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The odds are that "get Brexit done" will help Boris Johnson to victory. But what happens then?
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Today on “The Intelligence”: a revealing British-election journey, Japan’s subculture of recluses and California’s growing plague of rats
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The departing co-founders should forfeit their special voting rights and gradually sell their shares
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Nearly a quarter of American women will have an abortion. But access to abortion in America is in peril. Why?
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Brazil is in desperate need of reform, but Jair Bolsonaro would make a disastrous president. Our cover this week
The Amazon is reaching a dangerous tipping-point. Beyond this, the rainforest is unlikely to survive
The recent death of a student and shooting of a protester have fanned the flames of Hong Kong's demonstrations
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The new #BrexitDeal is economically worse for Britain than the one negotiated by Theresa May last year
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