Bitcoin of the realm: El Salvador’s experiment

Bitcoin of the realm: El Salvador’s experiment

President Nayib Bukele thinks obliging businesses to take the cryptocurrency will help with remittances, inclusion and foreign investment. So far, few are convinced. From after-school tutoring to endless extracurricular activities, education is an increasingly cut-throat affair; we examine the costs of these academic arms races. And Sally Rooney’s new novel and the question of what makes great contemporary fiction.

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Scorched-earth policies: Australia and climate change

Scorched-earth policies: Australia and climate change

Evacuations are expanding as fast as the flames, and worse may yet be to come. We visit the fiery extremes that climate change is making more likely. At a museum dedicated to disgust, our corresponden...

10 Tammi 202023min

Will you still feed me when I’m 62? Macron’s pension fight

Will you still feed me when I’m 62? Macron’s pension fight

He won a landslide victory campaigning on it, but like French presidents before him Emmanuel Macron is struggling to push through his grand pension reform; we ask why. The belief in guardian spirits i...

9 Tammi 202022min

Return fire: Iran’s missile attacks

Return fire: Iran’s missile attacks

Attacks on bases that house American troops seem a dramatic retaliation to the killing of Iranian commander Qassem Suleimani—yet both sides seem to be tuning their tactics toward de-escalation. After ...

8 Tammi 202022min

Two heads aren’t better than one: Venezuela

Two heads aren’t better than one: Venezuela

After chaotic scenes in the National Assembly, it seems the country’s legislature has two leaders. Has Juan Guaidó’s chance at regime change run out of steam? Allegations against Harvey Weinstein spar...

7 Tammi 202022min

The general and specific threats: Iran

The general and specific threats: Iran

Killing Iran’s top military commander does not seem likely to further America’s aims for the region. What should America and its allies expect now? Biologists have long struggled to explain why homose...

6 Tammi 202023min

Negative feedback: reversing carbon emissions

Negative feedback: reversing carbon emissions

It is increasingly clear that putting less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will not be enough to combat climate change; we take a look at the effort to actively remove the stuff from the air. Our cor...

3 Tammi 202023min

Made (entirely) in China: a tech behemoth rises

Made (entirely) in China: a tech behemoth rises

No longer content just to assemble devices, Chinese firms want to design them and the infrastructure around them—and in some sectors they look set to succeed. Our correspondent visits indigenous commu...

2 Tammi 202023min

Lifesaver: meet a death-row detective

Lifesaver: meet a death-row detective

Death sentences are occasionally overturned in America; we meet a private detective responsible for saving many of those lives. We scour our foreign department taking nominations for The Economist’s c...

24 Joulu 201923min

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