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I couldn’t vote in Germany’s election, and that’s wrong

Almost 47 million people voted in the German parliamentary election last weekend. It was the closest vote since 2002; the center-left Social Democrats beat the conservative Christian Democratic bloc for first place by about 1.8 million votes. Party leaders will need every ounce of their negotiating skill to form the next government. Imagine how the outcome could have been swayed ...

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Another big EV battery fantasy lurks

There it is again: Another automaker makes a big announcement about its electrification plans with a battery manufacturer. Going by previous proclamations, that’s not just ambitious but far-fetched. Ford Motor Co and SK Innovation Co announced they’re partnering to spend $11.4 billion on three electric car battery plants across the US, making it the most sizable investment in the automaker’s ...

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What did Singapore’s Covid response miss?

Singapore is very proud of its reputation for technocratic excellence. In recent months, government officials have tried to tackle the country’s most pressing question — how to live with Covid-19 — by scrutinising, modeling and projecting data, as if staring hard enough at those little gray-rimmed boxes on Excel would produce the answer. The trouble with this strategy is that ...

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