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WHEN MPS called for a vote on the Brexit deal, many said economics should influence their decision. The government and Bank of England have now published their analyses. They make gloomy reading for Brexiteers who think leaving the EU will boost the economy. The message is that Britons will be worse off with any plausible form of Brexit.

Giving them a chance

You painted a frustratingly incomplete picture of America’s new “opportunity zones” (“Oh, the places you’ll grow”, November 17th). After applauding the policy’s objectives, a federal-tax incentive with the aim of boosting investment in struggling communities, you asked whether opportunity zones are adequately targeted towards people and places truly in need of help?

It is an important question. However, the evidence that those in need have been targeted is substantial. Читать дальше...

WHEN A YOUNG woman living near Beni came down with a fever, a nurse told her to go to the clinic for a test. But by the time the Ebola virus was detected in her blood, she was in a car bumping her way towards Kalungata, an area controlled by the Mai-Mai, a plundering, raping militia. She probably fled because of a widespread belief that people go to clinics to die. Beni is the epicentre of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s latest Ebola outbreak.

Cruising for a bruising

THE CAR industry’s changing fortunes have left a deep mark on Detroit’s urban landscape. Once-bustling factories such as the Fisher body plant, Ford’s Highland Park and the Packard plant became vast, abandoned graffitied shells—a sad reminder of the former might of America’s “motor city”. Now General Motors’s Hamtramck assembly plant looks likely to join the list of closed facilities. On November 26th GM announced that Hamtramck, along with four other factories in North America... Читать дальше...

The justices seem troubled about the implications of bolstering Creek authority

“People’s Republic of Desire”, a documentary film, looks at the winners and the losers

Republicans will have 53 seats in the Senate in January

Their new trade agreement will mostly preserve the integration achieved by NAFTA