On the news stands now is the economist's first ever summer double issue, featuring 62 pages of terrific work from our sister publication 18 forty three. It's the start of a new era here in soudy arabia, with women actually driving themselves to work for the first time after a civil war. Our obituary's editor reflects on humanity's ambivolent attitude toward that orb in the sky.
In a bumper episode, we highlight a summer’s-worth of deeply reported stories from 1843, our sister magazine: we profile
Muhammad bin Salman, the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, who is both a liberalising reformer and a fearsome consolidator of power. We ask why
magicians are behind so many viral videos. And we explore humanity’s long-running ambivalence toward
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