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Social-media bans threaten to be counterproductive. Teenagers who are turfed off TikTok will not instantly begin climbing trees or devouring books https://t.co/8WuJdhix3c ...

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The spectre of individual criminal liability for low-ranking bureaucrats in Britain is unlikely to produce a more candid state; it could create a more opaque, evasive and sclerotic one https://t.co/RExEJkMtn4 ...

The Russian economy “is stuck in what might be described as negative equilibrium”, writes Alexandra Prokopenko. It is “holding itself together while steadily destroying its own future capacity” https://t.co/giMPkWswNp ...

The apps consume huge amounts of children’s time, which many parents would like to see put to different uses. But bans are hard to implement—and harder to enforce https://t.co/0WUp8iyiy5 ...

Yet several contentious issues still loom over the transatlantic relationship. Each one could yet torpedo Marco Rubio’s hope of “an alliance that boldly races into the future” https://t.co/CuOhLMgyAs ...

Symptoms include a flagging libido, tiredness, shrinking muscles and growing body fat https://t.co/mJCDwlnla4 ...

The coup de grâce for Sir Keir Starmer—if or when it comes in Britain—may be as swift and brutal as other kinds of revolutionary violence https://t.co/22Jgq4OZKv ...

A number of backdoor efforts to dump more cash into the economy will reward a handful of the president’s favoured constituencies.Most dramatic is the decision to gut the tax-enforcing powers of the Internal Revenue Service https://t.co/DS3FPWF8Da ...