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

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

The cricket tournament has proved hugely profitable

Bordeaux is on alert, and worse is yet to come

But like all superpowers, they will have their limits

FIFA’s plan to tap private investors is causing outrage

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

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

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

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

American enforcement has collapsed and conditions are ripe for skulduggery

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

The two technologies look more complementary than rivalrous

For that, blame high national debts

It may be a harbinger

Fixing the exam system will not solve that

The Hong Kong bookseller died on July 2nd, aged 70

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

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

Dave Portnoy has created a loyal audience by refusing to please everyone

This means fewer ghastly pictures of sunsets. More ghastly Instagram

What India’s government learnt from recent student protests

A summer stroll along Hadrian’s Wall is also a rendezvous with history

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

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

A new book tells the story of an atrocity in North Carolina in 1898 and its long aftermath

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

Annie Jacobsen imagines the repercussions of a leak from a Russian laboratory

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

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

Large language models like long words and em-dashes—or do they?

Miami faces new problems as San Francisco makes a comeback

As tensions flare in the Gulf, triple digits could return in a flash

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

A friend to procrastinators, an enemy to prattlers, a necessity for managers

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

Its boss has ambitious plans for the future

A British retail magnate tries to go upmarket

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

Blame technology, inflation and customers’ shifting habits

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

A gory film tests prudish government censors

A case of national-security theatre

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

Its country’s economy depends on it

The returns on trillions of dollars of spending are deeply uncertain

Social-media-savvy politicians are drawing them in

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

It has stepped up its abuse of Australia, the Philippines and Japan