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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

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Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s covers
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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

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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
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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

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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

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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

Xi’s failing model: Why he won’t fix China’s economy

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Xi’s broken model
Why China’s economy won’t be fixed
An increasingly autocratic government is making bad decisions

Götterdämmerung
Prigozhin’s death shows that Russia is a mafia state
A healthy country uses justice to restore order. Mr Putin uses violence instead

Fair warning
El Niño has started. Preparations must too
It will bring chaotic weather to much of the world

Geopolitics
How Joe Biden is transforming America’s Asian alliances
America is working to deter China even as it defends Europe from Russia

Thailand’s new government
Thaksin Shinawatra shows his true colours
A grubby political compromise with the army has enraged Thai voters

Undisrupted
AI could fortify big business, not upend it
Upstarts face an uphill battle

Letters

On trafficking children, electric cars, liberal values, narrow banking, Warren Buffett, Saudi customs
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


China’s economy
Wei Xiong on how China can overcome its economic challenges
Zimbabwe
Miles Tendi on the depressingly business-as-usual feel to Zimbabwe’s election
Briefing


A problem child
El Niño and global warming are mixing in alarming ways
Havoc in poor countries and commodities markets is inevitable
Asia


The great mateship
Australia is becoming America’s military launchpad into Asia
Strange bedfellows
Thailand’s new Thaksinist government
Regulating sex
Japan’s porn industry comes out of the shadows
Banyan
The trials of Muhammad Yunus
China


How do you say “not interested”?
Why fewer university students are studying Mandarin
Political science
The clock is ticking on an old deal between America and China
Score one for the countryside
How an amateur football league in China took off
Chaguan
The world should study China’s crushing of Hong Kong’s freedoms
United States


Absent-minded
Post-covid, American children are still missing far too much school
Asylum-seekers
New York’s shelter system is being overwhelmed by migrants
Leprosy returns
Floridians should avoid wrestling armadillos unless necessary
In the flesh
The rise of “tranq dope” is making America’s opioid crisis worse
Throngs of praise
American megachurches are thriving by poaching flocks
Lexington
How Donald Trump won the debate he skipped

Middle East & Africa


Déjà vu
Concerns of corruption mar Zimbabwe’s chaotic election
Vox pops on Niger
West African views on Niger’s coup
The Phoenician problem
Lebanon is experiencing a tourism boom
Rehabilitating jihadists
Failing to reintegrate Iraq’s Sunni rebels could prove costly
Grapes of wrath
The challenge of making Palestinian wine
The Americas


Treasure islands
A wave of international rule-making threatens Caribbean tax havens
A win for democracy
Elections in Ecuador and Guatemala suggest an anti-incumbent surge
Europe


A plane crash outside Moscow
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death may consolidate Putin’s power
Frustrated expectations
Ukraine’s sluggish counter-offensive is souring the public mood
Sí, se puede
In Spain’s parliament, you can now speak Basque (or Catalan or Galician)
The art of war
In Belgrade, backers of Ukraine and Russia fight with graffiti
True colours
Italy’s hard-right government is starting to look more radical
Charlemagne
Italy’s beaches are a battleground of the European economy
Britain


The low-wage economy
Britain’s failed experiment in boosting low-wage sectors
Now museum…Now you don’t
Stealing from museums is easier than you might think
Russians in Britain
How are Russians in Britain faring?
Bullies by nature
Britain has a growing problem with dangerous dogs
Lessons from the Blitz
How the Blitz changed London for the better
Bagehot
Britons are not all in it together (whatever they might think)
International


America and the Middle East
Reassessing Obama’s biggest mistake
Business


Goliath’s triumph
America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple
Arm-twisting
Arm’s public listing is set to break records
Strike up the band
Arm’s flotation could revive the market for IPOs
Too hot to handle
How climate change will hit holidaymaking
A question of furnace
America’s steelmakers forge a future together
Bartleby
How to get the most out of mentoring
Schumpeter
Corporate America risks losing the Supreme Court
Finance & economics


Power trip
China’s economy is in desperate need of rescue
Aftershocks
What China’s economic troubles mean for the world
Energised
America’s astonishing economic growth goes up another gear
DJ, rocked
Goldman Sachs has a David Solomon problem
Perma-crisis
Argentina is pushing international lending to its breaking point
Free exchange
Which animals should a modern-day Noah put in his ark?
Science & technology


Electric cars
Superbatteries will transform the performance of EVs
Culture


A Chinese superhero
The Monkey King is one of China’s most successful cultural exports
Philosophy
A new book explains the intellectual legacy of four women
A different tour of duty
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra is on tour
Hillbilly elegy
How America’s right turned “Rich Men North of Richmond” into a hit
Going for gold
“Anansi’s Gold” examines one of the world’s biggest con artists
Back Story
Calls for actors’ identities to match their roles have gone too far
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Carrion call
The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Donald Trump and the history of the mugshot
The Economist explains
How Europe’s new digital law will change the internet
Obituary

China’s disillusioned youth

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Economic malaise
Is Germany once again the sick man of Europe?
Its ills are different from 1999. But another stiff dose of reform is still needed

The danger of letting it rot
China’s economic malaise is causing disillusion among the young
Xi Jinping wants them to focus on the party’s goals. Many cannot see why they should

Beware the Licence Raj
India must abandon protectionism
High tariffs and licensing do not help development—they hurt it

England’s green belt
Britain should scrap its green belt
It has a stranglehold over the economy and protects the wrong bits of land

Substitution required
Why sex differences matter in football
Women are not simply men with long hair, even on the pitch

Letters

On college costs, climate change, our double issue, ice cream, dragons on flags, harsh critics
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


China’s infrastructure bank
The AIIB’s former communications chief on why he blew the whistle
American politics
Hold Donald Trump and his allies accountable at every level, say Norm Eisen and Joanna Lydgate
Briefing


Generation Stagnation
China’s defeated youth
Young Chinese have little hope for the future. Xi Jinping wants them to toughen up
Asia


Power to the people
How to fix India’s decrepit cities
Almost twins
South Korean literature is inspiring Japanese women
South-East Asian syncretism
Indonesia wants to export moderate Islam
Malaysian politics
In Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim survives his first electoral test
Banyan
What India’s foreign-news coverage says about its worldview
China


Squid games
Keeping tabs on China’s murky maritime manoeuvres
Loaded lyrics
China tries to figure out whom a hit song is mocking
Chaguan
China’s slowing economy, seen from ground level
United States


California leavin’
The Hollywood strikes reveal Los Angeles’s deepest anxieties
Puerto RICO
Donald Trump’s racketeering indictment is the most sweeping yet
Lock, stock and pork barrel
Iowa has become a petri-dish of Republican radicalism
Paradise lost
Lessons from the blaze that levelled Lahaina
Diabolical follicles
The mullet has had a resurgence in right-wing America
Post haste
Louis DeJoy’s ambitious plans for America’s postal service

Middle East & Africa


Divided they fall
The Kurds’ dreams of independence look farther off than ever
Zeal estate
Dubai and Riyadh are both riding property booms
The Horn of Africa
Ethiopia risks sliding into another civil war
Scrambled skies
Herders and farmers seek reasons for east Africa’s drought
The Americas


The lion’s roar
Argentina could get its first libertarian president
Democracy in doubt
Guatemala’s elite may try to scupper the presidential election
Sub-national and sub-optimal
Latin America’s local governments too often fail their people
Europe


Germany own goals
Germany is becoming expert at defeating itself
Metre by metre
Ukraine’s counter-offensive is making progress, slowly
Not small beer
Poland’s far right could be the next government’s kingmaker
According to the conventions
How Russian prisoners of war see Putin’s invasion
The booming baguette
French bakeries are thriving in unlikely places
Charlemagne
Having shaken off nationalism, Europe risks civilisationalism
Britain


The green belt
Britain’s green belt is choking the economy
Not so black and white
Reckoning with slavery remains an elite project in Britain
Sporting girls
England’s Lionesses reach the World Cup final
Devolution
Since Brexit, Britain’s union has grown increasingly European
Treasure from the Thames
Britons are ever keener on mudlarking in the River Thames
Bagehot
What happens to comedy when British politics becomes a joke?
International


Is a bigger party a better one?
The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
Business


Digging for digits
AI is setting off a great scramble for data
Dusting off the guns
War in Ukraine has triggered a boom in Europe’s defence industry
Two-step stop
America’s courts weigh in on how firms resolve liability claims
Bartleby
A retiring consultant’s advice on consultants
The great untangling
Can India Inc extricate itself from China?
Ready for lift-off
Flying taxis could soon be a booming business
The fast and the dubious
Is Vietnam’s EV darling heading for a crash?
Schumpeter
The battle between American workers and technology heats up
Finance & economics


How the wheels came off
The German economy: from European leader to laggard
Seeing cents
Russia will struggle to cope with a sinking rouble
Unemployed and uncounted
China’s consumers, officials and statisticians all lack confidence
Homesick
How bad could China’s property crisis get?
Buttonwood
Why investors are gambling on placid stockmarkets
Free exchange
Democracy and the price of a vote
Science & technology


Mean and green
Can computing clean up its act?
Regenerative dentistry
Scientists want to fix tooth decay with stem cells
The second shall be first
A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
Sports science
Should women’s football have different rules from men’s?
Culture


The right stuff?
Conservatives are attacking capitalism
Travel
A new book pays affectionate tribute to the Paris Metro
Johnson
AI could make it less necessary to learn foreign languages
A mirror on our times and theirs
Mint, wax, poisonous plants: beauty tips from Renaissance Italy
Uyghur memoirs
Two accounts of surviving and escaping Chinese repression
Meet me at the bubble pit
The rise of “kidulting”
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Red giveaway
What drives people to vote the way they do?
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why are Moscow’s air defences performing so badly?
The Economist explains
Why was RICO, a mafia-targeting act, used to charge Donald Trump?
Obituary


Safety first
Richard Simpson strove to balance buyers against manufacturers

Costly and dangerous: Why Biden’s China strategy isn’t working

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The business of sport
Kicking up a $10bn sporting storm
Inside Saudi Arabia’s plan to dominate football’s Premier League, PGA Tour golf and more

Costly and dangerous
Joe Biden’s China strategy is not working
Supply chains are becoming more tangled and opaque

Strait-forward
Can China escape deflation?
Three false dogmas are inhibiting the authorities’ response

Natural resources
How Latin America could be a commodities superpower
It must not squander the opportunity of the next commodity boom

Value judgments
Authoritarians are on the march
They argue that universal values are the new imperialism, imposed on people who want security and stability instead. Here is why they are wrong

British science
The urgent need to rejoin Horizon
Britain and the European Union would gain

Letters

On Singapore, working from home, Henry Stimson, the Republicans, in vitro fertilisation, gold prices
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Hong Kong’s democratic deficit
Sebastien Lai on the erosion of freedoms in Hong Kong
Banking
David Apgar on how to make banks more stable
Briefing


Scoring political goals
Saudi Arabia is spending a fortune on sport
It says this will help diversify its economy. Critics call it “sportswashing”
Asia


Indo-Pacific strategy
Why Joe Biden will host Japan and South Korea’s leaders at Camp David
Dangerous shoals
A rotting warship becomes a flashpoint for Sino-American rivalry
Comeback kid
Rahul Gandhi is back in parliament
Enter the generals
Pakistan’s army is back in charge of politics
Banyan
The meaning of relief for Aung San Suu Kyi
China


Widening the net
Hong Kongers are bracing for an even wider clampdown on dissent
When it rains
Northern China has been hit by devastating floods
Party wall
Chinese art students scrawled Communist graffiti in London’s Brick Lane
Chaguan
Why Chinese women are denied legal land rights
United States


Chipping in
America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers
Shot down
Murder rates are falling in a majority of American cities
Hip-hop hooray!
Hip-hop’s 50th anniversary shines a light on its New York City birth
Ka-ching
“Sound of Freedom”: how to make a fortune with a mediocre movie
Trial balloons
How strong is Trump’s defence in the election-stealing case?

Middle East & Africa


Crisis in the Sahel
After Niger’s coup, the drums of war are growing louder
Call for the doctor, call Nigeria
Why Nigeria’s hospitals are losing their staff
One state, or two states, or no state
Can Yemen hold together?
A record bank heist
The plot thickens over Iraq’s bank heist
The Americas


Raw potential
Latin America could become this century’s commodity superpower
Political violence
An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
Europe


Slow turn
President Erdogan wants to make nice with the West, on his terms
Life after occupation
In north-east Ukraine the war is close, upending daily life
When friends just can’t be found
Pedro Sanchez struggles to form a new government in Spain
Charlemagne
The Baltic is delighted to be a NATO lake
Britain


Life sciences
Britain doubles down on the life-sciences industry
How to tackle loneliness
Five years on, is Britain’s strategy to combat loneliness working?
Northern Ireland’s police
A big data breach endangers police in Northern Ireland
Ferry bad indeed
What broken ferries reveal about Scotland’s government
Loosing it
In defence of Britain’s public toilets
Bagehot
From wild swimming to grouse shooting, Britain is in hock to hobbyists
International


Thinking for themselves
Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world’s
Business


The view beyond the Valley
Beyond the tech hype, how healthy is American business?
Logistic nightmares
America’s logistics boom has turned to bust
Let the chips rise where they may
How real is America’s chipmaking renaissance?
Not-so-super pumped
Can Uber and Lyft ever make real money?
Bartleby
A refresher on business air-travel etiquette
Schumpeter
How green is your electric vehicle, really?
Finance & economics


Rising tigers, hidden dragon
How America is failing to break up with China
A pointed threat
Deflation and default haunt China’s economy
The risk-on rate
American stocks are at their most expensive in decades
Resurrection
Meme stocks are back from the dead
Buttonwood
In defence of credit-rating agencies
Free exchange
Elon Musk’s plans could hinder Twitternomics
Science & technology


Advanced manufacturing
If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
Parasites at work
Tiny hitchhikers on viruses could promote resistance to antibiotics
Aviation
Airborne taxi ranks are coming to a sky near you
Culture


Orwell mania
Interest in George Orwell and his dystopian fiction is high
War wounds
In Japan “Oppenheimer” is causing consternation
World in a dish
How Provençal rosé became the summer tipple par excellence
A chronicle of stories not told
John McPhee revisits story ideas he had but never pursued
Middle age and beyond
Hip-hop’s future will be less American and more global
Back Story
An infamous murderer and the truth about true crime
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Charging ahead
How China became a car-exporting juggernaut
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What is nuclear fusion?
The Economist explains
What makes ultra-processed foods so bad for your health?
Obituary


The place where she was
Sinéad O’Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star

The overstretched CEO

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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

The world this week

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


Fertility technology
Making babymaking better
IVF is failing most women. But new research holds out hope for the future

Too darn hot
How cities can respond to extreme heat
Officials from Beijing to Phoenix are grappling with unbearable temperatures

Economic optimism
The world economy is still in danger
Falling inflation is good news. But it is too early to hail a “soft landing”

A Himalayan thaw
What the China-India detente means for the West
The Asian giants are learning to live with each other

Chained gangs
What the world’s budding autocrats are learning from El Salvador
President Nayib Bukele is gutting democracy and being applauded for it

Sanctions and reparations
Should Ukraine get Russia’s frozen reserves?
How to make Russia pay for the war while upholding international law

Letters

On deep-sea mining, water regulation in Britain, the Italian left, working from home
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The Wagner Group
George Clooney and John Prendergast on how the West can kill the Wagner virus
Spain’s election
Alberto Núñez Feijóo on why he deserves to lead Spain
Spain’s election
As Spain prepares to vote, its Socialist prime minister sets out the case for continuity
Briefing


Turning a corner
Could America’s economy escape recession?
The route to a soft landing is narrow
Asia


Asia’s battery battlefield
A battery supply chain that excludes China looks impossible
Bloodless revolution
Singapore is the world leader in selling cultivated meat
Crossing the line
An American soldier has deserted to North Korea
Banyan
Why are politics in West Bengal so violent?
China


A for effort, Xi for control
Can academic joint ventures between China and the West survive?
Data and the disease
A clue to China’s true covid-19 death toll
The wind of change
Germany’s new strategy for dealings with China
What would the party say?
How China trains its journalists to report “correctly”
Chaguan
China’s foreign minister goes missing
United States


The sizzling Sunbelt
Americans are moving to places besieged by extreme heat
Reproductive politics
The FDA approves the first-ever non-prescription birth-control pill
Big-donor populism
Ron DeSantis is relying on big donors and his super PAC
Slow puncture
What America’s bike-share schemes tell you about venture capital
A new Mexican-American war
How Mexico has become the “enemy” of America’s Republicans
Lexington
The case for a third-party campaign in 2024 is actuarial, not ideological

Middle East & Africa


Not all hot air
Why Africa is poised to become a big player in energy markets
Just give me a reason
Israel’s constitutional chaos is far from over
Tickling smuggled ivories
How well-connected Iranians import their goodies
The Americas


Terminator Salvador
Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular
What Latin America thinks
Young Latin Americans are unusually open to autocrats
Europe


Kremlin black box
Post-mutiny Moscow descends into factional murk
Waiting for the afterglow
Zaporizhia braces itself for Russian nuclear tricks
France’s Zeitenwende
France’s Zeitenwende
Come and take them
Why the EU will not seize Russian state assets to rebuild Ukraine
Chebureki beat pierogi
How Ukrainians affect Poland
Charlemagne
A spat in Brussels pits an open vision of Europe against an insular one
Britain


Universities’ funding
Muddled policies are harming British universities
Inflation dips
British inflation may not be as sticky as thought
Charge sheet
A big battery investment is good news for British carmaking
Back to the future
Sir Tony Blair mesmerises the Labour Party, again
Britain and China
Whoever runs Britain will struggle to get tough on China
Bagehot
The rise of the self-pitying MP
International


Asia’s biggest beasts
What if China and India became friends?
Technology Quarterly


The most personal technology
In vitro fertilisation is struggling to keep up with demand
If at first you don’t succeed…
IVF remains largely a numbers game
Selling hope
The fertility sector is booming
Our bodies, ourselves
Not all types of families can access IVF
Eggs from elsewhere
Some women need eggs from others, or from their younger selves
Eggs from scratch
New ways of making babies are on the horizon
Conception, reconceived
Lack of basic research has hampered assisted reproduction
Between the lines
Video: Why we know so little about human reproduction
In vitro fertilisation
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


A new model
Tesla’s surprising new route to EV domination
Bartleby
Workplace advice from our agony uncle
Last-chance saloon
Can a Czech billionaire rescue Casino?
Shooter to win
The winners and losers from the $69bn Microsoft-Activision mega-deal
A new big cheese
Startups are producing real dairy without a cow in sight
India’s rickshaw wars
A battle of rickshaw apps shows the promise of India’s digital stack
Schumpeter
Hollywood’s blockbuster strike may become a flop
Finance & economics


Machine dreams
Your employer is (probably) unprepared for artificial intelligence
A feel-bad recovery
How much trouble is China’s economy in?
Buttonwood
The dollar’s dip will not become a sustained decline
Balancing act
Big tech’s dominance is straining the logic of passive investing
What crisis?
America’s big banks are in rude health—with one exception
FedLate
Instant payments finally reach America with FedNow
Science & technology


Turning up the heat
Are the current heatwaves evidence that climate change is speeding up?
The Scrap Kings
Scrapyards adopt new high-tech ways to dismantle cars
When mammals attack
A spectacular new fossil shows a mammal making a meal of a dinosaur
Culture


Bombs and a bombshell
Realism with “Oppenheimer”, or escapism with “Barbie”?
The heat also rises
Extreme temperatures separate “the cool and the damned”
Opposites that never meet
A new novel imagines life in Andy Warhol’s studio
Hi, spy
Calder Walton’s “Spies” is a riveting history of espionage
At the sharp end
“The Retrievals”, a tale of agony and addiction, makes listeners squirm
Johnson
AI is making it possible to clone voices
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Crescent of fire
Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What happens when extreme weather hits several places at once?
The Economist explains
Why developing the world’s first malaria vaccine has taken so long
Obituary


When angels laugh
Milan Kundera believed that truth lay in endless questioning

Preparing the way: The alarming plans for Trump’s second term

The world this week

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


Preparing for government
How MAGA Republicans plan to make Donald Trump’s second term count
They think they know how to banish the chaos and frustrations of his first four years

Pledges in Vilnius
NATO’s promises to Ukraine mark real progress
But the alliance has much more work to do

The big distraction
American trustbusters are losing their focus
An obsession with technology and size distracts from truly harmful market power

The manufacturing delusion
Subsidies and protection for manufacturing will harm the world economy
Reshaping the world’s supply chains comes at a great cost

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
What matters about the Anthropocene is not when it began, but how it might end
It is all too easy to imagine an era that is nasty, brutish and short

Letters

On aboriginal rights in Australia, artificial intelligence, designing flags
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Weight-loss drugs
John Schoonbee on why new drugs, while helpful, are no panacea for obesity
Briefing


Chaos meets preparation
A second Trump administration would get its way far more than the first
The America First movement is readying the necessary personnel and policies
Asia


Asia’s digital geography
In Asia data flows are part of a new great game
In a Barbie world
Why has Vietnam banned the “Barbie” film?
Hun Sen’s handsome monument
Cambodia’s autocrat is fixing his succession
Nights at the museum
The Taliban embrace cultural heritage
Banyan
Asia is rowing about Fukushima nuclear wastewater
China


A growing problem
Can China’s farmers cope with the effects of climate change?
Peak toil
The Chinese are working more hours than ever
Setting out their stalls
Another comeback for China’s street merchants
Chaguan
Rule by law, with Chinese characteristics
United States


U-shaped economic thinking
The American left and right loathe each other and agree on a lot
Veni, vidi, veto
Tony Evers’s veto shows the growing power of Midwestern Democrats
Clairvoyant cartel
A pilgrimage to the mecca of mediumship
Justice delayed
Judge and staff shortages are leaving Americans in limbo
General disarray
An abortion battle causes mayhem in America’s military ranks
Age verification on porn sites
America’s state lawmakers are passing ineffective anti-porn laws
Lexington
Joe Biden should run against the Ivy League

Middle East & Africa


The tarnished city of gold
Why Cape Town beats Johannesburg
Ethiopia’s forgotten civil war
War crimes in Tigray may be covered up or forgotten
Both oppressor and protector
Syria’s president wants non-Muslim religions to help end his pariah status
Libya’s elections
Politicians in Libya make another ill-fated push for elections
Crypto-godly
Does Islam smile on cryptocurrency?
The Americas


The new geography of oil
Latin America is set to become a major oil producer this decade
Europe


Progress and pitfalls
NATO did not give Volodymyr Zelensky everything he wanted
Sleepless in battle
Sappers risk their lives to win Ukraine back, inch by inch
The rise of the right
Support for the hard-right AfD is surging in Germany
Heigh ho, it’s Feijoo
Why Spain’s reasonably successful prime minister might lose his job
Charlemagne
Farewell Mark Rutte, the Tiggerish Dutch prime minister
Britain


Commuters and the Tories
The Conservative Party faces a mutiny in Metroland
Same-sex weddings
Many Britons have changed their minds on gay marriage
Cracking the nest-egg
British pension funds agree to invest more in private markets
Not on call
Britain’s doctors are on strike, again
Orkxit
Why the Orkney Islands are considering joining Norway
Bagehot
The strange success of the Tories’ schools policy
International


Seeking “strategic autonomy”
What would Europe do if Trump won?
Business


Size wars
Is big business really getting too big?
A $69bn boss fight
Britain hands Microsoft’s Activision deal an extra life
The WFH showdown
The fight over working from home goes global
Wonder drugs
Big pharma is warming to the potential of AI
Bartleby
Executive coaching is useful therapy that you can expense
Schumpeter
The last, unfulfilled dream of Jamie Dimon, king of Wall Street
Finance & economics


Economic policy
The world is in the grip of a manufacturing delusion
Mission-critical
China controls the supply of crucial war minerals
Down with it
Is America’s inflationary fever breaking?
Making it through the insipid
China’s war on financial reality
Buttonwood
The mystery of gold prices
Free exchange
Why people struggle to understand climate risk
Science & technology


Superforecasting the end of the world
What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?
Not that sort of monolith
An enormous—and unexpected—lump of granite has been found on the Moon
Choosing a fingerprint
A Canadian lake could mark the start of humanity’s geological epoch
What the bones tell
Sabre tooth tigers and dire wolves were in trouble before they vanished
Culture


Shelf-made
Try these books on your summer holiday
World in a dish
When it comes to ice cream, the instinct to innovate is misguided
Tales of the city
Khaled Khalifa’s new novel tells the story of two families in Aleppo
Organised crime
“Narcas” offers a rare glimpse of the women in drug gangs
Back Story
Bruce Springsteen turns back the clock—and stops it
The Economist reads


Promethean sparks
What to read to become more creative
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Unfortunate sons
A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How AI image-generators work
Obituary


Truth, and how to find it
Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets

Families and freedom: Why East Asia needs a social revolution

The world this week

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


The future of war
A new era of high-tech war has begun
Technology has transformed the battlefield. Democracies must respond accordingly

East Asia’s lopsided revolution
The new Asian family
East Asian governments must try to manage a momentous social change they cannot prevent

An enduring error
“Greedflation” is a nonsense idea
Inflation is the result of economic policy mistakes and war, not corporate avarice

Britain’s water mess
The real problem with Britain’s water companies
Blame financial blunders and timid regulation, not privatisation

Supreme sort
Why affirmative action in American universities had to go
And why what comes after could be better

Deep-sea mining
The world needs more battery metals. Time to mine the seabed
Getting nickel from the deep causes much less damage than getting it on land

Letters

On Denmark’s Social Democrats, vaping taxes, the Indian diaspora, Daniel Ellsberg, Sierra Leone, the Multiverse, Douglas Adams
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Affirmative action
Lee Bollinger laments the ruling by America’s Supreme Court against affirmative action
China and Russia
Alexander Gabuev on China’s strategic calculations after the turmoil in Russia
Privatisation
Thames Water may be troubled but privatisation has served Britain well, argues Michael Howard
Briefing


Neighbourhood botch
Why China should be friendlier to its neighbours
If it wants to challenge America’s global leadership, it will need their backing
Asia


Modern families
East Asia’s new family portrait
Blocked and reported!
India, an aspiring digital superpower, keeps shutting down the internet
Banyan
Sri Lanka is uncovering mass graves but not the grisly truth of its civil war
China


Firm control
China’s Communist Party is tightening its grip in businesses
Scrutiny on the bounty
Hong Kong puts a price on the heads of democracy activists
Glorious mamas
Challenging the stigma associated with single mothers in China
Chaguan
China’s message to the global south
United States


Right at the end
What to make of the Supreme Court’s tumultuous term
Major League Cricket
Can baseball fans be won over by the world’s second biggest sport?
Quant, um
Chicago hopes to become a world centre for quantum research
MAGA mummies
Republican presidential candidates canoodle with Moms for Liberty
Citizenship
Dick Ravitch, New York’s fiscal superman
Affirmative inaction
How American universities will react as race-based admissions end
Lab monkey shortage in America
America has a shortage of lab monkeys

Middle East & Africa


Middle East diplomacy
What MBS wants from Joe Biden
Another battle for Jenin
Israel launched its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
Shake it up
Nigeria’s new president acts fast
Sensible Sall
Senegal’s President Macky Sall says he won’t stand for a third term
Civil war in Sudan
Genocide all over again?
The Americas


Dumping the Trump of the tropics
Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office for eight years
Little boy blues
This year’s El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
The worms return
Cuba’s Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
Europe


Russia, Europe and Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s useful idiots
Bomblets away
Ukraine wants American cluster bombs—quickly
Europe’s defence
The Baltic states fear that NATO is being complacent
Europe’s worst performer
Can Sweden’s two-track economy avoid a recession?
Charlemagne
The burning of the banlieues
Britain


Privatisation in Britain
How to understand the woeful state of Britain’s water utilities
Class struggle
Labour’s cabinet would be Britain’s most state-educated since 1945
Britain’s national health service
The NHS in England gets a plan for fixing its broken workforce
Rural shows in Britain
Britons love country fairs. Why?
Roger Scruton
Why right-wing Europeans are flocking to an English thinker
Not yet stopping the boats
Britain’s tough asylum plans are held up in court and by the Lords
Bagehot
Britons turn into Borat when it comes to health, housing and avocados
International


Shaping up and tooling up
NATO is drafting new plans to defend Europe
Special report


Lessons from Ukraine
The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
Electronic warfare
The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams
Military logistics
Why logistics are too important to be left to the generals
Total war
Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
Russian adaptation
How Ukraine’s enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
Naval warfare
How oceans became new technological battlefields
Best practice
Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine
Battlefield lessons
Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
Warfare after Ukraine
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Punch-up in the public square
The Musk-Zuckerberg social-media smackdown
Full metal straitjacket
In its tech war with America, China brings out the big guns
The long hydrogen sunrise
Can a viable industry emerge from the hydrogen shakeout?
Bartleby
How white-collar warriors gear up for the day
Schumpeter
A Lego-lover’s guide to preparing for the AI age
Finance & economics


Price wars
Economists draw swords over how to fix inflation
A belated victory
How to win the battle against inflation
Coming a cropper
Copper is unexpectedly getting cheaper
Party cooler
Does it pay to be a communist in China?
The city sleeps
How far will Wall Street job losses go?
Buttonwood
Can anything pop the everything bubble?
Free exchange
Erdoganomics is spreading across the world
Science & technology


Raiding Davy Jones’s locker
Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world’s battery-metal shortage
Digging up the jungle
New technology could cement Indonesia’s dominance of vital nickel
Hitting peak peak
A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow
The Fred Flintstone diet
A Belgian company wants to create woolly-mammoth burgers
Culture


Built to order
Governments are using culture to spur economic regeneration
Man of dishonour
A new book revisits the trial of Philippe Pétain in 1945
Weaving magic
Mary Jackson has turned sweetgrass basketry into a fine-art form
Home Entertainment
Forough Farrokhzad gave voice to Iranian women’s despair and defiance
The Economist reads


How to write
What to read to become a better writer
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


One size does not fit all
Prescription rules for obesity drugs may unfairly exclude non-whites
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why Hong Kong is criminalising a song
The Economist explains
Can Russia’s navy thwart attacks by repainting its ships?
Obituary


Through the dark clouds shining
Donald Triplett was the first man diagnosed with autism