The Taliban’s terrifying triumph in Afghanistan
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Small cities in America’s Mountain West are booming
Rocky Mountain metros are growing both despite and because of the pandemic | United States
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China is betting that the West is in irreversible decline
The country’s leaders see their moment, and are seizing it | China
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Why are so many athletics records falling?
A rush of remarkable performances has been attributed to new running shoes
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The rising cost of education and health care is less troubling than believed
A MONG THE compensations of ageing is the right to bore youngsters with stories of the prices of yesteryear. Once upon a time a ticket to the cinema cost just…
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The sociology of country music lyrics
W ITH ITS lilting banjo, cowboy theme and lyrics like “Ridin’ on a tractor” and “Wrangler on my booty”, not to mention an extremely catchy refrain, Lil Nas X’s…
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Why ticket prices on long-haul flights have plummeted
I F YOU HAVE booked a flight recently and been surprised by how cheap your ticket was, you are not alone. Airfares have been falling for years. Between 1995 and…
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Spice is throwing up problems not seen with other drugs
Public services grapple with a street drug that is like no other
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An ambitious African-science project is getting into its stride
New campuses are being built, and new talent nurtured
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Congo’s war was bloody. It may be about to start again
WHEN change comes to Congo, it can come fast. The previous president, Laurent Kabila, lost power when a bodyguard shot him in 2001. The president before that,…
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Are digital distractions harming labour productivity?
FOR many it is a reflex as unconscious as breathing. Hit a stumbling-block during an important task (like, say, writing a column)? The hand reaches for the…
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Blue-collar wages are surging. Can it last?
IF THERE was a defining economic problem for America as it recovered from the financial crisis, it was stagnant wages. In the five years following the end of…
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To err is human; so is the failure to admit it
A NEWSPAPER cannot publish for 174 years without some mistakes. This one has made its share. We thought Britain was safe in the European exchange-rate mechanism…
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The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data
A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the…
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Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started
AMAZON is an extraordinary company. The former bookseller accounts for more than half of every new dollar spent online in America. It is the world’s leading…
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The ecological impact of spiders
ARACHNOPHOBIA is a common and powerful fear. Spiders sit high in the pantheon of species that have an outsized terror-to-danger ratio. But, unsettling though…
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Hell’s kitchens
Makeshift weapons are becoming more dangerous with highly sophisticated, commercially available kit
