Narendra Modi is the greatest asset of India’s ruling party: around a third of those who voted for the BJP in 2019 said that they did so primarily because of him. This makes the party vulnerable econ.st/3WI193s

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God may have made heaven and earth—but he also makes an awful lot of money. In his new book, economist Paul Seabright explains why religion deserves proper analysis econ.st/3QMVRzQ 👇

The world hasn’t yet kicked the driving habit. Use our new interactive tool to discover which cities are doing better than others at becoming more active econ.st/3wsiTFa 👇

Efforts to promote whizzier alternatives to the dollar have faltered. Even if central banks’ digital currencies take off, at least one would need to show how to be uniquely useful—and well ahead of America doing so—to yield a meaningful advantage econ.st/3UySP30 👇

America is far more car-reliant than any other big country, averaging roughly two vehicles per household. This, in turn, is linked to many ills—but there are also some surprising benefits econ.st/3WpfqBV 👇

Keeping customers, employees, investors and analysts happy is no mean feat. So what is the retailer’s secret? econ.st/3QtoHVQ 👇

Can you build an American voter? Plug in any combination of attributes—age, sex, religion and more—into our interactive tool to learn how a hypothetical voter might cast their ballot in the presidential race econ.st/3wr9xtp 🗳️

The White House has raised tariffs on Chinese goods, hitting electric vehicles with the biggest increase of all. American consumers are the ones who will pay the price econ.st/3UHy5q7 👇

Journalists usually want to publish news, not suppress it. Those attempting “catch-and-kill” schemes typically hope to get something out of it econ.st/4bDARmU 👇

As deglobalisation gathers pace, its true costs are likely to become clear. Although these shifts have not yet had much impact on global living standards, they constitute a giant and alarming gamble. Politicians seem unperturbed econ.st/3QCDBJm 👇

“What made you wanted was nothing you did, it was something you had, and how could you ever tell whether you had it?” Our obituary of Alice Munro, who has died aged 92 econ.st/4boKJS4

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One country has topped the World Happiness Report’s ranking for the seventh year in a row. How has it managed this? econ.st/3UKjvhF 👇

One study found that in 2016 American faith-based organisations had revenues of $378bn—more than the revenues of Apple and Microsoft combined.

A new book explains why God may be great, but his full-year results are greater econ.st/3UJmUNC 👇

Do you live in the world’s most expensive city? econ.st/3WqOQbs 👇

Middle managers are often presumed to be lazy. In fact, they are suffering from a common problem econ.st/4dyd5e7 👇

“Conducting a vast international corruption racket and keeping records like a bank is unheard of.”

For once Britain’s Serious Fraud Office seemed to have a slam-dunk case. Then America’s Justice Department showed up. From 1843 magazine econ.st/44EsS6Z

A policy review is a dilemma for Britain’s government, but a relief for its universities econ.st/3wwSQN9 👇

At first Israel responded to the Hamas attack with a display of unity. But as the conflict continues, splits within the country have resurfaced econ.st/3wDCeDp 👇

Rising geopolitical tensions, or full­-blown wars, could tug apart the global financial system. A world in which countries, investors and businesses must pick a bloc and never venture outside it would be a poorer one, and more volatile econ.st/4brozhv 👇

Labour promises to restore basic governing principles that have too often been neglected. In return, it will ask companies to swallow big changes, notably around employment.

A great deal is at stake for it—and for Britain—in getting this bargain right econ.st/4a9o62h