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The world this week

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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
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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

The world this week

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


Cash for kids
Why paying women to have more babies won’t work
Economies must adapt to baby busts instead

July 4th celebration
Rishi Sunak’s election call makes no sense, but is good news
Whether an act of political genius or lunacy, Britons should welcome it

Lawfare v warfare
The war-crimes case against the leaders of Israel and Hamas is flawed
Politics and diplomacy, not courts, are the key to ending violence and starting two-state talks

Security alert
Hacking phones is too easy. Time to make it harder
Regulators have avoided the problem for too long

30 years after apartheid
How to save South Africa
The rainbow nation needs an alternative to decline under the ANC

The new brains trust
What India’s clout in white-collar work means for the world
In time its tech firms could be as formidable as China’s manufacturers

Letters

On disinformation, digital payments, South-East Asia, Italy, Ravel’s “Boléro”, Tesla cars
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Israel, America and the ICC
Powerful states are finding it harder to dodge legal challenges, says Marc Weller
European security
Olaf Scholz on why Vladimir Putin’s brutal imperialism will fail
Briefing


Dawdling and decay
Next week’s election is South Africa’s most important since 1994
It may force the country’s indecisive leader to make a fateful choice
Asia


New Caledonia, Old Tensions
Geopolitics helps reignite New Caledonia’s anti-colonial unrest
All-consuming fires
Vietnam’s ruling communists rush to fill the country’s top jobs
Bangsamoro’s moment
In the Philippines a decades-long conflict nears its endgame
An unruly corner
India’s YouTubers take on Narendra Modi
Banyan
Lai Ching-te aims to strengthen Taiwan but maintain the status quo
China


A tale of two Chinas
Even Xi Jinping is struggling to fix regional inequality
Study buddies
The number of American students in China is going up again
One way to stay spry
Why Hong Kong is sending its old people to Guangdong
United States


The country road to the White House
Rural white voters in Wisconsin could decide America’s election
Corruption trials
What the cases of Robert Menendez and Henry Cuellar have in common
Off-season offence
How the NFL keeps fans transfixed even when there are no games
The FAFSA foul-up
Time is running out to fix America’s student-aid mess
A migration merry-go-round
Fewer migrants are crossing America’s southern border
U bet
Some would-be American immigrants are paying to get robbed
Lexington
Politics is the law in Texas

Middle East & Africa


The battle for control of Iran
The death of the president changes the power dynamic in Iran
Succession
A death, an illness, and an uncertain Middle East
The Israel-Hamas war
The revolt against Binyamin Netanyahu
Deaths in Gaza
How many people have died in Gaza?
Israel and Hamas in the dock
The ICC’s threat to arrest Binyamin Netanyahu has shocked Israel
The coup will not be televised
A live-streamed attempted coup in Congo shakes the region
Arms for Africa
Chinese weapons are taking over in Africa
The Americas


The villains are thriving
Criminal gangs are showing their muscle as Mexico’s elections loom
Lessons learned after Canada’s Frankenfires
Canadians are taking dramatic steps to avoid more ruinous firestorms
The vote bank in the United States
Mexico’s mighty diaspora punches below its weight in elections
Europe


European Parliament elections
Le Pen’s hard right looks set to crush Macron’s centrists
Pragmatist or pasionaria?
As the Euro-elections loom, Giorgia Meloni guards her right flank
A city under threat
Ukraine’s desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
Who hates whom?
How the hard right both reflects and creates prejudice
Charlemagne
The fight over meat-free meat pits Europe’s traditionalists against foodie innovators
Britain


Paranoid android
Could the Labour Party blow its big opportunity?
Wiggly wormageddon
What’s behind Britain’s earthworm cataclysm?
Blood, debt and tears
“A day of shame” for the British state
A system under strain
The sorry story of children in care in England
Alcoblocks
When is a non-alcoholic drink alcohol-free?
Bagehot
Rishi Sunak’s snap election is odd and illogical—much like him
A permanent home
The world’s first museum of homelessness
International


An interview with Rafael Grossi
Iran’s new leaders stand at a nuclear precipice
Business


Think different
Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown
Big game
Africa Inc is ready to roar
The world’s office
Global firms are tapping India’s workers like never before
Pits and bits
Americans are fretting over their body odour
The adman of Arkansas
Walmart’s latest product? Its customers
Bartleby
The Economist’s agony uncle returns
Schumpeter
Can anyone save the world’s most important diamond company?
Finance & economics


The pro-natalist turn
Can the rich world escape its baby crisis?
Trade wars
Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China’s exports
An aid to digestion
How the Chinese state aims to calm the property market
Soft launch
At long last, Europe’s economy is starting to grow
Buttonwood
Boaz v BlackRock: Whoever wins, closed-end funds lose
Free exchange
Shrinking populations mean less growth and a more fractious world
Science & technology


Easy breezy
A new age of sail begins
Marine technology
The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
Charging ahead
A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move
Cyber security
It is dangerously easy to hack the world’s phones
Culture


The art cop
Meet the man causing cracks in the antiquities trade
A modern Orwellian tale
What if calling someone stupid was a crime?
Back Story
Jürgen Klopp’s masterclass in how to win—and lose
The “Bridgerton” effect
The hit series “Bridgerton” has set off a string-quartet boom
The spice of life
Spices have their own riveting, piquant history
Heavenly hosts
The controversial cult of the host club in Japan
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
What does it mean to recognise Palestinian statehood?
Obituary


Morality and butchery
Ebrahim Raisi was obsessed with the security of the people

The world this week

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


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
The Economist reads


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

The world this week

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


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
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


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