Christmas Specials
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Rosemont, Illinois
Inside the last true political machine in America
What a town is like when one family runs everything
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Desert island dismal science
Why economists love “Robinson Crusoe”
The classic yarn of a shipwrecked sailor reveals a lot about scarcity
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Life does not stop
How five Ukrainian cities are coping, despite Putin’s war
From ravers to rubbish collectors, residents tells their stories
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Following Fatimah’s sandals
What the journey of a pair of shoes reveals about capitalism
And how Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country, is changing
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Missiles and lies
The truth about the passenger jet Putin’s men shot down
Investigating MH17, the crime that presaged the war in Ukraine
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The price of a whale
Where capitalism and conservation meet
Can you put a price on the wonders of nature?
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Beside the seaside
Millions of Chinese are venturing to the beach for the first time
China’s beach culture is a microcosm of society
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Make America Godly Again
Many Trump supporters believe God has chosen him to rule
The Economist tries to find out why
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Wine and climate
Global warming is changing wine (not yet for the worse)
New vineyards are popping up in surprising places; old ones are enduring
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Sketching the year’s big stories
The cartoons that sum up 2023
KAL, our resident cartoonist, was inspired by AI, inflation, China and Donald Trump