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The new ideology of race

And what is wrong with it

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Enlightenment liberalism is losing ground in the debate about race

Europe

Turkey’s president is playing religious politics

He wants to turn Justinian’s cathedral from museum back to mosque

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United States

The Supreme Court hands Donald Trump a defeat over his finances

A grand jury may see his records; but House Democrats may not, at least for now

Europe

The massacre of Bosnian Muslims is still denied by Serbs

A Balkan battle of memory is still being fought

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Schumpeter: Elon, Masa and Boris in low-Earth orbit

What could possibly go wrong?

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How resilient are the banks?

If today’s lenders were run as they were in 2008 they would be in huge trouble

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Leaders

Sourdough economics: no need to knead

Why the time has come to say no to dough

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The new ideology of race: and what's wrong with it

July 11th 2020
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Finance & economics

The poorest countries may owe less to China than first thought

Britain

Oxford University is leading in the vaccine race

Asia

America is rapidly pulling troops from Afghanistan

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Money really can buy happiness and recessions can take it away

Polls from 145 countries show that citizens of wealthier ones are more satisfied and secure

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What if water shortages destabilise China?

The painfully unequal distribution of water in China reawakens intra-regional resentments not seen in decades. An imagined scenario from 2050

The World If

What if nuclear power had taken off in the 1970s?

How would the world look today if more countries had adopted nuclear power after the 1973 oil crisis? A look back on an alternative history from a rather different 2020

The World If

What if technology tracked all carbon emissions?

The World If

What if mammoths are brought back from extinction?

Special report: The new world disorder

Global leadership is missing in action

Seventy-five years ago the world’s leaders designed the peace even as they fought the war. Today’s leaders need to do something similar, says Daniel Franklin

Who runs the world?

As America gets tired, China gets busy

The UN has too much on its plate

Missions impossible

The clock is ticking for nuclear arms control

Avoidable Armageddon

The UN’s structures built in 1945 are not fit for 2020, let alone beyond it

Grand redesigns

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