Puzzled by the difference between cash that’s only held digitally and central bank digital currencies? @arjun_ramani3 explains, on this week’s “Money Talks” econ.st/42oTXIJ

The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability has been searching for something that would tie the president to his son’s chaotic business practices econ.st/3C1unyA

The feminisation of the labour movement is under way at the CFDT, France’s biggest union. After ten years, Laurent Berger will stand down on June 21st and hand over to his deputy, Marylise Léon econ.st/3WHUWST

There are three reasons for the steep increase in non-EU migrants: the return of students, threats to life and liberty abroad, and the country’s new “points-based” workplace visa econ.st/3OC59OD

Beijing is involved in more than 90 industrial projects across the region. Turkmen gas alone accounts for more than 70% of the country’s annual gas imports econ.st/3MW7a7g

The breakthrough is a relief: the consequences of a debt default, the first in America’s modern history, would be dire econ.st/3C2hHHA

Artificial intelligence models seem to favour particular traits and artistic techniques econ.st/45JGtdo

There are still Republican voters who would like an alternative—his 58% poll share means that close to half of primary voters must be open to choosing someone else. Yet the difficulties of co­ordinating this are daunting econ.st/3OCVQho

There have been remarkable changes in social and political Chinese attitudes towards gay individuals in recent years. Yet community groups face a crackdown by the Communist Party. Read why: econ.st/3WBw9Qi

Now it needs to think about how to deal with China econ.st/45uAkBB

Kyriakos Mitsotakis deserves his unexpected triumph. Yet he has three big blots on his record, including a phone-­tapping scandal, which he will need to deal with econ.st/437LU47

There are signs that AI models are more than mere copycats. Slowly, a robotic school of artwork is emerging econ.st/45y273V

Under the leadership of Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece has become a normal country, not a worry. But far more needs to be done to reform the Greek state econ.st/3IJhgpz

Already it is easy to find children in northern Europe who speak as though they come from Kansas econ.st/45AdSak

Whisky tastings, sunrise yoga, mountain­-biking in Norway, skidding up a glacier in Alberta, singing “Kumbaya” around a campfire. Companies’ summer camps have gotten unnecessarily creative econ.st/3MCS7xK

As a share of people aged at least 65, excess-death rates in rich countries are three times lower than elsewhere econ.st/43q36S7

Could America's adderall shortage have harmed its productivity? econ.st/43nuzUm

Here are six of the best books by and about authors under surveillance. They show how the security state watched, read and sometimes influenced writers from modernist to postmodernist, libertarian to communist econ.st/3qdDI3s

Could an AI become your boss? Using economic principles, we predict what might happen if (or when) the technology becomes more capable than the most talented humans econ.st/3Wtbq14

The cases against Donald Trump and the Republican primaries will overlap in ways likely to set the rule of law against the will of the people econ.st/43rbxN4

Not all patients are able to use the available schemes econ.st/3WDllB7

How do China’s tech unicorns fit into President Xi Jinping’s plans for economic “self-reliance”? Listen to “Drum Tower” with @aliceysu and @donweinland econ.st/432CiHF

Spending more money will help. But a radical shift in focus is more important: away from hospitals to the community, from treatment to prevention econ.st/3OAMK4W

His efforts were symptomatic of Britain’s decline: its aura of filthy pub carpets, its morbidly obese children, phone booths “slobberingly coated with thick red paint”, London “like the insides of an old plug” econ.st/3MyWlX7

The attacks may be part of the highly anticipated counter-offensive econ.st/43s1WW9

Is tennis’s status as the king of racket sports about to change? econ.st/3WTbEit

One of neuroscience’s problems is that experiments are difficult to run, for both ethical and practical reasons. Read why poking and prodding artificial brains could offer a useful alternative: econ.st/3OJIdNw

Governments the world over are failing to confront the dire state of their finances. Read why politicians need to get real, fast: econ.st/42dpJbb Illustration: KAL

No model is perfect. But some are useful econ.st/3IJIUm6

Western countries need to create more of a single market for defence that boosts economies of scale and competition econ.st/45pdzz3