Robert Guest
@robertguest.bsky.social
Deputy Editor, The Economist
What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common
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What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common
How a Harvard polymath thinks people think
economist.com
September 19, 2025 at 2:15 PM
What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common
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Don’t panic about the global fertility crash
A world with fewer people would not be all bad
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September 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre
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The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre
How the president presents himself as America’s protector
economist.com
September 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre
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America’s Democrats all agree they messed up horribly to let Trump win. I went to Iowa, North Carolina and New York to ask them how they can win again
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economist.com/briefing/202...
How America’s Democrats might win back power
The party is trying to talk less about pronouns, more about prices
economist.com
September 5, 2025 at 7:55 AM
America’s Democrats all agree they messed up horribly to let Trump win. I went to Iowa, North Carolina and New York to ask them how they can win again
economist.com/briefing/202...
economist.com/briefing/202...
How climate change could spread malaria
And how scientists are scrambling to stop it
economist.com
August 7, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Terrific leader in The Economist this week: www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
Donald Trump thinks he’s winning on trade, but America will lose
The harm from tariffs will be lasting and deep
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August 1, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Terrific leader in The Economist this week: www.economist.com/leaders/2025...
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Across the rich world, politicians decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. Might this be the least bad way to fix it? econ.st/4lX8x4m
Photo: WFP/Julian Civiero
Photo: WFP/Julian Civiero
July 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Across the rich world, politicians decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. Might this be the least bad way to fix it? econ.st/4lX8x4m
Photo: WFP/Julian Civiero
Photo: WFP/Julian Civiero
What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?
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What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?
People move to the sunbelt for affordable homes. But it is getting harder to build there
economist.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?
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There is nothing wrong with seeking a better life. But when jobseekers and refugees crowd into the same funnel, malign consequences follow. Here is how the world’s asylum system could be redesigned
The global asylum system is falling apart
What should replace it?
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July 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
There is nothing wrong with seeking a better life. But when jobseekers and refugees crowd into the same funnel, malign consequences follow. Here is how the world’s asylum system could be redesigned
The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
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The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them
economist.com
June 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
The stunning decline of the preference for having boys
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America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs
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America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs
Provisions in the Republican budget are a dangerous step
economist.com
June 6, 2025 at 1:41 AM
America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs
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Reversing state capture is hard. Just ask South Africa, Bangladesh or Poland. Far better not to let it take root in the first place.
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State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard
The 15-70-15 rule and other ways to prise powerful fingers from the public coffers
economist.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Reversing state capture is hard. Just ask South Africa, Bangladesh or Poland. Far better not to let it take root in the first place.
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Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
April 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded econ.st/3YbbFjq
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Is Elon Musk remaking America’s government, or breaking it? There are three possible outcomes for DOGE econ.st/42bGqGf
March 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Is Elon Musk remaking America’s government, or breaking it? There are three possible outcomes for DOGE econ.st/42bGqGf
The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground
The rule of law is at stake
economist.com
March 20, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
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The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
First get your facts straight, argues Kenneth Roth, a top human-rights campaigner
economist.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:30 PM
The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
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What a front cover...
March 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
What a front cover...
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This is the best podcast I have heard in a long long time.
It's so good to be addicted to a series again... even though it also leaves me also shocked and horrified.
It's so good to be addicted to a series again... even though it also leaves me also shocked and horrified.
My year-long investigation into the multibillion dollar world of online scams is out today — on the cover of The Economist and in my new 8-part podcast series, Scam Inc
Read the article: bit.ly/scam-inc
Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3CFzGaL
Read the article: bit.ly/scam-inc
Listen to the podcast: econ.st/3CFzGaL
Online scamming is a vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that compares in size and scope to the illegal drug industry. Except that in many ways it is worse. As our investigation finds, nobody is safe from Scam Inc econ.st/4gvEhdm
February 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This is the best podcast I have heard in a long long time.
It's so good to be addicted to a series again... even though it also leaves me also shocked and horrified.
It's so good to be addicted to a series again... even though it also leaves me also shocked and horrified.
