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With nearly 15 years in communications, I help companies earn coverage, share their stories, and spotlight their leaders in the conversations that matter. Last year, I created and led the …
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Sri Muppidi is an early-stage investor at Sierra Ventures and a contributing writer for All Raise. She was the 2019 Marjorie Deane Fellow at The Economist and reported on business, …
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Journalist at The Economist.Previously: Clarendon scholar at the University of Oxford (MSt World Literatures in English), freelance journalist, podcaster and PR consultant
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Sophie Elmhirst writes regularly for the Guardian Long Read, among others. In 2020, she won the British Press Award for Feature Writer of the Year and a Foreign Press Award. …
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Nicolas Pelham
Middle East correspondent for The EconomistContributor to New York Review of Books. Author of A New Muslim Order, A History of the Middle East and Holy Lands. Former senior Middle …
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A dangerous divorcée
If it comes to a stand-off, Europe has leverage over America (with Shashank Joshi and Christian Odendahl)
The wealth whisperers who save super-rich families from themselves
Marlene Engelhorn first understood that her family was wealthy when she noticed quite how much larger their house was than those of her childhood friends. “We called it a big house,” she told me. “But it’s a mansion for crying out loud. Call it what it is.” Growing up, her …
Colombia’s president had a bold peace plan.
Anthony Colmenares would grab some nappies for his newborn and be home soon, he told his mother in San Cristóbal, a city in Venezuela. That was on July 17th 2019. He did not return. “We started calling, calling, calling,” his mother, Zenaida Basto, recalls tearfully. No reply.
Javier Milei: “My contempt for the state is infinite”
Many people in America hope that the new Trump administration will take an axe to a bloated and overbearing government, cutting spending and rolling back regulation. Whether this goal is even plausible any more is a crucial question for America and the world, after two decades in which government debt …
Supplier partnerships are sowing the seeds of climate-resilience
Farmers are inherently future-focused. They work their fields and pastures strategically, rearing livestock and planting crops not just for next season’s harvest, but for the success of those who will manage the land in years to come.
