Shashank Joshi, our Washington bureau chief, on why the backlash against data centres is misguided

Research shows that some people could benefit

Competing water uses in the American West are getting harder to manage

Chinese scholarship on India has grown in breadth but not depth

Central banks are raising interest rates again

But the hard-right could still fall short of forming a government in Saxony-Anhalt

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

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In an interview with The Economist, Argentina’s president is unyielding

But some other fish are being pushed away

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Russia’s drones and missiles are battering the railway system, writes Adam Roberts, our foreign editor

Scott Bessent’s misdiagnosis is dangerous, writes Mohamed El-Erian

An extraordinary public inquiry is confirming the country’s worst fears about organised crime

Seven months out, presidential candidates are lacklustre and there are too many of them

Eventually they might be able to control robots or exoskeletons

Eventually they might be able to control robots or exoskeletons

The academic system has become more unfair but just as pressure-filled

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist

From mass-produced drones to semi-autonomous interceptors, innovation has been the hallmark of Ukraine’s defence against Russia. But now Russia is innovating, too. Although the front line is stable, mass-produced jet-powered Russian drones and ballistic missiles…