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But does the Democratic Party have a sufficiently unified message? Standing in front of a few dozen Democratic Party members in a shopfront in Ypsilanti, a town just south-east of Ann Arbor, Debbie Dingell, a congresswoman from Michigan, delivers the...

And it means the balancing act is getting harder Is deterrence easy or hard? That simple question has been at the heart of nuclear strategy for almost 80 years. For Bernard Brodie, an early nuclear theorist, the bomb had created...

Arms-control efforts can’t ignore the threat from Russia and China The debate about America’s nuclear deterrent breaks along two lines. One views the discussion through the lens of arms control. The other focuses on the level of deterrence required in...

In today’s China stability trumps enterprise, argues the novelist What lies at the far reaches of the universe? This is a question that science has yet to answer, but most young people in China today already have an answer. According...

Carbon pricing I was surprised by the lack of any analysis of economic instruments to price carbon-dioxide emissions in your excellent special report on the oil industry (March 16th). Many economists regard such carbon-pricing mechanisms as critical to achieving climate...

Lessons from the tenure of Larry Culp Listen to this story. Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Only rarely are chief executives appointed with a mandate for dismemberment. Yet when Larry Culp assumed the top job at...

This is how to protect the internet from malicious attacks Few inventions in history have been as important for human civilisation and as poorly understood as the internet. It developed not as a centrally planned system, but as a patchwork...

Donald Trump’s threat to dump allies would risk a nuclear free-for-all Nuclear deterrence works—or at least it has so far. To understand how, look at the war in Ukraine. America and Europe arm their ally but dare not deploy combat...

That will make inflation trickier to handle in future Not long ago the rich world was braced for a costly battle with inflation. Today it can seem as if the war has been won bloodlessly. In most rich countries annual...

It will disappoint China’s people and anger the rest of the world It is china’s gravest economic test since the most far-reaching of Deng Xiaoping’s reforms began in the 1990s. Last year the country achieved growth of 5%, but the...

This week’s cover How we saw the world This week we had one worldwide cover. China’s famously industrious workforce is shrinking, its property boom has ended and the system of free trade that helped it grow rich is disintegrating. However,...

Business Disney saw off an epic proxy challenge from Nelson Peltz at its annual general meeting. Through Trian, his hedge fund, Mr Peltz was seeking two seats on the company’s board to “restore the magic”, claiming that poor management and...

Politics An Israeli strike killed seven aid workers in Gaza. A drone fired missiles at the car convoy of World Central Kitchen, a charity that has worked closely with Israel in recent months. Its route had been cleared with the...