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The Los Angeles fires will be extraordinarily expensive
T he fires that are burning through southern California may be shocking, but they are not surprising. Anyone who lived in the ...
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Herbert Kickl, Austria’s hard-right ideologue who played the long game
Mr Kickl’s political hero is Viktor Orban, Hungary’s autocratic leader. But unlike Hungarian voters who first voted Mr Orban ...
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Should you start lifting weights?
Though some degree of decrepitude is inevitable with age, the evidence suggests that, even for people in their 80s, a bit of ...
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Design an Economist cover
Naturally, more work is needed. Although GLS -1 agonists have been used in diabetes for 20 years, some of the newer findings ...
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How to make sense of 2024’s wild temperatures
The first chart shows how each day’s temperature compares with what would have been typical in the late 19th century. The ...