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Might Wisconsin’s redrawn state-legislative districts help Biden win?
Democrats hope newly competitive local contests will boost turnout in the swing state
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Louisiana could soon start castrating child-rapists
Why two black Democrats pushed for one of America’s most alarming crime bills
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Thousands of American pensioners are retiring on college campuses
For universities, the boomer business is one way of responding to the enrolment cliff
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Joe Biden’s best chance to shake up the race
But in debating Donald Trump, he faces graver public doubts and a greater challenge than he did in 2020
International
The new front in China’s cyber campaign against America
Big powers are preparing for wartime sabotage
Finance and economics
The cracks in America’s ultra-strong labour market
With a big discrepancy in jobs data, the economy may be weaker than it seems
Briefing
America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring
The company is growing stronger—and less vulnerable
Leaders
America seems immune to the world economy’s problems
Elsewhere, political dysfunction and fiscal frailties are taking a toll
Middle East and Africa
Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
For all America’s optimism, the two sides look fundamentally irreconcilable
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Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction is good for nobody politically
The trial showed the ruin of addiction, and the wheels of justice turning
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Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
America’s presidential race is no coin flip, says our forecast
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Brandon Johnson, Chicago’s leftist mayor, is struggling
Incompetence rather than ideology is what’s hurting him
Asia
How the Philippines is turning the water-cannon on China
Ferdinand Marcos’s flip is a huge gift to America. But dangers lie ahead