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The Economist (North America), 7 Nov 2026

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Cheap data is great for Indi­ans but not for India’s repu­ta­tion,

ArticleGang­bust­ing in Haiti

PRESIDENT NAYIB BUKELE has gained fame around the world for mak­ing El Sal­vador safer—albeit in a deeply vex­ing way. Lead­ers from Latin Amer­ica trek to see the mega-prison in which he has locked up thou­sands of men accused of being in gangs, often...

Gang­bust­ing in Haiti

ArticleJapan’s dis­aster read­i­ness

AMONG THE coun­tries most prone to nat­ural dis­asters, Japan has a habit of spawn­ing new bur­eau­cra­cies. Yet, des­pite in recent years launch­ing agen­cies for digital tech­no­logy and for chil­dren and fam­il­ies, its gov­ern­ments have...

Japan’s dis­aster read­i­ness

ArticleHow Demo­crats may gov­ern

IN DEMOCRATS’ QUEST to restrain Don­ald Trump over the past two years, no tool was more fre­quently deployed than the sternly worded let­ter. Demo­crats sent these missives reg­u­larly; the pres­id­ent and his asso­ciates ignored most of them. Such is...

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