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Goodbye 1.5°C • The world is missing its lofty climate targets. Time for some realism
Now for the hard part • As president, Lula will oversee a bitterly divided, cash-strapped country
Big tech, big trouble • Slowing growth is exposing the governance flaws of big tech firms
Making a meritocracy • The end of racial preferences in college admissions could be a chance to build a better system
Japanese turning • Financial danger could be brewing in the last bastion of low interest rates
Letters
An inconvenient truth • The goal of keeping the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C has shaped climate policy worldwide. But it is not a goal the world is going to achieve
Following the money • DALLASHow attempts by Google and Meta to be virtuous have contributed to record spending in America’s midterms
The golden mean • LOS ANGELESIs there room in the Republican Party for a pro-choice, anti-Trump candidate?
Off colour • WASHINGTON, DCThe Supreme Court seems ready to toss out affirmative action
Holistic cow • WASHINGTON, DCThe children of alumni and athletes benefit from affirmative action too
Obamacare’s slow victory • PIERRESouth Dakota may become the latest conservative state to expand Medicaid
Bang average • WASHINGTON, DCHow our poll-of-polls is dealing with a slew of Republican-aligned surveys
Crime and punishment • Democrats have once again proved insensitive to voters’ fears
Hallelula • SÃO PAULOLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva will oversee a more divided Brazil
Slum dunk • BUENOS AIRESSlum integration is a bright spot in the country’s fractured politics
Lula’s new world • His foreign-policy ambitions will be tempered by circumstances
Open wide your gates • SEOUL AND YOKOHAMAJapan and South Korea are allowing in some foreign workers. That will not be enough to sustain their economies
The unkindest cut • BANIBAN JAGADISHPURIndia’s hair industry is in a tangle
Once more unto the breach • SYDNEYA spate of cyber-attacks is making life miserable for Australians
The colour of Islam • Indonesia’s imams are doing their bit for the environment
Not enough to speak • When a disaster shakes a country, political leaders face peril
Preparing for a fight • China’s new military chiefs stand out for their loyalty to Xi Jinping and careers focused on war with Taiwan
Top guns for hire • Former military pilots from the West are being lured to China
Xi’s forever war • BEIJINGThere are no signs that Xi Jinping will relax his struggle against graft
The city that covid forgot • Chinese experiences of the zero-covid policy vary greatly. That helps Communist Party bosses
Powering Africa • ACCRA, DAKAR, JOHANNESBURG AND LUDERITZAfrica’s pitifully low energy use is more alarming than its role in climate change
Rise of the clans • MOGADISHUSomali clans are revolting against jihadists
Swinging right • JERUSALEMBinyamin Netanyahu seems on track to be Israel’s next prime minister
Not quite over the goal line • DOHAThe stadiums in Qatar are ready. The beds are not
It’s logical • BERLIN AND WARSAWPolitics is slowly becoming more female-friendly
Putin’s cold war • MAKARIVKeeping Ukraine from freezing this winter
Matching the right • COPENHAGENThe Social Democrats hold on by copying right-wing…