Robert Guest
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Deputy Editor, The Economist
What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common
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What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common
How a Harvard polymath thinks people think
https://economist.com/culture/2025/09/18/what-naked-emperors-and-super-bowl-ads-have-in-common
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Don’t panic about the global fertility crash
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Don’t panic about the global fertility crash
A world with fewer people would not be all bad
https://economist.com/leaders/2025/09/11/dont-panic-about-the-global-fertility-crash
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The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre
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The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre
How the president presents himself as America’s protector
https://economist.com/united-states/2025/09/07/the-sinister-brilliance-of-donald-trumps-security-theatre
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America’s Democrats all agree they messed up horribly to let Trump win. I went to Iowa, North Carolina and New York to ask them how they can win again
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How America’s Democrats might win back power
The party is trying to talk less about pronouns, more about prices
https://economist.com/briefing/2025/09/04/how-americas-democrats-might-win-back-power?giftId=f6001bce-00f0-477d-b17c-52cf93e5559b
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How climate change could spread malaria
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How climate change could spread malaria
And how scientists are scrambling to stop it
https://economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2025/08/07/how-climate-change-could-spread-malaria
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Terrific leader in The Economist this week:
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Donald Trump thinks he’s winning on trade, but America will lose
The harm from tariffs will be lasting and deep
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/08/01/donald-trump-thinks-hes-winning-on-trade-but-america-will-lose
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The Economist
2 months ago
Across the rich world, politicians decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. Might this be the least bad way to fix it?
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What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?
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What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?
People move to the sunbelt for affordable homes. But it is getting harder to build there
https://economist.com/united-states/2025/07/14/what-if-americas-red-states-are-about-to-lose-their-cheap-housing-advantage
2 months ago
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The Economist
2 months ago
There is nothing wrong with seeking a better life. But when jobseekers and refugees crowd into the same funnel, malign consequences follow. Here is how the world’s asylum system could be redesigned
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The global asylum system is falling apart
What should replace it?
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In war, incentives matter more than courage
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In war, incentives matter more than courage
Economics is a useful tool for understanding conflict, as a new book shows
https://economist.com/culture/2025/07/10/in-war-incentives-matter-more-than-courage
2 months ago
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The TV shows people risk death to watch
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The TV shows people risk death to watch
Why fluffy, glossy K-dramas tempt North Koreans to brave the firing squad
https://economist.com/culture/2025/07/03/the-tv-shows-people-risk-death-to-watch
3 months ago
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The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
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The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them
https://economist.com/leaders/2025/06/05/the-stunning-decline-of-the-preference-for-having-boys
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America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs
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America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs
Provisions in the Republican budget are a dangerous step
https://economist.com/leaders/2025/06/05/americas-tax-on-foreign-investors-could-do-more-damage-than-tariffs
4 months ago
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Why the best time to be a dad is now
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Why the best time to be a dad is now
The bloody history of fatherhood bends towards co-parenting
https://economist.com/culture/2025/05/15/why-the-best-time-to-be-a-dad-is-now
4 months ago
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Europe’s free-speech problem
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Europe’s free-speech problem
J.D. Vance was right
https://economist.com/leaders/2025/05/15/europes-free-speech-problem
4 months ago
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How golden ages really start—and end
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How golden ages really start—and end
The greatest civilisations of the past 3,000 years were the opposite of MAGA
https://economist.com/culture/2025/05/01/how-golden-ages-really-start-and-end
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Reversing state capture is hard. Just ask South Africa, Bangladesh or Poland. Far better not to let it take root in the first place.
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State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard
The 15-70-15 rule and other ways to prise powerful fingers from the public coffers
https://economist.com/international/2025/04/03/state-capture-is-a-growing-threat-reversing-it-is-hard
6 months ago
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The Economist
6 months ago
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded
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6 months ago
Is Elon Musk remaking America’s government, or breaking it? There are three possible outcomes for DOGE
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The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground
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The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground
The rule of law is at stake
https://economist.com/leaders/2025/03/20/the-judges-trump-scorns-should-stand-their-ground
6 months ago
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The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
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The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
First get your facts straight, argues Kenneth Roth, a top human-rights campaigner
https://economist.com/culture/2025/03/13/the-best-way-to-curb-the-cruelty-of-the-worlds-worst-regimes
6 months ago
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7 months ago
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Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything
He is Silicon Valley’s favourite economist. Does his lust for knowledge have a place in the age of AI?
https://www.economist.com/1843/2025/02/28/tyler-cowen-the-man-who-wants-to-know-everything
7 months ago
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7 months ago
This is the best podcast I have heard in a long long time. It's so good to be addicted to a series again... even though it also leaves me also shocked and horrified.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Rwanda does a Putin in Congo
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Rwanda does a Putin in Congo
To understand the seizure of Goma, consider a parallel with Ukraine
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/01/28/rwanda-does-a-putin-in-congo
8 months ago
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In Putin’s new Russian economy, even a harmless digital retailer can attract the attention of warlords
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Amazon.com
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Why most countries should import more electricity
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To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world’s grids
Less than 3% of the world’s power is internationally traded—a huge wasted opportunity
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/01/23/to-make-electricity-cheaper-and-greener-connect-the-worlds-grids
8 months ago
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How Donald Trump draws on ideas from 1897
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America has an imperial presidency
And in Donald Trump, an imperialist president for the first time in over a century
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/01/23/america-has-an-imperial-presidency
8 months ago
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Good summary of Donald Trump’s extraordinary list of immigration curbs, including the flagrantly unconstitutional
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Donald Trump cries “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown
His first immigration executive orders range from benign to belligerent
https://www.economist.com/united-states/2025/01/21/donald-trump-cries-invasion-to-justify-an-immigration-crackdown
8 months ago
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The awful economics of piracy: the Houthis make $2bn a year by extorting money from shippers, while inflicting $200bn of costs on the world.
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Inside the Houthis’ moneymaking machine
After a ceasefire in Gaza, they may continue their Red Sea racket
https://www.economist.com/interactive/international/2025/01/18/inside-the-houthis-moneymaking-machine
8 months ago
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TikTok’s time is up. Can Donald Trump save it?
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TikTok’s time is up. Can Donald Trump save it?
The imperilled app hopes for help from an old foe
https://www.economist.com/business/2025/01/17/tiktoks-time-is-up-can-donald-trump-save-it
8 months ago
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To catch up, Africa needs a capitalist revolution. Wonderfully argued cover story in this week’s Economist
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The capitalist revolution Africa needs
The world’s poorest continent should embrace its least fashionable idea
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/01/09/the-capitalist-revolution-africa-needs
9 months ago
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Outrageous for Trump to threaten force. But for America to buy Greenland might actually be good for Greenlanders
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An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
Donald Trump’s threat of force is unwise. Instead, he should name a price
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2025/01/08/an-american-purchase-of-greenland-could-be-the-deal-of-the-century
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I wrote this week on Pete Hegseth's contention that women should not serve in combat. I look at the evidence from the past decade, including various experiments & studies. In practice, only tiny numbers of women are ever likely to serve in the infantry.
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Women warriors and the war on woke
Trump’s Pentagon pick wants women off the battlefield
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/01/06/women-warriors-and-the-war-on-woke
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Sex, drugs and bankruptcy: people over 55 are living more recklessly than the young
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Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation
Baby-boomers are keeping their bad habits into retirement
https://www.economist.com/international/2025/01/02/why-people-over-the-age-of-55-are-the-new-problem-generation
9 months ago
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I went to Kerala, Mumbai and Bangalore to ask Indians how they are adapting to climate change.
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How 1.4bn Indians are adapting to climate change
As heat, floods and drought get worse, people are getting creative
https://www.economist.com/asia/2025/01/02/how-14bn-indians-are-adapting-to-climate-change
9 months ago
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They “won’t be retrained. They’ll move.”
@arynbraun.bsky.social
on Bakersfield, an oil town where drilling is dying
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The beginning of the end for oil in California
What happens to an oil town when the drilling stops?
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-oil-in-california
9 months ago
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Jimmy Carter showed how hard it is to be both an effective president and a truly good person. He was an inspiring ex-president, though
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Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents
The humble peanut farmer who went to the White House died on December 29th, aged 100
https://www.economist.com/obituary/2024/12/29/jimmy-carter-was-perhaps-the-most-virtuous-of-all-americas-presidents
9 months ago
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Wonderful obituary of a great man: Manmohan Singh, India’s economic freedom fighter
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Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter
India’s most consequential finance minister, who later rose to PM, has died aged 92
https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/12/28/manmohan-singh-was-indias-economic-freedom-fighter
9 months ago
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How better data could lead to better sex
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How better data could lead to better sex
What we don’t know about human sexual behaviour is scandalous
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/how-better-data-could-lead-to-better-sex
9 months ago
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No light, no warmth, no women. Good wages, though. What it’s like mining in the Arctic
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The harsh economics of the Arctic
The world craves polar minerals. But who wants to work in a frozen wasteland?
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/the-harsh-economics-of-the-arctic
9 months ago
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The Nigerian preacher Putin hates
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How a Nigerian built one of Europe’s largest churches in…Ukraine
The astonishing tale of an unlikely merchant of miracles
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/how-a-nigerian-built-one-of-europes-largest-churches-inukraine
9 months ago
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Walking with people is a quick way to make friends
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A journalist retraces humanity’s journey out of Africa—on foot
The Economist tries “slow journalism” with Paul Salopek
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/a-journalist-retraces-humanitys-journey-out-of-africa-on-foot
9 months ago
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A Bible-bashing, gun-toting governor holds lessons for today
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A Bible-bashing, gun-toting governor holds lessons for today
Xenophobia, disputed elections, indictments: the story of Sidney Catts is eerily familiar
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/a-bible-bashing-gun-toting-governor-holds-lessons-for-today
9 months ago
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A podcast about cows
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Why making cows more productive could change the world
Also on the daily podcast: Spain’s economic resurgence and Harold Palmer, the Northumbrian hermit
https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2024/12/24/why-making-cows-more-productive-could-change-the-world
9 months ago
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How the axolotl rose from obscurity to global stardom
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How the axolotl rose from obscurity to global stardom
A tale that unites Alexander von Humboldt, Diego Rivera and Pokémon
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/how-the-axolotl-rose-from-obscurity-to-global-stardom
9 months ago
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What a 70-year-old firebreathing lizard reveals about humanity
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What a 70-year-old firebreathing lizard reveals about humanity
Each incarnation of Godzilla reflects the fears of its time
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/what-a-70-year-old-firebreathing-lizard-reveals-about-humanity
9 months ago
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How much happiness does money buy?
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How much happiness does money buy?
Your answer determines not just how you should live, but how you should invest
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/how-much-happiness-does-money-buy
9 months ago
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When the law penalises good Samaritans
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When doing the right thing goes wrong
How a car crash in Los Angeles rewrote the law on helping strangers
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/when-doing-the-right-thing-goes-wrong
9 months ago
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A day in the life of Toyosu, the world’s greatest fish market
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A day in the life of Toyosu, the world’s greatest fish market
The best sashimi chefs on the planet rely on Japan’s Wall Street of seafood
https://www.economist.com/christmas-specials/2024/12/19/a-day-in-the-life-of-toyosu-the-worlds-greatest-fish-market
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