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Optimism pays. People who look on the bright side tend to be healthier, more resilient to life’s setbacks—and likelier to climb the career ladder or become entrepreneurs. So, onward and upward: what could possibly go wrong? Our
Bartleby columnist
tests the limits.
In a guest essay for The Economist this week
Ozgur Ozel,
head of Turkey’s main opposition party, described the attritional campaign waged by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the authoritarian president, against his political opponents. The warning was timely: yesterday a Turkish court
removed Mr Ozel
from his post, pushing the country further towards one-man rule.
Have you been following the news? End the week by testing your knowledge in our short weekly
quiz.
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