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Articles in this issue:
Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s covers
America’s extraordinary economy keeps defying the pessimists
Rogue Russia threatens the world, not just Ukraine
Time for TikTok to cut its ties to China
The Gulf’s scramble for Africa is reshaping the continent
Making sense of the gulf between young men and women
Oil’s endgame could be highly disruptive
Letters to the editor
Donald Trump’s former trade chief makes the case for more tariffs
An Israeli scholar explains why he no longer supports the war in Gaza
America’s economy has escaped a hard landing
Inside the world of crazy rich Indians
India’s government implements a controversial citizenship law
An Australian spy chief triggers a debate about China
India is souping up its nuclear missiles
Pakistan’s generals look increasingly desperate
Is China a climate saint or villain?
A toast to the possible end of Chinese tariffs on Australian wine
New numbers show falling standards in American high schools
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are staging a sex-strike
Amtrak’s ridership is touching record highs
Time is called on Oregon’s decriminalisation experiment
Is deploying soldiers on New York’s subway as mad as it seems?
The best dataset on American health care will be harder to access
“Dune” is a warning about political heroes and their tribes
Hopes for a truce in Gaza give way to fears of a long stalemate
A shadowy wartime economy has emerged in Gaza
The return of a mask stolen by Belgium is stoking violence in Congo
Gulf countries are becoming major players in Africa
Could there be a US-Mexico trade war?
Haiti is locked in a doom loop of insecurity and illegitimacy
Mexico and Brazil dither as chip supply chains are reforged
Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president
Vladivostok is a window into wartime Russia
Portugal’s hard right gets a big election boost
A grinding, difficult war on Ukraine’s southern front
Europe’s economy is a cause for concern, not panic
Was the Barclay brothers’ business empire built on a fraud?
Northern Ireland’s new government puts on a show of unity
The government wants investors to buy British
England’s historic buildings are causing headaches
British museums remember the 1984 miners’ strike
How Britain’s Tories came to resemble the trade unions
Why young men and women are drifting apart
For 50 years the story of oil has been one of matching supply with increasing demand
Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more
The end of oil, then and now
Oil’s endgame will be in the Gulf
Can Big Oil run in reverse?
Sources and acknowledgments
Will TikTok still exist in America?
Can lorries go green faster?
Is Saudi Aramco cooling on crude oil?
Why are Chinese nationalists turning on Chinese brands?
Every location has got worse for getting actual work done
Elon Musk is not alone in having Delaware in his sights
Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?
China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Saudi Arabia’s investment fund has been set an impossible task
The private-equity industry has a cash problem
Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
How to train your large language model
A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk
New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
Why is it so hard to write a good book about the tech world?
A double murder in 1843 ushered in a new era of tabloid journalism
Climate change is unearthing and erasing history all at once
What’s behind the wave of literary retellings?
How Aesop’s fables fostered a secret language of protest in Russia
Maastricht is where museums go on shopping sprees
What to read to understand God and sex
Economic data, commodities and markets
What is photo retouching and when is it permissible?
Who is Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, Haiti’s most prominent gang leader?
Toriyama Akira was probably Japan’s greatest manga master
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