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

Its resilience rests not on politicians’ restraint but on the robustness of institutional arrangements, writes Frances Lee

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Novelty collectibles are lucrative for cinemas

Andrew Palmer, our Bartleby columnist, rounds up three research papers that caught his eye

Satellite communications will underwrite future warfare, writes Alex Turner, our defence editor

In full command of its own cyberspace, China wants the same for AI

Under John Swinney’s leadership, it is warming up to growth, drilling and data centres

Mortgage lock-in is preventing nearly 1m property sales a year

The Kremlin is betting it can sway public opinion on the continent

Japan wants its pension fund and households to buy more government debt

The future of innovation may be research outside universities

This is his annus horribilis

Mortgage lock-in is preventing nearly 1m property sales a year

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