Brazil’s government-run payments system has become dominant
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Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
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How artificial intelligence can make board games better
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Can Magnus Carlsen convince people to watch chess? The world's best player hopes that glamming up the ancient game can make stars of its players.
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Why some doctors are reassessing hypnosis
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Why global bond markets are convulsing
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The market for “noble” titles is booming
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Will China’s “green Great Wall” save it from encroaching sands?
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Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
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Climate change and fish farming are endangering the future of Norway's Atlantic salmon
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The mystery of the cover letter
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Norway's economy is thriving yet the krone is becoming less and less valuable. What's going on?
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Sun machines
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There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine
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Data show that the amount of sexual content in top films has sharply declined since 2000
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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
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Reasons to be cheerful about Generation Z
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Welcome to the ad-free internet
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When the New York Times lost its way
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Who profits most from America’s baffling health-care system?
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Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
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Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster – Large language models have much older cousins in markets and bureaucracies
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How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race
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The Economist’s glass-ceiling index
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War and subsidies have turbocharged the green transition
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How prisoners in America got into stocks
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Short-sightedness has become an epidemic
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Tracking covid-19 excess deaths across countries [Updated Jan 2022]
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Tokyo: The big city that is also pleasant to live in
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This is what 3°C of global warming looks like
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Facebook is nearing a reputational point of no return
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The promise of open-source intelligence
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Hollywood reaps the rewards of becoming more diverse: Films with a diverse cast tend to outperform the rest
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A century ago Ludwig Wittgenstein changed philosophy for ever
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The war against money-laundering is being lost
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How Netflix is creating a common European culture
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The Economist Glass-Ceiling Index 2020 – Nordic countries performed best overall, with Sweden, Iceland, Finland and Norway taking the top four spots
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Curbside delivery isn’t new, but the pandemic helped it take off. Here’s what to expect as it moves forward
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Movie night at the White House: A century of screenings, decoded
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Why the Philly cheesesteak can swing a presidential election
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How do you switch to a four-day week? The pros and cons
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Hercule Poirot turns 100: The strange case of the Belgian detective
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The pandemic has put the future on fast-forward, with one notable exception: The drive-in cinema
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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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