Are sanctions working?

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon

Leaders

Geo-economics
Are sanctions working?

The lessons from a new era of economic warfare

1MDB
Impunity at bay

A corrupt politician has gone to jail in Malaysia. He must stay there

Chinese lending
Distressing debt

How China should handle its bad loans to poor countries

Constitutional chicanery
A risky distraction

Voters should be sceptical of attempts to solve problems by fiddling with constitutions

Genetic modification
Realising the revolution

Science has made a new genetic era possible. Now let it flourish
Letters

Letters to the editor
On Russia and Ukraine, defence startups, energy bills, China and Taiwan, font selection, leisure time, currency conversions
By Invitation

Russia and Ukraine
The head of GCHQ says Vladimir Putin is losing the information war in Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine
Charles Knight on how the West can reduce the destructiveness of urban warfare
Briefing

Genetic medicine
The trials of gene therapy

Changing people’s genes promises cures for all sorts of diseases; but to keep those promises will require a lot more work
Asia

Malaysian politics
Goodbye to Mr $700m

Australian culture
Mullet spring

Thai politics
Uncertain terms

Pakistani politics
Imran on the back foot

Banyan
Panic button
China

China and the developing world
Party’s over

Petitioners
Complain at your own risk

Covid-19 and air travel
No-fly zone
United States

Education policy
The Inflation Acceleration Action

State finances
The great rebate

Teachers
A touch of class

Homemade food
Secret sauce

Housing policy
Too damned high

Lexington
A bused people
Middle East & Africa

Palestine
The long goodbye

The Eastern Mediterranean
Fire hazard

Kuwait
Eighty and waity

Ethiopia
Falling apart

Nigeria
Pupils with begging bowls
The Americas

Brazilian politics (1)
Far behind, but gaining

Argentina
Kirchner karma

Brazilian politics (2)
Federal offence
Europe

Six months of war in Ukraine
The manpower race

Independence day in Kyiv
Forging a nation

Russian-speakers in Ukraine
Lost in invasion

Charlemagne
The side-effects of war
Britain

The BBC
The bill for the box

Energy pricing
Electric shock

The Treasury
Breaking up is hard to do

Insurance regulation
A question of solvency

Successful birds
Lords of the skies

The cost of school clothes
Uniform distribution

Bagehot
Of the Lords and the ladies
International

Constitutional change
The temptation to tinker
Business

Mergers and acquisitions
Blasted are the dealmakers

The streaming wars
Dragons v hobbits

Chinese business
Heated exchange

Bartleby
In defence of commuting

South-East Asian tech firms
Tropical Depression

E-commerce
Sending it back

Schumpeter
Buffett’s bold bet on Oxy
Finance & economics

Economic warfare
Split reality

Turkey and Russia
Mates’ rates

Russia
Bearing it

Commodities
Against the grain

Obituary
Animal spirits

Free exchange
Everyone has a price
Science & technology

Genetically modified crops and photosynthesis
Light and shade

Electric vehicles
Horses for courses

Sulphur, oil and greenery
Brimstone, not treacle

Space flight
A flying turkey
Culture

Monumental art
Make me a “City”

Urban fiction
Alone in Berlin

Conversations with friends
In Goethe company

The story of oil
A dirty business

Immigration and xenophobia
Creatures of the deep

Johnson
In with the old
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail

Diversity training
This is an intervention
The Economist explains

The Economist explains
What is at stake at Ukraine’s Zaporizhia nuclear plant

The Economist explains
Why has polio returned to London and New York?
Obituary

Albert Woodfox
What freedom means