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Ashoka

India’s loudest political fight obscures a more urgent one

The country’s collapsing cities could benefit from plans to redraw the electoral map

4 min read

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Well Informed

How well do anabolic steroids work?

Very. But beware the side-effects

3 min read

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Back Story

Why the sex in “Rivals” is more than mere titillation

In the hit TV drama, back for a second season, a bonk is never just a bonk

4 min read

Bartleby

Introducing “Velocity pivot”

The corporate world’s Lorem ipsum

3 min read

Lexington

What Donald Trump could learn from the UFC

Maybe the fighters he has invited to the White House will supply some moral uplift

5 min read

Europe's left-wing politicians warding off threatening dark faces

Charlemagne

Socialism is being left behind in Europe

The workers’ parties aren’t working

5 min read

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Free Exchange

How to share the AI windfall

Are taxes enough?

5 min read

Schumpeter

Big tech is sacrificing its cashflows to prop up the AI boom

The result is increasingly unsettling

5 min read

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Bagehot

Labour has turned into the Conservative Party

Sir Keir has become what he once deplored

5 min read

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Buttonwood

Index rebalancing is now the biggest event in markets

But profiting from it is another matter

4 min read

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The Telegram

The EU and China are stumbling into a trade war

Swamped by Chinese exports, Europe nears a point of no return

5 min read

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Chaguan

China knows that governing new tech can be harder than inventing it

You need enough freedom for innovation, but enough control to prevent disaster

5 min read