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Should American universities call the cops on protesting students?
The principles involved in resolving campus protests are not that hard
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Working from home and the US-Europe divide
Americans are no longer the rich world’s great office drones
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Chinese EV-makers are leaving Western rivals in the dust
They have shone at Beijing’s car jamboree
The world in brief
Violent clashes between student protesters broke out at the University of California in Los Angeles...
The Federal Reserve left its benchmark interest rate unchanged, at a range of 5.25% to 5.5%...
Antony Blinken, America’s foreign secretary, visited Kerem Shalom, an Israeli border crossing with Gaza where humanitarian aid trucks are stationed...
Russia’s defence ministry said that the country needed to ramp up the volume and speed of arms production to “maintain the required pace of the offensive” in Ukraine...
Andrés Manuel López Obrador will haunt his successor
Mexico’s next president will struggle against gangs, poverty and migration
Bagehot: Jeremy Clarkson, patron saint of the Great British bore
He who speaks for the bore speaks for Britain
The Republicans who still haven’t endorsed Donald Trump
Notable holdouts show he hasn’t consolidated the party yet
Paul Auster was the bard of Brooklyn
A recurring theme of his novels was life’s coincidences
US in brief
Violence at UCLA protest; Florida’s abortion ban takes hold
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Beware, global jihadists are back on the march
They are using the war in Gaza to radicalise a new generation
Hawaii may soon have America’s first official state gesture
It would join the shag, the whoopie pie and other state symbols across the country
The wider lessons of Scotland’s political turmoil
Humza Yousaf’s resignation is the latest in a string of setbacks
Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe
Thanks to a price mechanism that actually works
Business, finance and economics
Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences
The West faces an unprecedented number of new arrivals
Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk?
Smaller drugmakers are enjoying a revival
Japan is wrong to try to prop up the yen
Supporting the currency is expensive and futile
Free exchange: Is inflation morally wrong?
Workers think so. Economists disagree
The war in Ukraine
Who is supplying Russia’s arms industry?
New research traces the origin of crucial imports
Ukraine’s draft dodgers are living in fear
Ever more conscripts are needed against Russia’s offensive
America’s $61bn aid package buys Ukraine time
It must use it wisely
The growing role of fighting robots on the ground in Ukraine
Drones already fill the skies. Now uncrewed vehicles are heading to the front lines
India’s election
Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi
They worry about their future, but do not blame the BJP
How strong is India’s economy?
It isn’t the next China, but it could still transform itself and the world
Radio Modi: How India’s prime minister sweet-talks the nation
We analysed hundreds of Narendra Modi’s broadcasts. They reveal a meticulously cultivated image
Five charts that show why the BJP expects to win India’s election
Narendra Modi’s party is eyeing another big victory
Strife in the Middle East
How much do Palestinians pay to get out of Gaza?
Middlemen are profiting from Gazans’ desperation
How Iran covered up the damage from Israel’s strikes
New images shared with The Economist show how a swap helped calm a crisis
Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
Ultra-religious hardliners are gaining power and yearn for confrontation
A trauma surgeon on why Gaza is the worst of war zones
It is like stepping back into the 19th century, says David Nott
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A little-remembered rivalry that shaped the modern world
The race between Carl Linnaeus and Georges-Louis de Buffon to categorise all life had long-lasting consequences
America’s election year
Will Joe Biden benefit from falling murder rates across America?
Violence seems to be returning to pre-pandemic levels
In brief
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US election 2024
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Try our tool—and see which attributes make voters more likely to pick one candidate over the other
Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the polls?
The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
Generation Z
Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z
They are not doomed to be poor and anxious
Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
Millennials were poorer at this stage in their lives. So were baby-boomers
How worried should people be about Generation Z?
Two new books fit into a familiar pattern of the old fretting about the young
What is screen time doing to children?
Demands grow to restrict young people’s access to phones and social media
Other highlights
Back Story: Fed up with Biden v Trump II? Some succour from fictional rematches
From “Moby Dick”, “Star Wars” and “Rocky” to the presidential election
Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
Psychiatrists are at long last starting to connect the dots
1843 magazine | It began as a rewilding experiment. Now a bear is on trial for murder
The death of a jogger in the Italian Alps has sparked a furious debate about the relationship between humans and nature
Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation
This simplifies things for the world’s timekeepers
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How strong is India’s economy?
Brechrit: another bad Tory idea
Why leaving the ECHR would be a bad idea for Britain
Where next in the tech wars?
America, China and the battle for supremacy
San Marino, Russia and spies
Intelligence sources are concerned about the country, which is surrounded by Italy
Has Taylor Swift peaked?
The musician is at the height of her commercial, but not her creative, power
