The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Ukraine
Getting the job done
Vladimir Putin’s war is failing. The West should help it fail faster

After Elizabeth II
Into the Carolean era
The monarchy is an anachronism, yet it thrived under Elizabeth II. That holds lessons for all democracies

Consumer prices in America
The perils of wishful thinking
To fix America’s inflation problem, the Federal Reserve must go big

China’s property crisis
House on fire
China’s deepening housing crisis threatens upheaval

Policing in America
Getting away with murder
Reforming police forces is the only way to reduce the slaughter on America’s streets
Letters

Letters to the editor
On big tech in the EU, the Soviet Union, museums, farming, planning
By Invitation


The death of the queen
A.N. Wilson on the art of Queen Elizabeth II’s communication
Asia


Japanese security
Wake-up call
Agriculture in Uzbekistan
Sweet success
Myanmar’s economy
General chaos
Global warming
A changed climate
Banyan
Heirs aberrant
China


The leadership
Next-generation thinking
New canals
Change the channel
Tibet
They will take blood
Film
Forbidden love story
Chaguan
China will not ditch Russia, for now
United States


The economy
America Inc
Senate scenarios
Will the polls misfire again?
Pre-kindergarten education
California goes universal
The Pendleton Round-Up
Bucking modernity
Environmental economics
Looking beyond GDP
Politics in Texas
The other MAGA
Lexington
Hillbilly effigy
Middle East & Africa


Nigeria and its oil
Steal it, burn it, lose it
African migration
The ones who sweep
Iran’s cyber-warfare
Going global
Egypt and Tunisia
A tale of two scarcities
Divorce among Arabs
I don’t
The Americas


Canada
Poilievre the pugilist
Bello
Hugs with a thug
Europe


Ukraine
Chasing the bear away
The view from Russia
Setting sun
Italy
Strife on the right
Spain
Injudicious
French politics
Macron’s gamble
Poland
A very political canal
Charlemagne
Opening the door
Britain


The mood and the monarchy
Something in the ether
Northern Ireland
Neighbourly relations
King Charles III
What sort of king will Charles be?
Queen Elizabeth II
The end of an era
Another country
Fewer children, fewer coalminers, less cabbage
Charles III and the Commonwealth
Realms and republics
Fiscal policy
Before politics paused
Bagehot
What would Walter say?
Special report


Violent crime in America
How to stop the killing
The sociology of murder
Packing heat
The global context
American exceptionalism
Solving murders
Detective games
Decline and reform
The Baltimore effect
The politics of policing
Refund the police?
Alternatives to policing
Interruption games
A better future
Stopping the spiral
Violent crime
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Indian business
The world’s biggest bet on India
German business
Morgenthau’s revenge
Bartleby
Your inner dawdler
More Musk v Twitter
Bitter tweet
Monkeypox medicines
A rash of orders
Schumpeter
The borderless trustbuster
Finance & economics


The Chinese economy
Groaning
Commodities
Running on empty
Europe’s energy crisis
The LIBOR of energy?
Goldman Sachs
Sexist squid
Unretirements
The Brady bunch
The US economy
Core of the matter
Buttonwood
Now, now, now
Free exchange
The new economics of fertility
Science & technology


Asteroseismology
Rumbles from the deep
Academic publishing
Peer pressure
Music and the mind
Instrumental
Evolution
Hide and seek
Culture


The queen on screen
Lights on the magic
Fascism misremembered
Italy’s big lie
World in a dish
Promising the moon
Population and prosperity
People power
Mental health
The pill machine
Back Story
Fear in a handful of dust
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Climate change
Floodgates opened
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Do Russia’s military setbacks increase the risk of nuclear conflict?
The Economist explains
Why Azerbaijan and Armenia are fighting again
Obituary


Queen Elizabeth II
The weight of duty