The world this week | The Economist

This week’s covers

How we saw the world

We had two covers this week. One was about America’s failure to impose order on its southern border and the chance that this could cost Joe Biden the White House in November. The other looked at how artificial intelligence (AI) could transform lives in the emerging world.

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