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Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich

What will humans do if technology solves everything?

What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang

Steven Levitt and John Donohue defend a finding made famous by "Freakonomics"

Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels

A stealth attack came close to compromising the Internet

Xi Jinping's misguided plan to escape economic stagnation

The economics of American lotteries

The Rise of the Remote Husband

California is gripped by economic problems, with no easy fix

Antarctica, Earth's largest refrigerator, is defrosting

Why "Freakonomics" failed to transform economics

How to Harvest Moisture from the Atmosphere

America's Rental-Market Mystery

A new technique to work out a corpse's time of death

Time for TikTok to cut its ties to China

Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future

America's elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal

Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AI

America's ten-year-old fentanyl epidemic is still getting worse

Stock markets are booming but the good times are unlikely to last

China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology

TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America

Why fake research is rampant in China