The AI doctor will see you…eventually

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s covers
Leaders


Squeeze, surge, slap
The triple shock facing Europe’s economy
After the energy crisis, Europe faces surging Chinese imports and the threat of Trump tariffs

Health technology
The AI doctor will see you…eventually
Artificial intelligence holds huge promise in health care. But it also faces massive barriers

War in Ukraine
Russia is gearing up for a big new push along a long front line
Ukraine must prepare

It’s not just about the penguins
The looming threat from Antarctica
A big thaw will have unexpected consequences for the rest of the world

Management consulting
Some advice to the corporate world’s know-it-alls
With growth slowing, consulting firms like McKinsey need some counsel of their own

Letters

On Russia and Ukraine, bitcoin, Mohammad Mustafa, God and sex, economics, the theories of Sam Vimes
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


False narratives
Video will kill the truth if monitoring doesn’t improve, argue two researchers
India’s election
Yamini Aiyar laments the damage done to Indian democracy under Narendra Modi
Briefing


Stranger danger
How to predict Donald Trump’s foreign policy
He may be inconsistent, but his advisers offer some clues
Asia


Imran Khan in prison
What next for Pakistan?
Holier than thou
The Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan is at war with the world
No country for critics?
Arvind Kejriwal’s imprisonment is a stain on India’s democracy
Banyan
Vietnam’s head of state leaves under a cloud
China


The men with Xi’s ear
Who is up and who is down on China’s economic team
Spooks in the machine
What to make of China’s massive cyber-espionage campaign
Spare the rod?
A gruesome murder sparks a debate about juvenile justice in China
Three-body shaming
Chinese nationalists have issues with “3 Body Problem”
United States


O say can you see
The impact of the Baltimore bridge disaster
Double flip-flopping
Both chambers of America’s Congress may flip in November
Grin and bear it
Do undocumented immigrants have the right to own guns?
Glock, stock and barrel
Chicago wants to stop Glock pistols being turned into machineguns
Biden’s blacklash
Georgia’s black Republicans have a battle plan for 2024
Lexington
The case of Stormy Daniels echoes past scandals

Middle East & Africa


The unbearable weight of history
Three decades after Rwanda’s genocide, the past is ever-present
Intentionally or by negligence?
Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine
A crisis deferred
After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out
Crisis averted
Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong
The Americas


Not another one
Nicolás Maduro’s sham election: the sequel
Hanging by a thread
Can Haiti’s police hold on?
Keeping it in the family
The cocaine trade is booming in Europe’s Caribbean territories
Europe


Digging in
Ukraine is in a race against time to fortify its front line
The uses of terror
Vladimir Putin blames an Islamist attack on Ukraine and America
French drinking habits
Why the French are drinking less wine
Catalonia’s elections
Carles Puigdemont aims to reignite Catalan separatism
Perishable Goods
Turkey’s opposition hopes for a shake-up in local elections
Charlemagne
How Europe’s fear of migrants came to dominate its foreign policy
Britain


The energy estuary
How Britain’s dirtiest region hopes to become a hub for clean energy
Smoke alarm
The future of Drax, Britain’s largest power plant
Rule intentions
What fiscal rules should Britain have?
You can’t say that
A new hate-crime law in Scotland causes widespread concern
Geary’s Bakeries
Britain’s kings of sourdough
This is not just an archive
Marks & Spencer’s archive is a window on 20th-century Britain
Bagehot
British boomers are losing out for the first time
International


Indians and the world
Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: India’s diaspora
Technology Quarterly


Self-programming panaceas
AIs will make health care safer and better
Picture this
Artificial intelligence has long been improving diagnoses
Talking things through
Medical AIs with human faces are on their way
Intelligent design
Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development
The AIs have it
Can artificial intelligence make health care more efficient?
Business


The lost art of self-management
Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
Numbers guys and gals
Making accounting sexy again
Three stripes and you are out
A marketing victory for Nike is a business win for Adidas
Bartleby
The pros and cons of corporate uniforms
Trustbusters v the machine
Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy
Beware of low-flying aircraft-makers
Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing
Schumpeter
Meet the digital David taking on the Google Goliath
Finance & economics


Battered and bruised
Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Hide and seek
China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Hunting for value
As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?
Curse of the Anglosphere
Which country will be last to escape inflation?
Buttonwood
How the “Magnificent Seven” misleads
Free exchange
How India could become an Asian tiger
Science & technology


Out of sight out of mind
Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting
Killers’ tactics
Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
Culture


Inequality
The fallacious case for abolishing the rich
Survival stories
Could your marriage survive a shipwreck?
Take me to Texas
What lies behind Beyoncé’s country turn?
A different sort of art heist
Museums are becoming more expensive
World in a dish
How moussaka made it into the pantheon of Greek gastronomy
Where the wild thing is
How “The Gruffalo” went global
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Six great books about baseball
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


A labour of love
Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again