Europe’s centrist rulers have fallen dangerously short—and are now paying the price bit.ly/4k45hWY

The loss of the contagious yawn in wolf populations may seem trifling. But some researchers worry that it might end up having adverse consequences bit.ly/3WaxYYA

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How much should Europe worry about threats of future invasion, and how much about the current reality of aggression? Our columnist tackles this dilemma economist.com/europe/2026/10…

Small wonder that, as the post-war political order breaks down, people are again finding solace in conspiracy theories. Or maybe that’s just what the lizard people want you to think economist.com/culture/2026/1…

Christopher Nolan’s recent blockbusters have underpinned a tripling of IMAX’s share price over the past three years. Yet some on Wall Street fret that the business has become a one-hitmaker wonder bit.ly/4iwfclS

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A timely book on Lebanon’s civil war has a few heroes, mostly the academics and activists who fought for peace. Those who wrecked the Middle East would do well to learn from them economist.com/culture/2026/1…

Harry Houdini is famous in part because he was the “master of mystery”. But also because he was, as one Houdini expert puts it, “a master at understanding how to promote himself” economist.com/culture/2026/1…

The state has become the epicentre of election chicanery economist.com/united-states/…

Are closet liberals climbing the Communist Party’s ranks? When current leaders retire, rising stars from the seventh generation (born in the 1960s and the 1970s) could take top jobs in the party economist.com/china/2026/09/…

A new book paints an affectionate portrait of the many oddballs and misfits who have made Wikipedia what it is. It is an enjoyable rabbit hole of information, rather like its subject. Read our review economist.com/culture/2026/1…

How do you keep operating when the city around you is starving? “We mask our feelings to do our best.”

On “The Weekend Intelligence”, we hear from the doctors of El Fasher, Sudan economist.com/podcasts/2026/…

But wealthy families still come out on top economist.com/finance-and-ec…

What did he make of her? Difficult to say. All the secretaries were just “Miss” to him. We remember the life of Churchill’s last-surviving personal secretary economist.com/obituary/2026/…

The rebels in Yemen are outgrowing their dependence on their patron economist.com/middle-east-an…

Gone are the days when fashionistas worth their Vogue subscription wore Lululemon leggings for the coffee run, school run or just to run. Hotter rivals are gaining ground economist.com/business/2025/…

Donald Trump is making his final pitch to voters ahead of the midterms. But @shashj tells “Checks and Balance” he can’t “discern anything coherent” in his closing message economist.com/podcasts/2026/…

John Green’s books offer earnest aphorisms that teenagers find profound. Now he is back on top of the bestseller list with his first tale for adults. Register for free to read our review economist.com/culture/2026/1…

Support for abortion and same-sex marriage in Poland has risen in the past decade. But a more liberal society has not always made for liberal policies. Secular far-right parties are on the rise economist.com/europe/2026/10…

John Rogers spent three decades as a Fed economist, known to colleagues as “Mr China”. Little did they know that behind the nickname lay deeper connections with Beijing. Did Rogers know what was going on, or was he a naive professor ripe to be preyed upon? 1843 investigates bit.ly/4A3xAtd

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The body of water has long been a byword for ecological disaster. Register for free to learn why the North Aral Sea has finally begun to defy doomsayers economist.com/asia/2026/10/2…

Just as pessimism can sap bargaining power, confidence can strengthen it. Doomscrollers of the world, know your worth economist.com/finance-and-ec…