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America is experiencing a small-business boom, fueled by AI and online platforms. The surge in self-employment could offer meaningful alternative work for those displaced by automation.
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A Chinese live-fire drill inside Japan's EEZ is the latest sign of mounting pressure. With America unreliable, Asian allies must bolster their own defences, deepen ties among themselves…
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In a wide-ranging interview, Elon Musk offers two paradoxes and one contradiction about artificial intelligence. His vision of superintelligence and infinite abundance masks a fatalism the world can…
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Beyond the headline pursuit of enemies, Donald Trump is quietly hollowing out the Justice Department — turning the guardian of the law into a limb of the presidency.
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Beijing's approach — censoring feminism and promoting 'virtuous wives and good mothers' from an all-male Politburo — is deepening a demographic crisis and leaving women worse off.
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Earth's albedo is falling faster than expected and the oceans are absorbing the extra heat. Sulphur-emission cuts and vanishing clouds are accelerating the warming.
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Donald Trump's new child investment accounts are partisan, grubby and deficit-financed. Yet giving the next generation a stake in the economy could answer AI disruption and Gen-Z socialism.
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Andy Burnham's plan for a post-war-scale council-house boom is popular but wrong: England already has too much social housing, and the system is wasteful, unfair and immobile.
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A Turkish minister has spoken of one day ruling Jerusalem; Israeli officials call Turkey the new Iran. Beneath the bluster, energy interdependence still offers both countries a way…
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The Trump administration's licensing of frontier AI has been chaotic and nationalistic. A permanent block is unworkable and undesirable — the safer path is a formal, staggered release…