fight over an influential finding
Neither Lula nor Flávio Bolsonaro have the stomach for it
Financial firms race to create instruments to trade processing power
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
That means keeping in lockstep with Xi Jinping