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To a Lesser Degree
Our podcast considers how humanity will adapt to a hotter world
Leaders
Why the COP26 climate summit will be both crucial and disappointing
Such global gatherings remain the best forum to force change
United States
The Democrats’ disadvantage
The party faces long-term hurdles that will be hard to overcome
Explainer: Could Europe manage without Russian gas?
Not easily. But it has been slowly building up alternative sources
The world in brief
Joe Manchin, a Democrat from West Virginia who wields a make-or-break vote in America’s Senate, seemed to indicate that his party’s novel wealth taxwas dead on arrival...
Israel gave final approval for some 1,800 homes, and preliminary approval for a further 1,300, to be built on the occupied West Bank, according to an Israeli defence official...
As fuel shortages continue, China said it would ration diesel...
French maritime police detained a British trawler for fishing in French waters without a licence...
Rishi Sunak’s budget marks a turn to big-state Conservatism
British tax rates will rise to levels last seen in the 1950s
Free exchange: How soaring energy costs could hobble the covid-19 recovery
Past shocks have raised inflation and induced economic slumps
People with covid jabs have been less likely to die of other causes
A new study yields a discrepancy, but not an explanation
A long-delayed royal wedding reveals awkward truths about Japan
The monarchy is dwindling and ever more out of date
Checks and Balance
Our weekly podcast about democracy in America
What America thinks
Tracking public opinion with The Economist’s polls from YouGov
To a Lesser Degree
Our podcast considers how humanity will adapt to a hotter world
Weekly edition: October 23rd 2021
Instant economics: The real-time revolution
Is Nigeria ungovernable?
Africa’s biggest nation faces its biggest test since its civil war 50 years ago
Samsung’s big bet
The South Korean dynasty’s third generation is taking on TSMC and Intel. Can it succeed?
A triple shock to China’s growth
Coal shortages, covid-19 and a construction slowdown all take their toll
Andy Warhol in Iran
A museum from the shah’s era reopens
NFTs
The market for non-fungible tokens is evolving
The Economist joins the fray by auctioning an NFT of our cover
Non-fungible tokens are useful, innovative—and frothy
The craze extends from digital art to sports clips and cat cartoons
Explainer: What is an NFT?
“Non-fungible tokens” use cryptocurrencies’ blockchains to sell original versions of digital artefacts
1843 magazine | Did an avant-garde French artist sell the first NFT?
Yves Klein sold Parisian air to eager collectors. Yet he might not have approved of non-fungible tokens
Adventures in DeFi-land
Can decentralised finance lay the foundations for an open digital economy?
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International
Special reports: October 30th 2021
Stabilising the climate
There has never been a collective human endeavour more ambitious than stabilising the climate. In this special report our journalists assess what it will take to meet the historic goals agreed on in Paris six years ago
