Things are so dire that one state has produced a rational alcohol policy

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Blue Origin’s first Moon-base mission was supposed to depart as early as this autumn. Just two days after the plan was made public, those ambitions went up in smoke

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Innovations in the 1970s and 80s set the stage for a boom in the internet and tech stocks in the 1990s. We revisit this pivotal era in American history

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Donald Trump, who says the government is too weak to combat the drug gangs, will be watching

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Many of the problems that animate Gen-Z socialists are the result of markets that are insufficiently free, not excessively so. There is time yet for liberalism to once again produce results

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Food markets have been beset by volatility in recent years, due to a pandemic and two wars. Happily, uncertainty can drive disruptive technology

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Talk of an envoy for negotiations is premature, writes Anders Fogh Rasmussen

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By the end of the century India’s population could be just over a billion—a contraction of nearly half a billion from its peak, according to one forecast. This demographic transition will have far-reaching consequences

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“You don’t have to be particularly frugal in the United States to save a lot of money. You just have to be a little bit less ridiculous than your peers,” says @mrmoneymustache. On “The Weekend Intelligence”: how to retire by the age of 30

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Anyone who feigns injury should run a higher risk of being injured for real. If a player is judged to have feigned injury, the next foul on them will be unpunishable. Register for free to learn what other changes we would make

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Sonny Rollins had always known the musical life was for him, and he revelled in his gift. But his serenity, onstage and off, disguised his rough road to fame

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With such a mountain of debt, there are no new buyers or intermediaries, not even banks, who can reasonably keep up with the Treasury market

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Evidence-based medicine became mainstream remarkably recently. @hcpearson explains how lessons from history can help you navigate an era of online health advice, on “Babbage”