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Articles in this issue:
Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s cover
Three big risks that might tip America’s presidential election
Xi Jinping’s hunger for power is hurting China’s economy
Britain’s budget cuts taxes on the promise of productivity gains
How to fix the Ivy League
A frenzy of innovation in obesity drugs is under way
Letters to the editor
A former adviser on the 250 words Jeremy Hunt should read out at the budget
Three presidents on how to make global finance work better for Africa
Third-party candidates could tip America’s presidential election
North Korea is arming Russia and threatening war with South Korea
Why are so many Indians piling into stocks?
What the war in Ukraine means for Asia
Indian food is great. Perhaps too great
China’s parliament is being used to highlight Xi Jinping’s power
China’s satellites are improving rapidly. The PLA will benefit
Why China’s confidence crisis goes unfixed
Super Trump and his mighty MAGA machine
Donald Trump wasn’t MAGA’s only winner on Super Tuesday
Can Joe Biden bring order to the southern border without Congress?
Is New York rethinking its sanctuary-city status?
A private company will send your ashes to the moon
Leaked discussions reveal uncertainty about transgender care
Has Ron DeSantis gone too far in Florida?
Joe Biden is exasperated by Israel but will not stop its war
Ramadan could see respite for Gaza, or widening violence
A lost opportunity to reform Tanzania
Nigeria’s currency crisis is decades in the making
Why Africa is crypto’s next frontier
The last scraps of the Haitian state are evaporating
Corruption is surging across Latin America
Europe’s new-look winter: floods, high sea levels and melting glaciers
Ukraine’s animals are also victims of the war
Why France has made abortion a constitutional right
The damage done by Russia’s hack of Germany’s defence ministry
Moving weapons around Europe fast is crucial for deterring Russia
Fifty shades of brown: how splits in Europe’s hard right sap its power
The British budget mixes sensible tinkering and fiscal fantasy
Vodafone tries to slim its way back to health
Rishi Sunak’s crackdown on protests is misguided
The holes in British plans to ban cigarettes and disposable vapes
Why on earth would anyone become a British MP?
What the softening of the Sun says about Britain
America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal
The battle over the trillion-dollar weight-loss bonanza
Brain-boosting substances are all the rage
More women are getting onto corporate boards. Good
OpenAI’s legal battles are not putting off customers—yet
Can Bayer recover from its chronic pain?
How can firms pass on tacit knowledge?
Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AI
Can Israel afford to wage war?
Bitcoin’s price is surging. What happens next?
Globalisation may not have increased income inequality, after all
America’s rental-market mystery
The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
How investors get risk wrong
An economist’s guide to the luxury-handbag market
Physicists are reimagining dark matter
Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs
A new technique to work out a corpse’s time of death
How medical gloves will help launch satellites
Whoever gets the Best Picture Oscar, international films are winning
Infatuation, kids, adultery: marriage is the theme of the Oscars
The history of the West is not quite what you learned in school
Museums have a hoarding problem
Stories about the Dongbei rust belt are resonant in China
Gabriel García Márquez’s novella was published against his wishes
The best British political diaries
Economic data, commodities and markets
What is Hindutva, the ideology of India’s ruling party?
Does generative artificial intelligence infringe copyright?
Iris Apfel became a fashion icon in her ninth decade
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