The bad side-effects of China’s campaign to cut drug costs

ANAESTHETICS THAT don’t put patients to sleep. Laxatives that fail to clear bowels. Blood-pressure medication with little eff...

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No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada

The flurry of executive orders issued by Donald Trump on his first day back as president showed the high priority he places o...

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Tech tycoons have got the economics of AI wrong

Even as economic growth was just taking off, some economists were already pessimistic. Coal, wrote William Stanley Jevons in ...

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Catch up:a plane crash in Washington; Israel suspends prisoner release

American officials said that they do not expect there to be any survivors of a mid-air collision in Washington, DC. On Thursd...

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Catch up:a plane crash in Washington; Trump’s Guantánamo plan for migrants

American officials said that they do not expect there to be any survivors of a mid-air collision in Washington, DC. On Thursd...

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Congo’s agony:the fall of Goma

The big push began on January 23rd, when fighters belonging to M23, a rebel militia, and Rwandan troops descended on Goma, a ...

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Catch up:Trump’s federal grants freeze rescinded; Alibaba’s AI model

The Trump administration rescinded an order to freeze federal aid funding. A judge temporarily blocked the pause on Tuesday, ...

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Catch up:Trump administration rescinds federal aid freeze; Alibaba’s AI model

The Trump administration rescinded an order to freeze federal aid funding. A judge temporarily blocked the pause on Tuesday, ...

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Backing Heathrow expansion suggests Labour is serious about growth

Few THINGS symbolise Britain’s lackadaisical attitude towards economic growth better than the collection of fields, ditches a...

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The Arctic:climate change’s great economic opportunity

For bears of both the market and polar kind, a planet without an ice cap is a tragedy. The Arctic is warming four times faste...

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