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Strategic confusion
Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Taiwan highlights America’s incoherent strategy
The Biden administration’s policy is a mess
Read more: China’s growing military confidence puts Taiwan at risk
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Mean diversion
Global inequality is rising again
But the causes of the resurgence are not all bleak
Ayman cornered
The death of al-Qaeda’s leader may not halt a jihadist resurgence
The group and its affiliates will march on, even without Ayman al-Zawahiri
Technology and terminology
In “The Metaverse”, Matthew Ball explains where the idea came from
And where it might be going
1843 magazine
East of Mariupol: what happened to the Ukrainians who fled to Russia?
Some refugees who went east faced interrogations. Others were met with cups of tea and kindness
Free exchange
How high property prices can damage the economy
A fresh strand of research studies the consequences, both in China and the rich world
Daily chart
Regional differences in American inflation hit a 40-year high
The worst-affected areas could risk overheating without aggressive tightening
The obesity gap
Why women are fatter than men in the Arab world
Society does not make it easy to shed pounds
Suburbs
Our social-affairs editor picks five books about suburbia
From fiction and non-fiction, how to understand life on the fringes of cities
Babbage
How artificial intelligence cracked biology’s biggest problem
Our podcast on science and technology. This week, we examine how DeepMind’s AI system predicted the structure of virtually every known protein—and what the breakthrough means for both science and machine learning
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