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The Economist

Febuary 21st 2026

e-ISSN : 0013-0613

Contents:

  1. Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets
  2. Vladimir Putin is caught in a vice of his own making
  3. Saudi Arabia and the Emirates must resolve their own differences
  4. Why insider trading isn’t always bad
  5. How to improve American legislators’ lot
  6. How four years of war have changed Russia
  7. Russia’s economy has entered the death zone
  8. The flaws in India’s AI plans
  9. Dubai’s crazy rich Chinese
  10. Donald Trump is reshaping American health care
  11. Nicaragua has so far dodged the fate of Cuba and Venezuela
  12. Why the Gulf’s most powerful countries are at odds
  13. How a four-year onslaught has changed Ukraine
  14. Britain is the closest the world has to an AI safety inspector
  15. The Robin Hood state is coming for the rich