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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
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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

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KAL’s cartoon
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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
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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

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KAL’s cartoon
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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

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Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s cover
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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

The new nuclear threats

The world this week

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KAL’s cartoon
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Footloose and fancy degree
America is sabotaging itself in the global battle for talent
Some countries are much more serious about attracting the highly skilled

The new nuclear threat
Reluctantly, America eyes building more nuclear weapons
The superpower faces more adversaries, new technologies and less-confident allies

Fighting back
The rights, wrongs and risks of Ukraine’s Kursk incursion
Ukrainian forces should be careful not to overreach

A coin toss for the White House
Our forecast puts Kamala Harris and Donald Trump neck and neck
We relaunch our presidential-election model for a transformed race

Billions or trillions?
Time to shine a light on the shadowy carry trade
Transparency will help to avoid financial blow-ups

Letters

On Donald Harris, Burberry, sickle-cell disease, Vienna, Katherine Parr, reading books
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Economic development
Indermit Gill on what China and India must do to join the rich club
American politics
Kamala Harris must define herself before Donald Trump does it for her
Briefing


Economic self-harm
Talent is scarce. Yet many countries spurn it
There is growing competition for the best and the brightest migrants
Asia


Extended uncertainty
What if South Korea got a nuclear bomb?
The need for speed
Bangladesh’s new ruler is in a race against time
Banyan
Taiwan braces for America’s election
Heeding the call
Kishida Fumio, Japan’s prime minister, stands down
Thai politics
Thailand’s prime minister is sacked. What next?
The anniversary of the exit from Kabul
Afghans are suffering. Don’t expect any tears from the Taliban
China


Study hard, be rich, get ahead
China’s wealthy elite rigs its university arms race
Thousands of bodies for sale
A gruesome corpse scandal sparks outrage in China
Chaguan
How China thrives in a world of turmoil
United States


On the eve of escalation
America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race
The Gaza question
Can Kamala Harris win Michigan without Arab-American voters?
Too close to call
Our new forecast for America’s presidential election
God and grades
Pious pupils in America perform better
Solo and the city
Studio flats are now affordable in many more American cities
Trump v Kemp
Donald Trump plays with fire in Atlanta
Lexington
Why the 2024 Chicago convention is not the 1968 convention

Middle East & Africa


Byte the bullet
Iran’s electronic confrontation with Israel
Putting in a time of war
The bunkers on Beirut’s golf course are in the crosshairs
Conscription
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox still won’t fight, invoking scripture
A new age of austerity
The lessons of Africa’s tax revolts
Vroom vroom!
Cheap Asian motorcycles are transforming African cities
The Americas


Law of the jungle
A bold plan to close the deadly Darién Gap unravels
The lawless roads
Peru’s crazy drivers offer a data deluge for self-driving cars
Europe


Into the breach
What next after Ukraine’s shock invasion of Russia?
Freedom on the line
Ukraine’s convicts take the fight inside Russia
Stop the war
Anti-war parties are set to clean up in eastern German elections
The fungus is just starting
How a Spanish province became the world’s truffle leader
Charlemagne
The great cover-up: Europe is losing its penchant for public nudity
Britain


Immigration policy
Britain has many levers for controlling migration. Which ones should it pull?
The morning after
Britain’s justice system has responded forcefully to the riots
Subterranean assets
Britain’s government is mapping underground cable and pipes
A privy counsel
Winston Churchill’s urinal shows Britain’s hang-up with heritage
Crude realities
Britain’s oil and gas industry faces an uncertain future
Say cheese!
NHS dentistry is decaying
International


Star wars: a new hope
Can Donald Trump’s Iron Dome plan keep America safe?
Business


The new stakeholderism
Patriotism is replacing purpose in American business
Hitting the road
The global tourism boom is shifting to Asia
Less plain sailing
From Taylor Swift to Star Trek, niche cruises are on the rise
Aiming high
Hindenburg widens its attack on Adani
Use it or lose it
Startups are finding novel ways to recycle carbon
Bartleby
How to take proper breaks from work
Ground down
Can Chipotle’s boss turn Starbucks around?
Schumpeter
How bosses should play politics: the cautionary tale of Elon Musk
Finance & economics


War finance
Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Don’t push it
How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
The danger list
Europe’s economic growth is extremely fragile
Buttonwood
How to invest in chaotic markets
Next-door vigilante
What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Free exchange
Why companies get inflation wrong
Schools brief


Applications for AI
LLMs will transform medicine, media and more
Science & technology


Backprop in the brain
AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns
Rays of hope
Exposure to the sun’s UV radiation may be good for you
Sleeper species
Climate change could reawaken harmful invasive plants
Carbon-based artforms
Why a new art gallery in Bangalore is important for Indian science
Culture


In defence of the “dirty documentary”
Reality TV is irritating but irresistible
Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Two centuries after his death, why is Lord Byron still seductive?
Wanna bet?
A famous forecaster takes on the establishment
Dollar Bill
What Bill Gates reveals about other billionaires
Cables from Kabul
Three years ago this month America withdrew from Afghanistan
Back Story
On some holidays, beauty and bloodshed are entwined
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Running the peaks
Joss Naylor never let any mountain defeat him

The world this week

Politics
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KAL’s cartoon
This week’s covers
Leaders


American politics
Can Kamala Harris win?
Joe Biden’s vice-president has an extraordinary opportunity. But she also has a mountain to climb

Game changer
A global gold rush is changing sport
Fans may be cooling on the Olympics, but elsewhere technology is transforming how sport is watched

Don’t stop the buck
MAGA Republicans are wrong to seek a cheaper dollar
It is hard to cast America as a victim of the global financial system

The lost leader
Germany’s failure to lead the EU is becoming a problem
A weak chancellor and coalition rows are to blame

Africa 2.0
How to ensure Africa is not left behind by the AI revolution
Weak digital infrastructure is holding the continent back

Letters

On India, Starbucks, African farmers, electoral systems, behavioural economics, conferences
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The American election
A prominent donor on why the Democrats shouldn’t anoint Kamala Harris
The state of Britain
Neil Kinnock on the post-war-like challenges facing Keir Starmer
Briefing


The state of play
A shift in the media business is changing what it is to be a sports fan
Team loyalty is being replaced by “fluid fandom”
Asia


Japanese defence
Is this a new age of warrior Japan?
Pomp and preparation
Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China
What Modi 3.0 may mean
A weakened Narendra Modi subsidises jobs and doles out pork
Banyan
Sheikh Hasina faces her biggest crisis in years
China


An ample supply of promises
China unveils its new economic vision
The state of the union
The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens
Chaguan
The nationalism of ideas
United States


The switch in time
Which Kamala Harris is now at the top of the Democratic ticket?
The mobiliser
The clues in Kamala Harris’s championing of reproductive rights
The “brat” vote
Is Kamala Harris “brat”?
Kammander-in-chief?
How to decode Kamala Harris’s foreign policy
Patience, please
Reliable numbers on Trump v Harris are scarce for now
Native spirit
A Texas judge gives a nod to America’s at-home distillers
Moving on up
Class, race and the chances of outgrowing poverty in America
Lexington
What identity politics will Kamala Harris practise?

Middle East & Africa


Africa unplugged
Why the AI revolution is leaving Africa behind
Congo’s intensifying war
Rwandan soldiers may outnumber M23 rebels in Congo
Jaw-jaw and war-war
Bibi Netanyahu offered spectacle over substance in America
Mutual attrition
Israel and the Houthis trade bombs and bluster
The Americas


On its knees
Cuba is out of supplies and out of ideas
Greenback blues
The strong dollar is hurting exports from Latin America
Europe


Europe’s bantamweight
The Germany-shaped void at Europe’s heart
Robocommander
Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine’s drones
Bumpy landing
Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan’s airport after Silvio Berlusconi
Fixing the roof
European countries are banding together on missile defence
The bricklayer
Peter Magyar is reinvigorating Hungary’s struggling opposition
Charlemagne
To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936
Britain


Labour’s honeymoon
Is Britain’s economy finally moving?
Swan-upmanship
How King Charles III counts his swans
Turnout trouble
Are Britons losing the habit of voting?
Fighting talk
Britain’s army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks
A Belfast symbol
The builder of the Titanic is struggling to stay afloat
Bagehot
Why Britain’s Labour government enjoys hippy-punching
International


A golden opportunity
Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good
1843 magazine


Election 2024
How the Proud Boys are prepping for a second Trump term
Entertainment
How to get rich (Taylor’s version)
Israel/Palestine
Marwan Barghouti, the world’s most important prisoner
Cyber-security
Secrets of a ransomware negotiator
Desert island risks
The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard
Business


A fossil-fuel fantasy
Donald Trump’s promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful
Bump start
China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s
Prestige and the podium
LVMH is splurging on the Olympics
Dogfight
Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?
Bartleby
Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse
Schumpeter
Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels?
Finance & economics


Broken record
The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration
Breaking the greenback
Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
Heterodox thought
Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
War economy
How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
China’s reserves
Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
Buttonwood
Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
Schools brief


Artificial intelligence
AI firms will soon exhaust most of the internet’s data
Science & technology


Drums of war
How Ukraine’s new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
Deep breaths
The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”
The war on AIDS
Clues to a possible cure for AIDS
Road safety
Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
Culture


Read trip
Packing for your summer holiday? Take these books published in 2024
Page-turners
The real theme of J.D. Vance’s and Donald Trump’s memoirs
The river runs through it
The Seine may determine athletes’ success at the Paris Olympics
Going down to the woods
How “The Blair Witch Project” changed horror films
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
The romance and reality of Paris, the Olympics’ host
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Weapons into light
Thomas Neff’s idea rid the world of a third of its nuclear warheads

The world this week

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


Nutrition and cognition
How to raise the world’s IQ
Simple ways to make the next generation more intelligent

School scandal
Faddish thinking is hobbling education in the rich world
Test scores have been stagnant or worse for more than a decade

France’s shotgun election
The French far right may not have peaked
After winning 32% of the vote in parliamentary elections it will eye the presidency

Credit-crushed
How to prevent strongmen from hijacking the fight against dodgy money
Egypt, India and Turkey are regular abusers

Lord, make us proportional—but not yet
Britain’s skewed election reinforces the case for voting reform. After 2029
The new government has more important things to deal with first

Letters

On Joe Biden, a Palestinian state, rising seas, Willie Mays, working late
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The American election
A big donor says Joe Biden’s team has gone all Trumpian
SCOTUS and presidential immunity
Justice Sotomayor was right for the wrong reasons
Briefing


Food for thought
Small investments in nutrition could make the world brainier
Many pregnant women and babies are malnourished—and not just in poor countries
Asia


No business like sow business
The world’s next food superpower
Bear-hugging bros
Narendra Modi cuddles up to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
Politics in Japan
Social-media populists have arrived in Japan
Banyan
Singapore’s foreign admirers see only the stuff they like
China


Under Xi’s gaze
China views America’s presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
United Front summer camp
Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
Artefacts that serve a purpose
China is using archaeology as a weapon
Chaguan
What China means when it says “peace”
United States


The comeback kidder
Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
Marginal revolution
Anguish about Joe Biden’s candidacy is rational, polls suggest
The party line
The Republicans’ policy platform previews the coming campaign
North Dakota rising
Meet a leading Trump vice-presidential contender
From mafia town to metropolis
Las Vegas’s power couple says goodbye to power
Lexington
How do you solve a problem like Joe Biden?

Middle East & Africa


Elections in Iran
Iran’s new hope: a cardiologist president
The flow of aid
Why food is piling up on the edge of Gaza
Tightrope over Gaza
Jordan’s Islamists have been boosted by the war in Gaza
Half a bowl of stew
Soaring food-price inflation is hurting Nigeria’s poor
Zacchaeus climbs down
Kenya’s deadly Gen-Z protests could change the country
The Americas


Voting against Maduro
A new danger for Venezuela’s autocrat
Of Milei and Moses
In Catholic Argentina, Javier Milei embraces Judaism
Unhappy union
The irrelevance of Mercosur
Europe


The French parliamentary election
France is desperately searching for a government
A bridge too far?
When will Ukraine join NATO?
The latest outrage
A Russian missile hits a children’s hospital in central Kyiv
Houdininomics
Germany’s debt brake and the art of fantasy budgeting
Ignorance is strength
The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia
Charlemagne
Viktor Orban solidifies his credentials as the EU’s pantomime villain
Britain


Labour and the world
What does Labour’s win mean for British foreign policy?
The enemy within
Britain’s Labour government has declared war on NIMBYs
Disproportional representation
Britain’s general election was its least representative ever
Poll post-mortem
How did pollsters do in predicting the British election?
Shore things
Why are British beach huts so expensive?
Independents’ day
How the Gaza war affected the British election
Bagehot
The new front line of British politics is just lovely
International


Cable ties
How China and Russia could hobble the internet
Special report


Schooling’s stagnation
Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
Teachers
The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose
Technology
Will artificial intelligence transform school?
Soft skills
Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
Back to basics
England’s school reforms are earning fans abroad
Schooling’s stagnation
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Past their prime
America’s giant armsmakers are being outgunned
Power drain
Why most battery-makers struggle to make money
Peering across the Rhine
What German business makes of France’s leftward turn
Where’s my money?
Europe’s biggest debt-collector has a debt problem
Tit for tat, not Tesla
The EV trade war between China and the West heats up
Bartleby
The CEO’s alternative summer reading list
Schumpeter
Once high-flying Boeing is now a corporate criminal
Finance & economics


Halting his charge
Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
On the money
Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Retaliate, negotiate, repeat
Europe prepares for a mighty trade war
Buttonwood
The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
Good cop, bad cop
How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
Free exchange
Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
Science & technology


Artificial intelligence
Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
Periods
A scientific discovery could lead to leak-free period products
Windows on the past
Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
Aquaculture
Vaccines could keep salmon safe from sea lice
Culture


Backstabbing blockbusters
Power-grabbing tips from “House of the Dragon” and “Shogun”
Back Story
The drama of election night: a critical guide
A date with destiny and your data
What happens to your data when you die?
What a racket
Whoever wins at Wimbledon, many of tennis’s professionals are losers
Dance of death
A history of Hamas dispenses with some pervasive myths
Heads will roll
Henry VIII’s wives get their revenge
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Haunted by a painting
Pål Enger never quite knew why he had to steal “The Scream”

The world this week

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


American politics
Why Biden must withdraw
The president and his party portray themselves as the saviours of democracy. Their actions say otherwise

Keir not
Labour has won the British election. Now it has to seize the moment
A volatile electorate and a strong showing for Reform UK are no reason for caution

The northern front
Hizbullah poses a grave threat to Israel
But a war right now would be disastrous

Everything in store
As Amazon turns 30, three factors will define its next decade
It will have to deal with trustbusters, catch up on AI and revive its core business

The end of the beginning
Central banks are winning the battle against inflation. But the war is just getting started
Politics and protectionism will make life difficult

Cloud and dagger
How spies should use technology
Digital tools are transforming spycraft, but won’t replace human agents

NATO at 75
How to Trump-proof America’s alliances
An essential step will be to let Ukraine into NATO

Letters

On solar power, the New York Times bestseller list, Metallica, football, presidential debates
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Geopolitics
The West’s values are important, but so is realism, says Finland’s president
Europe’s other flashpoint
NATO must tackle instability in the Balkans, says an ex-head
Briefing


Demotivational speaking
Democratic bigwigs are starting to call for Joe Biden to step aside
A sitting congressman has broken ranks

President Lear
Senility in high office
Even leaders who are spry for their age eventually lose their grip

Gerontocrats ascendant
One generation has dominated American politics for over 30 years
How have they become so entrenched?

A new podcast
Introducing “Boom!”
A six-part series about the generation that blew up American politics
Asia


A new era begins
Japan’s mind-bending bento-box economics
The strange death of liberal arts
Why many young Asians are no longer studying history
An Asian model
Why is Thai health care so good?
Going nuclear
Demand for uranium is booming. Who is benefiting?
Banyan
Indians have grown used to getting nice things from politicians
China


Worrying about water
China is struck by floods and drought—at the same time
No defence
How to provoke the fury of Xi Jinping
An attack and a crackdown
China takes a step to curb anti-Japanese rhetoric online
United States


Supremely controversial
The Supreme Court’s term ends with a rash of divisive rulings
Vulture capital
The unsteady comeback of the California condor
Bureaucratic power
What the Chevron ruling means for the next US president
Fertile ground
Will IVF really be the next frontier in America’s culture wars?
Lexington
Joe Biden is fooling only himself

Middle East & Africa


The northern front
The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
The new nationalists
Meet the victors in Africa’s coup belt
The forest for the trees
How EU do-goodery risks harming Africa’s small farmers
The Americas


The sleepwalkers
China’s presence in Latin America has expanded dramatically
The other China
Paraguay and Taiwan strengthen their embrace, for now
A different kind of therapy
Mexico has become a testing ground for psychedelic therapies
Europe


France’s parliamentary election
Le Pen’s hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
A black hole
Ukraine’s war has created millions of broken families
Send in the Turks
Turkish tourists can now easily visit nearby Greek islands
Green policies
The EU should be the world’s heat-pump pioneer
Charlemagne
Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
Britain


The British election
Labour’s landslide victory will turn politics on its head
Legacy thinking
The inheritance awaiting Britain’s next government
Deplatforming
The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain’s DIY-investing titan
Onboarding
Nukes and King Charles—but no door key
Political retirements
A prime minister, a plotter and others say farewell as British MPs
Bagehot
A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends
Bagehot
What now for Britain’s right-wing parties?
International


Fickle friends
Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen will haunt NATO’s 75th birthday party
Technology Quarterly


New-look spooks
The tools of global spycraft have changed
Dead drop drops dead
Ubiquitous technical surveillance has made spying more difficult
Dot-dot-dot dashed
Signals intelligence has become a cyber-activity
Old-school broadcasts
Sometimes the old ways of espionage are the best
SpookGPT
Artificial intelligence can speed-sort satellite photos
Intelligence, Inc
Private firms and open sources are giving spies a run for their money
Spycraft
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Growing closer
What next for Amazon as it turns 30?
Erase and rewind
Hollywood enters a frugal new era
A bunker mentality
Panic rooms and private bunkers are all the rage in Germany
Bartleby
Your conference-survival handbook
Schumpeter
Lessons in risk-taking from buccaneering BBVA
Finance & economics


A sequence of zeroes
What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
Business creation
How Starbucks caffeinates local economies
Disappearing act
Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
In the wars
Ukraine has a month to avoid default
Buttonwood
America’s banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
Free exchange
How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
Science & technology


Tropical biology
The world’s most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
Neurosurgery
A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
Brewed awakenings
New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager
Best foot forward
A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone
Culture


Call of the desert
Can Saudi Arabia become a premier tourist hotspot?
Not of an age, but for all time
Making a case for Shakespeare, 400 years after his death
Manners maketh money
Finishing schools for the age of TikTok
Stories from Kerala
The rise of Mollywood, India’s more subtle film hub
Melancholy in the mountains
Like its Montana setting, Kevin Barry’s novel is brutal and gorgeous
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
The best and worst memoirs by British prime ministers
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Who could plausibly replace Joe Biden?
The Economist explains
How could Democrats replace Joe Biden as their candidate for president?
Obituary


The keeper of memory
Ángeles Flórez Peón, “Maricuela”, made sure Spain did not forget its history

The world this week

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


The British election
Keir Starmer should be Britain’s next prime minister
Why Labour must form the next government

Governing America
What to make of Joe Biden’s plans for a second term
His domestic agenda is underwhelming, unrealistic and better than the alternative

Global warming
Simple steps to stop people dying from heatwaves
As much of the world roasts, don’t despair

Pointers for the plenum
A pivotal moment for China’s Communist Party
Will Xi Jinping keep ignoring good advice at the party’s third plenum?

Can you make this clearer?
LLMs now write lots of science. Good
Easier and more lucid writing will make science faster and better

The centre cannot hold
Macron has done well by France. But he risks throwing it all away
After the election, populists of the right and left could hobble a centrist president

Letters

On software attacks, lab-grown meat, the pop industry, Iraq, the Moon, breasts
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The French election
A hard-right government might disrupt France’s relations with Europe
Business and the American election
A business leader on why he’s backing Donald Trump
Briefing


The trouble with sequels
What would Joe Biden actually do with a second term?
He has a domestic agenda, but no easy way to bring it about
Asia


Rebels without much cause
Meet the incels and anti-feminists in Asia
Beginner’s luck?
Casinos are booming in South-East Asia
Left wanting
Narendra Modi needs to win over low-income Indians
Gen Z mayor
Takashima Ryosuke is Japan’s youngest ever mayor
Banyan
Ancient artistic loot will finally make its way back to Cambodia
China


Reform in China
The surprisingly frank economic advice that Xi Jinping gets
Last call
Roxie, one of China’s few lesbian bars, closes its doors
Going private
Health-care reform is upending the lives of China’s doctors
Over the moon
China’s probe returns from the far side of the moon
United States


The enthusiasm gap
Young voters strongly favour Joe Biden, but will they turn out?
Forensic fandom
True-crime fans are banding together online to try to solve cases
Push and Pulaskix
Przekrój, an iconic Polish magazine, relaunches in America
AI and parenting
Non-white American parents are embracing AI faster than white ones
A SCOTUS snafu
What to make of the US Supreme Court’s latest abortion ruling
Marking their own homework
Research into trans medicine has been manipulated
Lexington
In New York, the Democratic establishment strikes back

Middle East & Africa


Extreme weather
The “Venice of Africa” is sinking into the sea
Surrounded by trouble
Mauritania is a beacon of stability in the coup-prone Sahel
Breaking the budget
A new breed of protest has left Kenya’s president tottering
Pier pressure
Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
No thanks
The job of Iran’s president is a study in humiliation
The Americas


Chaos in the Andes
An apparent coup in Bolivia founders, but the country remains in trouble
Canada’s overdose capital
Vancouver pioneered liberal drug policies. Fentanyl destroyed them
Mission impossible
A Kenyan-led security mission finally starts to arrive in Haiti
Europe


France’s parliamentary election
Emmanuel Macron’s centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote
Home-made highs
European gangs are getting better at making their own illegal drugs
Belgorod
Death and destruction in a Russian city
Getting them while they’re young
Finland’s shrinking high schools are importing pupils from abroad
Charlemagne
Can António Costa make a success of the world’s hardest political gig?
Britain


The Starmer method
What the remaking of Labour reveals about Sir Keir Starmer
Our best guess
The Economist’s final prediction points to a Tory wipeout in Britain
Lettuce pray
On shame, Liz Truss and the turnip Taliban
Bicester and Woodstock
The British election is not close. But the race in Bicester is
The Public Duty Cost Allowance
The cost of Britain’s cast of ex-prime ministers is mounting
Britain’s unwanted house guest
Julian Assange’s plea deal: a suitable end to a grubby saga
Bagehot
Why the next Westminster scandal is already here
International


Extreme temperatures
The rise of the truly cruel summer
Business


Keeping the lights on
Is the revival of Paris in peril?
Bolt-holes
European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
Thinking fast and slow
A new lab and a new paper reignite an old AI debate
Bartleby
Why everyone should think like a lawyer
Move over, big dirt
Why big oil is wading into lithium
Full steam ahead
Boom times are back for container shipping
The baijiu mystery
Who shaved $250bn from Kweichow Moutai’s market value?
Schumpeter
Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
Finance & economics


Industries of the future
Will services make the world rich?
Buttonwood
American stocks are consuming global markets
The Tijuana two-step
How Chinese goods dodge American tariffs
Biggie deal
McDonald’s v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
Rock steady
Is coal the new gold?
Free exchange
The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest
Science & technology


High alert on high
The race to prevent satellite Armageddon
Viruses
A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
Large language models
At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
Culture


Stage fright
Donald Trump’s return is making Hollywood nervous
Regional inequality
What ails Britain’s left-behind places?
Putin’s delusions, Ukrainians’ pain
A clear-eyed account of Ukraine under siege
World in a dish
The döner kebab has a meaty role in German society
Stringing along
How Kronos became the world’s most innovative string quartet
Frequent travellers
Why travel guidebooks are not going anywhere
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Books (and films) about the joy and pain of music festivals
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Just keep having fun
Willie Mays’s philosophy was simple: They throw the ball, I hit the ball

Dawn of the solar age

The world this week

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


The solar age
The exponential growth of solar power will change the world
An energy-rich future is within reach

The future of combat
AI will transform the character of warfare
Technology will make war faster and more opaque. It could also prove destabilising

French peril
Emmanuel Macron’s project of reform is at risk
A snap election in France reveals the flimsiness of his legacy

An unrealisable idea
How to tax billionaires—and how not to
Closing loopholes would be a better bet than a levy on unrealised capital gains

Raising Argentina
Javier Milei’s next move could make his presidency—or break it
Radical experiments with the currency could spell disaster

Power and politics in India
India should liberate its cities and create more states
It doesn’t need more government. It needs more governments

Letters

On competition law, old people and savings, green belts, New York, worms, equality, followership
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Artificial intelligence
Ray Kurzweil on how AI will transform the physical world
Russia and the West
Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is part of his revolution against the West
Briefing


Model major-general
How AI is changing warfare
An AI-assisted general staff may be more important than killer robots
Essay


The Sun machines
Solar power is going to be huge
Asia


Marriage of convenience
Vladimir Putin’s dangerous bromance with Kim Jong Un
Marriage of equals
Thailand legalises same-sex marriage
Banyan
The army-backed establishment in Thailand goes after its enemies
Governing 1.4bn people
Why India should create dozens of new states
China


Picking through the ice
China and Russia have chilling plans for the Arctic
School spirit
China wants to export education, too
Leave the Hermès at home
China doesn’t want people flaunting their wealth
Chaguan
China’s revealing struggle with childhood myopia

United States


Preparing for a takeover
Republicans are favoured to win the Senate. What would they do?
Freezing time
Are America’s leading presidential candidates up to it?
School of stocks
America is educating a nation of investors
On the trail in Colorado
Lauren Boebert’s primary is a window into everyday Trumpism
The second sex
New research exposes the role of women in America’s slave trade
Beyond the border
Legal immigration to America has rebounded
Lexington
Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
Middle East & Africa


From chaos to country
Is a Palestinian state a fantasy?
War in the Middle East
Israel’s northern border is ablaze
The light continent
Private firms are driving a revolution in solar power in Africa
The rainbow nation’s election
A remarkable new era begins in South Africa
The Americas


No pain, no gain
Javier Milei has turned Argentina into a libertarian laboratory
Europe


France’s parliamentary election
Emmanuel Macron faces heavy losses after a short campaign
The French parliamentary elections
A hard-right 28-year-old could soon be France’s prime minister
Crumbling firewalls
Hard-right parties are entering government across Europe
The spoils of war
Russia’s latest crime in Mariupol: stealing property
Growing old together
Why southern Europeans will soon be the longest-lived people in the world
Charlemagne
Europe today is a case of lots of presidents yet nobody leading
Britain


Britain’s general election
Britain’s Conservatives rule the Thames Estuary. Not for long
Filling the fiscal hole
What taxes might Labour raise?
Expectation management
Child poverty will be a test of Labour’s fiscal prudence
Death and salmon
Climate change casts a shadow over Britain’s biggest food export
Oh, Jeremy Corbyn
Jeremy Corbyn wants more nice things, fewer nasty ones
Without a care
The silence of the bedpans
Bagehot
Britain’s Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly
International


Attending university abroad
Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
Business


Solar coaster
China’s giant solar industry is in turmoil
Dam good
Floating solar has a bright future
Powering up
India’s electronics industry is surging
Hot mess
The cautionary tale of Huy Fong’s hot sauce
Flying off the rails
European airlines are on a shopping spree
Nvidia
Nvidia is now the world’s most valuable company
Bartleby
Are manufacturing jobs really that good?
Schumpeter
Palmer Luckey and Anduril want to shake up armsmaking
Finance & economics


The great escape
Why house prices are surging once again
Bardella’s potential burden
How bad could things get in France?
Gridlock
Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
Leviathan bound
Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
Sweet gains, bro
America’s rich never sell their assets. How should they be taxed?
Buttonwood
Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier still
Free exchange
Is America approaching peak tip?
Science & technology


Dark secrets
The dominant model of the universe is creaking
Sweet spot
The secret to taking better penalties
Flower power
A flower’s female sex organs can speed up fertilisation
Paint by numbers
How physics can improve image-generating AI
Culture


Bottles up
Wine collectors are at last taking champagne seriously
Who are you calling a Neanderthal?
Theories of pre-history are a mirror on their times
Back Story
What a row over sponsorship reveals about art and Mammon
No city of angels
Los Angeles is the capital of film noir
When screens clean the green
Technology has changed money-laundering
Everything to play for
How games and game theory have changed the world
The Economist reads


The Economist looks at
How to stare at the Sun, through art
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How America’s presidential debates are changing this year
The Economist explains
How political “cohabitation” works in France
Obituary


No witches in this world
Birubala Rabha fought to end the stigmatisation of women

The world this week

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


Brain gain
How worrying is the rapid rise of Chinese science?
If America wants to maintain its lead, it should focus less on keeping China down

Economic exceptionalism
America seems immune to the world economy’s problems
Elsewhere, political dysfunction and fiscal frailties are taking a toll

The Economist’s US election model
A second Trump term: from unthinkable to probable
Introducing our 2024 American election forecast model

Double or quits
Emmanuel Macron wants a snap election to get him out of a deep hole
But he’s taking a big risk

Setting sales
If a bestseller list shuns authors it dislikes, it should say so
Bestseller lists are supposed to reflect sales, not political ideology

Letters

Low birth rates, OpenAI, cricket in America, American students, Danish food, the British election
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


A moderate proposal
Why political centrists must rediscover their passion
Crypto-criminality
Digital finance is a money-launderer’s dream, argues an author
Briefing


A botched hit
America’s assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring
The company is growing stronger—and less vulnerable
Asia


Taiwan, war and technology
The semiconductor choke-point
A new diaspora
Russian exiles are making a mark in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Modi’s new normal
How will India’s new coalition government work?
Banyan
Why caste still matters in Indian politics
China


From wolf warrior to panda-pusher
Li Qiang and China look to make up with Australia
Passing judgment
Foreign judges are fed up with Hong Kong’s political environment
A whiff of diplomacy
China is going crazy for durians
Chaguan
Why China takes young Tibetans from their families
United States


Numbers for November
Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
Battleground boost
Might Wisconsin’s redrawn state-legislative districts help Biden win?
Guilty as charged
Hunter Biden’s criminal conviction is good for nobody politically
Surgical solution
Louisiana could soon start castrating child-rapists
Back to school
Thousands of American pensioners are retiring on college campuses
No promised land
Brandon Johnson, Chicago’s leftist mayor, is struggling
Lexington
Joe Biden’s best chance to shake up the race

Middle East & Africa


A bridge too far?
Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
Slender hope
Who are the main contenders to be Iran’s next president?
Deal or no deal
The president of Somaliland is bargaining for recognition
Out of Africa
The deadly journey to the Gulf
High kicks
Kung fu gives Africans their kicks
The Americas


Embrace the neighbours
Latin America is the world’s trade pipsqueak
Leaving behind compromise
Colombia’s leftist president is flailing
Europe


Macron’s mega-gamble
Why France’s president called a snap election
European elections
Beyond France, the European elections will deliver more of the same
Peace for Ukraine?
A peace conference over Ukraine is unlikely to silence the guns
Too thin to survive?
The tiny statelet of Transnistria is squeezed on all sides
Build back better
Politics overshadows a conference to raise money for Ukraine
Charlemagne
No wonder Macron’s gambling: Europe is home to the high-roller
Britain


Conservative collapse
What would a rout do to the Tories?
Blue rinse
Our constituency poll has awful news for Britain’s Tories
Canvey Island
The most Tory place in Britain
Testing times
Britain’s NHS reels from a ransomware attack
Lining up
What unites a Spice Girl, an opera star and champagne?
Ethnicity and politics
In search of the white British voter
Bagehot
What separates Tony Blair’s Labour from the party today?
International


Ghosts in the machines
The new front in China’s cyber campaign against America
Business


Retention is all you need
The war for AI talent is heating up
The LLM summer sale
A price war breaks out among China’s AI-model builders
The call of duties
The EU hits China’s carmakers with hefty new tariffs
Wrongs of the right
The rise of the far right alarms German business leaders
Mumbai mood swings
What Indian business expects from Modi 3.0
Bartleby
How Gen Zs rebel against Asia’s rigid corporate culture
Schumpeter
Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole
Finance & economics


The caged bird sings
Donald Trump’s trade hawk is plotting behind bars
The art of the deal
Rumours of the trade deal’s death are greatly exaggerated
In the stocks
China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
The missing million
The cracks in America’s ultra-strong labour market
Dropping anchor
China’s currency is not as influential as once imagined
Buttonwood
Has private credit’s golden age already ended?
Free exchange
Does motherhood hurt women’s pay?
Science & technology


Red moon risen
China has become a scientific superpower
Culture


Tipping the sales
Is the New York Times bestseller list politically biased?
Internet culture
Famous Birthdays wants to be the Wikipedia for Gen Z
Monster, Inc?
Is now the right time to publish a novel by Louis-Ferdinand Céline?
Keyboard warriors
How Chinese computing nerds cracked a linguistic conundrum
A peace offering
How left-wingers abandoned free trade
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Seven memoirs help explain Europe past and present
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Ukraine has a navy that needs no sailors
Obituary


Out of the window, Earth
William Anders took the photo that kicked off the environmental movement

The world this week

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


Getting growing
Britain’s Labour Party must be bolder about growth
Even if the economy peps up, taxes will have to rise

The Modi Raj
A triumph for Indian democracy
The shock election result will change the country—ultimately for the better

Don’t do it
America’s billionaires should resist the urge to support Donald Trump
A Trump victory would reward them. But not enough to justify the risks

Single-party politics
Morena’s landslide win threatens to take Mexico down a dangerous path
The country’s newly elected president will need to show political courage

From chatbots to robots
Three reasons why it’s good news that robots are getting smarter
They are becoming more capable, easier to program and better at explaining themselves

The humiliation of the ANC
South Africa stands on the brink of salvation—or catastrophe
To prevent a coalition of chaos, Cyril Ramaphosa and the Democratic Alliance must do a deal

Letters

On Somalia, democracy in America, Shirley Conran, large language models, Beethoven’s ninth, TV comedy
Letters to the editor
Briefing


Electoral rebuke
Narendra Modi could respond to disappointment in two different ways
He could become more moderate and focus on the economy, or double down on Hindu nationalism

Anatomy of a dressing-down
The people and places that turned away from the BJP
The heartland, and especially lower-caste voters, have soured on Narendra Modi
Asia


Two wars on want
Will India’s new government turbocharge the fight against poverty?
Old ghosts, new nightmare
Rohingya are being forced to fight in Myanmar’s civil war
Banyan
How the Philippines is turning the water-cannon on China
China


The bright side of China
Watch out Beijing, China’s second-tier cities are on the up
Scoring political points
Changes to China’s gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness
Low altitude, high ambitions
It’s a bird, it’s a plane…it’s a Chinese flying car
Chaguan
China unites America and Europe in alarm
United States


Motive and intent
What Donald Trump’s 34 convictions mean for the presidential election
Jam today
Why New York scrapped congestion charging
A border order
Biden’s border order: impractical policy, pragmatic politics
Fields of dreams
A new wave of stadium-building is busting budgets in America
Home, at last
Black baseball players of yore get their due, at last
Hung up
American parents want their children to have phones in schools
Lexington
Grown up in the USA
Middle East & Africa


Long talk to freedom
South Africa’s future is in the hands of a divided ANC
Shooting for the hoops
The National Basketball Association is making a big bet on Africa
Avocado paradise
Why avocados are driving another sort of green economy in Kenya
An Israeli ceasefire proposal
Joe Biden leaked Israel’s first plan to end the war in Gaza
One step closer
Talk of war between Israel and Lebanon is growing
The lure of the Great Satan
The children of Iran’s revolution still want to go West

The Americas


Mexico’s new president
Claudia Sheinbaum’s landslide victory is a danger for Mexico
Going for gold
A battle royal over deep-sea archaeology in the Caribbean
Climate migration
As seas rise, the relocation of Caribbean islanders has begun
Europe


The war in the south
In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
Après le déluge
Russia’s explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects
Bulking up the Bundeswehr
Germany is thinking about bringing back conscription
Normalising the radicals
The Dutch are getting a half-populist, half-pragmatist government
D-Day 80 years on
Remembering the Normandy landings
Charlemagne
Peak Europe turns 25: why June 1999 marked the continent’s zenith
Britain


Slow growing
Can Britain’s economy grow as fast as it needs to?
Building blocks
Labour’s growth ambitions demand more radicalism on planning
Tables turned
The SNP feels the heat in Scotland’s election campaign
Give me votes but not too many
What is the point of the Lib Dems?
A seaside tradition
The return of the Farage ratchet
Bagehot
Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency
Business


Beyond petroleum
How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame
More than a token effort
G42, an Emirati AI hopeful, has big plans
The taste of things to come
Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald’s and KFC
Premium carmaker
Elon Musk could earn more at Tesla than other company bosses
Castles made of silicon
Should the world fear China’s chipmaking binge?
Bartleby
Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl?
Schumpeter
Lessons in capitalism from Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s
Finance & economics


Red dawn
China’s economic model retains a dangerous allure
No returns
Is America’s economy heading for a consumer crunch?
Equities in Dallas
Want to avoid woke stockmarket rules? List in Texas
Rouble-rousers
European banks are making heady profits in Russia
Buttonwood
Should you buy expensive stocks?
Free exchange
Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought
Science & technology


Robotics
Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What’s changed?
Two legs good
The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans
On thin ice
Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
Culture


Less Bond, more boffin
How to hire a spy
Forgoing the single life
Pop stars are all about albums
Your land is my land
What the left and right get wrong about imperialism
Not so Jolly Rogers
Forget Jack Sparrow and Captain Hook. Piracy is far more fearsome
Battle lines
Chigozie Obioma’s visceral novel explores Nigeria’s civil war
Back Story
Romeo and Richard III are enlisted in the casting wars
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Six non-fiction books you can read in a day
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How lab-grown meat became part of America’s culture wars
The Economist explains
How powerful is the European Parliament?
Obituary


Unearthing ancient mysteries
Barry Kemp spent his career digging up Akhenaten’s abandoned city

The world this week

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


Von der Leyen, Meloni and Le Pen
The three women who will shape Europe
At a crucial moment they encapsulate the dilemma of how to handle populism

Revolt of the reasonable
The pro-choice movement that could help Joe Biden win
A backlash against abortion bans is energising the middle ground in America

Prudent pensioners, profligate politicians
What penny-pinching baby-boomers mean for the world economy
They are saving like never before. But even that may not bring interest rates down

Eastern promise
Japan and South Korea are getting friendlier. At last
As the world economy fragments, two export powerhouses see the virtue of chumminess

Mark a cross
Incompetence or opacity: the choice facing British voters
The first week of the election campaign points to a failure of political competition

Letters

On Singapore, Arab armies, China, romantasy, immigration, car names
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Artificial intelligence
AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board
Artificial intelligence
OpenAI board members respond to a warning by former members
Briefing


Abortion and politics
The undoing of Roe v Wade has created a mighty political movement
The power of women with clipboards
Asia


Diplomatic inertia
Is America giving Narendra Modi an easy ride?
A protest against parliament
Some Taiwanese worry that their lawmakers may sell them out to China
Banyan
Want to stop a third world war? Pick up the phone
Monetising minerals
Australia joins the industrial arms race
Four legs good
Bans on dog meat sweep across Asia
China


Beware the work team
The evolution of forced labour in Xinjiang
Signs of decline
Has China reached peak emissions?
Controlling behaviour
Hong Kong convicts 14 pro-democracy activists
Chaguan
How China uses Russia to chew up the UN
United States


The 3% party
What are America’s Libertarians for?
Budget-modelling wars
Fiscal nerds determine the fate of legislation in America
Howzat meets fuhgeddaboudit
Will Americans be bowled over by cricket—again?
Be prepared
America could face its most active hurricane season ever
Gone with the wind
A tornado destroys a barn—an Economist favourite—in Wisconsin
No joke
The side-effects of the TikTok tussle

Middle East & Africa


Occupation and responsibility
Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
Horrors in Rafah
Outrage at a strike in Rafah is unlikely to change policy
Last stand in Darfur
A battle rages for a key city in Sudan’s ravaged western region
Give peace a chance
A Sudanese gathering outside the country proposes a third way
Buzz kill
New fronts are opening in the war against malaria
The Americas


Mexico’s moment
Mexico’s next president can reset relations with the United States
Influencer and president
Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s mañaneras boost his presidency
Double trouble
Bolivia’s left wing is at war with itself
Jaded nation
Canada’s jade mines boomed on Chinese demand. Now that’s over
Europe


Europe votes
The rise of the hard right threatens Europe’s political stability
Too sizeable to shun
Hard-right populists are pushing their way into the mainstream
From Uffizi to office?
The Brothers of Italy take the fight to Florence
Captive in the Caucasus
Georgia’s government cosies up to Russia
No way back
Ukraine’s desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
Charlemagne
Ceci n’est pas un divorce: why surging separatism won’t break Belgium
Britain


Prospective MPs
Generation K: Keir Starmer’s cohort of Labour candidates
Outlier or omen?
Half of Northern Irish patients wait over a year for treatment
Lights, camera…inaction!
Sir Keir Starmer meets the public. Sort of
Limitations of statute
Brexit is the only big legacy of the 2019-24 parliament
Not a postcode lottery
The seats where Labour is concentrating its campaign firepower
In the box, and on it
Footballer, broadcaster, podcast mogul: the career of Gary Lineker
Bagehot
The British election is becoming an episode of mob justice
International


Control yourself!
Is your rent ever going to fall?
Business


Flyover country
Japanese businesses are trapped between America and China
Upping the X ante
Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI?
Prêt-à-partir
Can Benetton be patched up?
Bartleby
How to write the perfect CV
Back, with a vengeance
ExxonMobil rediscovers its swagger
Schumpeter
The soldiers of the silicon supply chain are worried
Finance & economics


Live a little
Baby-boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?
Gift horse
Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
Stepping on spiky grass
Xi Jinping’s surprising new source of economic advice
A high-interest-rate phenomenon
Young collectors are fuelling a boom in Basquiat-backed loans
In the shadows
OPEC heavyweights are cheating on their targets
Buttonwood
When to sell your stocks
Free exchange
Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
Science & technology


Of mice and menses
Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
Flying bugs
Hordes of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in America
Drone warfare
Many Ukrainian drones have been disabled by Russian jamming
Avian flu
A second human case of bird flu in America is raising alarm
Culture


Beaches like no other
Remembering D-Day, as a new war rages in Europe
Bad sport?
Bullfighting is under attack
Braking China
Is time more on America’s or China’s side?
The booby trap
There is more to breasts than meets the eye
Literary afterlives
A century after his death Franz Kafka is still in the zeitgeist
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Five of the best books on climbing mountains
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Fixing a likeness
June Mendoza captured both the famous and the unknown