View in browser | E-mail a friend       Daily dispatch         The latest from The Economist       Tuesday | January 15th 2019     The Brexit vote It won’t be pretty   Theresa May will go to the House of Commons tonight expecting Parliament to vote against her proposed Brexit deal. The scale of her defeat matters: if she loses by a narrow margin—fewer than 50 votes overall, say—she might, with a few tweaks, get the deal through on a second attempt. But if she loses heavily, the deal will fail. At that point the government would have to consider calling a general election, a second referendum or leaving the EU with no deal at all       America’s extraterritorial reach The French resolution   Surprisingly little is known about the process by which American authorities subject foreign companies to extraterritorial actions. The Economist has identified an exception: Alstom, a French power and transport group that faced an American legal action in 2010-15 and sold the bulk of its assets to GE in 2014. The case raises uncomfortable questions about American techniques. It suggests that foreign companies may receive more lenient treatment if they pass into American ownership         Advertisement       Immunology Feverish speculation   An elevated body temperature can kill. Yet fever—which is precisely that—is a response to infection. New research explains this paradox. It shows that febrile temperatures encourage a protein, Hsp90, to shepherd immune-system cells, called T-cells, to sites of infection. The research suggests ways that the production of Hsp90 can be regulated to a patient’s advantage, increasing it when a larger immune response is needed or reducing it in people with auto-immune disorders       Greek life at Harvard Toga, toga, to gone   In 2016 Harvard introduced rules that excluded leaders of single-sex sororities or fraternities from contesting leadership positions on campus and from being on the dean’s list of scholarships recommendations. Sanctions would be dropped if the groups went mixed. The rules were supposed to reduce inequality and sexual harassment. But the losers have been women: many sororities have closed but most fraternities have not. Now, a group of single-sex organisations is suing Harvard       ~6.15pm London     This e-mail has been sent to: dpaquet1871@gmail.com If you'd like to update your details please click here (you may need to log in). Tell us what you think of Daily Dispatch here. Replies to this e-mail will not reach us. If you no longer wish to receive this newsletter, unsubscribe here.         Copyright © The Economist Newspaper Limited 2019. All rights reserved. Advertising Info | Privacy Policy | Terms & Conditions | Help Registered in England and Wales. No.236383 Registered office: The Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6HT