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Around the world, soaring inflation has pushed voters to turn on incumbent governments. But one country bucked the trend – Mexico, where the leftwing Morena party recorded a landslide victory. The key to its success? A policy platform built on minimum salary rises, labour reforms and price controls on staples. So are there lessons to be learnt from the country’s success for Anthony Albanese’s Labor party? Senior business reporter Jonathan Barrett tells Nour Haydar why so many governments didn’t survive high inflation, and what Labor could learn from the country that bucked the trend You can support the Guardian at theguardian.com/fullstorysupport
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The tech titans: who’s really in charge of Donald Trump’s America?
Donald Trump’s decision to seat super-rich tech barons Mark Zuckerberg, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Sundar Pichai in front of his own members of cabinet at his inauguration has sent a strong signal about who holds power in America now. Technology editor Blake Montgomery tells Reged Ahmad why the ‘broligarchs’ have become just as important to the new president as he is to them
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Why Australia needs better whistleblower protections
Blowing the whistle on corruption, wrongdoing and unethical behaviour can come at a huge personal cost to those who choose to speak out. Kieran Pender, associate legal director at the Human Rights Law Centre, tells Nour Haydar why more needs to be done to ensure workers who speak up about wrongdoing are protected
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LA fires: how can we stop it happening here?
As America’s second-largest city reels from massive fires blown in from the bush, Australians are looking for lessons on how to stop it happening to us. David Bowman, a pyrogeography and fire science professor from the University of Tasmania, tells Reged Ahmad why he thinks we need to rethink how we design our cities and our homes to live with fires
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Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back?
The Oxford English Dictionary announced its word of the year at the end of 2024: ‘brain rot’. The term relates to the supposedly negative effects of consuming social media content, but it struck a chord more widely with many of us who feel we just don’t have the mental capacity we once did. Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, has been studying our waning attention spans for 20 years. She tells Madeleine Finlay why she believes our powers of concentration are not beyond rescue, and reveals her top tips for finding focus Please fill out our audience survey here: theguardian.com/fullstorysurvey
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