The Economist
Also: Don’t blame supermarkets for your expensive groceries
American life expectancy
Boomers have the good life, but it could be longer
A single chart shows why they have missed out on extra years
Empty shopping trolley in a supermarket aisle.
Food fight
Don’t blame supermarkets for your expensive groceries
Saying greedy shops have caused rising food prices is populist slop
Beirut
The Levant’s toughest knot
Lebanon’s president wants Donald Trump’s help to rebuild the country
Joseph Aoun, who meets Mr Trump on July 21st, must quash Hizbullah, repair war damage and fix the economy
Sovereign default
How to make AI safe—and lessen dependence on America and China
State-backed efforts to catch up with frontier models are doomed
Harlem, New York City, November 1984
Take the A Train
Colson Whitehead concludes his three-part love letter to New York
And reminds readers that crime fiction is the best urban genre