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What do you think of the return of the “inheritocracy”?

OUR RECENT cover package focused on a startling fact: in some countries, inheriting is becoming…

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Syrian Red Crescent members transport injured civilians from the Kmeimim base, Latakia, Syria
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Politics | Mar 15th 2025 Edition

Around 800 people were killed in four days of sectarian clashes in Syria. Insurgents loyal…

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Trump’s whims are overriding the national interest

WHEN ENVOYS of President Donald Trump travel the world making promises, demands and threats, do…

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Joe Biden orders his spooks to investigate the origins of covid-19
Joe Biden orders his spooks to investigate the origins of covid-19

IN MARCH, President Joe Biden asked his spooks how the covid-19 pandemic had started. Contradicting claims made last year by...

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France is confronting its history in Algeria
France is confronting its history in Algeria

IN MARCH, BENEATH the chandeliers of the Elysée palace, four adult cousins met Emmanuel Macron, France’s president. What really happened,...

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Diplomacy has changed more than most professions during the pandemic
Diplomacy has changed more than most professions during the pandemic

WHILE ASSORTED G20 “Sherpas”, officials who do the donkey work on summits, gathered in Dhahran in Saudi Arabia in March...

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The West’s armies are getting more serious about climate change
The West’s armies are getting more serious about climate change

WESTERN DEFENCE ministries are talking up their willingness to take on a new enemy: climate change. In March Lloyd Austin,...

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Female soldiers are changing how armed forces work
Female soldiers are changing how armed forces work

RACHEL GRIMES served three tours of Northern Ireland as an officer in the British army. Her colleagues in the Royal...

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Love them or hate them, virtual meetings are here to stay
Love them or hate them, virtual meetings are here to stay

GEORGINA IS IN no hurry to get back to the office. The 37-year-old, who works in financial services in Geneva,...

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Almost one billion doses of covid-19 vaccines have been produced
Almost one billion doses of covid-19 vaccines have been produced

FLIGHT EK 787 touched down in Accra at 7.39am on February 24th. It was carrying 600,000 doses of AstraZeneca’s covid-19...

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Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes
Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes

MANUEL SUFFERED two serious brain injuries as a child in Denver, Colorado. The first was the result of a fall....

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UN peacekeeping is hamstrung by national rules for its troops
UN peacekeeping is hamstrung by national rules for its troops

THE PEOPLE OF the dusty eastern Congolese town of Mubambiro put little faith in the protection promised by the UN’s...

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The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness

THE COVID-19 pandemic has done nothing good for the mood of Park Ha-young, an undergraduate at Seoul National University. She...

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