The U.K. is seeing to “offshore asylum”

marketplace.org Want fewer migrants at your doorstep? Send them somewhere else. Many lawmakers in the United Kingdom think that is the solution to the uptick of migrants arriving on British…

Spate of arrests shows how deeply Russia has infiltrated Europe

semafor.com Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from The Associated Press, CBS News, and The Economist The News Two Polish men have been arrested in Poland on suspicion of having…

Modi widely expected to win Indian election as voting begins

semafor.com Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from The Hindu, The Economist, and Bloomberg The News India’s multi-week election kicked off on Friday, with Prime Minister Narendra…

Critic’s Notebook: The Compellingly Packaged Cowardice of ‘Civil War’

hollywoodreporter.com Tense, disturbing, riveting, Alex Garland’s dystopian film Civil War examines an existential threat preying on the American sub-conscious: What would happen if the political…

Worried about Civil War? Bridge Entertainment Labs provides practical solutions to detoxify America

benzinga.com LOS ANGELES, April 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Alex Garland's movie Civil War has captured critical acclaim for its jarring realism. Americans in red and blue states have…

Wu departing FT for The Economist

talkingbiznews.com Ethan Wu is leaving the Financial Times to become the Asia correspondent for The Economist. Wu has been at the Financial Times since November 2021 covering finance in New…

Wanted: a new economics writer

economist.com We are hiring a writer on economics, ideally based at first in London. Journalistic experience is not necessary. The ability to write clearly and entertainingly is crucial.…

The media isn't getting its election bump

simonowens.substack.com Welcome! I'm Simon Owens and this is my media industry newsletter. If you've received it, then you either subscribed or someone forwarded it to you. If you fit into the…

Just how rich are businesses getting in the AI gold rush?

economist.com Barely a day goes by without excitement over artificial intelligence (AI) sending another company’s market value through the roof. This month the share price of Dell, a…

Elon Musk is not alone in having Delaware in his sights

economist.com AT THE TURN of the 20th century the prime state to register businesses in America was New Jersey, home to America’s biggest trusts such as Standard Oil. Other states,…

Can lorries go green faster?

economist.com YOU MAY think that if you splashed out $100,000 for a vehicle you would take delivery of something flash—a Porsche, say. In fact, many such buyers care less about the badge…

Car shows in the West are in terminal decline

economist.com Shifting trends in the car industry are best illustrated by the plight of Geneva’s hoteliers. Securing a place to stay during the city’s annual motor show once required…

Why Costco is so loved

economist.com In the nearly 40 years that The Economist has served up its Big Mac index, the price of the McDonald’s burger in America has more than tripled. In that same period the cost…

A New Year’s interview with Volodymyr Zelensky

economist.com The president of Ukraine is angry; not about the successes of his enemies (he sees none) nor even about his own army’s lack of progress on the battlefield. Instead,…

Checks and Balance newsletter: What is Trumpism, actually?

economist.com This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter bringing exclusive insight from our correspondents in America. Sign up for Checks and…

Introducing The US in brief, our new daily political newsletter

economist.com OUR LATEST subscriber newsletter, The US in brief, helps you keep up to date with fast analysis of the political stories of the day, chosen by our correspondents and…

How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China

economist.com Donald Trump and Joe Biden do not agree on much, but they are of a similar mind when it comes to America’s trade relations with China. They believe that the world’s largest…

The countries which raised rates first are now cutting them

economist.com Over the past two years The Economist has studied the economic fortunes of Hikelandia. This group of eight countries—Brazil, Chile, Hungary, New Zealand, Norway, Peru,…

China’s population is shrinking and its economy is losing ground

economist.com “HOW SHOULD one look at the Chinese economy?”, asked Li Qiang, the country’s prime minister, at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 16th. “It is similar to looking…

Leading Russia watcher in China makes surprise Ukraine war prediction

newsweek.com A Chinese specialist on Russia has delivered a grim forecast for Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine: that it is doomed to fail. Peking University professor Feng Yujun is also…

Sudan on brink of collapse after a year of war

theweek.com A year after war broke out in Sudan, aid agencies warned Monday that the country is on the edge of total collapse. The United Nations says Sudan is experiencing "one of the…

Will Iran's attack on Israel backfire?

theweek.com Iran's unprecedented bombardment of Israel over the weekend has changed the strategic equation of the Middle East, commentators have warned as the world awaits Israel's…

Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?

economist.com THE FOOTBALLERS look realistic at first sight but, on closer inspection, something is wrong. Their faces are contorted, their limbs are bending in alarming directions, the…

How is the Israel attack viewed in Iran?

euronews.com Tehran's strikes on Israel likely mean more problems for ordinary citizens, already struggling under a deeply unpopular Islamic regime. Iran's first direct military…

Iran's unprecedented attack on Israel has pushed the region to the edge

businessinsider.com L: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. R: Objects are seen in the sky above Jerusalem after Iran launched drones and missiles toward Israel. LEO CORREA (Getty Images)…

The stalled EV market

theweek.com Lei Jun first set his Chinese smartphone firm Xiaomi up as an "Apple copycat", said the Financial Times – and just over a decade later, he has stolen a crucial march on the…

Woman Who Went Viral for Hugging Trump at Chick-fil-A Explains Why Black Voters Support Him

zerohedge.com Woman Who Went Viral for Hugging Trump at Chick-fil-A Explains Why Black Voters Support Him Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, A woman who recently went viral for…

Editors unite in bid to stop anti-SLAPP bill being ‘ultimately redundant’

pressgazette.co.uk Editors from the likes of the Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Times and The Telegraph have united in an attempt to bolster an anti-SLAPP bill going through Parliament. More…

Who are the swing voters in America?

economist.com DURING HIS two previous presidential campaigns, Donald Trump never led general-election polling averages for a single day. In 2016 he pulled within a percentage point of…

Senior NPR editor claims public broadcaster lacks ‘viewpoint diversity’

theguardian.com A debate about media bias has broken out at National Public Radio after a longtime employee published a scathing letter accusing the broadcaster of a “distilled worldview of…

David McCourt and Vint Cerf speak on the 50th anniversary of the Internet on its past, present and future in an AI world

benzinga.com Telecom innovator and Internet inventor speak at the 36th annual gathering of the Club de Investigación Tecnológica in Costa Rica on AI and its place in society DUBLIN,…

Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy

economist.com Trustbusters have big tech in their sights. On March 25th the European Commission opened a probe into Apple, Alphabet (Google’s parent company) and Meta (which is…

The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch

economist.com A decade ago finance ministries were gripped by austerity fever. Governments were doing all they could to cut budget deficits, even with unemployment high and economic…

Why Chechnya has banned music that is 'too fast or too slow'

theweek.com Taylor Swift's iconic hit "Shake It Off" is rarely mentioned in the same breath as the Russian national anthem but both have fallen foul of a new ruling on music in…

The rich world faces nightmare budget deficits

economist.com A decade ago finance ministries were gripped by austerity fever. Governments were doing all they could to cut budget deficits, even with unemployment high and economic…

Nuttall returning to Berlin to lead The Economist’s Germany coverage

talkingbiznews.com Tom Nuttall of The Economist is returning to Berlin to lead the publication’s Germany coverage. Nuttall has been a senior editor on The Economist‘s digital team since March…

Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?

economist.com AN ANONYMOUS MEMO briefly circled the web in March. The authors, who claimed to be former partners at McKinsey, rebuked the illustrious strategy consultancy for its pursuit…

Vladimir Putin wants to catch up with the West in AI

economist.com SIX YEARS ago, before anyone had heard of ChatGPT, Vladimir Putin said that the country that led the development of artificial intelligence (AI) would become the “ruler of…

Companies run to their own annual rhythms

economist.com Seasonality is a big part of business. For some industries, seasonal patterns are a defining feature. Agriculture is one obvious example; tourism another. Western toymakers…

A new year’s message from the CEO

economist.com Dear friends and colleagues, Happy New Year! This time last year, for the ninth year in a row, I warned you that there had never been a more uncertain outlook for our…

Who was behind the massacre in Moscow?

economist.com Editor’s note (March 23rd 2024): This article has been updated. A POPULAR MOSCOW concert hall turned into a hellish crime scene on the evening of March 22nd when a group of…

Trump’s lead over Biden may be smaller than it looks

economist.com IF AMERICA were to hold its presidential election tomorrow, Donald Trump would be picking out curtains for the Oval Office. The Economist’s polling average puts him up by…

America’s border crisis in ten charts

economist.com To read more of The Economist’s data journalism visit our Graphic detail page. THE CRISIS along America’s southern border is a political liability for Joe Biden. Polling…

America’s immigration policies are failing

economist.com SO YOU WANT to come to America. Venezuela, your home country, is suffering under Nicolás Maduro’s violent kleptocracy. What to do? Good luck getting a green card: employers…

Donald Trump does exactly what he was expected to do

economist.com IOWA IS SUPPOSED to surprise. Ted Cruz won there in 2016, Rick Santorum in 2012, Mike Huckabee in 2008. There was no upset this year: Donald Trump won the Iowa caucuses by…

The Economist’s finance and economics internship

economist.com The Economist is seeking promising journalists and would-be journalists to apply for the 2024 Marjorie Deane internship. The successful candidate will spend six months with…

How strong is India’s economy under Narendra Modi?

economist.com In the second week of 2024 business leaders descended on Gujarat, the home state of Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister. The occasion was the Vibrant Gujarat Global…

Lindsey Graham Doubles Down on Defying Trump’s Abortion Retreat Despite Attacks: ‘Most Americans Are Where I’m At’

mediaite.com (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) doubled down on his support for national restrictions on abortion in spite of former president and presumptive…

Ukraine's battle to save Kharkiv from Putin's drones

theweek.com Kharkiv has been subjected to a wave of drone attacks as Russia intensifies its bombardment of Ukraine's second-largest city ahead of a possible major summer offensive.…

Gavin Adcock launches foul-mouthed tirade against Joe Biden at festival

newsweek.com Country musician Gavin Adcock launched an expletive-ridden rant against President Joe Biden as he performed at Kid Rock's "Rock the Country" tour over the weekend, video…

Iran warns Israel that ‘the coming days will be hard’ following strike

semafor.com Semafor Signals Supported by Insights from Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and NBC News The News Iran’s foreign minister said Monday that “the coming days will be hard for…

None of This Is Normal

vanityfair.com On Monday morning, Axios’s Mike Allen blasted out his early morning email with the subject line: “Scoop: Trump’s retaliation plan.” It seems that Republicans, after failing…

Donald Trump panics as poll numbers slide

newsweek.com Donald Trump has appeared to strike a more moderate chord on abortion rights, ahead of the presidential election. The presumptive Republican nominee has previously made a…

The Kremlin wants to make Ukraine’s second city unliveable

economist.com IT HAS BEEN a few days since a 250kg Russian glide bomb landed in Iryna Tymokhyna’s courtyard on 23rd August Street, and it is fair to say she is not happy. Sitting on the…

One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack

theguardian.com On Good Friday, a Microsoft engineer named Andres Freund noticed something peculiar. He was using a software tool called SSH for securely logging into remote computers on…