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The World Ahead
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Leaders

Black and white photograph of Javier Milei
Lessons from a surprising experiment
Javier Milei: “My contempt for the state is infinite”
Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better

The least bad deal for Ukraine
How to make a success of peace talks with Vladimir Putin
The key is robust security guarantees for Ukrainians
A man waves the Lebanese flag from a car as displaced people return home, in Sidon, Lebanon on November 27th 2024
Ceasefire at last
Peace in Lebanon is just a start
Donald Trump must build on Joe Biden’s belated success
Trucks wait in a queue to cross to the US next to the border wall at the Otay commercial crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on November 26th 2024
Shots fired
Tariff threats will do harm, even if Donald Trump does not impose them
The risk of a trade war is uncomfortably high
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Out of juice
Lessons from the failure of Northvolt
Governments blew billions on a battery champion. Time to welcome foreign investors instead
Letters

On assisted dying, the Central African Republic, airships
Letters to the editor
By Invitation

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International aid
Three presidents on the partnerships that can at last transform Africa
The Palestinian question
A broader peace is within Israel’s grasp, say Tamir Pardo and Nimrod Novik
Briefing

View of the snow-covered Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine
Inaugural call
How will Donald Trump handle the war in Ukraine?
And how will Ukraine, Russia and Europe respond?

All disquiet on the home front
The war in Ukraine is straining Russia’s economy and society
Despite advances on the battlefield, pressure is growing

Titan targeted
The Adani bribery case could upend Indian business and politics
The allegations against the corporate champion may end up being resolved diplomatically rather than in court
Asia

A collage illustration of Nitin Gadkari with his face repeated three times, the Secretariat Building in new Delhi and a road with cars on it leading up to the building. There are green and orange shapes in the background.
The roads to the top
Meet the outspoken maverick who could lead India
Hands on
Fathers are doing more child care in East Asia
Bureaucrats, not bridge-builders
Is India’s education system the root of its problems?
Undulating ungulates
Ice Age antelopes surge back from the brink of extinction
Banyan
Indonesia’s Prabowo is desperate to impress Trump and Xi
China

Police officers and a police dog are on guard around the Japanese school in Shenzhen, Chin
Getting revenge on society
China suffers eruptions from its simmering discontents
Exercises in fertility
China’s government is badgering women to have babies
GLP-1s and China
Wegovy hits the People’s Republic, at last

United States

Gavin Newsom speaks to the press.
The resistance, part two
Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump’s return
Constraints on Tariff Man
Does Donald Trump have unlimited authority to impose tariffs?
Politics and justice
As Jack Smith exits, Donald Trump’s allies hint at retribution
Jackson drama
An FBI sting operation catches Jackson’s mayor taking big bribes
Looking for a new Illinois
America’s rural-urban divide nurtures wannabe state-splitters
The spy who purged me
Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks
The Americas


One year of anarcho-capitalism
Javier Milei, free-market revolutionary
The limits of stability
Is Uruguay too stable for its own good?
Trade in North America
Mexico and Canada brace for Donald Trump’s tariff thrashing
The noose tightens
Bolsonaro’s bid to regain Brazil’s presidency may end in prison
Middle East & Africa

A man inspects the damage at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted the Shayyah neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 26, 2024
A ceasefire in the Middle East
Israel and Hizbullah strike a fragile deal to end their war
Massad Boulos
The Lebanese-American businessman in Donald Trump’s inner circle
America in Africa
America under Joe Biden plays the pragmatist in Africa
Surviving in Africa
New cures for Africa’s most gruesome diseases
Not just a warehouse
Nigeria seeks to restore pride in its artefacts, ancient and modern
Europe

Donald Trump shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte as they meet in Palm Beach, Florida, United States, November 22nd 2024
America and NATO
The maths of Europe’s military black hole
An assault on Zaporizhia looms
Ukraine’s warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south
Double trouble
Marine Le Pen spooks the bond markets
Charlemagne
Ursula von der Leyen has a new doctrine for handling the hard right
Britain

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The score for talent
How the best British employers find and promote their staff
The British opportunity index
The best British companies to work for to get ahead
Road rage
Can potholes fuel populism?
A British national champion
Adele is taking a break from music. Can anybody replace her?
Sexual courting
Britain’s Supreme Court considers what a woman is
Rathlin Island
A Northern Irish experiment in recycling
Securo-what now?
The slow death of a Labour buzzword
Bagehot
Are British voters as clueless as Labour’s intelligentsia thinks?
International

Special Investigation Police, conducting a citywide anti-gang operation, raid a house in the Barrio Abajo district where gang members are believed to be residing
Gangsters’ paradise
The world is losing the fight against international gangs
The Telegram
“Tariffers” v “traders”: the new contest for Donald Trump’s ear
Business

The front of a car with its logo. Instead of being a car logo, it is a representation of the European flag, with the stars falling.
Breaking down
Will the trouble ever end for Volkswagen and its rivals?
Unplugged
After Northvolt’s failure, who will make Europe’s EV batteries?
Cover artists
Audiobooks are booming, thanks to streaming subscriptions
What’s in store
TikTok wants Western consumers to shop like the Chinese
Tycoons in a knife fight
Elon Musk’s xAI goes after OpenAI
Fantastic but not plastic
Could seaweed replace plastic packaging?
Bartleby
On stupid rules and quick wins
Schumpeter
Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?
Finance & economics

Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Traverse City, Michigan, United States on October 25th 2024
First shot
Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
The price of patriotism
American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits
Frothy holidays
Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
To the hilt
How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
Looking peaky
Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal
Buttonwood
The great-man theory of Wall Street
Free exchange
Why Black Friday sales grow more annoying every year
Science & technology

A bowl of Froot Loops cereal.
Nutrition
Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
Large behaviour models
Robots can learn new actions faster thanks to AI techniques
Fellow feelings
Elon Musk is causing problems for the Royal Society
Magic money trees
Deforestation is costing Brazilian farmers millions
Culture

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Treat your shelf
The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Angela’s ashes
Germany’s former chancellor sets out to restore her reputation
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Celeste Caeiro at age 90 holds a bouquet of carnations during a military parade to celebrate the Carnation Revolution's 50th anniversary in Lisbon, Portugal on April 25th 2024
Our Lady of the Carnations
Celeste Caeiro’s small gesture named a revolution

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On another planet
The opportunities—and dangers—for Trump’s disrupter-in-chief
Elon Musk is given the ultimate target: America’s government

It’s time
Why British MPs should vote for assisted dying
A long-awaited liberal reform is in jeopardy
Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union party gives a statement at the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, November 12th 2024
Act now, Mr Merz
Germany cannot afford to wait to relax its debt brake
It should move before the election
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Diminishing returns
Too many master’s courses are expensive and flaky
Governments should help postgraduates get a better deal
A group of protesters burn pictures Donald Trump and Joe Biden in 2020
Danger and deals in the Middle East
From Nixon to China, to Trump to Tehran
Iran is weak. For America’s next president that creates an opportunity

Letters

On ADHD, America’s election, Antarctica, canals, difficulties, Quincy Jones, Justin Trudeau
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Britain’s end-of-life debate
My assisted-dying bill safely solves a grave injustice, says Kim Leadbeater
Britain’s end-of-life debate
Assisted-dying advocates’ claims of freedom have it backward, says Danny Kruger
Briefing

A photo illustration of Donald Trump and Elon Musk
The first buddy
Elon Musk and Donald Trump seem besotted. Where is their bromance headed?
Past precedent is not encouraging
Elon Musk raises his arms to supporters at a rally in Madison Square Garden, New York
Poster boy
Elon Musk’s transformation, in his own words
Our analysis of 38,000 posts on X reveal a changed man
Asia

An illustration of silhouetted figures walking up stairs and reaching a plateau at the top.
Middle-class malaise
The surprising stagnation of Asia’s middle classes
Women in the workforce
The mystery of India’s female labour-force participation rate
A fight over rights
Racial tensions boil over in New Zealand
Extra baggage
Why is it so hard for Indians to get a visa?
Water woes
The Caspian Sea is shrinking rapidly
Banyan
Once a free-market pioneer, Sri Lanka takes a leap to the left
China

A little black figure struggles to open a door in the back of Xi Jinping's head.
The Sino-American rivalry
Helping America’s hawks get inside the head of Xi Jinping
A hill of beans
Trump, trade and feeding China’s pigs
Human rights in China
Snuffing out the flame of freedom in Hong Kong
United States

A 2024 balloon can be seen at an empty County Democrats Election Night Watch Party.
Donkey Rashomon
Democrats are still processing their defeat
Farewell to the five queens
Los Angeles decides it is sick of scandal
Stop, start
Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. Maybe
Deporting the suits
What will Donald Trump do about legal immigration?
Capitol offences
Will Donald Trump now pardon the January 6th rioters?
Fries with that
How gaga is MAHA?
Lexington
How Donald Trump could win the future

The Americas

People hold Brazilian and Chinese flags.
A match made in the Middle Kingdom
Brazil courts China as its Musk feud erupts again
Institutional failure
Parlacen, a bizarre parliament, is a refuge for bent politicians
Operation Holy Salmon
The mafia’s latest bonanza: salmon heists
Middle East & Africa

A protester holds a poster depicting former U.S. President Donald Trump, shown in a defiant pose, during a rally in Tehran, Iran, on November 3, 2024.
America and the Middle East
Get ready for “Maximum Pressure 2.0” on Iran
More chaos in Gaza
Israel’s hardliners want no one else to control Gaza
Sudan’s civil war
A genocidal militia’s quest for legitimacy
The non-appliance of science
Why GM crops aren’t feeding Africa
Europe

The logo of a rusty Volkswagen VW T1
The Germans don’t do it better
Once dominant, Germany is now desperate
The struggle with Russia
Ukraine’s secret army in France
Attack ’em
Ukraine can, at last, use its Western missiles inside Russia
Charlemagne
A rise in antisemitism puts Europe’s liberal values to the test
Britain

A nurse attending to a pateient behind curtains, the light coming through the blinds
The Victorian example
Where British MPs should look before the vote on assisted dying
False dilemma
How to fix palliative care in Britain
Asylum-seekers
Britain’s new government may cut the number of Channel crossings
Megafund pool party
Britain’s government wants bigger pension funds
Sloedown
The story of Britain’s “ginaissance”
Criminal justice
A sticking-plaster policy for Britain’s strained courts
Bagehot
Assisted dying and the two concepts of liberty
International


University in America and Britain
Is your master’s degree useless?
The Telegram
The perils of appeasing a warlike Russia
Business

A photo illustration dipicting Chinese flag is hidden behind the white ripped paper.
A corporate identity crisis
How Chinese is Shein?
All’s well that’s Blackwell
Nvidia’s boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall
Death by LLM
What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common
Breakout
Donald Trump’s victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies
Indian business
Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America
Flying low
Spirit’s woes reveal the dismal state of America’s budget airlines
Bartleby
How to behave in lifts: an office guide
Schumpeter
Does Dallas offer a vision of Trumpian America?
Finance & economics

Elon Musk speaks during a town hall event in support of Donald Trump at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania, United States on October 18th 2024
Slash and burn
How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true
Europe’s revenge
Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
Lying flat
Is China really a nation of slackers?
Buttonwood
Should investors just give up on stocks outside America?
The 21% war
Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Dotcom dreaming
Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?
Free exchange
What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
Science & technology

The human small intestine.
The Human Cell Atlas
Scientists are building a catalogue of every type of cell in our bodies
Fit to print
Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
Funny business
The two types of human laugh
Moving the needle
How squid could help people get over their needle phobia
Culture

Jordan Peterson dressed as a vicar
Love him or loathe him?
The cult of Jordan Peterson
Dove or raven?
Woodrow Wilson’s reputation continues to decline
In earshot
The best podcasts of 2024, as picked by The Economist
Valley and the gods
Tech and religion are very much alike
Sing it from the rooftops
The New York-London arbitrage for musicals
It’s a whole new ball game
Canadian v American football: can you catch the difference?
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Frank Auerbach in his studio
Layering up, scraping off
Frank Auerbach aimed only at one memorable image

What’s about to hit the world economy?
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America and the world
What’s about to hit the world economy?
Trumponomics tees off
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks on stage.
The loyalty test
Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be attorney-general is an ill omen
It shows how far Donald Trump is willing to go to dominate the machinery of government
General manager of Dunhuang Shouhang Energy Saving New Energy Co. Liu Fuguo speaks to reporters next to heliostat mirrors, at the site of Shouhang 100MW Tower Solar Thermal Power Generation Project in Gansu province, China, October 16th 2024
The long haul
Everything about climate change may seem grim. It isn’t
The fight for a stable climate will be fought using technology
Unfinished apartment buildings at Royals Garden, a housing development in Shanghai
Not too early to say
China should not wait to stimulate its economy
It is heading into a trade war
Muhammad Yunus at the COP29 Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 13th 2024
Caretaker, take care
After the revolution, Bangladesh is stable. For the moment
Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader, needs to set a date for elections
A red eagle, it's pupil has been replaced by a yellow earth
America’s lame-duck period
How to avoid global chaos in the next ten weeks
Risks abound in the limbo between now and Donald Trump’s swearing-in

Letters

On Donald Trump, obesity drugs, Ethiopia, grief, our Telegram column
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Ending it in one day?
War in Ukraine may only intensify under Trump, says Dmytro Kuleba
Briefing

An illustration showing the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy and the costs associated with it.
Carbon bargain
The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think
Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances
Asia

A collage illustration of Muhammad Yunus in the centre with Begum Khaleda Zia on the left and Shafiqur Rahman on the right. Red dots and cutout green shapes from the Bangladesh flag are scattered in the background.
Bangladesh
2024’s biggest revolution may yet devour its children
No dough
South Australia tries to ban political donations
A shot in the dark
Can the Philippines keep Donald Trump on its side?
Wheels and fortune
India is turning into an SUV country
Banyan
How South-East Asia can weather the Trump trade typhoon
China

Photovoltaic panels at a photovoltaic power station in Yinchuan, China
The COP29 conference
Mega-polluter China believes it is a climate saviour
Loss and control
A spate of horrific car-rammings shakes China
Hidden debts, crouching rulers
China’s stimulus falls short, as a showdown with Trump looms
Going for grub
China’s greatest dumpling run
United States

A duplicated photo of Donald Trump pointing at the camera with red gradients.
They’re hired
What Trump’s picks suggest about how his presidency will go
Thune’s tune
Senate Republicans flex their independence
Crusader in the Pentagon
The man picked as defence secretary wants to purge the Pentagon
National security
Mike Waltz wants America to focus on the threat from China
The brown revolution
Climate change and the next administration
Give him your tired, your poor
Back to the 1850s
Lexington
The promise Donald Trump is sure to keep

The Americas

The Canadian Armed Forces Parachute Team, the SkyHawks.
Canada’s military
Justin Trudeau’s dodgy defence promise
From underworld to white collar
Brazil’s gangsters have been getting into politics
Instability in Haiti
Haiti has lost its prime minister. Gangs aren’t going anywhere
Middle East & Africa

Construction site in Luanda Angola
Flying blind
To get more capital, Africa needs more data
The anxiety of hope
The world’s next country?
Itinerant Islamists
Quitting Qatar is the least of Hamas’s problems
Iraq, Iran and Israel
Iraq could be the Middle East’s next battleground
Deepening divides
The world’s most unlikely safe haven
Europe

German Chancellor Scholz addresses parliament in Berlin
Kanzlerdämmerung
The sun begins to set on Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship
Russian ruins
Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell
Dividing dodgy spoils
The war in Ukraine has rattled both sides of Cyprus
An imploding star
Italy’s oddest political party is splitting
Sexy at 60
How older French women are redefining the aesthetics of ageing
Charlemagne
Elon Musk threatens to deepen the rift between Europe and America
Britain

Sheep in pasture, with 42m-long-bladed wind turbines behind them.
We are the turbine-builders
How to frame the argument over clean power
Sins and forgiveness
The archbishop and the abuser
Lost connection
The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service
The stressed is Vistry
Britain’s star builder hits trouble
Brideshead, borrowed
Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
Goal setting
Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?
Bagehot
Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
International

Donald Trump and Joe Biden shaking hands in the Oval Office of the White House
From Biden-world to Trump-world
The danger zone between two presidents
Dethroning fossil fuels
King coal is dirty, dangerous—and far from dead
The Telegram
How to avoid Oval Office humiliation
Business

A hand throwinf the MAGA hat that cuts through the tax increase on corporations.
Levy breaks
America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed
Return of the Wundertüte
Donald Trump is bad news for German business
Semiconductors
TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope
Trainer wars
Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes
A postcard from Baku
Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation
A sticky situation
Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
Bartleby
The magic and the minefield of confidence
Schumpeter
Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump
Finance & economics

A globe with the American continent looming over another globe of the rest of the world
America v the world
China, Europe, Mexico: the biggest losers from Trumponomics
Money mantras
What does America’s next treasury secretary believe?
Buttonwood
Why financial markets are so oddly calm
Bitcoin flip
Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Reality cheque
How to pay for the poor world to go green
Free exchange
Economists need new indicators of economic misery
Science & technology

Display of an image of the world on the Hyperwall at the NASA Ames Research Center
Future imperfect
Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
Goldbugs at work
There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps
Shuttle shock
Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena
Yesterday’s fish
Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
Culture

Paul Mescal plays Lucius in "Gladiator II"
Ancient Rome on screen
What does “Gladiator II” get wrong?
The night that nearly broke Paris
The long shadow of the Paris terrorist attacks of 2015
You burn something new every day
“Energy transition” has been profoundly misunderstood
Back Story
In “Anora”, strippers and Russian heavies are not what you expect
Not the same old stories
The best films of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Baltazar Ushca extracts ice from the slopes of the Chimborazo volcano, in Chimborazo province, Ecuador on November 16th 2007
Three donkey-loads of ice
Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week

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The presidential election
Welcome to Trump’s world
His sweeping victory will shake up everything

Adapting to Trump’s world
Europe needs to wake up and look after itself
The biggest obstacle is Germany, which now urgently needs elections

Bombay bulls
How to protect India’s shareholder capitalism from itself
A surge in equity investment is threatened by risky derivatives trading

Out in the open
Why open-source AI models are good for the world
Their critics dwell on the dangers and underestimate the benefits

New diets, old problems
A scourge that damages babies’ brains is coming back
Yet iodine deficiency is startlingly easy to prevent

Letters

On compulsory voting, Angela Merkel, terrorism, maths, British citizenship, S&M
Letters to the editor
Briefing


Comeback king
Donald Trump’s victory was resounding. His second term will be, too
Congress is not likely to be much of a constraint on him
Asia


Indonesia’s foreign policy
Will Prabowo Subianto cosy up to Donald Trump or to China?
Pariah politics
Myanmar’s junta chief finally goes to China
A burning issue
South-East Asian Muslims are incensed by the war in Gaza
Crime and punishment
Why suspects in Japan are almost never acquitted
Banyan
What Narendra Modi’s third term may look like
China


Challenges and opportunities
Is the return of Donald Trump China’s dream or nightmare?
Eagle v Dragon
In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America
China’s economy
Chinese netizens wonder if their economy is in “garbage time”
United States


Law and peace
What a Republican trifecta will mean for governing
MAHA man
What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?
State of the states
Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policy
Governors and state legislatures
Democrats suffer in statehouse races, too
Campaign calculus: fool me thrice
Opinion polls underestimated Donald Trump again
Presidential immunity
Donald Trump also won a reprieve from justice
MAGA justice
Donald Trump’s potential SCOTUS picks
Lexington
Democrats need to understand: Americans think they’re worse
Middle East & Africa


Direction unknown
Will Donald Trump “stop the wars” in the Middle East?
Israeli politics
Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister
The war in Lebanon
Israel’s war aims in Lebanon are expanding
Democratic norms
What the world can learn from Botswana
One country, two kinds of family
Why the fertility gap between north and south Nigeria matters
Missing millions
Congo-Brazzaville has lost a big chunk of its oil revenue

The Americas


The first call
Donald Trump is poised to smash Mexico with tariffs
Mexican politics
Mexico is edging closer and closer to one-party rule
Losing friends and alienating people
BRICS isn’t exactly picky, but has just rejected Venezuela
Europe


Betrayal or bargain?
Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump’s victory
Combat and casualties
Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine’s battlefield hospitals
The exploding traffic light
Germany’s fractious coalition falls apart—and how!
After the waters fell
Spain’s flood poses far-reaching political questions
Charlemagne
A flailing economy has left the EU exposed to Trumpian outbursts
Britain


Becoming more European
Two groups are least happy about Labour’s budget
Gilt vigilantes
Labour’s budget has given the bond market indigestion
The Conservatives
Kemi Badenoch, the Tories’ new leader, plans war on the “blob”
Valuable lessons
Higher fees won’t help Britain’s beleaguered universities much
Poor law
The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habit
Past tense
What does it mean to wear a poppy today?
Bagehot
Farmer fight: Jeremy Clarkson versus Roald Dahl
International


Global disorder
America’s allies brace for brinkmanship, deals—and betrayal
The Telegram
The world faces its worst trade wars since 1930s
Business


CEOs in Trumpland (the sequel)
How will business deal with Donald Trump this time?
A nasty case of pilotitis
Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI
Pipe dreams
Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom
Harmony and enmity
Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android
Back on the bike
India’s startup scene is picking up speed again
Bartleby
Why being wrong is good for you
Schumpeter
What would Elon Musk do in government?
Finance & economics


Taxes down, walls up
The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
The wisdom of the crowd
What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
Mutual benefit
India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
The ships are down
Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Buttonwood
Barbarians on the porch
Free exchange
Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations
Science & technology


Open-minded
A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI
Crash course
China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
Out for blood
How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy
Worth its salt
As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback
Culture


Crowning achievements
The Economist’s selection of the best TV of 2024
The riled west
Montanans are ready for “Yellowstone” to end
The other Iran hostage crisis
The six-day siege that put terror on television
Earth father
Can a biography capture the complexity of a long life?
Sisterly abuse
Exposing the horrors of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries
Nation chief
Fiction captures the forces that led to Brexit
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The Prince of Bel-Air
Quincy Jones ruled popular music for half a century

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Our election endorsement
A second Trump term comes with unacceptable risks
If The Economist had a vote, we would cast it for Kamala Harris

Mission unaccomplished
The British budget combines large numbers and a narrow vision
A bigger state but an irrational way to fund it

A very cold war
How to avoid anarchy in Antarctica
All that stands between the status quo and chaos is a fragile treaty

Capital control
Index funds want to continue being treated as “passive” investors
They should act like them, then

Think outside the box
ADHD should not be treated as a disorder
Adapting schools and workplaces for it can help far more

Letters

On the OECD and climate, violence against women, the NHS, AI and nuclear power, Britishisms
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Middle out, not trickle-down
Kamala Harris wants to invest and cut the cost of living, says Bharat Ramamurti
America’s election integrity
Respect election officials to preserve democracy, says an Arizona county supervisor
Briefing


A sting in the tail risks
How bad could a second Trump presidency get?
The damage to America’s economy, institutions and the world would be huge
Essay


Anti-politics is eating the West
When politics is about hating the other side, democracy suffers
Asia


Neighbourhood strife
North Korea’s fanatical regime just got scarier
Prayer and profit
India’s startups pray for a Hindu super-app
Hard ball
Australia is trying to ruck China in Papua New Guinea
Cut down to size
Pakistan’s politicians seize control of the judiciary
Japan shakes
Voters deliver a historic rebuke to Japan’s ruling coalition
Banyan
Yes sir: a bizarre initiation ritual for Indonesia’s cabinet
China


An insurance policy against MAGA
Why China may be saving its bazooka for Donald Trump
A discomforting deployment
North Korea’s aid to Russia raises difficult questions in China
Frightened by Halloween
China rounds up Batman, Donald Trump and the Buddha
Readers in exile
A new intellectual hub for Chinese émigrés in Washington

United States


Take this into a count
What to watch for on election night, and beyond
Young men on couches
Will Donald Trump’s bros turn out?
Campaign calculus: miss calculation
How wrong could America’s pollsters be?
Osborn again
Could a mechanic in Nebraska determine control of the Senate?
Bringing down the House
The fight to win the most unruly institution in Washington
Lexington
This campaign is also demonstrating America’s democratic vitality
Middle East & Africa


The aftermath of the Israeli strikes
Iran needs a new national-security strategy
Diminished defences
Israel is keeping open the nuclear option
The not-quite-peace deal
Another African war looms
The Americas


US elections and Mexico
Triple trouble awaits Mexico if Donald Trump wins
Climate justice
Justin Trudeau is paying for solar panels in the cold, dark Arctic
Outshining Odysseus
Why Uruguayans rejected a government splurge
Europe


Georgia’s election
Georgia’s ruling party crushes the country’s European dream
Survival mode
Ukraine is now struggling to cling on, not to win
Spanish floods
Floods in Spain cause death and devastation
The long road to peace
Turkey could soon strike a historic peace deal with the Kurds
Free roaming
The immigrants Europe quietly wants more of
Charlemagne
The power and limits of Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic charm
Britain


The tax lever
Britain’s budget is heavy on spending but light on reform
Grievance politics
The extreme right after the riots in Britain
Demography
Britain’s birth rate has crashed. It is likely to recover
Life on the water
A growing number of Britons live on canal boats
Money, the media and power
Meet one of Britain’s most influential, least understood people
Bagehot
Britain’s Labour Party has forgotten how to be nice
International


Diplomacy on ice
Intrigue, greed and hostility burn in the Antarctic
A column on world affairs
The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world
Business


The Medicis and Michelangelo
What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free?
Oversubscribed
Too many people want to be social-media influencers
From shuddering to shuttering
Volkswagen’s woes illustrate Germany’s creeping deindustrialisation
Flush fund
Can Japan’s toilet technology crack global markets?
Dig, baby, dig
China is tightening its grip on the world’s minerals
Bartleby
How to beat jet lag
Schumpeter
Can anyone besides Nvidia make big bucks from chips?
Finance & economics


Presidential preoccupations
America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
Death of despair
American men are getting back to work
In the crossfire
Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
Economic rescue
Why China needs to fill its empty homes
Corporate heaven
Ireland’s government has an unusual problem: too much money
In search of lost revenue
Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners
Buttonwood
Will bond vigilantes come for America’s next president?
Free exchange
Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—and curses
Science & technology


Into focus
Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder
Bivalve broadband
Heart-cockle shells may work like fibre-optic cables
The wrong stuff
Space may be worse for humans than thought
Blue-sky thinking
Airships may finally prove useful for transporting cargo
Culture


A Mexican wave
Made in Mexico: why the new Hollywood is south of the border
The queen of kawaii
Hello Kitty, still cute at 50
The theory of evolution
Darwin and Dawkins: a tale of two biologists
Back to black
Goth culture has returned from the dead
Electioneering
How podcasts came to rule America’s campaign conversation
The Economist watches
The best film and TV featuring fictional American elections
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The necklace in the bread
Lily Ebert lived to share her story of Auschwitz

The world this week

Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


The everything drugs
It’s not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world
As they become cheaper, they promise to improve billions of lives

Leaders
Elon’s $1m voter
Mr Musk’s scheme to boost Donald Trump is legally questionable and bad for democracy

Status anxiety
The blistering rally in gold augurs ill for the power of the dollar
Central banks are shifting away from the greenback

Criminal justice
Decarceration is the key to better prisons
Britain is not the only rich country that needs a radical change in approach

Making business roar
Time to shake up Asia’s sleepy monopolies
The cosy links between politics and business impose large costs on a dynamic region

Letters

On economics, America, the Chagos Islands, innovation in AI, the Turkic states, Abraham Lincoln, flies
Letters to the editor
Briefing


The Swiss Army knife of jabs
GLP-1s like Ozempic are among the most important drug breakthroughs ever
Their far-reaching potential could transform how chronic diseases are managed
Asia


Getting to know Prabowo
Indonesia’s macho new leader is no “cuddly grandpa”
Prabowo’s plans for nickel
Making nickel is a nightmare. Unless you are Indonesian
South-East Asia’s criminal scams
Suck up to your fake CEO
Himalayan handshake
Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping meet and resolve a border row
Banyan
Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it
China


Decoding America’s election
Ambiguity or madness? Where Harris and Trump stand on China
A long way to go
How China is trying to win back foreign tourists
The last laugh
A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms
United States


Early returns
How to read America’s early-voting numbers
Flooding the polls
Will Hurricane Helene tip the vote in North Carolina?
Fear and voting
Donald Trump’s terrifying closing message
Campaign calculus: Kamala’s camp
Gay voters are smitten with Kamala Harris
Valley fever
A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona’s elections
Lexington
Kamala Harris’s closing argument
Middle East & Africa


Killing an idea
Do Israel’s assassinations work?
Yahya Sinwar’s death
Yahya Sinwar made Hamas his own fief
Israel’s waiting game
Israel’s leaders are watching America’s election closely
The wages of truth
Mozambique’s ruling party wins a dodgy election
Not so mellow
Gold is booming. So is the dirty business of digging it up
Religion re-rooted
How African churches are keeping the faith alive abroad

The Americas


Much obliged
Millions in the West want mandatory voting. Are they right?
Dwindling prospects
Blackouts in Cuba highlight the island’s extreme energy fragility
Climate change and parasites
The flesh-eating worms devouring cows
Europe


The disrupter-in-chief
Germany’s populist superstar demands peace with Russia
Blood brothers
North Korea is sending thousands of soldiers to help Vladimir Putin
The tightrope walker
Giorgia Meloni would make Machiavelli proud
Country cuisine
The world’s most improbable smash-hit cooking show
Charlemagne
Angela who? Merkel’s legacy looks increasingly terrible
Britain


It’s worse than you think
Britain’s prison service is caught in a doom loop
The Chris Kaba case
How to hold armed police to account in Britain
The most sensible show on earth
Why “The Rest Is Politics”, a British podcast, is a hit
Fur’s aid
Britain is a world leader in pet health care
A construction slowdown
Scotland’s failure to build homes is mainly due to its government
Match postponed
The shortfall in British adoptions
Bagehot
King’s Cross, a miracle in London
International


Launching a currency war in Moscow
Putin’s plan to dethrone the dollar
Business


Earned out?
America’s growing profits are under threat
Dig out your trousers
Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office?
Tropical depression
South-East Asia’s stodgy conglomerates are holding it back
Pharma frenzy
Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger
Down memory lane
Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI
Bartleby
How to manage politics in the workplace
Schumpeter
Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple’s march towards $4trn?
Finance & economics


Going for it
What the surging price of gold says about a dangerous world
Wide Atlantic
The West faces new inflation fears
Hunger games
The economics of thinness (Ozempic edition)
Buttonwood
Investors should not fear a stockmarket crash
Economic war
Hizbullah’s sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerable
Free exchange
How bad are video games for your grades?
Science & technology


Old case files
The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes
Buzzing without being buzzed
Why Oriental hornets can’t get drunk
Robocrop
Winemakers are building grape-picking robots
Sunny side up
Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power
Culture


Opposing Putin’s tyranny
In a posthumous memoir, Alexei Navalny chronicles his martyrdom
Sexy time
Is the idea of sexual identity relatively new?
Why do you Tok like that?
TikTok is changing how Gen Z speaks
You look so familiar
Can there ever be another great le Carré novel?
The setting Son?
Softbank’s gambling founder, Masayoshi Son, is catnip for authors
Back Story
What the row over Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book reveals about free speech
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The Grand Infiltrator
Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways

The world this week

Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


The envy of the world
America’s economy is bigger and better than ever
Will politics bring it back to Earth?

Financial firepower
How the Biden administration botched America’s sanctions against Iran
With the financial deterrent undermined, only military deterrence is left

Justin’s time
Canada’s Trudeau trap
How the world’s most reasonable country grew sick of centre-left liberalism

Reeves’s first rodeo
Britain’s budget risks being a huge missed opportunity
Rachel Reeves looks set to please no one for little return

Space travel
Starship will change what is possible beyond Earth
The successful test-flight of SpaceX’s massive new space vehicle promises a host of new projects, including the colonisation of Mars

Letters

On VAT, Spain, UNRWA, electric cars, tuition fees, working lunches
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The space industry
Europe must play to win—not just play nice—in a new space race, argues ESA’s boss
America’s election
Europe should not see a potential Trump return as a threat, says Nadia Schadlow
Briefing


Filling up space
The rockets are nifty, but it is satellites that make SpaceX valuable
Elon Musk’s space venture may soon be more valuable than Tesla
Asia


The fifth Five Eye
New Zealand’s biggest pivot since the 1980s
Big dreams in a small place
Bhutan prays it can be India’s Hong Kong
Stormy weather
Pakistan rolls out the red carpet for China’s prime minister
Banyan
Myanmar’s military junta has conjured up a crazy currency system
China


The view from Beijing
Does China welcome—or dread—an Iran-Israel war?
Drill, baby, drill
China makes love and war with Taiwan
Buy, buy, buy…sell!
Do amateurs regret jumping into China’s frenzied stockmarkets?
Evil influencers
In China, fib online and find out
United States


Getting the drift
Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia
Barnstorming
Republicans ramp up efforts to court Amish voters in Pennsylvania
Degrees of difference
Polarisation by education is remaking American politics
Campaign calculus: the customer is sometimes wrong
Voters won’t thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy
Crying over split milk
Vital election races in Wisconsin are awfully close
Payback time
Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago’s teachers’ union everything
Lexington
One big thing Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in common

Middle East & Africa


Once more, with feeling
Bad ideas are back on the menu in the Middle East
Hell and horror, again
Does Israel’s new plan for Gaza include withholding food?
Above the fray
Lebanon’s army is less useless than its reputation suggests
A study in resilience
How Wagner survived Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death
Next-generation transportation
Africa’s EV revolution has two wheels not four
The Americas


The dying of the light
Justin Trudeau is killing Canada’s liberal dream
Running on empty
Bolivia’s slow-motion economic crisis is accelerating
India-Canada relations
The Mounties take on Modi. Who will win?
Europe


Out of sight, out of mind?
Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania
Maia Sandu takes a stand
This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia’s dirty tricks
Digging for victory
Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine
Between BRICS and a hard place
The limits of Turkey’s strategic autonomy
Reclaiming the centre
Poland’s new modern-art museum wants to give the capital a fresh look
Charlemagne
Hopes for religious harmony come to life in the Muslim Vatican
Britain


They will come and build it
Sir Keir Starmer’s elevator pitch for investment
The ticked-off well-off
Is Britain’s government at war with the wealthy?
Tech brothers
Trade unions have their eye on Britain’s tech sector
A shrunken giant
Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back again
Testing times
Could you pass the British citizenship test?
The right to die
An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to Westminster
Bagehot
The war on prices: British edition
International


Going feral
Vladimir Putin’s spies are plotting global chaos
Special report


Special report
The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust
Economic output
American productivity still leads the world
For richer and poorer
Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?
Energy
The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great
Stocks
Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme
The dollar
China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback
Looking ahead
What can stop the American economy now?
The American economy
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Autonomous cars
The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream
On the rack
Pity the superstar fashion designer
Little frog, bigger pond
Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant
Mine your own business
BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions
Reign of the spreadsheet
Why Microsoft Excel won’t die
Called out
Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?
Bartleby
The horrors of the reply-all email thread
Schumpeter
What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?
Finance & economics


Dark commerce
Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars
Buttonwood
Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks
Mein Gott
Germany’s economy goes from bad to worse
Everyone wins
Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
Free exchange
An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail
Science & technology


The new Moon race
SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival
The new Moon race
SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival
Life finds a way
Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents
Forget about Mars
Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?
Culture


Who are you calling cute?
Why the world is so animated about anime
The aquatic underworld
Is the deep ocean more magnificent than outer space?
World in a dish
Food lovers the world over are tickled by pickles
Sexual politics
In the second world war, some diplomacy was done between the sheets
Known unknowns
How to analyse chance, ignorance and risk
Wall of worry
What don’t you know about your partner?
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
What to read about grief and bereavement
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The boy who aged too fast
Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease

The world this week

Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


An echo and a choice
The Trumpification of American policy
No matter who wins in November, Donald Trump has redefined both parties’ agendas

Paradise lashed
How Florida should respond to Hurricane Milton
Storms like it raise uncomfortable questions about the state’s future

Shock horror
How high could the oil price go?
Geopolitical risk is rising. But so is the supply of oil

A sting in the tail
The front line of the tech war is in Asia
The two superpowers are vying for influence. China will not necessarily win

A bad deal
Britain should not hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Once again, the Chagossians have been denied a say

Letters

On Ukraine, policing, food chains, European reforms, kindness, the Labour government, martinis
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The Israel-Hizbullah war
Lebanon needs a new army in the south, says Yair Lapid
The Israel-Hizbullah war
The framework that ended Lebanon’s war in 2006 could help end this one too, says Tarek Mitri
Briefing


Shrinking coattails
Who will control the next Congress?
The new president is much less likely than usual to see allies take charge on Capitol Hill
Asia


Digital domination
America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?
A glitch in the matrix
Asia is weighing data-centre ambitions against sustainability
Going nuclear
Kazakhstan’s referendum on nuclear energy could benefit Russia
A quieter tiger?
Is India’s economy slowing down?
Doing the locomotion
New railways could transform South-East Asia
Banyan
Has Narendra Modi lost his mojo?
China


Immigration
How to escape from China to America
United States


Policy brief
What America’s presidential election means for world trade
Policy brief
The US tax code will change next year; the presidential election will determine how
Policy brief
Donald Trump is preparing an assault on America’s immigration system
Policy brief
On energy and climate, Trump and Harris are different by degrees
Policy brief
Both candidates pledge to fortify America. How big will they go?
Policy brief
America’s presidential election marks a fork in the road for Ukraine
Policy brief
Will the next president follow Israel into war with Iran?
Policy brief
The next American president will be a China hawk
Lexington
Shirley Chisholm is still winning

Middle East & Africa


War in the Middle East
Israel has these four options for attacking Iran
Tehran’s calculus
Iran’s leader must choose how to fight his war with Israel
Waiting for war
The threat of an Israeli attack is reviving Iranian nationalism
Hizbullah’s role in Lebanon
Israel’s invasion of Lebanon may bolster support for Hizbullah
Family matters
How to send a cake from New Jersey to Accra
Off to a good start
South Africa’s coalition government has improved the vibes
The Americas


Stubborn brutality
The beating of Argentina’s former first lady fits a shameful pattern
Not the end of it
American women go to Mexico for abortions
Conservation in Latin America
The drug lords’ side-hustle: smuggling macaws, jaguars and frogs
Europe


The French budget
France stares into a “colossal” budgetary abyss
Struggling back
Turkey’s long hard struggle with inflation
A tale of a nail
Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse
Holding on
Russia continues to advance in eastern Ukraine
Alive or dead?
The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
Charlemagne
Europeans are facing the prospect of Trump like a deer caught in headlights
Britain


Scalpel, please
The story of one NHS operation
Grayday! Grayday!
The Sue Gray saga casts doubt on Keir Starmer’s managerial chops
Oceans apart
Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Modern life is rubbish
The biography of a British recycling bag
Property and technology
Can software help ease Britain’s housing crisis?
The pulses quicken
Britain’s obsession with baked beans
Bagehot
Britain’s last imperialists
International


Elections everywhere
Over a billion have voted in 2024: has democracy won?
Business


Power couple
Big tech is bringing nuclear power back to life
A digital makeover
Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
Under fire
Can Israel’s mighty tech industry withstand a wider war?
A titan departs
Ratan Tata, a consequential and beloved figure in Indian business
The standards war
China is writing the world’s technology rules
Bartleby
When workplace bonuses backfire
Schumpeter
Masayoshi Son is back in Silicon Valley—and late to the AI race
Finance & economics


The other wall
How America learned to love tariffs
Worst-keg scenario
Could war in the Gulf push oil to $100 a barrel?
C-BAM!
Europe’s green trade restrictions are infuriating poor countries
When the smoke clears
Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Buttonwood
Why have markets grown more captivated by data releases?
Hammered
China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Keeping up with the neighbours
How bond investors soured on France
Free exchange
Can the world’s most influential business index be fixed?
Science & technology


The 2024 Nobel prizes
AI wins big at the Nobels
Flying fish
Meet Japan’s hitchhiking fish
Still waters
Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive to marine life
Culture


From witchcraft to woke
How humans invented good and evil, and may reinvent both
Missives from a neurosurgeon
How complicated is brain surgery actually?
Song of myself
Why you should read Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
“Unleashed” and mildly unhinged
Boris Johnson shows how not to write a political memoir
Johnson on language
Americans are chuffed as chips at British English
Back Story
Is TV’s next sure-fire hit, “Disclaimer”, a must-watch or a dud?
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Two towers of white spray
Yoshioka Masamitsu saw Pearl Harbor from the air

The world this week

Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s covers
Leaders


Iran, Israel and the Palestinians
The year that shattered the Middle East
Kill or be killed is the region’s new logic. Deterrence and diplomacy would be better

Too soon to party
Don’t celebrate China’s stimulus just yet
It will take more than a spectacular stockmarket rally to revive the economy

Ishiba Shigeru, gadfly-turned-leader
Socially liberal and strong on defence, Japan’s new premier shows promise
But he must ditch his more eccentric ideas if he is to control his party

Shake up, not break up
Dismantling Google is a terrible idea
Despite its appeal as a political rallying cry

Know a fly, know thyself?
A map of a fruit fly’s brain could help us understand our own
A miracle of complexity, powered by rotting fruit

Letters

On the Cayman Islands, Afghanistan, Turkey, blood donations, private tutors, Britain, sex and Christianity
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


One year of war in Gaza
Philippe Lazzarini says the blows to humanitarian law in Gaza harm us all
Mexico
Ernesto Zedillo says AMLO has left Mexico on the verge of authoritarianism
Briefing


On many fronts
The bloodshed in the Middle East is fast expanding
Israel seems certain to retaliate to Iran’s missile attack

The great mistake
What Hamas misunderstood about the Middle East
A war meant to draw in the militant group’s allies has instead left them battered

No common purpose
A year on, Israeli society is divided about the lessons of October 7th
Hawks and doves, religious and secular, right and left—all the old cleavages are resurfacing

The Palestinians’ future
Has the war in Gaza radicalised young Palestinians?
After Gaza, how will the Palestinians try to build their state?
Asia


The outsider otaku
Japan’s new prime minister is his own party’s sternest critic
An interview with Admiral Hua Tang
China is using an “anaconda strategy” to squeeze Taiwan
Putting the AI in Mumbai
India has a unique opportunity to lead in AI
No longer showing up
America is losing South-East Asia to China
China


The fear of falling
Worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night
Making a sPLAsh
A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
Udder pressure
Why China is awash in unwanted milk
United States


Voting and victimhood
Crypto bros v cat ladies: gender and the 2024 election
October surprise
A ports strike shows the stranglehold one union has on trade
Running mate
Tim Walz is the most popular candidate on either ticket
Taking the initiative
Many Americans can decide their own policies. What will they choose?
Washed away
Hurricane Helene was America’s deadliest storm in nearly two decades
Reinventing the army
The US Army’s chief of staff has ideas on the force of the future
Lexington
The vice-presidential debate was surprisingly cordial

Middle East & Africa


Looking for trouble
A dangerous dispute in the Horn of Africa
The Americas


A long shadow
Jair Bolsonaro still shapes Brazil’s political right
World’s end
Peruvians are debating how to protect isolated tribes
Everyone’s a winner
Why is football in Latin America so complex?
Europe


Not wholly in power
Pedro Sánchez clings to office at a cost to Spain’s democracy
Austria’s election
Why the hard-right Herbert Kickl is unlikely to be Austria’s next chancellor
Hoping for better
Ukraine’s Roma have suffered worse than most in the war
In the Wildersness
The Netherlands’ new hard-right government is a mess
Sexual violence
A harrowing rape trial in France has revived debate about consent
Charlemagne
How the wolf went from folktale villain to culture-war scapegoat
Britain


Tory Benn
Britain’s Conservatives adopt the bad habits of the Labour left
Party time
Why on earth would anyone go to a British party conference?
A wartime diaspora
Ukrainians are settling down in Britain. That creates a problem
Blyth spirit
Gigafactories and dashed dreams: the parable of Blyth
The wheels of justice
The scourge of stolen bikes in Britain
Burning ambition
Britain’s last coal-fired power station closes
Bagehot
How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top
Business


Changing the program
AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world
Pound of flesh
Will America’s government try to break up Google?
If the face is fit…
Workouts for the face are a growing business
Road trip
Transit vans are the key to Ford’s future
Instantaneous consumption
India’s consumers are changing how they buy
Bartleby
What makes a good manager?
Schumpeter
The future of the Chinese consumer—in three glasses
Finance & economics


Good-vibes rally
Xi Jinping’s belated stimulus has reset the mood in Chinese markets
Economic decoupling
Why is Canada’s economy falling behind America’s?
Unaccountable accounts
A tonne of public debt is never made public
Buttonwood
Can Andrea Orcel, Europe’s star banker, create a super-bank?
Block party
The house-price supercycle is just getting going
Free exchange
Why economic warfare nearly always misses its target
Science & technology


On the fly
An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow
So much hot air
Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work
Island life
Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases
Sound of mind
AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions
Culture


The stickiness factor
The Malcolm Gladwell rule: how to succeed while annoying critics
Money matters
The best new books to read about finance
Revisiting history
Was Abraham Lincoln gay?
No passing fad
Fashion photography is in vogue
The next big thing
Turn down the K-pop and pay attention to K-healing
Back Story
Roald Dahl was a genius—and a shocking bigot
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Books that probe the secrets of the Mossad
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Obituary
Maggie Smith, the dowager countess of comic timing

The world this week

Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s covers
Leaders


Starmer’s woes
The sinking feeling caused by Labour’s clumsy start
Britain’s new government is paying for the sins of the election campaign

Zelensky in Washington
The war is going badly. Ukraine and its allies must change course
Time for credible war aims—and NATO membership

Leash the dogs of war
An Israel-Hizbullah war would be a disaster for both
Both must find a way to step back

The case for taxing consumption
If you must raise taxes, raise VAT
Taxing consumption is economically efficient and politically possible

Anura Kumara Dissanayake
How worried should Sri Lanka be about its ex-Marxist president?
He is not as bad as he sounds. But the risk of disappointment is high

The future of television
YouTube’s do-it-yourself brigade is taking on Netflix and Disney
Legions of self-taught film-makers are coming for the television industry

Letters

On car safety, the UN and Palestinians, Chinese data, leaving work, museums
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The drugs don’t work
Ara Darzi on why antibiotic resistance could be deadlier than cancer
COP29
COP29 is greenwashing a dictatorship, writes Azerbaijan’s main opposition leader
Briefing


A widening breach
Ukraine is on the defensive, militarily, economically and diplomatically
Russian advances, fatigue among its allies and political divisions at home leave it in a bind
Asia


All change
An upset in Sri Lanka propels an outsider into power
Tailored solutions
How India can compete in labour-intensive manufacturing
Going soft
Has the Quad lost its way?
Banyan
Who will become Japan’s next prime minister?
China


Looking up in frustration
A new class struggle is brewing in China
Hate thy neighbour
Another attack on a Japanese local points to a big problem in China
Brains-trust blues
Xi Jinping wants to stifle thinking at a top Chinese think-tank
United States


Money for nothing
Kamala Harris is outspending Donald Trump. Will it matter?
Hizzoner and dishonour
Eric Adams, New York’s mayor, is indicted on bribery charges
Campaign calculus: mini-landslides
Recent special elections bode well for Democrats
A little secret, the Robinson affair
Mark Robinson has hijacked his own campaign in North Carolina
Direct democracy
Kamalamania and the drive for abortion rights are a potent mix
Hard cell
America’s growing row over policies for transgender prisoners
Lexington
What J.D. Vance is learning from Donald Trump

Middle East & Africa


History repeating
Hizbullah seems to have miscalculated in its fight with Israel
The view from Beirut
The flight from southern Lebanon has been swift
Iran’s calculations
Iran’s damage-limitation efforts may not go to plan
Second time as farce
Tunisia’s strongman president looks set to win another term in office
Let the sunlight in
Building an African multinational
Protecting wildlife
Can shooting some elephants save many others?
The Americas


Evelyn Matthei
The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution
Remote workers
Digital nomads are a force for good in Latin America
Mexican politics
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is militarising public security
Europe


Giant steppes
Turkey and Central Asia are riding together again
Building Fortress Austria
Austria’s xenophobic right edges towards victory
French evolution
France’s new coalition yanks the country a step to the right
A worrying turn
Turkey wants the EU to regulate the döner kebab
OK boomer
American long-range missiles are coming back to Europe
Charlemagne
A banking raid in Europe kicks up an unseemly nationalist defence
Britain


Sir Unclear Starmer
What is Britain’s Labour government for?
Loosening the chains
Britain’s budget choices are not as bad as the government says
The right reaction
Much keener on Trump, less sure about Charles III
The gravest questions
Why did Mohamed Al Fayed escape scrutiny?
Help yourselves
The self-help book began in the land of the stiff upper lip
A healthy balance-sheet
Should Britons’ health be considered a national asset?
Bagehot
Inside the chaos machine of British politics
International


Autocratic alliances
A new “quartet of chaos” threatens America
Business


Old v new media
YouTubers like MrBeast are coming for Hollywood
Electric shock
Northvolt announces more cuts, worrying investors
Star-crossed
The curse of the Michelin star
Barbell effect
The rise of the $40,000 gym membership
Silicon sally
Can dealmaking save Intel?
Bartleby
The hell of the sandwich lunch
Schumpeter
Is a Nike lifer the best person to revive the swoosh?
Finance & economics


Political economy
Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless
No rush
China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
International debt
How lower American interest rates will boost Africa
Financial conflict
Can Israel’s economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?
Fuel to the fire
Is the world sleepwalking into another gas crisis?
Buttonwood
A Wall Street state of mind has captured America
Free exchange
Why the Federal Reserve is split on the future of interest rates
Science & technology


CAR-T therapy
Immune therapy shows promise for asthma, heart disease—and even ageing
Water, water everywhere
New technologies can spot pesky leaks in water pipelines
VIPER
NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover
Extra extra mature
The world’s oldest cheese sheds light on ancient Chinese culture
Culture


The edifice complex
What “supertall” skyscrapers reveal about the countries that build them
Rocket management
The SpaceX guide to exceptional engineering
Bad boys
An Indian hijack drama, “IC 814”, dares to portray terrorists as human
Back Story
Sally Rooney shows how to escape the trap of success
The centre did not hold
Understanding the Republican Party’s rightward march
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
An introduction to Lebanon, perhaps the next front in a wider war
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

How ugly will it get?

The world this week

Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


How ugly will it get?
America’s election is mired in conflict
Donald Trump’s conspiracy machine is already gearing up for election night

Mixed message
Mario Draghi’s best ideas are those Europe finds least comfortable
The danger is that it picks the easy ones

The dangers of rock claiming
More storms are brewing in the South China Sea
A dangerous new stage in the conflict is beginning

Corporate crusade
How to finish Japan’s business revolution
Tokyo-listed companies have become more friendly to shareholders, but the job is only half-done

Subsidise people, not petrol
Nigeria’s catastrophic fuel crisis has a straightforward solution
How to scrap a popular yet ruinous subsidy

Letters

On Iranian hostages, handwriting, underground cables, love, Kamala Harris, artificial intelligence, gobbledygook
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Euro-vision
Mario Draghi outlines his plan to make Europe more competitive
Landmines in Ukraine
Clearing Ukraine’s mines is crucial for global food security, say Howard Buffett and Tony Blair
Briefing


A foregone confusion
What will happen if America’s election result is contested?
The system is now stronger, but so is public mistrust of it
Asia


Superpower tensions in Asia
The scary new map of the South China Sea
India v Bangladesh
Can India’s garments industry benefit from Bangladesh’s turmoil?
Machh ado about nothing
What ilish, a fish, says about India-Bangladesh relations
Of scams and syndicates
The downfall of a Philippine mayor may be linked to Chinese gangs
Corporate dynasties
Kim Beom-su, the billionaire founder of Kakao, faces trial
Banyan
Youngsters are fleeing Japan’s once-mighty civil service
China


Stability, now what?
Can Xi Jinping take Hong Kong “from stability to prosperity”?
Leading the way
China is beating America in the nuclear-energy race
We’re keeping them
Why China banned international adoptions
United States


Wicked safe
How Boston became the safest big city in America
TikTok, tarot and Trump
Astrologers are predicting the result of America’s election
Trouble in Paradise Valley
Democratic control of the Senate depends on a seven-fingered farmer
Campaign calculus
The systemic bias Kamala Harris must overcome in order to win
New term, same balancing act
America’s college heads revise rules for handling campus protests
Lexington
Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump look out of his depth

Middle East & Africa


Falling apart
Is Syria’s drug-dealing dictator coming in from the cold?
Not wanted here
Turkey is trying to deport Syrian refugees back to a war zone
The Philadelphi story
A narrow corridor in Gaza has become an obstacle to a ceasefire
No petrol, no peace
If Nigeria cannot end fuel shortages, disaster beckons
Markets amid madness
How trading in war-torn Sudan survives—just
The Americas


Dark days
Venezuela’s opposition is getting smashed
No quick fix
Antony Blinken swoops into a violent hotspot close to home
Blue gold
The sweet story of Peru’s blueberry boom
Europe


Dirty sponges
Squeaky-clean Europe is more corrupt than you think
French politics
Michel Barnier’s burden
A bloody trade
Danger in Donbas as Ukraine’s front line falters
Choice v life
Poland’s ruling coalition divides over women’s rights
No ball
A northern Italian town bans cricket
Charlemagne
Nice ideas, Mr Draghi—now who will pay for them?
Britain


Brotherly love
The harmony between Labour and Britain’s trade unions
In deep trouble
Britain’s submarines are at sea for too long—or not at all
Driven up the wall
Finding a driving test in Britain is painful, slow and expensive
Laundry list
Will Labour be better at tackling dirty money than the Tories?
Keeping the juices flowing
Volunteering has big benefits for the elderly
Urban planning
Why have Britain’s new towns become fashionable again?
Bagehot
Loons and the Tory leadership battle in Britain
International


The toil, tears and sweat of competition
Sport is getting hotter, harder and deadlier
Business


Mergers and inquisitions
Is the era of the mega-deal over?
Job half done
Japan’s sleepy companies still need more reform
Not edgy enough
AI will not fix Apple’s sluggish iPhone sales any time soon
Snapped up
Demand for high-end cameras is soaring
Raining cats and dogs
People are splurging like never before on their pets
Falling behind
European firms are smaller and less profitable than American ones
The ties that bind
Why family empires dominate business in India
Bartleby
Physical proximity has big effects in the workplace
Schumpeter
Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?
Finance & economics


The 72-year-old patient
Can anything spark Europe’s economy back to life?
Foreign-exchange markets
Norway’s weak currency presents a mystery
Delayed reaction
Strangely, America’s companies will soon face higher interest rates
Buttonwood
Can bonds keep beating stocks?
Xi, the generous
China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Long, hot summer
The IMF has a protest problem
The big squeeze
Why orange juice has never been more expensive
Free exchange
An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Science & technology


The motherlode
Breast milk’s benefits are not limited to babies
White gold
Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk
Tests of time
The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon
Radiation-belt remediation
Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of orbit
Culture


Can you tell the truth?
The information wars are about to get worse, Yuval Noah Harari argues
A secret love affair
Why many French have come to like “Emily in Paris”
Off colour?
Paul Gauguin is an artist ripe for cancellation
The CIA’s Rip van Winkle
The riveting story of the longest-held American prisoner-of-war
Back Story
“The Perfect Couple” and the new map of Moneyland
It’s an ink-stained world
Tabloids are about more than trashy headlines
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
How Christianity shapes politics in America
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Samba plus sunshine
Sérgio Mendes sent Brazil’s party spirit out into the world

The world this week

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


Going dark
The real problem with China’s economy
The country risks making some of the mistakes the Soviet Union did

Monster vehicles
What to do about America’s killer cars
The country’s roads are nearly twice as dangerous as the rich-world average. It doesn’t have to be that way

Red lines
The Labour government’s worrying lack of ambition in Europe
Sir Keir Starmer is trapped by the mindset of the post-Brexit years

AfDer Thuringia
How to deal with the hard-right threat in Germany
As extremists win more votes across Europe, forming moderate and effective governments is getting harder

Constitutional chaos
A make-or-break moment for Mexico
In America’s biggest trading partner the rule of law and democracy are under attack

Blocked and reported
As Brazil bans Elon Musk’s X, who will speak up for free speech?
Free expression has become a culture war, and those who should defend it are staying quiet

Letters

On exposure to the sun, education, Sudan, Robert Kennedy, growing up, cold-war diplomacy
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The American election
Kamala Harris has good vibes. Time for some good policies
Artificial intelligence and society
Large language models will upend human rituals
Briefing


Lowering the veil
The Chinese authorities are concealing the state of the economy
But the Communist Party’s internal information systems may also be flawed
Asia


On the road to Mandalay
Myanmar’s military junta is battered by Chinese-backed forces
Is the past really past?
Could Japan and South Korea finally become friends?
Scary stuff sells
Why Indonesia’s horror films are booming
Amateur radio and ammo
Taiwan is trying to learn from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine
Banyan
Welcome to India, where the streets have four names
China


Yearning to think freely
Liberalism is far from dead in China
Not for the religious or lazy
How to get kicked out of China’s Communist Party
United States


Too much of a good thing
Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing them
Swing states
The Harris campaign hopes North Carolina will finally deliver
Back in black
The Onion’s cutting edge: paper
“Comrade Kamala”
The Trump campaign fires a barrage of negative advertisements
Nile-ism
America’s endless summers are good for mosquitoes, too
Campaign calculus
Where is Kamala Harris’s convention bounce?
Lexington
Why Kamala Harris has the advantage in debating Donald Trump

Middle East & Africa


Beyond Belt and Road
China’s relationship with Africa is growing murkier
Chilling prospects
How Africans can stay cool as the climate warms
Israel and Turkey’s war of words
The relationship between Israel and Turkey is at breaking point
Shoving a central banker aside
The fall of Libya’s central banker triggers a new struggle
Israel’s hostages
The one thing Israelis agree on: rescuing the hostages
The Americas


Mexican politics
Claudia Sheinbaum will inherit a poisoned chalice in Mexico
Hamstringing justice
Electing top judges has been a disaster in Bolivia
X is banned in Brazil
The all-powerful judge taking on Elon Musk
Europe


Of firewalls and fragmentation
Germany’s party system is coming under unprecedented strain
Taking the war to the invaders
American restrictions on hitting Russia are hurting Ukraine
No more blind eyes
Abuse by priests in Italy can no longer be tolerated by the Vatican
Succulent grapes, sometimes sour
The obstacles faced by Turkey’s winemakers
The awkward gas pipe
The West still needs Russian gas that comes through Ukraine
Charlemagne
Europe must beware the temptations of technocracy
Britain


Time to get closer
What’s next for Britain and the EU?
Hard power
Britain and the EU find it easier to talk about guns than butter
Labour’s Israel policy
Britain’s ban on arms sales to Israel mixes politics and legalism
Roll call
English kids are back in school. What about the teachers?
Public inquiries
A tardy, scathing report on the Grenfell Tower fire in London
Facial awareness
Police use of facial recognition in Britain is spreading
Bagehot
Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?
International


Signal boost
How encrypted messaging apps conquered the world
Business


Charging forward
Clean energy’s next trillion-dollar business
Broadly successful
How Broadcom quietly became a $700bn powerhouse
Flat-packing a punch
Can IKEA disrupt the furniture business again?
No quick fix
Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen
New Silk Roads
Commercial ties between the Gulf and Asia are deepening
Bartleby
The mystery of the cover letter
Schumpeter
Has Warren Buffett lost his touch?
Finance & economics


Reds flag
China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
The leaves are turning
As stock prices fall, investors prepare for an autumn chill
Golden moment
Will interest-rate cuts turbocharge oil prices?
Long time coming
American office delinquencies are shooting up
Buttonwood
Has social media broken the stockmarket?
Trump v Harris
America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse?
Free exchange
Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gouging
Science & technology


Cold comfort
New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet
Too darn hot
Fewer babies are born in the months following hot days
Where no man has gone since 1972
Billionaire space travel heads for a new frontier
Waste management
The noisome economics of dung beetles
Culture


The devil watches Prada
How fashion conquered television
Identity politics
Technology and Hindu nationalism have transformed India
It’s all biology
The Oxford debate where evolution triumphed over creationism
Frenemies with benefits
Despots and oligarchs have many means to meddle in American politics
Speculative fiction
A gripping new novel about AI captures what it means to be human
A maestro, due an encore
Arnold Schoenberg was one of classical music’s most important rebels
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
What to read about the British economy
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


How to mend a cathedral
Simon Verity believed in working the medieval way

The world this week

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


A humanitarian disaster
Why Sudan’s catastrophic war is the world’s problem
It could kill millions—and spread chaos across Africa and the Middle East

Good policy, not good luck
Why inflation fell without a recession
High interest rates, not the passage of time, have restored price stability

There must be blood
People should be paid for blood plasma
Shortages are hampering the production of essential medicines

The virtual world
Digital twins are fast becoming part of everyday life
Welcome to the mirror world

The new wall
Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportation” is unworkable
Yet he could cause serious harm by trying

Letters

On nuclear weapons, carry trades, American visas, sports, war, Churchill’s urinal
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Debt and development
Break the taboos propping up unsustainable debt, pleads a former central banker
Briefing


An intensifying calamity
Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
Millions are likely to perish

Chaos machine
The ripple effects of Sudan’s war are being felt across three continents
It is a sign of growing global impunity and disorder

Disaster in Darfur
“Hell on earth”: satellite images document the siege of a Sudanese city
El-Fasher, until recently a place of refuge, is under attack
Asia


Fraying saffron
Narendra Modi faces a new threat: his Hindu-nationalist patrons
Visa lottery
Rich parts of Asia are on the hunt for immigrants
Succession in Indonesia
The King of Java inflames an Indonesian “democratic emergency”
Not digging it
Why Australia is not yet a critical minerals powerhouse
Banyan
Why does the West back the wrong Asian leaders?
China


Technology and power
Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?
Two very different leaders
Deng Xiaoping envy
Our Beijing bureau chief’s valedictory dispatch
China’s new age of swagger and paranoia
United States


Power hungry
Why Texas Republicans are souring on crypto
Over the Rainbow
What Texas’s oldest motel reveals about the rural South
180 degrees
The education business
Return to sender
Donald Trump’s dream of mass deportations is a fantasy
Campaign calculus
To hold the Senate, Democrats have to do something extraordinary

Middle East & Africa


Real estate and religion
Israel’s settlers are winning unprecedented power from the war in Gaza
A kingdom divided
Have Israel’s far-right religious nationalists peaked?
The Middle East
Israel and Hizbullah play with fire
Nigeria parties on the cheap
A Nigerian’s guide to weddings during the cozzie livs
The Americas


Canada’s rising populist
Canada’s Conservatives are crushing Justin Trudeau
Still stolen
Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court
The rule of law in Mexico
AMLO’s dangerous last blast threatens Mexico
Europe


Germany’s fraught state elections
Why east Germany is such fertile ground for extremists
French politics
France seeks a new government
Fluid front lines
Even as it humiliates Russia, Ukraine’s line is crumbling in the Donbas
The new enemy
Azerbaijan’s government turns on its critics at home
Charlemagne
Europe’s lefties bash migrants (nearly) as well as the hard right
Britain


An old-age problem
Fixing social care in England is a true test of Labour’s ambition
Careful consideration
Funding social care: an international comparison
Vroom vroom
Britain’s unusual stance on Chinese electric vehicles
Do not go to gate
Heathrow’s third runway asks questions of the airport and Labour
Keep up, your honour
A language guide for judges is a window into modern Britain
What ho, y’all
Why country music is booming in Britain
International


Too much, too little. Too late?
The poisonous global politics of water
Business


Telegram
The case against “Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg” will have lasting effects
Hard landing
From Southwest to Spirit, budget airlines are in a tailspin
Back in style
How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again
French correction
Renault readies itself to take on Chinese rivals
Rise and fall
Pinduoduo, China’s e-commerce star, suffers a blow
The Zuckerberg mankini
Meta is accused of “bullying” the open-source community
Bartleby
Four questions for every manager to ask themselves
Schumpeter
What could stop the Nvidia frenzy?
Finance & economics


The cushioned blow
Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?
Trustbusting
Are American rents rigged by algorithms?
Blood boom
The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical
Eastern promise
How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Buttonwood
Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Free exchange
Vast government debts are riskier than they appear
Science & technology


Off to the races
Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing
Mirror worlds
Digital twins are enabling scientific innovation
E-businesses
Digital twins are making companies more efficient
Culture


Leagues of their own
Why the world is teeming with so many new sports leagues
Master clash
John Sainsbury, a donor to the National Gallery, had the last laugh
An arboreal affair
How “reading trees” can unlock many mysteries
Guest who?
Nudity, drinking, smoking: Winston Churchill’s unusual diplomacy
Monkey business
“Black Myth: Wukong” is China’s first blockbuster video game
Back Story
Twenty-five years on, “Fight Club” punches harder than ever
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Six novels about India, perhaps the world’s most interesting place
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The anatomy of love
Helen Fisher found out the science behind romance

How would she govern?

The world this week

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


Personality and policy
Kamala Harris can beat Donald Trump. But how would she govern?
Being a politician is about more than campaigning. More policy detail is needed

A deadly virus
Countries should act faster to curb the spread of mpox
The slower the response, the more people will die

Artificial intelligence
Regulators are focusing on real AI risks over theoretical ones. Good
Rules on safety may one day be needed. But not yet

Recession scares
What to make of America’s topsy-turvy economy
Don’t panic just yet

Visas, vistas and vegetarian food
How to attract Indian tourists
Destinations are competing for the travelling rupee

Letters

On education, Africa, tourism, Russia, Lyndon Johnson
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Artificial intelligence
Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on why Europe should embrace open-source AI
Briefing


Woolly warrior
Kamala Harris has revealed only the vaguest of policy platforms
Her record suggests she would be a pragmatist
Asia


A succession battle in Hanoi
Vietnam’s new ruler: hardman, capitalist, hedonist
Mining for memories
What a Japanese gold mine says about its approach to history
New city, new start?
Indonesia’s new capital is built on vanity
India’s women problem
The rape and murder of a doctor in India is fuelling outrage
Banyan
If a China and America war went nuclear, who would win?
China


Sizing up the ticket
China’s rulers are surprised by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
Tossing eggs at a national pastime
Millions of Chinese people play guandan. Is that good or bad?
The other gas problem
Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions
Access delayed
Why are VPNs getting slower in China?
Chaguan
In China’s “median city” people are surprisingly risk-averse
United States


The view from the Bay
San Francisco Democrats are embracing “law and order” politics
More deaths, less outrage
Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where’s the outrage?
Spoiler alert
Kamala Harris is winning back third-party voters
The new frontier
Behind the surge in migrants crossing America’s northern border
Stuck in low-Earth orbit
NASA insists that two astronauts are not “stranded” in space
A smashing time
Where crashing cars is the point
Lexington
History will judge Joe Biden by Kamala Harris

Middle East & Africa


The Israel-Hamas war and Iran
The Middle East’s bizarre waiting game: ceasefire or Armageddon?
Iran’s new government
The threat of war is empowering the Islamic republic’s hardliners
The real action
Making love not war in the Middle East
The sun also rises
A shift towards green investment is under way in Africa
A new epidemic
In Congo, a desperate struggle to control the deadly mpox outbreak
Click click boom
YouTube in Africa offers a new kind of news
The Americas


Mexico’s incoming president (1)
Investors panicked after Mexico’s election. Were they right?
Mexico’s incoming president (2)
Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum’s energy plan
Military Mileise
Javier Milei is splurging on the army
Europe


The Russian economy
The mysterious middlemen helping Russia’s war machine
On the edge
The Kremlin is close to crushing Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian town
Gold rush
Turkey’s asset-price boom is good for some but terrible for most
The cash flows south
How Italy’s Mezzogiorno is benefiting from a flood of EU aid
Turning round
After decades of decline, Poland’s population seems to be increasing
Not very Teutonic
The rebuilding of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
Charlemagne
What Europe’s comeback politicians can teach American voters
Britain


Two cultures
The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians
Bayesian tragedy
Mike Lynch was Britain’s first software billionaire
Exaflop
Britain’s government pulls the plug on a superfast computer
Cancellarius culture
The tricky politics of choosing Oxford’s next chancellor
A place to be
Youth clubs in Britain have been vanishing
Righting wrongs
Britain’s boom in public inquiries into past disasters
International


From Bangkok to Dubai
Indian tourists are conquering the world
Business


Appetite for change
Can big food adapt to healthier diets?
Tech on wheels
Apple can’t do cars. Meet the Chinese tech giants that can
Burnt out
From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year
Blue-sky thinking
India’s largest airline is flying high
Konbini combination
What a takeover offer for 7-Eleven says about business in Japan
Changing times
Why Germany’s watchmakers are worried about the AfD
Bartleby
What to do about pets in the office
Schumpeter
Why America’s tech giants have got bigger and stronger
Finance & economics


Muddled and misguided
Kamala Harris’s cost-of-living plan will end in failure
Reds under the bed
America’s anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communist
Danger signs
Is America already in recession?
The new gender gap
Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?
Going cheap
Why investors are not buying Europe’s revival
Buttonwood
Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs
Free exchange
Artificial intelligence is losing hype
Schools brief


Risks and rules
AI needs regulation, but what kind, and how much?
Science & technology


Red planet
Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating
Cryptography
The world needs codes quantum computers can’t break
Culture


RIP adulthood
Is Western culture stopping people from growing up?
Travel and leisure
Madrid, Europe’s fourth-largest city, deserves more appreciation
Flights of fantasy
Whatever happened to flying cars and other promises?
Picture perfect
Is there such a thing as a classic?
World in a dish
In praise of mangoes
Lights, camera, Pentagon!
Hollywood has a behind-the-scenes helper you might not expect
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Sweet stardom
Wally Amos built, and lost, a delicious empire