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Playing his Trump card: Bolsonaro and the election
In Brazil, fears are growing that if Jair Bolsonaro loses in October, as polls suggest is likely, he may try to stage a coup or foment violence. He’s…
3 years, 6 months ago
Introducing The Prince
Xi Jinping is the most powerful person in the world. But the real story of China’s leader remains a mystery. The Economist’s Sue-Lin Wong finds out h…
3 years, 6 months ago
America’s next top model: predicting the midterm results
Our model, built to predict the outcome of this year’s midterm elections, tips Republicans to take the House and Democrats to retain control of the S…
3 years, 6 months ago
Deed of Truss: Britain’s new leader
As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes tax-slashing agenda will work for a crisis-stricken Britain. Japan’s prison…
3 years, 6 months ago
Cereal numbers: the fall in food prices
The worst predictions for costs have not come to pass, partly because Russia is selling plenty of wheat. But plenty of food-price woe may still await…
3 years, 6 months ago
No quiet on any front: Ethiopia’s clash of conflicts
After a five-month hiatus, violence has returned to the northern region of Tigray—but that is just one of the conflicts threatening to pull the count…
3 years, 6 months ago
Ready, steady, slow: Ukraine’s bid for Kherson
The long-trailed counter-offensive to retake the Russian-occupied regional powerhouse and symbolically powerful provincial capital has begun. But Ukr…
3 years, 6 months ago
Iron Curtain call: Mikhail Gorbachev
The leader who oversaw the Soviet Union’s collapse had only intended to reform it. But the propaganda and repression he abhorred were what held it to…
3 years, 6 months ago
Home truths: a global property wobble
As interest rates rise, lots of pandemic-era property trends are fading—but not every market is equally vulnerable as the boom peters out. Generals h…
3 years, 6 months ago
The third horseman: famine stalks Somalia
Our correspondent reports from Somalia, which stands on the brink of famine thanks to a drought, soaring food costs and infrastructure destroyed by d…
3 years, 6 months ago