Leaders
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Stop the votes
Britain’s Parliament should have killed Rishi Sunak’s Rwanda bill
A bad law to deliver a bad policy is too high a price for Tory unity
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Galileo’s children
Why Europe is particularly good at big science
CERN and the Very Large Telescope may be European successes. But there is bounty to share
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Power trip
Green protectionism will slow the energy transition
Expanding renewable-power capacity is becoming ever harder
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The war in Gaza
Israel and Palestine: How peace is possible
A peace process can go wrong in many ways, but a real possibility exists that it could go right
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Compassion and its consequences
How to stop over-medicalising mental health
What the world could learn from Britain’s flawed approach
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Gensler v Griffin
Bashing hedge funds that trade Treasuries could cost taxpayers money
Why fears about the “basis trade” are overblown
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The race for second place
A messy contest is coming to a head behind Donald Trump
Our poll tracker sheds light on that competition. It may yet matter
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The learning power of PISA
Covid-19 was a disaster for the world’s schoolchildren
The costs of wasting brainpower are huge
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COP plea
Rainforests provide a public good. The world should pay to conserve them
An ambitious Brazilian plan launched at the COP could help
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Debt break
Germany is in a bizarre fiscal mess of its own making
Three steps to resolve the fiscal panic
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A planet-cooking gas
What the world must do to tame methane
The world needs a deal during COP28 to limit a nasty source of emissions
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Superpower politics
What does Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy have to teach the world?
A grasp of the subtle interplay between interests, values and the use of force is still useful