Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake. It is an obsession that undermines growth, fairness and public faith in capitalism leaders
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Telecommuting requires new interpersonal skills, especially if you’re trying to stay on the boss’s radar. So what’s the best approach?
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Rays of hope—Arab states are embracing solar power
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Why have contestants on “The Price is Right” become so much worse at guessing?
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“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” turns 42
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Knitting’s tangled history: From aristocrats to punks, the humble yarn has spun its way through centuries of social change
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The meaning of Donald Trump’s crazily damning self-defence
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How Viktor Orban hollowed out Hungary’s democracy
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The Kochtopus’s garden
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Would Donald Trump be president if all Americans actually voted?
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How the pursuit of leisure drives internet use: The second half of humanity is joining the internet
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As more and more of our words are tapped out on keyboards, writing by hand has become an endangered species
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Poland’s president wants a referendum on the EU
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Germany’s troubled relations with the Visegrad states show the limits to its power
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Physicists investigate why matter and antimatter are not mirror images - Does antimatter fall up, or fall down?
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What next for Myanmar’s Rohingya?
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Why Nord Stream 2 is the world’s most controversial energy project
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"Xi's world order - July 2024" (Economics and speculative fiction - a sampling from this week's Economist)
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Why is vigorous economic competition a good thing?
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Penalty shoot-outs are basically still crap-shoots
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If wages are to rise, workers need more bargaining power
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