The overstretched CEO

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


The overstretched CEO
How to run a business in a dangerous and disorderly world
Bosses are being pulled in all directions by tough new rules of the game. How should they respond?

Make Ukraine’s grain Russia’s loss
The world should not let Vladimir Putin abandon the grain deal
Here is how to get him to sign up again

A sad day
Israel has lurched closer to constitutional chaos
But there are still ways to step back from the brink

A spell of sunshine
The world’s poor need to know about weather disasters ahead of time
Three things need to be done to make the most of meteorology’s potential

Britain’s aid policy
Keir Starmer’s plans for aid and diplomacy could help define him
The Labour leader’s stance is a test of his priorities
Letters

On manufacturing, Donald Trump, the Anthropocene, the Palestinian Lions’ Den, Greek gods, London’s Elizabeth line, superforecasts
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Ukraine, Russia and reparations
Lawrence Summers, Philip Zelikow and Robert Zoellick on why Russian reserves should be used to help Ukraine
Asia


Unsplendid isolation
Kim Jong Un has no desire to let his country rejoin the world
A little less conversation
South Korea has given up on talking to the North
Banyan
A slew of scandals puts Singapore’s government on the back foot
China


Clues to a conflict
Could economic indicators give an early warning of a war over Taiwan?
Qin Gang is gone
China’s missing foreign minister loses his job
Chaguan
In Xi Jinping’s China, central planners rule
United States


Sticker shocker
American universities have an incentive to seem extortionate
Legacy problems
The making of America’s Ivy League elite
Destroyer of worlds
Oppenheimer’s secret city is a shrine to the Manhattan Project
Child influencers
Regulation could disrupt the booming “kidfluencer” business
$ marks the spot
The Biden administration embraces place-based industrial policy
Darker still
Fentanyl is spreading the opioid crisis into America’s big cities
Middle East & Africa


The first crack
A blow against Israel’s Supreme Court plunges the country into crisis
Grain games
Why African leaders shunned Vladimir Putin’s summit
Coup and chaos
Soldiers declare they have overthrown Niger’s president
The Americas


A NATO laggard
Canada’s miserly defence spending is increasingly embarrassing
Call it Q-pop
Meet the Peruvian indigenous singer inspired by K-pop
Europe


The France that works
Beneath France’s revolts, hidden success
Greek fire
Wildfires threaten Greece’s tourist economy
Cold cases
Ukraine’s missile cemetery
Law and order poolside
Germany tries to stop brawls in public swimming pools
Charlemagne
Spain shows that some voters still want centrism
Britain


Foreign policy
Britain has blown its reputation as a world leader in aid
Britain’s banks and political risk
Nigel Farage, NatWest and a political storm
The politics of ULEZ
London’s latest effort to clear bad air is contested but necessary
Bank of England
How high should Britain’s interest rates go?
Bagehot
No, really. Rishi Sunak is a right-winger
International


Hunting for a breakthrough
The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
Grain wreck
Russia is attacking Ukraine’s agricultural exports
1843 magazine


Finance
The demonisation of BlackRock’s Larry Fink
Baghdad
The Baghdad job: who was behind history’s biggest bank heist?
Myanmar
Rum and coke and automatic rifles: Myanmar’s Gen Z guerrillas
Tibet
China wants to choose the next Dalai Lama. He has other plans
Ukraine
How Ukraine’s virtually non-existent navy sank Russia’s flagship
Business


The dragon shows its claws
China hits back against Western sanctions
Lean innovation
Next-generation Googles run a tighter ship
Bartleby
The dark and bright sides of power
Immobile
Can AT&T and Verizon escape managed decline?
Orchestral manoeuvres
Why your new EV is making funny noises
Schumpeter
Why Walmart is trouncing Amazon in the grocery wars
Finance & economics


A big plus
Can UBS make the most of finance’s deal of the century?
Of great interest
America’s battle with inflation is about to get trickier
Turning up the heat
Soaring temperatures and food prices threaten violent unrest
Buttonwood
Investors are seized by optimism. Can the bull market last?
Free exchange
Deflation is curbing China’s economic rise
Science & technology


Taming the chaos
The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting
Culture


The death of the hatchet job
Critics are getting less cruel. Alas
Rotten reporting on Russia
How Stalin’s scribbling stooges tricked Western readers
World in a dish
Confronting the dangers of ultra-processed food
America’s culture war
Christopher Rufo offers a history of the left
The Economist reads


Be a coach, not a martinet
What to read about managing people
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Gimme shelter
Data on air bases suggest a Chinese invasion of Taiwan may not be imminent
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What will be the impact of India’s rice-export ban?
The Economist explains
Can superstars like Beyoncé or Taylor Swift spur inflation?
Obituary


The last Romantic
André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart