Yesterday
The Ozempic effect: How weight loss wonder drug gobbled up an economy
Pharmaceutical giant Novo Nordisk has grown so large in its native Denmark that it’s hard to find staff. Meanwhile, its philanthropic foundation is running out of local causes to support.
- Sanne Wass and Naomi Kresge
A Las Vegas residency is a nice little earner for top stars
When flamboyant pianist Liberace settled in for a prolonged stay in 1955, it started a trend that’s proved lucrative for performers and the city as a whole.
- Christopher Palmeri
This Month
Why Israel doesn’t care what the world thinks
The international community thinks Israel is fighting a war of choice. Israel doesn’t see it that way, says US writer and author Bret Stephens.
- Emma Connors
The man who foresaw the rise of campus antisemitism
Melbourne philosopher Frank Knopfelmacher was a world-class critic of totalitarianism who watched the left turn on Israel.
- John Carroll
How the tech elite went from disruptors to disrupted
Some of the world’s most powerful business executives allowed themselves to be seduced by Donald Trump.
- Kara Swisher
- Opinion
- Culture wars
Britain’s arts sector learns the cost of being too pure for finance
A bank and asset manager have withdrawn their sponsorship of music and book festivals in the UK after activists called for boycotts.
- Celia Walden
Online shopping has become a giant fake-product machine
TikTok is better than any other digital platform for turning cult favourites into global bestsellers – and making counterfeiters money.
- Amanda Mull
- Opinion
- Culture wars
The educated elite is destroying America
Progressive culture has spread from the universities to national life, triggering a backlash that benefits political populists such as Donald Trump.
- David Brooks
- Opinion
- EPL
Manchester City cannot be allowed to corrupt British soccer
The Abu Dhabi-owned soccer club wants to strike inflated sponsorship deals with companies linked to its owners.
- Matthew Brooker
Defamation, disclaimers and the truth of ‘Baby Reindeer’
Throughout cinematic history, made-up stories have pretended to be true.
- Alexander Larman
Why peacetime will be a problem for Putin’s banker
For Elvira Nabiullina, head of Russia’s central bank, demilitarisation could trigger the economic meltdown she’s worked so hard to prevent.
- Kate de Pury
- Opinion
- UK election
White Britons are receiving special attention but don’t tell them that
The most important ethnic group in British politics is the one nobody talks about.
- The Economist
All change as Prabowo prepares for the top job
Economic nationalism has been a constant in Indonesia and the incoming President has some firm views on the topic.
- Emma Connors
Cryogenic start-up focuses on thawing the frozen waiting for a cure
A former child prodigy is working on ways to ensure that bodies can be revived when the time is right.
- Ashlee Vance
- Opinion
- AI
AI could end India’s dominance in tech outsourcing
This is not the first time an industry in the country has faced an existential challenge, although the last time was 300 years ago.
- Andy Mukherjee
This physicist can prove that economics has it all wrong
J. Doyne Farmer, an American complex systems scientist says the world is more predictable than we think, and he can prove it.
- Will Dunn
The trouble with psychedelics
The gold-standard methodology for testing a drug’s efficacy, the double-blind trial, does not work for substances that affect the mind.
- Jonathan Lambert
President Trump ‘would unleash inflation across America’
Larry Summers and other economists believe the Republican’s trade and economic policies would drive mortgage rates above 10 per cent.
- Ronald Brownstein
- Opinion
- UK
‘I’m giving British voters an alternative to this failed elite’
Britain’s most prominent far-right political leader explains why he is going after the Tory party.
- Nigel Farage
Can Lazard’s new CEO convince its bankers to play nice?
Economist Peter Orszag has brought star power to the faded French investment bank but many of its staff aren’t convinced.
- Sujeet Indap and Joshua Franklin
