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The Economist

January 3rd 2026

e-ISSN : 0013-0613

Contents:

  1. The truth about affordability
  2. OpenAI’s cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
  3. Brazil’s President Lula should not run again
  4. The future of space exploration depends on better biology
  5. Britain and the EU should be bolder in getting closer
  6. America’s affordability crisis is (mostly) a mirage
  7. A fragile thaw at the top of the world
  8. How China’s property crisis helped crash its art market
  9. Los Angeles after the flames
  10. Brazil’s general election will be all about Lula—again
  11. A lightning advance by separatists has reshaped Yemen’s civil war
  12. The Baltic is becoming a battleground between NATO and Russia
  13. It’s time to rethink Britain’s relationship with the EU
  14. A half-planet-size gap in global governance is about to get plugged