Many of America’s allies would support an attempt to hammer the greenback. Asian officials worry about a strong dollar raising the cost of imported commodities, many of which are priced in the currency econ.st/3USU7ar 👇

The quest to cheat death has a long history—many have died trying. A new book by Dr Venki Ramakrishnan asks whether it is possible to arrest the decay of body and mind econ.st/3Uyboo9 👇

Today’s longest turbine blades have become too big to be delivered to inland wind farms. They can be taken only by ship to offshore sites, where building costs are far higher econ.st/44yhHwx 👇

Far more than Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war in Gaza is rattling public opinion in three key South-­East Asian countries: Malaysia, Indonesia and Singapore. We explain why econ.st/4boQ6Ak 👇

New York’s Seaport Tower has become the centre of the city’s broader battle between preservationists and developers, as Lizzy Peet reports for “The Intelligence” econ.st/3ybwBgf

The party gained seats in last week’s local elections and is polling at a 6% share of the vote in England and Wales. But at the general election it will be held back by Britain’s first-past-the-post electoral system econ.st/3ymj2dD 👇

There is bad news for the world’s chocoholics econ.st/3JTNIFO 👇

Britain’s National Gallery opened its doors to the public 200 years ago.

Before the pandemic it was the seventh-­most-­visited museum in the world. Though it has struggled in the years since covid, its birthday celebrations are a chance to show off econ.st/4aduZzN 👇

Today on “The Intelligence”, hal 👾 delves into the next stage of the tech wars. How might the rivalry intensify if Donald Trump is re-elected? econ.st/3wu24JS

A new study shows that waistlines are widening almost everywhere econ.st/4b0w2Ej 👇

Concern about deficits and debt has all but vanished from American politics.

Yet a fiscal reckoning is coming—and given both Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s denial of the problem, it may take an unexpected form econ.st/4bfdxwh 👇

As Poland’s new government tries to undo the changes the Law and Justice party has wrought, Andrzej Duda—the country’s president—is fighting to protect the legacy of the populist-nationalists.

1843 magazine investigates the murky goings-on econ.st/4dsUT5z

A few years ago it was hard to find investors with anything positive to say about European banks. A decade of near-zero interest rates, stiff regulation and anaemic growth had made them unprofitable and unattractive.

Now many are ripe for a takeover econ.st/44CMxnN 👇

The Yamnaya, who lived 5,000 years ago, are considered the world’s first nomadic pastoralists. They and their descendants went on to transform Europe and much of Asia genetically, culturally and linguistically econ.st/4dqI37A 👇

The 2019 general election was supposed to have created a new political settlement in Britain. That ended remarkably quickly. Those who believed in it are at risk of bewilderment, rather as if they had just woken from a coma econ.st/3UTRXaT 👇

Let a man linger close to the British throne and his mind will eventually turn to architecture.

Charles III began to pronounce on the subject in the 1980s, to many actual architects’ annoyance. Now it is William’s turn to play town planner econ.st/3JN8oiR 👇

The instructive fate of halal food exporters from Hui Muslim regions of Ningxia - once praised and promoted by the government, now deemed a threat to the secular Chinese state economist.com/china/2024/05/… from The Economist

Singapore’s stature as a financial centre has risen in recent years, leading to comparisons with Hong Kong, once the undisputed leader among Asia’s global cities.

Indeed, the country seems to be outstripping its rival in several areas econ.st/3WuVltS 👇

At a time when China’s ritziest shopping centres are often desolate, and the country’s economy is struggling, the success of Pangdonglai grocery stores is captivating executives econ.st/4bcpfYr 👇

The world is awash in pesticides. Fully 3m tonnes are thought to be sprayed onto crops worldwide every year, of which only a small fraction are needed.

Could this be another application where AI will prove proficient? econ.st/4a8IJvC 👇