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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

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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

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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

The world this week

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


Russia
The humbling of Vladimir Putin
The Wagner mutiny exposes the Russian tyrant’s growing weakness. But don’t count him out yet

Hard truths about green growth
How misfiring environmentalism risks harming the world’s poor
The trade-off between development and climate change is impossible to avoid

AI and productivity
The widespread adoption of AI by companies will take a while
For the technology to make its mark on productivity, even mediocre firms will need to make the leap

Half-marks for Indian education
Can India educate its vast workforce?
Poor schools put the economic boom at risk

Don’t be a flaggard. Raise your standards!
How to design better flags
Some tips to avoid having an embarrassing emblem

Letters

On Turkey’s economy, Microsoft, jargon, Botswana, older workers, Harry Potter
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Russia
Mikhail Khodorkovsky on the stark lessons from Russia’s wild weekend
Russia
Mark Galeotti on Vladimir Putin’s self-inflicted wounds
Briefing


Out of the frying pan
The surprising upside of climate migration
To adapt to climate change, people will move. The results will not be all bad
Asia


Missing the mark
Narendra Modi’s ultimate test—educating 265m pupils
Best in class
Why are Vietnam’s schools so good?
Closing Pandora’s box
Ethnic conflict drags on in Manipur in India’s north-east
Banyan
Aboriginal Australians may at last be given a say in their own affairs
China


Bringing up the past
Why China is so keen to salvage shipwrecks in the South China Sea
Nonne intellegis?
To understand Xi Jinping, it helps to be steeped in the classics
Planting seeds
A Chinese reality-TV show about farming doubles as propaganda
Chaguan
How China sees Yevgeny Prigozhin’s mutiny
United States


New nukes
America aims for nuclear-power renaissance
Beacon Mill
Massachusetts is not the gun-control beacon it once was
Gen C-Suite
What the rise of student consulting clubs means
Recovery for a broken heart
In North Carolina a jilted husband can sue his wife’s lover
A victory for democracy
The Supreme Court declines to upend American election law
Bad banners
Why many American states and cities are changing their flags
Lexington
AI is making Washington smarter

Middle East & Africa


Wagner in Africa
What next for Wagner’s African empire?
Not so transparent
Sierra Leone’s president is re-elected in the first round
Out of control
Settler vigilantes are getting more violent—and Israel’s government is encouraging them
Don’t care too much for money
After years of talks, indebted Arab states and the IMF are at an impasse
The Americas


The parsimonious populist
AMLO’s austerity has hurt Mexico
Seeds of hope
Guatemala’s election produces a pleasant surprise
Maggie in the making
If Venezuela’s elections were fair, this would be the front-runner
Europe


The time of troubles
The Wagner mutiny has left Putin dangerously exposed
Party like it’s 1917
Can Ukraine capitalise on chaos in Russia?
Back in triumph
Kyriakos Mitsotakis returns to the Greek prime minister’s office
Kosovo rumbles again
Ethnic Serbs and Albanians are at each others’ throats
Back to the centre
Spanish voters seem to hanker after stable centrist government
Charlemagne
European politics has gone from complicated to impenetrable
Britain


Crime and pointless punishment
Why short prison sentences in England and Wales are a disaster
Buyers’ remorse
As Britons grow more unhappy with Brexit, what happens next?
Navigation
Lighthouse lights are losing their sweep
British intelligence
The boss of Britain’s spies speaks
Britain’s badly fed kids
Are young children in Britain getting smaller?
Business


ChatGPT Inc
Our early-adopters index examines how corporate America is deploying AI
Super traps
Why Asia’s super-app companies are stuck in a rut
Too close for comfort
South Korea’s government and business are over-close
Bartleby
The potential and the plight of the middle manager
Traders of a lost art
Indiana Jones and the fedora boom
Gone with the wind
Siemens’s wind-turbine business is blown off course
Schumpeter
Meet the world’s most flirtatious sovereign-wealth fund
Finance & economics


Development v climate
The choice between a poorer today and a hotter tomorrow
Blow the whistle
New forms of debt restructuring reward bad behaviour
Too little or too late
Financial sanctions may not deter China from invading Taiwan
Sichuan pep
How to escape China’s property crisis
Buttonwood
Americans love American stocks. They should look overseas
Pump prizes
How Russia dodges diesel sanctions
Free exchange
The working-from-home illusion fades
Science & technology


Ripples in the sky
A new gravitational-wave detection has excited astronomers
Seeing stars
Even doctors can struggle to diagnose concussions
The forgotten pandemic
A new TB vaccine could save 8.5m lives over the next quarter of a century
The easy problem is not so easy
Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
Culture


Bethink yourselves!
Used and abused by Russian rulers, Tolstoy has always resisted
World in a dish
The curious, anaesthetising charm of Sichuan peppers
Rethinking German history
Seeing Germany’s past through a “global lens” revises it
The art of theft
The amazing tale of one of the world’s most prolific art thieves
Back Story
The secrets of Indiana Jones
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Saturday afternoon fever
Sunday brunch is the new Friday night
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What happened when Russia’s air force attacked Wagner’s rebels?
The Economist explains
How much power does Alexander Lukashenko have?
Obituary


Her working life
Glenda Jackson left acting for politics—and then returned

The trouble with sticky inflation

The world this week

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


The trouble with sticky inflation
Investors must prepare for sustained higher inflation
The costs of taming price rises could prove too unpalatable for central banks

The home front
Building Ukraine 2.0
For Russia’s war to fail, Ukraine must emerge prosperous, democratic and secure

Iran’s nuclear programme
America wants to lower tensions with Iran. Good
Now is the time to buy some time

Confidence trap
China’s economic recovery is spluttering. The prognosis is not good
There are lessons from Japan’s long stagnation

Merger crush saga
Blocking the Microsoft-Activision deal would harm consumers
The tie-up promises new kinds of competition in gaming

Letters

On productivity in Latin America, Boris Johnson, New College of Florida, Verdun, banking, Sheikh Hasina, legal speak
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Behold the AI shoggoth
Artificial intelligence is a familiar-looking monster, say Henry Farrell and Cosma Shalizi
America and China
Thom Woodroofe on why climate co-operation could be the key to improving Sino-American relations
Briefing


Ukraine 2.0
War is reshaping the Ukrainian state—for the better
But corruption remains a plague

A sticky predicament
Inflation is as corrosive to investing as it is to the real economy
The failure to quell it quickly will transform financial markets
Asia


High on their own supply
Can Australia break China’s monopoly on critical minerals?
International yoga day
Narendra Modi’s yoga evangelism
Afghanistan
The Taliban have launched an impressive new war on drugs
Greenwashing in Seoul
South Korea, having sworn to lead the green transition, is holding it up
Banyan
Japan is nostalgic for a past that was in part worse than its present
China


Conflicting thoughts
When it comes to a war with Taiwan, many Chinese urge caution
Another nationalist obsession
China has its eyes on Okinawa
Dress to impress
Why foreign dignitaries wear red when meeting Xi Jinping
United States


America’s competition cops
Why Joe Biden’s trustbusters have fallen short of their ambitions
The road most travelled
Pain and pride around a vital American highway
Telling it how it isn’t
As response rates decline, the risk of polling errors rises
Crack case
Hunter Biden’s plea bargain will not stop Republicans chasing him
Murder on his mind
Nearly all Louisiana’s death-row inmates have filed for clemency
Abortion politics
One year after Dobbs, America’s pro-life movement is in flux
Lexington
Why the multiverse is eating popular culture

Middle East & Africa


Finding Africa’s voice
African countries are fed up with being marginalised in global institutions
The spreading menace
Jihadists in Congo are extending their reach in the region
An unenriching agreement
America and Iran try to step back from the brink over nukes
Fire sale
The war in Ukraine is boosting Israel’s arms exports
The Americas


It’s still the economy, stupid
Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right
No country for journalists
Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
Of buoys and men
Canada has a shortage of lifeguards
Europe


An unspooked spook
Ukraine’s spymaster has got under the Kremlin’s skin
Beefing it up
France’s top general on lessons from the battlefield
Tragedy intervenes
Greece votes, again, following the sinking of a migrant boat
Through the roof
Turkish property prices are soaring
Charlemagne
A farewell to small cars, the industrial icons that put Europe on wheels
Britain


Made in Britain
Britain’s inflation pain is mostly self-inflicted and getting worse
Executive pain
Pay for bosses in Britain falls far behind America. Tough luck
Britain and Ukraine
Ben Wallace says he is out of the race for NATO’s top job
Abortion rights and wrongs
Should Britain change its abortion laws?
A boom in overseas students
Indians are flocking to study at British universities
E-cigarettes
Vaping among schoolchildren has become a moral panic in Britain
Bagehot
Sir Keir Starmer’s magic lamp
International


The great dilemma
NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
Business


Outward bound
America’s plan to vet investments into China
China and Europe
Why is China blocking graphite exports to Sweden?
Work and savoir-faire
Europe’s last finishing school targets anxious executives
Health care
Doctor Walmart will see you now
Jet stream
India leads a boom in orders for passenger jets
Bartleby
“Scaling People” is a textbook piece of management writing
Schumpeter
The new king of beers is a Mexican-American success story
Finance & economics


Wishful sinking
China’s economy is on course for a “double dip”
War economics
Rebuilding Ukraine will require money, but also tough reforms
Failing to ignite
Against expectations, oil and gas remain cheap
Buttonwood
Why investors can’t agree on the financial outlook
Making hay
India’s journey from agricultural basket case to breadbasket
Free exchange
Can the West build up its armed forces on the cheap?
Science & technology


Anything that can’t continue, won’t
The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
Brains in a pill
Study drugs make healthy people worse at problem-solving, not better
Growing business
Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
Culture


#MeToo in Taiwan
A TV drama about Taiwanese politics has sparked a social reckoning
Art and regeneration
A sculpture in San Francisco Bay points towards the future
Kooky American fiction
Lorrie Moore’s protagonist goes on a road trip with a dead girlfriend
A dynasty of tyrants
Is North Korea’s propagandist-in-chief also its dictator-in-waiting?
Heaps of trouble
The world’s waste problem is growing fast
Johnson
Talking about AI in human terms is natural—but wrong
The Economist reads


Saudi Arabia
What to read (and watch) to understand Saudi Arabia
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


What goes around comes around
Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
Obituary


Tell me lies about Vietnam
Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to try to stop the Vietnam war

The world this week

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


BritGPT
How Britain can become an AI superpower
Rishi Sunak’s enthusiasm is welcome. But his plans for Britain fall short

America’s new best friend
Joe Biden and Narendra Modi are drawing their countries closer
India does not love the West, but it is indispensable to America

Secrets and fries
The real injustice would have been not to indict Donald Trump
The former president must be subject to due process

Undoing business in China
The crackdown on foreign firms will deter global business—and undermine China’s own interests
Bosses are scrambling to ensure that they do not fall foul of data-security laws

Recklessly red
Fiscal policy in the rich world is mind-bogglingly reckless
High inflation and low unemployment require tighter budgets not looser ones

Letters

On the English language, oil prices, Pakistan, digital payments, productivity, Henry Kissinger, Monty Python, pronouncing Erdogan
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


War in Ukraine
Sir Richard Barrons on the broader security considerations around Ukraine’s counter-offensive
Global taxation
Finding the money to fix the world requires a rethink on tax, says Jayati Ghosh
Asia


The elephant in a boom
America is courting India in part for its growing economic clout
Non-alignment non-negotiable
India’s foreign minister on ties with America, China and Russia
Too good to refuse
On defence, America and India edge closer together
Banyan
Narendra Modi is the world’s most popular leader
China


Not another crisis
America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
Mazu and the motherland
China hopes Mazu, a sea goddess, can help it win over Taiwan
The affair of the pink dress
China’s tolerance for public oversight is limited
Chaguan
Xi Jinping reaches into China’s ancient history for a new claim to rule
United States


Southern shift
The South is fast becoming America’s industrial heartland
Teacher’s pet
How ChatGPT could help teachers and lower the cost of college
Pride/prejudice
How LA’s drag nuns took centre stage in the culture wars
Going bus
American states are bailing out public transport
Invasive species in America
Attack of the feral parakeets in New York
The chain
How the Pentagon thinks about America’s strategy in the Pacific
Lexington
North Carolina may be the hottest political battleground of 2024
Middle East & Africa


Ten hard years
Egyptians are disgruntled with President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi
Betting on boats
Why wretched Lebanese are fleeing across the sea
Breaking a taboo
Saudi Arabia may accept normal relations with Israel
The Great Carbon Valley
Why Kenya could take the lead in carbon removal
Pastures new
Rural Africans are finding work beyond their farms

The Americas


Unsustainable
Lula’s ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality
Comrades across continents
What does China want from Latin America and the Caribbean?
Burning bright
Canada’s wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal
Europe


Going into hell
Ukraine’s counter-offensive is making mixed progress
After Berlusconi
The death of Silvio Berlusconi creates uncertainty for his party
Big words
Germany’s new national security strategy is strong on goals, less so on means
Left hanging
The problems ailing Western Europe’s left are not just cyclical
Charlemagne
Why Europe’s asylum policy desperately needs rebooting
Britain


Britain’s AI future
How to make Britain’s AI dreams reality
Costing an arm and a leg
How much is a human head?
Britain’s economy
Wage growth, inflation and more place Britain’s central bank in a spot
Bagehot
Reading the death certificate on Boris Johnson’s political career
International


Making it as migrants
India’s diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
Business


Spooked
Is doing business in China becoming impossible for foreigners?
Ahead in the clouds
Oracle is making Larry Ellison the world’s third-richest man
The Magdeburg gambit
It is make or break for Intel’s giant bet on Germany
Bartleby
The upside of workplace jargon
Ball is life
Which sport is the best business?
Unit economics
Why self-storage is turning into hot property
Summer holidays
How long will the travel boom last?
Schumpeter
What Tesla and other carmakers can learn from Ford
Finance & economics


The great escape
Is the global housing slump over?
Graftbusters
A new super-regulator takes aim at rampant corruption in Chinese finance
Buttonwood
Sooner or later, America’s financial system could seize up
Boy cries wolf
AI is not yet killing jobs
The great steeplechase
America is losing ground in Asian trade
Lost and won
South Korea has had enough of being called an emerging market
Free exchange
Wage-price spirals are far scarier in theory than in practice
Science & technology


You are legion
The idea of “holobionts” represents a paradigm shift in biology
Don’t have kittens
There’s more than one way to spay a cat
Culture


African political cartoons
For the boldest commentary on African politics, look to cartoonists
European history
The eastern half of Europe is united by its diversity
American bards
Cormac McCarthy was the great novelist of the American West
World in a dish
A potato can have no finer fate than ending up as an Irish crisp
American cults
Meant to be liberating, the Sullivanian community became a nightmare
Back Story
“The Full Monty” gang are back
The Economist reads


From partition to pierogi
What to read to understand modern Poland
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


And then there were three
England may soon become the world’s best cricket team
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How are people appointed to Britain’s House of Lords?
The Economist explains
Are cryptocurrencies securities?
Obituary


The great seducer
Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years

The world this week

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


Taking back what is theirs
Ukraine strikes back
The counter-offensive is getting under way. The next few weeks will be critical

Mind-goggling
Apple’s Vision Pro is an incredible machine. Now to find out what it is for
The meaning of “spatial computing”

History meets accountancy
California’s reparations scheme is bad policy and worse politics
Democrats should ditch it in favour of ideas that Americans actually support

Climate finance
The struggle to kill King Coal
Financial tools alone cannot stamp out the world’s dirtiest fuel

Africa’s diamond geyser
How to get rich from commodities
Tips from Botswana on how to avoid the resource curse

Letters

On illegal drugs, data privacy, place names, Sudan, London’s Elizabeth line
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Anglo-American ties
Kim Darroch on the “special relationship” between America and Britain
War in Ukraine
Mick Ryan assesses Ukraine’s counter-offensive
Briefing


Probing questions
Ukraine’s counter-offensive is gathering pace
Its army is mounting big pushes in the south and east

Ukraine’s D-Day
The geopolitical stakes of Ukraine’s counter-offensive
How to ensure Russia suffers a strategic defeat

Nothing to see here
Pretending that everything is under control in Russia
It is getting ever harder
Asia


Soft(ware) power
How India is using digital technology to project power
Jungle shelters and jerry-rigged drones
Inside the armed Burmese resistance
In the wreckage
Despite a crash, Indian railways have an impressive safety record
Banyan
Japan offers Ukraine a lesson in reconstruction
China


The threat of rising sea levels
China’s new Great Wall
Precious bodily fluids
China’s guarding of genetic data is a drag on scientific research
Chaguan
The end of Western naivety about China
United States


The tide goes out
California may punt on paying reparations to the descendants of slaves
The Republican pack
The bad bind bedevilling Mike Pence and Chris Christie
Slim pickings
Georgia, the Peach State, has no peach crop this year
Opting out
Columbia University ditches the college-ranking system
Pre-emptive strikes
Republicans intensify their assault on city governments
Constitutional convulsions
Montana, climate-change pioneer
The Big Uneasy
Southern Baptists are arguing about the extent of male authority

Middle East & Africa


Carats and sticks
Botswana, an African success story, looks ever less exceptional
An African beacon of stability begins to flare up
Tension in Senegal is set to persist
Bye-bye to bungs
Nigeria’s new president scraps the fuel subsidy
Iraq’s real new bosses
The Iraqi militias are copying their overmighty cousins in Iran
Bye-atollah
Who will succeed Shia Islam’s top man?
The Americas


A land of useless workers
Why are Latin American workers so strikingly unproductive?
All the single ladies, and their kids
Latin America’s single mothers are being left behind
Europe


France and Germany
Russia’s war on Ukraine is changing Europe
Exit Erdoganomics?
Turkey’s President Erdogan shifts towards sane economics
Green fades to brown
Costly climate rules are turning Germans away from the Greens
Fjords and forges
A huge Norwegian phosphate rock find is a boon for Europe
Charlemagne
Albania is no longer a bad Balkan joke
Britain


The state on trial
The difficulties facing Britain’s covid-19 inquiry
Clap for the NHS
Why does London have so much sexually transmitted disease?
The lingering effects of covid-19
Children’s centres in Britain are crammed again
Dropped catches
How grassroots schemes are helping England’s non-white cricketers
No intermission
The fading charms of Britain’s historic cinemas
Ebb and flow
Britons still do like to be beside the seaside
Bagehot
British politics is littered with fake taboos
International


Studying for success
Should you send your children to private school?
Business


Reality check
Apple’s Vision Pro is a technical marvel. Will anyone buy it?
First thing we do, let’s bot all the lawyers
Generative AI could radically alter the practice of law
Aussie rule-bending
PwC has disgraced itself down under
Golf and the Gulf
The PGA agrees to team up with its golfing arch-enemy
Angst
German bosses are depressed
Sequoia leaves China
Why Sequoia Capital is sawing off its Chinese branch
Bartleby
Why employee loyalty can be overrated
Schumpeter
What TIM’s mega-spin-off reveals about Europe’s telecoms industry
Finance & economics


Ember alert
Who is keeping coal alive?
Growth problems
Japan’s stockmarket rally may disappoint investors
Buttonwood
Surging stockmarkets are powered by artificial intelligence
Forged in fire
Amoral cities are flourishing in a turbulent geopolitical era
Crackdown
Regulators put the future of America’s crypto industry in doubt
Nasty hangover
After debt-ceiling negotiations, America faces a debt deluge
Free exchange
A flawed argument for central-bank digital currencies
Science & technology


Homo naledi
A tiny, ancient hominin may have been surprisingly clever
Maybe she’s barn with it
A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak
When it takes one to tango
Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought
Green energy
Sucking a carbon-neutral fuel out of thin air
Some like it hot
A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third
Culture


Runaway justice
Two alarming books on the power of America’s Supreme Court
Memory and forgetting
A museum in Albania aims to commemorate a painful past
Avian adventures
A raptor’s mystique inspires “What an Owl Knows”
Post-colonial fiction
Leïla Slimani’s new novel ranges from France to Morocco
Things fall apart
“Amongst the Ruins” explores the collapse of civilisations
Johnson
Gestures are a subtle and vital form of communication
The Economist reads


Banned books
Eight books you are forbidden from reading
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Lavender haze
Smoke blackens the air in America’s north-east
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How drugs and alcohol have fuelled soldiers for centuries
The Economist explains
How the breach of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam could affect a nuclear plant
Obituary


Her special child
Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin’s real mother

The world this week

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


Loch mess
Scotland has been on a ten-year holiday from reality
Populism can unravel quickly. But its effects are long-lasting

The baby-bust economy
Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences
What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory?

Erdogain
How to make the re-election of Recep Tayyip Erdogan less bad news
There is a chance for a partial reset

Soldiers, go home
Pakistan’s perma-crisis
Imran Khan, Pakistan’s most popular politician, must be free to contest timely elections

Nvincible?
The AI boom has turbocharged Nvidia’s fortunes. Can it hold its position?
Competition and regulation may pose a threat—but only eventually

Letters

On Congress and China, the WHO and covid, Martin Luther King, English nationalism, building homes, artificial intelligence, Vegemite, Dutch
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Russia’s army
Dara Massicot believes that Russia faces twin personnel crises in its armed forces
Briefing


The old and the zestless
It’s not just a fiscal fiasco: greying economies also innovate less
That compounds the problems of shrinking workforces and rising bills for health care and pensions
Asia


Taiwan’s elections
Who will be Taiwan’s next president?
India’s new parliament building
Narendra Modi is rebuilding New Delhi
A military defeat
Imran Khan loses his battle with Pakistan’s army
In hot water
Japan’s hot-spring resorts are blocking geothermal energy plants
Banyan
The strange tale of a prominent North Korean defector
China


The job search goes on
China’s young want to work. For the government
Stuck in the trap
New research helps explain why China’s low birth rates are stuck
Surfing the second wave
China goes from zero-covid to zero restrictions
Bunny power
A famous brand of Chinese sweets reinvents itself again
United States


Debt ceiling
America avoids financial Armageddon but stays in fiscal hell
Forgive and forget
The moratorium on repaying student loans in America was a bad idea
Where the neon signs are pretty
Can downtown densification rescue Cleveland?
The prodigal son
House Republicans are no closer to tying Hunter Biden’s activities to Joe
Now showing in local theatres
America’s states are pursuing their own foreign policies
The red and the black
Conservative Americans are building a parallel economy
Lexington
Nikki Haley, like other long shots, sees a path to victory

Middle East & Africa


Nearly nuclear
Iran puts its nuclear programme beyond the reach of American bombs
Gimme my whack!
Business families in the Gulf need modern laws of inheritance
The worse of two bad men
What next for Sudan’s most notorious rebel leader, known as Hemedti?
Africa’s persecuted gays
Uganda’s harsh anti-gay bill is now law
The Americas


Grand plans, poor execution
Lula cosies up to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s autocrat
Latin America’s stream of soft power
Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business
Europe


Five more years
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey’s president
Going for broke
Spain’s prime minister gambles on a snap general election
Better late than never
Ukraine gets its F-16s
Polarising Poland
Poland’s government may seek to bar opponents from politics
Grain water
Ukraine’s Danube ports have become a lifeline
Charlemagne
Bakhmut and the spirit of Verdun
Britain


Up in the air
After a decade of SNP dominance, Scotland’s politics is suddenly in flux
Decline and pall
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools
Old standard
Britain is falling behind in clinical trials of medicines
Trial and error
How should Britain reform rape-trial laws?
With a little kelp from my friends
Can British seaweed farms bloom?
Bagehot
Britain’s new political sorcerer: the Reform Fairy
International


#Freespeech
The speech police are coming for social media
Business


There’s AI in them thar hills
Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush
ChatBoss
Chief executives cannot shut up about AI
A tale of three tie-ups
Dealmaking has slowed—except among dealmakers
Bankruptcy in India
Go First’s insolvency tests India’s bankruptcy regime
Champagne lifestyle
Is the luxury sector recession-proof?
Bartleby
How to beat desk rage
Schumpeter
Australia and Canada are one economy—with one set of flaws
Finance & economics


Exodus
A new wave of mass migration has begun
Crude problems
The world’s oil-price benchmark is being radically reformed
A pricey shot
America will struggle to pay for ultra-expensive gene therapies
Monetary madness
Turkey’s bizarre economic experiment enters a new phase
Tiny toolbox
Why China’s government might struggle to revive its economy
Buttonwood
Investors go back into battle with rising interest rates
Free exchange
What does the perfect carbon price look like?
Science & technology


Fish out of water
The future of fish farming is on land
This will only hurt a little
Mosquitoes, wasps and parasitic worms could help make injections less painful
The climate in 2100
Temperatures of 50°C will become much more common around the Mediterranean
The language of the law
Why legal writing is so awful
David vs Goliath
There is more than one way to make green steel
Culture


South Africa after apartheid
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela has been subject to historical revisionism
An affair to remember
Jenny Erpenbeck’s new novel follows lovers in crumbling East Germany
World in a dish
Immigrants are changing Central Texas barbecue for the better
Look on my works
Ramesses the Great was a superb self-promoter
Culture and the Holocaust
Aleksander Kulisiewicz preserved the music of the Nazi camps
Back Story
The comic opera of England
The Economist reads


The anti-imperialists strike back
What to read to understand imperialism and colonialism
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Low-hanging fruit
Cheap vaccines could prevent millions of deaths from cervical cancer
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How Hong Kong is snuffing out memories of Tiananmen Square
The Economist explains
What does “de-risking” trade with China mean?
Obituary


Shine, no matter what
Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour

The haunting

The world this week

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


The sick factor
How to fix the NHS
Money will help. But a radical shift in focus is more important

America’s presidential race
Donald Trump is very likely to be the Republican nominee
So his chances of re-entering the Oval Office are uncomfortably high

Carry on Kyriakos
A stunning election result for Greece’s prime minister
Kyriakos Mitsotakis deserves his unexpected triumph

End of the peace dividend
How to get more bang for the buck in Western defence budgets
Lessons from the war in Ukraine

Seize the day (and the board)
Activist investors are needed more than ever
Low rates, passive investing and ESG have left opportunities for active shareholders

Letters

On international aid, inflation, Britain’s royal family, walking, bacteria, Liz Truss
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Data protection
Don’t be fooled by Meta’s fine for data breaches, says Johnny Ryan
Financial crime
A forensic-accounting expert on how to treat the fraud epidemic
Briefing


A bungled coup
Ron DeSantis has little chance of beating Donald Trump
Hopes of depriving the former president of the Republican nomination are fading
Asia


Surviving the dragon
Australia has faced down China’s trade bans and emerged stronger
An interview with Bangladesh’s prime minister
Sheikh Hasina is Asia’s iron lady
Up and away
Japan’s ageing society is finding creative ways to dispose of its dead
Banyan
America is lavishing attention on Pacific island states
China


A toe-hold in Europe
Hungary is becoming more important to China
Surfin’ again
Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals
Dog’s dinner
China’s cancel culture is nationalist, not woke
Chaguan
Why the Communist Party fears gay rights
United States


Tribulations and trials
How Donald Trump’s trials and the Republican primary will intersect
Solidarity snips
Vasectomies rose by 29% in the three months after the end of Roe
The doom loop
Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point
Drug pricing
The push to bring insulin prices down in America
The too few and the less proud
American policing has changed since George Floyd’s murder
Lexington
DeSantis is a truer believer, if a lesser politician, than Trump

Middle East & Africa


Downhill from rainbow nation
Business leaders fear that South Africa risks becoming a failed state
My ratings are better than yours
African governments say credit-rating agencies are biased against them
Waiting for God’s choice
Who will be Iran’s next leader?
A wishful wedding
Can Jordan fall in love with Saudi Arabia?
The Americas


The race to succeed AMLO
Mexico could elect its first female president next year
A power struggle
Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro’s influence
Europe


Electric cars
Electric cars could be crucial for the EU to meet its climate goals
Raid on Belgorod
Who are the militias raiding Russia’s Belgorod region?
French unions
Women take over France’s powerful trade unions
Charlemagne
Europe has shaken off Putin’s gas embargo
Britain


Ward mentality
To survive, Britain’s NHS must stop fixating on hospital care
Dear as chips
Britain’s semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in
Best supporting actor
With Hollywood on strike, foreign shows enjoy the limelight
Bittersweet
Britain’s economy may grow by more than expected, but inflation is stickier
Bagehot
British voters want more immigrants but less immigration
International


Farewell, peace dividend
The cost of the global arms race
Business


A giant sucking sound
Can carbon removal become a trillion-dollar business?
Deutsche Bahn
It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track
Muscle and memory
Asian businesses are being dragged into the chip war
Reactivated
Why activist investors are going to have a busy year
Zell-side analysis
What properties would Sam Zell invest in next?
Fine and dandy
Meta gets whacked with a €1.2bn penalty
Bartleby
Why are corporate retreats so extravagant?
Schumpeter
The tech giants have an interest in AI regulation
Finance & economics


The nightmare scenario
What happens if America defaults on its debt?
Xi v Putin
China and Russia compete for Central Asia’s favour
Quite a coup
China’s state capitalists celebrate their soaring shares
Buttonwood
The American credit cycle is at a dangerous point
Love and conflict
What would humans do in a world of super-AI?
Free exchange
What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth
Science & technology


Neuroscience and AI
Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing
Recycling old tyres
Old tyres can become a climate-friendly fuel
Helicopter beetles
Parenting can be bad for the kids
Saving Venice
Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city
Culture


The robotic school
Art made by artificial intelligence is developing a style of its own
Contemplative spy fiction
In Javier Marías’s final novel, an agent confronts his conscience
Social psychology
“The Perfection Trap” decries what it calls a “hidden epidemic”
Great-power decline
Rome fell. Will the modern-day West follow suit?
Johnson
As it spreads across the world, who owns English?
American drama
August Wilson was and remains a bard of black life in America
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The new normal
Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts
Obituary


L’enfant terrible
Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
The Economist reads


Spies and scribes
The spy who read me: authors under surveillance

The world this week

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


A new world order
Joe Biden’s global vision is too timid and pessimistic
The president underestimates America’s strengths and misunderstands how it acquired them

The debt-relief duet
China and the West take a step to ease Africa’s debt crisis
A deal for Ghana is the first test case for a new approach

Thailand’s election
The humiliation of Thailand’s regime is a boost for Asian democracy
The monarcho-military establishment must give Thai voters the change they demand

Payment parity
The fight over the future of global payments
Digital payments have transformed domestic finance. Now competition is going global

Cretaceous capitalism
Trade in dinosaur fossils is good for science
The market for specimens should be regulated, not banned

Letters

On bacteriophages, Bakhmut, Sir Keir Starmer, the Philippines, AI twaddle, ice picks
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Global health
Tedros Adhanom, head of the WHO, on the lessons from covid-19
Sovereign debt
Abebe Aemro Selassie on Africa’s brutal funding squeeze
Briefing


One hundred years of inquietude
Henry Kissinger explains how to avoid world war three
America and China must learn to live together. They have less than ten years
Asia


Global summitry
Can the West win over the rest of the world?
Pooches of the Panjshir
The Taliban go big on animal welfare
Moving Forward
Thailand’s pro-democracy parties trounce the military establishment
Southern approaches
Narendra Modi’s party takes a beating in Karnataka
Banyan
Myanmar’s conflict is dividing South-East Asia
China


A new mandate in the heavens
Why China fears Starlink
Don’t look up
China is unusually secretive about its space programme
The city of Xi
Xiongan is Xi Jinping’s pet project
United States


Decoding the detente
The fault lines in America’s China policy
New York’s hottest venue
What do George Santos, R. Kelly and FIFA have in common?
Flipping balls
Pinball is booming in America, thanks to nostalgia and canny marketing
Sweet and salty
Anoint my caverns with oil
Aftershocks
Congress should fund the BLM (no, not that one)
The woke maths experiment
San Francisco’s “woke maths” experiment
Lexington
It turns out that Democrats bus migrants, too

Middle East & Africa


A power project
Iran’s proxies in the Middle East remain a powerful force
Behold now behemoth
America’s new embassy in Beirut is vast
Big deals on the bus
Looking for the African middle class? Head to the bus park
Grounded in Nigeria
Foreign airlines in Nigeria are frustrated by the blocking of their funds
A new age of austerity
Africa faces a mounting debt crisis
The Americas


A polarising pendulum
Latin America’s left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
A desperate measure
Ecuador’s president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
Europe


Round one, Erdogan
Recep Tayyip Erdogan beats his challenger as Turkey votes
A message from Europe
Volodymyr Zelensky’s European trip secures a lot more military backing
City of love and war
How a front-line city became Ukraine’s romantic capital
Nuclear nightmares
Fears about the reactors at Zaporizhia continue to mount
Calculated effort
For Giorgia Meloni, supporting Ukraine has some useful benefits
Charlemagne
Meet the lefty Europeans who want to deliberately shrink the economy
Britain


Out of order
Britain’s Public Order Act goes too far
Home, still home
Why are more British adults still living with their parents?
Green with envy
The Inflation Reduction Act is turning heads among British businesses
Fault lines
The missing ingredient in Britain’s new law on tenants’ rights
Autonomous vehicles
Aboard Britain’s first commercial self-driving bus
Spiritually testing
Want to be a nun? You need to pass these tests
Bagehot
Truss Tour: 2023
International


From Macron to Mercedes
Europe can’t decide how to unplug from China
Special report


Digital finance
As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
Emerging markets
A digital payments revolution in India
Techfin v fintech
The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
Cryptocurrencies
The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
Digital money
Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
International finance
Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
The future
There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
Digital finance
Video: insights from the author
Digital finance
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


After the binge
Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover
Green-sky thinking
The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not yet
Awaiting a second wind
The wind-turbine industry should be booming. Why isn’t it?
Bartleby
Businesses’ bottleneck bane
Not over Reliance
Mukesh Ambani returns to the spotlight
Schumpeter
America’s culture wars threaten its single market
Finance & economics


Leviathan swells
The financial system is slipping into state control
Budgetary dysfunction
What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster
Shanghai sighs
Is China’s recovery about to stall?
Laid to rest
LIBOR will at last be switched off in June
Buttonwood
How to invest in artificial intelligence
Free exchange
Robert Lucas was a giant of macroeconomics
Science & technology


Digging up the money
The market for dinosaur fossils is booming
Painting the heavens
Artists hope to turn selfies into comets
The DNA dragnet
Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go
Mercury rising
The coming years will be the hottest ever
Bug-fed steak
Insects could help turn beer waste into beef
Culture


“Death of a Salesman” in Beijing
In 1983 Arthur Miller directed one of his best-known plays in China
Cybercrime
“Fancy Bear Goes Phishing” charts the evolution of hacking
New American fiction
In Emma Cline’s new novel, a young woman loses control of her life
World in a dish
Wings v tenders: the choice says more about you than you think
Exorcising German history
In “Fatherland”, an author reckons with his Nazi grandfather
Back Story
Quiet artworks sometimes make the deepest impressions
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Tuckered out
Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News’s ratings
Obituary


The long take
Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema
The Economist reads


Corporate scandals
What to read about villains in business

The world this week

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


China and the world
Is Chinese power about to peak?
The country’s historic ascent is levelling off. That need not make it more dangerous

Border trouble
Small, sensible steps could help ease America’s border woes
The art of the practical in dealing with migrants, drugs and gangs

The outcast returns
The rehabilitation of Syria’s dictator raises awkward questions for the West
Clearer principles about how and when to ease sanctions are needed

A bad balance
Joe Biden is more responsible for high inflation than for abundant jobs
The main effect of the president’s economic policies has been to boost prices

A stochastic parrot in every pot
What does a leaked Google memo reveal about the future of AI?
Open-source AI is booming. That makes it less likely that a handful of firms will control the technology

Letters

On non-aligned countries and Ukraine, Israel, Turkey, artificial intelligence
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Turkey’s election
A more democratic Turkey is within grasp, says Kemal Kilicdaroglu
Moldova
Russia’s efforts to destabilise Moldova will fail, says its president
The battery economy
Peter Carlsson on how the global battery race should be run
Briefing


Mountain range
How soon and at what height will China’s economy peak?
Estimates vary, depending on assumptions about population, productivity and prices

Superpower showdown
China v America: how Xi Jinping plans to narrow the military gap
From subs to nukes he is adding firepower despite a slower economy

Sun Tzu’s slide-rule
How China measures national power
And how we would do it

History lessons
The fall of empires preys on Xi Jinping’s mind
As economic growth slows, so will the president’s anxiety

Chaguan
China learns to manage decline
Lessons from Yichun, a Chinese city where children are a rarity
Asia


Pacific jitters
Will Japan fight?
Art in the dark
Why South Korean tattooists are being marked as criminals
Fuel to the fire
Imran Khan’s arrest brings Pakistan closer to the edge
Rolling out the red carpet
How India’s states compete for investment
Banyan
A winner has emerged in the old rivalry between Singapore and Hong Kong
United States


Supply-side epidemic
Fentanyl trafficking tests America’s foreign policy
The end of Title 42
Why chaos looms at the US-Mexico border
Beyond Derby day
Horse-racing in America needs to improve its odds
Community banks
What America’s tiny banks do that big ones don’t
Let’s go Brandon
Chicago’s new mayor has one of the trickiest jobs in politics
Lexington
Donald Trump has become more dangerous
Middle East & Africa


War and peacemaking
What the West gets wrong about peacemaking in Sudan
Oba v Obaseki
A ruling over ownership of the Benin bronzes may delay their return
The hapless, stateless Palestinians
The Palestinians need new leaders

The Americas


Beyond drugs
Mexico’s gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates
The president v the court
The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
In the swing
Conservatives dominate Chile’s constitutional assembly this time around
Europe


The man who can
A former bureaucrat is giving Erdogan a run for his money
Drug policy
European cannabis legalisation moves into the slow-dopey lane
Ost is Ost
A generation after Germany reunited, deep divisions remain
Europe’s armies
Europe is struggling to rebuild its military clout
Charlemagne
Once Russia’s best friend in the West, Austria is facing trouble
Britain


Modern families
Why Britain is updating its laws on surrogacy and gamete donation
Fuss-free final farewells
Direct cremations and burials offer a different way to mourn
Pushing paper
Britain’s services exports are booming despite Brexit. Why?
Li detectors
Britain plays catch-up in a global scramble for critical minerals
Have you come far?
London’s newest train line is now also its busiest
Same anger, different victor
Labour makes striking gains in the heartland of Brexit
Bagehot
How housing became the new divide in British politics
International


The Syrian civil war and its aftermath
After 12 years of blood, Assad’s Syria rejoins the Arab League
Business


The Sino-American tech race
Just how good can China get at generative AI?
An iron will
How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?
The Thais that bind
Why Chinese carmakers are eyeing Thailand
Bartleby
How to recruit with softer skills in mind
Schumpeter
Writers on strike beware: Hollywood has changed for ever
Finance & economics


Beyond the hype
Your job is (probably) safe from artificial intelligence
National statistics, grilled
The meaty mystery at the heart of China’s economic growth
Credible
India’s once-troubled banks are generating huge profits
Number-crunching
Are America’s regional banks over the worst of it?
Buttonwood
Investors brace for a painful crash into America’s debt-ceiling
Free exchange
A new world order seeks to prioritise security and climate change
Science & technology


War on the fly
How Ukrainians modify civilian drones for military use
47 genomes are better than one
“The” human genome was always a misnomer
Smell-O-Vision 2.0
How to bring scents to the metaverse
Culture


The last Founding Father
Martin Luther King was among the greatest Americans—and the most misunderstood
Debut fiction
Janika Oza’s debut novel charts the Indian diaspora’s struggles
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Serhii Plokhy’s new book traces Vladimir Putin’s road to war
Museums on the move
The Uffizi is taking its art to the people
A chronicle of the Côte d’Azur
Famous names and historical forces collide on the Riviera
Johnson
The hazards of pronouncing foreign names on air
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Out in the cold
Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than covid-19 last winter
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How free and fair will Turkey’s election be?
The Economist explains
Why the boss of Wagner Group is feuding with Russia’s military leaders
Obituary


Bottom-up history
Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India’s past