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With legal abortions on the rise, an aggressive battle is beginning

American enforcement has collapsed and conditions are ripe for skulduggery

A gory film tests prudish government censors

Scrutiny of other routes has changed traffickers’ strategy for shipping to Europe

They are not a new normal. But worse can nonetheless be expected

Europeans are keen on nuclear collaboration with Emmanuel Macron. What if Marine Le Pen becomes president?

Britain’s biggest-ever by-election is creating minimal buzz, writes Hugo Gye, our political correspondent

The two sides are trapped in a cycle of fighting and half-baked attempts at diplomacy

Also on the daily podcast: a surrogacy scandal roils German politics and how career advice is failing Gen Z

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This means fewer ghastly pictures of sunsets. More ghastly Instagram

These peculiar products, popular in the crypto world, are hitting the mainstream

Miami faces new problems as San Francisco makes a comeback

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, gender politics in the land of the one-child policy.

Demanding that China revalue the yuan gets both the diagnosis and the cure wrong, write Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Hélène Rey

The returns on trillions of dollars of spending are deeply uncertain

Our podcast on science and technology. This week, how worried should you be about AI going rogue?

Also on the daily podcast: women’s progress in the workplace stalls and America’s “night mayors”

The Economist investigates whether it stands up

The euro gets a makeover

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But it is unclear what the rocketing number of prosecutions is achieving

CXMT’s monster initial public offering is a moneymaker for the state. Its success may not be repeated

But like all superpowers, they will have their limits

But eco-authoritarianism is not all roses

Lessons from his prodigious early success

FIFA’s plan to tap private investors is causing outrage

It may be a harbinger

The two technologies look more complementary than rivalrous

When the quantum breakthrough comes, data being harvested today will be exposed

Also on the daily podcast: why “macro trading” is so difficult and the mystery street artist taking over cities

Etsy-sellers and small-town accountants are enjoying the fruits of AI

Work with the East Asia bureau of The Economist

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The cricket tournament has proved hugely profitable

Fixing the exam system will not solve that

The bombing may have paused, but energy supplies are precarious

Takaichi Sanae’s economic agenda bears little resemblance to her mentor’s

For that, blame high national debts

Fewer than academics imagine, but more than Elon Musk will admit

What India’s government learnt from recent student protests

Exchange-rate theory can be a lot to digest. Instead, take three trips to McDonald’s

It highlights economic problems—and helps explain how to solve them

GLP-1s offer a rare insight into the social and economic effects of carrying extra weight

Also on the daily podcast: why Donald Trump hates Brazil’s Pix payments system and emo music stages a comeback

Donald Trump’s capriciousness has pushed Canada’s military spending towards Europe

By threatening shipping, the Yemeni rebels hope to wring concessions from the kingdom

An end-run around a court ban gives Recep Tayyip Erdogan a strong challenger

Lessons from a fight over a bridge between America and Canada

Bordeaux is on alert, and worse is yet to come