Economist Podcasts

Tue, 22 Apr 2025

As the cardinals of the coming conclave prepare, our correspondent considers what will guide them. W...

Mon, 21 Apr 2025

He shunned fancy vestments and paid surprise visits to prisons and hospitals: our obituaries editor ...

Fri, 18 Apr 2025

It is a Nobel-winning idea with untold promise in health care, agriculture and more. We examine what...

Thu, 17 Apr 2025

President Xi Jinping’s style of negotiating is staid, distanced, a quiet projection of power. Pres...

Wed, 16 Apr 2025

For the 23rd time the International Monetary Fund will cough up, this time to the tune of $20bn. But...

Tue, 15 Apr 2025

Falling trust in the greenback is most apparent in bond-market moves. How close is the dollar to los...

Mon, 14 Apr 2025

President Donald Trump called the weekend strike on Sumy a “mistake”; other leaders called it a ...

Fri, 11 Apr 2025

Donald Trump is now aiming his trade war squarely at China. As the tit-for-tat tariff battle keeps e...

Thu, 10 Apr 2025

Just 12 hours after Donald Trump launched his searing regime of tariffs, he paused many of them for ...

Wed, 09 Apr 2025

As Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs take effect, our correspondent explains how one of America’s ...

Tue, 08 Apr 2025

More than 36,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats last year. Our correspondent in...

Mon, 07 Apr 2025

Since Donald Trump announced punishing tariffs on “Liberation Day” last week, stock markets have...

Fri, 04 Apr 2025

South Korea has been paralysed since its president declared martial law in December. Even after his ...

Thu, 03 Apr 2025

After months of bluster, he’s finally done it. At a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Donal...

Thu, 03 Apr 2025

Even in the run-up to Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff hikes, few had expected such colo...

Wed, 02 Apr 2025

Months ago, holding an election in wartorn Ukraine seemed impossible. Now plans are being made. Our ...

Tue, 01 Apr 2025

Marine Le Pen is one of France’s most popular politicians, who has brought the National Rally part...

Mon, 31 Mar 2025

Civil war in Myanmar is hampering relief efforts after the devastating earthquake on Friday, as the ...

Fri, 28 Mar 2025

No surprises here: The Economist reckons tariffs are a terrible trade tool. But what is most clearly...

Thu, 27 Mar 2025

For Europe’s hard-right politicians, Donald Trump’s second White House bid looked like validatio...

Wed, 26 Mar 2025

The Conservative Party, led by a Trump-tinged populist, once had the polls locked up. That is changi...

Tue, 25 Mar 2025

Put aside for the moment the outrageous security breach of a journalist being brought in on classifi...

Mon, 24 Mar 2025

The ceasefire in Gaza is in tatters; the campaign against Hizbullah is flaring up again. Yet the mos...

Fri, 21 Mar 2025

America’s international intelligence-sharing relationships have been decades in the making and rel...

Thu, 20 Mar 2025

Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested just days before he was likely to be elected leader of Turkey’s opposi...

Wed, 19 Mar 2025

Donald Trump hoped Vladimir Putin would agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. Instead he made marginal co...

Tue, 18 Mar 2025

After Israel launched dozens of missiles into Gaza overnight, what does this mean for the prospect o...

Mon, 17 Mar 2025

Donald Trump’s team has called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “the most incompet...

Fri, 14 Mar 2025

The International Criminal Court has arrested Rodrigo Duterte, a former president of the Philippines...

Thu, 13 Mar 2025

The Trump administration’s dedication to tariffs now seems more fervent than the first time around...

Wed, 12 Mar 2025

The ceasefire proposal hatched by American negotiators and agreed by Ukraine is now a matter for Rus...

Tue, 11 Mar 2025

Horrifying attacks on Alawites, the sect of deposed leader Bashar al-Assad, throw into question the ...

Mon, 10 Mar 2025

The governing Liberal party is enjoying a stunning turnaround in the polls, and now it has a new lea...

Fri, 07 Mar 2025

After a turbulent seven days, how will President Volodymyr Zelensky tackle the domestic and internat...

Thu, 06 Mar 2025

The leader of Turkey’s Kurdish rebels has called on the group to disband. That could end one of th...

Wed, 05 Mar 2025

American presidents often use their first meeting with Congress as a chance to lay out their agenda ...

Tue, 04 Mar 2025

In an effort to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table, America has paused military help to the war-...

Mon, 03 Mar 2025

European leaders met in London this weekend after Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky’s public row...

Fri, 28 Feb 2025

This week European leaders have lined up to charm Donald Trump. But the broad smiles belie a bigger ...

Thu, 27 Feb 2025

As the baby-boom generation starts to die and economic growth slows many more people are getting ric...

Wed, 26 Feb 2025

The first phase of Gaza’s ceasefire is near its end, but planning for the even more fraught second...

Tue, 25 Feb 2025

The meeting between France’s and America’s presidents had a familiarly chummy feel. We ask wheth...

Mon, 24 Feb 2025

Instead of needing three parties to cobble together a majority, the country’s two traditional main...

Fri, 21 Feb 2025

Europe must move boldly as the American-led world order shatters beneath it; we explain how. Many pe...

Thu, 20 Feb 2025

Africa’s young are educated, ambitious side-hustlers. But they are hampered by their economies and...

Wed, 19 Feb 2025

The possibilities for an inevitable coalition government are a head-spinning colour wheel of party l...

Tue, 18 Feb 2025

We investigate China’s under-the-radar push to get other countries to change their official langua...

Mon, 17 Feb 2025

Backing away from European security guarantees and seeking mineral rights in Ukraine as recompense f...

Fri, 14 Feb 2025

The American president and Indian prime minister have long been friends. But when the two met at the...

Thu, 13 Feb 2025

During a 90-minute telephone conversation, the American and Russian presidents started negotiating a...

Wed, 12 Feb 2025

In an interview with The Economist ahead of the Munich Security Conference, Ukraine’s president is...

Tue, 11 Feb 2025

The winner of Germany’s upcoming election will also play a crucial role in Europe. The Economist’...

Mon, 10 Feb 2025

Some of the most frenetic innovation of Ukraine’s war happens in the electromagnetic spectrum: det...

Sat, 08 Feb 2025

How do you run a scam operation? Perks, recruitment, outsourcing and a monthly landscaping budg...

Sat, 08 Feb 2025

Who are the scammers? They aren't who you think. To listen to the full series, subscribe to Economis...

Sat, 08 Feb 2025

You wouldn’t fall for a scam—would you? A small town in Kansas is left reeling after one of its ...

Fri, 07 Feb 2025

Our new podcast series is a shocking look at transnational organised crime: nearly as big as the ill...

Thu, 06 Feb 2025

We meet the opposition leader who is likely to be the next president. Cleaning up the domestic mess ...

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...

Wed, 05 Feb 2025

The details President Donald Trump laid out for American ownership and redevelopment of the Gaza Str...

Tue, 04 Feb 2025

From media-studies dropout to international jihadist to Syria’s ruler, Ahmed al-Sharaa has an unli...

Mon, 03 Feb 2025

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...

Mon, 03 Feb 2025

President Donald Trump followed through on his tariff threats, starting with Canada, Mexico and Chin...

Sat, 01 Feb 2025

The Mahabharata is one of India’s two great Hindu epics. It is thousands of years old and thousand...

Fri, 31 Jan 2025

The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria will reshape the wider region. Our correspondent says few count...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...

Thu, 30 Jan 2025

As some of Donald Trump’s most controversial choices for top jobs are questioned this week, our co...

Wed, 29 Jan 2025

Rebels linked to Rwanda have occupied the city of Goma in eastern Congo. Our correspondent reports o...

Tue, 28 Jan 2025

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...

Tue, 28 Jan 2025

Silicon Valley firms have poured billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. But a new cheap A...

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...

Mon, 27 Jan 2025

Though thousands of Palestinians are going back to northern Gaza, rebuilding their lives and homes w...

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...

Fri, 24 Jan 2025

Rachel Reeves has had a rocky start as chancellor of the exchequer. Our editor-in-chief meets her at...

Thu, 23 Jan 2025

After the collapse of the governing “traffic light” coalition in December, the hard-right AfD ha...

Wed, 22 Jan 2025

The procedure is simple—genial, even. Contact Houthi rebels in Yemen and pay up, and your freight ...

Tue, 21 Jan 2025

Donald Trump is back in office, this time with less pearl-clutching in Washington. We examine his in...

Mon, 20 Jan 2025

Quiet skies, returned Israeli hostages, Gazans going back home: there is much to celebrate, for the ...

Fri, 17 Jan 2025

This week Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space-exploration company, successfully launched a rocket into...

Thu, 16 Jan 2025

After 15 months of fighting, a ceasefire in Gaza may soon be agreed. What does the deal entail –&n...

Wed, 15 Jan 2025

After dramatic scenes in South Korea, President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained on insurrection char...

Tue, 14 Jan 2025

Though central banks have cut interest rates, uncertainty about the future has sent yields sky-high....

Mon, 13 Jan 2025

Among the lessons emerging from California’s devastating fires is the idea that insurers cannot pr...

Fri, 10 Jan 2025

Elon Musk has taken an abiding interest in Britain, and a hard line against its prime minister. It r...

Thu, 09 Jan 2025

The world’s most populous country is at the front line of climate change. Our deputy editor explor...

Wed, 08 Jan 2025

A once-fringe far-right party looks close to power—and serves as another sign of a broad and worry...

Tue, 07 Jan 2025

In the end Justin Trudeau could not resist the internal pressure. We ask why the liberal standard-be...

Mon, 06 Jan 2025

Israel continued to pound Gaza, even as ceasefire negotiations began in Qatar. The familiar dynamic ...

Fri, 03 Jan 2025

There are three types of economics-minded people in Donald Trump’s incoming administration. We ask...

Thu, 02 Jan 2025

The country is on its third president in as many weeks—a deep political crisis only made worse by ...

Wed, 01 Jan 2025

There is no simplistic split of sentiment about Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. But what most Rus...

Tue, 31 Dec 2024

In some places, votes resulted in political chaos; in others they showed a promising shift away from...

Mon, 30 Dec 2024

After a single term and a landslide loss to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter’s presidency was judged un...

Fri, 27 Dec 2024

From a legendary baseball slugger to a beloved comic actor, from Scottish politicians to America’s...

Thu, 26 Dec 2024

Some people read books to escape. Others turn to them for instruction. As the new year looms, our co...

Tue, 24 Dec 2024

Cows produce far more milk in rich countries than in poor ones. Our correspondent explains how beefi...

Mon, 23 Dec 2024

Is it a community-minded boys’ club, like the Scouts? A breeding ground for seething Hindu nationa...

Fri, 20 Dec 2024

In the past 12 months, there has been no lack of news. Editors at The Economist have picked their wa...

Thu, 19 Dec 2024

At the icy border between Russia and Estonia, the anxieties of NATO member states are clear, our cor...

Wed, 18 Dec 2024

Ten days after the fall of Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad, the full brutality of his rule is bei...

Tue, 17 Dec 2024

After Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, lost a confidence vote in parliament yesterday, Germany i...

Mon, 16 Dec 2024

This weekend, the ruling Georgian Dream party elected a new president – but only one name was on t...

Fri, 13 Dec 2024

Many adults perform worse in tests of literacy and numeracy than the average ten year old. And resul...

Thu, 12 Dec 2024

Layoffs, suspended dividends, a share price in free fall, a chief executive hustled out the door: In...

Wed, 11 Dec 2024

As Syrians awoke to a new era, thousands rushed to fling open the dark, filthy prisons where Bashar ...

Tue, 10 Dec 2024

For five years the prospect of a criminal prosecution has loomed over Binyamin Netanyahu. Today he b...

Mon, 09 Dec 2024

President Bashar al-Assad has been run out, his regime in tatters. As Syrians awaken to a new era, h...

Fri, 06 Dec 2024

Many thought a five-year timeline was too ambitious. But even as France’s politics falls apart, it...

Thu, 05 Dec 2024

An alliance of the far right and the left has sacked Prime Minister Michel Barnier; out goes his bud...

Wed, 04 Dec 2024

The country’s increasingly unpopular president, Yoon Suk Yeol, backed down six hours after his sho...

Tue, 03 Dec 2024

The country has been turning increasingly away from Europe and towards Russia—but a halt to EU-acc...

Mon, 02 Dec 2024

The country’s civil war never ended—it became a fragile stalemate that fell out of the news. A s...

Fri, 29 Nov 2024

In an interview with Javier Milei, our correspondent probes how far the “anarcho-capitalist” pre...

Thu, 28 Nov 2024

As civil war rages in the country, millions of people have been displaced and famine is widespread. ...

Wed, 27 Nov 2024

This morning, a deal halting fighting between Israel and Lebanon for 60 days came into effect. Our c...

Tue, 26 Nov 2024

Donald Trump had been facing a swathe of lawsuits this year. Now he has won a second term in office,...

Mon, 25 Nov 2024

Gautam Adani is one of India’s richest men, whose fortunes are closely aligned to those of Prime M...

Fri, 22 Nov 2024

Should people have the right to choose how they die? Though many Britons support the principle, a vo...

Thu, 21 Nov 2024

What will the world’s richest man do in the White House? Our correspondent analyses the political ...

Wed, 20 Nov 2024

Donald Trump tore up America’s nuclear deal with Iran in his first term. What will he do when he b...

Tue, 19 Nov 2024

Trade ties between the two countries have been increasing for over a decade. The election of Donald ...

Mon, 18 Nov 2024

America feared that letting Ukraine use US weapons to attack far-off targets in Russia would escalat...

Fri, 15 Nov 2024

Donald Trump admires Vladimir Putin’s strongman style and has failed to condemn his invasion of Uk...

Thu, 14 Nov 2024

China is enacting a rapid project of military modernisation. Though in some areas its forces are alr...

Wed, 13 Nov 2024

A week after Donald Trump won a decisive victory in the presidential election, he is making appointm...

Tue, 12 Nov 2024

At a time when Russia is making gains in Ukraine and Donald Trump has been re-elected as president, ...

Mon, 11 Nov 2024

Last time Donald Trump was president he pulled America out of the Paris climate agreement. What is o...

Fri, 08 Nov 2024

Donald Trump will inherit a tangle of conflicts in the Middle East; will he deliver on his promise t...

Thu, 07 Nov 2024

The American presidential election delivered a mercifully quick and decisive outcome. Our data edito...

Wed, 06 Nov 2024

In the end America got a swift and decisive call as to the next president: Donald Trump. We invite t...

Wed, 06 Nov 2024

John Prideaux, Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon are on today's edition of The Intelligence with t...

Tue, 05 Nov 2024

America and the world hold their proverbial breath for what has become a dead heat. Our special epis...

Mon, 04 Nov 2024

Both campaigns have racked up air miles covering the swing states that will decide America’s knife...

Fri, 01 Nov 2024

Our series concludes with an examination of the state with the most electoral-college votes: Pennsyl...

Thu, 31 Oct 2024

Rachel Reeves’s first budget as chancellor of the exchequer saw the biggest tax rises in decades, ...

Wed, 30 Oct 2024

First they treated diabetes. Then obesity. Now GLP-1 drugs are being tested on a range of other dise...

Tue, 29 Oct 2024

Russia is advancing in Ukraine, has more troops and more weapons. In Kyiv and beyond, questions are ...

Mon, 28 Oct 2024

Israel has been expected to attack Iran for weeks. Why was the assault at the weekend more limited t...

Sun, 27 Oct 2024

The subject of reparations - making amends for wrongs, is a topic which has been building momentum o...

Fri, 25 Oct 2024

There is a vacuum at the top of Hamas following the killing of the militant group’s commander in G...

Thu, 24 Oct 2024

The two American presidential candidates have been neck and neck. But this week, the Economist’s f...

Wed, 23 Oct 2024

Our correspondent interviews Sahra Wagenknecht, the popular leftist whose eponymous political party ...

Tue, 22 Oct 2024

Israel is planning to strike Iran within days, even as its wars in Lebanon and Gaza deepen. Our corr...

Mon, 21 Oct 2024

Aggression, election-meddling, “psychological destabilisation”: Russia’s leader is sowing chao...

Fri, 18 Oct 2024

Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7th attacks, is dead. What does that mean for Hamas, for...

Thu, 17 Oct 2024

A constellation of islands, reefs and rock-piles has been the source of disputes for decades. As a n...

Wed, 16 Oct 2024

Kamala Harris has proven to be an enormous draw for campaign donors. But the size of a candidate’s...

Tue, 15 Oct 2024

Our correspondent sits down with Keir Starmer on the sidelines of a conference dedicated to drawing ...

Mon, 14 Oct 2024

The fifth test flight of the absolutely enormous Starship went entirely to plan, returning everythin...

Fri, 11 Oct 2024

Britain’s Labour Party came to power promising to restore order and stability. Our correspondent e...

Thu, 10 Oct 2024

Global warming is increasing the intensity of storms like the one that just hit Florida. Our corresp...

Wed, 09 Oct 2024

This summer, an American judge ruled that Google’s search dominance was illegal. Now the Departmen...

Tue, 08 Oct 2024

Necoclí is a tiny town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Beach bars blast party music and sell brigh...

Tue, 08 Oct 2024

Twenty years ago America was fighting insurgents in Afghanistan and Iran. As state-on-state clashes ...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

After Hamas militants attacked Israel a year ago, few people predicted how deep and devastating the ...

Mon, 07 Oct 2024

*This episode was first published 20/07/24After a year of war in Gaza, people are beginning to discu...

Sat, 05 Oct 2024

One evening, Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat, grabbed a late dinner in Beijing with his p...

Fri, 04 Oct 2024

Whoever wins Pennsylvania will probably win the presidency: according to The Economist’s forecast ...

Fri, 04 Oct 2024

In a matter of weeks the conflict between Israel and Hizbullah has transformed life in Lebanon. Our ...

Thu, 03 Oct 2024

After years of slowing growth, the Chinese government is finally attempting to bolster consumer dema...

Wed, 02 Oct 2024

After JD Vance and Tim Walz squared off against each in last night’s vice-presidential debate, our...

Tue, 01 Oct 2024

As Israeli troops move into Lebanon and missiles strike Damascus in Syria, can Israel’s next offen...

Mon, 30 Sep 2024

Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Yemen this weekend will have implications far beyond the militant ...

Sat, 28 Sep 2024

Ukraine’s President has been in New York this week.  With a victory plan in his pocket, he’...

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

Over the past decade a form of wokeness arose on the illiberal left, characterised by extreme pessim...

Fri, 27 Sep 2024

Ukraine’s president is again on American shores, trying to secure support of all kinds. He needs i...

Thu, 26 Sep 2024

For now, Israel’s moves seem to be posturing, a means to intimidate Hizbullah into backing down. B...

Wed, 25 Sep 2024

Even before last month’s revised religious rules, Afghanistan’s women were being crushed under t...

Tue, 24 Sep 2024

A handful of Republican leaders have been denouncing Donald Trump since his first presidential campa...

Mon, 23 Sep 2024

Artificial Intelligence has gained ground so fast that OpenAI, the firm powering ChatGPT, is changin...

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

Republicans are already preparing to contest the result if Kamala Harris wins the presidency. Americ...

Fri, 20 Sep 2024

After Israeli fires rockets into Lebanon and Hizbullah warns of “red lines” crossed, the Middle ...

Thu, 19 Sep 2024

The first reduction in interest rates for four years shows America’s Federal Reserve thinks inflat...

Wed, 18 Sep 2024

The explosion of thousands of pagers across Lebanon and Syria was an attack on Hizbullah, a Shia mil...

Tue, 17 Sep 2024

Large fuel subsidies in Nigeria are popular but ruinous to other public services. Our correspondents...

Mon, 16 Sep 2024

With less than eight weeks to go to the presidential election, tension is running high after a secon...

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

On Tuesday night in Philadelphia Donald Trump and Kamala Harris took part in what might be the only ...

Fri, 13 Sep 2024

Capsule that can withstand vacuum? Check. Low-pressure spacesuit? Check. Space-friendly Doritos? Che...

Thu, 12 Sep 2024

One of America’s stalwart tech giants is on the ropes, having first missed the move to mobile and ...

Wed, 11 Sep 2024

The vice-president turned in a confident if imperfect performance, leaving Donald Trump flustered. B...

Tue, 10 Sep 2024

The EU’s unofficial chief technocrat issued a doorstop of a report outlining how the bloc can boos...

Mon, 09 Sep 2024

Nicolás Maduro has stolen an election, again—but this time the rightful winner felt so threatened...

Fri, 06 Sep 2024

Two months ago, French politics was thrown into crisis after a snap election left no party with a cl...

Thu, 05 Sep 2024

Though we use more renewable energy than ever before, electricity grids need ways to cope with inter...

Wed, 04 Sep 2024

We take a look at the grim conditions in and prospects for the frontlines in the country’s east an...

Tue, 03 Sep 2024

The recovery of six hostages from Gaza has provoked mass demonstrations on the streets of Israel and...

Mon, 02 Sep 2024

The hard right has taken Germany into uncharted territory, winning one state election and racking up...

Fri, 30 Aug 2024

Water scarcity is growing even in parts of the world that used to be drought-free. Since  most ...

Thu, 29 Aug 2024

The American chip designer has become one of the world’s most valuable companies on the back of th...

Wed, 28 Aug 2024

As Pavel Durov sits in a French cell waiting to find out if he will be charged, our correspondent pr...

Tue, 27 Aug 2024

Since the invasion of Ukraine, the West has deployed massive economic restrictions on Russian trade....

Mon, 26 Aug 2024

Snack-food companies have long shown their adaptability to changing diets. How could the rise of app...

Sat, 24 Aug 2024

In this episode of The Weekend Intelligence, Africa correspondent Tom Gardner tells the story of 21s...

Fri, 23 Aug 2024

After an electric week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris now faces the...

Thu, 22 Aug 2024

Predicting political violence is a painstaking job. Now AI is helping analysts look for clues and th...

Wed, 21 Aug 2024

Mpox is spreading fast across Africa, yet public information campaigns are scant and vaccines in sho...

Tue, 20 Aug 2024

While many people fear the risk of a wider war breaking out in the Middle East, a parallel battle is...

Mon, 19 Aug 2024

As Democrats convene in Chicago, polls suggest Kamala Harris is ahead by a whisker in the US preside...

Fri, 16 Aug 2024

Inflation, interest rates and jobless numbers are on healthy trends; markets are gaining back ground...

Thu, 15 Aug 2024

Peace talks in Doha have a chance at progress even in Hamas’s absence. The outcome could determine...

Wed, 14 Aug 2024

Skilled immigrants bring more than just their expertise to job markets. But governments miss opportu...

Tue, 13 Aug 2024

Corporate investment in artificial-intelligence infrastructure reaches $1.4trn by some estimates. We...

Mon, 12 Aug 2024

Part of Russia is under foreign control for the first time since the second world war. We ask about ...

Fri, 09 Aug 2024

The rich world is experiencing record migrant flows—and the attendant social upheaval. Finding imm...

Thu, 08 Aug 2024

Tourists are getting decidedly less-warm welcomes in popular spots, but blunt anti-tourism policies ...

Wed, 07 Aug 2024

Tim Walz, a folksy Midwesterner who came late to politics, is on the Democratic ticket. We ask how h...

Tue, 06 Aug 2024

Sheikh Hasina, who led the country for 20 of the past 28 years with an increasingly authoritarian gr...

Mon, 05 Aug 2024

Unrest across the country has been driven in part by the provably false claims of right-wing provoca...

Fri, 02 Aug 2024

The biggest exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West since the Cold War included opposition...

Thu, 01 Aug 2024

As domestic demand in China slows, and the West puts up trade and political barriers, Chinese firms ...

Wed, 31 Jul 2024

After the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh, what are the prospects for ceasefire...

Tue, 30 Jul 2024

The dearth of fixed-line infrastructure that allowed the continent to leapfrog into the mobile-phone...

Mon, 29 Jul 2024

After an airstrike killed 12 children in Israel-controlled territory at the weekend, retaliation in ...

Fri, 26 Jul 2024

As the Olympics begin, more people than ever will be watching via streaming services. We examine the...

Thu, 25 Jul 2024

Anyone hoping to glean hints of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plans for the Gaza war and its...

Wed, 24 Jul 2024

From tunnels to tanks to drones, Gaza’s horrors provide object lessons in urban warfare. We ask wh...

Tue, 23 Jul 2024

A day is a long time in American politics: Kamala Harris has reportedly already secured the votes to...

Mon, 22 Jul 2024

Joe Biden has at last succumbed to the pressure to step aside and has endorsed his vice-president, K...

Fri, 19 Jul 2024

The scars of the covid pandemic are still raw, but now a virus spreading among farm animals could le...

Thu, 18 Jul 2024

J.D. Vance was largely unknown in American politics until Donald Trump picked him as his running-mat...

Wed, 17 Jul 2024

If you don’t have enough food in the first 1,000 days of your life, your brain may never reach its...

Tue, 16 Jul 2024

After decades of torpor, is Japan recovering its dynamism? Our correspondent turns to an ancient ben...

Mon, 15 Jul 2024

After the shocking attempt to kill former President Donald Trump, how will America respond? Though l...

Fri, 12 Jul 2024

Artificial intelligence is already making a difference in the theatre of war, and more involvement w...

Thu, 11 Jul 2024

Democrats’ worried murmurs have become public statements. Polls give Donald Trump a widening lead....

Wed, 10 Jul 2024

Masoud Pezeshkian rode to victory on a promise of reforms that Iran’s people seem desperately to w...

Tue, 09 Jul 2024

It was formed to unite the world’s strongest countries and preserve peace, but as NATO holds a cel...

Mon, 08 Jul 2024

A tactical ploy to diminish the chances for Marine Le Pen’s hard-right National Rally has worked—...

Sun, 07 Jul 2024

Why are two old, unpopular men the main candidates for the world’s most demanding job?  It’...

Fri, 05 Jul 2024

Britain has elected a Labour government for the first time in 14 years. The party inherits a spatter...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

The generation born in the 1940s grew up in a land of endless growth and possibility, ruled by a con...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

It has changed our lives and become one of the world’s most valuable companies. As Amazon turns 30...

Thu, 04 Jul 2024

How did two old, unpopular men end up running for the world's most demanding job? The answer lies in...

Wed, 03 Jul 2024

As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, they exacerbate existing inequalities. The poor, sick...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

How did two old, unpopular men end up running for the world's most demanding job? It’s the questio...

Tue, 02 Jul 2024

The US Supreme Court has granted the former President immunity from prosecution for official acts co...

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

How did two old, unpopular men end up running for the world's most demanding job? It’s the questio...

Mon, 01 Jul 2024

Marine Le Pen’s far-right party made great gains in the first round of France’s parliamentary el...

Sat, 29 Jun 2024

On July 4th Britain will have a general election, one in which is widely expected to result in drama...

Fri, 28 Jun 2024

America’s president had one primary task at last night’s debate: to close down speculation about...

Thu, 27 Jun 2024

After 14 years in opposition, Britain’s Labour Party is on track for a comprehensive win in next w...

Wed, 26 Jun 2024

Our correspondents were the first media to see the American-built JLOTS pier, intended for aid deliv...

Tue, 25 Jun 2024

As Julian Assange is released from prison our correspondent reflects on how the work of Wikileaks ch...

Mon, 24 Jun 2024

After decades as a scientific also-ran, China is becoming a superpower particularly in the physical ...

Fri, 21 Jun 2024

Since his election last year, President Javier Milei has enjoyed some economic and political wins in...

Thu, 20 Jun 2024

No energy source has ever increased as fast as solar photovoltaics. The technology will transform hu...

Wed, 19 Jun 2024

Both the left and right are likely to do well in France’s upcoming parliamentary poll, with Presid...

Tue, 18 Jun 2024

The post-war generation reaped the benefits of peace and prosperity. Yet rather than spend that boun...

Mon, 17 Jun 2024

Much of Sudan has already collapsed into chaos. Now a crucial city may fall, the United Nations is b...

Fri, 14 Jun 2024

Britain’s pint-sipping rabble-rouser of the right has joined the campaigning ahead of a general el...

Thu, 13 Jun 2024

America’s upbeat assessment of a ceasefire deal masks deep divides that may not, in fact, be bridg...

Wed, 12 Jun 2024

We have dusted off and tuned up our forecast model for America’s presidential race. So far it give...

Tue, 11 Jun 2024

Across the rich world millions spend more than a third of their disposable income on rent. We ask wh...

Mon, 10 Jun 2024

Hard-right parties did well in Europe's parliamentary elections—so well in France that President E...

Sat, 08 Jun 2024

Narendra Modi has been chosen to lead India for the third time in a row. But after 10 years in power...

Fri, 07 Jun 2024

When Russia attacked the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine a year ago, lives were lost, families stranded and ...

Thu, 06 Jun 2024

As Britain’s general-election campaign heats up, party leaders are vague on their economic plans. ...

Wed, 05 Jun 2024

Narendra Modi, the strongman of India, will have to compromise now his party has lost its majority. ...

Wed, 05 Jun 2024

Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...

Tue, 04 Jun 2024

There has been a slow strangling of freedom in the territory where pro-democracy activists have been...

Mon, 03 Jun 2024

Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected Mexico’s first female president. Now the real fight begins: cri...

Sat, 01 Jun 2024

Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...

Fri, 31 May 2024

In 2022 the Supreme Court gave control of abortion back to “the people and their elected represent...

Fri, 31 May 2024

The former president was found guilty on all 34 charges of falsifying business records. But his conv...

Fri, 31 May 2024

Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...

Thu, 30 May 2024

Ahead of a general election in July, we reflect on 14 years of Conservative rule. It’s not a great...

Wed, 29 May 2024

Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...

Wed, 29 May 2024

Horrific images of charred bodies being pulled from the rubble in Gaza drew outcry, and more countri...

Tue, 28 May 2024

The IAEA is charged with promoting the peaceful use of atomic energy. But with uncertainty in Iran a...

Mon, 27 May 2024

Apple and Alphabet operate what is in effect a smartphone-app duopoly. Governments want to curb thei...

Sat, 25 May 2024

The introduction laws cracking down on supposed foreign agents has become a common tactic for autocr...

Fri, 24 May 2024

Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...

Fri, 24 May 2024

Our editor-in-chief and Jerusalem correspondent pay a visit to Israel’s halls of power, finding th...

Thu, 23 May 2024

When it comes to the chips used in artificial intelligence, one firm has the market locked up. We lo...

Wed, 22 May 2024

Artificial intelligence is already making its mark in health care—but new, bigger, models promise ...

Wed, 22 May 2024

Domestic divisions are already complicating the daunting task William Lai Ching-te has set himself: ...

Tue, 21 May 2024

The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has caused outrage by requesting arrest wa...

Mon, 20 May 2024

The death of Ebrahim Raisi will spark succession battles both for the presidency and for supreme lea...

Sat, 18 May 2024

Mumbai is famously an open city, known for welcoming all comers, regardless of colour, caste, or cre...

Fri, 17 May 2024

A bid to squeeze money from social-media platforms that link to news content has backfired: what was...

Thu, 16 May 2024

An attempt on Robert Fico’s life comes at a time of deep-running polarisation in his country—muc...

Wed, 15 May 2024

Michael Cohen has been testifying in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial. Did the former president’s...

Tue, 14 May 2024

At the height of China’s zero-covid restrictions, a Chinese character that sounds like the English...

Tue, 14 May 2024

At a hidden command centre our correspondent finds deflated but defiant soldiers. Fight against Russ...

Mon, 13 May 2024

A chat with the deputy boss of Ukraine’s military intelligence reveals concerns about a dearth of ...

Sat, 11 May 2024

Sarah Birke and Aryn Braun report frequently on tensions at the border between America and Mexico—...

Fri, 10 May 2024

The battles for supremacy in chipmaking and green technology industries are raging on. Re-electing D...

Thu, 09 May 2024

Lawrence Wong will only be the city-state’s fourth leader since its independence. Our foreign edit...

Wed, 08 May 2024

Narendra Modi’s reputation for prosperity is likely to propel him to a third term. But for India’...

Tue, 07 May 2024

The ceasefire deal, which Hamas has agreed to, prompted celebrations in Gaza. But Binyamin Netanyahu...

Mon, 06 May 2024

Thirty years of democracy have not led to uniform prosperity, and nearly everyone disagrees about th...

Fri, 03 May 2024

France’s president is known for pronouncements of grand scope with one eye toward history. But whe...

Thu, 02 May 2024

When you look around the world, and at a wider set of measures, Generation Z are far better off than...

Wed, 01 May 2024

Ever since there have been smartphones and social media, there have been concerns about how they mig...

Wed, 01 May 2024

A dramatic overnight raid in New York City was just one sign that protests at American universities ...

Tue, 30 Apr 2024

The dengue-fever case counts now break regional records every year—and the structural reasons behi...

Mon, 29 Apr 2024

The ruling military junta that seized power in a coup in 2021 is losing ground, slowly—and the reb...

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

For months, a big foreign-aid deal looked like it was going nowhere in the House of Representatives....

Fri, 26 Apr 2024

As Parliament has now agreed to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, many members of the ruling Conservati...

Thu, 25 Apr 2024

Ravaged by a civil war, Sudan could see a nationwide famine by August. With humanitarian aid being b...

Wed, 24 Apr 2024

Police clashes with protesters at Columbia University have spilled over into other institutions, rai...

Tue, 23 Apr 2024

The companies behind this wonder of tech are facing allegations of using copyrighted material to bui...

Mon, 22 Apr 2024

At a time when Russia has been making significant gains, an allocated $61bn of aid for Ukraine will ...

Fri, 19 Apr 2024

A missile has reportedly struck a site in the Islamic Republic. If this is retaliation for Iran’s ...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

More than 1bn people around the world are obese. That means there should be extraordinary demand for...

Thu, 18 Apr 2024

Governments particularly in the rich world are struggling to get young people in uniform. Will some ...

Wed, 17 Apr 2024

All over the world, young men are identifying more with the political right, even as women drift mor...

Tue, 16 Apr 2024

The case for assisted dying is essentially one of individual freedom—and plenty of Britons support...

Mon, 15 Apr 2024

For the first time Iran launched a huge attack on Israel from its own territory, though the effort l...

Fri, 12 Apr 2024

We have combined polling data to make a detailed portrait of the American electorate. Have a tinker ...

Thu, 11 Apr 2024

Since the invasion began, Ukraine's second city has suffered a third of all aerial attacks. The late...

Wed, 10 Apr 2024

The leaders of both countries will meet for dinner at the White House tonight. In light of Asia’s ...

Tue, 09 Apr 2024

The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes was recently in Beijing for the China Develop...

Tue, 09 Apr 2024

In Russia inflation is under control, wages are on the up and supposedly tough sanctions have been s...

Mon, 08 Apr 2024

The 1994 slaughter of hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis completely reshaped the country. It a...

Sat, 06 Apr 2024

Twenty-two years ago, Palestinian politician-turned-revolutionary Marwan Barghouti was convicted of ...

Fri, 05 Apr 2024

While America’s focus has been on the presidential election, the race for Congress is even more vo...

Fri, 05 Apr 2024

After more than 100 days in office, President Javier Milei has managed some much-needed economic ref...

Thu, 04 Apr 2024

The game theory was simpler during a cold war between two states armed to the teeth; the nuclear wor...

Wed, 03 Apr 2024

India is not the first country to leapfrog from poverty-induced undernourishment to also having an o...

Tue, 02 Apr 2024

As yet more aid workers die in Gaza and an airstrike levels an Iranian consulate, pressure on Israel...

Mon, 01 Apr 2024

There are fears about TikTok, but it’s not the only social media platform that the Chinese state m...

Fri, 29 Mar 2024

Alexei Navalny was sent to one to die and American journalist Evan Gershkovich is being held in anot...

Thu, 28 Mar 2024

It has been called one of the biggest financial frauds in American history. After the collapse of cr...

Wed, 27 Mar 2024

It is becoming harder to get supplies into the enclave, which is facing a growing risk of famine. As...

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

On March 13th America’s House of Representatives passed a bill that could ban TikTok nationwide un...

Tue, 26 Mar 2024

Bassirou Diomaye Faye was little-known before this election. Despite the incumbent president’s att...

Mon, 25 Mar 2024

Warnings from the Americans went unheeded, police took too long to respond, and now the Kremlin has ...

Sat, 23 Mar 2024

By the end of this podcast Economist correspondent Tamara Gilkes Borr might own a gun. Recently, Tam...

Fri, 22 Mar 2024

The case against the tech giant has been brewing since 2019 and while the smartphone maker is usuall...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

Amazon started with a plan to disrupt bookselling. It sold cheap books online, delivering them strai...

Thu, 21 Mar 2024

America’s central bank left rates untouched, to widespread market delight. Why is this economic cy...

Wed, 20 Mar 2024

It took more than 20 years for Hong Kong’s legislature to pass Article 23, a sweeping and troublin...

Tue, 19 Mar 2024

The Bank of Japan has ended its grand experiment in unconventional monetary policy—how did it work...

Mon, 18 Mar 2024

America is producing more high-school graduates—but on average, they know less. We ask how a push ...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

It’s not long since America was widely thought to be on the brink of recession. Instead the econom...

Fri, 15 Mar 2024

Voting begins today in an election that has already been won – all the opposition politicians are ...

Thu, 14 Mar 2024

The US Congress is refusing to scroll past the app’s links to China. If the bill they passed becom...

Wed, 13 Mar 2024

The northeastern province has been subject to more and more shelling, and Western officials are worr...

Tue, 12 Mar 2024

Melting ski slopes, floods and droughts are enraging the continent’s citizens, but not quite enoug...

Mon, 11 Mar 2024

As the hermit kingdom is getting ever cosier with Russia, it is becoming bolder in its provocations ...

Fri, 08 Mar 2024

Despite growing pressure from powerful local gangs, Ariel Henry, the prime minister, is refusing to ...

Thu, 07 Mar 2024

A steady 20-point lead in the polls suggests that the Labour Party could comfortably win Britain’s...

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

What is intelligence? In the middle of the 20th century, the inner workings of the human brain inspi...

Wed, 06 Mar 2024

In a result that will surprise few, America is on track to hold a rematch of the 2020 presidential e...

Tue, 05 Mar 2024

The richer, more urban region does not just differ economically, but politically too. Can Mr Modi to...

Mon, 04 Mar 2024

The international push for a ceasefire in Gaza continues, but the tragedies keep coming; in many way...

Sat, 02 Mar 2024

A year on from our series Next Year in Moscow, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition ...

Fri, 01 Mar 2024

A visit to a port of entry at America’s Mexican border reveals the difficulties in stopping the fl...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

It's been two years since Russia brought war to Ukraine. America, Britain and the European Union may...

Thu, 29 Feb 2024

A slew of spycraft mishaps might suggest Russia’s once-great intelligence services have hopelessly...

Wed, 28 Feb 2024

Some within China might prefer another Donald Trump presidency while others might favour Joe Biden. ...

Tue, 27 Feb 2024

The birth rate of unicorns—firms with a valuation north of $1bn—has plummeted, and prior investo...

Mon, 26 Feb 2024

After a 20-point primary walloping in South Carolina, the state she governed for eight years, Nikki ...

Fri, 23 Feb 2024

In this roundtable discussion our editors examine how the past year has progressed, discuss how thin...

Thu, 22 Feb 2024

Hardened war-zone doctors say the situation in Gaza is the worst they have witnessed—and that will...

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

Dark matter is thought to make up around a quarter of the universe, but so far it has eluded detecti...

Wed, 21 Feb 2024

If it succeeds—and that is no sure thing—this week’s soft landing of Odysseus will be the firs...

Tue, 20 Feb 2024

China’s firms are shedding value at pace and foreign investors are starting to look elsewhere. We ...

Mon, 19 Feb 2024

At last President Vladimir Putin’s regime has succeeded in silencing the country’s most prominen...

Sat, 17 Feb 2024

When Alexei Navalny flew back to Russia in 2021 he never made it through passport control. In an exc...

Fri, 16 Feb 2024

This is not science fiction. Space is already a part of modern warfare and as technology advances, i...

Thu, 15 Feb 2024

Prabowo Subianto stormed to victory in the world’s largest single-day election. But critics say hi...

Wed, 14 Feb 2024

After an all-nighter, a $95bn foreign aid bill for Ukraine and other allies passed the US Senate. Bu...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024

In some ways, Beijing now sounds like a lot of other mega cities. Yet, back in imperial times, sound...

Tue, 13 Feb 2024

Donald Tusk’s predecessors in the hard-right PiS party captured the state and compromised its chec...

Mon, 12 Feb 2024

Squabbles over the seas and their tributary waterways are becoming more tense as rivalries deepen an...

Sat, 10 Feb 2024

America has launched strikes against Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East, in response to an a...

Fri, 09 Feb 2024

As had long been telegraphed, Ukraine’s top general Valery Zaluzhny is now out; Oleksandr Syrsky i...

Thu, 08 Feb 2024

Our correspondent is travelling with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is on yet another gruell...

Wed, 07 Feb 2024

In one of this year’s largest votes, Indonesia will elect a new president in one week’s time; th...

Tue, 06 Feb 2024

Macky Sall, Senegal’s president, has said he would not stand again. So what to make of the move to...

Mon, 05 Feb 2024

Dozens of air strikes in Iraq, Syria and Yemen were designed to show American resolve without themse...

Fri, 02 Feb 2024

Last month, Microsoft briefly overtook the iPhone maker as the world’s most valuable company. As A...

Thu, 01 Feb 2024

The populous South-East Asian country is uniquely well-positioned to benefit from the deepening rift...

Wed, 31 Jan 2024

Campaigning for a coming election in the world’s fourth-most-populous country has been almost enti...

Tue, 30 Jan 2024

China’s decades-long economic boom was powered by workers who migrated from the countryside to cit...

Tue, 30 Jan 2024

One of the country’s biggest property companies, Evergrande, has been crippled by its debt. What d...

Mon, 29 Jan 2024

Iran-backed proxies have killed three American soldiers and injured dozens of others in their weeken...

Sat, 27 Jan 2024

As life moves progressively online, it is becoming increasingly possible to keep people alive in the...

Fri, 26 Jan 2024

For decades, Argentina’s labour unions have seemed like they can’t be touched. But the country’...

Thu, 25 Jan 2024

Generative artificial intelligence dominated conversations at Davos this year. How might education a...

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

OpenAI and Microsoft are leaders in generative artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI has built GPT-4,...

Wed, 24 Jan 2024

His decisive victory demonstrates just how much of a hold he still has on the Republican party, but ...

Tue, 23 Jan 2024

The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party represents a growing anti-immigrant rhetoric in the country,...

Mon, 22 Jan 2024

He went from being the most viable challenger to Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, to endo...

Fri, 19 Jan 2024

The ominous disappearance of Russia’s opposition leader led many to fear the worst. But he has tur...

Thu, 18 Jan 2024

European firms dominate the global luxury landscape, accounting for two-thirds of sales and nine of ...

Thu, 18 Jan 2024

Many of America’s business leaders reckon a second Trump term would be worse for them and for the ...

Wed, 17 Jan 2024

A tentative aid deal in Gaza is just a sliver of what is needed; hunger and disease may well claim m...

Tue, 16 Jan 2024

China’s flip-flopping on video-game regulation reveals a messy message: leaders want to encourage ...

Mon, 15 Jan 2024

Taiwan’s election of William Lai Ching-te of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party is ...

Fri, 12 Jan 2024

America and its allies delivered on a threat to retaliate against Houthi rebels in Yemen who have be...

Thu, 11 Jan 2024

America seems to be in a best-of-worlds scenario: growth is outpacing expectations even as inflation...

Wed, 10 Jan 2024

Gabriel Attal, France’s youthful new prime minister, represents President Emmanuel Macron’s rene...

Tue, 09 Jan 2024

China is watching Taiwan’s next presidential race closely. The results will influence Xi Jinping’...

Tue, 09 Jan 2024

As with many technologies that preceded it, generative artificial intelligence is increasingly viewe...

Mon, 08 Jan 2024

Our correspondents travel through the rainforest, seeing the pollution and clear-cutting firsthand. ...

Fri, 05 Jan 2024

Joe Biden’s chances against Donald Trump in November do not look good. He is unpopular and his age...

Fri, 05 Jan 2024

From Brexit to covid-19, nothing has yet stymied London’s successes. The city has its problems, bu...

Thu, 04 Jan 2024

Labour markets are changing in all kinds of ways, thanks to ageing societies, hot-running economies ...

Wed, 03 Jan 2024

Saleh al-Arouri has long been a high-priority target for Israel and his death could weaken the Pales...

Tue, 02 Jan 2024

As Vladimir Putin promises to intensify Russia’s attacks, Mr Zelensky is frustrated at the waverin...

Mon, 01 Jan 2024

Citizens across more than 70 countries will be heading to the polls over the next twelve months. It’...

Fri, 29 Dec 2023

Only at the end of the year can a full appraisal be made of the figures—and landmarks—that the w...

Thu, 28 Dec 2023

What can A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke tell us about AI? Does Shakespeare's Othello contain a w...

Wed, 27 Dec 2023

On our website and in our app, “The Economist explains” is one of the best-read features. Today ...

Tue, 26 Dec 2023

Which country improved the most this year? Nominations poured in from across the editorial departmen...

Fri, 22 Dec 2023

Scientists are making considerable progress in the race to slow the ageing process of our cells, and...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

We raise the curtain on the business of New York’s iconic theatre district. Broadway has been stru...

Thu, 21 Dec 2023

Our Berlin bureau chief sits down with the increasingly popular co-leader of the Alternative for Ger...

Wed, 20 Dec 2023

Books are the original medium for communicating science to the masses. In a holiday special, produce...

Wed, 20 Dec 2023

The state’s supreme court has ruled that he cannot appear on the Republican primary ballot, citing...

Tue, 19 Dec 2023

After a dubious win in 2018, Felix Tshisekedi is running for office again in the Democratic Republic...

Mon, 18 Dec 2023

In response to the war in Gaza, Iran-backed Houthi militants are attacking vessels along the key shi...

Sat, 16 Dec 2023

For almost a decade The Economist’s Noah Sneider has been following the story of MH17, the passeng...

Fri, 15 Dec 2023

Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping to secure more aid from Washington. But the decision rests with a divid...

Thu, 14 Dec 2023

News outlets are often hounded by the right for being too left-leaning. Our data show there might be...

Wed, 13 Dec 2023

In a landmark agreement, nearly 200 nations have agreed to transition away from fossil fuels. Howeve...

Tue, 12 Dec 2023

Since the Hamas attacks and the ensuing war in Gaza, debate at America’s top academic institutions...

Mon, 11 Dec 2023

Our correspondent joins the French air force on a mission in the Baltics, seeing increasing support ...

Fri, 08 Dec 2023

In the American West, grizzly bears are spreading—and fights over protecting them under the Endang...

Thu, 07 Dec 2023

Even before America’s tussle over funding Ukraine’s war effort, it seemed as if Russia was gaini...

Wed, 06 Dec 2023

By the numbers, the outcome seems clear: Venezuelans voted to annex much of newly minted petrostate ...

Tue, 05 Dec 2023

Tickets for “Nvzizhuyi”—a monthly stand-up comedy show in New York City— often sell out in l...

Tue, 05 Dec 2023

The cradle of American technology was once known for its libertarian values—but as law-enforcement...

Mon, 04 Dec 2023

As its ground offensive appears to be expanding, Israel is acutely aware that time and international...

Sat, 02 Dec 2023

The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and our Russia and Eastern Europe editor, Ark...

Fri, 01 Dec 2023

Olena Zelenska foresees a time when her family can regain a quiet life. Our editor-in-chief sits dow...

Thu, 30 Nov 2023

The doyen of diplomacy has died, leaving a complex legacy. Following extensive interviews with him e...

Wed, 29 Nov 2023

Drug-related shootings and bombings are on the rise. Policies are changing and law-enforcement budge...

Tue, 28 Nov 2023

The singular focus on the metaverse of Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s boss, fretted investors. But in the...

Mon, 27 Nov 2023

Our correspondent speaks with the Africa head of the Red Cross who has borne witness to the war, fam...

Fri, 24 Nov 2023

Look past short-term stumbles: there are plenty of reasons to think Japan may spin out of its decade...

Thu, 23 Nov 2023

In five days OpenAI’s boss was fired by its board; hired by Microsoft, the startup’s biggest inv...

Thu, 23 Nov 2023

Geert Wilders campaigned on leaving the European Union, closing the borders, and even suggested bann...

Wed, 22 Nov 2023

A year ago, the public launch of ChatGPT took the world by storm and it was followed by many more ge...

Wed, 22 Nov 2023

After weeks of negotiations, Hamas has agreed to release some hostages. In exchange, there will be a...

Tue, 21 Nov 2023

It is still unclear why the board of OpenAI fired him last week, but hundreds of staff are revolting...

Mon, 20 Nov 2023

He is a self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” and in a run-off, the people have entrusted this po...

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

If the election were held tomorrow, Donald Trump would probably be the favourite to win.  How s...

Fri, 17 Nov 2023

Were America’s presidential election to be held today, Donald Trump would probably win. We examine...

Thu, 16 Nov 2023

There is little left, in terms of people or infrastructure, in the north of the strip. Our correspon...

Wed, 15 Nov 2023

In the European country with both the largest Jewish and largest Muslim populations, a rise in antis...

Tue, 14 Nov 2023

Former prime minister David Cameron is back from the political wilderness—and his appointment as f...

Mon, 13 Nov 2023

After a grinding and lethal eight-month battle, Ukraine’s forces retook the port city a year ago. ...

Fri, 10 Nov 2023

Miscalculating the prowess of the People’s Liberation Army is dangerous. Overestimating it could c...

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act promised $370bn for green infrastructure and industr...

Thu, 09 Nov 2023

Economists have stopped waiting for interest rates to drop because it doesn’t seem to be coming. T...

Wed, 08 Nov 2023

A high-profile money-laundering case in Singapore with links to Chinese gamblers has shed light on a...

Tue, 07 Nov 2023

One month on from Hamas’ attack on Israel, we meet Najib Mikati. He is hoping to prevent Hizbullah...

Mon, 06 Nov 2023

Israeli troops are gearing up to enter Gaza city, bracing for the next round of urban warfare. Our c...

Sat, 04 Nov 2023

In our second episode of The Weekend Intelligence, The Economist correspondents Catherine Brahic and...

Fri, 03 Nov 2023

From can-do-no-wrong wunderkind to one of the biggest fraudsters in the history of finance: we look ...

Thu, 02 Nov 2023

General Valery Zaluzhny concedes that five months of counter-offensive have not gained much—and ca...

Wed, 01 Nov 2023

Online and on-screen reactions to the conflict reflect a subtle but important shift in Western attit...

Tue, 31 Oct 2023

As country after country in the Sahel has fallen prey to coups, President Macky Sall’s Senegal see...

Mon, 30 Oct 2023

The long-anticipated invasion is not the expected blitzkrieg; we ask how a longer, more cautious war...

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

On foreign policy, trade and immigration, the Republican Party wants America to push the world away....

Fri, 27 Oct 2023

American airstrikes on Syrian bases linked to Iran are a reminder that Iran’s proxies lie behind m...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

Last week, we spoke to the author Michael Lewis, who was embedded with Sam Bankman-Fried, as FTX, th...

Thu, 26 Oct 2023

With the accession of Mike Johnson as the lower chamber’s majority leader, Congress can at last ge...

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

The Weekend Intelligence is a new podcast from the award-winning team at The Economist. It’s a spa...

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

In the coming decades, electric vehicles will dominate the roads and renewables will provide energy ...

Wed, 25 Oct 2023

A network of captives’ families has sprung up to accomplish what Israel’s government has so far ...

Tue, 24 Oct 2023

Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many have worried: is Taiwan next? China is giving Taiwan a te...

Tue, 24 Oct 2023

President Vladimir Putin has long had it in for Alexei Navalny, Russia’s principal opposition figu...

Mon, 23 Oct 2023

After dominating the polls for months, Javier Miliei, a right-wing firebrand, was outshone by the ca...

Fri, 20 Oct 2023

They fled round after round of gunfire, hid for hours and saved hundreds of lives. It is a rare stor...

Thu, 19 Oct 2023

From a refugee camp in Chad, we speak with those fleeing murder in Darfur. Reporting on the war betw...

Wed, 18 Oct 2023

A fatal explosion at a hospital-cum-shelter has led to outrage and the canceling of the very summit ...

Tue, 17 Oct 2023

America may have avoided a government shutdown last month but its fiscal worries are far from over. ...

Mon, 16 Oct 2023

After two terms in power, Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s nationalist party looks to have lost its majority. ...

Fri, 13 Oct 2023

Bombs have rained on the strip since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday. With food, water and ...

Thu, 12 Oct 2023

The Defence Force is preparing to follow up its air strikes on Gaza with troops. An incursion will b...

Wed, 11 Oct 2023

How does the Palestinian militant group justify the atrocities committed in Israel? Why has it done ...

Tue, 10 Oct 2023

As the retribution continues, the state has now cut off supplies to the Palestinian enclave, and Ame...

Mon, 09 Oct 2023

Almost exactly 50 years on from the moment that launched the deadly Yom Kippur War, Hamas, the milit...

Fri, 06 Oct 2023

The once-unassailable titan of tech has missed big opportunities in recent years. But it has a reaso...

Thu, 05 Oct 2023

Divisions within the ruling party are on full display this week, and the provocative policies Prime ...

Wed, 04 Oct 2023

Another shutdown standoff, funding worries for Ukraine, more leadership chaos: the booting of Americ...

Tue, 03 Oct 2023

The founder of FTX, a spectacularly failed cryptocurrency exchange, is a curious character. He denie...

Mon, 02 Oct 2023

The literal 11th-hour deal to avert a government shutdown is only a stopgap—and the battle may end...

Fri, 29 Sep 2023

 During past economic downturns, officials have been both swift and bold. This time not so much...

Thu, 28 Sep 2023

Many of the pieces are in place to bring the disease entirely under control—but our correspondent ...

Wed, 27 Sep 2023

Where the defensive lines really are, the state of Russia’s reserves, battlefield tactics: Kyrylo ...

Tue, 26 Sep 2023

President Emmanuel Macron’s about-face on maintaining a presence in the coup-stricken country port...

Mon, 25 Sep 2023

Populist, right-wing parties are already in power in Hungary, Poland and Italy—and getting closer ...

Fri, 22 Sep 2023

Reporting from the ground, our Eastern Europe editor explores how the country is bracing for a new p...

Thu, 21 Sep 2023

It would not be the first time that a member of the government has gone missing, not even the first ...

Wed, 20 Sep 2023

The murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Najjar has deepened a long-running spat between the two ...

Tue, 19 Sep 2023

This is not the first time the Islamic Republic has taken foreigners hostage. It’s proven an effec...

Mon, 18 Sep 2023

The libertarian right-winger is leading in the polls, a surprise for a country that has typically le...

Fri, 15 Sep 2023

As progress on the front line slows, Western countries are divided over how the army should proceed....

Thu, 14 Sep 2023

For 17 years, The Economist has brought you a host of brilliant shows. Now we are taking that even f...

Wed, 13 Sep 2023

On September 11th 1973, president Salvador Allende shot himself in the head after being overthrown i...

Tue, 12 Sep 2023

In a rare trip outside of the hermit state, it seems the dictator is planning to meet with Vladimir ...

Mon, 11 Sep 2023

As the counter-offensive continues, Ukrainian forces are running out of time to make substantial gai...

Fri, 08 Sep 2023

The highest interest rates in years should lead to a fall in house prices. But peculiarities of Amer...

Thu, 07 Sep 2023

Axing generous fuel subsidies was just one necessary reform promised by Bola Tinubu. A hundred days ...

Wed, 06 Sep 2023

The retail behemoth is splashing tremendous amounts of cash on streaming content; critics are unimpr...

Tue, 05 Sep 2023

The calculus of the cold war is back, but there are new variables in the equation—namely China’s...

Mon, 04 Sep 2023

The absolute numbers remain troubling but a close look at statistics reveals that, across American c...

Fri, 01 Sep 2023

The president is using racist hate-mongering as both a rallying tool and a distraction mechanism. It...

Thu, 31 Aug 2023

Putsches in Africa are becoming more common and there appears to be a trend. Are there more to come ...

Wed, 30 Aug 2023

Three months into the counteroffensive, the military is reaping the fruits of several months of dron...

Tue, 29 Aug 2023

Owing to a host of deep-rooted economic and political challenges, it could be the only G7 economy to...

Mon, 28 Aug 2023

From Japan to South Korea, from China to Taiwan, family structures are becoming less traditional. Mo...

Fri, 25 Aug 2023

The alliance was always based more on common fortunes than common interests. We ask what to make of ...

Thu, 24 Aug 2023

History would suggest that the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was an assassination. Our corres...

Wed, 23 Aug 2023

Arranging friendly media coverage, giving handouts to voters, stifling opposition rallies: once agai...

Tue, 22 Aug 2023

Once again, fears are ripping through the industry—this time starting from a firm once thought too...

Mon, 21 Aug 2023

Ecuador and Guatemala faced similar preoccupations with violence and corruption—one of Ecuador’s...

Fri, 18 Aug 2023

For weeks, the regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to undo the putsch by force. But appetite for a m...

Thu, 17 Aug 2023

The region is home to most of the world’s known lithium. Given the mineral’s usefulness in batte...

Wed, 16 Aug 2023

As the death toll surpasses 100, we report from Maui where fires have ravaged the island in the dead...

Tue, 15 Aug 2023

The former president has been hit with a new set of charges, under a catch-all racketeering act that...

Mon, 14 Aug 2023

Despite cosying up with Russia and accusing America of trying to topple him, the newly re-elected pr...

Fri, 11 Aug 2023

Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman says a presence in top-level global sport is one route to modernisi...

Thu, 10 Aug 2023

An appalling record compared with much of the rich world is not just down to drugs and guns. We ask ...

Wed, 09 Aug 2023

Big-money legislation to bring microprocessor manufacturing to the country is off to a reasonable st...

Tue, 08 Aug 2023

The Economic Community of West African States may yet try to restore President Mohamed Bazoum milita...

Mon, 07 Aug 2023

As diplomatic efforts played out in Saudi Arabia our correspondent recounts travels along the nearly...

Fri, 04 Aug 2023

As the tech giant approaches its 25-year anniversary, there are questions of just how much more it c...

Thu, 03 Aug 2023

The industrial arms race is on. For many political reasons, countries with the means are throwing bi...

Wed, 02 Aug 2023

The former American president is facing a new set of unprecedented legal challenges linked to his cl...

Tue, 01 Aug 2023

The country is not new to seclusion, but under the aegis of the pandemic, Kim Jong Un tightened bord...

Mon, 31 Jul 2023

Following years of military takeovers in the region, Niger is the West’s last solid ally in the Sa...

Fri, 28 Jul 2023

A country that was not long ago gripped by gang violence and crime is slowly emerging from fear, tha...

Thu, 27 Jul 2023

Russia’s axeing of the Black Sea grain deal reveals a war machine running out of options. We explo...

Wed, 26 Jul 2023

Military types need not wait until mass movements of troops to know a conflict is coming. We examine...

Tue, 25 Jul 2023

A seemingly small change to the Supreme Court’s powers to adjudicate “reasonableness” represen...

Mon, 24 Jul 2023

After no party won a majority, forming a government may take weeks—or another election. But predic...

Fri, 21 Jul 2023

It has been a month since the head of the Wagner group led a march on Moscow. Although it failed, Pu...

Thu, 20 Jul 2023

Little is known about why he fled across the border into the hermit kingdom, but securing his releas...

Wed, 19 Jul 2023

The carmaker, which reports results today, is still celebrating impressive growth and its boss has e...

Tue, 18 Jul 2023

America is keen to mend the relationship between the Gulf state and Israel, but Muhammad bin Salman ...

Mon, 17 Jul 2023

Europe, America and Asia are all enduring scorching heatwaves, air temperatures are repeatedly break...

Fri, 14 Jul 2023

The burning of burial grounds in the northern region of the country suggests that authorities are de...

Thu, 13 Jul 2023

When he was last elected, many were surprised, even in his own camp. This time around, his backers a...

Wed, 12 Jul 2023

Wiping out a tenth of the world? Possible. Wiping out all of humanity? Less likely, but not entirely...

Tue, 11 Jul 2023

Mark Rutte is stepping down after leading the Netherlands for 13 years. Despite his renowned politic...

Mon, 10 Jul 2023

Despite considerable opposition from allies in NATO, America has agreed to send them to Ukraine. The...

Fri, 07 Jul 2023

We sit down with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and ...

Thu, 06 Jul 2023

If there is one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features...

Wed, 05 Jul 2023

Its leader is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the...

Tue, 04 Jul 2023

The so-called refugee camp in the city of Jenin has been subject to raids for months—and a hotspot...

Mon, 03 Jul 2023

The killing of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the ...

Fri, 30 Jun 2023

Mass movements of people expected as climate change progresses are often depicted as catastrophes-in...

Thu, 29 Jun 2023

This week’s court battle involving Microsoft and Activision, giants of tech and gaming, reflects a...

Wed, 28 Jun 2023

For decades, leftist policies first espoused by Juan Perón have dominated the country’s politics....

Tue, 27 Jun 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group fighters are said to be welcome in safe-haven Belarus. We ask...

Mon, 26 Jun 2023

Yevgeny Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin’s chef”, leads the Wagner Group of mercenaries fighting al...

Fri, 23 Jun 2023

In the months since America’s Supreme Court gave states the power to ban abortions, those in suppo...

Thu, 22 Jun 2023

Members of the alliance are conflicted over the prospect of Ukraine’s membership. In particular, A...

Wed, 21 Jun 2023

Narendra Modi is cosying up to America, but not at the expense of valuable relationships with Russia...

Tue, 20 Jun 2023

Much to the chagrin of hopeful first-time buyers, property prices remain stubbornly high across the ...

Mon, 19 Jun 2023

In a first since 2018, America’s secretary of state is visiting China amid escalating tensions bet...

Fri, 16 Jun 2023

They lead startups, giant corporations, even countries: people of Indian origin are finding great su...

Thu, 15 Jun 2023

The investigation into covid-lockdown-era parties during Boris Johnson’s premiership—and his den...

Wed, 14 Jun 2023

Conflict in Ukraine has cut short the “peace dividend” the world was reaping. We count the econo...

Tue, 13 Jun 2023

Italy’s longest-serving prime minister has died aged 86. He inspired as much derision as devotion,...

Mon, 12 Jun 2023

Hints of the long campaign ahead are emerging, but all the operations so far are just drawing the ev...

Fri, 09 Jun 2023

He is expected to be charged for failing to return classified documents and obstructing justice. The...

Thu, 08 Jun 2023

The country’s military is renowned for political overreach. Now, its leaders are taking on former ...

Wed, 07 Jun 2023

Fertility rates are falling to worrying levels, and an older, smaller, global population is bad news...

Tue, 06 Jun 2023

After months of waiting, probing attacks have begun. A destroyed dam in Kherson suggests that Russia...

Mon, 05 Jun 2023

At a meeting of defence ministers from the Asia-Pacific region, heightened tensions between Beijing ...

Fri, 02 Jun 2023

Over two decades in office, the prime minister and her Awami League party have overseen impressive g...

Thu, 01 Jun 2023

The country’s homophobes claim that homosexuality is a malign foreign import; in reality it was an...

Wed, 31 May 2023

Many of the continent’s economies are hamstrung by debt—much of it held internationally. We look...

Tue, 30 May 2023

The global digital-payments shift is more than just a matter of convenience. We examine the cashless...

Mon, 29 May 2023

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again retained the presidency. We ask how the best chance in a generation t...

Fri, 26 May 2023

From infantry to air defences and even electronic warfare, improved strategies and engineering could...

Thu, 25 May 2023

After a glitchy announcement on Twitter, the Florida governor’s campaign is off to a shaky start. ...

Wed, 24 May 2023

Although Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ party fell short of a majority in parliament, meaning there will be ...

Tue, 23 May 2023

In attempts to amass more wealth, these organisations are dabbling in newer narcotics and even takin...

Mon, 22 May 2023

Today, the president will meet with the Republican leader in the house of representatives to try and...

Sat, 20 May 2023

Henry Kissinger was one of the most influential and controversial diplomats of the 20th century. He ...

Fri, 19 May 2023

Over the last couple of decades, the state has been making significant investments into its armed fo...

Thu, 18 May 2023

Tomorrow, Syria’s president will be welcomed back into the Arab League as regional leaders meet in...

Wed, 17 May 2023

In a conversation that lasted eight hours over two days, the statesman discussed paths to peace in U...

Tue, 16 May 2023

Largely thanks to young, liberal citizens, a reformist third party won the most seats in Thailand’...

Mon, 15 May 2023

Despite the opposition’s lead in the pre-election polls, the incumbent president seems to have per...

Fri, 12 May 2023

The past few years have proved tumultuous both for American consumers and for retailers selling to t...

Thu, 11 May 2023

It is probably this year’s most important election—and for the first time in a long time, the co...

Wed, 10 May 2023

A jury unanimously found Donald Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation. We examine his first...

Tue, 09 May 2023

Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They...

Mon, 08 May 2023

Their return to rule is unequivocally bad for the country’s women and girls. But wholesale collaps...

Fri, 05 May 2023

He has been king since September; now it is time for the pomp. We examine the modern monarchy—and ...

Thu, 04 May 2023

Florida’s governor has made a headline-grabbing rightward lurch as part of a presumed bid for the ...

Wed, 03 May 2023

Geoffrey Hinton, a legend of artificial-intelligence research, wants to be able to speak his mind ab...

Tue, 02 May 2023

Criminal networks have had to reorganise since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with knock-on effects...

Mon, 01 May 2023

Climate change is stirring up internecine conflicts, criminality is making them longer, and cross-bo...

Fri, 28 Apr 2023

AS A GAS // As a gas producer, the state was able to build up enormous reserves. But failing to pivo...

Thu, 27 Apr 2023

As the country prepares to go to the polls next year, The Economist sits down with the leader of the...

Wed, 26 Apr 2023

He made the same announcement on the same day four years ago and went on to win. But this time, the ...

Tue, 25 Apr 2023

ATTEMPTS TO MAINTAIN // Attempts to maintain a neutral stance on the invasion of Ukraine, while also...

Mon, 24 Apr 2023

Ceasefires have failed, civilians are fleeing, and there is no end in sight to the fighting. We brin...

Fri, 21 Apr 2023

In a historic first, the largest rocket ever assembled managed to get off the ground. But then it ex...

Thu, 20 Apr 2023

Deep in the mountains along the Thai border, a bloody civil war rages. Our correspondent gives us ra...

Wed, 19 Apr 2023

The top-secret plan to pierce Russia’s defenses and reclaim territory could unfold any day now. We...

Tue, 18 Apr 2023

Contrary to the groaning of both Republicans and Democrats, the economy is still the world’s large...

Mon, 17 Apr 2023

Clashes in Khartoum have turned deadly as two rival military factions fight for power. As the confli...

Fri, 14 Apr 2023

It will be years until the country recovers from February’s devastating earthquakes—but progress...

Thu, 13 Apr 2023

The International Monetary Fund is sitting on oodles of cash, but failing to disburse it. We examine...

Wed, 12 Apr 2023

A trove of once-secret documents is proving an embarrassment to both America and its allies, and a d...

Tue, 11 Apr 2023

The famed power-sharing deal did its work of sharply reducing sectarian violence, but a quarter-cent...

Mon, 10 Apr 2023

Many people think that with inflation and interest-rate rises abating, the worst effects on housing ...

Fri, 07 Apr 2023

These days the gaming industry takes in much more than the global cinema box office. We ask how thin...

Thu, 06 Apr 2023

Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and...

Wed, 05 Apr 2023

Perhaps the only surprising thing about the former president’s arraignment was that it was not fol...

Tue, 04 Apr 2023

On his visit to Beijing Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, has much to balance: his peacemaking ...

Mon, 03 Apr 2023

There are similarities between the two economies set to be the fastest-growing this year—but their...

Fri, 31 Mar 2023

For the first time in history, a former American president faces arrest. Mr. Trump denies the charge...

Thu, 30 Mar 2023

Links with China and allegations of surveillance have highlighted the threat that the social-media a...

Wed, 29 Mar 2023

The two regional rivals have negotiated a deal, ending a seven-year lapse in diplomatic ties. Elsewh...

Tue, 28 Mar 2023

After ten months of haggling, the military alliance is gaining a new member: Finland. We ask wh...

Mon, 27 Mar 2023

Protests against proposed judicial reforms have intensified. Could Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu...

Fri, 24 Mar 2023

America invaded Iraq 20 years ago this week. Today Baghdad is bustling, violence across the country ...

Thu, 23 Mar 2023

Central banks face a painful tradeoff: raise rates too quickly and risk banking-sector instability. ...

Wed, 22 Mar 2023

Emmanuel Macron narrowly survived two no-confidence votes, sparked by his pushing a pension-reform p...

Tue, 21 Mar 2023

Silicon Valley Bank. Signature Bank. Credit Suisse. The world’s banks look wobbly, leading to fear...

Mon, 20 Mar 2023

The visit of Xi Jinping, China’s president, to Moscow may seem like the solidifying of a simple, a...

Fri, 17 Mar 2023

The economics are clear-cut: the benefits of preserving the lungs of the world vastly outweigh those...

Thu, 16 Mar 2023

Proposed legislation that would hobble the judiciary has led to relentless demonstrations—and expo...

Wed, 15 Mar 2023

From today’s national budget to hardline immigration legislation to international defence pacts, B...

Tue, 14 Mar 2023

After internecine drama, the opposition-party alliance has picked their man. The bookish, mild-manne...

Mon, 13 Mar 2023

An old-fashioned bank run has caused American regulators to intervene in a big way to save the bank’...

Fri, 10 Mar 2023

The world’s biggest military donor to Ukraine, relative to GDP, is Estonia. Kaja Kallas, its prime...

Thu, 09 Mar 2023

The risk of a Sino-American war over Taiwan appears to be growing. Our diplomatic editor assesses th...

Wed, 08 Mar 2023

Economists and politicians around the world are consumed with one question: is the world headed for ...

Tue, 07 Mar 2023

Ukraine is using a torrent of Western arms and training to prepare for a spring offensive. We learn ...

Mon, 06 Mar 2023

A policy of ambiguity is swiftly shifting; the country is falling into a Sino-Russian orbit at just ...

Fri, 03 Mar 2023

A slump in tech is driving investors to rediscover old ways. Out are the cash-splashing long bets; i...

Thu, 02 Mar 2023

Shifts in the garment industry, which powered development in the country, represent one risk; meagre...

Wed, 01 Mar 2023

The Belt and Road initiative to encircle much of the world with Chinese-funded, Chinese-built infras...

Tue, 28 Feb 2023

Since Brexit’s earliest days, the trade status of Northern Ireland and its border with the Republi...

Mon, 27 Feb 2023

Excitement still surrounds the spoiler candidate Peter Obi, whose down-to-earth ways appeal to a lar...

Fri, 24 Feb 2023

After a year of a conflict that was predicted to last just days, we examine the battle lines—seein...

Thu, 23 Feb 2023

Markets seem to think the worst is over; central bankers are not so sure. We ask why determining the...

Wed, 22 Feb 2023

President Joe Biden’s riposte to the bellicose speech of his counterpart Vladimir Putin was a stud...

Tue, 21 Feb 2023

Particulate matter is shortening lives and hobbling economies in the region. We ask how policy chang...

Mon, 20 Feb 2023

The country’s war-torn north-west has been getting far less aid than it needs in the earthquakes’...

Fri, 17 Feb 2023

Charitable giving is being disrupted by the same youthful tech folk who got rich disrupting other se...

Thu, 16 Feb 2023

Nicola Sturgeon is bowing out after shaping a party that has defined itself on the notion of Scottis...

Wed, 15 Feb 2023

Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and UN ambassador, has declared her 2024 presidenti...

Tue, 14 Feb 2023

The petrostates of the Gulf are modernising their economies, growing more tolerant and liberalising ...

Mon, 13 Feb 2023

Our correspondent visits town after devastated town. Poorly enforced building codes are one clear fa...

Fri, 10 Feb 2023

Young voters are fired up and the electoral system has been strengthened, but Nigeria’s challenges...

Thu, 09 Feb 2023

America’s Congress may be gridlocked, but its state legislatures certainly aren’t. The laws they...

Wed, 08 Feb 2023

The race for AI supremacy is on. Microsoft, Google, Baidu and a host of smaller firms are all placin...

Tue, 07 Feb 2023

Amid unthinkable destruction and loss of life, we examine the factors that will frustrate relief eff...

Mon, 06 Feb 2023

American fighters shot down a balloon that China says was monitoring the weather, but America insist...

Fri, 03 Feb 2023

As part of The Economist’s new series on the remaking of the country's economy, our correspondent ...

Thu, 02 Feb 2023

The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president...

Wed, 01 Feb 2023

The Adani Group, one of India’s biggest conglomerates, has come under fire from a tiny American re...

Tue, 31 Jan 2023

Fixing the complex, creaking pension system remains central to President Emmanuel Macron’s agenda ...

Mon, 30 Jan 2023

The response to the death of the 29-year-old has differed from that of previous cases of police kill...

Fri, 27 Jan 2023

South Africa’s infrastructure—its ports, railways and power grid—are struggling and poorly man...

Thu, 26 Jan 2023

Israel’s right-wing coalition government has the country’s supreme court in its sights. Their pr...

Wed, 25 Jan 2023

After months of foot-dragging, Germany is sending tanks to Ukraine, with America poised to follow su...

Tue, 24 Jan 2023

Around one-fifth of Ukraine’s population has fled. The country’s GDP has plummeted and foreign i...

Mon, 23 Jan 2023

Jacinda Ardern resigned as New Zealand’s prime minister last week. As Chris Hipkins prepares to ta...

Fri, 20 Jan 2023

The global elite’s annual Alpine jamboree may have lost some of its convening power, our editor-in...

Thu, 19 Jan 2023

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismantled the country’s institutions. As an election looms we ...

Wed, 18 Jan 2023

For nearly 11 months Western powers have resisted providing tanks to Ukraine, fearing an unpredictab...

Tue, 17 Jan 2023

Through years of Syria’s messy civil war, Turkey has been a foe. As the conflict slowly fades, the...

Mon, 16 Jan 2023

A drip-feed of discoveries of classified material in Joe Biden’s home and offices—and the presid...

Fri, 13 Jan 2023

Countries across the world are turning inward, embracing protectionism, subsidies and export control...

Thu, 12 Jan 2023

Iran’s protests may have gone quiet for the moment, but that does not mean they’ve been defeated...

Wed, 11 Jan 2023

Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are s...

Tue, 10 Jan 2023

Russian troops have turned Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, into a charnel house—and a proving ground ...

Mon, 09 Jan 2023

In a scene reminiscent of the US Capitol riot two years ago, supporters of Brazil’s defeated presi...

Fri, 06 Jan 2023

Israel’s new government is its most right-wing ever—but, in a break from the past, that may not ...

Thu, 05 Jan 2023

Our Brazil correspondent surveys the state of the country, as Lula assumes the presidency precisely ...

Wed, 04 Jan 2023

Republican control of America’s House of Representatives began in chaos: they failed to elect a sp...

Tue, 03 Jan 2023

The sudden rescinding of zero-covid strictures has, as expected, led to a spike in cases. Our corres...

Mon, 02 Jan 2023

China’s arsenal of nuclear weapons has swiftly expanded; it is now roughly the size of Russia’s ...

Fri, 30 Dec 2022

From Pelé, the “king of football”, to Britain’s longest-reigning queen, our editors and corre...

Thu, 29 Dec 2022

It is that best-of time of year. We outline the case for our country of the year, after an uncharact...

Wed, 28 Dec 2022

In 2022 global inflation spiked at a rate not seen in decades. A look at the world’s very first su...

Tue, 27 Dec 2022

Cows are venerated in India, but precisely how intensely often depends on politics. And being venera...

Mon, 26 Dec 2022

In a special episode, our Paris bureau chief witnesses the political divides that become apparent as...

Fri, 23 Dec 2022

Waves of protest after a stolen election in 2019 came to nothing. Now, thanks to the luck of geopoli...

Thu, 22 Dec 2022

At the beginning of the war, editors from The Economist went to Kyiv, the first Western journalists ...

Wed, 21 Dec 2022

Elon Musk may be stepping down as chief executive, but he has already changed the firm’s fortunes—...

Tue, 20 Dec 2022

The Congressional committee probing the riot at America’s Capitol recommended that the Justice Dep...

Mon, 19 Dec 2022

The country has been slinging missiles skyward at an alarming pace, and with ever-greater technologi...

Fri, 16 Dec 2022

A strategy approved today peels back some of the country’s constitutional pacifism; in large part ...

Thu, 15 Dec 2022

Our correspondent sits down with President Volodymyr Zelensky and two top military commanders—conc...

Wed, 14 Dec 2022

Scientists have reported a long-awaited nuclear-fusion breakthrough, using lasers to ignite hydrogen...

Tue, 13 Dec 2022

A pair of crises will bedevil Europe, starting with crippling energy prices in the short term. And A...

Mon, 12 Dec 2022

With astonishing speed, the machinery of testing, tracing and lockdowns is being dismantled. We exam...

Fri, 09 Dec 2022

Perhaps Pedro Castillo thought he could repeat the coup staged by his predecessor, Alberto Fujimori,...

Thu, 08 Dec 2022

Raids across the country netted 25 far-right extremists suspected of trying to overthrow the governm...

Wed, 07 Dec 2022

Democrats will have a bit more breathing room in the Senate, with an outright majority provided by R...

Tue, 06 Dec 2022

The enforcers of the hardliners’ mores may have been disbanded; it is hard to know if the regime i...

Mon, 05 Dec 2022

Shippers and insurers of Russian crude are now subject to a $60-per-barrel price cap. That may spark...

Fri, 02 Dec 2022

South Africa’s leader says a pile of cash stashed in a sofa represents no wrongdoing. The outcome ...

Thu, 01 Dec 2022

The Chinese leader who took over a squabbling party following the Tiananmen Square massacre surprise...

Wed, 30 Nov 2022

The Horn of Africa’s resurgent jihadists of al-Shabab pose the biggest problem to Hassan Sheikh Mo...

Tue, 29 Nov 2022

Behind the pageantry, Presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron will have much to chew over, from a u...

Mon, 28 Nov 2022

Protests have become as bold as they are widespread—mostly against the country’s unsustainable z...

Fri, 25 Nov 2022

Players’ refusal to sing their national anthem at the World Cup has brought their country’s prot...

Thu, 24 Nov 2022

Grief about the deaths of more than 150 people in a crush has turned to anger, and the investigation...

Wed, 23 Nov 2022

The power station in Zaporizhia has served as an impromptu military base for Russian forces—but da...

Tue, 22 Nov 2022

Executives have squeezed out Bob Chapek and re-anointed Bob Iger as boss. But the firm’s woes are ...

Mon, 21 Nov 2022

An issue ignored for three decades came to dominate the summit’s agenda: reparations to poor count...

Fri, 18 Nov 2022

The “Autumn statement” was filled with belt-tightening, from stealthy tax rises to public-servic...

Thu, 17 Nov 2022

Elon Musk gave Twitter’s remaining staff an ultimatum: commit to “working long hours at high int...

Wed, 16 Nov 2022

How did apparently Russian-made munitions kill two people on NATO soil? An accident in the fog of wa...

Tue, 15 Nov 2022

The G20 Summit gets under way in Bali today at a time of tensions over Ukraine and Taiwan, and worri...

Mon, 14 Nov 2022

America’s upper legislative chamber remains in Democrats’ hands; they may even expand their majo...

Fri, 11 Nov 2022

At the start of this week, FTX was the world’s third-largest crypto exchange. After rumours of ill...

Thu, 10 Nov 2022

Russia says it will withdraw from the only captured Ukrainian provincial capital. We ask how the dra...

Wed, 09 Nov 2022

America’s midterm elections have finished. While the full results may not be known for some time, ...

Tue, 08 Nov 2022

In the final episode of our midterms series, we examine how the Republican party’s anti-democratic...

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

Two of The Economist's China correspondents, Alice Su and David Rennie, analyse the stories at the h...

Mon, 07 Nov 2022

As the UN’s annual climate jamboree begins, our correspondent calls for a strong dose of realism: ...

Sat, 05 Nov 2022

America’s midterm elections, which will determine control of both chambers of Congress, end on Tue...

Fri, 04 Nov 2022

A surprise peace agreement should permit desperately needed humanitarian relief for millions in the ...

Thu, 03 Nov 2022

Our election model suggests that at least one legislative chamber will revert to Republican control;...

Wed, 02 Nov 2022

After a 16-month absence from leadership, Binyamin Netanyahu is back at the centre of the country’...

Tue, 01 Nov 2022

As President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine continues to falter, Russian elites are now daring to...

Mon, 31 Oct 2022

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, has won again. Even if President Jair Bolson...

Fri, 28 Oct 2022

After months of wrangling, Elon Musk completed his deal to buy Twitter, and immediately sacked sever...

Thu, 27 Oct 2022

Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with missiles and drones. Ukraine’s ai...

Wed, 26 Oct 2022

When America’s Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the conventional wisdom was that it would help...

Tue, 25 Oct 2022

Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s prime minister today, making him the third in the past seven weeks. ...

Mon, 24 Oct 2022

Xi Jinping won a third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Our correspondent e...

Fri, 21 Oct 2022

The Economist’s comparison of Liz Truss’s staying power to that of a lettuce captured global ima...

Thu, 20 Oct 2022

Regional leaders recognise the abject failure of the war on drugs. We speak with Colombia’s presid...

Wed, 19 Oct 2022

In the next instalment of our American midterms series we visit Rhode Island to see how inflation—...

Tue, 18 Oct 2022

Unrest is only spreading and the authorities trying to quell it are looking increasingly desperate. ...

Mon, 17 Oct 2022

State media have taken to calling President Xi Jinping “the helmsman”; at the five-yearly meetin...

Fri, 14 Oct 2022

The former president may well ignore the January 6th committee’s summons; the whole affair may be ...

Thu, 13 Oct 2022

Paroxysms in the market for gilts—British-government bonds that were once safe-haven assets—reve...

Wed, 12 Oct 2022

The latest instalment of our series asks how much difference Donald Trump’s imprimatur has made to...

Tue, 11 Oct 2022

Our correspondent meets with Peter Obi, who has a handsome poll lead and an appeal that spans the co...

Mon, 10 Oct 2022

An attack on the Kerch bridge—a pet project of President Vladimir Putin that links Russia with ann...

Fri, 07 Oct 2022

Ukraine’s army has pushed Russian forces back in the south and east. We ask how they’ve managed ...

Thu, 06 Oct 2022

Our correspondent reports from eastern Congo, where a three-decade-long conflict has killed thousand...

Wed, 05 Oct 2022

In the next instalment of our midterms series, we head to the suburbs of Atlanta in search of that r...

Tue, 04 Oct 2022

Prime Minister Liz Truss has had a bruising first few weeks in office. Amid policy U-turns and plumm...

Mon, 03 Oct 2022

Jair Bolsonaro, the incumbent president, did unexpectedly well—giving his campaign a boost and for...

Fri, 30 Sep 2022

After a series of sham referendums, President Vladimir Putin is expected to annex four partly occupi...

Thu, 29 Sep 2022

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, looks well-placed to win a third term. But w...

Wed, 28 Sep 2022

Women are burning their hijabs on bonfires and hacking off their hair—but the unrest has come to b...

Tue, 27 Sep 2022

The markets are so far entirely unconvinced that the new administration’s Reagan-esque economic pl...

Mon, 26 Sep 2022

Italians have voted decisively for a coalition of right-wing parties, with Giorgia Meloni, leader of...

Fri, 23 Sep 2022

Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, announced a sweeping lawsuit against Donald Trump, his...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022

America’s Federal Reserve made its third straight 0.75% interest-rate hike, with Jerome Powell, th...

Wed, 21 Sep 2022

This morning Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would call up more troops to fight in Ukraine, sai...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022

Elizabeth II was devoted to the Commonwealth, a club of countries that are home to one-third of the ...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022

Two years in the making, the country’s new foundational document was summarily swatted down in a r...

Fri, 16 Sep 2022

Five years after a brutal campaign that drove nearly 750,000 out of Myanmar and into Bangladesh, con...

Thu, 15 Sep 2022

As the presidents of China and Russia meet in Uzbekistan, we examine their friendship. They have muc...

Wed, 14 Sep 2022

A conflict smouldering since a war in 2020 has again caught alight; Azerbaijan may feel emboldened b...

Tue, 13 Sep 2022

Vladimir Putin hopes the threat of cutting off fuel supplies this winter will weaken Europe’s supp...

Mon, 12 Sep 2022

Russia has lost in a week what cost it months to gain in eastern Ukraine. We ask what the lightning ...

Fri, 09 Sep 2022

The death of Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of an era. We explore her long, dutiful reign and how ...

Thu, 08 Sep 2022

In Brazil, fears are growing that if Jair Bolsonaro loses in October, as polls suggest is likely, he...

Wed, 07 Sep 2022

Our model, built to predict the outcome of this year’s midterm elections, tips Republicans to take...

Tue, 06 Sep 2022

As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes tax-slashing agenda will w...

Mon, 05 Sep 2022

The worst predictions for costs have not come to pass, partly because Russia is selling plenty of wh...

Fri, 02 Sep 2022

After a five-month hiatus, violence has returned to the northern region of Tigray—but that is just...

Thu, 01 Sep 2022

The long-trailed counter-offensive to retake the Russian-occupied regional powerhouse and symbolical...

Wed, 31 Aug 2022

The leader who oversaw the Soviet Union’s collapse had only intended to reform it. But the propaga...

Tue, 30 Aug 2022

As interest rates rise, lots of pandemic-era property trends are fading—but not every market is eq...

Mon, 29 Aug 2022

Our correspondent reports from Somalia, which stands on the brink of famine thanks to a drought, soa...

Fri, 26 Aug 2022

America’s federal government will spend hundreds of billions of dollars cancelling student-loan de...

Thu, 25 Aug 2022

Najib Razak, prime minister during the massive 1MDB scandal in which billions went missing, lost his...

Wed, 24 Aug 2022

Russia’s president Vladimir Putin expected to seize Ukraine easily. Instead he met fierce resistan...

Tue, 23 Aug 2022

Speculation is rampant as to who killed Darya Dugina, the pundit daughter of a Russian ultra-nationa...

Mon, 22 Aug 2022

Tensions are rising at Zaporizhia, which Russian forces are using as a military base. We ask what th...

Fri, 19 Aug 2022

We pay a visit to the presidential offices just weeks after protesters stormed them. Things seem cal...

Thu, 18 Aug 2022

As a clear lead hardens and the appointment of a new prime minister looms, both contenders are makin...

Wed, 17 Aug 2022

Wyoming’s sole representative in the House, once a Republican leading light and now a pariah for h...

Tue, 16 Aug 2022

The names are familiar but the establishment-choice and rabble-rouser roles are reversed. That the v...

Mon, 15 Aug 2022

Rights for women and girls have regressed by decades; the economy is cratering. Yet, for many rural ...

Fri, 12 Aug 2022

The airbase in Crimea lies in ruins. Ukraine hasn’t claimed credit, many suspect they carried out ...

Thu, 11 Aug 2022

Donald Trump endured an FBI raid, questioning in a civil lawsuit and an adverse court ruling, all in...

Wed, 10 Aug 2022

 Our series on America’s mid-term elections begins with a visit to a citizenship class in Dor...

Tue, 09 Aug 2022

A ceasefire is holding after a weekend of deadly strikes. We ask why Hamas, the Palestinian movement...

Mon, 08 Aug 2022

On Sunday America’s Senate passed the most-ambitious climate legislation in the country’s histor...

Fri, 05 Aug 2022

In a bumper episode, we highlight a summer’s-worth of deeply reported stories from 1843, our siste...

Thu, 04 Aug 2022

As Russia’s campaign in the eastern Donbas region loses steam, our correspondent finds Ukraine’s...

Wed, 03 Aug 2022

The visit of America’s speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has Chinese tempers fl...

Tue, 02 Aug 2022

For decades Ayman al-Zawahiri was the chief ideologue of the terrorist group. We ask what his death ...

Mon, 01 Aug 2022

As the first fatal cases outside Africa are reported, we investigate the response to the disease, an...

Fri, 29 Jul 2022

Joe Biden’s climate legislation stalled, in large part because Joe Manchin, West Virginia’s seni...

Thu, 28 Jul 2022

America’s central bank has raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point—its fou...

Wed, 27 Jul 2022

Russia cut the gas flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline by half in what many see as retaliatio...

Tue, 26 Jul 2022

The campaigning is a bit nasty, by British standards, as Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak vie to become Con...

Mon, 25 Jul 2022

Missile strikes on the port of Odessa have dimmed hopes for a UN-brokered deal to get Ukraine’s gr...

Fri, 22 Jul 2022

Last night, the committee investigating the events of January 6th 2021 said that Donald Tr...

Thu, 21 Jul 2022

For the second time in a week, Prime Minister Mario Draghi has tendered his resignation as his motle...

Wed, 20 Jul 2022

Property developers are going belly-up, home-buyers are not paying mortgages, protests after a banki...

Tue, 19 Jul 2022

Vast stretches of the temperate world are baking or burning, and as climate change marches on widesp...

Mon, 18 Jul 2022

President Jair Bolsonaro, an unabashed fan of Donald Trump, is telegraphing that he may not accept a...

Fri, 15 Jul 2022

Joe Biden lands in Saudi Arabia this morning, having spent two unremarkable days in Israel and the W...

Thu, 14 Jul 2022

Elon Musk wants out of his deal to buy Twitter for $44bn. Twitter wants the Delaware chancery court ...

Wed, 13 Jul 2022

Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, has been transferred to a brutal prison...

Tue, 12 Jul 2022

The race to succeed Boris Johnson begins today. Numerous Conservative MPs have thrown their proverbi...

Mon, 11 Jul 2022

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, announced he will step down on Wednesday after protesto...

Fri, 08 Jul 2022

Japan’s prime minister from 2006-07 and 2012-20 died after being shot at a campaign event. Our Tok...

Thu, 07 Jul 2022

Boris Johnson is standing down as Britain’s prime minister. We consider his legacy and impact on B...

Wed, 06 Jul 2022

Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid, Britain’s finance and health ministers respectively, resigned yesterd...

Tue, 05 Jul 2022

Hints are turning to hard data: economic slowdowns are coming. We ask about the threat of recessions...

Mon, 04 Jul 2022

The city remains Ukraine’s only provincial capital to be taken by Russian forces—can Ukraine ove...

Fri, 01 Jul 2022

America’s Supreme Court has essentially shorn the Environmental Protection Agency of its agency in...

Thu, 30 Jun 2022

It is a remarkable turnaround for a notorious family: the late dictator’s son just took the reins....

Wed, 29 Jun 2022

In a global period of belt-tightening, popular anger will spill over. Our correspondent visits place...

Tue, 28 Jun 2022

War in Ukraine has stiffened the alliance’s spine; leaders meeting this week will refashion troop-...

Mon, 27 Jun 2022

The Supreme Court ruling has convulsed the country; passing the question of abortion rights to the s...

Fri, 24 Jun 2022

Yesterday, America’s Supreme Court issued its most important Second Amendment ruling in more than ...

Thu, 23 Jun 2022

In much of the world, things are improving for sexual minorities. The opposite is true in China, whe...

Wed, 22 Jun 2022

Russia is making steady, piecemeal gains in the region; Ukrainian forces are simply outgunned. That ...

Tue, 21 Jun 2022

A motley collection of parliamentarians, now without its whisper-thin majority, has crumbled. That w...

Mon, 20 Jun 2022

resident Emmanuel Macron has lost his majority in France’s National Assembly as voters flooded bot...

Fri, 17 Jun 2022

In its third public hearing yesterday, the committee investigating the January 6th Capitol insurrect...

Thu, 16 Jun 2022

America’s central bank raised rates by .75% yesterday—the biggest increase in almost 30 years. W...

Wed, 15 Jun 2022

The European Court of Human rights foiled Britain’s plans to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda yesterd...

Tue, 14 Jun 2022

Mass shootings in Buffalo, Tulsa and Uvalde appear to have broken a longstanding impasse over federa...

Mon, 13 Jun 2022

Western sanctions are intended to starve Russia’s economy and hinder its ability to wage war in Uk...

Fri, 10 Jun 2022

The committee investigating the Capitol attacks of January 6th 2021 held the first of several public...

Thu, 09 Jun 2022

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is Somalia’s first-ever reelected president. In an interview with our corres...

Wed, 08 Jun 2022

Pakistan’s government faces an unpleasant choice between doing what’s popular and what is econom...

Tue, 07 Jun 2022

Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, narrowly survived a no-confidence vote last night. As he ...

Mon, 06 Jun 2022

For almost 80 years, the world has refrained from using or, for the most part, even seriously ponder...

Fri, 03 Jun 2022

Britain’s capital is packed with foreign capital, in particular the Russian kind. We ask what it i...

Thu, 02 Jun 2022

The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expelled our correspondent. Abiy’s proxies at home...

Wed, 01 Jun 2022

War and blockades in Ukraine are the largest but far from the only problems squeezing the global foo...

Tue, 31 May 2022

Russian forces are having some successes in eastern Ukraine; our defence editor discusses the situat...

Mon, 30 May 2022

The country has just one foreign military base, but there are fears it wants to dot the Pacific regi...

Fri, 27 May 2022

POLLS SUGGEST // Polls suggest the country might get its first-ever leftist leader. Whatever the out...

Thu, 26 May 2022

A long-awaited inquiry into lockdown gatherings on Boris Johnson’s watch reveals lurid details of ...

Wed, 25 May 2022

After 19 children and two adults were gunned down in Texas, we ask why gun laws are actually looseni...

Tue, 24 May 2022

China’s Communist Party leaders have painted themselves into a corner: they cannot be seen to put ...

Mon, 23 May 2022

Anthony Albanese, the first Labor prime minister in a decade, has pledged to do far more on climate ...

Fri, 20 May 2022

The Kremlin’s propaganda machine ensures that Russians have a much different view of the war in Uk...

Thu, 19 May 2022

North Korea’s zero-covid strategy appears to have failed. The country has officially acknowledged ...

Wed, 18 May 2022

Five American states held primary elections yesterday. The most important were in Pennsylvania, wher...

Tue, 17 May 2022

Stablecoins are essential to the financial plumbing of the cryptocurrency world. They’re pegged to...

Mon, 16 May 2022

Neither Finland nor Sweden ever joined NATO, the Western military alliance formed in 1949: Finland f...

Fri, 13 May 2022

Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s collective-defence deal with Swedish and Finnish leaders represents...

Thu, 12 May 2022

Russia’s bid to conquer the eastern region of Donbas is proceeding at a snail’s pace. All over U...

Wed, 11 May 2022

Demonstrations that eventually ousted the prime minister have cost lives, but the protest mood is no...

Tue, 10 May 2022

John Lee, the successor to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, won by a predictable landslide: he is just th...

Mon, 09 May 2022

America accounts for the lion’s share of weaponry sent to Ukraine. But that may leave it short of ...

Fri, 06 May 2022

Voters in the Philippines choose a new president on Monday. The likely winner is a scion of one of t...

Thu, 05 May 2022

Prices in America are rising faster than at any time in the past 40 years. In response, the Federal ...

Wed, 04 May 2022

Voters in the UK head to the polls for local elections tomorrow. In Northern Ireland, a party that d...

Tue, 03 May 2022

A leaked draft opinion shows America’s Supreme Court is ready to let states outlaw abortion. We ex...

Mon, 02 May 2022

Much like Ukraine, Taiwan has a well-armed neighbour that does not think it exists as a state: China...

Fri, 29 Apr 2022

Before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s armed forces were believed to be lean, modern and fightin...

Thu, 28 Apr 2022

By shutting off gas to Poland and Bulgaria, Russia has made an aggressive move that may draw yet mor...

Wed, 27 Apr 2022

Activists are tired of waiting for governments and companies to act on climate change. So increasing...

Tue, 26 Apr 2022

The world’s richest man now has the keys to one of the most influential social-media platforms. Ca...

Mon, 25 Apr 2022

Emmanuel Macron’s re-election is historic and, for many, a relief. But, as we discuss in the final...

Fri, 22 Apr 2022

BRITAIN’S GOVERNMENT has proposed sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda. The plan has been widely criti...

Thu, 21 Apr 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered a new phase, and its forces in Ukraine have a new command...

Wed, 20 Apr 2022

In Yemen, fighting between Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition has led to hundreds of thousands ...

Tue, 19 Apr 2022

ONE-THIRD of the world’s population lives in countries backing neither Russia nor Ukraine. The Bid...

Mon, 18 Apr 2022

The war in Ukraine has created the greatest flux of refugees in Europe since the second world war. W...

Fri, 15 Apr 2022

When the Taliban resumed power, there were hopes that women might not be as excluded, repressed and ...

Thu, 14 Apr 2022

A ceasefire agreed weeks ago should have mitigated the suffering of starving Ethiopians caught up in...

Wed, 13 Apr 2022

Police have served Britain’s prime minister, among others, with a fine for breaching the lockdown ...

Tue, 12 Apr 2022

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left office with a sky-high approval rating, having raised millions from ...

Mon, 11 Apr 2022

President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen of the nationalist-populist National Rally party will ad...

Sat, 09 Apr 2022

The first round of the presidential election is on Sunday and our first-ever series has been followi...

Fri, 08 Apr 2022

Through ineptitude and bad timing, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa—known as Gota—has driven his cou...

Thu, 07 Apr 2022

Russian troops have withdrawn from suburban Kyiv to focus on the eastern Donbas region. With Western...

Wed, 06 Apr 2022

China’s zero-covid policy is being stretched to breaking point as the virus makes its way through ...

Tue, 05 Apr 2022

Our correspondent reports from towns around Kyiv, where Russian forces appear to have committed war ...

Mon, 04 Apr 2022

Prime Minister Imran Khan seems to be trying everything to avoid an ouster. The powerful military br...

Fri, 01 Apr 2022

Viktor Orban’s eight-year assault on the country’s institutions will help his bid for re-electio...

Thu, 31 Mar 2022

After Russia invaded Ukraine, Western businesses pulled out and governments imposed punishing sancti...

Wed, 30 Mar 2022

It appears that Russian forces are withdrawing from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to focus on the easte...

Tue, 29 Mar 2022

Negotiators are again meeting face-to-face, this time in Istanbul. There is little hope of reaching ...

Mon, 28 Mar 2022

Our editors traverse layers of security to reach the situation room where Ukraine’s president is s...

Fri, 25 Mar 2022

For the past month, one of our editors has spoken daily with a young man in Kharkiv. Today he discus...

Thu, 24 Mar 2022

For weeks, Russian forces have besieged the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Up to 90% of its struct...

Wed, 23 Mar 2022

Alexei Navalny returned to Russia after being poisoned in an assassination attempt that many believe...

Tue, 22 Mar 2022

Joe Biden, among others, has called Vladimir Putin “a war criminal.” International tribunals hav...

Mon, 21 Mar 2022

Russian forces advancing on Kyiv have stalled. Ukraine has refused the demand to surrender Mariupol....

Fri, 18 Mar 2022

For decades, Germany was doctrinally pacifist: a legacy left over from the second world war. Russia’...

Thu, 17 Mar 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed global prices, which were already climbing, even higher. A...

Wed, 16 Mar 2022

China appears content to let the carnage continue in Ukraine, anticipating a win for Vladimir Putin....

Tue, 15 Mar 2022

Our correspondent finds Ukraine's capital already accustomed to an eerie war footing. People are get...

Mon, 14 Mar 2022

To the west, strikes near Poland have rattled NATO partners. But look to the south-east to see what ...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022

We tackle some of the many questions on the war in Ukraine that listeners sent in this week—why no...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022

Perched at Russia’s north-western corner, the country has plenty of history dealing with neighbour...

Wed, 09 Mar 2022

After failing to take Ukraine’s second city, Russian forces continue to pummel it with air, artill...

Tue, 08 Mar 2022

With the propaganda machine at fever pitch, not everyone in Russia agrees on—much less agrees with...

Mon, 07 Mar 2022

The West’s co-ordinated financial weaponry is starting to bite, opening a new age of economic conf...

Fri, 04 Mar 2022

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered a refugee crisis in Europe. More than a million people ...

Thu, 03 Mar 2022

A new report shows that climate change is already causing widespread, tangible damage, and argues th...

Wed, 02 Mar 2022

After backing Russia’s grievances against NATO, China now finds itself treading a very fine line o...

Tue, 01 Mar 2022

The levelling of Freedom Square in Ukraine’s second city is powerfully symbolic. One resident has ...

Mon, 28 Feb 2022

On the ground, Ukrainian resistance is holding—so far—and Vladimir Putin’s nuclear posturing r...

Fri, 25 Feb 2022

As promised, Ukraine’s forces are fighting back tenaciously against a Russian invasion on multiple...

Thu, 24 Feb 2022

Ukrainians woke to the sound of sirens. Volleys of cruise missiles, artillery, widespread reports of...

Wed, 23 Feb 2022

In little more than a year, three of Latin America’s four most populous countries have expanded ac...

Tue, 22 Feb 2022

President Vladimir Putin has declared the independence of the two Ukrainian provinces of Donbas—an...

Mon, 21 Feb 2022

The Gambia’s first-of-its-kind case at the International Court of Justice might bring a rebuke and...

Fri, 18 Feb 2022

We unpick the week’s torrent of headlines; an invasion may yet come but either way President Vladi...

Thu, 17 Feb 2022

BioNTech, the German firm behind the first licensed coronavirus jab, reveals its attempts to stuff i...

Wed, 16 Feb 2022

Last summer President Kais Saied nobbled the legislature; now he has abolished the judiciary. We ask...

Tue, 15 Feb 2022

Today’s figures showing the first annual economic growth in three years may seem promising. But th...

Mon, 14 Feb 2022

It has become much more than a fight against proof-of-vaccination strictures. The anti-government mo...

Fri, 11 Feb 2022

Since American forces left, pessimism has skyrocketed—and with good reason. Starvation is driving ...

Thu, 10 Feb 2022

The state-legislature poll in Uttar Pradesh is in effect a vote on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...

Wed, 09 Feb 2022

So far Germany’s new chancellor has been all but invisible at home and on the international stage....

Tue, 08 Feb 2022

 For years, the big tech firms Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google were seen as a colle...

Mon, 07 Feb 2022

After protracted negotiations, at last a conclusion appears nigh—but depending on whom you ask, a ...

Fri, 04 Feb 2022

Our correspondent describes the fraught effort to attend the opening ceremony. It is a pageant highl...

Thu, 03 Feb 2022

In the first instalment of the series, we unveil our forecast model and visit one of the quiet subur...

Wed, 02 Feb 2022

Our correspondent speaks with Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, who says the alliance’...

Tue, 01 Feb 2022

A long-awaited report confirms rumours that have consumed Boris Johnson’s premiership. He may be w...

Mon, 31 Jan 2022

Talk of a presidential run for the governor is growing. We examine the state’s rightward lurch as ...

Fri, 28 Jan 2022

Huge swings and downward trends: markets are forward-looking, and it is clear they do not see much t...

Thu, 27 Jan 2022

The departure of one of America’s Supreme Court justices is an opportunity for President Joe Biden...

Wed, 26 Jan 2022

As the country celebrates its secular constitution, we examine the rising bigotry of Hindu nationali...

Tue, 25 Jan 2022

More Russian troops piling in. Embassy staff pulling out. American forces on alert and sober diploma...

Mon, 24 Jan 2022

This week’s secretive votes will determine the next president and the current prime minister looks...

Fri, 21 Jan 2022

The Omicron variant is destined to test the limits of a policy that has already proved costly: consu...

Thu, 20 Jan 2022

Shoppers across the developed world face sharply rising prices, and leaders are reaching for all man...

Wed, 19 Jan 2022

America’s biggest oil firm has long been recalcitrant on climate matters, so its new net-zero targ...

Tue, 18 Jan 2022

Austria is set to enact a bold policy of levying fines on the unvaccinated. We look at what is drivi...

Mon, 17 Jan 2022

Democrats will spend the week battling for a tightening of laws on casting votes; that will overshad...

Fri, 14 Jan 2022

The queen’s second son has been stripped of his titles—an apparent bid to insulate the crown fro...

Thu, 13 Jan 2022

While Britons followed covid strictures, the prime minister’s residence hosted boozy gatherings; w...

Wed, 12 Jan 2022

The country’s children have missed more in-person learning than those in most of the rich world—...

Tue, 11 Jan 2022

This week’s flurry of diplomacy aims to address what Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, says he...

Mon, 10 Jan 2022

The country has the world’s worst estimated covid-death total—but as another variant takes hold ...

Fri, 07 Jan 2022

What started as a fuel-price skirmish has engulfed the entire country; now Russian-led troops have b...

Thu, 06 Jan 2022

The insurrection’s horrors might have marked a turning point for Donald Trump’s supporters and e...

Wed, 05 Jan 2022

The closure of two independent, Chinese-language media outlets all but completes the push to silence...

Tue, 04 Jan 2022

Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of fraud. We ask what lessons her downfall holds for Theranos...

Mon, 03 Jan 2022

Trade is down, red tape is up, details of regulatory harmony are still being hammered out. Britain m...

Thu, 30 Dec 2021