It’s not just inflation

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Britain
Reasons to be cheerful, Pt. 3
Rishi Sunak’s promise of stability is a low bar for British politics

The risks of Bidenomics
It’s not just inflation
Protectionism risks hobbling America and its allies

China
Team of loyalists
Xi Jinping’s new Politburo seems unlikely to contradict the boss

Italy
An untried skipper
Giorgia Meloni has had a reassuring launch. But storm clouds loom

Green manufacturing
The circular economy
Battery-makers are learning that recycling should not be an afterthought

The Middle East
Will Iran’s women win?
Their uprising could be the beginning of the end of Iran’s theocracy

Letters

Letters to the editor
World hunger, China and America, epilepsy, Russian literature, our Britaly cover
By Invitation


From Italy with love
The bill for campaign populism is paid in office, warns Matteo Renzi
Russia and Ukraine
Mick Ryan on why Ukraine can expect to make further gains against Russia
Briefing


America’s economy
Adieu, laissez-faire
Joe Biden is attempting the biggest overhaul of the American economy in a generation
Asia


India’s economic geography
Latitude is everything
Ikigai
Circles of life
Tainted drugs
Joining the dots
Banyan
Trust no one
China


Politics
The people’s leader’s people
Women in leadership
Too few at the top
Chaguan
The coming storm
United States


The midterms
The anti-democracy front
Hochul v Zeldin
Down to the wire
Polling misses
A signal of noise
Worries about Ukraine
Dirty secrets
Trick or treat
Skeletons out of the closet
School catch-up after covid-19
Mountains to climb
Lexington
History’s present

Middle East & Africa


The revolt in Iran
Will the regime fall?
Iran and the Gulf
The battle of the proxies
Israel’s election
Bibi’s comeback?
The war in Tigray
Slow-talking
Kenya’s new president
See no evil
The Americas


Brazil’s election
A tense final week
Bello
A hero of the rule of law
Europe


Russia
Life after Putin
Ukraine
Fighting dirty
Italy
Enter Giorgia
European energy links
Gridlocked
Charlemagne
The missing spark
Britain


Rishi Sunak
Smiles atop the rubble
The Bank of England
Needle not yet threaded
The Tories
Big Dog has no bite
The labour market
Where did all the 50-somethings go?
Translation
How long have you had that goitre?
Bagehot
Rishi, heal thyself
International


Tuberculosis
A baleful legacy
Business


Business and geopolitics (1)
The end of the China affair
Business and geopolitics (2)
Ren-aissance
Bartleby
The archaeology of the office
Schumpeter
The diplomat CEO
Finance & economics


Consumer prices
Trouble in Hikelandia
China’s economy
The fleeing committee
Foreign-exchange markets
Currency colossi
Policing Wall Street
Super-regulator
Buttonwood
Notes from a party
Free exchange
In search of a bright light
Science & technology


Battery-making
Inside the gigafactory
Climate change
Plus ça change...
Animal behaviour
Bumblebees have a ball
The origins of covid-19
Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis?
Culture


Israeli politics
The populist’s handbook
World in a Dish
Grave concerns
The war in Yemen
No heroes, only victims
Biology
Facts of life
Back Story
Pinocchio, hero of our time
Books in the ancient world
Paper trail
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Fertility trends
The covid baby bump
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why Ukraine’s Orthodox churches are at loggerheads
The Economist explains
How might Jair Bolsonaro win Brazil’s election?
Obituary


Ian Hamilton
To steal a stone