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The Economist· 2025-12-19 18:10
A glimpse of what is possible can be had in Clayton County, where the school district has a deep partnership with the @Econ_Foundation.As one pupil puts it movingly, discussing the news in class helps them “share the load” https://t.co/ozTEypu8Zw ...
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The Economist· 2025-12-19 18:00
For decades, across the West, total fertility rate has been dropping. Pronatalists are casting around frantically for solutions. But the measure is flawed https://t.co/UaoiYnMGeOIllustration: Álvaro Bernis https://t.co/KuM9asXDXR ...
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The Economist· 2025-12-19 17:50
Huge problems remain there. But in 2025 the country is far happier and more peaceful than it was in 2024 https://t.co/oLTQuy7yaD ...
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The Economist· 2025-12-19 17:40
Australia has had relatively tight gun laws since a gunman killed 35 people in 1996. But there are now around a million more guns in civilian hands than there were before then, says a think tank https://t.co/vqc78fqIcb ...
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The Economist· 2025-12-19 17:30
The Russian surge in Ukraine is clearly designed to project confidence at a sensitive moment in negotiations. It may be working, but it is not cheap https://t.co/TJ5KGaycDN ...
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The Economist· 2025-12-19 17:20
Lapsang souchong, as it is known in the West, does not exist in China. Even the words may be a Western concoction. So how did this particular tea, of all teas, become a sensation abroad? https://t.co/LyAMIPy1TA ...
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The Economist· 2025-12-19 17:10
The author’s grasp of the fine gradations of income was the product of experience, not just imagination https://t.co/ahze4Mc0bB ...
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The Economist· 2025-12-19 17:00
Widening the band within which the peso moves risks a modest rise in inflation, but that is less of a problem for Argentina’s government with midterms out of the way. Still, this is far from a full currency float https://t.co/onxloCNuZd ...
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The Economist· 2025-12-19 16:50
A co-founder of the likes of Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil, Roger Hallam, has spent much of the past decade helping organise civil disobedience in Britain.But why listen to a 59-year-old man fresh out of prison? https://t.co/y4GDC1eQD4 ...
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The Economist· 2025-12-19 16:40
Surveys show that Americans’ trust in clergy has hit a record low. More people now pray in their cars than in churches. Perhaps inevitably, tech bros in Silicon Valley are taking the wheel https://t.co/OW7gqMKHbT ...