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Democracy
Is America dictator-proof?
The many vulnerabilities, and enduring strengths, of America’s republic

No news is bad news
Canada’s law to help news outlets is harming them instead
Funding journalism with cash from big tech has become a fiasco

Biden’s baleful barriers
America’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs: bad policy, worse leadership
The global trade system is disintegrating as you read this

The challenge posed by China
Xi Jinping is subtler than Vladimir Putin—yet equally disruptive
How to deal with Chinese actions that lie between war and peace

A trillion-dollar AI arms race
Big tech’s capex splurge may be irrationally exuberant
Beware of overhype and overbuild

Five more years?
Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term expires on May 20th
What does that mean for his country?

Letters

On college protests, farming, Emmanuel Macron, public opinion, Jeremy Clarkson, working on a plane, lonely-hearts ads
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Mexico’s presidential election
The main opposition candidate on how to fight organised crime in Mexico
Briefing


In the worst case
Why America is vulnerable to a despot
Its democratic system is not as robust as it seems
Asia


Heirs in races
Who could replace Narendra Modi?
A brutal civil war
The military dictatorship controls less than 50% of Myanmar
Justice in Kazakhstan
The murder that aroused a nation
Self help
Taiwan wants to prove that it is serious about defence
A fragile grid
Taiwan, the world’s chipmaker, faces an energy crunch
Banyan
Narendra Modi ramps up the Muslim-baiting
China


An autocratic bromance
The Xi-Putin partnership is not a marriage of convenience
Where Sun never sets
How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
United States


Spreading like a weed
Marijuana is already legal for a majority of Americans
Bombs, away
The Biden administration is trying to walk a fine line in arming Israel
Hush puppy
A mano-a-mano contest between Michael Cohen and Donald Trump
High-speed rail
The world’s slowest bullet train trundles ahead in California
Stacking the deck
Can playing cards help catch criminals?
The kids are still alright
After a season of Gaza protests, America’s university graduates are polarised but resilient

Middle East & Africa


Slag to riches
How a Russia-linked mine may keep the ANC in power
Somalia’s never-ending crisis
War and climate change are overwhelming Somalia
The Hamas-Israel conflict
On Independence Day Israel is ripping itself apart
Israel in Gaza
The Israeli army is caught in a doom loop in Gaza
American arms to Israel
Israel has seen arms embargoes before
The Americas


Nothing to see here
Facebook turned off the news in Canada. What happened next?
Elections in the Dominican Republic
Luis Abinader is poised for a thumping re-election win
When the levee breaks
Huge floods in Brazil’s south are a harbinger of disasters to come
The other 19,999
Why Mexico’s largest-ever election matters
Europe


Three-body problem
Germany’s government is barely holding together
Time’s up
Volodymyr Zelensky’s five-year term ends on May 20th
Active measures
Russia is ramping up sabotage across Europe
Gabriel Attal
Meet Gabriel Attal, France’s young prime minister
What’s in a name?
Turkish women should soon be allowed keep their maiden names
Charlemagne
The EU’s best-laid plans for expansion are clashing with reality
Britain


A new kind of threat
Spies, trade and tech: China’s relationship with Britain
The politics of students
Advisers to British government: don’t mess with graduate visas
Free speech and protest
Antisemitism is on the rise in Britain
Pick your projection
What police commissioners tell you about the British election
Levelling the terrain
Is Britain levelling up?
Bagehot
The narcissism of minor differences, Labour Party edition
International


From grey zone to red zone
Taiwan’s new president faces an upsurge in Chinese coercion
Business


Storing up trouble
App stores are hugely lucrative—and under attack
Clocked off
China’s youth are rebelling against long hours
Bartleby
How to be a good follower
Through the floor
Can Home Depot’s “amazing era” return?
Hot property
Meet the Swedish firm trying to shake up heat pumps
Marque to market
How not to name a new car
Schumpeter
What do Joe Biden and the boss of Starbucks have in common?
Finance & economics


Go get ‘em
America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom
The 100% manoeuvre
Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Farewell to the GOAT
How Jim Simons revolutionised investing
Buttonwood
Joe Biden, master oil trader
India’s economy
Narendra Modi’s flagship growth scheme is off to a sluggish start
Sleepless in Shenzhen
The property firm that could break China’s back
Free exchange
Diego Maradona offers central bankers enduring lessons
Science & technology


Generative AI
Today’s AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
Disinformation
A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
Coral hazard
The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
Reef-building
Some corals are better at handling the heat
Culture


Money and faith
God™: an ageing product outperforms expectations
Honey, will you be home for dinner?
#Tradwives, the real housewives of the internet, have gone viral
Back Story
The trial of Donald Trump, considered as courtroom drama
Mass tourism
Venice’s new admission fee cannot curb overtourism
Originalist to the core
How did the Founding Fathers want Americans to behave?
A literary life
Alice Munro was the English language’s Chekhov
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The Economist reads
Five novels that imagine dictatorship in America
The Economist reads
Understand South Korea, a success story with a dark side
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
The tawdry history of “catch-and-kill” journalism
The Economist explains
What are the Russian “turtle tanks” seen in Ukraine?
Obituary


Life is too short to stuff a mushroom
Shirley Conran wrote a bonkbuster to teach schoolgirls about sex

How strong is India’s economy?

The world this week

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


The rise of a new economic power
How strong is India’s economy?
It isn’t the next China, but it could still transform itself and the world

Good news, for now
America’s latest aid will give Ukraine only a temporary reprieve
The bitterness of the struggle in Washington is a sign of trouble ahead

Back on the road
Don’t be gloomy about Tesla and its EV rivals
The industry has had a terrible few months. But demand is likely to pick up

Brechrit?
Why leaving the ECHR would be a bad idea for Britain
The next litmus test of Tory purity

Breakbone blues
As the planet warms, watch out for dengue fever
A mosquito-borne disease is spreading—and must be curbed

Letters

On abortion and crime, artificial intelligence in health care, war novels, casual sex
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


American politics
A conservative strategist on how Joe Biden can win
Power in China
Desmond Shum on how Xi Jinping beat down China’s red aristocrats
Briefing


Last-minute reprieve
America’s $61bn aid package buys Ukraine time
It must use it wisely
Asia


Trump-proof tiger
Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer
No longer just made in China
Chinese firms are expanding in South-East Asia
Banyan
The family feud that holds the Philippines back
Pacific pivot
The Maldives is cosying up to China
Jobs v the patriarchy
Can women-only factories help more Indian women into work?
Back to the future
Why do the Japanese love CDs?
China


Mules and motorcades
How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
Friends, sorta
Why China is unlikely to restrain Iran
Bean counting
China’s young people are rushing to buy gold
Chaguan
China’s ties with Russia are growing more solid
United States


Clumsy college crackdowns
Efforts to tackle student protests in America have backfired badly
The centre holds
Will the dramatic burst of bipartisanship in Congress last?
What the FERC
The most important climate agency you’ve never heard of
Back to square one
Will Joe Biden benefit from falling murder rates across America?
Termination disputation
In its latest abortion case the Supreme Court seems to back Idaho
Spoiler alert
A dispatch from Donald Trump’s courtroom
Lexington
The campus is coming for Joe Biden

Middle East & Africa


Militia mayhem
The Middle East has a militia problem
Iran’s defensive tactics
How Iran covered up the damage from Israel’s strikes
Your money or your life
How much do Palestinians pay to get out of Gaza?
The Cyrus cylinder
Why Iranian dissidents love Cyrus, an ancient Persian king
The destruction of Addis Ababa
The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished
Long walk to nowhere
How race and politics interact in modern South Africa
The Americas


Mosquito-borne illness
Dengue fever is surging in Latin America
Latin America’s tech superstar
Meet Argentina’s richest man
Europe


Tackling the climate
Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe
Meloni and the media
Italy’s government is trying to influence the state-owned broadcaster
A weak link
The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia
Drama king
Will Spain’s prime minister suddenly quit?
Farewell to harms
Has the spectre of terrorism finally been excised from Spain?
Hard times
Two years of war have impoverished many Ukrainians
Charlemagne
Ursula von der Leyen is the favourite to keep leading the EU—right?
Britain


Rights and flights
Why Britain’s membership of the ECHR has become a political issue
Court out?
The ECtHR’s Swiss climate ruling: overreach or appropriate?
A silent scandal
Why are so many bodies in Britain found in a decomposed state?
Put VAT on everything
How to fix Britain’s barmy VAT regime
Queering Ambridge
When academics meet “The Archers”
Local democracy
English local government is in a dire state
Bagehot
Britain’s Reform UK party does not exist
International


Autarky rules OK
The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
Special report


The India express
For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda
Surprise winner
India’s financial system has improved dramatically in the past decade
Functioning anarchy
India’s difficult business environment is improving
A tricky trio
India’s leaders must deal with three economic weaknesses
Stellar solar
Going green could bring huge benefits for India’s economy
Building for the future
India must make much deeper changes if it is to sustain its growth
The India express
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Joint adventures
How to build a global business empire in the 21st century
Wings of change
Can anyone pull Boeing out of its nosedive?
Tinderboxed in
Will war snuff out the Gulf’s global business ambitions?
Bartleby
Pssst! Want to read something about rumour and innuendo?
Social media and security
Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we’ll ban it
Schumpeter
Tesla faces an identity crisis: carmaker or tech firm?
Finance & economics


Broke capitalism
How American politics has infected investing
Hop to it
Don’t like your job? Quit for a rival firm
Battles to come
Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
Fiscal fiasco
Chinese authorities are now addicted to traffic fines
Desert dollars
The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway
Buttonwood
How far could America’s stockmarket fall?
Free exchange
Is inflation morally wrong?
Science & technology


Brain v body
Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
Second sight
Memorable images make time pass more slowly
Tick tock
Climate change is slowing Earth’s rotation
Culture


Gangnam style v gulag style
Why South Korean pop culture rocks and North Korea’s does not
From ivory tower to person of the hour
Who’s afraid of Judith Butler, the “godmother of queer theory”?
The tides of Venice
From spies to sea-level rise, Venice’s history is enthralling
The killer smile
How ruthless is Amazon, really?
Jungle book
“The Vortex”, written 100 years ago, anticipated eco-literature
Shake it off
Has Taylor Swift peaked?
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
The growing role of fighting robots on the ground in Ukraine
The Economist explains
What are the obligations of Israel and Hamas to protect civilians?
Obituary

Letters

On China, WEIRD countries, nuclear weapons, O.J. Simpson, software engineers, XL Bully dogs, banlieues, uniforms
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Israel and Iran
A Middle East scholar on Israel’s escalating tit-for-tat with Iran
Casualties of war
A trauma surgeon on why Gaza is the worst of war zones
Briefing


Emptying and fuming
America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population
Which is a worry, because much of it is already shrinking
Asia


The last Gandhi?
Gandhi v Modi: crunch time for Congress as India prepares to vote
Maritime manoeuvres
Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
Waving the red flag
An obscure communist newspaper is shaping Japan’s politics
Banyan
Lawrence Wong will be only the fourth PM in Singapore’s history
China


Degrees and difficulty
Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
A meeting and a message
China is talking to Taiwan’s next leader, just not directly
A puff piece
Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China
Chaguan
The dark side of growing old
United States


Burlesque hour
Donald Trump’s first criminal trial will be both momentous and tawdry
Busted trust
America’s trust in its institutions has collapsed
Sleeping rough
Is ticketing homeless people a cruel and unusual punishment?
Biden and student loans
The White House unveils a pair of bad policies to woo voters
Can touch this
Lots of state legislators believe any contact with fentanyl is fatal
If you build it, they will sue
How two small Texas towns became the patent-law centre of America
Lexington
Truth Social is a mind-bending win for Donald Trump

Middle East & Africa


Striking out
One of the Middle East’s oldest conflicts has entered a new era
The Middle East on fire
Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
Israel’s dilemma
Iran’s attack has left Israel in a difficult position
Deeper into hell
After a year of war, Sudan is a failing state
I get knocked down
Tanzania’s opposition, once flat on its back, is now on its knees
The Americas


Musk v Moraes
Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil’s powerful Supreme Court
The sticky stuff
The world’s insatiable appetite for Canada’s maple syrup
The Glas affair
Why Ecuador risked global condemnation to storm Mexico’s embassy
Europe


Schuling around
Germany is flunking the education test
Not-so-bullish Germany in the China shop
The German chancellor’s awkward meeting with China’s boss
Le nouveau faucon
How Russia targeted France and radicalised Emmanuel Macron
The Russians are coming
Ukraine is digging in as the Kremlin steps up its offensive
Droning on
Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia
Charlemagne
How a conservative conference morphed into a crisis of liberalism
Britain


All change
Explore our prediction model for Britain’s looming election
Crossover
How tactical voting might affect the British election
Machines
Where are all the British robots?
If you pull on a thread
The push to decriminalise abortion in Britain heats up
Critical minerals
Britain’s black-mass problem
“Sexually, I’m more of a Switzerland”
Online dating spells the end of Britain’s lonely-hearts ads
Bagehot
Local British politics is a mix of the good, the bad and the mad
International


War and recruitment
Would you really die for your country?
Business


The imitation game
Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?
Pups in cashmere
Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?
Bartleby
The lessons of woke Scrabble
The health-care horserace
America hits Chinese biotech—and its own drugmakers
Schumpeter
What is weighing on CEOs’ minds this earnings season?
Finance & economics


Earning power
Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
Buttonwood
Why the stockmarket is disappearing
Manufacturing miracles
China’s better economic growth hides reasons to worry
Conflict finance
Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine’s war
Explosive material
Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
House of Fraser
Citigroup, Wall Street’s biggest loser, is at last on the up
Free exchange
Can the IMF solve the poor world’s debt crisis?
Science & technology


AI’s next top model
Large language models are getting bigger and better
Who you gonna call?
Locust-busting is getting a upgrade
Digital detoxes
What is screen time doing to children?
Culture


Show me the Monet
On its 150th anniversary, Impressionism is surprisingly relevant
Press play
How Hollywood fell in love with video games
Get a clue
What is a 14-letter word for a constructor of crossword puzzles?
Mountaineering
Climbing Everest is the extreme sport du jour
All quiet about the Eastern Front
Much of the Great War was decided in the east
Back Story
Salman Rushdie’s gripping take on being stabbed
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
How a home-improvement subsidy is wrecking Italy’s public finances
The Economist explains
What is geoengineering?
Obituary


A gaijin makes good
Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo

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The sense of an ending
The rights and wrongs of assisted dying
Britain’s next great social reform is coming. Here’s how it should work

A $25trn hit
Global warming is coming for your home
Who will pay for the damage?

Four-leafed voters
True swing voters are extraordinarily rare in America
We have found some

The Cass Review
America should follow England’s lead on transgender care for kids
Its approach is neither as harsh as in red states nor as lax as in blue states

War in Gaza
The short-sighted Israeli army
Force alone cannot bring security

What’s in a name
In praise of Peter Higgs
The particle named after him became a selling point. For the man, it was a bit of a pain

Letters

On management consultants, Hong Kong, Jonathan Haidt, underpants, describing X, three-letter acronyms
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Abortion and crime
Steven Levitt and John Donohue defend a finding made famous by “Freakonomics”
Erdogan humbled
Ekrem Imamoglu on Turkey’s renewed faith in democracy
A Chinese view of Russia
Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine, reckons a Chinese expert on Russia
Briefing


Risk of subsidence
Homeowners face a $25trn bill from climate change
Property, the world’s biggest asset class, is also its most vulnerable
Asia


Indo-Pacific statecraft
America’s Asian allies are trying to Trump-proof their policies
Usefully oleaginous
How India’s imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
After the fight, then what?
Myanmar’s junta is losing ever more ground
Banyan
Some Australians are increasingly sceptical of AUKUS
China


An ageing autocracy
China’s high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster
A relationship under fire
Will China’s ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?
Chaguan
What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang
United States


The parent trap
Who are the swing voters in America?
Mud slinging
Mike Johnson may have to choose between Ukraine aid and his job
Surf City goes MAGA
How one California beach town became Gavin Newsom’s nemesis
Jersey unsure
New Jersey’s electoral process just got upended
Conservatives on campus
A challenge to leftist bias moves into America’s public universities

Middle East & Africa


An assessment of the IDF in Gaza
The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza
AI and Gaza
Israel’s use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny
Israel v Hamas
America, Israel and Hamas are trapped in a dangerous impasse
Death threats
Congo brings back the death penalty
Slavery at sea
China’s fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa’s coasts
Opposition rising
Is South Africa ready for a change in government?
The Americas


The great green rivalry
Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
The first small steps
Haiti’s transitional government must take office amid gang warfare
Falling felling
Brazil and Colombia are curbing destruction of Amazon rainforest
Europe


20km from the enemy
The Kremlin wants to make Ukraine’s second city unliveable
Cheap and nasty
Russia’s ferocious glide-bomb campaign
Missing in Ukraine
Russia is struggling to find its missing soldiers
Herbert Kickl
Austria’s accidental hard-right leader
The continent’s narco-ports
Criminal networks are well ahead in the fight over Europe’s ports
Charlemagne
What happens if Ukraine loses?
Britain


All things must pass
Britain is moving towards assisted dying
A landmark judgment
The Cass Review damns England’s youth-gender services
Playtime’s over
Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close
Pipe dreams
How not to run a water utility
A Tale of Two Kitties
A story of Scottish wildcats
Je regrette quite a lot
Why most people regret Brexit
Bagehot
Bootlicking: a guide to pre-election British politics
International


On the rise
Who’s the big boss of the global south?
1843 magazine


Election 2024
Robert F. Kennedy junior doesn’t care if he condemns America to Trump
Business


Unplugged
Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals
Strategy and stockpiles
Who wields the power in the world’s supply chains?
Bartleby
Productivity gurus through time: a match-up
No-sun seekers
Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels
Raising Arizona
TSMC’s American chipmaking plans grow $25bn more ambitious
Schumpeter
Generative AI has a clean-energy problem
Finance & economics


Fantasy economics
The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch
Behind enemy lines
Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
Put the axe away
When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
Xi’s healthy appetite
China’s state is eating the private property market
Beyond GDP
How fast is India’s economy really growing?
Buttonwood
What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
Free exchange
What will humans do if technology solves everything?
Science & technology


AI at war
How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
Prisoners’ health
The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates
Conservation
New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
Hive minds
Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
Culture


Return to Gettysburg
Americans are turning to stories of civil war, real and imagined
Johnson
How to protect an endangered language
Sailing close to the wind
An enthralling account of Captain Cook’s final, fatal voyage
Barely gettin’ by
Adelle Waldman’s new novel follows workers in a big-box store
World in a dish
Flat whites are Australia’s greatest culinary export
All by myself
The drawbacks—and benefits—of solitude
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
What to read about golf
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The militant debutante
Rose Dugdale went from debutante to IRA bombmaker

The world this week

Politics
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KAL’s cartoon
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China and the world economy
Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation
It will disappoint China’s people and anger the rest of the world

Fool me once
Central banks have spent down their credibility
That will make inflation trickier to handle in future

Nuclear deterrence
Beware a world without American power
Donald Trump’s threat to dump allies would risk a nuclear free-for-all

Beware malware
A chilling near-miss shows how today’s digital infrastructure is vulnerable
This is how to protect the internet from malicious attacks

Culp able
What Boeing, Disney and others can learn from General Electric
Lessons from the tenure of Larry Culp

Letters

On carbon pricing, handbags, museum collections, Starship, AI and music, British immigrants, how to describe X
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Chinese aspirations
Yu Hua on why young Chinese no longer want to work for private firms
Nuclear weapons
As the world changes, so should America’s nuclear strategy, says Frank Miller
Briefing


Nuclear weapons
America and its allies are entering a period of nuclear uncertainty
And it means the balancing act is getting harder
Asia


The Modi paradox
Why India’s elite loves Narendra Modi
Building back stronger
Japan is still reeling 100 days after the Noto earthquake
In a different league
The end of cricket’s Indian monopoly
Damaging dynasties
Asian “nepo babies” are dominating its politics
Banyan
For a glimpse at Japan’s future, look at its convenience stores
China


The power of princelings
How China’s political clans might determine its future
Chaguan
China’s tin-eared approach to the world
United States


Like a dream to me now
The Biden campaign in Michigan has a tremendous ground-game advantage
Florida woman
An abortion ruling has Democrats hoping Florida is in play
Marriage
The rise of the remote husband
Drug-dependent
Joe Biden’s assault on the $900 child-eczema cream
The struggling state
California is gripped by economic problems, with no easy fix
Lexington
Are American progressives making themselves sad?

Middle East & Africa


Israel’s shadow war with Iran
Israel is ratcheting up its shadow war with Iran
World Central Kitchen
What Israel’s killing of aid workers means for Gaza
Jihadist blues
Protests have erupted against another Syrian dictator
A cruel law
Ugandan judges uphold a draconian anti-gay law
Cool it
Recent heatwaves are a harbinger of Africa’s future
The Americas


The Anti-communist International
Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
Feeling the heat
South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead
A house divided
Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate
Europe


The Olympics and urban planning
The new geography of Paris
The trouncing of a strongman
An electoral bruising for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey
A well-timed feud
Poles and Ukrainians are at loggerheads. That’s good news for Putin
Organised crime in Italy
The mafiosi of Naples turn white-collar
Happy Finns
The secret behind the world’s happiest country
Charlemagne
Germany’s Free Democrats have become desperate spoilers
Britain


Stormy weather
How has the Bank of England dealt with four years of shocks?
Private renting
Two cities show the problems faced by Britain’s renters
Unionism stunned
What Jeffrey Donaldson’s arrest means for Northern Ireland
Young people’s movements
Why some parts of England have so few graduates
Waxing and waning
Madame Tussauds reflects the fragmentation of fame in Britain
Bagehot
Sadiq Khan’s London offers a taste of Starmer’s Britain
International


Mass killings
Thirty years after Rwanda, genocide is still a problem from hell
Business


A new opening?
The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China
King of the castle
Bob Iger has defeated Nelson Peltz at Disney. Now what?
The world’s largest startup
India’s biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking
Less general, more electric
Will GE do better as three companies than as one?
System engineering
Meet the French oil major that balances growth and greenery
Bartleby
The six rules of fire drills
Schumpeter
Why Japan Inc is no longer in thrall to America
Finance & economics


Hype and hyperopia
How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
A lovely wall
The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess
The $10.6bn question
Will FTX’s customers be repaid?
Buttonwood
How to build a global currency
Free exchange
Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions
Science & technology


Pharmacology
Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?
Robotics
Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
Hacking the internet
A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers
Culture


Under the mushroom cloud
What would nuclear war look like in the 21st century?
Atomic beast
On his 70th birthday, Godzilla has roared back to relevance
Selling scripture
How to make money from the Bible
A numbers game
In the Premier League, data help minor clubs take on the mighty
Rwanda
How Paul Kagame uses culture to keep Rwandans on message
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Fighting for breath
Paul Alexander lived longer than anyone in an iron lung

The AI doctor will see you…eventually

The world this week

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KAL’s cartoon
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Squeeze, surge, slap
The triple shock facing Europe’s economy
After the energy crisis, Europe faces surging Chinese imports and the threat of Trump tariffs

Health technology
The AI doctor will see you…eventually
Artificial intelligence holds huge promise in health care. But it also faces massive barriers

War in Ukraine
Russia is gearing up for a big new push along a long front line
Ukraine must prepare

It’s not just about the penguins
The looming threat from Antarctica
A big thaw will have unexpected consequences for the rest of the world

Management consulting
Some advice to the corporate world’s know-it-alls
With growth slowing, consulting firms like McKinsey need some counsel of their own

Letters

On Russia and Ukraine, bitcoin, Mohammad Mustafa, God and sex, economics, the theories of Sam Vimes
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


False narratives
Video will kill the truth if monitoring doesn’t improve, argue two researchers
India’s election
Yamini Aiyar laments the damage done to Indian democracy under Narendra Modi
Briefing


Stranger danger
How to predict Donald Trump’s foreign policy
He may be inconsistent, but his advisers offer some clues
Asia


Imran Khan in prison
What next for Pakistan?
Holier than thou
The Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan is at war with the world
No country for critics?
Arvind Kejriwal’s imprisonment is a stain on India’s democracy
Banyan
Vietnam’s head of state leaves under a cloud
China


The men with Xi’s ear
Who is up and who is down on China’s economic team
Spooks in the machine
What to make of China’s massive cyber-espionage campaign
Spare the rod?
A gruesome murder sparks a debate about juvenile justice in China
Three-body shaming
Chinese nationalists have issues with “3 Body Problem”
United States


O say can you see
The impact of the Baltimore bridge disaster
Double flip-flopping
Both chambers of America’s Congress may flip in November
Grin and bear it
Do undocumented immigrants have the right to own guns?
Glock, stock and barrel
Chicago wants to stop Glock pistols being turned into machineguns
Biden’s blacklash
Georgia’s black Republicans have a battle plan for 2024
Lexington
The case of Stormy Daniels echoes past scandals

Middle East & Africa


The unbearable weight of history
Three decades after Rwanda’s genocide, the past is ever-present
Intentionally or by negligence?
Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine
A crisis deferred
After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out
Crisis averted
Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong
The Americas


Not another one
Nicolás Maduro’s sham election: the sequel
Hanging by a thread
Can Haiti’s police hold on?
Keeping it in the family
The cocaine trade is booming in Europe’s Caribbean territories
Europe


Digging in
Ukraine is in a race against time to fortify its front line
The uses of terror
Vladimir Putin blames an Islamist attack on Ukraine and America
French drinking habits
Why the French are drinking less wine
Catalonia’s elections
Carles Puigdemont aims to reignite Catalan separatism
Perishable Goods
Turkey’s opposition hopes for a shake-up in local elections
Charlemagne
How Europe’s fear of migrants came to dominate its foreign policy
Britain


The energy estuary
How Britain’s dirtiest region hopes to become a hub for clean energy
Smoke alarm
The future of Drax, Britain’s largest power plant
Rule intentions
What fiscal rules should Britain have?
You can’t say that
A new hate-crime law in Scotland causes widespread concern
Geary’s Bakeries
Britain’s kings of sourdough
This is not just an archive
Marks & Spencer’s archive is a window on 20th-century Britain
Bagehot
British boomers are losing out for the first time
International


Indians and the world
Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: India’s diaspora
Technology Quarterly


Self-programming panaceas
AIs will make health care safer and better
Picture this
Artificial intelligence has long been improving diagnoses
Talking things through
Medical AIs with human faces are on their way
Intelligent design
Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development
The AIs have it
Can artificial intelligence make health care more efficient?
Business


The lost art of self-management
Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
Numbers guys and gals
Making accounting sexy again
Three stripes and you are out
A marketing victory for Nike is a business win for Adidas
Bartleby
The pros and cons of corporate uniforms
Trustbusters v the machine
Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy
Beware of low-flying aircraft-makers
Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing
Schumpeter
Meet the digital David taking on the Google Goliath
Finance & economics


Battered and bruised
Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
Hide and seek
China’s banks have a bad-debt problem
Hunting for value
As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?
Curse of the Anglosphere
Which country will be last to escape inflation?
Buttonwood
How the “Magnificent Seven” misleads
Free exchange
How India could become an Asian tiger
Science & technology


Out of sight out of mind
Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting
Killers’ tactics
Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
Culture


Inequality
The fallacious case for abolishing the rich
Survival stories
Could your marriage survive a shipwreck?
Take me to Texas
What lies behind Beyoncé’s country turn?
A different sort of art heist
Museums are becoming more expensive
World in a dish
How moussaka made it into the pantheon of Greek gastronomy
Where the wild thing is
How “The Gruffalo” went global
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Six great books about baseball
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


A labour of love
Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again

Israel alone

The world this week

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KAL’s cartoon
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An unexpected beacon
Britain is the best place in Europe to be an immigrant
What other countries can learn from its example

The war in Gaza and beyond
At a moment of military might, Israel looks deeply vulnerable
America should help it find a better strategy

Pills by post
America’s Supreme Court should reject the challenge to abortion drugs
The case against mail-order mifepristone is legally and medically spurious

Steel men
The hidden costs of Biden’s steel protectionism
Uncertain political benefits do not justify the president’s vetoing a Japanese takeover of US Steel

Japan today, Japan tomorrow
Why Japan’s economy remains a warning to others
Low real rates, low growth and high debts are not going away

Letters

On American trade policy, universities, anger, Al Gore, artificial intelligence, the middle ages, markets
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


American foreign policy
Both Biden and Trump are foreign-policy flops, argues John Bolton
A way forward?
The new Palestinian prime minister maps out his vision for a path to peace
India’s election
Gurcharan Das on why it’s lonely being an Indian liberal
Briefing


No winners
The war in Gaza may topple Hamas without making Israel safer
It will end up even more deeply mired in the conflict that is the main threat to its security
Asia


East Asian dramas
Relations between Japan and South Korea are blossoming
Immobile republic
How to make India richer
That’ll cost you
India’s election could be the world’s most expensive
Banyan
A string of setbacks for the junta in Myanmar presents an opportunity
China


Clicks and control
America is concerned about social media. China is, too
Bang and blast! It’s too noisy to muffle
Even China’s own state media sometimes resent state control
Article 23
Hong Kong passes a security law that its masters scarcely need
Chaguan
China’s low-fertility trap
United States


Political demographics
Joe Biden’s weakness among Latinos threatens his re-election
That’s DWAC
Donald Trump tries his hand with meme-stocks
Down is up
Fewer states allow abortions, yet American women are having more
Miffy-ed
The Supreme Court hears its first abortion case since ending Roe
Militant tendency
Is the most powerful teachers union in America overreaching?
Lexington
Binyamin Netanyahu is alienating Israel’s best friends

Middle East & Africa


Israel and America
Deposing Israel’s king
A new prime minister for Palestine
A new leader offers little hope for Palestinians
Game on
Jacob Zuma’s new party could swing South Africa’s election
Africa unplugged
Damage to undersea cables is disrupting internet access across Africa
When the wells run dry
Nigeria’s high-cost oil industry is in decline
Trouble on the high seas
Somali pirates are staging a comeback
The Americas


The chainsaw and the blender
After 100 brutal days, Javier Milei has markets believing
Fiddling the figures
AMLO is trying to bury the tragedy of Mexico’s missing people
Europe


From high to low
Drug decriminalisation in Europe may be slowing down
After the show
Vladimir Putin celebrates his fake election win
On shaky ground
Earthquake fears loom large in Istanbul’s mayoral race
Bringing up baby
Europe is giving more parental leave to its workers
Stealth bombers
The cyberwar in Ukraine is as crucial as the battle in the trenches
Charlemagne
Ukraine’s European allies are either broke, small or irresolute
Britain


Migration and society
Without realising it, Britain has become a nation of immigrants
Totting it up
Parents in Britain are getting more government-funded child care
Wolfson prized
Next, Britain’s retail superstar
Road to hell
Britain’s dimmed love affair with motorways
Bagehot
The Conservative Party’s Oppenheimer syndrome
Business


The AI pie
Just how rich are businesses getting in the AI gold rush?
Supersize me
Europe wants startups to do AI with supercomputers
Corporate A&E
Demand is soaring for capitalism’s emergency surgeons
Posh space
Luxury hotels are having a glorious moment
Coming to a strip mall near you
Could Aldi’s supermarkets conquer America?
China’s other TikToks
TikTok is not the only Chinese app thriving in America
Bartleby
The secret to career success may well be off to the side
Schumpeter
Can anything stop Nvidia’s Jensen Huang?
Finance & economics


Oil and beyond
How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
Interesting times
Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment
The last mile
Why America can’t escape inflation worries
Hamilton’s heir
First Steven Mnuchin bought into NYCB, now he wants TikTok
The 6% problem
America’s realtor racket is alive and kicking
Buttonwood
How to trade an election
Free exchange
Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics
Science & technology


AI got rhythm
A new generation of music-making algorithms is here
Back of the neural net
AI models can improve corner-kick tactics
Third time lucky—ish
Elon Musk’s Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt
Aggressive dogs
How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs
Culture


The young and the relentless
How worried should people be about Generation Z?
Jurassic spark
How the discovery of dinosaur fossils caused a revolution
Court disorder
Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser returns with a memoir
House of horrors
One of the smallest museums in Africa might be its most important
A miracle on 92nd Street
New York’s 92nd Street Y turns 150
Back Story
Kate Winslet explores how to be a good autocrat
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Seven of the best war novels
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

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Politics
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KAL’s cartoon
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Pumped up
America’s extraordinary economy keeps defying the pessimists
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have ideas that endanger it

Beyond Ukraine
Rogue Russia threatens the world, not just Ukraine
The West must show its enemy is Vladimir Putin, not 143m ordinary Russians

Time’s up
Time for TikTok to cut its ties to China
To stay on Western screens, the video app needs new owners

Geopolitics
The Gulf’s scramble for Africa is reshaping the continent
Its increased influence brings economic rewards and political risks

Angry young men
Making sense of the gulf between young men and women
It’s complicated. But better schooling for boys might help

Crude awakenings
Oil’s endgame could be highly disruptive
The oil shocks of the future will be driven by demand, not supply

Letters

On skiing, defence, Russian refugees, mining, Blackpool, the Moon, office meetings, Twitter
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


American trade policy
Donald Trump’s former trade chief makes the case for more tariffs
The Israel-Hamas conflict
An Israeli scholar explains why he no longer supports the war in Gaza
Briefing


Who’s afraid of Wile E. Coyote?
America’s economy has escaped a hard landing
But there are still pitfalls ahead
Asia


Wealth creation in India
Inside the world of crazy rich Indians
Religious politics
India’s government implements a controversial citizenship law
Spooked
An Australian spy chief triggers a debate about China
Hydra-headed nukes
India is souping up its nuclear missiles
Banyan
Pakistan’s generals look increasingly desperate
China


Blowing hot and cold
Is China a climate saint or villain?
Vino vinci
A toast to the possible end of Chinese tariffs on Australian wine
United States


Soft bigotry
New numbers show falling standards in American high schools
Unorthodox ways
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are staging a sex-strike
Choo choo choices
Amtrak’s ridership is touching record highs
Moving the needle
Time is called on Oregon’s decriminalisation experiment
Tunnel troops
Is deploying soldiers on New York’s subway as mad as it seems?
Number blocks
The best dataset on American health care will be harder to access
Lexington
“Dune” is a warning about political heroes and their tribes

Middle East & Africa


The Israel-Hamas conflict
Hopes for a truce in Gaza give way to fears of a long stalemate
Gaza’s shadow economy
A shadowy wartime economy has emerged in Gaza
Restitution gone wrong
The return of a mask stolen by Belgium is stoking violence in Congo
Don’t call it a scramble
Gulf countries are becoming major players in Africa
The Americas


The China-Mexico-US triangle
Could there be a US-Mexico trade war?
Infinite regress
The struggle to free Haiti from violence and impotent governance
A tempting package
Mexico and Brazil dither as chip supply chains are reforged
Europe


A plebiscite and a funeral
Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president
Everyday Putinism
Vladivostok is a window into wartime Russia
Ventura’s gain
Portugal’s hard right gets a big election boost
Not so quiet
A grinding, difficult war on Ukraine’s southern front
Charlemagne
Europe’s economy is a cause for concern, not panic
Britain


The ancient deal that saved the Barclays
Was the Barclay brothers’ business empire built on a fraud?
Warm words, tough choices
Northern Ireland’s new government puts on a show of unity
Home biased
The government wants investors to buy British
Yellowing red tape
England’s historic buildings are causing headaches
Forty years on
British museums remember the 1984 miners’ strike
Bagehot
How Britain’s Tories came to resemble the trade unions
International


Of Mars and Venus
Why young men and women are drifting apart
Special report


The long goodbye
For 50 years the story of oil has been one of matching supply with increasing demand
A changing market
Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more
Demand
The end of oil, then and now
Last men standing
Oil’s endgame will be in the Gulf
The molecular turn
Can Big Oil run in reverse?
The oil industry
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Tick, tock
Will TikTok still exist in America?
A freighted question
Can lorries go green faster?
Not beyond petroleum
Is Saudi Aramco cooling on crude oil?
Domestic strife
Why are Chinese nationalists turning on Chinese brands?
Bartleby
Every location has got worse for getting actual work done
Schumpeter
Elon Musk is not alone in having Delaware in his sights
Finance & economics


Plentiful helium
Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?
Global trade
China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Life’s a beach
China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
Princely demands
Saudi Arabia’s investment fund has been set an impossible task
Buttonwood
The private-equity industry has a cash problem
Bullet dodged
Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Free exchange
How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Science & technology


Water, water, everywhere
How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
Puppy fat
Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
AI alignment
How to train your large language model
Free speech
A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk
Under construction
New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
Culture


Silicon Valley’s scribes
Why is it so hard to write a good book about the tech world?
True crime’s first crime
A double murder in 1843 ushered in a new era of tabloid journalism
In ruins
Climate change is unearthing and erasing history all at once
Once upon a time, again
What’s behind the wave of literary retellings?
Lessons in decryption
How Aesop’s fables fostered a secret language of protest in Russia
Art with history
Maastricht is where museums go on shopping sprees
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
What to read to understand God and sex
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What is photo retouching and when is it permissible?
The Economist explains
Who is Jimmy “Barbecue” Chérizier, Haiti’s most prominent gang leader?
Obituary


From strength to strength
Toriyama Akira was probably Japan’s greatest manga master

And they’re off. What could upend America’s election?

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And they’re off
Three big risks that might tip America’s presidential election
Third parties, the Trump trials and the candidates’ age introduce a high degree of uncertainty

China’s National People’s Congress
Xi Jinping’s hunger for power is hurting China’s economy
A new economic plan won’t end deflation, even as he sidelines his prime minister

Jam today, ingredients tomorrow
Britain’s budget cuts taxes on the promise of productivity gains
Jeremy Hunt has got it the wrong way round

Course correction
How to fix the Ivy League
Its supremacy is being undermined by bad leadership

The real skinny
A frenzy of innovation in obesity drugs is under way
Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly are printing money now. But they will not be a stagnant duopoly

Letters

On artificial intelligence, the Holocaust, national conservatives, Ukraine, history, investment advice
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Finance and development
Three presidents on how to make global finance work better for Africa
Britain’s fiscal fiction
A former adviser on the 250 words Jeremy Hunt should read out at the budget
Briefing


Spoilers
Third-party candidates could tip America’s presidential election
But they have to get on the ballot first
Asia


Armed and autocratic
North Korea is arming Russia and threatening war with South Korea
Stock and awe
Why are so many Indians piling into stocks?
Banyan
What the war in Ukraine means for Asia
Too much butter, not enough chicken
Indian food is great. Perhaps too great
China


Xi’s show
China’s parliament is being used to highlight Xi Jinping’s power
Eyes in the sky
China’s satellites are improving rapidly. The PLA will benefit
Chaguan
Why China’s confidence crisis goes unfixed
United States


Brand Old Party
Super Trump and his mighty MAGA machine
Sleepy Tuesday
Donald Trump wasn’t MAGA’s only winner on Super Tuesday
Executive inaction
Can Joe Biden bring order to the southern border without Congress?
Words of warning
Is New York rethinking its sanctuary-city status?
Celestial bodies
A private company will send your ashes to the moon
The WPATH files
Leaked discussions reveal uncertainty about transgender care
Lexington
Has Ron DeSantis gone too far in Florida?

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s covers
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Voting intentions
How to build a British voter
Labour is assembling an electoral coalition that is young and broad, but volatile too

How high can markets go?
A golden age for stockmarkets is drawing to a close
Share prices may be surging, but even AI is unlikely to drive a repeat of the past decade’s performance

A losing battle
Fentanyl cannot be defeated without new tactics
Suppression works even less well than with other narcotics

French politics
The perils of a Le Pen presidency
Even three years out, the prospect is alarming

Don’t seize: capitalise
How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine
Exploit them to the full, but legally

One nation under Modi
To see India’s future, go south
The country’s regional division could make it—or break it

How tyranny travels
Autocracies are exporting autocracy to their diasporas
The new danger from transnational repression

Letters

On Britain’s armed forces, cousins, business in Italy, private-equity backed insurance, age, Terry Pratchett
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Russia after Navalny
A former political prisoner on how the West should honour Alexei Navalny’s legacy
India’s election
Ashoka Mody argues that India is stunted by a lack of moral leadership
Briefing


Relentless reaper
America’s ten-year-old fentanyl epidemic is still getting worse
The government is spending record amounts, just to slow its growth
Asia


India’s north-south divide
Inside Narendra Modi’s battle to win over the south
The actual opposition?
Massive farmers’ protests are a headache for Narendra Modi
Banyan
What will Prabowo Subianto’s foreign policy look like?
China


The Chinese diaspora
Living outside China has become more like living inside China
Chaguan
China tells bankers to be more patriotic
United States


In vitro veritas
IVF is a slam-dunk issue for Democrats. Abortion may not be
Stoked
The economics of skiing in America
Commitment phobia
Does Joe Biden’s re-election campaign have a Gaza problem?
Answers that raise questions
Is Google’s Gemini chatbot woke by accident, or by design?
Cobalt blues
A millennial is building America’s first nickel-cobalt refinery
Lexington
Vladimir Putin hardly needs to interfere in American democracy

Middle East & Africa


Dreaming of Dubai
Africa’s tiger economy is shot
Fresh blood, same problems
The Palestinians’ new prime minister faces a nightmare
The beginning of the end
As Iran scares the Middle East, at home its regime rots
The Americas


Bringing back Brazil
Lula’s gaffes are dulling Brazil’s G20 shine
The switcheroo
The former president of Honduras is tried for drug trafficking
Kicking back
Argentina’s football clubs are resisting privatisation
Europe


France’s National Rally
How Marine Le Pen is preparing for power
Friendly fire
France and Germany are at loggerheads over military aid to Ukraine
Get off the fence
Europe hopes barbed wire will keep migrants out. It won’t
After the war
Azerbaijan is racing to rebuild in recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh
Within range
Kharkiv is struggling under Russian rocket attacks
Charlemagne
Is Europe’s stubby skyline a sign of low ambition?
Britain


Psephological profiling
A changing British electorate is propelling Labour towards victory
Own goals
English football’s financial fracas
Local politics
The institution that taught Margaret Thatcher about politics
Just add water
More than half of Britain’s ponds have disappeared
Bagehot
Speaker Hoyle and the strange politics of human resources
International


Surviving in a multipolar world
Africa is juggling rival powers like no other continent
Business


Meet your new copilot
How businesses are actually using generative AI
The meaning of Mistral
Meet the French startup hoping to take on OpenAI
Divestment dilemmas
Western multinationals’ Russian dilemmas
Bartleby
Why you should lose your temper at work
Barrelling along
Can whisky conquer Chinese palates?
Motor no-shows
Car shows in the West are in terminal decline
Schumpeter
How Argentine businessmen size up Javier Milei
Finance & economics


Fly up to the sky
Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last
Too efficient
Are passive funds to blame for market mania?
Stakeholders at the gate
Activist investing is no longer the preserve of hedge-fund sharks
Still coupled
How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
Buttonwood
Uranium prices are soaring. Investors should be careful
Free exchange
What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
Science & technology


Silicon dreamin’
AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
A kiss and a cure
Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus
At the heart of the battery revolution
A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
Your brain on music
Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
Culture


Money and the arts
Britain’s arts still dazzle the world
Back Story
“The Picture of Dorian Gray” points to the future of theatre
An artist’s artist
Why did a once-revered painter, Frans Hals, fall out of favour?
Cartoon gloom
“Palestine”, an old graphic novel, is making a comeback
Colour by numbers
Can a dozen shipwrecks tell the history of the world?
Go big or go home
Cinemas may be dying. But IMAX and the high end are thriving
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
What to read to understand cyber-security
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


His old enemy
Robert Badinter persuaded France to abolish the guillotine

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s cover
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NATO
Caught between Putin and Trump
Russian aggression and American wavering reveal how ill-equipped Europe is

Held in suspense
Do not expect America’s interest rates to fall just yet
The risk of a second wave of inflation remains too great

Weapons of misconstruction
Sanctions are not the way to fight Vladimir Putin
There is no substitute for military aid to Ukraine

Let them dig
The world needs more critical minerals. Governments are not helping
Just obtaining a permit takes a remarkably long time

Stop the war
How to prevent another catastrophic regional war in Congo
The world needs to press Rwanda to pull back its forces

Letters

On HS2, data centres, Vladimir Putin, the FHLB, academic research, the Holocaust, prosthetic limbs, animals on a plane
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The Middle East
Oman’s foreign minister calls for an emergency peace conference
Artificial intelligence and copyright
Don’t give AI free access to work denied to humans, argues a legal scholar
Briefing


Present at the destruction
Can Europe defend itself without America?
It would need to replace military aid, a nuclear umbrella and leadership
Asia


Uncharitable India
India’s civil society is under attack
Feral ponies
How wild horses sparked a culture war in Australia
Gender relations
Japanese men have an identity crisis
Thai politics
Thaksin Shinawatra joins Thailand’s establishment
Banyan
How independent is India’s Supreme Court?
China


America’s election, viewed from Beijing
How scared is China of Donald Trump’s return?
Science fiction
Why fake research is rampant in China
Enter the loong
A nationalist effort to rebrand the Chinese dragon
Chaguan
Xi Jinping plays social engineer
United States


The Trump trials
Why those who wish to see Trump jailed soon will be disappointed
Voters’ views
How might Donald Trump’s trials sway voters?
From sand to sea
Does the American army’s future lie in Europe or Asia?
Counting canines
These American cities are obsessed with dogs
Lexington
The flaws that China’s chief ideologue found in America

Middle East & Africa


On the brink
Congo’s M23 rebellion risks sparking a regional war
Pub brawl
The booze industry reveals a lot about Kenya
A boost to democracy
Senegal’s judges stand up for the constitution
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox
Ultra-Orthodox Israelis’ refusal to fight is a growing problem for Netanyahu
Gaza’s devastated health system
The wrecking of Gaza’s health system goes beyond its hospitals
Saudi’s booze-free bars
Bar culture has arrived in Saudi Arabia, albeit without the booze
The Americas


Lessons from Lima
What Javier Milei could learn from Peru’s economic successes
Ongoing injustice
Jovenel Moïse’s widow is accused of being party to his murder
Europe


Two years on
Vladimir Putin has been fighting not just Ukraine, but his own people
War-weary
After two years of war, Ukrainians are becoming pessimistic
The Kremlin’s cross-hairs
Towns in eastern Ukraine fear they will be Russia’s next target
Ploughshares into swords
How Boris Pistorius is transforming the German armed forces
Charlemagne
Europe’s generosity to Ukrainian refugees is not so welcome—in Ukraine
Britain


Lifting sands
Can run-down Blackpool turn itself around?
Tax advice
A memo to Britain’s chancellor, Jeremy Hunt
Higher education and race
Some British universities have become remarkably racially diverse
Look north
A northern mayor’s left-wing challenge to Labour
Refurbished
How working from home is reshaping Canary Wharf
Bagehot
Sir Keir Starmer: bureaucrat first, politician second
International


From Russia without love
Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
1843 magazine


Russia
Life and death in Putin’s gulag
Business


In a hole
Why the world’s mining companies are so stingy
Through the looking glass
The world’s biggest maker of spectacles wants to be a tech firm
Flagging business
Why does landlocked Eswatini have a ship registry?
Bartleby
The making of a PowerPoint slide
Silicon Valley sobriety
The age of the unicorn is over
A tale of two chip factories
TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America
Schumpeter
Is running a top university America’s hardest job?
Finance & economics


Gaps in the fence
Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
Pick your poison
Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending
Buttonwood
Should you put all your savings into stocks?
In the nick of time
As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan’s young start investing
Time to splurge
Gucci, Prada and Tiffany’s bet big on property
Free exchange
Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
Science & technology


PINS and needles
Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
Sweet science
New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
Echoes of the past
Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedented detail
Spoiler alert
The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
Culture


The war score
How Ukraine’s fortunes have ebbed
Flower power
The history of the opium trade helps explain the modern world
Aural history
Podcasts got their name 20 years ago this month
The lives of others
Is everything you assumed about the Middle Ages wrong?
Escape to “Dalifornia”
Growing numbers of Chinese are escaping urban life for rural peace
Good optics
Refik Anadol’s use of AI has made him the artist of the moment
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Better Russia, where are you?
Alexei Navalny didn’t just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity

The right goes gaga: Meet the Global Anti-Globalist Alliance

The world this week

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


The right
The growing peril of national conservatism
It’s dangerous and it’s spreading. Liberals need to find a way to stop it

Prepare for President Trump
Europe must hurry to defend itself against Russia—and Donald Trump
The ex-president’s invitation to Vladimir Putin to attack American allies is an assault on NATO. Ultimately, that is bad for America

Decline and fall
Pakistan is out of friends and out of money
A botched election and an economic crisis show how low it has fallen

A shock to the system
A new answer to the biggest climate conundrum
Will electrification of industry live up to its promise?

Silicon rally
As San Francisco builds the future of technology, can it rebuild itself?
People feared a doom loop. Reality has been more surprising

America’s shadow central banks
Another bank subsidy America should kill off
The Federal Home Loan Banks offer loans to Wall Street that are too cheap

The ur-snafu
How not to do a megaproject
The lessons of HS2 for Britain and beyond

Letters

On export controls on China, charter schools, council tax, Ukraine, DEI, Peter Schickele, common sense
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Politics and ageing
David Owen argues that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both too old to be president
Corporate culture
Two experts predict AI will transform companies’ understanding of themselves
Briefing


Nationalists of the world, unite!
“National conservatives” are forging a global front against liberalism
The alliance may be incoherent, but that does not make it harmless

The burning question
First electric cars. Next, electric factories?
They could be a major new way to slow global warming
Asia


A historic shift
India’s unprecedented love-in with the Middle East
Junked bonds
India’s Supreme Court delivers a rare setback for Narendra Modi
File under F for “fiasco”
Pakistan’s voters tell the generals where to put it
General, elected
Prabowo Subianto will be Indonesia’s next president
Banyan
Australia needs to rethink its approach to its Pacific island neighbours
China


China and the world
Xi Jinping’s paranoia is making China isolated and insular
Messy for Messi
Hong Kong is struggling to restore its image as a global city
Life’s a beach
China is trying to boost domestic tourism
Chaguan
How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own
United States


Racial progress in America
Black workers are enjoying a jobs boom in America
House of cowards
House Republicans fear Trump too much to aid Ukraine
All in the family
Cousin marriage is probably fine in most cases
Parler games
The far-right’s favoured social-media platform plots a comeback
Night court
The search for justice in America is not a nine-to-five job
Lexington
Donald Trump’s tremendous love

Middle East & Africa


The next phase of the Gaza war
If Israel invades, hell looms in Rafah
The case against UNRWA
The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians
Helping the bad guys
How Yemen’s dominant Houthis blackmail foreign aid agencies
South African politics
Is Julius Malema the most dangerous man in South Africa?
Taking credit
African governments return to international bond markets
Ukrainians in Sudan
Evidence mounts that Ukrainian forces are in Sudan
The Americas


The perils of Petrobras
Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company
From model to muddle
Chile’s crisis is not over yet
Europe


How to spend it
The EU’s covid-19 recovery fund has worked, but not as intended
A new role
After Russia’s invasion the people of Bessarabia switched sides
A concrete wall
As Donald Trump threatens NATO, the Baltic states stiffen their defences
Back from the slagheap
As German industry declines, the Ruhr gives hope
Overcooked controversy
Europe decides it doesn’t like lab-grown meat before it’s tried it
Charlemagne
How not to botch the upcoming EU leadership reshuffle
Britain


Getting nowhere fast
The horror story of HS2
Crime prevention
Why British police should focus on victims
Hotting up
Climate will be a battleground in Britain’s next election
Britain’s silver zones
How to live to one hundred
A life more ordinary
British lives are getting duller
Bagehot
Ban it harder! An unwelcome new trend in British politics
Roses are perishable
Love, frugality and home-grown flowers are in the air
International


Counting the votes
2024 is a giant test of nerves for democracy
Business


Chipping in
China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology
Tokyo Electrified
Japan’s semiconductor toolmakers are booming
Paramount’s paramours
Suitors are wooing Paramount
The super store
Why Costco is so loved
Bartleby
How to benefit from the conversations you have at work
Boxing match
How worried should Amazon be about Shein and Temu?
Schumpeter
The row over US Steel shows the new meaning of national security
Finance & economics


Artificial intelligence
How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback
Buttonwood
Investing in commodities has become nightmarishly difficult
Putting out fires
How the world economy learned to love chaos
Conflict trading
The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
American banks
Is working from home about to spark a financial crisis?
Free exchange
In defence of a financial instrument that fails to do its job
Science & technology


Lunar odyssey
A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed
Milk and two microbes
For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
Shame, set and match
What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour
JET off
A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style
Culture


Turkish delight
The third-largest exporter of television is not who you might expect
Indecipherable fingerprints
A secret room in Florence boasts drawings by Michelangelo
Laughing to tears
On “A Wonderful Country”, Israelis joke their way through trauma
Drugs, terms and steel
The Wa: the world’s biggest drug-dealers, with a tiny profile
Pen v plague
From Napoleon to Vladimir Putin, disease has shaped history
Back Story
The real message of Vladimir Putin’s chat with Tucker Carlson
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
What to read about Indonesia
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What is Russia’s mysterious new space weapon?
The Economist explains
How Ukraine sank the Caesar Kunikov—and is beating Russia at sea
Obituary


A line through the jungle
Jack Jennings was one of the Allied POWs who built the Burma Railway

The world this week

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


Weapons systems
Killer drones pioneered in Ukraine are the weapons of the future
They are reshaping the balance between humans and technology in war

China’s confidence shock
Has Xi Jinping lost control of the markets?
As a property crisis drags the economy into deflation, confidence is seeping away

The arsenal of hypocrisy
House Republicans are helping Vladimir Putin
Their cynicism over Ukraine weakens America and makes the world less safe

What happens when populists lose
Donald Tusk tries to restore Poland’s rule of law
Repairing the damage done by the last government will take grit and patience

Indonesia’s election
What Jokowi’s inglorious exit means for Indonesia
The outgoing president is playing kingmaker to a controversial ex-general

Letters

On China and Taiwan, royalty, artificial intelligence, activist investors, philanthropy, retirement
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Indonesia’s election
A presidential candidate sees daunting challenges at home and abroad
Artificial intelligence and democracy
An AI-risk expert thinks governments should act to combat disinformation
A post-populist perspective
Kyriakos Mitsotakis on how to escape the grip of populism
Briefing


Dissipating dreams
China’s well-to-do are under assault from every side
Their agonies at the hands of markets and the state will reshape the Chinese economy
Asia


Indonesian politics
A controversial general looks likely to be Indonesia’s next leader
Pay the writers
South Korea’s writers and directors play Squid Game
Force for change
Izumi Kenta wants to shake up Japan’s opposition
G’day, goodbye
Australia’s enthusiasm for immigration is being tested
Rule of Modi
Are India’s corruption police targeting Narendra Modi’s critics?
Banyan
Singapore cracks down on Chinese influence
China


Spend more, please
Can China’s consumers save its economy?
Pay up
Protests are soaring, as China’s workers demand their wages
Shrouded in secrecy
An espionage case hurts Chinese relations with Australia
Chaguan
Xi Jinping’s chaos-loving friends
United States


Poll positions
Trump’s lead over Biden may be smaller than it looks
Deliberative or disgraced?
What the death of America’s border bill says about toxic congressional politics
Citizen Trump
A court rejects Donald Trump’s claim to absolute immunity
Shh! Legislation in progress
Congress might just pass an astonishingly sensible tax deal
Direct democracy
Florida too may have an abortion referendum in November
Generalising
State attorneys-general are shaping national policy
Lexington
This is not a story about Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl

Middle East & Africa


Antony Blinken’s shuttle diplomacy
Israel scorns America’s unprecedented peace plan
America’s reverse-Goldilocks strategy
Why Iran is hard to intimidate
Israel’s obstructive settlers
America is trying to peg Israel’s settlers back
House and home
How to house the world’s fastest-growing population
How to stay in power
Democracy is under attack in Senegal
The Americas


El Salvador
After Nayib Bukele’s crushing, unconstitutional victory, what next?
The C word
Mexico’s president and his family are fighting claims of corruption
Pensions bonanza
Andrés Manuel López Obrador splashes out as elections loom
Europe


A party in a death spiral?
A mounting crisis of confidence confronts Olaf Scholz
A moment in the sun
Madrid is booming. Growing while keeping its cool will be the tricky part
Silencing the Kremlin’s critics
Vladimir Putin extends his crackdown in Russia
Return of law
Poland is trying to restore the rule of law without violating it
Charlemagne
Europe is importing a solar boom. Good news for (nearly) everyone
Britain


A pill wind
How Britain lost its war on drugs
Royal bodies
What Charles III’s illness says about monarchs and mortality
Not so soft
Britain’s economy will need rate cuts sooner rather than later
Eyes right
A tiny right-wing party tries to menace Britain’s Conservatives
Remembrance row
The controversy over Britain’s planned Holocaust memorial
Death to Britain, but not just yet
Iran is targeting its opponents in Britain
Bagehot
The former prime minister who fascinates the Labour Party
Business


Discomfort level
America’s economy is booming. So why are bosses worried?
Out of the nick, in time
Samsung’s boss avoids prison, again
Team players
Media companies club together for a joint sport-streamer
Bittersweet life
Can Giorgia Meloni reinvigorate Italia SpA?
Bartleby
Fairness: the hidden currency of the workplace
TsarGPT
Vladimir Putin wants to catch up with the West in AI
Schumpeter
Musk v Zuckerberg: who’s winning?
Finance & economics


Fanning the flames
China’s stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
Buttonwood
The dividend is back. Are investors right to be pleased?
Spring fever
Are NYCB’s troubles the start of another banking panic?
Capital punishment
Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
Running out of road
The false promise of Indonesia’s economy
Free exchange
Universities are failing to boost economic growth
Science & technology


Ukraine’s drone war
How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
Very small things
NASA’s PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
A long and winding road
The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon
They’re on a roll
Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI
Baby AI
Scientists have trained an AI through the eyes of a baby
Culture


Chronicling the past
When is it too soon to write history?
Size doesn’t matter
Small, but mighty: how cuteness has taken over the world
Labour pains
Lessons for Keir Starmer from Britain’s first Labour government
Name that toon
Chinese animated films are booming
Back Story
The meaning of the hysteria over Taylor Swift
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
What to read about Pakistan
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Backwards up the Khyber
Rosemary Smith set out to prove that women drivers could do as well as men