Turkey stuffed? A democracy’s last stand

Turkey stuffed? A democracy’s last stand

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismantled the country’s institutions. As an election looms we ask what democratic guardrails remain, and examine the wider risks if those go, too. “Non-compete” clauses designed to protect trade secrets when employees depart are being abused—and trustbusters are going after them. And Ryuichi Sakamoto, a famed Japanese composer, reckons with mortality in his latest release.


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Secular-stand nation: terror in France

Secular-stand nation: terror in France

The brutal murder of a schoolteacher comes amid warnings of mounting Islamism in the country. The attack will only harden resolve for a secular society. Alexei Navalny, Russia’s opposition leader, spe...

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The persecution of a people: China’s repression of the Uyghurs

The persecution of a people: China’s repression of the Uyghurs

Reporting by The Economist reveals deepening efforts by Chinese authorities not just to imprison the Muslim-minority people but also to reduce their number, to wipe out their culture and to hound them...

20 Okt 202021min

Loved Labour’s won: landslide in New Zealand

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After a term spent steering the country through crises, Jacinda Ardern has led her Labour party to a thumping victory; what will they do with their historic majority? Far from taking on water as the p...

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Más MAS? Bolivia’s election

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After last year’s vote was marred by fraud allegations, the electorate is split ahead of Sunday’s poll: will the country return the socialist MAS party of exiled leader Evo Morales to power? A private...

16 Okt 202021min

A close-it call: Nigeria’s uprising

A close-it call: Nigeria’s uprising

Angry protests following an alleged police killing continue, even after a hated police unit was shuttered. That exposes far-deeper discontent. Banks’ earnings this week show that belt-tightening earli...

15 Okt 202022min

Scared strait: Taiwan

Scared strait: Taiwan

Rhetoric and sabre-rattling from mainland China are rapidly ramping up; we examine the risk of an invasion that would have global consequences. A decision by World Rugby to ban trans women from the wo...

14 Okt 202023min

Food chain broken: famine in Yemen

Food chain broken: famine in Yemen

The country yet again faces widespread starvation as a civil war grinds on, and both sides are to blame for the misery visited upon civilians. With the stroke of a pen, Argentina recently doubled in s...

13 Okt 202022min

In their own Swede time: pandemic pragmatism

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By the numbers to date, Sweden's light-touch covid-19 measures may not seem successful. But its pragmatism takes an instructively long view of the pandemic. China’s high-level party machinery brooks n...

12 Okt 202023min

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