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Hollywood v Silicon Valley
Disney’s troubles show how technology has changed the business of culture
At 100, the mouse can still roar. But it faces a new kind of rival

Recep for trouble
Turkey could be on the brink of dictatorship
President Erdogan could tip his country over the edge

Flashing red
Excess deaths are soaring as health-care systems wobble
What lessons can be learned from a miserable winter across the rich world?

Arresting development
South Africa’s collapsing railway company is a cautionary tale
A “developmental state” is less useful than keeping the lights on and trains running

Don’t try to dig what we all say
How to sell to the young
A myth-busting memo for your boss

Letters

On free speech, Starlink terminals, America’s towns, future populations, weight, Pope Benedict’s shoes, food, presents
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Mona Juul says Russia-Ukraine talks would be premature—but preparing for them would not
Russia and Ukraine
Jeffrey Sachs on why neutral countries should mediate between Russia and Ukraine
Briefing


Thrills and spills
As Disney turns 100, its business is on a rollercoaster ride
The decline of TV and cinema and rise of streaming will reshape entertainment
Asia


Military muscle
Japan’s armed forces are getting stronger, faster
Cracks in the façade
India’s sinking towns spark debates about development
Renuclearising
Why South Korea is talking about getting its own nukes
Making faces
Japanese youngsters want to look like Chinese starlets
Farewells
Jacinda Ardern resigns as New Zealand’s prime minister
Killing women
A murder in Afghanistan highlights the misery of women
Banyan
Who gets to define what Asia means?
China


Falling China
For the first time since the 1960s, China’s population is shrinking
Preparing for launch
A planned spaceport in Djibouti may give China a boost
Has the wave peaked?
Covid-19 has already torn through large swathes of China
Chaguan
Riding the slow train in China
United States


The unstuck middle
Incomes are rising in America, especially for the poorest
Sloppy Joe
The presidential mislaying of classified documents is infectious
Proud, distracted boys
How America’s far right flits from issue to issue
Cash for everyone
What the spread of universal basic-income schemes says about America’s safety net
Batty
It is still legal to hit children in school in 19 American states
Lexington
George Santos is the congressman America deserves

Middle East & Africa


In from the cold but still miserable
Turkey eyes reconciliation with a Syrian regime it tried to topple
Judges’ dread
Binyamin Netanyahu rushes to take on Israel’s Supreme Court
A Gulf apart
Iran and its Arab neighbours are divided over a name
Vive la résistance
How young Sudanese are still fighting for democracy
Off the rails
South Africa’s disintegrating freight railway is crippling firms
Economics lessons
Why Zimbabwe’s schools have taken to selling chickens
The Americas


Boom or bust?
What does China’s reopening mean for Latin America?
Ever more polarised
Peru’s political chaos looks likely to persist
Fewer bellies full
Brazil’s new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
Europe


Reaching over the Rhine
France and Germany stifle their spats to celebrate a 60-year friendship
Danger zone
A helicopter crash has dealt a heavy blow to Ukraine’s government
Invisible dead
A Russian town counts the cost of Vladimir Putin’s war
Uncertain allegiance
Some liberated Ukrainian regions have mixed loyalties
There will be mud
The next Czech president will be a Trumpish oligarch or a general
Between three seas
The Ukraine war is forcing eastern Europe to build more links
Charlemagne
Europe’s “neutral” countries are having to adapt to the new world
Britain


Predators in the police
The toxic culture of the Metropolitan Police Service
Populism, Scottish-style
The SNP response to the blocking of its transgender act is illiberal
The going rate
Britain’s trade unions lose faith in the pay review bodies
Safe as houses
Britain is well-placed to cope with a downturn in the housing market
Equine decline
Horse-racing in Britain is in deep trouble
The silent treatment
Why super-strict classrooms are in vogue in Britain
Bagehot
British politics needs more money
International


An open book
Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
Special report


Turkey
Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
The economy
The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
Friends and relations
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s relatives are becoming increasingly powerful
Syria
The effects on Turkey of Syria’s civil war
Political Islam
Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad
Foreign policy
Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
Politics
The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
The future
Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
Business


Buying time
How the young spend their money
Going electric
Mexico’s electric-car ambitions
Foot off the throat
China’s tech crackdown starts to ease
Bartleby
Why pointing fingers is unhelpful
Growing pains
The painful development of India’s startups
Schumpeter
TSMC is making the best of a bad geopolitical situation
Finance & economics


Ouch
Why health-care services are in chaos everywhere
Return to sender
China’s re-globalisation paradox
Buttonwood
Venture capital’s $300bn question
Speculators swatted
Japan’s extraordinarily expensive defence of its monetary policy
Marginal profits
Investment banks are struggling in a high-interest-rate world
Property
The rise of the uber-luxurious office
Free exchange
Could Europe end up with a worse inflation problem than America?
Science & technology


Private moonshots
Which firm will win the new Moon race?
SETI
Ideas for finding ET are getting more inventive
Dopamine. Dogma. Doubt
A decades-old model of animal (and human) learning is under fire
Culture


Untold stories
New films in France tackle race, gender, exile and belonging
The spy in your pocket
“Pegasus” lifts the lid on a sophisticated piece of spyware
Swing and a miss
A philosopher offers four case studies in failure
Home Entertainment
“O Caledonia” teaches girls how to grow up
Self-portraits
In “Still Pictures” Janet Malcolm turns her pen on herself
Johnson
Translating the Bible is a vexed task, as a new book shows
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How gas stoves became part of America’s culture wars
The Economist explains
How humans healed the ozone layer
Obituary


The good forger
Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities
Graphic detail


Mother of invention
A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution

Zero-sum

The world this week

Politics
Business
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Zero-sum
The destructive new logic that threatens globalisation
America is leading a dangerous global slide towards subsidies, export controls and protectionism

The tools for the job
The West should supply tanks to Ukraine
Allies have been too cautious about giving it the means to resist Russian aggression

The storming of Brazil’s Congress
How Brazil should deal with the bolsonarista insurrection
Punish those who broke the law, but govern inclusively

Leaders
America’s trustbusters plan to curtail the use of non-compete clauses. Good
The clue is in the name

Waiting-longer rooms
Fixing Britain’s health service means fixing its family doctors
Don’t change the partnership model. Do change the targets

Letters

On Italy, James Callaghan, mental health, education in Sierra Leone, inflation, cricket, The Economist’s cover price
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


America and China
Daleep Singh on America’s economic statecraft
Briefing


Efficiency be damned
Globalisation, already slowing, is suffering a new assault
Subsidies, export controls and curbs on foreign investment are proliferating
Asia


Land of the riven atom
Japan pivots back to nuclear power
The hidden powers of flowers
Myanmar’s generals are deeply superstitious
Digital dead zones
India’s rocketing internet-user growth has stalled
No fly zone
South Korea’s travel spat with China
Banyan
Abe Shinzo’s assassin achieved his political goals
Unhappy valley
The mirage of peace and prosperity in Kashmir
China


Data, diplomacy and disease
Covid is complicating China’s efforts to re-engage with the world
Shrine to a whistleblower
The cult of Li Wenliang, the doctor who spotted covid-19
A different type of lockdown
China is still punishing those who protested against zero-covid
Chaguan
Many Chinese villagers seem ready to move on from covid-19
United States


House rules
After a spectacularly chaotic start for Congress, more discord looms
Mega-problems
What California’s deadly storms reveal about the state’s climate future
Marching on their stomachs
America’s army has launched a scheme to slim down its recruits
Disrupting the dyad
Polyamory is getting slivers of legal recognition in America
Red and blue science
America’s culture wars extend into medicine
Lexington
How rappers are strengthening Donald Trump’s movement

Middle East & Africa


Baba go-slow to go-go
After eight dismal years, Nigeria prepares to replace President Buhari
Uneasy peace
Ethiopia’s war in Tigray has ended, but deep faultlines remain
Blood money
Kenya’s blood shortage and the kicking of an aid addiction
The rope tightens
Protests have subsided in Iran, but clerics cannot yet proclaim victory
Oil and water
A century-old choice created one of the Gulf’s oddest geopolitical features
Hard to believe
The Arab world’s rulers have turned journalists into courtiers
The Americas


The storming of Congress
A copycat insurrection in Brazil, and its troubling aftermath
Sex pots
Erotic statues in Peru are challenging taboos
Barrios and baristas
Latin American cities are becoming far nicer for poorer inhabitants
Europe


Retirement gamble
Emmanuel Macron unveils his pension reforms
Little green mayhem
The war has devastated Ukraine’s environment, too
Gyros and gunboats
Might Turkey seize a tiny Greek island?
Taking aim at the Kurds
Turkey is on the point of banning the main Kurdish opposition party
No way in
The Armenians of Nagorno-Karabakh have been blockaded by Azerbaijan
Britain


Dr no go
General practitioners are a big part of Britain’s health-care crisis
The NHS in crisis
How many excess deaths in England are associated with A&E delays?
Spare us
Prince Harry’s autobiography is an ill-advised romp
Weathering the storm
Lower gas prices will provide only limited relief to Britons
Newquay, we have a problem
What the failure of Virgin Orbit means for Britain’s space ambitions
Agricultural subsidies
The longed-for transformation of English farming isn’t happening
Bagehot
British museums and galleries are dealing with the past, clumsily
International


The generation game
The age of the grandparent has arrived
Business


The fuzzy corporation
How technology is redrawing the boundaries of the firm
Shipping forecast
Investments in ports foretell the future of global commerce
The costs of transparency
German companies fret about a new supply-chain law
High-performance motoring
The priciest cars are selling fast
Scandal at Air India
A humiliating incident on an Air India flight triggers outrage
Bartleby
How to unlock creativity in the workplace
Schumpeter
Go to Texas to see the anti-green future of clean energy
Finance & economics


The wrong competition
What America’s protectionist turn means for the world
Buttonwood
The dollar could bring investors a nasty surprise
Good day sunshine
The energy crisis and Europe’s astonishing luck
Professional problems
Has economics run out of big new ideas?
Absent billions
The hunt for FTX’s missing riches
Free exchange
Warnings from history for a new era of industrial policy
Science & technology


Authenticating images
Proving a photo is fake is one thing. Proving it isn’t is another
Bug bites bird
A praying mantis attacks a nestling
Horticulture
Wasp larvae that eat aphids alive may save apple crops
The elephant in the room
What causes elephant poaching?
Ancient concrete
Roman civil engineering has lessons for the modern world
Culture


Arms and the men
To their critics, Mexican drug ballads glorify violence
Swords and sandals
Cinema meets radicalism in “Picture in the Sand”
World in a dish
The quest for the perfect chip
Health is wealth
“For Blood and Money” charts a race to develop a blockbuster drug
Going underground
How Cambodian music survived the horrors of the Khmers Rouges
Back Story
The truth about Stone Mountain’s giant Confederate memorial
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Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Needles in haystacks
Antidepressants are over-prescribed, but genuinely help some patients
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What is the House Freedom Caucus?
The Economist explains
What is a tank—and does France’s gift to Ukraine fit the bill?
Obituary


Breaking, making
Vivienne Westwood sowed never-ending revolution all through the fashion world

The world this week

Politics and business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


The end of magical thinking
A realistic path to a better relationship between Britain and the EU
The question of Europe has caused a decade of turmoil. Here’s how to use the next ten years better

Exit wave
How China’s reopening will disrupt the world economy
A tale of death, growth and inflation

Northern delights
Why the gusty North Sea could give Europe an industrial edge
Wind power is breathing life into a new green economy on its coasts

Internet from the sky
Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race
Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit

Unspeakable
What the Kevin McCarthy saga means for America’s Congress
Power struggles, public humiliation and a government shutdown may follow

Letters

On Britain’s constitution, Canada, Dutch auctions, bad translations
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Europe’s economy
Paschal Donohoe on how the euro will thrive in spite of the war in Ukraine
Briefing


A murmuration of Starlinks
How Elon Musk’s satellites have saved Ukraine and changed warfare
And the worries about what comes next
Asia


Asian geopolitics
Reinventing the Indo-Pacific
Cloud coup-coup land
A historic transfer of power in the South Pacific
Groping in the dark
Postponing India’s census is terrible for the country
Banyan
Pakistan and China find they have little leverage with the Taliban
China


The tsunami
China is overwhelmed, yet an even bigger covid wave may be coming
Chaguan
The Chinese Communist Party plans to avoid a zero-covid reckoning
United States


Making little plans
Chicago’s woes are over-hyped
Business time
Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul have grand plans for New York City
McCarthy and the new House
Republicans struggle to elect a speaker of the House
Wealth warning
Pay-transparency laws do not work as advertised
Lexington
The great mystery of American politics

Middle East & Africa


Nothing’s gonna stop us now
Israel’s new government will test the ties with Arab states
The cost of the coup
Sudan’s troubled east is a microcosm of a wider crisis
Sex toys and taboos
Women in the Middle East are leading a revolt against prudish men
The Americas


Big plans, not much money
Brazil’s new president faces a fiscal crunch and a fickle Congress
Europe


Hills to die on?
A Russian warlord’s savagery is sending a loud message to Moscow
Game-shooting in France
France reviews its hunting rules
Frenemies on the Oder
Why Poland loves to hate Germany
Charlemagne
Fifty years ago, the EU cracked the secret of its current success
Britain


Je regrette quelque chose
Assembling a better British relationship with Europe
The gender wars
Scotland’s new gender-reform law presents Rishi Sunak with a dilemma
Windrush
Britain’s offshore wind farms attract tourists
Bagehot
Britons in their thirties are stuck in a dark age
International


Late prelate
The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
Joy and severity
Pope Benedict XVI was an iron fist in a white glove
Business


Mare industriae
Can the North Sea become Europe’s new economic powerhouse?
Bartleby
How to have the most productive working day of your life
Bitter syrup
A scandal rocks India’s pharmaceutical industry
The Tesla conundrum
Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm
Schumpeter
How to avoid flight chaos
Finance & economics


Life after covid-19
What the great reopening means for China—and the world
The sound of silence
Imagine an India without hawkers
Whydunnit?
Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty
Buttonwood
Will investors have another awful year in 2023?
Science & technology


Covid-19
All around the world, covid surveillance is faltering
Killing SARS-CoV-2
Acidifying the air may protect against covid
The changing nature of science
Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive
Culture


Kings of the world
Alexander the Great and the birth of the modern world
Genetic engineering
“As Gods” is a valuable primer on a controversial science
Creepy fiction
“The Thing in the Snow” is a weird but wonderful novel
Courtly love
For the Tudors, love was an elaborate game
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The secret is out
America’s 117th Congress accomplished a lot. So did its recent predecessors
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Who is Andrew Tate, the misogynist hero to millions of young men?
Obituary


King of the beautiful game
Pelé went from poverty to football superstardom

The world this week

The world this year
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


The crucible
What 2022 meant for the world
Some years bring disorder, others a resolution. This one asked questions

Inspiration nation
Our country of the year for 2022 can only be Ukraine
For the heroism of its people, and for standing up to a bully

Twitter
Elon Musk’s $44bn education on free speech
He has had a crash course in the trade-offs in protecting free expression

After the storm
The year of the rate shock
Financial markets are adjusting to higher rates. That does not mean the chaos is over

The laws of nature
Why climate change is intimately tied to biodiversity
There is a financial case for investing in biodiversity

Letters

On needle-exchange programmes, Kenya, the EU, the Titanic, street names, job titles
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Biotechnology
Jaime Yassif on the need for better safeguarding of bioscience
Asia


Slum-mop billionaire
Can India’s richest man remake Mumbai’s biggest slum?
Dumplings and skewers
Japan’s cities are being remade for an ageing population
Moving house
Extreme weather is making parts of Australia uninhabitable
China


A pandemic stress test
A wave of covid-19 reveals flaws in China’s health system
Way back when
Bertrand Russell and “The Problem of China”
United States


Care or confinement
Is forced treatment for the mentally ill ever humane?
Move along
Donald Trump’s popularity with Republican voters is sinking
Disorder on the border
Title 42 might be nixed
Lexington
Free speech is not in peril in America
Middle East & Africa


Finding faith in the fund
Ghana has struck a preliminary IMF deal and halted debt payments
Urbanisation gone nuts
What the price of Zanzibari coconuts says about African development
One Saied-ed
A farcical election pushes Tunisia towards one-man rule

The Americas


Man bites watchdog
An “electoral reform” in Mexico will make elections less safe
It was messy, but it’s Messi
Argentina clinch the World Cup after beating France on penalties
Europe


Christmas in Kharkiv
A Ukrainian city celebrates despite the cold and the Russians
No room in the middle
Pope Francis has failed to be a spiritual mediator in Ukraine
The last taboo
France starts a debate on legalising assisted dying
Balkan barricades
Kosovo and Serbia are on the verge of conflict again
Charlemagne
Why Europe’s traditional foods are not always what they seem
Britain


The new Britons
The children of Britain’s eastern European immigrants are changing the country
Gift-giving economics
The inefficiencies of Christmas
Nursing a grievance
British nurses launch unprecedented strikes
Bagehot
Westminster’s other cathedral
Christmas Specials


Time lords
In a corner of Java live the Amish of Indonesia
All uncreated men are equal
Should we care about people who need never exist?
A tale of oil and rubber
What Brazil’s 19th-century rubber crash could teach today’s oil drillers
Use your loaf
How food affects the mind, as well as the body
Puppy love
What makes certain dogs popular in certain countries
When money dies
The great inflation of the 1500s is echoing eerily today
City planning
The decline of the city grid
Take me out to the ball game
Why cricket and America are made for each other
The wibbly-wobbly circle of life
Deadly, dirty, indispensable: the nitrogen industry has changed the world
The weight of the world
The economics of thinness
The myth of the holy cow
India’s movement to protect cows is rooted in politics, not religion
Complex saviours
The new tech worldview
The three knife trilogy
Emigrants from a small corner of China are making an outsize mark abroad
Hot spot
How will the haj change as global temperatures rise?
Taking the Mickey
A treasure trove of Hollywood intellectual property is heading for the public domain
Through a crystal curtain
The Chinese celebrate Tang poetry as a pinnacle of their culture
Secrets of the shallows
A megadrought has revealed a possible mafia murder mystery
Business


When brown meets green
Why the Gulf’s oil powers are betting on clean energy
Parting of the clouds
Airlines are closing in on their pre-covid heights
More Sino-American business tensions
America tries to nobble China’s tech industry. Again
Bartleby
How to make the most of LinkedIn
Schumpeter
How Bernard Arnault became the world’s richest person
Finance & economics


Top of the charts
2022’s unlikely economic winners
To protect and to swerve
China’s leaders ponder an economy without lockdowns—or crackdowns
Robots and jobs
The pandemic and the triumph of the Luddites
No time like the present
The Bank of Japan shocks investors
Buttonwood
India’s stockmarkets are roaring. They also have serious faults
Free exchange
The Federal Reserve’s great anti-hero deserves a second look
Science & technology


Information technology
Artificial intelligence and the rise of optical computing
Optical cryptography
A better way to process encrypted data
Smart coatings
A golden sandwich that demists your windscreen
Culture


Heart of darkness
Francisco Goya’s vision of war is powerful and urgent
A family affair
A delightful world history, told through influential families
Back Story
The year of the underdogs
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The year of Ukraine
War replaces disease as the world’s most newsworthy subject
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Is Russia running out of ammunition?
The Economist explains
How to understand 2022 in memes
Obituary


The endless quest
Daniel Brush’s drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit

The winter war

The world this week

Politics
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KAL’s cartoon
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War in Ukraine
A looming Russian offensive
Ukraine’s chiefs, in an unprecedented series of briefings, tell The Economist about the critical months that lie ahead

Little steps, many lives
China’s covid wave could kill as many as 1.5m people
The government can still avoid an enormous death toll

I say go, go, go!
Why are the rich world’s politicians giving up on economic growth?
Even when they say they want more prosperity, they act as if they don’t

Nuclear energy
The French exception
As the world turns back to nuclear power, it should heed the lessons from France

After farmgate
How to save South Africa
The ruling party is unreformable. The country needs a coalition of the clean

Letters

On public registries in the EU, homelessness, lay-offs, pensioners, Northfield, Bagehot
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Ukraine and Russia
Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff on how to end war in Ukraine
Covid-19 in China
Two health experts say China’s haste to re-open risks needless death and disruption
Geopolitics
Aaron Friedberg says the West should abandon efforts to integrate a hostile, revisionist China
Briefing


Ukraine’s fateful winter
Volodymyr Zelensky and his generals explain why the war hangs in the balance
Our interviews with the men shaping Ukraine’s response to Russia’s aggression

Restraint under fire
Ukraine’s top soldier runs a different kind of army from Russia’s
Valery Zaluzhny wants to encourage initiative and devolve authority

General principles
“Anyone who underestimates Russia is headed for defeat”
An interview with Colonel-General Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s second most senior soldier
Asia


Sino-Japanese relations
East Asia’s big beasts are getting on badly
Forgetting your parents
Japan’s most endangered languages face extinction
Boy band of brothers
BTS takes on­ Kim Jong Un
At the coal face
Mongolians brave the cold to decry corruption
Banyan
China’s frontier aggression has pushed India to the West
China


On their own
How Chinese people are dealing with the spread of covid-19
No worse than the flu?
What to make of China’s claims about covid
Lives on the lines
Our model shows that China’s covid death toll could be massive
Chaguan
The politics of Xi Jinping’s covid retreat
United States


Picket lines and poké
America’s unions are gentrifying
Mr Musk’s moderation
What to make of the Twitter Files?
Crimes of fashion
Why catalytic-converter theft has soared in America
Chop chop
Axe-throwing may be the friendliest new sport in America
Or else
A city experiments with paying people not to be annoying
Smoke and mirrors
E-cigarette taxes may reduce teenage drink-driving deaths
Lexington
Republicans should leave Hunter Biden to his painting, and the Justice Department

Middle East & Africa


A bitter life for all
The party of Nelson Mandela is imploding
Zilch cows
Commercial cattle-raiding is impoverishing Uganda’s herders
Big brother will see you now
China is helping Zimbabwe to build a surveillance state
The elusive looters
Iraq’s new prime minister vows to clean up the country
Of lions and pride
Morocco’s World Cup success sparks a debate about Arab identity
The Americas


The agony of Peronism
Argentina’s populist political movement is at its lowest ebb
Europe


Survival of the blitzed
Despite power cuts and blockades, Ukraine’s economy is coping
Missing multitudes
The war has worsened Ukraine’s demographic woes
Unbeloved Berlin
Germany’s capital struggles to clean up its act
The job-share taoiseachs
Ireland’s new prime minister is mocked before he starts
Two-speed nation
France needs better slow trains, not just fast ones
Charlemagne
A corruption scandal leaves the EU reeling
Britain


A historical mystery
The strange case of Britain’s demise
Data and declinism
Britain’s economic record since 2007 ranks near the bottom among peer countries
Railing against the system
The British government and the unions dig in on train strikes
Bagehot
Why do Harry and Meghan wind people up?
International


Covid babies
The pandemic’s indirect effects on small children could last a lifetime
Business


Atomic reactions
Can the French nuclear industry avoid meltdown?
A Taj of class
Why Mumbai’s old business district is so shabby
Log off-ice
Tech lay-offs are the latest blow to office landlords
Silicon Wall Street
Big tech pushes further into finance
Cutback Christmas
German retailers aren’t feeling very festive
Bartleby
The enduring value of an analogue technology
Schumpeter
America’s biggest ports face a new kind of paralysis
Finance & economics


First-world problems
How the West fell out of love with economic growth
Facing the music
The game is up for Sam Bankman-Fried
US economy
America’s inflation fever may be breaking at last
Going Dutch
What an unusual auction says about the art market
No time to chill
Europe looks increasingly complacent about the winter ahead
Stormy skies
The struggle to put a carbon price on a flight
Free exchange
The insidious threats to central-bank independence
Science & technology


A brouhaha about fusion
Controlled fusion is little nearer now than it was a week ago
COP15
A UN biodiversity meeting is slugging it out in Montreal
Menstrual products
Not enough is known about the science of pads and tampons
Snake sex
A study of ophidian clitorises suggests snakes are highly sexed
Culture


Beautiful world, there are you
Reading Sally Rooney in China
Turkey and the Ottomans
The Ottoman empire fell a century ago. Or did it?
Johnson
And the word of 2022 is…
The naked truth
Alice Neel’s art is at last getting the attention it deserves
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What caused the demise of Boeing’s 747 airliner?
The Economist explains
How to design a perfect World Cup
Obituary


To breach a wall
Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Britain’s economy
Free the north
Fire up Britain’s economy by invigorating its second-tier cities

China and covid-19
What is the plan?
China is loosening its covid restrictions, at great risk

Italy and Europe
Crying out for reform
Giorgia Meloni needs to be bold. Sadly, she appears reticent

Canada
Charter fights
A clause in Canada’s constitution lets politicians nullify citizens’ rights. It needs to go

Financial markets
The new rules
Investing in an era of higher interest rates and scarcer capital

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Chinese students, FTX, Britain’s spending cuts, Kazakhstan, classical music, “When Harry Met Sally”
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
A former French ambassador on the paradox unveiled by the war in Ukraine
Crypto after FTX
A crypto-exchange founder makes his case for decentralised finance
Briefing


The new rules of investment
When the tide turns
Rising interest rates and inflation have upended the world of investing
Asia


India’s development
Gujaratification
Press unfreedom in the Philippines
Dead convicts and a peculiar murder
Toon wars
Manga v webtoons
Indonesia’s extramarital-sex ban
Bad news for Bali
Banyan
Karma chameleon
Cross-border gambling
China’s cash gift to the rest of Asia
China


The zero-covid policy
Dismantling the machine
Vaccinating the vulnerable
Obstinate elders
Dissidents v censors
Good, good, good
Chaguan
The politics of death in China
United States


Congress
Last-minute bargains
A SCOTUS double feature
Moore or less
Tax law
High deductibles
Invasive species
Cat got your tern
Youth suicide
Beginnings and endings
Lexington
Defender of the faith

Middle East & Africa


The Gulf and China
Arabs looking east
Iran
Off with those scarves!
Perverse incentives
To reap, perchance, per diem
South African politics
Sofa so good
Education in Africa
Lessons in poverty
The Americas


Canada
A bomb lodged in the constitution
Peru
Castillo the brief
Bello
An adiós in troubled times
Argentina
Peronist in peril
Europe


Germany
The traffic-light at one
Germany
The unhappy prince
Ukraine’s Somme
The battle for Bakhmut
Moscow
The silence of the Russians
Ukraine
Smart warfare
French brand names
C’est easy-peasy
Charlemagne
Cancel sculpture
Britain


Manchester
The sputtering engine of the north
Constitutional reform
A test of radicalism
Inflation
Tapped out
Asylum-seekers
Traffic fights
Britain’s growth crisis
The family silver
Bagehot
Mind your manners (or go to jail)
International


Deep-sea fishing
An uneven contest
Special report


Italy
Wanted: an Italian Thatcher
The economy
The cost of vulnerability
The public debt
Spreadeagled
Business in Italy
Structural faults
The south
Sunrise or sunset?
Politics
Italy’s bane
Repopulation
The houses that Giuseppe sold
The future
A new reform spirit
Italy
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Information technology
The new age of AI
Artificial intelligence
The bard of AI-von
Pandemic profits
The value of zero
Bartleby
The scourge of title inflation
The business cycle
Axeing questions
Schumpeter
Supercharging super-apps
Finance & economics


Pension funds
The incredible shrinking plan
Stalling Asia
The chips hit the fan
Consumer prices
The monetary marathon
Transatlantic trade
Concrete jungle
Buttonwood
Thrill bills
Free exchange
The cost of impunity
Science & technology


Naval drones
Q-boats
Neuroscience
Silent synapses
Palaeontology
Join the club
The origin of lager
Cheers!
Culture


Our books of the year
The good books
Books by our writers
The midnight oil
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Protests in Iran
Lifting the veil
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why Darjeeling tea may face extinction
The Economist explains
Can hydropower help ease Europe’s energy crisis?
Obituary


Jay Pasachoff
The shadow-lover

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


The pandemic
China’s covid failure
Caught between raging disease and unpopular and costly lockdowns, Xi Jinping has no good fix

Oil prices
Will the cap fit?
Why the West’s proposed price cap on Russian oil is no magic weapon

The gaming market
CoD and chips
Why trustbusters should let Microsoft buy Activision Blizzard

The cyberwar in Ukraine
The digital front
Ukraine has shown how cyber-defence can prevail

Sex
The wounds of silence
Sexual problems can wreck people’s lives. Yet remedies are often simple

Letters

On Qatar and the World Cup, Ukraine, Elon Musk, Janet Yellen, “Peanuts”
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Chinese politics
The Chinese government exercises control through local busybodies, explains Lynette H. Ong
Chinese politics
The protests in China may change the way Xi Jinping runs the country, says Minxin Pei
Briefing


China
Zero options
Xi Jinping’s failing covid strategy leaves China with no good way forward
Asia


America’s Asian allies
When the chips are down
Taiwan’s elections
Across the Strait, a lockdown protest
Pakistan’s latest crisis
Hail the chief
New Zealand’s gangs
Mongrel mobsters
Banyan
Pilgrim’s progress
Crimes against Indian women
How the other half live
China


Protests in China
Echoes of the past
The protests and ethnicity
Solidarity, of a sort
Frustrated students
Testing the party
Chaguan
Lessons from a protest
United States


Arms control
The conundrum of three-way nuclear deterrence
Needle exchanges
No harm intended
New blood in Congress
To the winners, the spoilers
Morticians
Bodies, bodies, bodies
The future of Napa Valley
In vino veritas
Lexington
Star dreck

Middle East & Africa


Iran’s economy
Too poor to strike
Israel
Numbers is just a book in the Bible
South Africa
Ranch of government
Angola
Mine craft
Kenya
Brotherhood of bikers
The Americas


Venezuela
Oil be back
Bello
The coming swing to the right
Europe


Ukraine
Crimean War
Hungary
Big Viktor is watching
Germany
Angela Merkel’s faded glory
Spain
Unreasonably blue
Illegal drugs
So goes the blow
Charlemagne
United States, divided Europe
Britain


Looking after the elderly
Wear and care
The census
Few on pews
The Conservative Party
Tory jarheads
Innovation in Britain
Here’s an idea
Monarchy
Royal erosion
Energy efficiency
Insulation nation
Bagehot
If you don’t like it, there’s the door
International


Sexual health
Talking about it at last
Business


Big business
America’s best firms…and the rest
Video games
Game on or game over?
Energy in Germany
The hand on the tap
Bartleby
Ins and outs
Schumpeter
The other gig economy
Finance & economics


Energy sanctions
Crude weapon
Green investing
Uncle Sham
Dirty money
Laundry softener
Central-bank reserves
Vault face
Global taxation
Fiscal feud
Buttonwood
PE-kaboo
Free exchange
I’ll do things for you
Science & technology


Cyberwarfare
A nest of wipers
Cyberwar and cybercrime
Black hats, white hats, grey hats
Pollution and suicide
Ill winds
A drug for Alzheimer’s disease
Enter lecanemab
A diving dinosaur
An amphibious dinosaur from the Cretaceous
Culture


Technology and fairness
The algorithm’s mercy
The history of Venice
In the doge house
Ukrainian culture
Art against war
Icelandic fiction
Home truths
Johnson
Rise of the cyborgs
Social housing
Heaven with the gates off
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The football World Cup
Margins matter
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why has America’s army recruitment plummeted?
The Economist explains
Why are boys doing badly at school?
Obituary


Jiang Zemin
An unlikely strongman

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


After FTX
Crypto’s downfall
The collapse of FTX has dealt a catastrophic blow to crypto’s reputation and aspirations. Is this the end?

South-East Asia
Why Indonesia matters
Indonesia is back on the map. In the next decade it will only become more important

Financial markets
False dawn
Investors are becoming too optimistic about the world economy

The war in Ukraine
Keep calm and carry on
Russia needs a respite. The West must help Ukraine fight on

The World Cup
In defence of Qatar
It is a worthier venue for a big sporting event than other recent hosts

The climate talks
Splitting the bill
There is a better way to help poor countries fight climate change

Letters

On Britain’s police, food as a weapon, inflation, innovation, abbreviations, Trumpery
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Protests in Iran
Shirin Ebadi on the legal obstacles Iran’s protesters face
COP27
Pieter Pauw on how rich countries should approach “loss and damage” finance
Briefing


Indonesia
Thousand-island progressing
Indonesia is poised for a boom—politics permitting

Crypto’s crisis
Hold on for dear life
The failure of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried is reverberating through the industry

Consequences of a collapse
EA games
What Sam Bankman-Fried’s downfall means for his social movement
Asia


Superpower rivalry in Asia
Elephants in the long grass
Kazakhstan
One steppe forward
Sri Lanka after the crisis
Oh Colombo
India’s Supreme Court
Modi and the judges
Banyan
Speak softly, bring carrots
Energy in Indonesia
Dethroning King Coal
China


Chinese students abroad
Posters of protest
China and America
Shaky relations
Covid-19
Relax a little
Chaguan
China’s steampunk covid response
United States


The next election (already)
Series reboot
Midterm maths
Triumph of the normies
Republicans
Do do run Ron
Abortion laws
No but yes
Gay rodeo
Bucking the trend
Lexington
Anger management

Middle East & Africa


Algeria
A rotten regime saved, for now, by gas
Iran’s protests
Artful dodgers
Qatar and the Gulf
The cup runneth over
Shrinkflation
The parable of the African doughnut
Idi Amin’s legacy
Back in business
The Americas


Argentina
Another pot of white gold
El Salvador
Deep down in the crypto-dip
Europe


French politics
Second time unlucky
The war in Ukraine
After Kherson
Civil defence
Shelter from the storm
Germany
Not so nervous now
Archaeology
Basque in the spotlight
Charlemagne
Can we manage?
Britain


Britain’s armed forces
Straps around the barrel
The Labour Party
Green wedge
Britain and France
Le bromance?
The four-day workweek
On the fifth day, errands
School-leavers’ exams
BACC to the future
Gender medicine
Transgressions
Bagehot
The new masculinity
International


The future of football
Changing the game
Business


The future of carmaking
Reinventing the wheels
The World Cup
Chasing the ball
Twitter’s competitors
Fleeing the nest
Venture capital
After the party
Bartleby
Management balls
Schumpeter
League of ex-legends
Finance & economics


Persistent prices
Worst of both worlds
Dollar debt
Crash watch
Buttonwood
The tenacity of ESG
Free exchange
After the bust
Science & technology


Aviation
Welcome to the vertiport
The Space Launch System
A white elephant flies
Astronomy
A meteorite in the Cotswolds
Fisheries
Lobster brisk
Culture


Classical music
Airs and graces
Friedrich Hayek
This is what we believe
The insight of “Peanuts”
Wise children
Sporting rivalries
Clash of the titans
Cormac McCarthy’s new novels
End of the road
Johnson
Mum’s the word
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Sporting events
Poisoned chalices
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Who is Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive of Binance?
The Economist explains
Why is America debating prison labour?
Obituary


Hannah Pick-Goslar
From friendship to haunting

Leaders


America’s midterms
The Trump effect
Despite the former president’s efforts, America and its democracy look stronger after the midterms

War in Ukraine
Dreams of peace
How a stable and successful country could emerge from the trauma of Russia’s invasion

America and China
Great powers must talk
Refusing to speak is what children do when they are angry

Israel
Back Bibi. Seriously
To keep out the far right, Israel’s centrists should join a coalition with Binyamin Netanyahu

Britain’s economy
How to fix a budget in 55 days
Controlling pensions spending and taxing property are the best ways for Britain to balance the books

Carbon and the economy
Debunking degrowth
The link between economic growth and rising emissions has been broken. Now this decoupling must speed up

Letters

Letters to the editor
On environmental issues, the housing market, phrasebooks
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Mikhail Khodorkovsky says now is no time to push for peace talks in Ukraine
COP27
Vinod Khosla says rushing to meet carbon-reduction targets by 2030 may hinder what can be achieved by 2050
COP27
The global energy crisis may be accelerating decarbonisation efforts, says Fatih Birol
Briefing


The war in Ukraine
Finding an ending
On what terms could the fighting stop?
Asia


Elections in Malaysia
Um, maybe
Small victories
Taipei personality
Governance in India
Outside in
Racism in Australia
Voiceless
Banyan
Caravan of chaos
China


America and China
Dim hopes of detente
Governance and control
Neighbourhood watch
Board games
Going home early
Chaguan
Mr Xi amends the Chinese Dream
United States


The midterms
False tsunami alert
Beyond Congress
Ron DeSantis and other winners
Polls v results
Erring in the opposite direction
Conspiracy peddlers
Defeating the anti-democrats
Tribal sovereignty
Kid gloves
Bike protesters
Pedal to the metal
Year of the rat
Hamelin on the Hudson
Lexington
Say it ain’t so, Joe

Middle East & Africa


Israel’s new government
Changing the nature of democracy
Israel and Palestine
Welcome back to the occupation
Egypt
Good COP, bad cops
Business in Africa
Of beer and banks
War in the Horn
Ending Abiy’s war
The Americas


Nicaragua
A one-family state
Bello
A new battle for the IDB
Europe


Ukraine
The flight from Kherson
Ukraine
Mud wrestling
EU fiscal policy
Hamiltonian rules
France
War footing
Greece
Who’s spying on whom?
Charlemagne
In praise of Euro-gibberish
Britain


Infrastructure planning
Taking the slow road
The autumn statement
The nerds are in charge
Evelyn de Rothschild
Upholder of legacies
Agriculture
For peat’s sake
Parliamentary boundaries
Constituent parts
A British institution
Trust issues
Bagehot
The night-watchman welfare state
International


Ukraine
A new Marshall Plan?
Business


Cooking the books
A sleuth’s guide to corporate fraud
Logistics
Feeling the AdBlues
Rebooting the system
As tech lay-offs spread, Meta sacks 11,000 workers
Sportswear
Trainer trouble
Fossil fuels
Freedom lighters
Business and climate change
Wake up, boss!
Bartleby
The bird and the boss
Schumpeter
Command and control
Finance & economics


Cryptocurrencies
Bankman fried
Climate change
Green light
The Chinese economy
Another marathon
Buttonwood
The sock parallel
International commerce
Fresh factories
Free exchange
Tipping the scale
Science & technology


Robotics
A cryin’, talkin’, sleepin’, walkin’, livin’ doll
Palaeontology
The earliest mass extinction
Medicine
Blood not so simple
Ethology
More equal than others
Culture


American politics
The lion of liberalism
Animal creativity
Primal instincts
Back Story
Losing the World Cup
World in a dish
Good as gold
A history of business
Fleshing out the invisible hand
New British fiction
A family affair
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Agriculture
A time to plant
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Who is Alaa Abd el-Fattah?
Obituary


Shyam Saran Negi
The joy of voting

Say goodbye to 1.5°C

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Climate change
Goodbye 1.5°C
The world is missing its lofty climate targets. Time for some realism

Brazil’s election
Now for the hard part
As president, Lula will oversee a bitterly divided, cash-strapped country

Business in America
Big tech, big trouble
Slowing growth is exposing the governance flaws of big tech firms

Education in America
Making a meritocracy
The end of racial preferences in college admissions could be a chance to build a better system

Inflation and interest rates
Japanese turning
Financial danger could be brewing in the last bastion of low interest rates

Letters

Letters to the editor
On cocaine, Liz Truss, pop music, antidepressants, diets
By Invitation


Finance and economics
France’s finance minister on how to fight inflation and preserve stability
America’s 2022 midterms
Republicans should focus on kitchen-table issues, argues Governor Glenn Youngkin
America’s Supreme Court
End life tenure for the Supreme Court’s judges, argues Eric Segall
Briefing


The 1.5°C target
An inconvenient truth
The goal of keeping the rise in global temperatures to 1.5°C has shaped climate policy worldwide. But it is not a goal the world is going to achieve
Asia


Immigration
Open wide your gates
Small business
The unkindest cut
Data hacks
Once more unto the breach
Climate change and religion
The colour of Islam
Banyan
Not enough to speak
China


The armed forces
Preparing for a fight
China’s air force
Top guns for hire
Corruption
Xi’s forever war
Chaguan
The city that covid forgot
United States


Campaigning
Following the money
Californian politics
The golden mean
Affirmative action (1)
Off colour
Affirmative action (2)
Holistic cow
Referendums
Obamacare’s slow victory
Midterm maths
Bang average
Lexington
Crime and punishment

Middle East & Africa


The green continent
Powering Africa
Jihadism in the Horn
Rise of the clans
Israel’s election
Swinging right
The World Cup
Not quite over the goal line
The Americas


Brazil
Hallelula
Argentina
Slum dunk
Bello
Lula’s new world
Europe


Germany
It’s logical
Ukraine
Putin’s cold war
Denmark election
Matching the right
Turkey
Fake news and censorship
The French hard-right
The €9m question
Britain


Industrial action
A winter of walkouts
Cyber-security
Convenience v comfort
UK plc
The gathering gloom
Northern Ireland
Donaldson’s dilemma
The Met
Good cop
Medical training
Go east
Immigration and the census
Diversity spreads out
Bagehot
Why small boats are a big problem
International


Food and geopolitics
Bread-blocking bandits
Special report


Climate adaptation
The challenge of the age
An uneven playing field
To those who have...
Protecting property
Big things and little ones
Agriculture
Room at the bottom
Big business
Looking after their own
Finance
Dream bigger
A time to act
Common sense
Business


Corporate structures
The new conglomerates
Technology
Bad tech
The blue-tick index
Twitter wants to charge users based on purchasing-power parity
Twitter
Singing for its supper
Business in China
When the circus leaves town
Bartleby
The play’s the thing
Schumpeter
Ties that blind
Finance & economics


The West v Russia
From crisis to catastrophe
Europe’s economy
Double trouble
Inflation
Faster, higher, longer
Foreign reserves
A few billion between friends
Buttonwood
Red faces
China’s property crack-up
Breaking the banks
Free exchange
Biden’s billions
Science & technology


Rogue geoengineering
A new Great Game
Exam nerves’ real cause
High anxiety
Entomological agriculturalists
The constant gardeners
Ecology
In praise of introduced species
Culture


Urban development
Building his case
Detective fiction
Mystery lady
Contemporary ballet
The Balanchine method
Film and politics
The revolution will not be televised
Janet Yellen
Queen of economics
Johnson
Not on the same page
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Energy in Europe
The calm before the storm
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Has the Ukraine war killed off the ground-attack aircraft?
The Economist explains
Why blue New York might turn redder in the midterms
Obituary


Carmen Callil
Warrior woman

It’s not just inflation

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Britain
Reasons to be cheerful, Pt. 3
Rishi Sunak’s promise of stability is a low bar for British politics

The risks of Bidenomics
It’s not just inflation
Protectionism risks hobbling America and its allies

China
Team of loyalists
Xi Jinping’s new Politburo seems unlikely to contradict the boss

Italy
An untried skipper
Giorgia Meloni has had a reassuring launch. But storm clouds loom

Green manufacturing
The circular economy
Battery-makers are learning that recycling should not be an afterthought

The Middle East
Will Iran’s women win?
Their uprising could be the beginning of the end of Iran’s theocracy

Letters

Letters to the editor
World hunger, China and America, epilepsy, Russian literature, our Britaly cover
By Invitation


From Italy with love
The bill for campaign populism is paid in office, warns Matteo Renzi
Russia and Ukraine
Mick Ryan on why Ukraine can expect to make further gains against Russia
Briefing


America’s economy
Adieu, laissez-faire
Joe Biden is attempting the biggest overhaul of the American economy in a generation
Asia


India’s economic geography
Latitude is everything
Ikigai
Circles of life
Tainted drugs
Joining the dots
Banyan
Trust no one
China


Politics
The people’s leader’s people
Women in leadership
Too few at the top
Chaguan
The coming storm
United States


The midterms
The anti-democracy front
Hochul v Zeldin
Down to the wire
Polling misses
A signal of noise
Worries about Ukraine
Dirty secrets
Trick or treat
Skeletons out of the closet
School catch-up after covid-19
Mountains to climb
Lexington
History’s present

Middle East & Africa


The revolt in Iran
Will the regime fall?
Iran and the Gulf
The battle of the proxies
Israel’s election
Bibi’s comeback?
The war in Tigray
Slow-talking
Kenya’s new president
See no evil
The Americas


Brazil’s election
A tense final week
Bello
A hero of the rule of law
Europe


Russia
Life after Putin
Ukraine
Fighting dirty
Italy
Enter Giorgia
European energy links
Gridlocked
Charlemagne
The missing spark
Britain


Rishi Sunak
Smiles atop the rubble
The Bank of England
Needle not yet threaded
The Tories
Big Dog has no bite
The labour market
Where did all the 50-somethings go?
Translation
How long have you had that goitre?
Bagehot
Rishi, heal thyself
International


Tuberculosis
A baleful legacy
Business


Business and geopolitics (1)
The end of the China affair
Business and geopolitics (2)
Ren-aissance
Bartleby
The archaeology of the office
Schumpeter
The diplomat CEO
Finance & economics


Consumer prices
Trouble in Hikelandia
China’s economy
The fleeing committee
Foreign-exchange markets
Currency colossi
Policing Wall Street
Super-regulator
Buttonwood
Notes from a party
Free exchange
In search of a bright light
Science & technology


Battery-making
Inside the gigafactory
Climate change
Plus ça change...
Animal behaviour
Bumblebees have a ball
The origins of covid-19
Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis?
Culture


Israeli politics
The populist’s handbook
World in a Dish
Grave concerns
The war in Yemen
No heroes, only victims
Biology
Facts of life
Back Story
Pinocchio, hero of our time
Books in the ancient world
Paper trail
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Fertility trends
The covid baby bump
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why Ukraine’s Orthodox churches are at loggerheads
The Economist explains
How might Jair Bolsonaro win Brazil’s election?
Obituary


Ian Hamilton
To steal a stone

A house-price horror show

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


Turmoil in Britain
Welcome to Britaly
A country of political instability, low growth and subordination to the bond markets

Property
House-price horror show
A slump in house prices is coming. It won’t blow up the financial system, but it will be scary

Ukraine
Defying the odds
Ukraine’s economy is staging a surprising recovery. But it needs more help

Renewable energy
India’s next green revolution
India’s clean-energy push shows how emerging economies could escape the coal addiction

Drugs and depression
Set patients free
Most people on antidepressants don’t need them. Time to wean them off

Letters

Letters to the editor
On church bells, Detroit, Jair Bolsonaro, Armenia and Azerbaijan, management consultants
By Invitation


US-China relations
Research co-operation pays dividends far beyond academia, argues Henry Huiyao Wang
America’s 2022 midterms
Ruy Teixeira asks whether America has reached “peak woke”
Briefing


Clean energy in India
Skunk no more
One of the world’s most polluting countries plans to invest half a trillion dollars in clean energy
Asia


North Korea
Tactical advantage
The Philippines
Recusal of service
Pakistani politics
One-man party
New Zealand
Getting real
Banyan
Tightrope act
China


Succession planning
Heir unapparent
Political phraseology
Xi’s word counts
China’s economy
Moving to mid-levels
When “wolf warrior” diplomacy goes too far
Aggressive to a fault
Chaguan
No turning back
United States


Oregon politics
Unpacific
Midterm maths
Skewed samples
School fights
Compendium of crazy
Beer sommeliers
Draught me in
The midterms
What’s in a name?
Taxing California
How high?
Lexington
Frenemy mine

Middle East & Africa


America and the Gulf
The long goodbye?
Protests in Iran
The ayatollahs dither amid the fire
Zimbabwe’s pregnant schoolgirls
We want to stay at school
Organised crime in South Africa
The murky side of the rainbow nation
The Americas


Brazil
Missing the samba beat
Haiti
A modern inferno
Europe


Drones over Ukraine
Shooting Shaheds
Germany
The Kremlin’s empty lobby
Ukraine’s trains
The Kramatorsk express is back
French arms to Ukraine
Red roses…and artillery
Italy
Not so easy
Charlemagne
Fetchez the barricades!
Britain


After Trussonomics
Who runs Britain now?
Fiscal policy
Abacus economics
Britaly
Low-growth gang
Immigration
Dashed dreams
Restitution
Carbon capture
Walking in cities
Step by step
Bagehot
Meet the man in charge
International


Underwater infrastructure
Sabotage at sea
Business


Meta
Reality bites
Semiconductors
The silicon squeeze
Kweichow Moutai
100% proof
Retailing
Fodder for the FTC
Bartleby
Walking in employees’ shoes
Schumpeter
Where’s the war bounty?
Finance & economics


Property markets
The crack-up
Banking
Stick to Manhattan
Buttonwood
The moron risk premium
Conflict economics
The long march back
Free exchange
How’s your luck?
Science & technology


Drugs for depression
The need for a clear head
Venus
Read my LIPs
An astronomical alchemist
The most powerful flash yet seen in the sky was recorded on October 9th
Neanderthal man and woman
Highland clans
Conserving elephants
Know your boundaries
Culture


Tech and culture
Medicis 2.0
The civil-rights movement
War without war
The fictions of motherhood
A woman’s place
Cybercrime
Hacked off
Johnson
Say no more
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Covid-19’s impact
A tale of two pandemics
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How America’s midterms could reshape the courts
The Economist explains
Will Russia’s drone attacks change the war in Ukraine?
Obituary


Yurii Kerpatenko
The man who said no

The world China wants

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


China
A new chapter
The Communist Party’s obsession with control will make China weaker but more dangerous

Bond markets
The Iceberg Lady
Britain’s prime minister wilts in a mess of her own making

Europe’s energy crisis
Less is more
Europe has not done enough to curtail energy demand and boost the supply of gas

Financial markets
Keep your powder dry
Emerging economies have coped with the rate shock surprisingly well. But the real test is yet to come

Cocaine
Legalise it
The costs of prohibition outweigh the benefits

Letters

Letters to the editor
On Russian draft-dodgers, peer review, Sir Keir Starmer, moths, John F. Kennedy
By Invitation


America and the Taliban
Afghanistan’s central bank needs its assets back, argues Graeme Smith
America’s 2022 midterms
A conversation with Stacey Abrams
Briefing


Tech supremacy
Mothering invention
China and the West are competing frantically to foster innovation
Asia


Energy in Asia
Transitional justice
Pilgrims’ pleas
What Indians pray for
Repression in Bangladesh
Reviled rival
Thailand
The madness after the massacre
Banyan
Peripheral visions
China


The party congress
Showtime
The zero-covid policy
Not going anywhere
Chaguan
The dark side of pop culture
United States


The midterms
Heisman Shuffle
Animal rights
Sow confusing
Midterm maths
Herd behaviour
Migration
Masses huddled
Breast cancer
Nipped in the bud
California’s economy
A stimulating debate
Los Angeles
Black and blue
Lexington
Legitimate childishness

Middle East & Africa


Nigeria’s election
A new hope
Digital taxes in Africa
Tempting—but not so easy
Iran
All the mullahs’ bullets
Palestine
Slouching towards Damascus
Gas, gas everywhere
Nor any drop to burn
The Americas


The militarisation of Mexico
Guns and AMLO
Bello
Argentina in its labyrinth
Europe


Russian intelligence
Not-so-special services
Ukraine’s air war
Missiles and bridges
French nuclear energy
Out of order
Russia and Turkey
Business as usual
Charlemagne
Small steps
Britain


The gilt market
Playing with fire
Rough weather
The threat of energy blackouts in Britain forces a rethink on gas storage
Abortion and free speech
Over here
Transport
Scoot first, ask questions later
The BBC
Apocalypse then
Bagehot
The great thaw in the union
International


Cocaine
The war on drugs don’t work
Special report


China’s ambitions
A new order
Sovereignty first
For China, less is more
Development banks
Soft-power play
Bilateral relations
A stronger actor
The deglobalisation danger
A cause for concern
Taiwan
Few painless options left
An uncertain future
Hard choices loom
Business


Global business
Peak profit?
The American consumer
Elastic brands
Deutsche Bahn
Derailed
Bartleby
Working under the weather
Tech geopolitics
No more Mr Nice Guy
Carmaking
Plugging away
Schumpeter
Everything app. Or nothingburger
Finance & economics


Middle-income countries
Defying gravity
Restraining Xi Jinping
The reform club
War economics
Crime, then punishment
Inflation
The drag from lags
Financial failure
Academic success
Startups
Pop dollar
Buttonwood
The importance of maggots
Free exchange
Solarpunked
Science & technology


Modelling the brain
Fiat lux
Biological neural networks
Brain games
Malaria
Slumbering swarms
Diets, past and present
Ham fisted
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test
DART’s success
Culture


Chinese history
Dashed hopes and bad omens
Semiconductors
Chips off the old bloc
World in a dish
The weight of the world
In pursuit of Bob Dylan
The wheel’s still in spin
Journalism in Mexico
Murdering the messenger
Back Story
The talking cure
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


The cocaine industry
The youngest victims
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Why did Joe Biden pardon people convicted of federal marijuana offences?
The Economist explains
Why the exodus of Russians to Central Asia matters
Obituary


Loretta Lynn
From coal to gold

What next? A special report on the world economy

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
Leaders


The world economy
What next?
A new era of macroeconomics is emerging, bringing promise and peril

Brazil’s election
On a knife-edge
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva should move to the centre to beat Jair Bolsonaro

British politics
Truss deficit
The markets are a little calmer. The mess remains

Corporate consiglieri
Are management consultants useful?
Amid the snake oil and the scandals, the industry provides a valuable service

Technology and politics
How will Elon Musk use his superpowers?
With great technological power comes great political responsibility

Letters

Letters to the editor
On the police in America, qualified-majority voting, Agatha Christie, Italy, Myanmar, Janus words
By Invitation


Russia and Ukraine
Kirill Rogov on what Russians really think of the war in Ukraine
Brazil’s elections
Marina Silva on why Brazil’s presidential contest will decide the Amazon’s fate
America’s 2022 midterms
Ro Khanna and Zach Wahls on how Democrats can win back factory towns
Briefing


Russia and Ukraine
Putin at bay
Ukraine’s military success is reshaping not just the war, but also Russia

Ukraine and Starlink
Tweet and sour
Elon Musk’s foray into geopolitics has Ukraine worried
Asia


South-East Asia
Forced to defraud
Covid-19’s aftermath
Cover story
Indonesia
A nation at a loss
India’s useless opposition
Pantomime politics
Banyan
Whose blue?
China


Elite politics
Interfering elders
Training officials
Class struggle
Tibetan Buddhism
Sinifying Shangri-La
Chaguan
Spoiling for a fight
United States


The southern border
Don’t mind the gap
After Hurricane Ian
The Florida model
Nevada’s elections
Viva Las Vegas
The midterms
Other than that, Mrs Lincoln
Wisconsin’s politics
Curdling it up
Wildlife
Winter is coming
Lexington
What Donald Trump understands

Middle East & Africa


War in the Horn
Land of dashed hope
Lesotho
Let’s get this party started
The Sahel
Coup upon coup
Lebanon’s environment
Blue-sky blues
Iran
A protest song rocks a theocracy
The Americas


Brazil’s presidential election
Bolsonarismo battles on
Quebec
Isolated but not independent
Cuba
Voices of the powerless
Europe


German immigration
Willkommen
Italy
What’s the plan?
Yugoslavia and Ukraine
Shadows of the past
Charlemagne
Flashing das Cash
Britain


The Conservatives
Fourth time unlucky
Housing
In a fix
The Office for Budget Responsibility
Watched dog
Classics
Latin lovers
Urban governance
A tale of two cities
Bagehot
Accidental austerity
International


Capitals of cool
How pop culture went multipolar
Special report


The world economy
Regime change
Demography
The ageing paradox
Debt and interest rates
Feedback loop
Climate investment
Greenbacks for greenery
Spending pressure
The total bill
Inflation
Long road back
Inflation targeting
The end of 2%
Business


Management consultants
Bulletproof suits
German energy
Cleaning up its act
Bartleby
The magic formula
The luxury business
A new look
Elon Musk and Twitter
The odd couple
Schumpeter
The hard edge of the cloud
Finance & economics


Crisis watch
The rumbling draws near
Inflation
Overmighty
Buttonwood
Let them trade bonds
Commodities
Striking oil producers
Free exchange
China gives up the fight
Science & technology


The 2022 Nobel science prizes
To the winners, the spoils
Covid vaccines and menstruation
A dose of truth
Manx comets
Tailless comets could threaten Earth
Culture


Re-reading Russian literature in wartime
The useful “Idiot”
Scientific dynasties
Circles of life
The Catholic church
The room where it happened
American music
Rich pickings
British fiction
A man in full
Johnson
Out of one, many
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail


Interest rates
Steady as she goes
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What is annexation?
The Economist explains
Why fracking cannot solve Europe’s energy crisis
Obituary