Game on: the Tokyo Olympics

Game on: the Tokyo Olympics

The Tokyo Olympics are due to begin in just over two months. But with coronavirus cases climbing in recent months, 80% of Japanese people want the games to be cancelled. The navigation signals sent by satellites like America’s GPS constellation are surprisingly weak. What happens when they’re jammed—or tricked? And in America cicadas have emerged from their underground redoubts for the first time in 17 years, for a frenzied few weeks of mating. How do you study a species that emerges fewer than six times in a century? For full access to print, digital and audio editions of The Economist, subscribe here www.economist.com/intelligenceoffer

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Toil and rubble: a report from Turkey

Toil and rubble: a report from Turkey

Our correspondent visits town after devastated town. Poorly enforced building codes are one clear factor in the rising death toll—and a political backlash looms. Britain’s productivity problem is at l...

13 Feb 202327min

A chance at renewal: Nigeria’s coming election

A chance at renewal: Nigeria’s coming election

Young voters are fired up and the electoral system has been strengthened, but Nigeria’s challenges are considerable. We explore why this month’s vote offers an opportunity to turn the country around. ...

10 Feb 202329min

Long division: America’s busy state legislatures

Long division: America’s busy state legislatures

America’s Congress may be gridlocked, but its state legislatures certainly aren’t. The laws they’ll pass this year will probably impact more people more directly than anything Congress does, with just...

9 Feb 202326min

Bot the difference: AI and the future of search

Bot the difference: AI and the future of search

The race for AI supremacy is on. Microsoft, Google, Baidu and a host of smaller firms are all placing bets on the technology’s future. Which version emerges on top may well determine how people find i...

8 Feb 202323min

Race against time: rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria

Race against time: rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria

Amid unthinkable destruction and loss of life, we examine the factors that will frustrate relief efforts following earthquakes in an already troubled region. As President Joe Biden prepares to welcome...

7 Feb 202323min

Tony isn’t blinkin’: Sino-American relations, post-balloon

Tony isn’t blinkin’: Sino-American relations, post-balloon

American fighters shot down a balloon that China says was monitoring the weather, but America insists was spying. It was a minor incident, but it highlights the relationship of a great-power rivalry w...

6 Feb 202321min

Bold eagle: America's industrial evolution

Bold eagle: America's industrial evolution

As part of The Economist’s new series on the remaking of the country's economy, our correspondent looks at the Biden administration’s audacious industrial plans. Russia’s media outlets have been relen...

3 Feb 202327min

Poll fishing: Peru’s persistent protests

Poll fishing: Peru’s persistent protests

The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president in December; only an early election might bring a return to calm. Our correspondent goes shopping to di...

2 Feb 202327min

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