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Success will require investing in employees as seriously as America invests in chips

Expect more extreme weather

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An enigmatic Fed faces the risk of AI stocks falling and the oil price soaring

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

A surge in fruit exports shows how high-value agriculture can spur industrialisation

The government is shirking the work required for membership

Oliver Morton, our planetary affairs editor, on how the fires are making air quality more lethal

Opposition parties are struggling as Bev Craig of the new-look Labour Party wins in Manchester

How a powerful activist group is threatening science

Thwarting the thief of time

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Entire campaigns—and the fate of civilisations—have turned on a siege, writes Richard Cockett, a senior editor

It is also angering the rest of Europe

Our weekly podcast on America. This week, what’s at stake in Michigan’s Democratic primary

Three recommendations about journeys—and one show you shouldn’t embark on

He is wisely overhauling Argentina’s central bank. But winning elections remains paramount

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The blazes in North America have claimed 10-80 times as many lives as those in Europe so far

Our podcast on markets, the economy and business. This week, we celebrate 40 years of the Big Mac index

Bordeaux is on alert, and worse is yet to come

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Its boss has ambitious plans for the future

A British retail magnate tries to go upmarket

Blame technology, inflation and customers’ shifting habits

A case of national-security theatre

Its country’s economy depends on it