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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · 22d

What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common
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from The Economist

What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common

How a Harvard polymath thinks people think

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · 28d

Don’t panic about the global fertility crash
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from The Economist

Don’t panic about the global fertility crash

A world with fewer people would not be all bad

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Sep 7

The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre
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from The Economist

The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre

How the president presents himself as America’s protector

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Sep 5

America’s Democrats all agree they messed up horribly to let Trump win. I went to Iowa, North Carolina and New York to ask them how they can win again
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How America’s Democrats might win back power

The party is trying to talk less about pronouns, more about prices

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Aug 7

How climate change could spread malaria
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from The Economist

How climate change could spread malaria

And how scientists are scrambling to stop it

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Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · Aug 1

Terrific leader in The Economist this week: www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

Donald Trump thinks he’s winning on trade, but America will lose

The harm from tariffs will be lasting and deep

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The Economist @economist.com · Jul 14

Across the rich world, politicians decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. Might this be the least bad way to fix it? econ.st/4lX8x4m

Photo: WFP/Julian Civiero

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Jul 14

What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?
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What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?

People move to the sunbelt for affordable homes. But it is getting harder to build there

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The Economist @economist.com · Jul 10

There is nothing wrong with seeking a better life. But when jobseekers and refugees crowd into the same funnel, malign consequences follow. Here is how the world’s asylum system could be redesigned

The global asylum system is falling apart

What should replace it?

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Jul 10

In war, incentives matter more than courage
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In war, incentives matter more than courage

Economics is a useful tool for understanding conflict, as a new book shows

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Jul 5

The TV shows people risk death to watch
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from The Economist

The TV shows people risk death to watch

Why fluffy, glossy K-dramas tempt North Koreans to brave the firing squad

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Jun 6

The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
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from The Economist

The stunning decline of the preference for having boys

Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Jun 6

America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs
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America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs

Provisions in the Republican budget are a dangerous step

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · May 17

Why the best time to be a dad is now
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Why the best time to be a dad is now

The bloody history of fatherhood bends towards co-parenting

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · May 16

Europe’s free-speech problem
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from The Economist

Europe’s free-speech problem

J.D. Vance was right

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · May 3

How golden ages really start—and end
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How golden ages really start—and end

The greatest civilisations of the past 3,000 years were the opposite of MAGA

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Apr 4

Reversing state capture is hard. Just ask South Africa, Bangladesh or Poland. Far better not to let it take root in the first place.
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from The Economist

State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard

The 15-70-15 rule and other ways to prise powerful fingers from the public coffers

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The Economist @economist.com · Apr 3

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq

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The Economist @economist.com · Mar 27

Is Elon Musk remaking America’s government, or breaking it? There are three possible outcomes for DOGE econ.st/42bGqGf

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Mar 20

The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground
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The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground

The rule of law is at stake

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Mar 14

The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
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from The Economist

The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes

First get your facts straight, argues Kenneth Roth, a top human-rights campaigner

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · Mar 6

What a front cover...

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Feb 28

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Tyler Cowen, the man who wants to know everything

He is Silicon Valley’s favourite economist. Does his lust for knowledge have a place in the age of AI?

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Avery Trufelman @trufelman.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is the best podcast I have heard in a long long time.
It's so good to be addicted to a series again... even though it also leaves me also shocked and horrified.

Sue-Lin Wong @suelinwong.bsky.social · Feb 7

My year-long investigation into the multibillion dollar world of online scams is out today — on the cover of The Economist and in my new 8-part podcast series, Scam Inc

Read the article: bit.ly/scam-inc
Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3CFzGaL

The Economist @economist.com · Feb 6

Online scamming is a vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that compares in size and scope to the illegal drug industry. Except that in many ways it is worse. As our investigation finds, nobody is safe from Scam Inc econ.st/4gvEhdm

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Robert Guest @robertguest.bsky.social · Jan 28

Rwanda does a Putin in Congo
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Rwanda does a Putin in Congo

To understand the seizure of Goma, consider a parallel with Ukraine

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