I N 1971 RICHARD NIXON, then America’s president, announced a “war on cancer”. Just two years earlier the Apollo programme ...

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Editor’s note: On July 17th Sir Keir Starmer and Friedrich Merz signed the treaty described in this story.

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The researchers’ method was straightforward enough. The Congressional Budget Office ( CBO) estimated the impact of the bill ...

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