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Our outgoing defence editor reflects on how war has changed during the eight years of his tenure. Wars have become easier to start and harder to finish, and the little guy has a better chance than ever before. And our obituaries editor pays tribute to Barney Frank, a trailblazing ...  Show more

The American administration’s next round of sabre-rattling has been directed at Cuba. But more military adventures there would probably prove disastrous. We profile the three starkly different contenders in Colombia’s hyper-polarised presidential election. And our series looking ...  Show more

For a while, closed borders and strict contact-tracing held the coronavirus at bay. What lessons to take now the Delta variant has <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2021/07/24/australias-covid-19-strategy-is-being-tested?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcast&u ...

A strategy approved today peels back some of the country’s constitutional pacifism; in large part that is because of its tense relationship< ...

In today's Daily Briefing, we discuss a shooting in Atlanta; EU leaders turning on one-another over the AstraZeneca vaccine; UK vaccination updates; and some positive news from Japan.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.co ...  Show more

There are fears about TikTok, but it’s not the only social media platform that the Chinese state might be using to monitor the rest of the world. That’s especially worrying for those in its diaspora who thought they were free. How monopolies are transforming America’s skiing indu ...  Show more