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    • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The forgotten war

      Sudan’s conflict is a threat to regional stability — and millions of lives

      Refugees gather in southern Sudan. Some 18mn people, more than a third of the population, are in what the UN World Food Programme calls ‘acute hunger’
    • Friday, 23 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The troubling decline in the global fertility rate

      Developed economies need to be better prepared for a drop in younger workers

      A mother and a baby
    • Thursday, 22 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Sustaining Ukraine into a third year of war

      Kyiv is still waiting for all the tools it needs to drive back Russian forces

      Ukrainian soldiers man an anti-aircraft gun in Donetsk. To continue the fight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will have to take ownership of efforts to increase mobilisation and front the shift to a strategy of active defence
    • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The limits of splitting UK and EU financial services

      London and Brussels should collaborate more on regulation

      Dusk view of the Frankfurt financial district skyline
    • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Rishi Sunak should resist a swerve to the right

      A swing to populism would be bad for the Conservatives, and bad for Britain

      Rishi Sunak has already veered rightward by slowing net zero policies and doubling down on the Rwanda plan
    • Monday, 19 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The patchy record of returning founders

      Adam Neumann’s potential comeback at WeWork is a double-edged sword

      Adam Neuman gives V for victory signs with both hands as he addresses a crowd
    • Sunday, 18 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Hard work ahead for Indonesia’s dancing grandpa

      Prabowo Subianto needs to build upon the country’s recent progress

      Prabowo Subianto greets supporters during a campaign rally in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, last month
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The extraordinary courage of Alexei Navalny

      Activist’s death shows political violence is again a tool of punishment in Russia

      Alexei Navalny makes the shape of a heart with his hands while standing inside a glass cell during a court hearing in Moscow in 2021
    • Friday, 16 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The security risks that haunt the world

      American power remains crucial for international stability

      Two Ukrainian soldiers seen from behind standing next to their artillery unit as it fires, filling the sky with flames
    • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The painful reset in commercial real estate

      City authorities should support the repurposing of offices and retail space

      Buildings in Manhattan’s skyline
    • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      A flawed vote in Pakistan

      The shocking election result is a repudiation of military control

      Supporters of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party, which says it will contest the election results
    • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The plight of journalists in Gaza

      More media workers have been killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict than in any country in a year

      Demonstrators in Beirut lift portraits of Reuters journalist Issam Abdallah (L) and TV reporter Farah Omar, killed while covering hostilities in the region
    • Monday, 12 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Europe can no longer count on America’s security umbrella

      Trump is undermining its safety and the continent must respond

      Jens Stoltenberg, the Nato secretary-general, welcomes Donald Trump, then US president, to a summit in 2019.
    • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Turkey should shore up investor faith in new orthodoxy

      Finance minister Mehmet Şimşek has emerged as a key source of stability

      Mehmet Simsek wearing glasses and a suit looks up while straightening his tie
    • Friday, 9 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Why we need Cern’s €16bn atom smasher

      The Future Circular Collider could unlock some of the secrets of the universe

      ATLAS is one of two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. It investigates a wide range of physics, from the Higgs boson to extra dimensions and particles that could make up dark matter
    • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Britain’s overstretched armed forces

      The UK needs to rebuild its ability to fight, and deter, a wider war

      The Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth alongside at HMNB Portsmouth
    • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The US Supreme Court’s weighty ruling

      Donald Trump’s legal fate will not fix America’s deep political divide

      Trump supporters participate in a rally in Washington on January 6 2021, before the attack on the US Capitol
    • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Delaware versus Elon Musk

      US state’s chancery court plays a key role in balancing interests of boards and investors

      Elon Musk reacted to the court’s ruling with typical defiance: ‘Never incorporate your company in the state of Delaware’
    • Monday, 5 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      The rise of agricultural populism

      European politicians have to balance demands of farmers with the need for climate action

      A farmer stands on a tractor at a protest in the centre of Milan
    • Sunday, 4 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      A moment of high symbolism for Northern Ireland

      What the region needs now is normal government, not a constitutional fight

      Michelle O’Neill
    • Friday, 2 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Deepfakes and disinformation

      Citizens and democracy need better protection from nefarious actors

      Joe Biden: last month, a robocall, using a fake audio of the US president, urged Democrats to stay at home ahead of the New Hampshire primary
    • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
      The editorial board
      Central bankers gear up for interest rate cuts

      Policymakers may need to reduce the cost of credit sooner than they convey

      Central bankers Andrew Bailey, Jay Powell, Christine Lagarde
    • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
      The editorial board
      The big questions for Keir Starmer’s Labour

      Companies are looking for guidance on how the UK opposition would behave in office

      A man and a woman stand in front of cathedral
    • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
      The editorial board
      How to deal with the EU’s Orbán problem

      Sabotaging the Hungarian economy is the wrong way to rein him in

      Viktor Orbán. It is understandable that many EU leaders and taxpayers are no longer willing to finance his crony capitalism or illiberal system
    • Monday, 29 January, 2024
      The editorial board
      The many cautionary tales in China Evergrande’s demise

      Liquidation of developer raises the alarm over Beijing’s economic malaise

      A child on a slide in front of unfinished apartment buildings at the construction site of a China Evergrande Group development in Wuhan, China
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