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Who will be the next president of Indonesia?
Today: the relentless audacity of Alexei Navalny
Biden signs stop-gap bill; scathing report on Uvalde
Leaders
And it diverts attention from the real humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Briefing
But Indian democracy is stronger than it seems
Leaders
Who did the posting will soon matter more than what was posted
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said an Israeli missile strike in Damascus had killed five of its members…
Tens of thousands of people—50,000 in Hamburg alone—gathered in towns across Germany to protest against the hard-right Alternative for Germany party…
Iran said it had successfully launched a satellite, placing it in an orbit 750km above the Earth’s surface…
The speaker of the lower house of Russia’s parliament said lawmakers were preparing a bill to permit the confiscation of property from people spreading “deliberately false information” about the armed forces or calling for sanctions against the country…
Compensation payments and amnesties cause fresh controversy
Chris Sununu and Nikki Haley claim, against the odds, that their brand of conservatism is the Republican future
Escalating conflict threatens to tip several countries over the brink
It is enjoying a resurgence in design and fashion
Who will be the next president of Indonesia?
Today: the relentless audacity of Alexei Navalny
Biden signs stop-gap bill; scathing report on Uvalde
What a second term would mean for American business and the economy
Though they will only say so in private
He has unfinished businesses in making his tax reforms of 2017 permanent
Republican fundraisers are in for a tough year
Fulfilling his great-power dream requires restraint, not abandon
Both detection software and watermarks can be defeated
Its defence posture and economy will feel the effects for years
Ordinary Chinese express no eagerness for war, but back threats of force
The Federal Reserve should switch it off
Tech’s best bromance reflects on regulation, the future of AI and how to control superhuman intelligence
In spite of rising borrowing costs, prices have stayed stubbornly resilient
The curious and furious recovery has brought some old ideas back to the fore
Expertise in batteries and a vast domestic market give Chinese firms an edge
But it should keep its markets open to cheap, clean vehicles
Its motorists aren’t won over by battery power—yet
The EU launches an anti-subsidy investigation
That is partly because of their shared horror of Hamas and the threat it poses
A president who wanted to end the war in Yemen now has his own conflict there
The Iran-backed group has been hardened by its long war with Saudi Arabia
As Israel is accused of genocide, we look at the humanitarian crisis
Psychedelics can help them to overcome trauma, and possibly to fight
More weapons production is a hedge against a Trump presidency
And why its leaders need to start saying so
Unless Ukraine wins the war, there is no way to recover what Russia has looted
Graphic detail
But the quality of democracies varies widely
Democracy in 2024
In theory it should be a triumphant year for democracy. In practice it will be the opposite
Our analysis highlights two measures of governance that have diverged in recent years
Elections in 2024
Rather than crudely stuffing ballot boxes, autocrats will cheat in hundreds of less obvious ways
Social-media posts and satellite imagery provide a torrent of data, but can overwhelm and confuse
The rise of domestic cinema counters Western cultural influence
Households across the region look very different from previous generations. Governments are struggling to keep up
The public likes, but badly misunderstands, the green belt. It’s time to rethink it
One of the last striking sanitation workers of Memphis died on December 30th, aged 92
Football supporters are turning against a system that makes them wait to celebrate a goal
Johnson, our language columnist, reviews the attractiveness of speech
Instagram poets are / behind a rise in revenue / and platitudes
Future-gazing analysis, predictions and speculation
Like the human appendix, their purpose today is unclear
Instagram poets are / behind a rise in revenue / and platitudes
The case Israel faces is more about politics than the law
His party's illiberalism may imperil India's economic progress
Many researchers think fakes will become undetectable
The super-rich are hoping to get money to the needy faster, says Avantika Chilkoti
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