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Governments from Argentina to Sweden are lowering the age at which children can be held criminally responsible. The evidence says it is unjust and counterproductive — rehabilitation does…
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In nearly 60 hours of interviews with The Economist, fertiliser billionaire Andrey Melnichenko warns the Ukraine war is pushing Russia toward anarchy, autarky or foreign dependence — the…
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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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More than 2,000 people died when earthquakes struck Venezuela on June 24. With America controlling oil revenues after removing Nicolás Maduro, Washington has a duty to fund relief…
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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…
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On its semiquincentennial, America's divisions fuel anxiety about decline. Yet the republic's restlessness and capacity for reinvention remain its greatest strength.
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Our April forecast that Brent crude would stay near $88 was wrong; it now trades just above $70. We explain the two errors behind the miss and why,…
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The Gulf's post-war dealmaking with Iran alarms its rulers. To survive, they must overcome bitter feuds and build a unified defence against Tehran's growing power.