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American politics

Kamala Harris must define herself before Donald Trump does it for her

High on her list should be wooing older, less-educated white women, says Celinda Lake, a Democratic pollster

Economic development

Indermit Gill on what China and India must do to join the rich club

First invest, then infuse foreign technology and then innovate, says the World Bank’s chief economist

Crime in Latin America

Use incentives, not brute force, on the cartels, says a political scientist

Benjamin Lessing reckons they can be peacefully coerced into reducing violence

Bangladesh

Bangladesh has achieved its second liberation, says Muhammad Yunus

The interim government’s new leader argues for releasing political prisoners and holding a free election

Unrest in Britain

Margaret Hodge’s lessons from east London on countering the far right

Mainstream parties must win back white working-class voters by focusing on local issues, says the former Labour MP

Venezuela

The real winner of Venezuela’s election urges the regime to face facts

A peaceful transfer of power is still possible, says Edmundo González

Thai politics

Thailand’s thwarted election winner on the move to ban his party

Weaponising the courts to muzzle dissent will fail in the long run, says Pita Limjaroenrat

Artificial intelligence

Keep the code behind AI open, say two entrepreneurs

Martin Casado and Ion Stoica argue that open-source models will power innovation without compromising security

Artificial intelligence

Not all AI models should be freely available, argues a legal scholar

The more capable they are, the greater the risk of catastrophe, reckons Lawrence Lessig

The state of Britain

Neil Kinnock on the post-war-like challenges facing Keir Starmer

A lack of social cohesion compared with 1945 makes them even more daunting, says the former Labour leader and Starmer confidant

The American election

A prominent donor on why the Democrats shouldn’t anoint Kamala Harris

A competition to replace Joe Biden would better serve the party, and the country, argues Joe Ravitch

Games over?

Halt the Olympics to save the planet, pleads a sports historian

David Goldblatt thinks pausing the spectacle might jolt the world into grasping the severity of the climate challenge