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Republicans win control of the House
They have secured the coveted trifecta. See all the results here
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Your weekly guide to a region that accounts for a fifth of the world economy
Finance & economics
Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Russia’s reliance on China is becoming a problem
Europe
Firing American missiles at Russia won’t change Ukraine’s fortunes
But Joe Biden wants to send North Korea a message
Britain
Britain’s government wants bigger pension funds
That will help savers but won’t boost growth much
The world in brief
Russia responded angrily to President Joe Biden’s decision to allow Ukraine to fire ATACM missiles, supplied by America, into Russian territory...
A judge in Hong Kong sentenced 45 activists and former politicians who had been convicted of subversion under a law imposed by China...
Germany and Finland said they were “deeply concerned” about the severing of an undersea cable connecting the countries...
Tens of thousands of New Zealanders protested outside Parliament against a bill that they argue would diminish the rights of indigenous Maori people...
What will Donald Trump do about legal immigration?
Highly skilled workers are already preparing for the worst
Buttonwood: Why financial markets are so oddly calm
Indicators of market volatility have plunged
Is your master’s degree useless?
New data show a shockingly high proportion of courses are a waste of money
The New York-London arbitrage for musicals
Can you guess which is more expensive: Broadway or the West End?
Republicans win control of the House
They have secured the coveted trifecta. See all the results here
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Team Trump
How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true
We offer some suggestions
Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be attorney-general is an ill omen
It shows how far Donald Trump is willing to go to dominate the machinery of government
What would Robert F. Kennedy junior mean for American health?
Donald Trump’s nomination for health secretary is sceptical about vaccines and mainstream medicine
The man picked as defence secretary wants to purge the Pentagon
Pete Hegseth, a Fox News host, takes aim at “woke shit”
Trumponomics
The biggest losers from Trumponomics
America’s president-elect wants to reshape trade, capital and labour flows
What’s about to hit the world economy?
Trumponomics tees off
America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed
Donald Trump’s promise of big tax cuts may not materialise
Schumpeter: Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump
Which businesses will thrive over the next four years?
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Paying the climate bill
The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think
Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances
Everything about climate change may seem grim. It isn’t
The fight for a stable climate will be fought using technology
What would it cost to kill coal?
The price of shutting down coal power, and what would be gained
How to pay for the poor world to go green
Rich countries need not reinvent the wheel
World news
Ukraine’s secret army in France
A new force is being marshalled to take on the Kremlin’s men
The Telegram: The perils of appeasing a warlike Russia
Finland’s cold-war past offers urgent lessons for Ukraine’s future
Brazil courts China as its Musk feud erupts again
Xi Jinping, China’s leader, spies a chance to draw Brazil closer
The demographic detail of Donald Trump’s victory
Immigrant voters may have won America’s presidential election for the nativist candidate
Business, finance and economics
Bartleby: The magic and the minefield of confidence
Self-doubt, hubris and everything in between
China should not wait to stimulate its economy
It is heading into a trade war
India is turning into an SUV country
The culture and meaning of cars is changing as the country gets richer
Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
Elliott Management wants to split Honeywell in two
More on climate change
Climate change and the next administration
There are obstacles to Donald Trump’s attempts to reverse progress
King coal is dirty, dangerous—and far from dead
Rumours of its rapid demise have been greatly exaggerated
How to frame the argument over clean power
An unlikely political lesson from Ed Miliband, Britain’s energy secretary
“Energy transition” has been profoundly misunderstood
At COP29 there will be plenty of discussion about it. But the idea is more complex than many believe
The war in Ukraine
Ukraine is now struggling to cling on, not to win
Russia is slicing through Ukrainian defences in parts of the battlefield
War in Ukraine may only intensify under Trump, says Dmytro Kuleba
The country’s former foreign minister explains the powderkeg that is three leaders in a cannot-lose standoff
Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell
The Trump administration should remember Vladimir Putin’s dark vision
The war in Ukraine has rattled both sides of Cyprus
Russians and Ukrainians have both used the island as a banking haven: not so easy now
War in the Middle East
The world’s most unlikely safe haven
As war rages in the Middle East, Shia are fleeing to a deadly dictatorship
Quitting Qatar is the least of Hamas’s problems
Farewell to comfortable villas in Doha, hello Turkey
Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister
The Israeli prime minister stamps his authority on his government
Iran needs a new national-security strategy
Will it choose a nuclear bomb or detente with America?
Cultural highlights
Books that imagine that history took a different course
What if Hitler had won and Hillary Rodham had broken up with Bill Clinton?
What does “Gladiator II” get wrong?
Its artistic errors are even worse than its historical ones
The Economist’s selection of the best TV of 2024
The small screen claims some riveting shows this year, both new and returning
The best films of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
They feature nuns and cardinals, robots and strippers
Stories most read by subscribers
Featured read
Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?
Women’s football in England has big ambitions
Edition: November 16th 2024
What’s about to hit the world economy?
Middle-class and minimum-wage
The strange politics of wage compression in Britain
Paying the climate bill
The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think
What to make of Trump’s picks
Loyalty, competence and an appetite for disruption are among the traits he is filtering for
Investing in Africa
Poor data and small capital markets make it hard to gauge risks and returns
Special reports: October 19th 2024
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The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust. Expect that to continue, argue Simon Rabinovitch and Henry Curr
The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust
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Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?
The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great
Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme
China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback
What can stop the American economy now?
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