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Leaders


War in Ukraine
Putin seems to be winning the war in Ukraine—for now
His biggest asset is Europe’s lack of strategic vision

Blue-collar bonanza
A new age of the worker will overturn conventional thinking
Around the rich world, wage gaps are shrinking

Israel and Hamas
How America should manage the next stage of the Gaza war
For the sake of Israel and a two-state solution, America has to get tougher with its ally

A planet-cooking gas
What the world must do to tame methane
The world needs a deal during COP28 to limit a nasty source of emissions

Superpower politics
What does Henry Kissinger’s diplomacy have to teach the world?
A grasp of the subtle interplay between interests, values and the use of force is still useful

Debt break
Germany is in a bizarre fiscal mess of its own making
Three steps to resolve the fiscal panic
Letters

On cars in America, Spain, Indian whisky, “King Lear”, Belgium, dinner etiquette
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Geopolitics
Why the West needs to stop the global rise of revisionism
COP28: host of questions
Rhys Davies and Ben Keith argue that the UAE is a tainted COP host
Briefing


For the fatherland
How Putin is reshaping Russia to keep his war-machine running
He is creating a class of wealthy bureaucrats, who are the war’s biggest supporters
Asia


Asian defence
Narendra Modi is remaking India’s 1.4m strong military
What’s yours is mine
The insidious campaign to demolish mosques in India
Plain stupa
Sri Lankans are squabbling over monuments
Ground zero
Taiwan’s presidential election will be a three-way race after all
Baby-making
Japan needs more sperm donors
China


The big climate question
Will China save the planet or destroy it?
Going fission (and fusion)
China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country
Not again
China is struggling with a surge of respiratory ailments
Chaguan
China’s economy is suffering from long covid

United States


Trumpier than thou
A MAGA court in New Orleans is shaping the Supreme Court’s agenda
An affordable dare act
A key part of Obamacare is in jeopardy
Chasing the American dream
Is it cheaper to rent or buy property?
The prisoner dilemma
What to do about an uptick in Americans unjustly held abroad
A full-fat fiasco
A national milk-carton shortage sours America’s dairy industry
The opioid-maker controversy
The Supreme Court may toss out Purdue Pharma’s bankruptcy settlement
Super K
Henry Kissinger never quite belonged where he wanted to be
Middle East & Africa


The war in Gaza
Does Hamas want to keep fighting Israel or start talking peace?
All quiet on the Gaza front
Israel’s truce with Hamas is drawing to a close
Climate finance (1)
Could carbon credits be Africa’s next big export?
Climate finance (2)
African leaders want debt relief for climate action
The Americas


Dirty deeds
To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it
Europe


Bulldogs of war
Russia is poised to take advantage of political splits in Ukraine
More blood, less treasure
Ukraine’s new enemy: war fatigue in the West
Where there’s a Wil Ders a way
Geert Wilders struggles towards power in the Netherlands
Brake failure
Germany’s ruling coalition grapples with a wrecked budget
Stop killing women
Outrage against femicide is spreading in Italy
Charlemagne
How a sombre mood gripped Europe
Britain


Policing by consent
How to restore Britons’ confidence in the police
Ode to an avenue
The Dark Hedges are dying
The Brutish museum?
Why is the British Museum always in trouble?
Spend drift
Post-Brexit Britain is splurging more on state aid
Heat pumps
Why Britain’s homes will need different types of heat pump
The agony and the Cleggstasy
The curious case of Nick Clegg
Bagehot
How to change the policy of the British government
International


Islamism on the edge
A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
Business


Blurred vision
Xi Jinping’s grip on Chinese enterprise gets uncomfortably tight
An outside chance
How to succeed—and fail—as a foreign business in India
Bartleby
Generative AI generates tricky choices for managers
Electric curmudgeons
Is America’s EV revolution stalling?
Swedish strikes
Elon Musk v labour unions: Sweden edition
Baby Berkshire
How a Canadian company became the world’s best acquirer of tech firms
Schumpeter
Charlie Munger was a lot more than Warren Buffett’s sidekick
Finance & economics


Labour markets
Welcome to a golden age for workers
The pay picture
Real wages have risen in America and are rebounding in Europe
Property pain
China edges towards a big bail-out
Fissures
An unruly OPEC is causing problems for Russia and Saudi Arabia
Pipe dreams
How to get African oil out of the ground without Western lenders
Buttonwood
Short-sellers are endangered. That is bad news for markets
Free exchange
Why economists are at war over inequality
Science & technology


The other greenhouse gas
Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane
Termination shock?
Do rising methane levels herald a climate feedback loop?
Crystal balls
A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science
Forty thousand winks near the sea
Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day
Culture


Film-making in China
Two film awards reveal the battle for the future of Chinese cinema
Pressing up
Small publishers are sweeping the Booker and Nobel prizes
Plains writing
Willa Cather and Larry McMurtry shared subjects and sensibilities
World in a dish
In Russia’s arsenal the knife and fork have been powerful weapons
Digital art
Museums are learning to love NFTs
A sound grasp
These are The Economist’s favourite podcasts of 2023
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What does it take to expel an American congressman?
The Economist explains
Who are the Palestinians in Israel’s prisons?
Obituary


Adapt or die
Saleemul Huq lobbied ceaselessly to make poor countries heard

Climate report: Some progress, must try harder

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Must try harder
Progress on climate change has not been fast enough, but it has been real
And the world needs to learn from it

Climbing high
Lessons from the ascent of the United Arab Emirates
How to thrive in a fractured world

An election in Buenos Aires
In Argentina Javier Milei faces an economic crisis
The radical libertarian is taking over a country on the brink

OpenChaos
The fallout from the weirdness at OpenAI
Sam Altman is set to return, but the episode holds some disturbing lessons

One cheer for Jeremy Hunt
Britain’s autumn statement got business taxes right
It also cynically handed out an illusory windfall
Letters

On secondary legislation, tariffs, interest rates, realtors, Costa Rica, the Sagrada Família, James Bond, flying lawn chairs
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


COP28: climate finance
Mark Carney argues that finance needs to go where the emissions are
COP28: climate action and trade
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala says open trade is crucial for decarbonisation
The war in Gaza
As a pause in fighting begins, Husam Zomlot calls for a comprehensive ceasefire
Briefing


Port in a storm
The messier the world gets, the more the UAE seems to thrive
For a tiny country, it has outsize influence
Asia


Taking wing
India is seeing a massive aviation boom
Et tu, India?
Did America thwart an Indian assassination plot?
Spy satellites
Will North Korea’s new spy satellite make the region safer?
Money for nothing
Thailand’s new government is handing out cash
IPEF MIA
America’s crumbling trade initiative in Asia
China


Fuzzy numbers, safer streets
China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society
Eyes everywhere
China’s enormous surveillance state is still growing
When China shook
A year on from the white-paper protests, China looks much different
Chaguan
Why Xi Jinping sounds friendlier to America

United States


Infrastructure weak
Spending on infrastructure has fallen in real terms in America
Mexican airwaves
Univision, America’s Spanish news giant, reaches out to Donald Trump
Just a small-town lab
An accidental discovery in rural California raised biosecurity fears
Abortion laws in Georgia
How confusing fetal-personhood laws in America affect hospitals
X, rated
What survey data reveal about antisemitism in America
Deus ex constitutione
Does a civil-war-era ban on insurrectionists apply to Donald Trump?
Lexington
The (sort of) isolationist case for backing Ukraine
Middle East & Africa


A break in the bloodshed
Israel strikes a hostage deal, but says the Gaza war isn’t over
Israel’s non-Jewish minorities
How the Gaza war affects Israel’s minorities in different ways
It’s in the posts
Why African businesses take a DIY approach to selling online
The last outpost
Will Chad be the next Western ally in Africa to fall?
The Americas


From cosplayer to president
Javier Milei will be Argentina’s first libertarian president
Cry me a river
Severe drought is constraining the Panama Canal
Blow up
Brazil’s biggest drug gang has gone global
Europe


Right turn
Geert Wilders’s election win leaves the Dutch in an awful quandary
Cross-Rhine rivals
Why German bosses are heaping unexpected praise on France
Hidden battle
Russia is starting to make its superiority in electronic warfare count
Life in containers
Turkey’s sluggish post-earthquake reconstruction
Charlemagne
Tyrant, liberator, warmonger, bureaucrat: the meaning of Napoleon
Britain


Mixed picture
Britain’s chancellor offers tax cuts and fiscal trickery
Flat-lining
Jeremy Hunt wants to improve Britain’s public-sector productivity
Old people and young firms
The government tries to unlock growth capital for British firms
Personal therapy
The world’s first pathway for individually designed drugs
The price is finally right
The National Health Service has a new drugs deal
Asylum and the law
Is Britain’s plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda salvageable?
Saving your bacon
Britain’s native farm animals can be rarer than giant pandas
Bagehot
What kind of legacy does Rishi Sunak want to leave behind?
Special report


The lost heart of net zero
Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention
St Augustine’s climate policy
The temptations of deferred removals
On the other hand...
The many prices of carbon dioxide
Thy axe shall harm it not
Trees alone will not save the world
All the myriad ways
Carbon-dioxide-removal options are multiplying
The carbon economy
A net-zero world needs new markets and institutions
Business


OpenAI v CloseAI
With Sam Altman’s return, a shift in AI from idealism to pragmatism
Non-profit motives
Inside OpenAI’s weird governance structure
Soap power
ReelShort is the latest Chinese export to conquer America
The southern strategy
Why Chinese companies are flocking to Mexico
Sun, sea and lots of sand
Riyadh Air is betting on a tourist surge to Saudi Arabia
Bartleby
How not to motivate your employees
Investment screaming
Every country wants its own investment-screening regime
Schumpeter
The many contradictions of Sam Altman
Finance & economics


The sinews of war
Inside Hamas’s sprawling financial empire
Walking on air
Why house prices have risen once again
Buttonwood
Investors are going loco for CoCos
Economies of scales
The obesity pay gap is worse than previously thought
Ask again later
How will America’s economy fare in 2024? Don’t ask a forecaster
A day late and a dollar short
The rich world claims it has paid its overdue climate debts
Do not pass go
Another crypto boss falls
Free exchange
How to save China’s economy
Science & technology


Dimming the sun
Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea
Big rockets and big rivers
SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
Explaining the wave function
A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
Culture


Poll position
Why non-white voters are abandoning the Democratic Party
One for the Monet
Claude Monet is celebrated in a colourful new biography
There’s no place like home
The likelihood of living on Mars soon is as remote as Pluto
Red light, green light
What “Squid Game: The Challenge” reveals about the state of TV
Johnson
Euphemism and exaggeration are both dangers to language
Watch the box
The Economist’s pick of the best television shows of 2023
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
The A to Z of the Arab-Israeli conflict
Obituary


The fastest gun in the west
Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women

Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024

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Politics
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KAL’s cartoon
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The World Ahead


The World Ahead
Introducing The World Ahead 2024

Leaders


America and the world
Donald Trump poses the biggest danger to the world in 2024
What his victory in America’s election would mean

Gaza
The rights and wrongs of Israel and Hamas at al-Shifa hospital
Why Israel must meet and exceed the requirements of the laws of war

Inflated hopes
Will Japan rediscover its dynamism?
Rising prices and animal spirits give it a long-awaited opportunity

Dying in plain sight
The world is ignoring war, genocide and famine in Sudan
America is distracted, the UN is not interested

Scientific methods
To supercharge science, first experiment with how it is funded
Too much of researchers’ time is spent filling in forms

Governing Britain
If Labour is to succeed in power, it must fix the Treasury
The finance ministry protects the country from disaster—but also holds it back
Letters

On Israel and Gaza, Li Keqiang, feta cheese
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The war in Gaza
Andreea Manea on the legal complexities around Israeli attacks that hit hospitals
The fog of war
David Enoch argues that much of the public discourse on the Israel-Hamas conflict is depressingly simplistic
Asia


A chance to rise again
Is Japan’s economy at a turning point?
Good news for China
Taiwan’s opposition parties unite
Swadeshi spirits
Premium Indian whisky is booming
Banyan
Myanmar’s junta suffers startling defeats
China


Flying Tigers, smiling dragon
Joe Biden and Xi Jinping rediscover the joy of talking. Good
Bromptons, not blusher
China’s shoppers are gloomy and picky
Chaguan
Xi Jinping repeats imperial China’s mistakes
United States


Shut it all down (next year)
America’s government isn’t shutting down just yet
Code switch
The Supreme Court’s code of conduct is a good first step
Sup on that
Higher wages are spurring innovation in dinner
Pro-choice religious exemptions
Some progressives are arguing for a religious right to abortion
Beyond the classroom
Inside a month of America’s school shootings
Mayor culpa?
An FBI investigation raises questions about Eric Adams
Lexington
Why America struggles to make friends abroad

Middle East & Africa


The end of the beginning
The battle of northern Gaza is almost over
The region reacts
Many Arab governments would like to see Hamas gone
The forgotten war
A genocidal militia is winning the war in Sudan
Aisle be there for you
Africa’s supermarket revolution
The Americas


Missing in action
Mexico’s foreign policy is unambitious and erratic
A rare success
Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reduced poverty in Mexico
The exodus economy
Latin America’s most powerful new gang built a human-trafficking empire
Europe


On the verge of a nervous breakdown
Spain’s prime minister secures his job, at a high cost
Gang of rivals
Sweden is suffering a grim wave of gang violence
Dancer in the dark
As Ukrainian men head off to fight, women take up their jobs
Soft power, then and now
The ancient Eleusinian mysteries get a new incarnation
Charlemagne
Fentanyl kills thousands every year in America. Will Europe be next?
Britain


Treasury island
Why Britain’s Treasury must change its ways
Stopping the planes
The Supreme Court rules against Britain’s Rwanda plan. What now?
Do not forget
The British government is not paying dementia enough attention
Going up in smoke?
Vaping is big business in Britain
Bagehot
What David Cameron’s return says about British politics
International


Everything, everywhere, all at once
From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up
Business


A place in the sun
Can the Mediterranean become Europe’s energy powerhouse?
A gulf between them?
Three climate fights will dominate COP28
Bartleby
The curse of the badly run meeting
Son rise, Son set
After WeWork’s fall, what next for SoftBank?
Putt option
Netflix takes a swing at live sport
A lifestyle on the ocean waves
Why the market for superyachts is booming
Schumpeter
How to think about the Google anti-monopoly trial
Finance & economics


Personal finance
How the young should invest
Dream scenario
What can inflation-strugglers learn from inflation-killers?
Buttonwood
Ray Dalio is a monster, suggests a new book. Is it fair?
Empty Framework
Joe Biden’s failures on trade benefit China
Reasons to be cheerful
What will artificial intelligence mean for your pay?
Free exchange
The false promise of green jobs
Science & technology


Giving science a shot in the arm
New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress
Rip van Winkle, the microbe
Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?
The wisdom of youth
Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer’s?
Culture


Historical friction
Much of “The Crown” is nonsense
Well played
How maths can help you win your favourite games
Bottle shock
How to spot a fake wine
The scales of injustice
Can trials heal the wounds of war?
Back Story
Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” cuts the emperor down to size
Pass the popcorn
The best films of 2023, as chosen by The Economist
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How the term “genocide” is misused in the Israel-Hamas war
The Economist explains
The difference between a “ceasefire” and a “humanitarian pause”
Obituary


A hundred ways to peace
Vivian Silver knew no good could ever come of war

How scary is China?

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AI and culture
The dawn of the omnistar
How artificial intelligence will transform fame

Superpower politics
How scary is China?
America must understand China’s weaknesses as well as its strengths

Constitutional chicanery
Giorgia Meloni’s “mother of all reforms” is a power grab
Italians should reject their prime minister’s demagogic proposal

Flawmakers
How to fix Britain’s legislative problems
Parliament is failing at its most basic function—scrutinising laws

Open, but orderly
More welcoming migration policies require borders that are secure
Let more people in legally, swiftly exclude those who come illegally

Property wrongs
Time to take a wrecking ball to realtors’ fees in America
A court case is a first step to ending a racket

Letters

On leaders and managers, Colombia, health-care costs, the British pint, being rich
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


British constitutional arrangements
The United Kingdom’s political constitution is under severe strain
Briefing


AI did it my way
Now AI can write, sing and act, is it still possible to be a star?
The deal that ended the Hollywood actors’ strike reflects a fear of the technology
Asia


India’s north-east
Can Narendra Modi complete India’s state-building project?
Grainy season
Narendra Modi and the art of claiming credit
Links in the Chain
China’s aggression brings Japan and the Philippines closer
Diplomatic baggage
North Korea is shutting embassies
Banyan
Australia and China patch things up
China


Bogged down
Xi Jinping wants China to have better toilets
Not all fun and games
The people of Hong Kong are growing more tolerant
Xi, her, hers
China wants women to stay home and bear children
Chaguan
A Chinese dispute with the Philippines is a test of America
United States


It can’t happen here (again)
Donald Trump looks terrifyingly electable
Hope springs
Democrats are giddy from this week’s electoral sweep
The clap is back
Why sexually transmitted infections are rising in America
Disarming justice
The Supreme Court has found a gun-control measure it likes
East of Eden
California is losing people, but this region wouldn’t know it
Indefensible, unpronounceable
Boston’s “cradle of liberty” was paid for with slavery profits
Cracks in the wall
Chicago’s progressive coalition is struggling with migration

Middle East & Africa


Israel’s window of legitimacy
Will America pull the plug on Israel’s invasion of Gaza?
The darkest nights
Gaza’s nights are darker now than at any point in the past decade
Gaza’s civilians
All parties are blaming each other for the dire situation in Gaza
Iran, Israel and the war
The deadly missile race in the Middle East
Crisis in the Middle East
The Gaza war has deepened Joe Biden’s Iran nightmare
Chicken wars
The battle over South Africa’s spicy-chicken market
Critical minerals
China is winning Africa’s “white-gold” rush for lithium
The Americas


Bonanza or bust?
Oil traders are flocking to sanctions-free Venezuela
All that glitters
Illegal gold is booming in South America
No country for old men
Why are there so many suicides in rich, stable Uruguay?
Europe


Cling to the centre
Germany’s Christian Democrats are unsure whom to hug
Free under fire
A year after its liberation, Kherson still knows fear—and defiance
Jews in France
Antisemitism surges in France after the Hamas attacks on Israel
Charlemagne
The outsize influence of small states is fading in the EU
Britain


Do not pass go
Lawmaking in Britain is becoming worse
Something will turn up
When should Rishi Sunak call the next British election?
Divide and rue
Suella Braverman uses a pro-Palestinian march to sow discord
Circuit fudge
Why rail electrification is so slow in Britain
Bagehot
To understand Britain, watch “Homes Under the Hammer”
International


New arrivals, old problems
Why migration is in such a mess once more
Special report


Unknown soldiers
The People’s Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
Rank indifference
China is struggling to recruit enough highly skilled troops
Weapons of woe
From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
Peace disease
Xi Jinping worries that China’s troops are not ready to fight
Command or control
Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
Operation overload
Invading Taiwan would be a logistical minefield for China
China’s armed forces
Acknowledgments
Business


Surveillance capitalism
Silicon Valley is piling into the business of snooping
From tycoons to tiffin boxes
India is in the midst of an unusual IPO boom
An innovator’s dilemma
When should a founder step down?
Caving in
The fall of WeWork shows the deepening cracks in property
Bartleby
How to manage teams in a world designed for individuals
Schumpeter
The Bob Iger v Nelson Peltz rematch
Finance & economics


Take the plunge
Are politicians brave enough for daredevil economics?
Little Satan
America’s economic might gives it little sway in the Middle East
Death valley
America’s bad auto loans could have nasty consequences
Buttonwood
Forget the S&P 500. Pay attention to the S&P 493
About that renaissance
Why American manufacturing is becoming less efficient
Soft-currency power
The Chinese yuan is losing value, yet gaining ground
Free exchange
In praise of America’s car addiction
Science & technology


Gut feelings
Faecal transplants are just the start of a new sort of medicine
The war underground
Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas’s tunnels
The wind in their sails
How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
Culture


Estate of affairs
The business of mining literary estates is booming
Risky business
A new Museum of Prohibited Art shows how censorship evolved
Murder, she wrote
Daphne Caruana Galizia’s son tries to make sense of her murder
Breadth of French air
Two new novels showcase the breadth of contemporary French fiction
Cowboys and Indians
Rodeo plays a central role in Native American culture
Bizzy bees
Are influencers shrewd businesspeople or fame-hungry narcissists?
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Who is Herzi Halevi, the chief of staff of the Israel Defence Forces?
The Economist explains
Why covid-19 did not harm rich economies as badly as first thought
Obituary


Elastic adventures
David Kirke believed safe sport repressed people’s imaginations

America’s test

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The stakes in Gaza
American power: indispensable or ineffective?
How Joe Biden manages the war between Israel and Hamas will define America’s global role

How to destroy an economy—and get away with it
Argentina’s election result is the worst of all possible outcomes
Sergio Massa, the economy minister, will now go head-to-head with Javier Milei

Think, then act
Governments must not rush into policing AI
A summit in Britain will focus on “extreme” risks. But no one knows what they look like

Just about managing
How to be a better boss
Tips from “Boss Class”, our new podcast

The green transition
Sodium batteries offer an alternative to tricky lithium
Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neither

Letters

On Israel and Gaza
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Global disorder
Mikhail Khodorkovsky says that support for Israel should not come at the expense of Ukraine
Briefing


Dread and disagreement
Why Israel’s invasion of Gaza has been delayed
Bibi and his generals are divided

Biden’s bandwidth
The overstretched superpower
America could face wars in the Middle East, Ukraine and Taiwan

Escalation in the Middle East
Why Saudi Arabia and the UAE want to keep links with Israel
Are the Abraham accords over?

The scavenger power
Iran’s ayatollahs play the Middle East’s most dangerous game
They want to escalate without triggering full-blown war

The day after
Can the Palestinian Authority control Gaza if Hamas is ousted?
It may be lucky to keep control of the West Bank by the end of this war
Asia


Strait talk
Taiwan’s opposition parties are struggling to unite
Present perfect
What gift would you give Narendra Modi?
Back to the future
Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan, again
Intrigue at court
Jokowi is building a political dynasty
Banyan
South Korean politics is one big row about history
Warabistan
Meet the Japanese Kurds
China


Treading gingerly
Why China and India are watching the Dalai Lama closely
In the dark
Rumours swirl after China’s defence minister, Li Shangfu, is sacked
Chaguan
How China sees Gaza
United States


Speak now
America’s House of Representatives finally has a speaker
Losing their religion
The Republican Party no longer believes America is the essential nation
Birds of New York
How to make NYC work better for its winged inhabitants
Oh my gourd
The economics of pumpkin patches
Lexington
Mitt Romney is the fixed point revealing the Republicans’ slide

Middle East & Africa


An interview with the president
Senegal’s president asks if democracy can work in Africa’s coup-belt
Pesticidal farmers
Nigeria is awash with dangerous pesticides
A king who stoops not to conquer
History will complicate King Charles’s visit to Kenya
The Americas


The enduring power of Peronism
Argentina’s presidential election delivers a surprise result
Paraguay’s population puzzle
Over a million Paraguayans disappear in the latest census
How to lose friends and irritate people
Gustavo Petro, Colombia’s left-wing president, is floundering
Europe


An Ataturk complex
Instead of undoing Ataturk’s legacy, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed it
Seabed skulduggery
Who is sabotaging underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea?
Much at stake
The French debate the future of steak frites
What have you got left?
Ukraine’s allies are scrambling to bolster its air defences
The same old Balkan tinderbox
A mysterious attack in northern Kosovo rattles everyone
Charlemagne
What markets are trying to tell Europe—and why it should listen
Britain


Magic town
The most typical place in Britain is Basildon
Still knotty
Is the Windsor framework in Northern Ireland working?
Fight for the power
Britain must overhaul the way it approves infrastructure
The ghosts at the feast
Liz Truss and Jeremy Corbyn still haunt British politics
Not that by the by
Do by-election results in Britain matter?
Family division
Britain’s family-court system is overwhelmed
Bagehot
The rise and fall of class dysphoria in Britain
Business


The impossible job
Pity the modern manager—burnt-out, distracted and overloaded
Bartleby
Would you rather be a manager or a leader?
Of evils and evals
The world wants to regulate AI, but does not quite know how
Blackened
Why China is restricting exports of graphite
A year in the life of Meta
How Mark Zuckerberg escaped a metaverse-sized hole
Business oasis
The mood at Davos in the desert is one of anxiety
Schumpeter
Lessons from frugal businesses minting money in India
Finance & economics


Under the microscope
How health-care costs stopped rising
Fleet-footed
America would struggle to break Iran’s oil-smuggling complex
Buttonwood
Investors are returning to hedge funds. That may be unwise
Making a statement
Xi Jinping steps up his attempt to rescue China’s economy
Trade nightmares
America and the EU demonstrate protectionism’s ratchet effect
Consumerzzzzzzzzz
Welcome to the age of the hermit consumer
Free exchange
Israel’s war economy is working—for the time being
Science & technology


A battery ReNaissance
Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium
Two seats, no pilot
China approves the world’s first flying taxi
Listening to the jungle
AI can catalogue a forest’s inhabitants simply by listening
Culture


Art hubs and snubs
The arts in Paris are booming—and trying to nip at London’s heels
The long (over)haul
One of Berlin’s star attractions is closing for 14 years
In a spin
How superstars and heritage acts hijacked the vinyl revival
A true-life African murder mystery
CIA plots, coups and a gold-capped molar in Congo
(Back) home on the range
Ken Burns chronicles the sad fate of the American buffalo
The architecture of death
Drug lords’ tombs are monuments to opulence
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


An eye over Gaza
Rushdi Sarraj loved to record what others did not or would not see

The world this week

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


The Middle East
Only America can save Israel and Gaza from greater catastrophe
Iran, Russia and China are profiting from the mayhem

Speaking of goat rodeos
America’s Republicans cannot agree on a speaker. Good
How the GOP could yet, inadvertently, further the national interest

At last, good news
Poland shows that populists can be beaten
A victory for the rule of law in the heart of Europe

A brush with Basel
Why America’s banks need more capital
Though imperfect, regulators’ plans are necessary to keep the system safe

Polishing the crown jewels
How to make Britain’s health service AI-ready
The NHS should clean up and open up its data. Patients will benefit
Letters

On life sciences, motorists, invisible spouses, wealth management, longevity, Nobel prizes, brevity
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The Israel-Hamas conflict
Naftali Bennett argues that Israel’s future depends on striking fear into its enemies’ hearts
How wars are fought
David Petraeus and Andrew Roberts on Ukraine and the future of warfare
Prosecuting war crimes
Amal Clooney and Rupert Skilbeck on why Britain fails to hold war criminals to account
Briefing


No place for a war
As Israel’s invasion of Gaza nears, the obstacles get more daunting
It must avoid a second front, protect civilians and save hostages while fighting at close quarters

Israel’s war on Hamas
Mapping the destruction in Gaza
At least 4.3% of the enclave’s buildings appear to have been destroyed

When the shooting stops
Israel’s four unpalatable options for Gaza’s long-term future
The path to Israel’s preferred outcome is littered with obstacles

The coming ground invasion
Is Israel acting within the laws of war?
Even lawful evacuations and attacks on Hamas will exact a heavy civilian toll in Gaza

Maelstrom in the Middle East
The Arab world thinks differently about this war
But Israel’s evidence about a hospital strike still carries little weight

Tunnel vision
Hamas tunnels under Gaza will be a key battlefield for Israel
Underground warfare is terrifying, claustrophobic and slow
Asia


Japanese geography
How remote islands underpin Japan’s maritime power
India and free love
Social-media influencers are battling to educate young Indians about sex
Don’t rely on the courts
India’s Supreme Court refuses to recognise same-sex marriage
No special measures
Has Australasia lurched right on race?
Lucky but sooty
Australia’s energy transition is in trouble
Chipping away
South Korean chipmakers get a reprieve
Banyan
India-Pakistan relations are becoming more marginal and worse
China


Women’s rights
Chinese feminists are rebuilding their movement abroad
Training days
China is educating engineers around the world
Property in Hong Kong
A landslip in Hong Kong fuels resentment of the rich
Chaguan
Xi Jinping wants to be loved by the global south
United States


From tents to hospitals
American states wrestle with how to treat severe mental illness
Hail McHenry
How the Republican civil war in the House could end
End times
Part of Donald Trump’s base thinks he is fighting a spiritual war
Roe, your own way
Anti-abortion campaigners try to break their losing streak
The empire strikes back
Americans are discovering the joy of a true pint of beer
Algebra and pistols
One response to school shootings in America: arm the teachers
Lexington
Joe Biden has shown a steady hand in the Gaza crisis
Middle East & Africa


From bullets to ballots
How Liberia and Sierra Leone ended their cycles of violence
Sudan’s agony
After six months of civil war, little remains of Khartoum
No miracles required
How to save the lives of 200,000 women a year
The Americas


The radical option
Can Argentina’s next president fix the economy? Don’t count on it
Democratic display
Bernardo Arévalo is still battling to become Guatemala’s president
Blowout
Joe Biden lifts sanctions on Venezuela, but not without conditions
Europe


Tusk’s triumph
Poland gives pro-European liberals a big win
From corruption to production
How a 31-year-old hopes to fix Ukraine’s state-owned defence giant
Legal vacuum
Alexei Navalny’s lawyers are arrested
Europe’s populists
Marine Le Pen poses a greater threat than Giorgia Meloni
High tension
Paris and Berlin compromise on reform of the electricity market
Charlemagne
The EU’s response to the crisis in Israel exposes its limits
Britain


Sickness service to health service
The world’s largest health-research study is under way in Britain
Joining up the bots
Britain’s NHS is trying once again to collate patients’ data
Nevereverendum
Scottish independence has become a long game
Food for thought
Despite Brexit and the government, British manufacturing is doing well
Garden of England
The rise of English viticulture
Park life
Britain’s national parks are not protecting nature
Bagehot
How rationing became the fashion under the Tories
Business


Control shift
Are America’s allies the holes in its export-control fence?
Bartleby
How big is the role of luck in career success?
Thrivers in India
Meet India’s mega-wealthy
Lithography lessons
Canon tries to break ASML’s grip on chipmaking tools
Spread bets
Why big oil is beefing up its trading arms
Schumpeter
Are America’s CEOs overpaid?
Finance & economics


War by other means
Israel turns to financial weapons as well as military ones
Peak disappointment
China’s economy may be growing faster, but big problems remain
Nasty headache
China’s banks may be loaded up with hidden bad loans
Crypto’s future
Will Binance come over to the light side?
Buttonwood
Why it is time to retire Dr Copper
Not so civil anymore
How free-market economics reshaped legal systems the world over
Free exchange
Do Amazon and Google lock out competition?
Science & technology


Unrolled at last
AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts
The weather underground
What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 years ago
Sleep tight!
It’s not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
News you can use
How to predict the outcome of a coin toss
Culture


Ill liberals
How to cancel “cancel culture”
Movie marathons
Why films have become so ridiculously long
Back Story
David Beckham’s guide to celebrity
Spirituality
Where to look to find enlightenment
When the music stops
“Here We Are” and the question of what to do with unfinished art
War in the Middle East
The Israel-Palestine conflict: a reading list
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What is Palestinian Islamic Jihad?
The Economist explains
How China’s Belt and Road Initiative is changing
Obituary


Life on the edge
Ofir Libstein had extraordinary dreams for his small patch

Are free markets history? The rise of homeland economics

The world this week

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


The size of the state
Are free markets history?
Governments are jettisoning the principles that made the world rich

Sub-Saharan suffrage
Why Africans are losing faith in democracy
The alternatives will undoubtedly be worse

The conservative Jacobins
The ousting of Kevin McCarthy: bad for America, worse for Ukraine
His successor should seek cross-party support to keep funding the war

Reality beckons
Rising bond yields are exposing fiscal fantasy in Europe
Italy’s budget plans look irresponsible

A Nobel cause
In an ugly world, vaccines are a beautiful gift worth honouring
According to the WHO, they have saved more lives than any other medical invention

HSscrewed
Rishi Sunak is wrong to amputate Britain’s high-speed rail line
The HS2 decision will make it harder to build infrastructure

Letters

On Ukraine, India and separatists, British politics, AI and science, Europe’s hard right, Elon Musk
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Women and the workforce
Melinda French Gates on how leaders can boost women’s economic power
British competitiveness
Sharon Todd on turning Britain into a science superpower
Briefing


Ripple effect
The war in Ukraine is threatening to wash across the Black Sea
And to roil grain and oil markets again
Asia


The Cricket World Cup
Narendra Modi has seized and politicised Indian cricket
Even better than the real thing
Virtual influencers are burning up South Koreans’ Instagram feeds
Left behind
New Zealand tires of its cuddly liberal government
Decentralising Japan
Japanese firms are leaving Tokyo for the sticks
Banyan
M.S. Swaminathan, the man who fed India
China


The young and the nationalist
Communist rappers are luring young disgruntled Chinese
The favoured GI
An unusual museum in China is dedicated to Vinegar Joe
Viral slurs
Many of the world’s new mpox cases are in China
United States


We need to talk without Kevin
Kevin McCarthy’s sacking deepens the chaos in American government
Patience, passengers
Travelling to and from America has become a waiting game
The other Republican meltdown
Republican parties in important swing states are falling behind
Border disorder
The post-Title-42 lull in border crossings is over
By George!
Detroit wants to be the first big American city to tax land value
Lexington
What America should really learn from Dianne Feinstein

Middle East & Africa


Sudan’s civil war
Genocide returns to Darfur
Mission unaccomplished
The drawdown of African peacekeepers from Somalia has stalled
Deaf on the Nile
Egypt’s rushed election shows Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi is nervous
Give us this day
Egypt’s bread subsidies are unsustainable
The Americas


In the crosshairs
The Caribbean is awash with illegal American guns
The Mexican model?
Mexico’s government is suing American gun manufacturers
Fishy business
South American governments are trying to curb illegal fishing
Europe


Prelude to a brawl
After a brutal campaign, Poland gets ready to vote
Guess who’s back!
Slovakia gives pro-Russian populist nationalism another win
Winter is coming, once more
Ukraine prepares for winter again as Russia targets its power grid
Deadlock or blackmail?
Spain’s Socialists are struggling to recover power
Beware of leprechauns
What should Ireland’s government do with a huge budget surplus?
Charlemagne
Europe is stuck in a need-hate relationship with migrants
Britain


Tory story
A glimpse of the Conservative Party after Rishi Sunak
Political fashions
Impressions of a first-time visitor to the Tory conference
The war on the war on motorists
Rishi Sunak’s misguided attempt to woo irritated British drivers
Post-pandemic Britain
How Britain lives with covid-19 today
Our survey says
Britain’s labour-market figures are less reliable than they were
Crime and public safety
Britain’s probation service is in deep trouble
Bagehot
Is Britain’s Labour Party a bunch of Tories, naifs or liars?
International


Afropopulism approaches
Africa’s coups are part of a far bigger crisis
Special report


Redividing the world
Governments across the world are discovering “homeland economics”
Demand for supplies
Attempts to make supply chains “resilient” are likely to fail
State v market
“Homeland economics” will make the world poorer
Missing the point
New industrial policies will make the world more unequal
Second-best
Green protectionism comes with big risks
In search of a problem
New industrial policies will not help economic stability
Insight
Video: Busting globalisation myths
The world economy
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Unity on diversity
America’s bosses grapple with threats to diversity policies
The world on a string
Inside the secretive business of geopolitical advice
Explosive growth
The Indian business of blowing things up is booming
Make SPARCs fly
Bill Ackman wants another shot at shaking up IPOs
Bartleby
How to make hot-desking work
Head out of the clouds
Why companies still want in-house data centres
Schumpeter
So long iPhone. Generative AI needs a new device
Finance & economics


All at once
A surge in global bond yields threatens trouble
Drill thrill
Oil prices fall, defying suggestions of a $100 barrel
Buttonwood
Why investors cannot escape China exposure
A $24bn decision
Why India hopes to make it into more big financial indices
Red letter pay
China’s greying population is refusing to save for retirement
Green light
How carbon prices are taking over the world
Free exchange
To understand America’s job market, look beyond unemployed workers
Science & technology


Scientific gong season
The 2023 Nobel prizes honour work that touched millions of lives
What’s yours is mine
How plundered Gaulish silver ended up in Roman coins
Don’t you see, it all makes sense!
Did bitcoin leak from an American spy lab?
Culture


Crypto cryptography
Decoding Sam Bankman-Fried, alleged titan of crypto conmen
Back Story
“Cat Person”, an internet-breaking short story, is back as a film
Home Entertainment
“Bluey” captures the joys of childhood and parenting
Spelling glee
The stories behind the Oxford English Dictionary
Life in the West Bank
A new book revisits a bus crash that killed Palestinian children
Going great guns
The AR-15 is a symbol of liberty or loss, depending on whom you ask
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
What to read to understand journalism
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


All work and no play
Productivity has grown faster in western Europe than in America
Obituary


Beauty been
The Sycamore Gap tree held a particularly deep place in people’s hearts

The world this week

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


Elixir of life
Living to 120 is becoming an imaginable prospect
Efforts to slow ageing are taking wing

A bigger, better EU
The war in Ukraine is a powerful reason to enlarge—and improve—the EU
Nine new countries, including Ukraine, are vying to join

Striking contradictions
Joe Biden may come to regret his claim to be pro-union
The UAW strike highlights the deep strains in Bidenomics

A short war with a long shadow
A humanitarian disaster is under way in Nagorno-Karabakh
And Russia may also be destabilising its old ally, Armenia

The budget bust-up
Forget the shutdown. America’s real fiscal worry is rising bond yields
Watch Wall Street, not Washington

Reboot successful
The lessons from Microsoft’s startling comeback
A bold bet on AI could help it overtake Apple as the world’s most valuable firm

Letters

On America and China, household costs, mining, Indonesia, cannabis Airbnb, children’s books
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Climate change
David Keith on why carbon removal won’t save big oil but may help the climate
Briefing


A second flight
How Microsoft could supplant Apple as the world’s most valuable firm
It hopes to seize on AI to transform the future of work
Asia


Strait up lies
China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation
Japanese loos
The world’s greatest toilet culture
Politics and the law
South Korea’s opposition leader narrowly avoids arrest
Losing the Voice
Australians look set to reject new provisions for Aboriginal people
Gender politics
Narendra Modi wants a lot more women in Indian politics
Digital Jio-graphy
Can a $12 phone get 300m illiterate Indians online?
After the assassination
India is testing America’s friendship
China


No time for stinginess
Politics hamper China’s efforts to stimulate the economy
An absurd life sentence
China’s persecution of Uyghurs extends to those it once favoured
Return game
After an unsuccessful boycott, women’s tennis is back in China
United States


Who has agency?
The new Supreme Court term takes aim at the administrative state
Stars and gold bars
Bob Menendez’s indictment is colourful even by Jersey standards
Nihilists in Washington
America’s next government shutdown could be the strangest yet
Woke and broke
DEI initiatives have foundered over the past three years in America
Sanctuary in the city
The flow of migrants into Chicago is a crisis and an opportunity
Summary smackdown
Donald Trump is found liable for fraud in his real-estate dealings
Lexington
A Trump Party in the Reagan Library

Middle East & Africa


Trip hazards
America, Israel and Saudi are “at the cusp of a deal”
Powering up
Saudi Arabia wants to become a force in electric-vehicle manufacturing
France and Africa
Why Emmanuel Macron is pulling French troops out of Niger
The horn laws
Why there is a bear market in rhinos
Crime fiction
Kenya’s cops are spinning wild tales
The Americas


Canada’s embattled prime minister
The spat with India only adds to Justin Trudeau’s woes
Criminal enterprise
Mexico’s gangs could be the country’s fifth-biggest employer
A textbook row
Andrés Manuel López Obrador puts his stamp on Mexico’s schools
Europe


One last push
The EU is finally rebooting the enlargement machine
Black and Blue Sea
War has arrived in Crimea
Good from evil
Seven years after a terrorist attack, Nice has rebuilt itself
Charlemagne
The definition of Europe has always been both inspiring and incoherent
Britain


Biden’s Britain
Britain’s Labour Party takes lessons from Joe Biden
Organised retail crime
Why shoplifting is rising in Britain
No laughing matter
Britons take laughing gas merrily. Tories take it more seriously
Up the junction?
Why Britain’s government would be wrong to cut HS2
The Lib Dems
Could Britain’s Liberal Democrats matter again?
Cultivated fat
Is lab-grown meat kosher?
Bagehot
Blind optimism is the only bet for Britain’s Tories
International


Assassin’s creed
States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
Technology Quarterly


In search of forever
Slowing human ageing is now the subject of serious research
Don’t be greedy
Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing
Out with the old
Ageing bodies need to get rid of decrepit cells
Of bowheads and borzois
Alternatives to the laboratory mouse
You can’t have everything
Older genomes have more dodgy genes
Give us the tools
Fighting ageing requires properly equipped cells
Blood and guts
What the young can give to the old
A design for living
Some claim human lifespans can be lengthened indefinitely
Insight
Video: In search of forever
Business


Cranes, drains and automobiles
Will the auto workers’ strike jeopardise Joe Biden’s manufacturing boom?
That’s a wrap
Hollywood’s strike enters its final act, as writers reach a deal
Grid unlock
Can Europe’s power grid cope with the green transition?
Exit the dragon
Ties between foreign businesses and China go from bad to worse
Bartleby
Films and the white-collar workplace
A medical gold rush
Pharma’s big push for a new generation of obesity drugs
Schumpeter
Customer service is getting worse—and so are customers
Finance & economics


Conflict economics
The costs of Russia’s war are about to hit home
Laboratory visit
The city that encapsulates China’s economic stagnation
Buttonwood
Investors’ enthusiasm for Japanese stocks has gone overboard
Republican doves
America’s Federal Reserve could soon be flying blind
Cruel world
Why fear is spreading in financial markets
Better off without you
Sri Lanka shows how broken debt negotiations have become
Free exchange
Why the state should not promote marriage
Science & technology


Storming the fortress
Sticking together makes bacteria nearly invincible
Bacterial warfare
Colonies of bacteria could save the Pentagon billions
Ice and fire
Glaciers on volcanoes could serve as early-warning systems
It’s grim down south
Antarctic sea ice is at a record low
Culture


The emperor strikes back
A new book by Mary Beard looks at the glitz and gore of Rome
Writing the wrongs of history
Some people in China are bravely trying to document the past
Johnson
In favour of simple writing
World in a dish
Dave Portnoy, an internet personality, has become pizza’s kingmaker
The unreal deal
Hyperreal art is Instagram-worthy and booming
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Olive oil and snake oil
Places claiming to be centenarian hotspots may just have bad data
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What happens if America’s government shuts down this weekend?
Obituary


Life in its fullness
Fernando Botero became famous for his over-size people and animals

The world this week

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


Ukraine
Ukraine faces a long war. A change of course is needed
Its backers should pray for a speedy victory—but plan for a long struggle

From Asia to Asia
What Asia’s economic revolution means for the world
Links between the region’s countries are getting stronger. But America’s loss is not entirely China’s gain

Death in Vancouver
If India ordered a murder in Canada, there must be consequences
Western countries have for too long acquiesced to the Indian government’s abuses

Beyond the hype
ChatGPT mania may be cooling, but a serious new industry is taking shape
Three forces will shape the business of generative AI

How to beat HIV
To end AIDS, high-risk countries will need to jab schoolgirls
Injections that could keep a generation virus-free are on the horizon

Uninsurable America
Climate change is coming for America’s property market
Insurance is supposed to signal risk. Policymakers should let it

Letters

On nuclear weapons, business agglomerations, Germany, heat pumps, the EU’s Council of Ministers, inoculations, headline wordplay
Letters to the editor
Briefing


The battle within
To endure a long war, Ukraine is remaking its army, economy and society
The improvisation and decentralisation of the early part of the war will no longer suffice

A lean patch
Western help for Ukraine is likely to diminish next year
There is a shortage of weapons and munitions—and, in some quarters, goodwill
Asia


Asia’s new aid diplomacy
China isn’t the only country giving out goodies in Asia
Rebuilding Tokyo
Demolishing one of Babe Ruth’s last stadiums
Murder in the suburbs
A devastating accusation by Justin Trudeau against India
Banyan
China’s claim to the South China Sea gets even odder
China


Xi’s troubled coterie
The disappearance of China’s defence minister raises big questions
Claims on the past
How China uses UNESCO to rewrite history
Spooked
China tells its citizens to be on the lookout for spies
Chaguan
China wants to be the leader of the global south
United States


Uninsurable America
Parts of America are becoming uninsurable
Pax Texana
What Ken Paxton’s acquittal means for Texas Republicans
Busting out
Illinois is the first state in America to abandon cash bail
Diplomacy in the new cold war
Biden, alone at the top table as the UN withers
Blocking manoeuvres
America’s states are trying to set rules for the internet
Wasted organs
In America, lots of usable organs go unrecovered or get binned
Lexington
America’s dumbest, wildest budget fight yet
Middle East & Africa


Making sex safer again
Is the end of AIDS in sight?
Hostages and a fortune
Iran’s $6bn hostage deal is part of a broader diplomatic strategy
Prison blues
Lebanon’s prison inmates are running short of food
Never let a crisis go to waste
Khalifa Haftar will use Libya’s floods to deepen his control

The Americas


Sertanejo swagger
Brazil’s hinterland now resembles Texas
Europe


A one-day war
Azerbaijan is close to taking control of Nagorno-Karabakh
Energie-wander
Angst mounts over Germany’s green transition
Geopolitical monster v Brussels effect
Why the EU will not remain the world’s digital über-regulator
Charlemagne
Europe’s conservative populists pit migrants against babies
Britain


Panicky policymaking
Rishi Sunak’s anti-green turn on Britain’s climate targets
A shot in the arm
Britain’s war on drugs enters a new phase
Inflation and wages
What supermarkets reveal about Britain’s economy
Brits in Paris
France rolls out the red carpet for Britain
Scary mutts
A fight over dangerous dogs in Britain
A year after the disastrous mini-budget
The legacy of Liz Truss
Pollution in Northern Ireland
The largest freshwater lake in the British Isles has been poisoned
Bagehot
Russell Brand was the norm in the nasty noughties
International


Young guns
Meet the world’s new arms dealers
Business


Smart money
Could OpenAI be the next tech giant?
Can Falcon soar?
Abu Dhabi throws a surprise challenger into the AI race
Emissionary zeal
California cracks down on carbon
Strike while the engine is hot
America’s big car firms face lengthy strikes
Missile stockpiles
Big pharma can’t get enough of one class of cancer drugs
Bartleby
Friendships in the office
Schumpeter
What Arm and Instacart say about the coming IPO wave
Finance & economics


A new era
How Asia is reinventing its economic model
The price battle
Why aren’t more people being sacked?
All at once
Does China’s fear of floating exceed its fear of deflation?
Financial innovation
Macau offers a new way to get rich
Buttonwood
How to avoid a common investment mistake
Rod stewards
Why uranium prices are soaring
Free exchange
Renewable energy has hidden costs
Science & technology


PANDA-monium
How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
Creation and destruction
A chunk of asteroid is coming to Earth
Godforsaken rocks
Finding alien life may require finding new sorts of planets
Culture


Tok of the town
TikTok is changing the way books are recommended and sold
Books and bobs
Publishing used to be packed with parties and punch
Where the wild things are
From myth to art, bears have long captivated people
Powering up
An opera about Steve Jobs is opening in San Francisco
Back Story
Donald Trump and the dramatic power of not turning up
Here, there and almost everywhere
The British Empire peaked 100 years ago this month
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


China’s demography
China’s “demographic dividend” appears to be a myth
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why Poland is halting its supply of weapons to Ukraine
The Economist explains
What is Khalistan, the independent homeland some Sikhs yearn for?
Obituary


On a spear’s edge
Mangosuthu Buthelezi had his own vision for a democratic South Africa

How AI can revolutionise science

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


The real threat from Europe’s hard right
A fresh wave of hard-right populism is stalking Europe
In Germany, the AfD are weaponising climate change

When robots do research
How artificial intelligence can revolutionise science
Consider the historical precedents

One country, 28 systems
Modi’s “one India” goal is good for the economy, but not for politics
In the next decade regional tensions will build in India

When Kim met Putin
The dangers posed by a deal between Russia and North Korea
It would make life harder for Ukraine—and heighten nuclear risks in Asia

Incentives matter
Why are so many Britons not working?
Don’t blame covid or NHS waiting lists. The problem is the welfare system

Letters

On Germany’s economy, Gandhi, the slave trade, attacking the Assad regime, the hobby lobby
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Israel and the Palestinians
Martin Indyk reflects on the Oslo accords, 30 years on
Germany’s economy
Robert Habeck responds to The Economist’s “sick man of Europe” cover
Briefing


Swell of pride
The hard right is getting closer to power all over Europe
It does not need to join governments to affect policymaking
Asia


One nation under Modi
Narendra Modi is widening India’s fierce regional divides
Otterly loriculus
Hornbills, otters and even a tapir: Singapore is rewilding
Desperate despots
Why is Vladimir Putin looking to North Korea for arms?
Banyan
How to unite India, Bollywood-style
China


Assimilation game
China’s push to create a single national identity
Singing in the ruin
A Chinese opera star’s ode to Russia—from a Ukrainian bomb site
Shock and awe
China’s government launches a campaign against medical corruption
Chaguan
Xi Jinping builds a 21st-century police state
United States


Striking times
Joe Biden’s love of unions runs into a giant strike
More smoke
Hunter Biden’s woes, and a new impeachment saga, will go on and on
Raising the alarm-clock
America’s school day starts too early. That’s beginning to change
A Prozac moment?
Drugs to treat alcohol addiction are underused
Crypto cowboys
Wyoming wants to become America’s crypto capital
Before the firing squad
Texas Republicans may oust Ken Paxton, one of their own
Lexington
Why some GOP candidates don’t act as aggrieved as Donald Trump

Middle East & Africa


Earth and water
The lethal negligence of politicians in Morocco and Libya
A court of their own
The judge and the attorney-general fighting for Israeli democracy
Long road to nowhere
The Oslo accords were always doomed to fail
Kenya, Africa’s climate laboratory
Kenya wants to pioneer a new African approach to global warming
Snarling or smiling
Kenya’s president, William Ruto, shows two sides
The Americas


Southern spooks
Latin America remains a playground for Russian intelligence
Rio roulette
Short of cash, Brazil’s government may end its gambling prohibition
Europe


Staying the course
Donald Trump will “never” support Putin, says Volodymyr Zelensky
Not so Nazi
Ukraine’s small Jewish community is thriving
Help wanted
Italy needs more migrants, but has trouble admitting it
Running with wolves
Germany’s rampant hard-right AfD puts other parties in a fix
Charlemagne
Meet Matus Vallo, Bratislava’s hipster mayor-architect
Britain


Welfare
Why Britain has a unique problem with economic inactivity
Britain and China
A spy for China in Britain’s Parliament?
Local government crisis
Why more English councils will go bust
Prisons in Britain
The (not so) great escape
New universities
Britain’s surprising, upstart universities
Doomsday
How to get ready for the end of the world
Bagehot
Centrists need to stop worrying and learn to love politics
International


Counsels of war
Are Ukraine’s tactics working?
Business


Survival guide
The plucky firms that are beating big tech
Search in the dock
A showdown between the DoJ and Google begins
Bartleby
Who is the most important person in your company?
New battlegrounds
Apple is only the latest casualty of the Sino-American tech war
Inspecting under the bonnet
Chinese carmakers are under scrutiny in Europe
Swap teams
Electric two-wheelers are creating a buzz in Asia
Schumpeter
The Mittelstand will redeem German innovation
Finance & economics


Keep digging
How to avoid a green-metals crunch
Buttonwood
Why diamonds are losing their allure
Upwards
India’s property market is ready for take-off
Tuition drag
The resumption of student-loan payments will hit American growth
Whatever it wants
Has the European Central Bank become too powerful?
Free exchange
Does China face a lost decade?
Science & technology


AI Science (1)
How scientists are using artificial intelligence
Robot scientists
Could AI transform science itself?
Culture


Scare-brained
How fear has shaped human affairs
Of ties and lies
Conspiracy theorists are obsessed with the Rothschild family
Johnson
The importance of handwriting is becoming better understood
Rough waters
A history of solitary sailing asks why people seek out its danger
Forget me not
“North Woods”, a new novel, explores the limits of memory
Messiah, menace or both?
Impulsive and self-destructive: Elon Musk as depicted in a new book
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Measure for measure
Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
Obituary


Rules in the millions
Douglas Lenat trained computers to think the old-fashioned way

Growth industry: Wealth management for the many

The world this week

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


Cash v chaos
The Gulf’s boundless ambition to change the world
Now it wants to export its model. But the region faces grave dangers

Reform thyself
America’s Supreme Court should adopt new ethics standards
Lifetime tenure can easily slip into entitlement

The man who may be president
Can Javier Milei’s radical libertarianism save Argentina?
Our interview explores his wild economic ideas—and his authoritarian streak

In hot water
Heat pumps show how hard decarbonisation will be
The row over them portends more backlashes against greenery

Wealth management for the many
Wall Street is racing to manage your wealth. That is a good thing
The hottest trend in finance offers more than just fat profits for advisers

Belt and Road at ten
China’s Belt and Road Initiative will keep testing the West
The projects are smaller, the challenge is growing

Letters

On the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, Britain’s green belts, Germany, Malaysia, Saudi customs
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Europe’s economic challenges
Mario Draghi on the path to fiscal union in the euro zone
Geopolitics
The cold war holds lessons for America’s rivalry with China, say Condoleezza Rice and Niall Ferguson
Briefing


Reorientation
The Gulf countries want to reshape the Middle East in their image
Stability and development is a tempting formula, but it has been tried before
Asia


South-East Asian succession
What will Indonesia look like after Jokowi leaves?
Lost tribe of the steppes
Uzbekistan’s Bukharan Jews are disappearing
Peak summit
The G20 summit will be a resounding success for India
Banyan
Joe Biden’s visit to Hanoi is a signal to China
China


Where to from here?
The path ahead for China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Chaguan
The Belt and Road, as seen from China
United States


Coming cleaner
Can America’s Supreme Court police itself?
Chicken Tocqueville
Where do Americans mingle?
The third line
How the Pentagon assesses Ukraine’s progress
Blocked bookings
New York City is restricting Airbnb
The counter-revolutionaries
An unusual coalition is emerging in California’s school-board fights
Lexington
What Democrats can learn from Bobby Kennedy

Middle East & Africa


A brittle victory
A year after Iran was shaken by protests, zealots have tightened their grip
Bulldoze the buried
Egypt’s government wants to erase a historic cemetery
Only connect
A new railway will at last link Iran and Iraq
Bluster and bluff
Deterring would-be putschists in Africa is getting harder
The perilous path of change
In just 100 days Nigeria’s new president has made bold reforms
The Americas


Argentina’s next president?
Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina’s next president
Señora Presidenta
Two women are vying to be Mexico’s next president
Europe


Four more years
The undeclared race to replace Emmanuel Macron
Crime and punishment
Inside Ukraine’s assassination programme
Zelensky’s shuffle
Is Ukraine really interested in fighting corruption?
Point of no return
The uncertain future of Greeks in Turkey
German engineering
Stuttgart’s ever-receding station is Germany’s latest transport fiasco
Charlemagne
The EU’s rotating presidency should be scrapped
Britain


Clean energy
Britain is losing its way in cutting carbon
River pollution and housing
Britain will ease some environmental rules for housebuilders
Dismal science
Britain’s statisticians fix a blunder and find a bigger economy
The invention of exercise
How London bus drivers changed the world
Policing the police
Should Britain’s police chiefs be able to sack rogue officers?
Ethnicity and health
What is killing white Britons?
Bare-faced cheek
British MPs debate a crisis over school buildings. Childishly
International


The new zing in zoning
The growing global movement to restrain house prices
Business


AI with Chinese characteristics
Meet Ernie, China’s answer to ChatGPT
Shovel-unready
German builders are on the brink of collapse
Island shopping
TikTok is wading into South-East Asia’s e-commerce wars
Workers of the world unite
A strike at Chevron shows a reinvigorated union movement
Biding the Bullet
Meet the world’s most enduring product
Bartleby
Networking for introverts: a how-to guide
Schumpeter
America’s bosses just won’t quit. That could spell trouble
Finance & economics


Rich and famous
The $100trn battle for the world’s wealthiest people
Buttonwood
Should you fix your mortgage for ever?
Crude sophistication
A higher global oil price will help Russia pay for its war
Official blessing
The end of a remarkable era in Indian finance
Spillovers aren’t over
China’s slowdown is rattling Asian economies
Prophets of maximisation
How Chicago school economists reshaped American justice
Free exchange
Argentina needs to default, not dollarise
Science & technology


All that gas
Propane-powered heat pumps are greener
The ears of corn
Plants don’t have ears. But they can still detect sound
Easy fieldwork
Animals can be tracked by simply swabbing leaves
Culture


Riding high
Thanks to Morgan Wallen, country music’s popularity has surged
Vaccines
Simon Schama’s “Foreign Bodies” tracks the history of vaccines
Back Story
Lots of people mourn when famous writers and musicians die. Why?
New fiction
Zadie Smith’s new novel revives a 150-year-old court case
Rome and its popes
A history of the papacy and its relationship with Rome
Laugh, the beloved country
Trevor Noah’s tour spotlights South African comedy
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Bad vibrations
The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
A primer on Trump’s criminal trials
The Economist explains
Why France is banning Muslim clothing in schools (again)
Obituary


Building revolution
Isabel Crook devoted her long life to making a new China

AI voted: How artificial intelligence will affect the elections of 2024

The world this week

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


AI voted
How worried should you be about AI disrupting elections?
Disinformation will become easier to produce, but it matters less than you might think

Global politics
How paranoid nationalism corrupts
Cynical leaders are scaremongering to win and abuse power

Destroyer of worlds
How to stop a three-way nuclear arms-race
America, China and Russia must agree on mutual restraints before it’s too late

Great Danes
To fix broken mortgage markets, look to Denmark
Rising interest rates have exposed the problems with many home loans

Beware side-effects
America’s new drug-pricing rules have perverse consequences
Medicare’s price mandate will deter innovation

Letters

On corporate lobbying, ultra-processed foods, life sciences, the British Virgin Islands, Chinese youth, the Luddites, public toilets, holey socks
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The future of WFH
Nicholas Bloom predicts a working-from-home Nike swoosh
Briefing


Looters with flags
How cynical leaders are whipping up nationalism to win and abuse power
Hatemongers often erode checks on misrule and corruption
Asia


The Next Big One
Japan is preparing for a massive earthquake
Budding growth
What now for Thailand’s weed industry?
In the chicken coop
A mercurial billionaire, Terry Gou, shakes up Taiwan’s presidential race
Cemetery gates
North Korea’s borders are creaking open
Banyan
South-East Asian democracy is declining
China


No love for livestock
China has embraced pets, but animal welfare is still a problem
Instruments of power
China’s Communist Party has co-opted ancient music
Water fight
China is stoking anger over Japan’s release of nuclear wastewater
Coverage that counted
An old health insurance scheme in China may have saved millions
Chaguan
When China thought America might invade
United States


Mr Bot goes to Washington
AI will change American elections, but not in the obvious way
The Kia issue
Cities are suing car manufacturers over auto theft. They have a case
So sue me
An explosion of lawsuits is not making websites more accessible
Bodice ripping
Romance (as a category) is far from dead
Lexington
Joe Biden’s re-election bid is in trouble

Middle East & Africa


Russia in Africa
Wagner’s customers will have to adjust to new leadership
Out for the count
Zimbabwe’s flawed election ensures that its pariah status endures
Here’s looking at coup, kid
The coup in Gabon is part of an alarming trend
Abraham discords
Why Libya’s cackhanded Israel diplomacy is bad for America, too
The Americas


Half a century later
Chile is still haunted by the coup in September 1973
Europe


Buzzing with ideas
Inside Ukraine’s drone war against Putin
Escaping the war
Thousands of Ukrainian men are avoiding military service
Business and Germany’s far right
Business leaders worry about the rise of the AfD
Getting out
Why Europe is a magnet for more Americans
Charlemagne
A sexism scandal in Spanish football hides the country’s progress
Britain


Scottish politics
Can Scotland help Labour form Britain’s next government?
Northern Ireland
Political dysfunction in Northern Ireland is the new normal
Local government
A blunder costs a British town billions
Slow coaches
Britain’s smaller cities desperately need better transport
Big trouble with the big C
Why Britain is so bad at diagnosing cancer
Clearing the air
Who is to blame in Britain for delayed and cancelled flights?
Bagehot
Britons should watch GB News, carefully
International


Oppenheimer’s nightmares
A new nuclear arms race looms
Business


The shopping channel
Amazon has Hollywood’s worst shows but its best business model
Flight risk
From social-media stars to the Mexican army, everyone wants to run an airline
A bitter pill
America’s plan to cut drug prices comes with unpleasant side-effects
Indian business
India’s scandal-hit Adani Group forges on
Shareholder shake-up
The rise of the Asian activist investor
Bartleby
The best bosses know how to subtract work
Schumpeter
Cherish your Uber drivers. Soon they will be robots
Finance & economics


The property paradox
How can American house prices still be rising?
How to make money
Which country’s genius deserves the €500 note?
Brace for impact
Europe’s economy looks to be heading for trouble
Cause and consequence
Germany’s economic model is sputtering. So are its banks
Buttonwood
High bond yields imperil America’s financial stability
Ubiquitous, opaque, tangled
China’s shadow-banking industry threatens its financial system
Free exchange
How will politicians escape enormous public debts?
Science & technology


A new world of hurt
Some forms of chronic pain are particularly mysterious
Culture


Pulp fiction
How to write a bestseller
The fierce urgency of NOW
Betty Friedan and America’s forgotten feminists
Some like it hot
Long feared, volcanoes help the planet
Coolly calculating
How the pocket calculator paved the way for the digital age
Hands up, don’t shoot
Some developers are pushing back against violent video games
World in a dish
Chinese food is more diverse than Western eaters might think
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


A bloody legacy
Wagner routinely targets civilians in Africa
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What is “friendshoring”?
Obituary


How to win a war
Andriy Pilshchykov pleaded for F-16s to be sent to Ukraine