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A landslide for Democrats. A rebuke to Donald Trump

Republicans face a tumultuous new era

The Economist 04 November 2026

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In this photograph taken on September 7, 2016, an Indian woman works at a call center of TravelKhana in Noida.

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Will chatbots eat India’s IT industry?

TCS, Infosys and others try to harness the technology first

The Economist 24 May 2024

The coffin of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi is carried on the shoulders of soldiers in the city of Tabriz on May 21, 2024.

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The death of Iran’s president will spark a high-stakes power struggle

Amid a regional war, a fight at home between the clerics and military looms

The Economist 22 May 2024

Activists from Jewish Voice for Peace surround the Statue of Liberty Plaza, on November 6, 2023.

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The liberal international order is slowly coming apart

Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible

The Economist 19 May 2024

How Hollywood fell in love with video games

"Fallout" is the latest in a successful run of adaptations

The Economist 17 May 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Beijing, China May 16, 2024.

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Vladimir Putin meets his big brother in Beijing

Russia's leader wants to strengthen his "no-limits" partnership with Xi Jinping

The Economist 15 May 2024

U.S. President Joe Biden is applauded by union members after signing orders that increase tariffs on China to promote American investments and jobs in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 14, 2024, in Washington, DC.

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Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs

The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost

The Economist 15 May 2024

Tourists enter the Swakopmund Museum on June 23, 2017, Namibia.

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One of the smallest museums in Africa might be its most important

A curator's battle to commemorate Germany's forgotten genocide in Namibia

The Economist 08 May 2024

French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes China's President Xi Jinping as he arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris as part of the Chinese president's two-day state visit to France on May 6, 2024.

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Emmanuel Macron’s urgent message for Europe

The French president issues a dark and prophetic warning in an interview with the Economist as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in France with Ukraine and EU trade row at the top of agenda

The Economist 06 May 2024

Two books examine atomic weaponry and the global annihilation it could bring about

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What would nuclear war look like in the 21st century?

Two books examine atomic weaponry and the global annihilation it could bring about

The Economist 27 April 2024

Student demonstrators occupy the pro-Palestinian "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on the West Lawn of Columbia University on April 24, 2024 in New York City.

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The campus is coming for Joe Biden

As in 1968, the Democrat risks being the candidate of chaos and war

The Economist 26 April 2024

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A landslide for Democrats. A rebuke to Donald Trump

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The liberal international order is slowly coming apart

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Vladimir Putin meets his big brother in Beijing

Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs

One of the smallest museums in Africa might be its most important

Emmanuel Macron’s urgent message for Europe

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