Herman Pontzer: what people get wrong about metabolism
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Do you run, cycle or swim to lose weight? Herman Pontzer, an evolutionary anthropologist who special...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
Executive disorder: Trump’s first 100 days
Wed, 30 Apr 2025
Since Donald Trump took office, there has been a deluge of news. Our correspondent considers what mi...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
Tue, 29 Apr 2025
Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
The Carney army: Canada unites against Trump
Tue, 29 Apr 2025
Canada’s election campaign was dominated by Donald Trump’s threats against the nation. Now the L...
Boss Class: Tracey Franklin interview
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Tracey Franklin, chief human resources officer at vaccine and biotech company Moderna, tells The Eco...
Boss Class: Daniel Kahneman interview
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
The careers of many CEOs are built on overconfidence and a few lucky breaks. But to be a successful ...
Boss Class: Claire Hughes Johnson interview
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
The Economist's Andrew Palmer asks Claire Hughes Johnson, former COO of Stripe and author of "Scalin...
Boss Class: Emma Walmsley interview
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
In 2017 Emma Walmsley became the most powerful woman in corporate Britain. The boss of the drugmaker...
Boss Class: Reid Hoffman interview
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
On the cover of his latest book, Impromptu: Amplifying Our Humanity Through AI, Reid Hoffman credits...
Boss Class 7 - Managing yourself: Human factors
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
The Economist’s Andrew Palmer seeks advice on managing your cognitive load, your career path and t...
Boss Class 6 - Incentivising: Into the upside down
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
The Economist's Andrew Palmer asks how companies motivate employees to do their best work. He hears ...
Boss Class 5 - Meetings: The clown car
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
What if all the meetings in your calendar disappeared overnight? Tia Silas, Chief HR Officer of Shop...
Boss Class 4 - Teamwork: Inside the yellow line
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Taavet Hinrikus, the co-founder of Wise, one of the world’s biggest fintech firms, gives advice on...
Boss Class 3 - Recruitment: Testing, testing
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
It is the most important decision a manager can make. How do you increase your chances of hiring the...
Boss Class 2 - Hybrid work: Out of office
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
To manage a workforce divided between the home and office, bosses should ask the five basic question...
Boss Class 1 - Leadership: Weed it and reap
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Andrew Palmer, The Economist's Bartleby columnist, learns lessons in management on a Norwegian mount...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 2
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Good bosses are rare. They don’t have to be. The skills of management can be learned.The Economist...
Modi behaviour: will India retaliate against Pakistan?
Mon, 28 Apr 2025
Tensions between India and Pakistan have flared after the terrorist attack in Kashmir last week. Our...
Carney score: last days of Canada’s campaign
Fri, 25 Apr 2025
Canada’s sovereignty has loomed large in the federal election campaign, but beyond the show of nat...
Fed man walking? Trump v Powell
Thu, 24 Apr 2025
First, Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve, was for the chop; then he was safe. As elsewh...
Division multiplication: the UAE’s foreign meddling
Wed, 23 Apr 2025
The United Arab Emirates projects an image of level-headed calm in the Gulf. Its actions abroad, how...
Cardinals in: choosing the next pope
Tue, 22 Apr 2025
As the cardinals of the coming conclave prepare, our correspondent considers what will guide them. W...
A man of the people: Pope Francis has died
Mon, 21 Apr 2025
He shunned fancy vestments and paid surprise visits to prisons and hospitals: our obituaries editor ...
Gene genies: CRISPR’s critical moment
Fri, 18 Apr 2025
It is a Nobel-winning idea with untold promise in health care, agriculture and more. We examine what...
Trump’s fickle, Xi’s pickle: the dynamic driving US-China tensions
Thu, 17 Apr 2025
President Xi Jinping’s style of negotiating is staid, distanced, a quiet projection of power. Pres...
Cash and checks: Argentina’s next IMF loan
Wed, 16 Apr 2025
For the 23rd time the International Monetary Fund will cough up, this time to the tune of $20bn. But...
The buck stops here? The threats to dollar primacy
Tue, 15 Apr 2025
Falling trust in the greenback is most apparent in bond-market moves. How close is the dollar to los...
Bloody Sunday: Russia’s strikes on Sumy
Mon, 14 Apr 2025
President Donald Trump called the weekend strike on Sumy a “mistake”; other leaders called it a ...
The great brawl: China v America
Fri, 11 Apr 2025
Donald Trump is now aiming his trade war squarely at China. As the tit-for-tat tariff battle keeps e...
Art of the real: Trump bows to markets
Thu, 10 Apr 2025
Just 12 hours after Donald Trump launched his searing regime of tariffs, he paused many of them for ...
Pulp friction: the trade war bites Apple
Wed, 09 Apr 2025
As Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs take effect, our correspondent explains how one of America’s ...
Economies of sail: migrant-smuggling entrepreneurs
Tue, 08 Apr 2025
More than 36,000 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats last year. Our correspondent in...
Doomed traders: Trump’s tariff fallout
Mon, 07 Apr 2025
Since Donald Trump announced punishing tariffs on “Liberation Day” last week, stock markets have...
Over the Yoon: South Korea ousts president
Fri, 04 Apr 2025
South Korea has been paralysed since its president declared martial law in December. Even after his ...
Import-extort: what to make of Donald Trump’s titanic tariffs
Thu, 03 Apr 2025
After months of bluster, he’s finally done it. At a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, Donal...
Wall of duties: Trump’s towering tariffs
Thu, 03 Apr 2025
Even in the run-up to Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff hikes, few had expected such colo...
Ballot from the blue: will Ukraine hold a poll?
Wed, 02 Apr 2025
Months ago, holding an election in wartorn Ukraine seemed impossible. Now plans are being made. Our ...
Right down: Le Pen barred
Tue, 01 Apr 2025
Marine Le Pen is one of France’s most popular politicians, who has brought the National Rally part...
Shock and war: Myanmar junta exploits quake
Mon, 31 Mar 2025
Civil war in Myanmar is hampering relief efforts after the devastating earthquake on Friday, as the ...
Whack of all trades: America’s economy
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
No surprises here: The Economist reckons tariffs are a terrible trade tool. But what is most clearly...
You spin me right round: Europe’s populists reckon with Trumpism
Thu, 27 Mar 2025
For Europe’s hard-right politicians, Donald Trump’s second White House bid looked like validatio...
Canuck of the draw: Canada’s election campaigns
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
The Conservative Party, led by a Trump-tinged populist, once had the polls locked up. That is changi...
The chat is out of the bag: a stunning leak
Tue, 25 Mar 2025
Put aside for the moment the outrageous security breach of a journalist being brought in on classifi...
Bibi driver: battles led by and within Israel
Mon, 24 Mar 2025
The ceasefire in Gaza is in tatters; the campaign against Hizbullah is flaring up again. Yet the mos...
Spy-fall: Trump imperils intelligence pact
Fri, 21 Mar 2025
America’s international intelligence-sharing relationships have been decades in the making and rel...
Not so delightful: Erdogan arrests rival
Thu, 20 Mar 2025
Ekrem Imamoglu was arrested just days before he was likely to be elected leader of Turkey’s opposi...
Cold call: Putin thwarts Trump
Wed, 19 Mar 2025
Donald Trump hoped Vladimir Putin would agree to a ceasefire in Ukraine. Instead he made marginal co...
Peace broken: war returns to Gaza
Tue, 18 Mar 2025
After Israel launched dozens of missiles into Gaza overnight, what does this mean for the prospect o...
In sickness and in stealth: threats to America’s CDC
Mon, 17 Mar 2025
Donald Trump’s team has called the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “the most incompet...
Wheels of justice: the ICC gets Duterte at last
Fri, 14 Mar 2025
The International Criminal Court has arrested Rodrigo Duterte, a former president of the Philippines...
When the levy doesn’t break: a trade-war world adjusts
Thu, 13 Mar 2025
The Trump administration’s dedication to tariffs now seems more fervent than the first time around...
Thirty-day trial? A Ukraine-ceasefire proposal
Wed, 12 Mar 2025
The ceasefire proposal hatched by American negotiators and agreed by Ukraine is now a matter for Rus...
Sects and balances: a violent flare-up in Syria
Tue, 11 Mar 2025
Horrifying attacks on Alawites, the sect of deposed leader Bashar al-Assad, throw into question the ...
No question, Mark: Canada’s new PM
Mon, 10 Mar 2025
The governing Liberal party is enjoying a stunning turnaround in the polls, and now it has a new lea...
One week in the life of Volodymyr Zelensky
Fri, 07 Mar 2025
After a turbulent seven days, how will President Volodymyr Zelensky tackle the domestic and internat...
Kurds in the right place: a truce nears
Thu, 06 Mar 2025
The leader of Turkey’s Kurdish rebels has called on the group to disband. That could end one of th...
Pompcast: Trump rallies Congress
Wed, 05 Mar 2025
American presidents often use their first meeting with Congress as a chance to lay out their agenda ...
Buck off: US pauses Ukraine aid
Tue, 04 Mar 2025
In an effort to bring Ukraine to the negotiating table, America has paused military help to the war-...
Conversation peace: can Europe bargain with Russia?
Mon, 03 Mar 2025
European leaders met in London this weekend after Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky’s public row...
Ode to dread: Europe after Trump
Fri, 28 Feb 2025
This week European leaders have lined up to charm Donald Trump. But the broad smiles belie a bigger ...
Heir-raising: the boom in inheritance
Thu, 27 Feb 2025
As the baby-boom generation starts to die and economic growth slows many more people are getting ric...
Phase transition? Gaza’s shaky peace
Wed, 26 Feb 2025
The first phase of Gaza’s ceasefire is near its end, but planning for the even more fraught second...
Emmanuel dexterity: Trump and Macron chat
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
The meeting between France’s and America’s presidents had a familiarly chummy feel. We ask wheth...
Left, right and centre: Germany’s election
Mon, 24 Feb 2025
Instead of needing three parties to cobble together a majority, the country’s two traditional main...
Friends (the one with estrangement): Europe without the US
Fri, 21 Feb 2025
Europe must move boldly as the American-led world order shatters beneath it; we explain how. Many pe...
Young, gifted and black: Africa’s next generation
Thu, 20 Feb 2025
Africa’s young are educated, ambitious side-hustlers. But they are hampered by their economies and...
Colour visions: a German-election lookahead
Wed, 19 Feb 2025
The possibilities for an inevitable coalition government are a head-spinning colour wheel of party l...
Get your Strait facts: China’s quiet Taiwan push
Tue, 18 Feb 2025
We investigate China’s under-the-radar push to get other countries to change their official langua...
Munich insecurity conference: a re-ordering begins
Mon, 17 Feb 2025
Backing away from European security guarantees and seeking mineral rights in Ukraine as recompense f...
Love match: Modi-Trump’s tariffs tussle
Fri, 14 Feb 2025
The American president and Indian prime minister have long been friends. But when the two met at the...
With this ring: Trump and Putin omit Ukraine
Thu, 13 Feb 2025
During a 90-minute telephone conversation, the American and Russian presidents started negotiating a...
War hoarse: is Zelensky being heard?
Wed, 12 Feb 2025
In an interview with The Economist ahead of the Munich Security Conference, Ukraine’s president is...
Eye to the chancellor: interviewing Friedrich Merz
Tue, 11 Feb 2025
The winner of Germany’s upcoming election will also play a crucial role in Europe. The Economist’...
I’ll be jammed: electronic warfare in Ukraine
Mon, 10 Feb 2025
Some of the most frenetic innovation of Ukraine’s war happens in the electromagnetic spectrum: det...
Scam Inc 3: The bottom line
Sat, 08 Feb 2025
How do you run a scam operation? Perks, recruitment, outsourcing and a monthly landscaping budg...
Scam Inc 2: Opportunity of a lifetime
Sat, 08 Feb 2025
Who are the scammers? They aren't who you think. To listen to the full series, subscribe to Economis...
Scam Inc 1: Pigs in a barrel
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 ...
It could happen to you: introducing “Scam Inc”
Fri, 07 Feb 2025
Our new podcast series is a shocking look at transnational organised crime: nearly as big as the ill...
Leeward: we meet South Korea’s probable president
Thu, 06 Feb 2025
We meet the opposition leader who is likely to be the next president. Cleaning up the domestic mess ...
Trailer: Scam Inc
Wed, 05 Feb 2025
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...
As a next resort: Trump’s vision for Gaza
Wed, 05 Feb 2025
The details President Donald Trump laid out for American ownership and redevelopment of the Gaza Str...
Rebel with a new cause: meeting Syria’s president
Tue, 04 Feb 2025
From media-studies dropout to international jihadist to Syria’s ruler, Ahmed al-Sharaa has an unli...
Trailer: Scam Inc
Mon, 03 Feb 2025
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...
Thy neighbours, beggared: Trump’s opening tariffs
Mon, 03 Feb 2025
President Donald Trump followed through on his tariff threats, starting with Canada, Mexico and Chin...
Below Delhi, the search for India's mythical past
Sat, 01 Feb 2025
The Mahabharata is one of India’s two great Hindu epics. It is thousands of years old and thousand...
Turkish delight: influencing the new Syria
Fri, 31 Jan 2025
The fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria will reshape the wider region. Our correspondent says few count...
Trailer: Scam Inc
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...
Putty people: can Trump get his picks?
Thu, 30 Jan 2025
As some of Donald Trump’s most controversial choices for top jobs are questioned this week, our co...
Remote control: Rwandan proxies occupy Congo
Wed, 29 Jan 2025
Rebels linked to Rwanda have occupied the city of Goma in eastern Congo. Our correspondent reports o...
Trailer: Scam Inc
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...
Bot against America: a Chinese AI jolts markets
Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Silicon Valley firms have poured billions of dollars into artificial intelligence. But a new cheap A...
Trailer: Scam Inc
Mon, 27 Jan 2025
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...
Gaza, stripped: Palestinians return to ruins
Mon, 27 Jan 2025
Though thousands of Palestinians are going back to northern Gaza, rebuilding their lives and homes w...
Trailer: Scam Inc
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
A sophisticated, predatory, multi-billion dollar industry is emerging from the shadows. It already r...
In with a chancellor: dissecting Britain’s growth plan
Fri, 24 Jan 2025
Rachel Reeves has had a rocky start as chancellor of the exchequer. Our editor-in-chief meets her at...
Right turn at a broken traffic light: Germany’s AfD
Thu, 23 Jan 2025
After the collapse of the governing “traffic light” coalition in December, the hard-right AfD ha...
A tax or attacks: how the Houthis fund themselves
Wed, 22 Jan 2025
The procedure is simple—genial, even. Contact Houthi rebels in Yemen and pay up, and your freight ...
Executive orders of magnitude: Trump’s day one
Tue, 21 Jan 2025
Donald Trump is back in office, this time with less pearl-clutching in Washington. We examine his in...
Reunions and rubble: Gaza’s first moments of peace
Mon, 20 Jan 2025
Quiet skies, returned Israeli hostages, Gazans going back home: there is much to celebrate, for the ...
Billionaires boldly go: private space-treks
Fri, 17 Jan 2025
This week Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space-exploration company, successfully launched a rocket into...
Peace by piece: a ceasefire in Gaza is close
Thu, 16 Jan 2025
After 15 months of fighting, a ceasefire in Gaza may soon be agreed. What does the deal entail –&n...
Arrest development: South Korea’s Yoon held
Wed, 15 Jan 2025
After dramatic scenes in South Korea, President Yoon Suk Yeol has been detained on insurrection char...
View to a killing: bond yields rise and rise
Tue, 14 Jan 2025
Though central banks have cut interest rates, uncertainty about the future has sent yields sky-high....
A run for cover: LA’s fires and insurance
Mon, 13 Jan 2025
Among the lessons emerging from California’s devastating fires is the idea that insurers cannot pr...
Moving the post goals: Musk’s British-politics meddling
Fri, 10 Jan 2025
Elon Musk has taken an abiding interest in Britain, and a hard line against its prime minister. It r...
Adaptitude: India and climate change
Thu, 09 Jan 2025
The world’s most populous country is at the front line of climate change. Our deputy editor explor...
Towards Russia with love: Austria’s political tilt
Wed, 08 Jan 2025
A once-fringe far-right party looks close to power—and serves as another sign of a broad and worry...
It’s no longer Trudeau: Canada’s PM resigns
Tue, 07 Jan 2025
In the end Justin Trudeau could not resist the internal pressure. We ask why the liberal standard-be...
Against the clock: Gaza peace talks
Mon, 06 Jan 2025
Israel continued to pound Gaza, even as ceasefire negotiations began in Qatar. The familiar dynamic ...
All the president’s money men: the Trumponomics team
Fri, 03 Jan 2025
There are three types of economics-minded people in Donald Trump’s incoming administration. We ask...
Three presidents and counting: South Korea
Thu, 02 Jan 2025
The country is on its third president in as many weeks—a deep political crisis only made worse by ...
Don’t mention the war: Russia’s internal tensions
Wed, 01 Jan 2025
There is no simplistic split of sentiment about Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine. But what most Rus...
Billions of voices heard: a year of elections
Tue, 31 Dec 2024
In some places, votes resulted in political chaos; in others they showed a promising shift away from...
Of peanuts and principles: Jimmy Carter dies
Mon, 30 Dec 2024
After a single term and a landslide loss to Ronald Reagan, Jimmy Carter’s presidency was judged un...
Passing mentions: the notable lives lost in 2024
Fri, 27 Dec 2024
From a legendary baseball slugger to a beloved comic actor, from Scottish politicians to America’s...
Tomes will tell: books that predict the future
Thu, 26 Dec 2024
Some people read books to escape. Others turn to them for instruction. As the new year looms, our co...
Good moos: cows could help the climate
Tue, 24 Dec 2024
Cows produce far more milk in rich countries than in poor ones. Our correspondent explains how beefi...
The club rules? India’s RSS
Mon, 23 Dec 2024
Is it a community-minded boys’ club, like the Scouts? A breeding ground for seething Hindu nationa...
Country of the year: The Economist picks
Fri, 20 Dec 2024
In the past 12 months, there has been no lack of news. Editors at The Economist have picked their wa...
Between Estonia and a hard place: NATO meets
Thu, 19 Dec 2024
At the icy border between Russia and Estonia, the anxieties of NATO member states are clear, our cor...
Mass graves: revealing Syria’s horror
Wed, 18 Dec 2024
Ten days after the fall of Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad, the full brutality of his rule is bei...
Scholz fired: Germany calls snap election
Tue, 17 Dec 2024
After Olaf Scholz, Germany’s chancellor, lost a confidence vote in parliament yesterday, Germany i...
Off-side: Georgians reject new president
Mon, 16 Dec 2024
This weekend, the ruling Georgian Dream party elected a new president – but only one name was on t...
Minds blown: are we getting dumber?
Fri, 13 Dec 2024
Many adults perform worse in tests of literacy and numeracy than the average ten year old. And resul...
Intel in slide: a chipmaker on the ropes
Thu, 12 Dec 2024
Layoffs, suspended dividends, a share price in free fall, a chief executive hustled out the door: In...
Bye, cell: inside a notorious Syrian prison
Wed, 11 Dec 2024
As Syrians awoke to a new era, thousands rushed to fling open the dark, filthy prisons where Bashar ...
Bringing up Bibi: Netanyahu testifies
Tue, 10 Dec 2024
For five years the prospect of a criminal prosecution has loomed over Binyamin Netanyahu. Today he b...
Peace from pieces: Syria after Assad
Mon, 09 Dec 2024
President Bashar al-Assad has been run out, his regime in tatters. As Syrians awaken to a new era, h...
Ashes to Masses: Notre Dame’s stunning return
Fri, 06 Dec 2024
Many thought a five-year timeline was too ambitious. But even as France’s politics falls apart, it...
Michel shock: France’s government falls
Thu, 05 Dec 2024
An alliance of the far right and the left has sacked Prime Minister Michel Barnier; out goes his bud...
Dark side of the Yoon: South Korea’s chaos
Wed, 04 Dec 2024
The country’s increasingly unpopular president, Yoon Suk Yeol, backed down six hours after his sho...
Talk to EU later: Georgia’s fiery protests
Tue, 03 Dec 2024
The country has been turning increasingly away from Europe and towards Russia—but a halt to EU-acc...
Shock and thaw: Syria’s frozen war resumes
Mon, 02 Dec 2024
The country’s civil war never ended—it became a fragile stalemate that fell out of the news. A s...
Milei’s way: Argentina’s president, a year on
Fri, 29 Nov 2024
In an interview with Javier Milei, our correspondent probes how far the “anarcho-capitalist” pre...
A losing battle: Sudan’s elusive peace deal
Thu, 28 Nov 2024
As civil war rages in the country, millions of people have been displaced and famine is widespread. ...
Moment of truce: a ceasefire in the Middle East
Wed, 27 Nov 2024
This morning, a deal halting fighting between Israel and Lebanon for 60 days came into effect. Our c...
Legally bombed: Trump cases dropped
Tue, 26 Nov 2024
Donald Trump had been facing a swathe of lawsuits this year. Now he has won a second term in office,...
Scandal in the wind: Adani’s indictment could hurt Modi
Mon, 25 Nov 2024
Gautam Adani is one of India’s richest men, whose fortunes are closely aligned to those of Prime M...
Assisted dying: why Britain should back a change
Fri, 22 Nov 2024
Should people have the right to choose how they die? Though many Britons support the principle, a vo...
All for one: Donald Trump and his key Musketeer
Thu, 21 Nov 2024
What will the world’s richest man do in the White House? Our correspondent analyses the political ...
Up and atom: can Trump stop Iranian nukes?
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...
Rio brand: why Brazil is courting China
Tue, 19 Nov 2024
Trade ties between the two countries have been increasing for over a decade. The election of Donald ...
The long game: how will US missiles help Ukraine?
Mon, 18 Nov 2024
America feared that letting Ukraine use US weapons to attack far-off targets in Russia would escalat...
Kyiv calm and carry on: Trump’s win may benefit Ukraine
Fri, 15 Nov 2024
Donald Trump admires Vladimir Putin’s strongman style and has failed to condemn his invasion of Uk...
The Peking order: Can China’s army surpass the US?
Thu, 14 Nov 2024
China is enacting a rapid project of military modernisation. Though in some areas its forces are alr...
Needs Musk: Donald Trump’s new appointments
Wed, 13 Nov 2024
A week after Donald Trump won a decisive victory in the presidential election, he is making appointm...
Parting Scholz: what next for Germany?
Tue, 12 Nov 2024
At a time when Russia is making gains in Ukraine and Donald Trump has been re-elected as president, ...
Some like it hot: could Trump derail climate talks?
Mon, 11 Nov 2024
Last time Donald Trump was president he pulled America out of the Paris climate agreement. What is o...
Look at who’s talking: divining Trump’s Middle East plans
Fri, 08 Nov 2024
Donald Trump will inherit a tangle of conflicts in the Middle East; will he deliver on his promise t...
Do the after math: how Trump won
Thu, 07 Nov 2024
The American presidential election delivered a mercifully quick and decisive outcome. Our data edito...
Don of a new age: Trump’s decisive win
Wed, 06 Nov 2024
In the end America got a swift and decisive call as to the next president: Donald Trump. We invite t...
Election results: a brief message from John Prideaux
Wed, 06 Nov 2024
John Prideaux, Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon are on today's edition of The Intelligence with t...
Vote! Our election-day special
Tue, 05 Nov 2024
America and the world hold their proverbial breath for what has become a dead heat. Our special epis...
Last-ditch pitch: America’s campaigns conclude
Mon, 04 Nov 2024
Both campaigns have racked up air miles covering the swing states that will decide America’s knife...
Turn up the PA: the last in our swing-state series
Fri, 01 Nov 2024
Our series concludes with an examination of the state with the most electoral-college votes: Pennsyl...
Tax driver: Labour’s budget
Thu, 31 Oct 2024
Rachel Reeves’s first budget as chancellor of the exchequer saw the biggest tax rises in decades, ...
Hot shot: the wider promise of weight-loss jabs
Wed, 30 Oct 2024
First they treated diabetes. Then obesity. Now GLP-1 drugs are being tested on a range of other dise...
Ukraine reaction: Russia deploys North Koreans
Tue, 29 Oct 2024
Russia is advancing in Ukraine, has more troops and more weapons. In Kyiv and beyond, questions are ...
Timed bombs: Israel’s pre-election attack on Iran
Mon, 28 Oct 2024
Israel has been expected to attack Iran for weeks. Why was the assault at the weekend more limited t...
The Weekend Intelligence: The Apology
Sun, 27 Oct 2024
The subject of reparations - making amends for wrongs, is a topic which has been building momentum o...
Follow the leader: who will run Hamas?
Fri, 25 Oct 2024
There is a vacuum at the top of Hamas following the killing of the militant group’s commander in G...
Coming up Trump: our election model puts Harris behind
Thu, 24 Oct 2024
The two American presidential candidates have been neck and neck. But this week, the Economist’s f...
Left field: a new force in German politics
Wed, 23 Oct 2024
Our correspondent interviews Sahra Wagenknecht, the popular leftist whose eponymous political party ...
Marching borders: what was Hizbullah’s plan?
Tue, 22 Oct 2024
Israel is planning to strike Iran within days, even as its wars in Lebanon and Gaza deepen. Our corr...
Spies isn’t everything: Putin’s global-chaos machine
Mon, 21 Oct 2024
Aggression, election-meddling, “psychological destabilisation”: Russia’s leader is sowing chao...
Leaderless: the death of Yahya Sinwar
Fri, 18 Oct 2024
Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind of the October 7th attacks, is dead. What does that mean for Hamas, for...
Shoal searching: the South China sea simmers
Thu, 17 Oct 2024
A constellation of islands, reefs and rock-piles has been the source of disputes for decades. As a n...
Your money for a run? Campaign finance in America
Wed, 16 Oct 2024
Kamala Harris has proven to be an enormous draw for campaign donors. But the size of a candidate’s...
Keir eye for the FDI: an interview with Britain’s PM
Tue, 15 Oct 2024
Our correspondent sits down with Keir Starmer on the sidelines of a conference dedicated to drawing ...
One giant, cheap for mankind: SpaceX’s Starship
Mon, 14 Oct 2024
The fifth test flight of the absolutely enormous Starship went entirely to plan, returning everythin...
Labour’s love lost: Keir Starmer’s first 100 days
Fri, 11 Oct 2024
Britain’s Labour Party came to power promising to restore order and stability. Our correspondent e...
Paradise lost: Hurricane Milton bashes Florida
Thu, 10 Oct 2024
Global warming is increasing the intensity of storms like the one that just hit Florida. Our corresp...
Google’s lurch: how to fix its monopoly
Wed, 09 Oct 2024
This summer, an American judge ruled that Google’s search dominance was illegal. Now the Departmen...
Climbers (part one): A way out of China
Tue, 08 Oct 2024
Necoclí is a tiny town on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. Beach bars blast party music and sell brigh...
General rule: how to reinvent America’s army
Tue, 08 Oct 2024
Twenty years ago America was fighting insurgents in Afghanistan and Iran. As state-on-state clashes ...
Year of destruction: how October 7th shattered the Middle East
Mon, 07 Oct 2024
After Hamas militants attacked Israel a year ago, few people predicted how deep and devastating the ...
The Weekend Intelligence: Gaza, after the dust settles (republished)
Mon, 07 Oct 2024
*This episode was first published 20/07/24After a year of war in Gaza, people are beginning to discu...
The Weekend Intelligence: Black boxes (part one): Michael Kovrig on how he became a political hostage in China
Sat, 05 Oct 2024
One evening, Michael Kovrig, a former Canadian diplomat, grabbed a late dinner in Beijing with his p...
A key Keystone: the race for Pennsylvania
Fri, 04 Oct 2024
Whoever wins Pennsylvania will probably win the presidency: according to The Economist’s forecast ...
The arc of war: a bloody week in Lebanon
Fri, 04 Oct 2024
In a matter of weeks the conflict between Israel and Hizbullah has transformed life in Lebanon. Our ...
Yuan for the money: China stimulates its economy
Thu, 03 Oct 2024
After years of slowing growth, the Chinese government is finally attempting to bolster consumer dema...
Veep state: the running mates debate
Wed, 02 Oct 2024
After JD Vance and Tim Walz squared off against each in last night’s vice-presidential debate, our...
Ground assault: Israeli forces invade Lebanon
Tue, 01 Oct 2024
As Israeli troops move into Lebanon and missiles strike Damascus in Syria, can Israel’s next offen...
Beirut force: Israel kills Hizbullah leader
Mon, 30 Sep 2024
Israel’s attacks on Lebanon and Yemen this weekend will have implications far beyond the militant ...
The Weekend Intelligence: Crunch time for Ukraine
Sat, 28 Sep 2024
Ukraine’s President has been in New York this week. With a victory plan in his pocket, he’...
Woke croaks: “peak woke” has passed
Fri, 27 Sep 2024
Over the past decade a form of wokeness arose on the illiberal left, characterised by extreme pessim...
Missile-stop tour: Zelensky in America
Fri, 27 Sep 2024
Ukraine’s president is again on American shores, trying to secure support of all kinds. He needs i...
War or less? Lebanon on the brink
Thu, 26 Sep 2024
For now, Israel’s moves seem to be posturing, a means to intimidate Hizbullah into backing down. B...
No right left: Afghanistan’s oppressed women
Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Even before last month’s revised religious rules, Afghanistan’s women were being crushed under t...
Shun while it lasted: never-Trumpers’ fading sway
Tue, 24 Sep 2024
A handful of Republican leaders have been denouncing Donald Trump since his first presidential campa...
Bulls’ AI: funding artificial intelligence
Mon, 23 Sep 2024
Artificial Intelligence has gained ground so fast that OpenAI, the firm powering ChatGPT, is changin...
Election rejection: fears of a contested result
Fri, 20 Sep 2024
Republicans are already preparing to contest the result if Kamala Harris wins the presidency. Americ...
Rocketing: Israel escalates Lebanon conflict
Fri, 20 Sep 2024
After Israeli fires rockets into Lebanon and Hizbullah warns of “red lines” crossed, the Middle ...
Fed-letter day: at last, a rate cut
Thu, 19 Sep 2024
The first reduction in interest rates for four years shows America’s Federal Reserve thinks inflat...
Pager turn: the Israel-Hizbullah conflict escalates
Wed, 18 Sep 2024
The explosion of thousands of pagers across Lebanon and Syria was an attack on Hizbullah, a Shia mil...
Playing the fuel: reforming Nigeria’s subsidies
Tue, 17 Sep 2024
Large fuel subsidies in Nigeria are popular but ruinous to other public services. Our correspondents...
Foiled again: a second attempt on Trump
Mon, 16 Sep 2024
With less than eight weeks to go to the presidential election, tension is running high after a secon...
Open to debate: Harris and Trump clash
Fri, 13 Sep 2024
On Tuesday night in Philadelphia Donald Trump and Kamala Harris took part in what might be the only ...
Come on out, the vacuum’s fine: SpaceX
Fri, 13 Sep 2024
Capsule that can withstand vacuum? Check. Low-pressure spacesuit? Check. Space-friendly Doritos? Che...
Chip wreck: Intel is on the rocks
Thu, 12 Sep 2024
One of America’s stalwart tech giants is on the ropes, having first missed the move to mobile and ...
Don wan: Harris keeps Trump tame
Wed, 11 Sep 2024
The vice-president turned in a confident if imperfect performance, leaving Donald Trump flustered. B...
Mario druthers: Draghi’s plan for Europe
Tue, 10 Sep 2024
The EU’s unofficial chief technocrat issued a doorstop of a report outlining how the bloc can boos...
Plainly reigns but on a plane to Spain: Venezuela’s leader
Mon, 09 Sep 2024
Nicolás Maduro has stolen an election, again—but this time the rightful winner felt so threatened...
Grand Barnier: France’s new prime minister
Fri, 06 Sep 2024
Two months ago, French politics was thrown into crisis after a snap election left no party with a cl...
Current affairs: how batteries will green the grid
Thu, 05 Sep 2024
Though we use more renewable energy than ever before, electricity grids need ways to cope with inter...
Beyond the bullets: we go to Ukraine
Wed, 04 Sep 2024
We take a look at the grim conditions in and prospects for the frontlines in the country’s east an...
The sound of fury: pressure builds within Israel
Tue, 03 Sep 2024
The recovery of six hostages from Gaza has provoked mass demonstrations on the streets of Israel and...
Extremes come true: Germany’s far-right triumph
Mon, 02 Sep 2024
The hard right has taken Germany into uncharted territory, winning one state election and racking up...
For whom the well tolls: Why we must price water
Fri, 30 Aug 2024
Water scarcity is growing even in parts of the world that used to be drought-free. Since most ...
Nvincible? What could curb Nvidia’s supremacy
Thu, 29 Aug 2024
The American chip designer has become one of the world’s most valuable companies on the back of th...
Cryptic message: why arrest Telegram’s founder?
Wed, 28 Aug 2024
As Pavel Durov sits in a French cell waiting to find out if he will be charged, our correspondent pr...
Block busters: how Russia flouts sanctions
Tue, 27 Aug 2024
Since the invasion of Ukraine, the West has deployed massive economic restrictions on Russian trade....
The chips are down: will diet drugs devour junk food?
Mon, 26 Aug 2024
Snack-food companies have long shown their adaptability to changing diets. How could the rise of app...
The Weekend Intelligence: The war the world ignores
Sat, 24 Aug 2024
In this episode of The Weekend Intelligence, Africa correspondent Tom Gardner tells the story of 21s...
KamaChameleon: What does Harris stand for?
Fri, 23 Aug 2024
After an electric week at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Kamala Harris now faces the...
Electric eye: AI is helping fight terrorists
Thu, 22 Aug 2024
Predicting political violence is a painstaking job. Now AI is helping analysts look for clues and th...
The human strain: can mpox be contained?
Wed, 21 Aug 2024
Mpox is spreading fast across Africa, yet public information campaigns are scant and vaccines in sho...
Byte by byte: Iran and Israel’s escalating cyberwar
Tue, 20 Aug 2024
While many people fear the risk of a wider war breaking out in the Middle East, a parallel battle is...
Hail Harris: the Democratic convention begins
Mon, 19 Aug 2024
As Democrats convene in Chicago, polls suggest Kamala Harris is ahead by a whisker in the US preside...
Landing padded: the global-recession risk
Fri, 16 Aug 2024
Inflation, interest rates and jobless numbers are on healthy trends; markets are gaining back ground...
One peace at a time: Gaza, Israel and Iran
Thu, 15 Aug 2024
Peace talks in Doha have a chance at progress even in Hamas’s absence. The outcome could determine...
Bait the hook! Fishing in the global talent pool
Wed, 14 Aug 2024
Skilled immigrants bring more than just their expertise to job markets. But governments miss opportu...
AIOU: what if the AI boom busts?
Tue, 13 Aug 2024
Corporate investment in artificial-intelligence infrastructure reaches $1.4trn by some estimates. We...
The boot is on the other foot: Ukraine’s surprise incursion
Mon, 12 Aug 2024
Part of Russia is under foreign control for the first time since the second world war. We ask about ...
Expelling mistake: the costs of hardline immigration policy
Fri, 09 Aug 2024
The rich world is experiencing record migrant flows—and the attendant social upheaval. Finding imm...
Arrivals haul: anti-tourism’s folly
Thu, 08 Aug 2024
Tourists are getting decidedly less-warm welcomes in popular spots, but blunt anti-tourism policies ...
Walz onto the stage: Kamala Harris’s VP pick
Wed, 07 Aug 2024
Tim Walz, a folksy Midwesterner who came late to politics, is on the Democratic ticket. We ask how h...
More than Sheikh could stick at: Bangladesh’s PM resigns
Tue, 06 Aug 2024
Sheikh Hasina, who led the country for 20 of the past 28 years with an increasingly authoritarian gr...
Enter staged right: misinformation feeds Britain’s riots
Mon, 05 Aug 2024
Unrest across the country has been driven in part by the provably false claims of right-wing provoca...
Tense exchange: Russia’s prisoner swap
Fri, 02 Aug 2024
The biggest exchange of prisoners between Russia and the West since the Cold War included opposition...
Yuan direction: Chinese firms head south
Thu, 01 Aug 2024
As domestic demand in China slows, and the West puts up trade and political barriers, Chinese firms ...
Struck out: A Hamas leader is assassinated
Wed, 31 Jul 2024
After the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh, what are the prospects for ceasefire...
Down to the wires: Africa’s digital lag
Tue, 30 Jul 2024
The dearth of fixed-line infrastructure that allowed the continent to leapfrog into the mobile-phone...
Warpath: Israel vows revenge on Hizbullah
Mon, 29 Jul 2024
After an airstrike killed 12 children in Israel-controlled territory at the weekend, retaliation in ...
Field of streams: sports viewing changes
Fri, 26 Jul 2024
As the Olympics begin, more people than ever will be watching via streaming services. We examine the...
Bibi talk: a speech light on detail
Thu, 25 Jul 2024
Anyone hoping to glean hints of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s plans for the Gaza war and its...
Destruction instruction: Western armies learn from Gaza
Wed, 24 Jul 2024
From tunnels to tanks to drones, Gaza’s horrors provide object lessons in urban warfare. We ask wh...
Keep Kamala and carry on: Harris’s smooth route
Tue, 23 Jul 2024
A day is a long time in American politics: Kamala Harris has reportedly already secured the votes to...
Joe of good faith: Biden bows out
Mon, 22 Jul 2024
Joe Biden has at last succumbed to the pressure to step aside and has endorsed his vice-president, K...
Dicky birds: the next pandemic?
Fri, 19 Jul 2024
The scars of the covid pandemic are still raw, but now a virus spreading among farm animals could le...
Veep show: America meets J.D. Vance
Thu, 18 Jul 2024
J.D. Vance was largely unknown in American politics until Donald Trump picked him as his running-mat...
Food for thought: raising the world’s IQ
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...
Lost in stagnation? Japan’s economic paradox
Tue, 16 Jul 2024
After decades of torpor, is Japan recovering its dynamism? Our correspondent turns to an ancient ben...
An assassination attempt: what next for America?
Mon, 15 Jul 2024
After the shocking attempt to kill former President Donald Trump, how will America respond? Though l...
An officer and a gen AI: the future of war
Fri, 12 Jul 2024
Artificial intelligence is already making a difference in the theatre of war, and more involvement w...
Bidin’: will Joe go or no?
Thu, 11 Jul 2024
Democrats’ worried murmurs have become public statements. Polls give Donald Trump a widening lead....
Change of heart surgeon: Iran’s reformist president
Wed, 10 Jul 2024
Masoud Pezeshkian rode to victory on a promise of reforms that Iran’s people seem desperately to w...
Holey alliance: NATO’s worries at 75
Tue, 09 Jul 2024
It was formed to unite the world’s strongest countries and preserve peace, but as NATO holds a cel...
Lurch in the left: France’s election shock
Mon, 08 Jul 2024
A tactical ploy to diminish the chances for Marine Le Pen’s hard-right National Rally has worked—...
Boom! Episode 1: 1968 - Born to be wild
Sun, 07 Jul 2024
Why are two old, unpopular men the main candidates for the world’s most demanding job? It’...
Starming victory: Labour sweeps to power
Fri, 05 Jul 2024
Britain has elected a Labour government for the first time in 14 years. The party inherits a spatter...
1. 1968 - Born to be wild
Thu, 04 Jul 2024
The generation born in the 1940s grew up in a land of endless growth and possibility, ruled by a con...
Leader of the package: Amazon turns 30
Thu, 04 Jul 2024
It has changed our lives and become one of the world’s most valuable companies. As Amazon turns 30...
Trailer: Boom!
Thu, 04 Jul 2024
How did two old, unpopular men end up running for the world's most demanding job? The answer lies in...
Degree programme: stopping heat deaths
Wed, 03 Jul 2024
As heatwaves become more frequent and intense, they exacerbate existing inequalities. The poor, sick...
Trailer: Boom!
Tue, 02 Jul 2024
How did two old, unpopular men end up running for the world's most demanding job? It’s the questio...
Rule and divide: Donald Trump is judged immune
Tue, 02 Jul 2024
The US Supreme Court has granted the former President immunity from prosecution for official acts co...
Trailer: Boom!
Mon, 01 Jul 2024
How did two old, unpopular men end up running for the world's most demanding job? It’s the questio...
Bet noir: Macron’s electoral gamble backfires
Mon, 01 Jul 2024
Marine Le Pen’s far-right party made great gains in the first round of France’s parliamentary el...
The Weekend Intelligence: The state of Britain
Sat, 29 Jun 2024
On July 4th Britain will have a general election, one in which is widely expected to result in drama...
Debate and switch? Biden’s stumble
Fri, 28 Jun 2024
America’s president had one primary task at last night’s debate: to close down speculation about...
Labour-saving: Britain’s probable next leader
Thu, 27 Jun 2024
After 14 years in opposition, Britain’s Labour Party is on track for a comprehensive win in next w...
Pier pressure: a visit to Gaza’s aid platform
Wed, 26 Jun 2024
Our correspondents were the first media to see the American-built JLOTS pier, intended for aid deliv...
Spring a leaker: Assange goes free
Tue, 25 Jun 2024
As Julian Assange is released from prison our correspondent reflects on how the work of Wikileaks ch...
Rocketing science: China’s newest superpower
Mon, 24 Jun 2024
After decades as a scientific also-ran, China is becoming a superpower particularly in the physical ...
Argentina turning? Milei’s surprising political success
Fri, 21 Jun 2024
Since his election last year, President Javier Milei has enjoyed some economic and political wins in...
Empire of the sun: a solar power revolution
Thu, 20 Jun 2024
No energy source has ever increased as fast as solar photovoltaics. The technology will transform hu...
French fried: will the election lead to chaos?
Wed, 19 Jun 2024
Both the left and right are likely to do well in France’s upcoming parliamentary poll, with Presid...
Heir tight: why boomers are so stingy
Tue, 18 Jun 2024
The post-war generation reaped the benefits of peace and prosperity. Yet rather than spend that boun...
Sudan impact: the war the world forgot
Mon, 17 Jun 2024
Much of Sudan has already collapsed into chaos. Now a crucial city may fall, the United Nations is b...
Fight for his party to the right: Nigel Farage
Fri, 14 Jun 2024
Britain’s pint-sipping rabble-rouser of the right has joined the campaigning ahead of a general el...
A real work of peace? An Israel-Hamas deal
Thu, 13 Jun 2024
America’s upbeat assessment of a ceasefire deal masks deep divides that may not, in fact, be bridg...
America's next top-job model: our election forecast
Wed, 12 Jun 2024
We have dusted off and tuned up our forecast model for America’s presidential race. So far it give...
Doing their not-own thing: “generation rent”
Tue, 11 Jun 2024
Across the rich world millions spend more than a third of their disposable income on rent. We ask wh...
French anti-foreign legion: an EU-election shock
Mon, 10 Jun 2024
Hard-right parties did well in Europe's parliamentary elections—so well in France that President E...
The Modi Raj 1: The chaiwallah's son
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...
One dam thing after another? Ukraine and reconstruction
Fri, 07 Jun 2024
When Russia attacked the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine a year ago, lives were lost, families stranded and ...
Labour's pains: Britain’s growth problem
Thu, 06 Jun 2024
As Britain’s general-election campaign heats up, party leaders are vague on their economic plans. ...
Modi’s mess: a shock election result spells uncertainty for India
Wed, 05 Jun 2024
Narendra Modi, the strongman of India, will have to compromise now his party has lost its majority. ...
Trailer: The Modi Raj
Wed, 05 Jun 2024
Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...
The big gag: Hong Kong’s crackdown on freedom
Tue, 04 Jun 2024
There has been a slow strangling of freedom in the territory where pro-democracy activists have been...
I, Claudia: Mexico’s new leader
Mon, 03 Jun 2024
Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected Mexico’s first female president. Now the real fight begins: cri...
Trailer: The Modi Raj
Sat, 01 Jun 2024
Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...
Choose this podcast: abortion and the election
Fri, 31 May 2024
In 2022 the Supreme Court gave control of abortion back to “the people and their elected represent...
Out on a ledger: Trump convicted
Fri, 31 May 2024
The former president was found guilty on all 34 charges of falsifying business records. But his conv...
Trailer: The Modi Raj
Fri, 31 May 2024
Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...
The Intelligence: Rishi Sunak’s report card
Thu, 30 May 2024
Ahead of a general election in July, we reflect on 14 years of Conservative rule. It’s not a great...
Trailer: The Modi Raj
Wed, 29 May 2024
Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...
The Intelligence: Strikes on Rafah
Wed, 29 May 2024
Horrific images of charred bodies being pulled from the rubble in Gaza drew outcry, and more countri...
The Intelligence: An interview with the director of the IAEA
Tue, 28 May 2024
The IAEA is charged with promoting the peaceful use of atomic energy. But with uncertainty in Iran a...
Stores of value: regulators lean on app vendors
Mon, 27 May 2024
Apple and Alphabet operate what is in effect a smartphone-app duopoly. Governments want to curb thei...
The Weekend Intelligence: Georgia... the day after tomorrow
Sat, 25 May 2024
The introduction laws cracking down on supposed foreign agents has become a common tactic for autocr...
Trailer: The Modi Raj
Fri, 24 May 2024
Narendra Modi is one of the most popular politicians on the planet. India’s prime minister is eyei...
Bibi blues: Israel’s fraying consensus
Fri, 24 May 2024
Our editor-in-chief and Jerusalem correspondent pay a visit to Israel’s halls of power, finding th...
Chip shots: breaking Nvidia’s AI grip
Thu, 23 May 2024
When it comes to the chips used in artificial intelligence, one firm has the market locked up. We lo...
AI and health part one: DrGPT will see you now
Wed, 22 May 2024
Artificial intelligence is already making its mark in health care—but new, bigger, models promise ...
See how the Lai lands: Taiwan’s new president
Wed, 22 May 2024
Domestic divisions are already complicating the daunting task William Lai Ching-te has set himself: ...
Crimes seen: The ICC chases Israel and Hamas
Tue, 21 May 2024
The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court has caused outrage by requesting arrest wa...
Succession unplanned: Iran’s president killed
Mon, 20 May 2024
The death of Ebrahim Raisi will spark succession battles both for the presidency and for supreme lea...
The Weekend Intelligence: Bombay, open city?
Sat, 18 May 2024
Mumbai is famously an open city, known for welcoming all comers, regardless of colour, caste, or cre...
Swat off the press: Meta v Canada’s news ploy
Fri, 17 May 2024
A bid to squeeze money from social-media platforms that link to news content has backfired: what was...
Boiling over: an attempt on the Slovakian PM’s life
Thu, 16 May 2024
An attempt on Robert Fico’s life comes at a time of deep-running polarisation in his country—muc...
Expenses claims: Trump’s hush-money trial
Wed, 15 May 2024
Michael Cohen has been testifying in Donald Trump’s hush-money trial. Did the former president’s...
Run part one: Why are Chinese people running to Japan?
Tue, 14 May 2024
At the height of China’s zero-covid restrictions, a Chinese character that sounds like the English...
The morale of the story: Ukraine’s front lines
Tue, 14 May 2024
At a hidden command centre our correspondent finds deflated but defiant soldiers. Fight against Russ...
Fear on draft: Ukraine’s fraught mobilisation
Mon, 13 May 2024
A chat with the deputy boss of Ukraine’s military intelligence reveals concerns about a dearth of ...
The Weekend Intelligence: Baseball at the border
Sat, 11 May 2024
Sarah Birke and Aryn Braun report frequently on tensions at the border between America and Mexico—...
The Intelligence: The next stage of the tech wars
Fri, 10 May 2024
The battles for supremacy in chipmaking and green technology industries are raging on. Re-electing D...
The Intelligence: Singapore’s “4G” era
Thu, 09 May 2024
Lawrence Wong will only be the city-state’s fourth leader since its independence. Our foreign edit...
The Intelligence: Supercharging India’s economy
Wed, 08 May 2024
Narendra Modi’s reputation for prosperity is likely to propel him to a third term. But for India’...
The Intelligence: Truce talk
Tue, 07 May 2024
The ceasefire deal, which Hamas has agreed to, prompted celebrations in Gaza. But Binyamin Netanyahu...
The Intelligence: Mandela’s vision, tested
Mon, 06 May 2024
Thirty years of democracy have not led to uniform prosperity, and nearly everyone disagrees about th...
The Intelligence: Our meeting with Macron
Fri, 03 May 2024
France’s president is known for pronouncements of grand scope with one eye toward history. But whe...
The Intelligence: The kids are alright, turns out
Thu, 02 May 2024
When you look around the world, and at a wider set of measures, Generation Z are far better off than...
Babbage: Teens and their screens
Wed, 01 May 2024
Ever since there have been smartphones and social media, there have been concerns about how they mig...
The Intelligence: Going back to raid school
Wed, 01 May 2024
A dramatic overnight raid in New York City was just one sign that protests at American universities ...
The Intelligence: Dengue’s grip on Latin America
Tue, 30 Apr 2024
The dengue-fever case counts now break regional records every year—and the structural reasons behi...
The Intelligence: A civil society in waiting
Mon, 29 Apr 2024
The ruling military junta that seized power in a coup in 2021 is losing ground, slowly—and the reb...
Checks and Balance: Aid, and a bet
Fri, 26 Apr 2024
For months, a big foreign-aid deal looked like it was going nowhere in the House of Representatives....
The Intelligence: Britain’s latest bad idea
Fri, 26 Apr 2024
As Parliament has now agreed to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, many members of the ruling Conservati...
The Intelligence: The world’s biggest humanitarian crisis
Thu, 25 Apr 2024
Ravaged by a civil war, Sudan could see a nationwide famine by August. With humanitarian aid being b...
The Intelligence: America’s college crackdowns
Wed, 24 Apr 2024
Police clashes with protesters at Columbia University have spilled over into other institutions, rai...
The Intelligence: AI rest my case
Tue, 23 Apr 2024
The companies behind this wonder of tech are facing allegations of using copyrighted material to bui...
The Intelligence: Ready, Aid, Fire
Mon, 22 Apr 2024
At a time when Russia has been making significant gains, an allocated $61bn of aid for Ukraine will ...
The Intelligence: Iran and Israel’s new era?
Fri, 19 Apr 2024
A missile has reportedly struck a site in the Islamic Republic. If this is retaliation for Iran’s ...
Money Talks: Why weight-loss drugs will reshape the world
Thu, 18 Apr 2024
More than 1bn people around the world are obese. That means there should be extraordinary demand for...
The Intelligence: Your country needs you!
Thu, 18 Apr 2024
Governments particularly in the rich world are struggling to get young people in uniform. Will some ...
The Intelligence: He said, she fled
Wed, 17 Apr 2024
All over the world, young men are identifying more with the political right, even as women drift mor...
The Intelligence: The most personal choice
Tue, 16 Apr 2024
The case for assisted dying is essentially one of individual freedom—and plenty of Britons support...
The Intelligence: A region holds its breath
Mon, 15 Apr 2024
For the first time Iran launched a huge attack on Israel from its own territory, though the effort l...
The Intelligence: America’s deeply divided electorate
Fri, 12 Apr 2024
We have combined polling data to make a detailed portrait of the American electorate. Have a tinker ...
The Intelligence: The race to save Kharkiv
Thu, 11 Apr 2024
Since the invasion began, Ukraine's second city has suffered a third of all aerial attacks. The late...
The Intelligence: Can Japan and America Trump-proof their alliance?
Wed, 10 Apr 2024
The leaders of both countries will meet for dinner at the White House tonight. In light of Asia’s ...
Drum Tower: Xi’s doomed economic plan
Tue, 09 Apr 2024
The Economist’s editor-in-chief Zanny Minton Beddoes was recently in Beijing for the China Develop...
The Intelligence: Bear up
Tue, 09 Apr 2024
In Russia inflation is under control, wages are on the up and supposedly tough sanctions have been s...
The Intelligence: Rwanda’s genocide 30 years on
Mon, 08 Apr 2024
The 1994 slaughter of hundreds of thousands of minority Tutsis completely reshaped the country. It a...
The Weekend Intelligence: The man who would lead Palestine
Sat, 06 Apr 2024
Twenty-two years ago, Palestinian politician-turned-revolutionary Marwan Barghouti was convicted of ...
Checks and Balance: Capitol gains
Fri, 05 Apr 2024
While America’s focus has been on the presidential election, the race for Congress is even more vo...
The Intelligence: Argentina turner?
Fri, 05 Apr 2024
After more than 100 days in office, President Javier Milei has managed some much-needed economic ref...
The Intelligence: Bombs squad
Thu, 04 Apr 2024
The game theory was simpler during a cold war between two states armed to the teeth; the nuclear wor...
The Intelligence: Naan inflationary growth
Wed, 03 Apr 2024
India is not the first country to leapfrog from poverty-induced undernourishment to also having an o...
The Intelligence: Bibi bumps
Tue, 02 Apr 2024
As yet more aid workers die in Gaza and an airstrike levels an Iranian consulate, pressure on Israel...
The Intelligence: Surveilling China’s diaspora
Mon, 01 Apr 2024
There are fears about TikTok, but it’s not the only social media platform that the Chinese state m...
The Intelligence: Life inside a Russian prison
Fri, 29 Mar 2024
Alexei Navalny was sent to one to die and American journalist Evan Gershkovich is being held in anot...
The Intelligence: The fallen crypto king learns his fate
Thu, 28 Mar 2024
It has been called one of the biggest financial frauds in American history. After the collapse of cr...
The Intelligence: An aid drop over Gaza
Wed, 27 Mar 2024
It is becoming harder to get supplies into the enclave, which is facing a growing risk of famine. As...
Drum Tower: Tick tock for TikTok
Tue, 26 Mar 2024
On March 13th America’s House of Representatives passed a bill that could ban TikTok nationwide un...
The Intelligence: when Sall tempted Faye
Tue, 26 Mar 2024
Bassirou Diomaye Faye was little-known before this election. Despite the incumbent president’s att...
The Intelligence: Moscow massacre
Mon, 25 Mar 2024
Warnings from the Americans went unheeded, police took too long to respond, and now the Kremlin has ...
The Weekend Intelligence: Should I own a gun?
Sat, 23 Mar 2024
By the end of this podcast Economist correspondent Tamara Gilkes Borr might own a gun. Recently, Tam...
The Intelligence: Bad Apple?
Fri, 22 Mar 2024
The case against the tech giant has been brewing since 2019 and while the smartphone maker is usuall...
Money Talks: Why Amazon should be afraid of Temu
Thu, 21 Mar 2024
Amazon started with a plan to disrupt bookselling. It sold cheap books online, delivering them strai...
The Intelligence: Fed reckoning
Thu, 21 Mar 2024
America’s central bank left rates untouched, to widespread market delight. Why is this economic cy...
The Intelligence: Leave your umbrella at home
Wed, 20 Mar 2024
It took more than 20 years for Hong Kong’s legislature to pass Article 23, a sweeping and troublin...
The Intelligence: The power of positive tinkering
Tue, 19 Mar 2024
The Bank of Japan has ended its grand experiment in unconventional monetary policy—how did it work...
The Intelligence: F is for falling standards
Mon, 18 Mar 2024
America is producing more high-school graduates—but on average, they know less. We ask how a push ...
Checks and Balance: Growth states
Fri, 15 Mar 2024
It’s not long since America was widely thought to be on the brink of recession. Instead the econom...
The Intelligence: Russia’s sham election
Fri, 15 Mar 2024
Voting begins today in an election that has already been won – all the opposition politicians are ...
The Intelligence: Is time up for TikTok?
Thu, 14 Mar 2024
The US Congress is refusing to scroll past the app’s links to China. If the bill they passed becom...
The Intelligence: Russia pushes back on Kharkiv
Wed, 13 Mar 2024
The northeastern province has been subject to more and more shelling, and Western officials are worr...
The Intelligence: Europe is not so hot on its green parties
Tue, 12 Mar 2024
Melting ski slopes, floods and droughts are enraging the continent’s citizens, but not quite enoug...
The Intelligence: Kim Jong Un’s fighting talk
Mon, 11 Mar 2024
As the hermit kingdom is getting ever cosier with Russia, it is becoming bolder in its provocations ...
The Intelligence: Haiti’s latest nightmare
Fri, 08 Mar 2024
Despite growing pressure from powerful local gangs, Ariel Henry, the prime minister, is refusing to ...
The Intelligence: Labour’s union
Thu, 07 Mar 2024
A steady 20-point lead in the polls suggests that the Labour Party could comfortably win Britain’s...
Babbage: The science that built the AI revolution—part one
Wed, 06 Mar 2024
What is intelligence? In the middle of the 20th century, the inner workings of the human brain inspi...
The Intelligence: A Super predictable Tuesday
Wed, 06 Mar 2024
In a result that will surprise few, America is on track to hold a rematch of the 2020 presidential e...
The Intelligence: Modi’s battle for the south
Tue, 05 Mar 2024
The richer, more urban region does not just differ economically, but politically too. Can Mr Modi to...
The Intelligence: Pressures for peace
Mon, 04 Mar 2024
The international push for a ceasefire in Gaza continues, but the tragedies keep coming; in many way...
The Weekend Intelligence: Life and fate
Sat, 02 Mar 2024
A year on from our series Next Year in Moscow, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition ...
The Intelligence: Drug gateway
Fri, 01 Mar 2024
A visit to a port of entry at America’s Mexican border reveals the difficulties in stopping the fl...
Money Talks: Is the West losing its sanctions war?
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
It's been two years since Russia brought war to Ukraine. America, Britain and the European Union may...
The Intelligence: Redoubled agents
Thu, 29 Feb 2024
A slew of spycraft mishaps might suggest Russia’s once-great intelligence services have hopelessly...
The Intelligence: If Beijing had a ballot
Wed, 28 Feb 2024
Some within China might prefer another Donald Trump presidency while others might favour Joe Biden. ...
The Intelligence: Horn under a bad sign
Tue, 27 Feb 2024
The birth rate of unicorns—firms with a valuation north of $1bn—has plummeted, and prior investo...
The Intelligence: Coming to a Nikki end
Mon, 26 Feb 2024
After a 20-point primary walloping in South Carolina, the state she governed for eight years, Nikki ...
The Intelligence: Ukraine’s war, two years on
Fri, 23 Feb 2024
In this roundtable discussion our editors examine how the past year has progressed, discuss how thin...
The Intelligence: No water, no lights, no beds
Thu, 22 Feb 2024
Hardened war-zone doctors say the situation in Gaza is the worst they have witnessed—and that will...
Babbage: The hunt for dark matter
Wed, 21 Feb 2024
Dark matter is thought to make up around a quarter of the universe, but so far it has eluded detecti...
The Intelligence: I’m your private lander, a lander for money
Wed, 21 Feb 2024
If it succeeds—and that is no sure thing—this week’s soft landing of Odysseus will be the firs...
The Intelligence: Faith-based reeling
Tue, 20 Feb 2024
China’s firms are shedding value at pace and foreign investors are starting to look elsewhere. We ...
The Intelligence: Russia after Navalny
Mon, 19 Feb 2024
At last President Vladimir Putin’s regime has succeeded in silencing the country’s most prominen...
The Weekend Intelligence: One day in the life of Alexei Navalny
Sat, 17 Feb 2024
When Alexei Navalny flew back to Russia in 2021 he never made it through passport control. In an exc...
The Intelligence: Out-of-this-world war
Fri, 16 Feb 2024
This is not science fiction. Space is already a part of modern warfare and as technology advances, i...
The Intelligence: A former general, elected in Indonesia
Thu, 15 Feb 2024
Prabowo Subianto stormed to victory in the world’s largest single-day election. But critics say hi...
The Intelligence: Split bill
Wed, 14 Feb 2024
After an all-nighter, a $95bn foreign aid bill for Ukraine and other allies passed the US Senate. Bu...
Drum Tower: The sounds of old Beijing
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
In some ways, Beijing now sounds like a lot of other mega cities. Yet, back in imperial times, sound...
The Intelligence: Undoing PiS poor laws
Tue, 13 Feb 2024
Donald Tusk’s predecessors in the hard-right PiS party captured the state and compromised its chec...
The Intelligence: Troubled waters
Mon, 12 Feb 2024
Squabbles over the seas and their tributary waterways are becoming more tense as rivalries deepen an...
Checks and Balance: Strike accord
Sat, 10 Feb 2024
America has launched strikes against Iranian-backed militias in the Middle East, in response to an a...
The Intelligence: General dynamics
Fri, 09 Feb 2024
As had long been telegraphed, Ukraine’s top general Valery Zaluzhny is now out; Oleksandr Syrsky i...
The Intelligence: Going for broker
Thu, 08 Feb 2024
Our correspondent is travelling with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is on yet another gruell...
The Intelligence: At a crossroads (really)
Wed, 07 Feb 2024
In one of this year’s largest votes, Indonesia will elect a new president in one week’s time; th...
The Intelligence: They thought it was Sall over
Tue, 06 Feb 2024
Macky Sall, Senegal’s president, has said he would not stand again. So what to make of the move to...
The Intelligence: Strikes, a careful balance
Mon, 05 Feb 2024
Dozens of air strikes in Iraq, Syria and Yemen were designed to show American resolve without themse...
The Intelligence: Will Apple’s customers share its Vision?
Fri, 02 Feb 2024
Last month, Microsoft briefly overtook the iPhone maker as the world’s most valuable company. As A...
The Intelligence: Vietnam’s golden opportunity
Thu, 01 Feb 2024
The populous South-East Asian country is uniquely well-positioned to benefit from the deepening rift...
The Intelligence: Indonesia’s election, more TikTok than tick-box
Wed, 31 Jan 2024
Campaigning for a coming election in the world’s fourth-most-populous country has been almost enti...
Drum Tower: Competing for kids
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
China’s decades-long economic boom was powered by workers who migrated from the countryside to cit...
The Intelligence: China’s ever grander property crisis
Tue, 30 Jan 2024
One of the country’s biggest property companies, Evergrande, has been crippled by its debt. What d...
The Intelligence: Iran increases the stakes in the Middle East
Mon, 29 Jan 2024
Iran-backed proxies have killed three American soldiers and injured dozens of others in their weeken...
The Weekend Intelligence: Digital Ghosts
Sat, 27 Jan 2024
As life moves progressively online, it is becoming increasingly possible to keep people alive in the...
The Intelligence: Milei’s laborious reforms
Fri, 26 Jan 2024
For decades, Argentina’s labour unions have seemed like they can’t be touched. But the country’...
The Intelligence: what AI could mean for the world’s poorest
Thu, 25 Jan 2024
Generative artificial intelligence dominated conversations at Davos this year. How might education a...
Babbage: Sam Altman and Satya Nadella on their vision for AI
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
OpenAI and Microsoft are leaders in generative artificial intelligence (AI). OpenAI has built GPT-4,...
The Intelligence: Donald trumps Haley in New Hampshire
Wed, 24 Jan 2024
His decisive victory demonstrates just how much of a hold he still has on the Republican party, but ...
The Intelligence: is Germany al[t]right?
Tue, 23 Jan 2024
The Alternative for Germany (AfD) party represents a growing anti-immigrant rhetoric in the country,...
The Intelligence: Ron down, two left
Mon, 22 Jan 2024
He went from being the most viable challenger to Donald Trump for the Republican nomination, to endo...
The Intelligence: the relentless audacity of Alexei Navalny
Fri, 19 Jan 2024
The ominous disappearance of Russia’s opposition leader led many to fear the worst. But he has tur...
Money Talks: Europe’s luxury crown
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
European firms dominate the global luxury landscape, accounting for two-thirds of sales and nine of ...
The Intelligence: The darkness before the Don
Thu, 18 Jan 2024
Many of America’s business leaders reckon a second Trump term would be worse for them and for the ...
The Intelligence: Gaza’s ever-graver crisis
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...
The Intelligence: The CCP would like chips with that
Tue, 16 Jan 2024
China’s flip-flopping on video-game regulation reveals a messy message: leaders want to encourage ...
The Intelligence: Independents’ day
Mon, 15 Jan 2024
Taiwan’s election of William Lai Ching-te of the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party is ...
The Intelligence: Air strikes on Houthi rebels
Fri, 12 Jan 2024
America and its allies delivered on a threat to retaliate against Houthi rebels in Yemen who have be...
The Intelligence: Growing, no pains
Thu, 11 Jan 2024
America seems to be in a best-of-worlds scenario: growth is outpacing expectations even as inflation...
The Intelligence: Emmanuel override
Wed, 10 Jan 2024
Gabriel Attal, France’s youthful new prime minister, represents President Emmanuel Macron’s rene...
Drum Tower: Taiwan goes to the polls
Tue, 09 Jan 2024
China is watching Taiwan’s next presidential race closely. The results will influence Xi Jinping’...
The Intelligence: Country code
Tue, 09 Jan 2024
As with many technologies that preceded it, generative artificial intelligence is increasingly viewe...
The Intelligence: If a tree falls in the Amazon
Mon, 08 Jan 2024
Our correspondents travel through the rainforest, seeing the pollution and clear-cutting firsthand. ...
Checks and Balance: Biden or bust
Fri, 05 Jan 2024
Joe Biden’s chances against Donald Trump in November do not look good. He is unpopular and his age...
The Intelligence: The city that never slipped
Fri, 05 Jan 2024
From Brexit to covid-19, nothing has yet stymied London’s successes. The city has its problems, bu...
The Intelligence: Workers of the world, delight!
Thu, 04 Jan 2024
Labour markets are changing in all kinds of ways, thanks to ageing societies, hot-running economies ...
The Intelligence: the killing of a Hamas leader
Wed, 03 Jan 2024
Saleh al-Arouri has long been a high-priority target for Israel and his death could weaken the Pales...
The Intelligence: Volodymyr Zelensky on Ukraine’s year ahead
Tue, 02 Jan 2024
As Vladimir Putin promises to intensify Russia’s attacks, Mr Zelensky is frustrated at the waverin...
The Intelligence: 2024 is a big year for democracy
Mon, 01 Jan 2024
Citizens across more than 70 countries will be heading to the polls over the next twelve months. It’...
The Intelligence: the notable deaths of 2023
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...
The Intelligence: The Economist reads
Thu, 28 Dec 2023
What can A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke tell us about AI? Does Shakespeare's Othello contain a w...
The Intelligence: The Economist explains
Wed, 27 Dec 2023
On our website and in our app, “The Economist explains” is one of the best-read features. Today ...
The Intelligence: who wins The Economist’s country of the year?
Tue, 26 Dec 2023
Which country improved the most this year? Nominations poured in from across the editorial departmen...
The Intelligence: searching for the elixir of life
Fri, 22 Dec 2023
Scientists are making considerable progress in the race to slow the ageing process of our cells, and...
Money Talks: There’s no business like it
Thu, 21 Dec 2023
We raise the curtain on the business of New York’s iconic theatre district. Broadway has been stru...
The Intelligence: Alice Weidel’s alternative plan for Germany
Thu, 21 Dec 2023
Our Berlin bureau chief sits down with the increasingly popular co-leader of the Alternative for Ger...
Babbage: Science book club
Wed, 20 Dec 2023
Books are the original medium for communicating science to the masses. In a holiday special, produce...
The Intelligence: Colorado blocks Donald Trump’s candidacy
Wed, 20 Dec 2023
The state’s supreme court has ruled that he cannot appear on the Republican primary ballot, citing...
The Intelligence: Congo’s election
Tue, 19 Dec 2023
After a dubious win in 2018, Felix Tshisekedi is running for office again in the Democratic Republic...
The Intelligence: Red (Sea) alert
Mon, 18 Dec 2023
In response to the war in Gaza, Iran-backed Houthi militants are attacking vessels along the key shi...
The Weekend Intelligence: MH17 and the battle for truth
Sat, 16 Dec 2023
For almost a decade The Economist’s Noah Sneider has been following the story of MH17, the passeng...
The Intelligence: Zelensky’s plea
Fri, 15 Dec 2023
Volodymyr Zelensky is hoping to secure more aid from Washington. But the decision rests with a divid...
The Intelligence: is America’s media fair?
Thu, 14 Dec 2023
News outlets are often hounded by the right for being too left-leaning. Our data show there might be...
The Intelligence: good COP, bad COP?
Wed, 13 Dec 2023
In a landmark agreement, nearly 200 nations have agreed to transition away from fossil fuels. Howeve...
The Intelligence: Antisemitism and freedom of speech
Tue, 12 Dec 2023
Since the Hamas attacks and the ensuing war in Gaza, debate at America’s top academic institutions...
The Intelligence: French fly, catch up
Mon, 11 Dec 2023
Our correspondent joins the French air force on a mission in the Baltics, seeing increasing support ...
The Intelligence: America’s culture wars brought to bears
Fri, 08 Dec 2023
In the American West, grizzly bears are spreading—and fights over protecting them under the Endang...
The Intelligence: Putin’s growing advantage
Thu, 07 Dec 2023
Even before America’s tussle over funding Ukraine’s war effort, it seemed as if Russia was gaini...
The Intelligence: No more Mr Nice-to-Guyana
Wed, 06 Dec 2023
By the numbers, the outcome seems clear: Venezuelans voted to annex much of newly minted petrostate ...
Drum Tower: Stand-up feminists
Tue, 05 Dec 2023
Tickets for “Nvzizhuyi”—a monthly stand-up comedy show in New York City— often sell out in l...
The Intelligence: I spy, with my Valley eye
Tue, 05 Dec 2023
The cradle of American technology was once known for its libertarian values—but as law-enforcement...
The Intelligence: Israel pushes south in Gaza
Mon, 04 Dec 2023
As its ground offensive appears to be expanding, Israel is acutely aware that time and international...
The Weekend Intelligence: A nation on a knife's edge
Sat, 02 Dec 2023
The Economist's editor-in-chief, Zanny Minton Beddoes, and our Russia and Eastern Europe editor, Ark...
The Intelligence: meeting Ukraine’s first lady
Fri, 01 Dec 2023
Olena Zelenska foresees a time when her family can regain a quiet life. Our editor-in-chief sits dow...
The Intelligence: Henry Kissinger’s legacy
Thu, 30 Nov 2023
The doyen of diplomacy has died, leaving a complex legacy. Following extensive interviews with him e...
The Intelligence: Swede demons
Wed, 29 Nov 2023
Drug-related shootings and bombings are on the rise. Policies are changing and law-enforcement budge...
The Intelligence: as Zuck would have it
Tue, 28 Nov 2023
The singular focus on the metaverse of Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s boss, fretted investors. But in the...
The Intelligence: eyewitness to slaughter in Sudan
Mon, 27 Nov 2023
Our correspondent speaks with the Africa head of the Red Cross who has borne witness to the war, fam...
The Intelligence: Land of the rising sums
Fri, 24 Nov 2023
Look past short-term stumbles: there are plenty of reasons to think Japan may spin out of its decade...
Money Talks: Play it again, Sam Altman
Thu, 23 Nov 2023
In five days OpenAI’s boss was fired by its board; hired by Microsoft, the startup’s biggest inv...
The Intelligence: a far-right victory in the Netherlands
Thu, 23 Nov 2023
Geert Wilders campaigned on leaving the European Union, closing the borders, and even suggested bann...
Babbage: Fei-Fei Li on how to really think about the future of AI
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...
The Intelligence: Israel and Hamas’s hostage deal
Wed, 22 Nov 2023
After weeks of negotiations, Hamas has agreed to release some hostages. In exchange, there will be a...
The Intelligence: Sam Altman and the divide in the AI world
Tue, 21 Nov 2023
It is still unclear why the board of OpenAI fired him last week, but hundreds of staff are revolting...
The Intelligence: can Milei cure malaise in Argentina?
Mon, 20 Nov 2023
He is a self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” and in a run-off, the people have entrusted this po...
Checks and Balance: Year all about it
Fri, 17 Nov 2023
If the election were held tomorrow, Donald Trump would probably be the favourite to win. How s...
The Intelligence: Yes, Trump could win again
Fri, 17 Nov 2023
Were America’s presidential election to be held today, Donald Trump would probably win. We examine...
The Intelligence: on the ground in Gaza
Thu, 16 Nov 2023
There is little left, in terms of people or infrastructure, in the north of the strip. Our correspon...
The Intelligence: antisemitism in France
Wed, 15 Nov 2023
In the European country with both the largest Jewish and largest Muslim populations, a rise in antis...
The Intelligence: putting a Dave face on it
Tue, 14 Nov 2023
Former prime minister David Cameron is back from the political wilderness—and his appointment as f...
The Intelligence: Kherson, one year later
Mon, 13 Nov 2023
After a grinding and lethal eight-month battle, Ukraine’s forces retook the port city a year ago. ...
The Intelligence: how strong is the Chinese military?
Fri, 10 Nov 2023
Miscalculating the prowess of the People’s Liberation Army is dangerous. Overestimating it could c...
Money Talks: Touring America’s industrial revival
Thu, 09 Nov 2023
President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act promised $370bn for green infrastructure and industr...
The Intelligence: higher-for-longer interest rates
Thu, 09 Nov 2023
Economists have stopped waiting for interest rates to drop because it doesn’t seem to be coming. T...
The Intelligence: Asia’s transnational crime gangs
Wed, 08 Nov 2023
A high-profile money-laundering case in Singapore with links to Chinese gamblers has shed light on a...
The Intelligence: Lebanon’s peace plan for Gaza
Tue, 07 Nov 2023
One month on from Hamas’ attack on Israel, we meet Najib Mikati. He is hoping to prevent Hizbullah...
The Intelligence: embedded in Gaza
Mon, 06 Nov 2023
Israeli troops are gearing up to enter Gaza city, bracing for the next round of urban warfare. Our c...
The Weekend Intelligence: The hope and the heartbreak of IVF
Sat, 04 Nov 2023
In our second episode of The Weekend Intelligence, The Economist correspondents Catherine Brahic and...
The Intelligence: Sam Bankman-Fried convicted
Fri, 03 Nov 2023
From can-do-no-wrong wunderkind to one of the biggest fraudsters in the history of finance: we look ...
The Intelligence: stalemate in Ukraine
Thu, 02 Nov 2023
General Valery Zaluzhny concedes that five months of counter-offensive have not gained much—and ca...
The Intelligence: Gaza sparks a global culture war
Wed, 01 Nov 2023
Online and on-screen reactions to the conflict reflect a subtle but important shift in Western attit...
The Intelligence: meeting Senegal’s president
Tue, 31 Oct 2023
As country after country in the Sahel has fallen prey to coups, President Macky Sall’s Senegal see...
The Intelligence: Israel’s Gaza offensive
Mon, 30 Oct 2023
The long-anticipated invasion is not the expected blitzkrieg; we ask how a longer, more cautious war...
Checks and Balance: Well enough alone?
Fri, 27 Oct 2023
On foreign policy, trade and immigration, the Republican Party wants America to push the world away....
The Intelligence: Iran’s dangerous game in Gaza
Fri, 27 Oct 2023
American airstrikes on Syrian bases linked to Iran are a reminder that Iran’s proxies lie behind m...
Money Talks: The future of crypto, part two
Thu, 26 Oct 2023
Last week, we spoke to the author Michael Lewis, who was embedded with Sam Bankman-Fried, as FTX, th...
The Intelligence: America gets a House speaker
Thu, 26 Oct 2023
With the accession of Mike Johnson as the lower chamber’s majority leader, Congress can at last ge...
Introducing The Weekend Intelligence
Wed, 25 Oct 2023
The Weekend Intelligence is a new podcast from the award-winning team at The Economist. It’s a spa...
Babbage: How to avoid a battery shortage
Wed, 25 Oct 2023
In the coming decades, electric vehicles will dominate the roads and renewables will provide energy ...
The Intelligence: Israeli hostages’ fortunes
Wed, 25 Oct 2023
A network of captives’ families has sprung up to accomplish what Israel’s government has so far ...
Drum Tower: What does it mean to be Taiwanese?
Tue, 24 Oct 2023
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, many have worried: is Taiwan next? China is giving Taiwan a te...
The Intelligence: Navalny’s peril deepens
Tue, 24 Oct 2023
President Vladimir Putin has long had it in for Alexei Navalny, Russia’s principal opposition figu...
Poll vault: Argentina’s Peronist surprise
Mon, 23 Oct 2023
After dominating the polls for months, Javier Miliei, a right-wing firebrand, was outshone by the ca...
The day Hamas came: a report from an Israeli kibbutz
Fri, 20 Oct 2023
They fled round after round of gunfire, hid for hours and saved hundreds of lives. It is a rare stor...
Genocide returns: slaughter in Sudan
Thu, 19 Oct 2023
From a refugee camp in Chad, we speak with those fleeing murder in Darfur. Reporting on the war betw...
Diplomacy up in smoke: Biden visits Israel
Wed, 18 Oct 2023
A fatal explosion at a hospital-cum-shelter has led to outrage and the canceling of the very summit ...
Invaluable bonds: rising borrowing costs
Tue, 17 Oct 2023
America may have avoided a government shutdown last month but its fiscal worries are far from over. ...
Pole position: elections in Poland
Mon, 16 Oct 2023
After two terms in power, Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s nationalist party looks to have lost its majority. ...
6000 bombs in six days: life in Gaza
Fri, 13 Oct 2023
Bombs have rained on the strip since Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday. With food, water and ...
Mass destruction: Israel prepares for a ground invasion
Thu, 12 Oct 2023
The Defence Force is preparing to follow up its air strikes on Gaza with troops. An incursion will b...
An interview with a Hamas leader
Wed, 11 Oct 2023
How does the Palestinian militant group justify the atrocities committed in Israel? Why has it done ...
Shell shocked: Israel fights back
Tue, 10 Oct 2023
As the retribution continues, the state has now cut off supplies to the Palestinian enclave, and Ame...
Israel reels: a bloody assault
Mon, 09 Oct 2023
Almost exactly 50 years on from the moment that launched the deadly Yom Kippur War, Hamas, the milit...
Windows of opportunity: Microsoft’s AI push
Fri, 06 Oct 2023
The once-unassailable titan of tech has missed big opportunities in recent years. But it has a reaso...
So the Tory goes: Britain’s Conservatives meet
Thu, 05 Oct 2023
Divisions within the ruling party are on full display this week, and the provocative policies Prime ...
Blown speaker: Kevin McCarthy is out
Wed, 04 Oct 2023
Another shutdown standoff, funding worries for Ukraine, more leadership chaos: the booting of Americ...
SBF, FTX, WTF? Sam Bankman-Fried goes on trial
Tue, 03 Oct 2023
The founder of FTX, a spectacularly failed cryptocurrency exchange, is a curious character. He denie...
Trailer: Boss Class Season 1
Mon, 02 Oct 2023
The workplace keeps changing and managers have to keep up. The best bosses create systems for solvin...
They need to talk about Kevin: America’s near-shutdown
Mon, 02 Oct 2023
The literal 11th-hour deal to avert a government shutdown is only a stopgap—and the battle may end...
When politics dictates policy: China’s faltering economy
Fri, 29 Sep 2023
During past economic downturns, officials have been both swift and bold. This time not so much...
A better pill to swallow: the bid to end AIDS
Thu, 28 Sep 2023
Many of the pieces are in place to bring the disease entirely under control—but our correspondent ...
General’s knowledge: a chat with Ukraine’s spy chief
Wed, 27 Sep 2023
Where the defensive lines really are, the state of Russia’s reserves, battlefield tactics: Kyrylo ...
The French disconnection: a retreat from Niger
Tue, 26 Sep 2023
President Emmanuel Macron’s about-face on maintaining a presence in the coup-stricken country port...
Going bump in the right: Europe’s worrisome politics
Mon, 25 Sep 2023
Populist, right-wing parties are already in power in Hungary, Poland and Italy—and getting closer ...
No end in sight: how Ukraine is being shaped by a long war
Fri, 22 Sep 2023
Reporting from the ground, our Eastern Europe editor explores how the country is bracing for a new p...
Missing in action: China’s defence minister has disappeared
Thu, 21 Sep 2023
It would not be the first time that a member of the government has gone missing, not even the first ...
Are the allegations tru deau? Canada and India’s diplomatic row
Wed, 20 Sep 2023
The murder of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Najjar has deepened a long-running spat between the two ...
Argo the sequel: America and Iran’s hostage deal
Tue, 19 Sep 2023
This is not the first time the Islamic Republic has taken foreigners hostage. It’s proven an effec...
Radical shift: an interview with Argentina’s presidential frontrunner
Mon, 18 Sep 2023
The libertarian right-winger is leading in the polls, a surprise for a country that has typically le...
Support systems: allies debate Ukraine’s tactics
Fri, 15 Sep 2023
As progress on the front line slows, Western countries are divided over how the army should proceed....
Refresh your feed: introducing Economist Podcasts+
Thu, 14 Sep 2023
For 17 years, The Economist has brought you a host of brilliant shows. Now we are taking that even f...
Chilean effect: the 50th anniversary of the coup
Wed, 13 Sep 2023
On September 11th 1973, president Salvador Allende shot himself in the head after being overthrown i...
Midnight train to Moscow: Kim Jong Un cosies up with Russia
Tue, 12 Sep 2023
In a rare trip outside of the hermit state, it seems the dictator is planning to meet with Vladimir ...
Preparing for the long war: an interview with President Zelensky
Mon, 11 Sep 2023
As the counter-offensive continues, Ukrainian forces are running out of time to make substantial gai...
Moves over: American house prices
Fri, 08 Sep 2023
The highest interest rates in years should lead to a fall in house prices. But peculiarities of Amer...
A messy oil change: Nigeria’s fraught reforms
Thu, 07 Sep 2023
Axing generous fuel subsidies was just one necessary reform promised by Bola Tinubu. A hundred days ...
Show and sell: Amazon v Hollywood
Wed, 06 Sep 2023
The retail behemoth is splashing tremendous amounts of cash on streaming content; critics are unimpr...
Upping arms: the new three-way nuclear race
Tue, 05 Sep 2023
The calculus of the cold war is back, but there are new variables in the equation—namely China’s...
Held fire: America’s murder rate slips
Mon, 04 Sep 2023
The absolute numbers remain troubling but a close look at statistics reveals that, across American c...
Paranoia politics: a Tunisian lesson in demagoguery
Fri, 01 Sep 2023
The president is using racist hate-mongering as both a rallying tool and a distraction mechanism. It...
Going, going… Gabon: another African coup
Thu, 31 Aug 2023
Putsches in Africa are becoming more common and there appears to be a trend. Are there more to come ...
Game of drones: can Ukraine pull ahead?
Wed, 30 Aug 2023
Three months into the counteroffensive, the military is reaping the fruits of several months of dron...
Teutonic plague: is Germany the sick man of Europe?
Tue, 29 Aug 2023
Owing to a host of deep-rooted economic and political challenges, it could be the only G7 economy to...
Going non-nuclear: East Asia’s changing families
Mon, 28 Aug 2023
From Japan to South Korea, from China to Taiwan, family structures are becoming less traditional. Mo...
Fellow-BRICS road: a club expands
Fri, 25 Aug 2023
The alliance was always based more on common fortunes than common interests. We ask what to make of ...
Flight of the long knives: Prigozhin’s reported death
Thu, 24 Aug 2023
History would suggest that the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane was an assassination. Our corres...
Vote with no confidence: Zimbabwe goes to the polls
Wed, 23 Aug 2023
Arranging friendly media coverage, giving handouts to voters, stifling opposition rallies: once agai...
Home groan: China’s housing-sector crisis
Tue, 22 Aug 2023
Once again, fears are ripping through the industry—this time starting from a firm once thought too...
Latin lessons: two contrasting elections
Mon, 21 Aug 2023
Ecuador and Guatemala faced similar preoccupations with violence and corruption—one of Ecuador’s...
Gun-shy: why Niger’s coup stands, for now
Fri, 18 Aug 2023
For weeks, the regional bloc ECOWAS has threatened to undo the putsch by force. But appetite for a m...
Make ore break: Latin America’s commodities
Thu, 17 Aug 2023
The region is home to most of the world’s known lithium. Given the mineral’s usefulness in batte...
Through the fire: an update from Hawaii
Wed, 16 Aug 2023
As the death toll surpasses 100, we report from Maui where fires have ravaged the island in the dead...
“Witch hunt”, Part Four: Trump indicted, again
Tue, 15 Aug 2023
The former president has been hit with a new set of charges, under a catch-all racketeering act that...
West-siding story? Turkey’s tactical shift
Mon, 14 Aug 2023
Despite cosying up with Russia and accusing America of trying to topple him, the newly re-elected pr...
In the big leagues now: Saudi Arabia’s push into sport
Fri, 11 Aug 2023
Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman says a presence in top-level global sport is one route to modernisi...
Taken too soon: why so many Americans die young
Thu, 10 Aug 2023
An appalling record compared with much of the rich world is not just down to drugs and guns. We ask ...
Trust the processor: America’s CHIPS Act one year on
Wed, 09 Aug 2023
Big-money legislation to bring microprocessor manufacturing to the country is off to a reasonable st...
Bloc can tackle? ECOWAS and Niger’s coup
Tue, 08 Aug 2023
The Economic Community of West African States may yet try to restore President Mohamed Bazoum milita...
Back to front: visiting Ukraine’s firing line
Mon, 07 Aug 2023
As diplomatic efforts played out in Saudi Arabia our correspondent recounts travels along the nearly...
Too big tech: is Alphabet approaching a growth ceiling?
Fri, 04 Aug 2023
As the tech giant approaches its 25-year anniversary, there are questions of just how much more it c...
Industrial waste: the world’s misguided manufacturing policies
Thu, 03 Aug 2023
The industrial arms race is on. For many political reasons, countries with the means are throwing bi...
Big-claims court: Donald Trump’s latest indictment
Wed, 02 Aug 2023
The former American president is facing a new set of unprecedented legal challenges linked to his cl...
Strong arms: North Korea’s pandemic era weapons program
Tue, 01 Aug 2023
The country is not new to seclusion, but under the aegis of the pandemic, Kim Jong Un tightened bord...
Putsched out: Niger’s coup d’état
Mon, 31 Jul 2023
Following years of military takeovers in the region, Niger is the West’s last solid ally in the Sa...
Trading criminality for autocracy: El Salvador
Fri, 28 Jul 2023
A country that was not long ago gripped by gang violence and crime is slowly emerging from fear, tha...
With a grain assault: a deal abandoned
Thu, 27 Jul 2023
Russia’s axeing of the Black Sea grain deal reveals a war machine running out of options. We explo...
Forewarned before armed: how to predict war
Wed, 26 Jul 2023
Military types need not wait until mass movements of troops to know a conflict is coming. We examine...
Squash court: Israel’s controversial law reform
Tue, 25 Jul 2023
A seemingly small change to the Supreme Court’s powers to adjudicate “reasonableness” represen...
Small-Vox symptoms: Spain’s elections
Mon, 24 Jul 2023
After no party won a majority, forming a government may take weeks—or another election. But predic...
Palace intrigue: the Kremlin after the mutiny
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...
Runaway soldier: American detained in North Korea
Thu, 20 Jul 2023
Little is known about why he fled across the border into the hermit kingdom, but securing his releas...
Model growth: Tesla’s ambitious plans
Wed, 19 Jul 2023
The carmaker, which reports results today, is still celebrating impressive growth and its boss has e...
Charming the prince: Biden seeks a deal with Saudi Arabia
Tue, 18 Jul 2023
America is keen to mend the relationship between the Gulf state and Israel, but Muhammad bin Salman ...
Cruel summer: heatwaves rage across the world
Mon, 17 Jul 2023
Europe, America and Asia are all enduring scorching heatwaves, air temperatures are repeatedly break...
Mass destruction: is the Ethiopian government covering up war crimes?
Fri, 14 Jul 2023
The burning of burial grounds in the northern region of the country suggests that authorities are de...
Second thoughts: Donald Trump’s policy plans
Thu, 13 Jul 2023
When he was last elected, many were surprised, even in his own camp. This time around, his backers a...
AI-pocalypse: predicting the threat from artificial intelligence
Wed, 12 Jul 2023
Wiping out a tenth of the world? Possible. Wiping out all of humanity? Less likely, but not entirely...
Rutte, damn: the Dutch prime minister steps down
Tue, 11 Jul 2023
Mark Rutte is stepping down after leading the Netherlands for 13 years. Despite his renowned politic...
States, disunited: the controversy around cluster bombs
Mon, 10 Jul 2023
Despite considerable opposition from allies in NATO, America has agreed to send them to Ukraine. The...
I spy: meeting Ukraine’s intelligence chief
Fri, 07 Jul 2023
We sit down with Kyrylo Budanov, Ukraine’s youngest-ever spymaster. He is intense, resolute—and ...
Clone wars: Meta’s Threads takes on Twitter
Thu, 06 Jul 2023
If there is one thing Facebook’s parent company does well, it is aping other social-media features...
Group dynamics: Wagner in Africa
Wed, 05 Jul 2023
Its leader is in exile and its future is uncertain. But the Wagner Group will be loth to abandon the...
Break camp: Israel’s West Bank raids
Tue, 04 Jul 2023
The so-called refugee camp in the city of Jenin has been subject to raids for months—and a hotspot...
Riot-geared: the tensions behind France’s unrest
Mon, 03 Jul 2023
The killing of a teenager in a Paris suburb has ignited national unrest. We ask what is driving the ...
Hot to trot: the up sides of climate migration
Fri, 30 Jun 2023
Mass movements of people expected as climate change progresses are often depicted as catastrophes-in...
Antitrust, the process: America’s competition cops
Thu, 29 Jun 2023
This week’s court battle involving Microsoft and Activision, giants of tech and gaming, reflects a...
Juan way, or another? Argentina’s election
Wed, 28 Jun 2023
For decades, leftist policies first espoused by Juan Perón have dominated the country’s politics....
Belarusian roulette: a mutiny’s aftermath
Tue, 27 Jun 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin and his Wagner Group fighters are said to be welcome in safe-haven Belarus. We ask...
Putin’s chef spoils the broth: mutiny in Russia
Mon, 26 Jun 2023
Yevgeny Prigozhin, nicknamed “Putin’s chef”, leads the Wagner Group of mercenaries fighting al...
Pro-life post-Dobbs: America’s anti-abortion campaigns
Fri, 23 Jun 2023
In the months since America’s Supreme Court gave states the power to ban abortions, those in suppo...
No guarantees: NATO members debate Ukraine’s future
Thu, 22 Jun 2023
Members of the alliance are conflicted over the prospect of Ukraine’s membership. In particular, A...
Balancing of Powers: India’s foreign policy
Wed, 21 Jun 2023
Narendra Modi is cosying up to America, but not at the expense of valuable relationships with Russia...
Abodes well? The housing crash that wasn’t
Tue, 20 Jun 2023
Much to the chagrin of hopeful first-time buyers, property prices remain stubbornly high across the ...
More Blinken meetings: a diplomatic visit to China
Mon, 19 Jun 2023
In a first since 2018, America’s secretary of state is visiting China amid escalating tensions bet...
I, of the tiger: India’s influential diaspora
Fri, 16 Jun 2023
They lead startups, giant corporations, even countries: people of Indian origin are finding great su...
Guilty party: Boris Johnson’s lies catch up with him
Thu, 15 Jun 2023
The investigation into covid-lockdown-era parties during Boris Johnson’s premiership—and his den...
Call of duties: the global costs of war
Wed, 14 Jun 2023
Conflict in Ukraine has cut short the “peace dividend” the world was reaping. We count the econo...
Death of a salesman: Silvio Berlusconi
Tue, 13 Jun 2023
Italy’s longest-serving prime minister has died aged 86. He inspired as much derision as devotion,...
Gain, wait: Ukraine’s tentative push
Mon, 12 Jun 2023
Hints of the long campaign ahead are emerging, but all the operations so far are just drawing the ev...
Charged up: Trump’s latest indictment
Fri, 09 Jun 2023
He is expected to be charged for failing to return classified documents and obstructing justice. The...
No Khan do: Pakistan’s meddling army
Thu, 08 Jun 2023
The country’s military is renowned for political overreach. Now, its leaders are taking on former ...
Not born yesterday: the world’s ageing population
Wed, 07 Jun 2023
Fertility rates are falling to worrying levels, and an older, smaller, global population is bad news...
Dam and blast: Ukraine launches counter-offensive
Tue, 06 Jun 2023
After months of waiting, probing attacks have begun. A destroyed dam in Kherson suggests that Russia...
Trouble in Shangri-La: Sino-American tensions escalate
Mon, 05 Jun 2023
At a meeting of defence ministers from the Asia-Pacific region, heightened tensions between Beijing ...
League of her own: Sheikh Hasina’s grip on Bangladesh
Fri, 02 Jun 2023
Over two decades in office, the prime minister and her Awami League party have overseen impressive g...
On pain of death: Uganda’s anti-LGBT law
Thu, 01 Jun 2023
The country’s homophobes claim that homosexuality is a malign foreign import; in reality it was an...
Debtors’ prism: mounting crises of Africa’s loans
Wed, 31 May 2023
Many of the continent’s economies are hamstrung by debt—much of it held internationally. We look...
Cash out: the digital-payments revolution
Tue, 30 May 2023
The global digital-payments shift is more than just a matter of convenience. We examine the cashless...
Poor more years! Erdogan triumphs in Turkey
Mon, 29 May 2023
Recep Tayyip Erdogan has again retained the presidency. We ask how the best chance in a generation t...
Russian lessons: new and improved war tactics
Fri, 26 May 2023
From infantry to air defences and even electronic warfare, improved strategies and engineering could...
A Ron turn: DeSantis’s disastrous announcement
Thu, 25 May 2023
After a glitchy announcement on Twitter, the Florida governor’s campaign is off to a shaky start. ...
Still the one that I want: Greece’s prime minister wins again
Wed, 24 May 2023
Although Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ party fell short of a majority in parliament, meaning there will be ...
Narcos and avocados: Mexico’s diversifying drug cartels
Tue, 23 May 2023
In attempts to amass more wealth, these organisations are dabbling in newer narcotics and even takin...
Raise the roof? America’s debt-ceiling debacle
Mon, 22 May 2023
Today, the president will meet with the Republican leader in the house of representatives to try and...
The Economist: Kissinger on avoiding world war
Sat, 20 May 2023
Henry Kissinger was one of the most influential and controversial diplomats of the 20th century. He ...
Shining armour: China’s new fleet
Fri, 19 May 2023
Over the last couple of decades, the state has been making significant investments into its armed fo...
In from the cold: Assad’s diplomatic redemption
Thu, 18 May 2023
Tomorrow, Syria’s president will be welcomed back into the Arab League as regional leaders meet in...
Better call Kissinger: an interview with the renowned diplomat
Wed, 17 May 2023
In a conversation that lasted eight hours over two days, the statesman discussed paths to peace in U...
New school Thais: a military establishment voted out
Tue, 16 May 2023
Largely thanks to young, liberal citizens, a reformist third party won the most seats in Thailand’...
Changing the Guard? Turkey’s inconclusive election
Mon, 15 May 2023
Despite the opposition’s lead in the pre-election polls, the incumbent president seems to have per...
Suck in the middle: the hole in America’s consumer base
Fri, 12 May 2023
The past few years have proved tumultuous both for American consumers and for retailers selling to t...
Autocrat v bureaucrat: Turkey’s crucial vote
Thu, 11 May 2023
It is probably this year’s most important election—and for the first time in a long time, the co...
A scratch in the Teflon: Trump’s sexual-battery loss
Wed, 10 May 2023
A jury unanimously found Donald Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation. We examine his first...
Ukraine 2.0: a revealing visit to Kyiv
Tue, 09 May 2023
Our Russia and defence editors travelled to the capital, finding a city largely back to normal. They...
Good, bad and ugly: the Taliban and Afghanistan
Mon, 08 May 2023
Their return to rule is unequivocally bad for the country’s women and girls. But wholesale collaps...
Another season of the crown: the coronation of Charles III
Fri, 05 May 2023
He has been king since September; now it is time for the pomp. We examine the modern monarchy—and ...
Difference between right and Ron: DeSantis miscalculates
Thu, 04 May 2023
Florida’s governor has made a headline-grabbing rightward lurch as part of a presumed bid for the ...
Another think coming? An AI pioneer steps down
Wed, 03 May 2023
Geoffrey Hinton, a legend of artificial-intelligence research, wants to be able to speak his mind ab...
Re-route of all evil: transnational crime and Ukraine’s war
Tue, 02 May 2023
Criminal networks have had to reorganise since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, with knock-on effects...
Long shots: the complex nature of civil wars
Mon, 01 May 2023
Climate change is stirring up internecine conflicts, criminality is making them longer, and cross-bo...
Without reserves: Bolivia faces an economic crisis
Fri, 28 Apr 2023
AS A GAS // As a gas producer, the state was able to build up enormous reserves. But failing to pivo...
Rising Starmer: An interview with Britain’s opposition leader
Thu, 27 Apr 2023
As the country prepares to go to the polls next year, The Economist sits down with the leader of the...
One Good Term Deserves Another: Biden Declares
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 ...
Brazilian balancing act: Lula’s foreign policy plans
Tue, 25 Apr 2023
ATTEMPTS TO MAINTAIN // Attempts to maintain a neutral stance on the invasion of Ukraine, while also...
Khartoum is burning: fighting continues in Sudan
Mon, 24 Apr 2023
Ceasefires have failed, civilians are fleeing, and there is no end in sight to the fighting. We brin...
Tick, Tick, Boom: SpaceX launches Starship
Fri, 21 Apr 2023
In a historic first, the largest rocket ever assembled managed to get off the ground. But then it ex...
Revolution Song: Myanmar’s unending war
Thu, 20 Apr 2023
Deep in the mountains along the Thai border, a bloody civil war rages. Our correspondent gives us ra...
Fighting chance: Ukraine prepares for counter-offensive
Wed, 19 Apr 2023
The top-secret plan to pierce Russia’s defenses and reclaim territory could unfold any day now. We...
A cut above the West: America’s astounding economy
Tue, 18 Apr 2023
Contrary to the groaning of both Republicans and Democrats, the economy is still the world’s large...
A tough transition: unrest in Sudan
Mon, 17 Apr 2023
Clashes in Khartoum have turned deadly as two rival military factions fight for power. As the confli...
Never-ending storeys: rebuilding Turkey
Fri, 14 Apr 2023
It will be years until the country recovers from February’s devastating earthquakes—but progress...
Make the world’s money go ‘round: a bunged-up IMF
Thu, 13 Apr 2023
The International Monetary Fund is sitting on oodles of cash, but failing to disburse it. We examine...
File-sharing: America’s huge intelligence leak
Wed, 12 Apr 2023
A trove of once-secret documents is proving an embarrassment to both America and its allies, and a d...
Hard pact to follow: the Good Friday Agreement at 25
Tue, 11 Apr 2023
The famed power-sharing deal did its work of sharply reducing sectarian violence, but a quarter-cent...
Home economics: housing markets’ future
Mon, 10 Apr 2023
Many people think that with inflation and interest-rate rises abating, the worst effects on housing ...
Space invaded: video games’ stunning growth
Fri, 07 Apr 2023
These days the gaming industry takes in much more than the global cinema box office. We ask how thin...
Situation reporter: Evan Gershkovich’s detention
Thu, 06 Apr 2023
Russia’s arrest of a Wall Street Journal correspondent is heading toward a diplomatic crisis—and...
Arraigning on his parade: the charges against Donald Trump
Wed, 05 Apr 2023
Perhaps the only surprising thing about the former president’s arraignment was that it was not fol...
What he wants, what Xi wants: Macron in China
Tue, 04 Apr 2023
On his visit to Beijing Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, has much to balance: his peacemaking ...
Get-rich-quick scheming: India and Indonesia
Mon, 03 Apr 2023
There are similarities between the two economies set to be the fastest-growing this year—but their...
Charge d’affair: Donald Trump indicted
Fri, 31 Mar 2023
For the first time in history, a former American president faces arrest. Mr. Trump denies the charge...
Time’s up: America debates TikTok’s future
Thu, 30 Mar 2023
Links with China and allegations of surveillance have highlighted the threat that the social-media a...
The Gulf narrows: Iran-Saudi relations
Wed, 29 Mar 2023
The two regional rivals have negotiated a deal, ending a seven-year lapse in diplomatic ties. Elsewh...
Over the Finnish line: NATO set to grow
Tue, 28 Mar 2023
After ten months of haggling, the military alliance is gaining a new member: Finland. We ask wh...
Bibi bump: Israel’s unrest flares
Mon, 27 Mar 2023
Protests against proposed judicial reforms have intensified. Could Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu...
Iraq, a hard place: 20 years after the invasion
Fri, 24 Mar 2023
America invaded Iraq 20 years ago this week. Today Baghdad is bustling, violence across the country ...
A bit Fed up: central banks’ dilemma
Thu, 23 Mar 2023
Central banks face a painful tradeoff: raise rates too quickly and risk banking-sector instability. ...
Not shy and not retiring: pension reform in France
Wed, 22 Mar 2023
Emmanuel Macron narrowly survived two no-confidence votes, sparked by his pushing a pension-reform p...
Stopping the spread: how to fix the banks
Tue, 21 Mar 2023
Silicon Valley Bank. Signature Bank. Credit Suisse. The world’s banks look wobbly, leading to fear...
Bear backed: Xi heads to Moscow
Mon, 20 Mar 2023
The visit of Xi Jinping, China’s president, to Moscow may seem like the solidifying of a simple, a...
Felling through the cracks: rainforests in crisis
Fri, 17 Mar 2023
The economics are clear-cut: the benefits of preserving the lungs of the world vastly outweigh those...
Puts Bibi in the corner: Israel’s protests
Thu, 16 Mar 2023
Proposed legislation that would hobble the judiciary has led to relentless demonstrations—and expo...
One Tory building: Rishi Sunak’s mission
Wed, 15 Mar 2023
From today’s national budget to hardline immigration legislation to international defence pacts, B...
Starched rival: Turkey’s opposition candidate
Tue, 14 Mar 2023
After internecine drama, the opposition-party alliance has picked their man. The bookish, mild-manne...
End run: Silicon Valley Bank
Mon, 13 Mar 2023
An old-fashioned bank run has caused American regulators to intervene in a big way to save the bank’...
A vote for Ukraine: why Estonia’s election matters
Fri, 10 Mar 2023
The world’s biggest military donor to Ukraine, relative to GDP, is Estonia. Kaja Kallas, its prime...
Not so Pacific: the frightening prospect of war over Taiwan
Thu, 09 Mar 2023
The risk of a Sino-American war over Taiwan appears to be growing. Our diplomatic editor assesses th...
Home affairs: America’s revealing property market
Wed, 08 Mar 2023
Economists and politicians around the world are consumed with one question: is the world headed for ...
Bakhmut point: Ukraine readies a counter-offensive
Tue, 07 Mar 2023
Ukraine is using a torrent of Western arms and training to prepare for a spring offensive. We learn ...
Hedge of allegiance: South Africa’s diplomatic shift
Mon, 06 Mar 2023
A policy of ambiguity is swiftly shifting; the country is falling into a Sino-Russian orbit at just ...
Seed of doubt: venture capital tightens up
Fri, 03 Mar 2023
A slump in tech is driving investors to rediscover old ways. Out are the cash-splashing long bets; i...
Losing the threads: Bangladesh
Thu, 02 Mar 2023
Shifts in the garment industry, which powered development in the country, represent one risk; meagre...
The belt buckles up: China’s grand plan slims
Wed, 01 Mar 2023
The Belt and Road initiative to encircle much of the world with Chinese-funded, Chinese-built infras...
Let’s remake a deal: Brexit and Northern Ireland (again)
Tue, 28 Feb 2023
Since Brexit’s earliest days, the trade status of Northern Ireland and its border with the Republi...
Has Obi won, can Obi? Nigeria’s elections
Mon, 27 Feb 2023
Excitement still surrounds the spoiler candidate Peter Obi, whose down-to-earth ways appeal to a lar...
A year of war: a Ukraine special
Fri, 24 Feb 2023
After a year of a conflict that was predicted to last just days, we examine the battle lines—seein...
The prices fight: conflicting views on inflation
Thu, 23 Feb 2023
Markets seem to think the worst is over; central bankers are not so sure. We ask why determining the...
Fire and grim tone: Putin’s and Biden’s speeches
Wed, 22 Feb 2023
President Joe Biden’s riposte to the bellicose speech of his counterpart Vladimir Putin was a stud...
The air of their ways: South Asia’s crippling pollution
Tue, 21 Feb 2023
Particulate matter is shortening lives and hobbling economies in the region. We ask how policy chang...
What it is in aid of: Syria’s earthquake response
Mon, 20 Feb 2023
The country’s war-torn north-west has been getting far less aid than it needs in the earthquakes’...
Give fast, spry young: the new philanthropists
Fri, 17 Feb 2023
Charitable giving is being disrupted by the same youthful tech folk who got rich disrupting other se...
Independence fray: Scotland’s leader steps down
Thu, 16 Feb 2023
Nicola Sturgeon is bowing out after shaping a party that has defined itself on the notion of Scottis...
Haley to the chief? A long-shot candidacy begins
Wed, 15 Feb 2023
Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and UN ambassador, has declared her 2024 presidenti...
End-Gulfed: Preparing for a post-oil future
Tue, 14 Feb 2023
The petrostates of the Gulf are modernising their economies, growing more tolerant and liberalising ...
Toil and rubble: a report from Turkey
Mon, 13 Feb 2023
Our correspondent visits town after devastated town. Poorly enforced building codes are one clear fa...
A chance at renewal: Nigeria’s coming election
Fri, 10 Feb 2023
Young voters are fired up and the electoral system has been strengthened, but Nigeria’s challenges...
Long division: America’s busy state legislatures
Thu, 09 Feb 2023
America’s Congress may be gridlocked, but its state legislatures certainly aren’t. The laws they...
Bot the difference: AI and the future of search
Wed, 08 Feb 2023
The race for AI supremacy is on. Microsoft, Google, Baidu and a host of smaller firms are all placin...
Race against time: rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria
Tue, 07 Feb 2023
Amid unthinkable destruction and loss of life, we examine the factors that will frustrate relief eff...
Tony isn’t blinkin’: Sino-American relations, post-balloon
Mon, 06 Feb 2023
American fighters shot down a balloon that China says was monitoring the weather, but America insist...
Bold eagle: America's industrial evolution
Fri, 03 Feb 2023
As part of The Economist’s new series on the remaking of the country's economy, our correspondent ...
Poll fishing: Peru’s persistent protests
Thu, 02 Feb 2023
The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president...
Troubled shares, troubles shared: Adani and India Inc
Wed, 01 Feb 2023
The Adani Group, one of India’s biggest conglomerates, has come under fire from a tiny American re...
Not shy about retiring: strikes in France
Tue, 31 Jan 2023
Fixing the complex, creaking pension system remains central to President Emmanuel Macron’s agenda ...
Didn’t protect or serve: Tyre Nichols’s killing
Mon, 30 Jan 2023
The response to the death of the 29-year-old has differed from that of previous cases of police kill...
Tunnel, no lights: South Africa’s crumbling infrastructure
Fri, 27 Jan 2023
South Africa’s infrastructure—its ports, railways and power grid—are struggling and poorly man...
Bibi’s gambit: Israel’s government v its judiciary
Thu, 26 Jan 2023
Israel’s right-wing coalition government has the country’s supreme court in its sights. Their pr...
Tanks, a lot: arming Ukraine
Wed, 25 Jan 2023
After months of foot-dragging, Germany is sending tanks to Ukraine, with America poised to follow su...
Marshalling resources: rebuilding Ukraine
Tue, 24 Jan 2023
Around one-fifth of Ukraine’s population has fled. The country’s GDP has plummeted and foreign i...
Feeling un-Wellington
Mon, 23 Jan 2023
Jacinda Ardern resigned as New Zealand’s prime minister last week. As Chris Hipkins prepares to ta...
A rarefied air: a dispatch from Davos
Fri, 20 Jan 2023
The global elite’s annual Alpine jamboree may have lost some of its convening power, our editor-in...
Turkey stuffed? A democracy’s last stand
Thu, 19 Jan 2023
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismantled the country’s institutions. As an election looms we ...
Tanks-giving parade? Arming Ukraine
Wed, 18 Jan 2023
For nearly 11 months Western powers have resisted providing tanks to Ukraine, fearing an unpredictab...
Get down to Syria’s business: coming talks with Turkey
Tue, 17 Jan 2023
Through years of Syria’s messy civil war, Turkey has been a foe. As the conflict slowly fades, the...
What did the president stow and when did he stow it? Biden‘s mess
Mon, 16 Jan 2023
A drip-feed of discoveries of classified material in Joe Biden’s home and offices—and the presid...
Zero-sum: the imperilled global economic order
Fri, 13 Jan 2023
Countries across the world are turning inward, embracing protectionism, subsidies and export control...
Unveiled threats: Iran's patient protesters
Thu, 12 Jan 2023
Iran’s protests may have gone quiet for the moment, but that does not mean they’ve been defeated...
Doctors’ disorders: Britain’s overwhelmed health service
Wed, 11 Jan 2023
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are s...
Unquiet on the eastern front: fighting in the Donbas
Tue, 10 Jan 2023
Russian troops have turned Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, into a charnel house—and a proving ground ...
Cloud coup-coup land: riots in Brazil
Mon, 09 Jan 2023
In a scene reminiscent of the US Capitol riot two years ago, supporters of Brazil’s defeated presi...
Bibi’s got backup: Israel’s right-wing government
Fri, 06 Jan 2023
Israel’s new government is its most right-wing ever—but, in a break from the past, that may not ...
Silva’s mettle: Brazil’s newish president
Thu, 05 Jan 2023
Our Brazil correspondent surveys the state of the country, as Lula assumes the presidency precisely ...
We need to balk about Kevin: Congress opens in chaos
Wed, 04 Jan 2023
Republican control of America’s House of Representatives began in chaos: they failed to elect a sp...
Ill news, spreads apace: covid in China
Tue, 03 Jan 2023
The sudden rescinding of zero-covid strictures has, as expected, led to a spike in cases. Our corres...
The dragon chasing: China and a new nuclear order
Mon, 02 Jan 2023
China’s arsenal of nuclear weapons has swiftly expanded; it is now roughly the size of Russia’s ...
In passing: the notable lives lost in 2022
Fri, 30 Dec 2022
From Pelé, the “king of football”, to Britain’s longest-reigning queen, our editors and corre...
Best-of three: our country, books and games of the year
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...
Debasement all around: lessons from 16th-century inflation
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...
Cattle lines are drawn: cows in India
Tue, 27 Dec 2022
Cows are venerated in India, but precisely how intensely often depends on politics. And being venera...
Land, sea and air: let us move you
Mon, 26 Dec 2022
In a special episode, our Paris bureau chief witnesses the political divides that become apparent as...
An oily sheen: Nicolás Maduro in from the cold
Fri, 23 Dec 2022
Waves of protest after a stolen election in 2019 came to nothing. Now, thanks to the luck of geopoli...
A figure of speeches: Volodymyr Zelensky in his own words
Thu, 22 Dec 2022
At the beginning of the war, editors from The Economist went to Kyiv, the first Western journalists ...
Needs Musk? Tumult at Twitter
Wed, 21 Dec 2022
Elon Musk may be stepping down as chief executive, but he has already changed the firm’s fortunes—...
Trump card marked: the January 6th investigation
Tue, 20 Dec 2022
The Congressional committee probing the riot at America’s Capitol recommended that the Justice Dep...
Under the missile flow: North Korea
Mon, 19 Dec 2022
The country has been slinging missiles skyward at an alarming pace, and with ever-greater technologi...
More generals, less pacific: Japan’s new defence policy
Fri, 16 Dec 2022
A strategy approved today peels back some of the country’s constitutional pacifism; in large part ...
No rest for the weary: meeting Ukraine’s high command
Thu, 15 Dec 2022
Our correspondent sits down with President Volodymyr Zelensky and two top military commanders—conc...
Precious joules: a fusion-energy result
Wed, 14 Dec 2022
Scientists have reported a long-awaited nuclear-fusion breakthrough, using lasers to ignite hydrogen...
Continental drift: Europe’s challenges
Tue, 13 Dec 2022
A pair of crises will bedevil Europe, starting with crippling energy prices in the short term. And A...
Zero to sickly? China’s covid climbdown
Mon, 12 Dec 2022
With astonishing speed, the machinery of testing, tracing and lockdowns is being dismantled. We exam...
Second time as farce: Peru’s president falls
Fri, 09 Dec 2022
Perhaps Pedro Castillo thought he could repeat the coup staged by his predecessor, Alberto Fujimori,...
Like biding a Reich: Germany’s alleged coup plot
Thu, 08 Dec 2022
Raids across the country netted 25 far-right extremists suspected of trying to overthrow the governm...
Pastor present: Georgia’s Senate runoff
Wed, 07 Dec 2022
Democrats will have a bit more breathing room in the Senate, with an outright majority provided by R...
Suspension of this belief? Iran’s morality police
Tue, 06 Dec 2022
The enforcers of the hardliners’ mores may have been disbanded; it is hard to know if the regime i...
The for-sixty-dollar question: a cap on Russian oil
Mon, 05 Dec 2022
Shippers and insurers of Russian crude are now subject to a $60-per-barrel price cap. That may spark...
In sofa as I can recall: troubles for Cyril Ramaphosa
Fri, 02 Dec 2022
South Africa’s leader says a pile of cash stashed in a sofa represents no wrongdoing. The outcome ...
Square dealing: Jiang Zemin dies
Thu, 01 Dec 2022
The Chinese leader who took over a squabbling party following the Tiananmen Square massacre surprise...
On the Horn’s dilemma: meeting Somalia’s president
Wed, 30 Nov 2022
The Horn of Africa’s resurgent jihadists of al-Shabab pose the biggest problem to Hassan Sheikh Mo...
The French connection: Macron’s state visit to America
Tue, 29 Nov 2022
Behind the pageantry, Presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron will have much to chew over, from a u...
Patience zero: China’s remarkable unrest
Mon, 28 Nov 2022
Protests have become as bold as they are widespread—mostly against the country’s unsustainable z...
Forgoing a song: protest inside and beyond Iran
Fri, 25 Nov 2022
Players’ refusal to sing their national anthem at the World Cup has brought their country’s prot...
Scar from the madding crowd: Korea probes a tragedy
Thu, 24 Nov 2022
Grief about the deaths of more than 150 people in a crush has turned to anger, and the investigation...
A whole other kettle of fission: Ukraine’s imperilled nuclear plant
Wed, 23 Nov 2022
The power station in Zaporizhia has served as an impromptu military base for Russian forces—but da...
Ploy story: a defenestration at Disney
Tue, 22 Nov 2022
Executives have squeezed out Bob Chapek and re-anointed Bob Iger as boss. But the firm’s woes are ...
Damage collateral: a tide turns at COP27
Mon, 21 Nov 2022
An issue ignored for three decades came to dominate the summit’s agenda: reparations to poor count...
In come taxes: Britain’s austere economic plan
Fri, 18 Nov 2022
The “Autumn statement” was filled with belt-tightening, from stealthy tax rises to public-servic...
Musketeers heading for the exits: chaos at Twitter
Thu, 17 Nov 2022
Elon Musk gave Twitter’s remaining staff an ultimatum: commit to “working long hours at high int...
Strike price: missiles fall in Poland
Wed, 16 Nov 2022
How did apparently Russian-made munitions kill two people on NATO soil? An accident in the fog of wa...
Get the Bali rolling: the G20 meet begins
Tue, 15 Nov 2022
The G20 Summit gets under way in Bali today at a time of tensions over Ukraine and Taiwan, and worri...
Bolt from the blue: Democrats hold the Senate
Mon, 14 Nov 2022
America’s upper legislative chamber remains in Democrats’ hands; they may even expand their majo...
Tales from the crypto: An exchange implodes
Fri, 11 Nov 2022
At the start of this week, FTX was the world’s third-largest crypto exchange. After rumours of ill...
Beaten, a retreat: cautious hope in Kherson
Thu, 10 Nov 2022
Russia says it will withdraw from the only captured Ukrainian provincial capital. We ask how the dra...
Red ripple: America’s midterm elections
Wed, 09 Nov 2022
America’s midterm elections have finished. While the full results may not be known for some time, ...
Who counts wins: Election-administration fears
Tue, 08 Nov 2022
In the final episode of our midterms series, we examine how the Republican party’s anti-democratic...
Introducing Drum Tower
Mon, 07 Nov 2022
Two of The Economist's China correspondents, Alice Su and David Rennie, analyse the stories at the h...
Degrees of risk: COP27 and the 1.5C myth
Mon, 07 Nov 2022
As the UN’s annual climate jamboree begins, our correspondent calls for a strong dose of realism: ...
Red fights and blue: America’s midterm elections
Sat, 05 Nov 2022
America’s midterm elections, which will determine control of both chambers of Congress, end on Tue...
Peace meal: Ethiopia’s civil war
Fri, 04 Nov 2022
A surprise peace agreement should permit desperately needed humanitarian relief for millions in the ...
The elephant in the chamber? America’s midterms
Thu, 03 Nov 2022
Our election model suggests that at least one legislative chamber will revert to Republican control;...
The curious case of Binyamin’s butt-in: Israel’s election
Wed, 02 Nov 2022
After a 16-month absence from leadership, Binyamin Netanyahu is back at the centre of the country’...
Falling tsar? Russians eye life after Putin
Tue, 01 Nov 2022
As President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine continues to falter, Russian elites are now daring to...
Once and future: Brazil’s Lula wins again
Mon, 31 Oct 2022
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, has won again. Even if President Jair Bolson...
Elon-gate: the Musk-Twitter story
Fri, 28 Oct 2022
After months of wrangling, Elon Musk completed his deal to buy Twitter, and immediately sacked sever...
Power play: electricity in Ukraine
Thu, 27 Oct 2022
Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with missiles and drones. Ukraine’s ai...
Tough Roe to go: abortion and the midterms
Wed, 26 Oct 2022
When America’s Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, the conventional wisdom was that it would help...
Third time’s the charm? Britain’s new prime minister
Tue, 25 Oct 2022
Rishi Sunak becomes Britain’s prime minister today, making him the third in the past seven weeks. ...
Number three for Xi: power in China
Mon, 24 Oct 2022
Xi Jinping won a third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Our correspondent e...
No wilt to go on: let us bid Truss goodbye
Fri, 21 Oct 2022
The Economist’s comparison of Liz Truss’s staying power to that of a lettuce captured global ima...
Redrawing the lines: cocaine policy in Latin America
Thu, 20 Oct 2022
Regional leaders recognise the abject failure of the war on drugs. We speak with Colombia’s presid...
Variety in the price of life: inflation and the midterms
Wed, 19 Oct 2022
In the next instalment of our American midterms series we visit Rhode Island to see how inflation—...
Hell hath no fury: a look inside Iran’s protests
Tue, 18 Oct 2022
Unrest is only spreading and the authorities trying to quell it are looking increasingly desperate. ...
Helmsman’s high water: China’s Communist Party Congress
Mon, 17 Oct 2022
State media have taken to calling President Xi Jinping “the helmsman”; at the five-yearly meetin...
Witness self-protection programme? Trump and the Capitol riot inquiry
Fri, 14 Oct 2022
The former president may well ignore the January 6th committee’s summons; the whole affair may be ...
Gilt trip: Liz Truss’s hobbled leadership
Thu, 13 Oct 2022
Paroxysms in the market for gilts—British-government bonds that were once safe-haven assets—reve...
Don kingmaker: Trump and the midterms
Wed, 12 Oct 2022
The latest instalment of our series asks how much difference Donald Trump’s imprimatur has made to...
Help them, Obi: one hopeful candidate in Nigeria
Tue, 11 Oct 2022
Our correspondent meets with Peter Obi, who has a handsome poll lead and an appeal that spans the co...
Crimea and punishment: Russia’s reprisals
Mon, 10 Oct 2022
An attack on the Kerch bridge—a pet project of President Vladimir Putin that links Russia with ann...
The gains in Ukraine: stalled Russia plainly wanes
Fri, 07 Oct 2022
Ukraine’s army has pushed Russian forces back in the south and east. We ask how they’ve managed ...
Bloody and forgotten: Conflict in eastern Congo
Thu, 06 Oct 2022
Our correspondent reports from eastern Congo, where a three-decade-long conflict has killed thousand...
It does mean a thing: America’s swing voters
Wed, 05 Oct 2022
In the next instalment of our midterms series, we head to the suburbs of Atlanta in search of that r...
Misplaced Truss? Britain’s ruling party meets
Tue, 04 Oct 2022
Prime Minister Liz Truss has had a bruising first few weeks in office. Amid policy U-turns and plumm...
Poll vaulter: Brazil’s surprise election result
Mon, 03 Oct 2022
Jair Bolsonaro, the incumbent president, did unexpectedly well—giving his campaign a boost and for...
Form-annex trick: Russia’s Ukraine-seizure bid
Fri, 30 Sep 2022
After a series of sham referendums, President Vladimir Putin is expected to annex four partly occupi...
Lula loop: meeting Brazil’s presidential front-runner
Thu, 29 Sep 2022
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, looks well-placed to win a third term. But w...
Off the top of their heads: Iran’s widespread protests
Wed, 28 Sep 2022
Women are burning their hijabs on bonfires and hacking off their hair—but the unrest has come to b...
In for a penny, in for a pounding: Britain’s economic gyrations
Tue, 27 Sep 2022
The markets are so far entirely unconvinced that the new administration’s Reagan-esque economic pl...
Giorgia on my mind: Italy’s far-right government
Mon, 26 Sep 2022
Italians have voted decisively for a coalition of right-wing parties, with Giorgia Meloni, leader of...
Empire State v real-estate empire: Donald Trump’s legal woes
Fri, 23 Sep 2022
Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, announced a sweeping lawsuit against Donald Trump, his...
Inflation nation: The Fed raises rates, again
Thu, 22 Sep 2022
America’s Federal Reserve made its third straight 0.75% interest-rate hike, with Jerome Powell, th...
The 300,000 body problem: Russia mobilises and threatens
Wed, 21 Sep 2022
This morning Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would call up more troops to fight in Ukraine, sai...
Charles in charge: the future of the Commonwealth
Tue, 20 Sep 2022
Elizabeth II was devoted to the Commonwealth, a club of countries that are home to one-third of the ...
The first draft is history: Chile’s rejected constitution
Mon, 19 Sep 2022
Two years in the making, the country’s new foundational document was summarily swatted down in a r...
Minority report: the Rohingya, five years on
Fri, 16 Sep 2022
Five years after a brutal campaign that drove nearly 750,000 out of Myanmar and into Bangladesh, con...
Xi sells sanctuary: a telling Putin meeting
Thu, 15 Sep 2022
As the presidents of China and Russia meet in Uzbekistan, we examine their friendship. They have muc...
Cautiousness in the Caucasus: Azerbaijan and Armenia clash
Wed, 14 Sep 2022
A conflict smouldering since a war in 2020 has again caught alight; Azerbaijan may feel emboldened b...
Joule of denial: Russia’s energy games
Tue, 13 Sep 2022
Vladimir Putin hopes the threat of cutting off fuel supplies this winter will weaken Europe’s supp...
Russian rush-out: Ukraine’s stunning gains
Mon, 12 Sep 2022
Russia has lost in a week what cost it months to gain in eastern Ukraine. We ask what the lightning ...
Beyond the call of duty: Britain’s queen dies
Fri, 09 Sep 2022
The death of Queen Elizabeth II marks the end of an era. We explore her long, dutiful reign and how ...
Playing his Trump card: Bolsonaro and the election
Thu, 08 Sep 2022
In Brazil, fears are growing that if Jair Bolsonaro loses in October, as polls suggest is likely, he...
America’s next top model: predicting the midterm results
Wed, 07 Sep 2022
Our model, built to predict the outcome of this year’s midterm elections, tips Republicans to take...
Deed of Truss: Britain’s new leader
Tue, 06 Sep 2022
As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes tax-slashing agenda will w...
Cereal numbers: the fall in food prices
Mon, 05 Sep 2022
The worst predictions for costs have not come to pass, partly because Russia is selling plenty of wh...
No quiet on any front: Ethiopia’s clash of conflicts
Fri, 02 Sep 2022
After a five-month hiatus, violence has returned to the northern region of Tigray—but that is just...
Ready, steady, slow: Ukraine’s bid for Kherson
Thu, 01 Sep 2022
The long-trailed counter-offensive to retake the Russian-occupied regional powerhouse and symbolical...
Iron Curtain call: Mikhail Gorbachev
Wed, 31 Aug 2022
The leader who oversaw the Soviet Union’s collapse had only intended to reform it. But the propaga...
Home truths: a global property wobble
Tue, 30 Aug 2022
As interest rates rise, lots of pandemic-era property trends are fading—but not every market is eq...
The third horseman: famine stalks Somalia
Mon, 29 Aug 2022
Our correspondent reports from Somalia, which stands on the brink of famine thanks to a drought, soa...
Them that’s got shall have: student-debt relief
Fri, 26 Aug 2022
America’s federal government will spend hundreds of billions of dollars cancelling student-loan de...
Cell-by date: Malaysia’s ex-PM is jailed
Thu, 25 Aug 2022
Najib Razak, prime minister during the massive 1MDB scandal in which billions went missing, lost his...
Putin on the fritz: Six months of war in Ukraine
Wed, 24 Aug 2022
Russia’s president Vladimir Putin expected to seize Ukraine easily. Instead he met fierce resistan...
How the father figures: a mysterious Moscow killing
Tue, 23 Aug 2022
Speculation is rampant as to who killed Darya Dugina, the pundit daughter of a Russian ultra-nationa...
Plant of attack: Ukraine’s occupied nuclear-power station
Mon, 22 Aug 2022
Tensions are rising at Zaporizhia, which Russian forces are using as a military base. We ask what th...
Debtor luck next time? Meeting Sri Lanka’s new president
Fri, 19 Aug 2022
We pay a visit to the presidential offices just weeks after protesters stormed them. Things seem cal...
Tax brakes: Britain’s PM contenders on the economy
Thu, 18 Aug 2022
As a clear lead hardens and the appointment of a new prime minister looms, both contenders are makin...
The WY and the wherefore: Liz Cheney’s loss
Wed, 17 Aug 2022
Wyoming’s sole representative in the House, once a Republican leading light and now a pariah for h...
Class action: Kenya gets a new president
Tue, 16 Aug 2022
The names are familiar but the establishment-choice and rabble-rouser roles are reversed. That the v...
Poorer, hungrier, safer? Afghanistan one year on
Mon, 15 Aug 2022
Rights for women and girls have regressed by decades; the economy is cratering. Yet, for many rural ...
Crimea punishment: A Russian airfield in ruins
Fri, 12 Aug 2022
The airbase in Crimea lies in ruins. Ukraine hasn’t claimed credit, many suspect they carried out ...
Teflon Don: Trump’s legal woes
Thu, 11 Aug 2022
Donald Trump endured an FBI raid, questioning in a civil lawsuit and an adverse court ruling, all in...
Latin-ex Democrats: Republicans and Hispanic voters
Wed, 10 Aug 2022
Our series on America’s mid-term elections begins with a visit to a citizenship class in Dor...
Strike repose: Hamas sits out Gaza violence
Tue, 09 Aug 2022
A ceasefire is holding after a weekend of deadly strikes. We ask why Hamas, the Palestinian movement...
Greenlighted: American climate legislation
Mon, 08 Aug 2022
On Sunday America’s Senate passed the most-ambitious climate legislation in the country’s histor...
Our summer special: a despot, a magic trick and a star
Fri, 05 Aug 2022
In a bumper episode, we highlight a summer’s-worth of deeply reported stories from 1843, our siste...
Real rate of return: Ukraine’s Kherson bid
Thu, 04 Aug 2022
As Russia’s campaign in the eastern Donbas region loses steam, our correspondent finds Ukraine’s...
Nancy meeting you here: a tetchy Taiwan trip
Wed, 03 Aug 2022
The visit of America’s speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi has Chinese tempers fl...
Not-so-safe house: America kills al-Qaeda leader
Tue, 02 Aug 2022
For decades Ayman al-Zawahiri was the chief ideologue of the terrorist group. We ask what his death ...
Blistering pace: monkeypox spreads
Mon, 01 Aug 2022
As the first fatal cases outside Africa are reported, we investigate the response to the disease, an...
Deus ex Manchina: American climate legislation’s revival
Fri, 29 Jul 2022
Joe Biden’s climate legislation stalled, in large part because Joe Manchin, West Virginia’s seni...
Getting more interesting: the Fed raises rates
Thu, 28 Jul 2022
America’s central bank has raised interest rates by three-quarters of a percentage point—its fou...
Kicking the canister down the road: EU energy policy
Wed, 27 Jul 2022
Russia cut the gas flowing through the Nord Stream 1 pipeline by half in what many see as retaliatio...
Two to make a quarrel: the battle to be Britain’s PM
Tue, 26 Jul 2022
The campaigning is a bit nasty, by British standards, as Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak vie to become Con...
With the grain, assault: Ukraine’s iffy deal
Mon, 25 Jul 2022
Missile strikes on the port of Odessa have dimmed hopes for a UN-brokered deal to get Ukraine’s gr...
Duty unbound: the January 6th hearings
Fri, 22 Jul 2022
Last night, the committee investigating the events of January 6th 2021 said that Donald Tr...
Knock-down, Draghi-out fight: Italy in turmoil
Thu, 21 Jul 2022
For the second time in a week, Prime Minister Mario Draghi has tendered his resignation as his motle...
Variable-fate mortgage: China’s protests
Wed, 20 Jul 2022
Property developers are going belly-up, home-buyers are not paying mortgages, protests after a banki...
To a greater degree: widespread heatwaves
Tue, 19 Jul 2022
Vast stretches of the temperate world are baking or burning, and as climate change marches on widesp...
Steal girders: Brazil’s fraught coming election
Mon, 18 Jul 2022
President Jair Bolsonaro, an unabashed fan of Donald Trump, is telegraphing that he may not accept a...
Jeddah mind trick: Joe Biden in Saudi Arabia
Fri, 15 Jul 2022
Joe Biden lands in Saudi Arabia this morning, having spent two unremarkable days in Israel and the W...
A bird out of hand: Elon Musk and Twitter
Thu, 14 Jul 2022
Elon Musk wants out of his deal to buy Twitter for $44bn. Twitter wants the Delaware chancery court ...
Bravery behind bars: Alexei Navalny imprisoned
Wed, 13 Jul 2022
Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition figure, has been transferred to a brutal prison...
Field work: The race to succeed Boris Johnson
Tue, 12 Jul 2022
The race to succeed Boris Johnson begins today. Numerous Conservative MPs have thrown their proverbi...
Gota goes: Sri Lanka’s president resigns
Mon, 11 Jul 2022
Gotabaya Rajapaksa, Sri Lanka’s president, announced he will step down on Wednesday after protesto...
Tragedy in Japan: the killing of Abe Shinzo
Fri, 08 Jul 2022
Japan’s prime minister from 2006-07 and 2012-20 died after being shot at a campaign event. Our Tok...
Send out the clown: Boris agrees to go
Thu, 07 Jul 2022
Boris Johnson is standing down as Britain’s prime minister. We consider his legacy and impact on B...
Rishi, you were here: Boris Johnson’s woes
Wed, 06 Jul 2022
Rishi Sunak and Sajid Javid, Britain’s finance and health ministers respectively, resigned yesterd...
Pressure gauged: the road to recessions
Tue, 05 Jul 2022
Hints are turning to hard data: economic slowdowns are coming. We ask about the threat of recessions...
Southern strategy: the coming bid to retake Kherson
Mon, 04 Jul 2022
The city remains Ukraine’s only provincial capital to be taken by Russian forces—can Ukraine ove...
Power strip: SCOTUS’s environmental ruling
Fri, 01 Jul 2022
America’s Supreme Court has essentially shorn the Environmental Protection Agency of its agency in...
Son rise: the Philippines’ next President Marcos
Thu, 30 Jun 2022
It is a remarkable turnaround for a notorious family: the late dictator’s son just took the reins....
Uprising tide: the coming inflation-driven unrest
Wed, 29 Jun 2022
In a global period of belt-tightening, popular anger will spill over. Our correspondent visits place...
A force awakens: NATO’s new game plan
Tue, 28 Jun 2022
War in Ukraine has stiffened the alliance’s spine; leaders meeting this week will refashion troop-...
Comings to term: America’s abortion-rights rollback
Mon, 27 Jun 2022
The Supreme Court ruling has convulsed the country; passing the question of abortion rights to the s...
Shooting from the hip: The Supreme Court expands gun rights
Fri, 24 Jun 2022
Yesterday, America’s Supreme Court issued its most important Second Amendment ruling in more than ...
Pride and prejudice: China’s LGBT crackdown
Thu, 23 Jun 2022
In much of the world, things are improving for sexual minorities. The opposite is true in China, whe...
Eastern encroaches: Ukraine’s losses in Donbas
Wed, 22 Jun 2022
Russia is making steady, piecemeal gains in the region; Ukrainian forces are simply outgunned. That ...
Estranged bedfellows: Israel’s government collapses
Tue, 21 Jun 2022
A motley collection of parliamentarians, now without its whisper-thin majority, has crumbled. That w...
Stuck in the middle with few: Macron’s parliamentary pasting
Mon, 20 Jun 2022
resident Emmanuel Macron has lost his majority in France’s National Assembly as voters flooded bot...
Menace to democracy: The January 6th hearings
Fri, 17 Jun 2022
In its third public hearing yesterday, the committee investigating the January 6th Capitol insurrect...
Powell to the people: The Fed raises rates
Thu, 16 Jun 2022
America’s central bank raised rates by .75% yesterday—the biggest increase in almost 30 years. W...
Planes have changed: Britain’s controversial asylum policy
Wed, 15 Jun 2022
The European Court of Human rights foiled Britain’s plans to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda yesterd...
No magic bullet: a Congressional agreement on guns
Tue, 14 Jun 2022
Mass shootings in Buffalo, Tulsa and Uvalde appear to have broken a longstanding impasse over federa...
Nyet effects: Russia’s resilient economy
Mon, 13 Jun 2022
Western sanctions are intended to starve Russia’s economy and hinder its ability to wage war in Uk...
Revolting: The January 6th committee’s public hearings
Fri, 10 Jun 2022
The committee investigating the Capitol attacks of January 6th 2021 held the first of several public...
Second time’s the charm? Somalia’s new president
Thu, 09 Jun 2022
Hassan Sheikh Mohamud is Somalia’s first-ever reelected president. In an interview with our corres...
The wrath of Khan: Pakistan’s turbulent spring
Wed, 08 Jun 2022
Pakistan’s government faces an unpleasant choice between doing what’s popular and what is econom...
After the party, the hangover: Boris survives, barely
Tue, 07 Jun 2022
Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, narrowly survived a no-confidence vote last night. As he ...
A farewell to arms control? Ukraine and nuclear weapons
Mon, 06 Jun 2022
For almost 80 years, the world has refrained from using or, for the most part, even seriously ponder...
Hide, park: Russian money in London
Fri, 03 Jun 2022
Britain’s capital is packed with foreign capital, in particular the Russian kind. We ask what it i...
Press clipping: Ethiopia’s media crackdown
Thu, 02 Jun 2022
The government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has expelled our correspondent. Abiy’s proxies at home...
The diet is cast: a coming food catastrophe
Wed, 01 Jun 2022
War and blockades in Ukraine are the largest but far from the only problems squeezing the global foo...
Bear traps: Russia’s push in eastern Ukraine
Tue, 31 May 2022
Russian forces are having some successes in eastern Ukraine; our defence editor discusses the situat...
Base motives? China in the Pacific
Mon, 30 May 2022
The country has just one foreign military base, but there are fears it wants to dot the Pacific regi...
Take the first left? Colombia’s election
Fri, 27 May 2022
POLLS SUGGEST // Polls suggest the country might get its first-ever leftist leader. Whatever the out...
Let’s get the parties charted: the Partygate report
Thu, 26 May 2022
A long-awaited inquiry into lockdown gatherings on Boris Johnson’s watch reveals lurid details of ...
Active shooters, inactive politics: America’s latest school massacre
Wed, 25 May 2022
After 19 children and two adults were gunned down in Texas, we ask why gun laws are actually looseni...
The city that never slips: Beijing and covid
Tue, 24 May 2022
China’s Communist Party leaders have painted themselves into a corner: they cannot be seen to put ...
Labor’s day: Australia’s election
Mon, 23 May 2022
Anthony Albanese, the first Labor prime minister in a decade, has pledged to do far more on climate ...
Straight out of Orwell: Russia’s propaganda machine
Fri, 20 May 2022
The Kremlin’s propaganda machine ensures that Russians have a much different view of the war in Uk...
Pestilent peninsula: covid in North Korea
Thu, 19 May 2022
North Korea’s zero-covid strategy appears to have failed. The country has officially acknowledged ...
It’s his party: American primaries
Wed, 18 May 2022
Five American states held primary elections yesterday. The most important were in Pennsylvania, wher...
Luna landing: Crypto chaos
Tue, 17 May 2022
Stablecoins are essential to the financial plumbing of the cryptocurrency world. They’re pegged to...
Not stuck in neutral: Sweden, Finland and NATO
Mon, 16 May 2022
Neither Finland nor Sweden ever joined NATO, the Western military alliance formed in 1949: Finland f...
Arm Scandi: Britain’s mutual-defence pact
Fri, 13 May 2022
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s collective-defence deal with Swedish and Finnish leaders represents...
Entrenched: stalemate in Ukraine’s east
Thu, 12 May 2022
Russia’s bid to conquer the eastern region of Donbas is proceeding at a snail’s pace. All over U...
It’s a family affair: Sri Lanka’s protests turn deadly
Wed, 11 May 2022
Demonstrations that eventually ousted the prime minister have cost lives, but the protest mood is no...
Out like a Lam: Hong Kong’s new leader
Tue, 10 May 2022
John Lee, the successor to Chief Executive Carrie Lam, won by a predictable landslide: he is just th...
Under-armed sweat: America’s “arsenal of democracy”
Mon, 09 May 2022
America accounts for the lion’s share of weaponry sent to Ukraine. But that may leave it short of ...
The son shines: elections in the Philippines
Fri, 06 May 2022
Voters in the Philippines choose a new president on Monday. The likely winner is a scion of one of t...
Powell’s points presentation: the Fed raises rates
Thu, 05 May 2022
Prices in America are rising faster than at any time in the past 40 years. In response, the Federal ...
Stormont weather: elections in Northern Ireland
Wed, 04 May 2022
Voters in the UK head to the polls for local elections tomorrow. In Northern Ireland, a party that d...
Roe-ing away: Abortion rights in America
Tue, 03 May 2022
A leaked draft opinion shows America’s Supreme Court is ready to let states outlaw abortion. We ex...
ROC and a hard place: Taiwan’s lessons from Ukraine
Mon, 02 May 2022
Much like Ukraine, Taiwan has a well-armed neighbour that does not think it exists as a state: China...
General disarray: Russia’s military failures
Fri, 29 Apr 2022
Before the invasion of Ukraine, Russia’s armed forces were believed to be lean, modern and fightin...
Pipe down: Russia cuts gas to Poland and Bulgaria
Thu, 28 Apr 2022
By shutting off gas to Poland and Bulgaria, Russia has made an aggressive move that may draw yet mor...
Strong suits: climate litigation
Wed, 27 Apr 2022
Activists are tired of waiting for governments and companies to act on climate change. So increasing...
A bird in the hand: Elon Musk buys Twitter
Tue, 26 Apr 2022
The world’s richest man now has the keys to one of the most influential social-media platforms. Ca...
Le Pen pusher: Macron wins again
Mon, 25 Apr 2022
Emmanuel Macron’s re-election is historic and, for many, a relief. But, as we discuss in the final...
Rwanda-on-Thames: Britain’s asylum proposal
Fri, 22 Apr 2022
BRITAIN’S GOVERNMENT has proposed sending asylum-seekers to Rwanda. The plan has been widely criti...
Knocking on hell’s Dvornikov: the battle for Donbas
Thu, 21 Apr 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has entered a new phase, and its forces in Ukraine have a new command...
Sana’a sunrise: A ceasefire in Yemen
Wed, 20 Apr 2022
In Yemen, fighting between Houthi rebels and a Saudi-led coalition has led to hundreds of thousands ...
In neither camp: Neutrality and war
Tue, 19 Apr 2022
ONE-THIRD of the world’s population lives in countries backing neither Russia nor Ukraine. The Bid...
Running for cover: our Ukraine-refugees special
Mon, 18 Apr 2022
The war in Ukraine has created the greatest flux of refugees in Europe since the second world war. W...
Girls interrupted: Afghanistan
Fri, 15 Apr 2022
When the Taliban resumed power, there were hopes that women might not be as excluded, repressed and ...
Food haul: aid trickles into Tigray
Thu, 14 Apr 2022
A ceasefire agreed weeks ago should have mitigated the suffering of starving Ethiopians caught up in...
Just fine: Boris Johnson and “partygate”
Wed, 13 Apr 2022
Police have served Britain’s prime minister, among others, with a fine for breaching the lockdown ...
A stretch and a run: Brazil’s ex-president returns
Tue, 12 Apr 2022
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left office with a sky-high approval rating, having raised millions from ...
Le Pen is mightier than before: France’s election
Mon, 11 Apr 2022
President Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen of the nationalist-populist National Rally party will ad...
Laïcité, extrémité, fragilité: our French-election series in full
Sat, 09 Apr 2022
The first round of the presidential election is on Sunday and our first-ever series has been followi...
Gota the trouble: Sri Lanka’s crises
Fri, 08 Apr 2022
Through ineptitude and bad timing, President Gotabaya Rajapaksa—known as Gota—has driven his cou...
Nasty, brutish and long? The war’s next stage
Thu, 07 Apr 2022
Russian troops have withdrawn from suburban Kyiv to focus on the eastern Donbas region. With Western...
Zero's intolerance: Shanghai’s messy lockdown
Wed, 06 Apr 2022
China’s zero-covid policy is being stretched to breaking point as the virus makes its way through ...
Bodies in the streets: Russian atrocities
Tue, 05 Apr 2022
Our correspondent reports from towns around Kyiv, where Russian forces appear to have committed war ...
No-confidence interval: Pakistan’s embattled PM
Mon, 04 Apr 2022
Prime Minister Imran Khan seems to be trying everything to avoid an ouster. The powerful military br...
All opposed, say nothing: Hungary’s election
Fri, 01 Apr 2022
Viktor Orban’s eight-year assault on the country’s institutions will help his bid for re-electio...
Oil and vodka: Russia’s resilient economy
Thu, 31 Mar 2022
After Russia invaded Ukraine, Western businesses pulled out and governments imposed punishing sancti...
Capital outflow: Russia changes tack
Wed, 30 Mar 2022
It appears that Russian forces are withdrawing from Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, to focus on the easte...
Talk in Turkey: Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations
Tue, 29 Mar 2022
Negotiators are again meeting face-to-face, this time in Istanbul. There is little hope of reaching ...
In the war room: our exclusive visit to Zelensky’s “fortress”
Mon, 28 Mar 2022
Our editors traverse layers of security to reach the situation room where Ukraine’s president is s...
Under fire: Life in Kharkiv
Fri, 25 Mar 2022
For the past month, one of our editors has spoken daily with a young man in Kharkiv. Today he discus...
What little remains: The destruction of Mariupol
Thu, 24 Mar 2022
For weeks, Russian forces have besieged the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Up to 90% of its struct...
Vlad the in-jailer: Alexei Navalny sentenced
Wed, 23 Mar 2022
Alexei Navalny returned to Russia after being poisoned in an assassination attempt that many believe...
Russian to judgment: Putin accused of war crimes
Tue, 22 Mar 2022
Joe Biden, among others, has called Vladimir Putin “a war criminal.” International tribunals hav...
Blood will out: Russian mercenaries
Mon, 21 Mar 2022
Russian forces advancing on Kyiv have stalled. Ukraine has refused the demand to surrender Mariupol....
Mention the war: Germany awakes
Fri, 18 Mar 2022
For decades, Germany was doctrinally pacifist: a legacy left over from the second world war. Russia’...
Shock and war: global prices rise
Thu, 17 Mar 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed global prices, which were already climbing, even higher. A...
Bear hug? China’s take on Ukraine
Wed, 16 Mar 2022
China appears content to let the carnage continue in Ukraine, anticipating a win for Vladimir Putin....
Capital accounts: on the ground in Kyiv
Tue, 15 Mar 2022
Our correspondent finds Ukraine's capital already accustomed to an eerie war footing. People are get...
Abject lesson: the siege of Mariupol
Mon, 14 Mar 2022
To the west, strikes near Poland have rattled NATO partners. But look to the south-east to see what ...
Defog of war: your questions answered
Fri, 11 Mar 2022
We tackle some of the many questions on the war in Ukraine that listeners sent in this week—why no...
A non-member states: Finland’s ex-PM on NATO
Thu, 10 Mar 2022
Perched at Russia’s north-western corner, the country has plenty of history dealing with neighbour...
Strikes, fear: an update from Kharkiv
Wed, 09 Mar 2022
After failing to take Ukraine’s second city, Russian forces continue to pummel it with air, artill...
War stories: the view from Russia
Tue, 08 Mar 2022
With the propaganda machine at fever pitch, not everyone in Russia agrees on—much less agrees with...
Bear trapped: the sanctions on Russia
Mon, 07 Mar 2022
The West’s co-ordinated financial weaponry is starting to bite, opening a new age of economic conf...
Rushing from Russians: Ukraine’s refugees
Fri, 04 Mar 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has triggered a refugee crisis in Europe. More than a million people ...
Climate of fear: the IPCC’s new report
Thu, 03 Mar 2022
A new report shows that climate change is already causing widespread, tangible damage, and argues th...
All that Xi wants: China’s Ukraine dilemma
Wed, 02 Mar 2022
After backing Russia’s grievances against NATO, China now finds itself treading a very fine line o...
Square in their sights: Kharkiv under siege
Tue, 01 Mar 2022
The levelling of Freedom Square in Ukraine’s second city is powerfully symbolic. One resident has ...
The battlefield broadens: Ukraine resists
Mon, 28 Feb 2022
On the ground, Ukrainian resistance is holding—so far—and Vladimir Putin’s nuclear posturing r...
Capital offence: the battle for Ukraine
Fri, 25 Feb 2022
As promised, Ukraine’s forces are fighting back tenaciously against a Russian invasion on multiple...
It begins: Russia invades Ukraine
Thu, 24 Feb 2022
Ukrainians woke to the sound of sirens. Volleys of cruise missiles, artillery, widespread reports of...
Given choice: Colombia’s abortion-law change
Wed, 23 Feb 2022
In little more than a year, three of Latin America’s four most populous countries have expanded ac...
Putting his first boot forward: Russian troops move
Tue, 22 Feb 2022
President Vladimir Putin has declared the independence of the two Ukrainian provinces of Donbas—an...
Trial run: genocide claims against Myanmar
Mon, 21 Feb 2022
The Gambia’s first-of-its-kind case at the International Court of Justice might bring a rebuke and...
On the brinkmanship: a special episode on Ukraine and Russia
Fri, 18 Feb 2022
We unpick the week’s torrent of headlines; an invasion may yet come but either way President Vladi...
Sharpest tools, in a box: miniature vaccine factories
Thu, 17 Feb 2022
BioNTech, the German firm behind the first licensed coronavirus jab, reveals its attempts to stuff i...
Judge, jury and executive: another power-grab in Tunisia
Wed, 16 Feb 2022
Last summer President Kais Saied nobbled the legislature; now he has abolished the judiciary. We ask...
Yen here before: Japan’s “new capitalism”
Tue, 15 Feb 2022
Today’s figures showing the first annual economic growth in three years may seem promising. But th...
Not trucking around: Canada’s protests spread
Mon, 14 Feb 2022
It has become much more than a fight against proof-of-vaccination strictures. The anti-government mo...
Withdrawal symptoms: Afghanistan goes hungry
Fri, 11 Feb 2022
Since American forces left, pessimism has skyrocketed—and with good reason. Starvation is driving ...
Which way UP: India’s bellwether election
Thu, 10 Feb 2022
The state-legislature poll in Uttar Pradesh is in effect a vote on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...
The quiet man of Europe: Olaf Scholz
Wed, 09 Feb 2022
So far Germany’s new chancellor has been all but invisible at home and on the international stage....
FAANGer danger: big tech takes a beating
Tue, 08 Feb 2022
For years, the big tech firms Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google were seen as a colle...
Fission creep: Iran nuclear talks resume
Mon, 07 Feb 2022
After protracted negotiations, at last a conclusion appears nigh—but depending on whom you ask, a ...
Skin in the Games: Beijing’s nervy Olympics
Fri, 04 Feb 2022
Our correspondent describes the fraught effort to attend the opening ceremony. It is a pageant highl...
A model result: our French-election series begins
Thu, 03 Feb 2022
In the first instalment of the series, we unveil our forecast model and visit one of the quiet subur...
Action pact: NATO’s Ukraine role
Wed, 02 Feb 2022
Our correspondent speaks with Jens Stoltenberg, NATO’s secretary-general, who says the alliance’...
Do as I say, except at my dos: Boris Johnson’s parties
Tue, 01 Feb 2022
A long-awaited report confirms rumours that have consumed Boris Johnson’s premiership. He may be w...
Sunshine statement: Ron DeSantis’s Florida
Mon, 31 Jan 2022
Talk of a presidential run for the governor is growing. We examine the state’s rightward lurch as ...
Insecurities in securities: why markets are sliding
Fri, 28 Jan 2022
Huge swings and downward trends: markets are forward-looking, and it is clear they do not see much t...
On the edge of his seat: Stephen Breyer
Thu, 27 Jan 2022
The departure of one of America’s Supreme Court justices is an opportunity for President Joe Biden...
Twist of faith: religious hatred in India
Wed, 26 Jan 2022
As the country celebrates its secular constitution, we examine the rising bigotry of Hindu nationali...
What’s it good for? Putin’s Ukraine calculus
Tue, 25 Jan 2022
More Russian troops piling in. Embassy staff pulling out. American forces on alert and sober diploma...
Prime mover? Mario Draghi and the Italian presidency
Mon, 24 Jan 2022
This week’s secretive votes will determine the next president and the current prime minister looks...
Unsustainable envelopment goals: China’s zero-covid fight
Fri, 21 Jan 2022
The Omicron variant is destined to test the limits of a policy that has already proved costly: consu...
Heavyweight-price fight: how to beat global inflation
Thu, 20 Jan 2022
Shoppers across the developed world face sharply rising prices, and leaders are reaching for all man...
Drilling into the numbers: ExxonMobil
Wed, 19 Jan 2022
America’s biggest oil firm has long been recalcitrant on climate matters, so its new net-zero targ...
Through deny of a needle: vaccine mandates
Tue, 18 Jan 2022
Austria is set to enact a bold policy of levying fines on the unvaccinated. We look at what is drivi...
But who’s counting? Voting rights in America
Mon, 17 Jan 2022
Democrats will spend the week battling for a tightening of laws on casting votes; that will overshad...
His royal minus: Prince Andrew
Fri, 14 Jan 2022
The queen’s second son has been stripped of his titles—an apparent bid to insulate the crown fro...
In vino, veritas: Boris Johnson under fire
Thu, 13 Jan 2022
While Britons followed covid strictures, the prime minister’s residence hosted boozy gatherings; w...
Not in the same class: America and schools
Wed, 12 Jan 2022
The country’s children have missed more in-person learning than those in most of the rich world—...
Talking out his asks: Putin’s NATO demands
Tue, 11 Jan 2022
This week’s flurry of diplomacy aims to address what Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, says he...
Hope for the crest: an Omicron wave hits India
Mon, 10 Jan 2022
The country has the world’s worst estimated covid-death total—but as another variant takes hold ...
Fuel to the flames: uprising in Kazakhstan
Fri, 07 Jan 2022
What started as a fuel-price skirmish has engulfed the entire country; now Russian-led troops have b...
Capitol crimes: one year after America’s insurrection
Thu, 06 Jan 2022
The insurrection’s horrors might have marked a turning point for Donald Trump’s supporters and e...
Stop the presses! Hong Kong’s media crackdown
Wed, 05 Jan 2022
The closure of two independent, Chinese-language media outlets all but completes the push to silence...
Holmes stretch: Theranos’s founder convicted
Tue, 04 Jan 2022
Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of fraud. We ask what lessons her downfall holds for Theranos...
Separate weighs: Brexit, one year on
Mon, 03 Jan 2022
Trade is down, red tape is up, details of regulatory harmony are still being hammered out. Britain m...
All she wrote: our obituaries editor reflects on 2021
Thu, 30 Dec 2021
From Prince Philip to Desmond Tutu, from an anti-racism campaigner and member of the Auschwitz Girls...
A few bright spots: our country of the year
Wed, 29 Dec 2021
Each year The Economist selects its country of the year: a place that has improved the most. Improve...
You bet your dollar-bottomed: Erdogan’s next gambit
Tue, 28 Dec 2021
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s idea for saving the lira by backing deposits with dollars means t...
Beginning of the endemic? Omicron’s spread
Mon, 27 Dec 2021
The lightning-fast spread of a seemingly milder coronavirus variant may represent a shift from pande...
No safety in numbers: security in Haiti
Thu, 23 Dec 2021
The security situation is hopeless, following violent unrest and a presidential assassination—as o...
Relocation, relocation, relocation: America’s internal migration
Wed, 22 Dec 2021
The flood of people out of cities is unlike anything since the suburbanisation of the 1950s; we exam...
All about that base: Japan’s security policy
Tue, 21 Dec 2021
In recent years the country has found itself in a sharply different geopolitical environment, respon...
Back to the USSR: Russia and Ukraine
Mon, 20 Dec 2021
As border tensions continue to build, our Russia editor looks back to the fall of the Soviet Union t...
Centre of no attention: Chile’s presidential election
Fri, 17 Dec 2021
As the vote’s second round has neared, the candidates have shifted, a bit, from their positions at...
Money printer slow brrr: the Fed turns down the taps
Thu, 16 Dec 2021
America’s central bank plans to pinch off its massive bond-buying programme much faster in a bid t...
In full swing: Ethiopia’s shifting civil war
Wed, 15 Dec 2021
More than a year after a rebellion Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed promised to put down in weeks, the bala...
Twister of fate? Tornadoes and climate change
Tue, 14 Dec 2021
Many have been quick to link the tornado catastrophe in America’s Upland South to climate change; ...
Protein shake-up: getting to know Omicron
Mon, 13 Dec 2021
The latest “variant of concern” has spread far—and fast. We examine what has been learned abou...
Unsafe as houses? Evergrande and China’s big plans
Fri, 10 Dec 2021
The wildly indebted property firm has defaulted at last. That poses big risks as China’s leadershi...
Ain’t no party: scandals hobble Britain’s government
Thu, 09 Dec 2021
At two years into Boris Johnson’s premiership, yet more scandal ensures attention will still stray...
CDU later: Angela Merkel’s successor
Wed, 08 Dec 2021
For the first time in 16 years Mrs Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union is out of Germany’s gover...
Off the warpath: America 80 years after Pearl Harbour
Tue, 07 Dec 2021
The Japanese attack set America on a course toward military hegemony; recent administrations have wa...
The first sentence of the story: Aung San Suu Kyi
Mon, 06 Dec 2021
Myanmar’s ousted leader has been sentenced to four years in prison; more guilty verdicts are expec...
Taiwan thing after another: the Solomon Islands
Fri, 03 Dec 2021
The archipelago’s diplomatic pivot to China has added an international dimension to the latest fla...
Roe blow? SCOTUS weighs abortion rights
Thu, 02 Dec 2021
The conservative supermajority on America’s Supreme Court looks likely to strip back rights enshri...
The house that Jack built: Twitter’s founder departs
Wed, 01 Dec 2021
Jack Dorsey’s departure from the social-media giant reflects the growing primacy of engineering ta...
Centrifugal forces: Iran nuclear talks resume
Tue, 30 Nov 2021
Things were all smiles after negotiations resumed—but it is difficult to see how a middle ground c...
Priority letter: the Omicron variant
Mon, 29 Nov 2021
Governments’ rapid responses to a new coronavirus strain were wise. But much is still to be learne...
A cut-rate theory: Turkey’s currency spiral
Fri, 26 Nov 2021
As President Recep Tayyip Erdogan keeps pushing his upside-down economic ideas, the currency plummet...
You put your left side in: Germany’s shake-about
Thu, 25 Nov 2021
A three-way coalition has struck a deal to govern. We ask who’s who among top ministers and what’...
America’s sneezing: diagnosing global inflation
Wed, 24 Nov 2021
Prices are up all over, especially in America. But whether the world’s largest economy is part of ...
New bid on the bloc: Europe and vaccine mandates
Tue, 23 Nov 2021
A Delta wave is driving restrictions and restrictions are driving unrest. Vaccine mandates like that...
Left, right and no centre: Chile’s elections
Mon, 22 Nov 2021
The presidential election will now go to a run-off—between candidates of political extremes. We as...
State of profusion: governments just keep growing
Fri, 19 Nov 2021
Some factors that drive relentless growth in state spending are eternal; some are getting stronger. ...
Georgia undermined: protests and a hunger strike
Thu, 18 Nov 2021
Mikheil Saakashvili, a former president, is seven weeks into a hunger strike and protests supporting...
Defrost setting: the Xi-Biden summit
Wed, 17 Nov 2021
The meeting between superpower presidents was cordial and careful, but it will take far more than a ...
White flagged: Cuba’s muted protests
Tue, 16 Nov 2021
White roses, white sheets hung from homes, even white t-shirts: a movement’s symbolic colour was n...
Peronists’ peril: Argentina’s elections
Mon, 15 Nov 2021
The ruling party got a pasting at the polls, owing in part to a reeling economy. We ask what the opp...
The heat is on: COP26’s final hours
Fri, 12 Nov 2021
The climate summit in Glasgow is in its last official day, but looks sure to overrun as negotiators ...
Putin’s defiers: repression in Russia
Thu, 11 Nov 2021
As the economy has deteriorated and the internet has bypassed television, persecution of opponents h...
Trouble at the border: Belarus and the EU
Wed, 10 Nov 2021
Around 2,000 people from the Middle East are at the European Union’s eastern frontier. Alexander L...
Dream on: Biden and social mobility
Tue, 09 Nov 2021
Americans born at the bottom of the economic ladder find it harder than past generations—or their ...
Control the past: rewriting Chinese history
Mon, 08 Nov 2021
Over four days in Beijing, the political and military elite are meeting to recast the past. The revi...
Tigrayans turn the tables: Ethiopia’s war
Fri, 05 Nov 2021
Few imagined when Ethiopia’s civil war began a year ago that the capital, Addis Ababa, would come ...
Covering the ground: trees and COP26
Thu, 04 Nov 2021
At the global climate summit, more than 100 countries have promised to end deforestation by 2030. Si...
Power failure: South Africa’s ANC stumbles
Wed, 03 Nov 2021
For the first time since the end of white rule, South Africa’s governing African National Congress...
The Floyd factor: American police reform
Tue, 02 Nov 2021
More than a year after George Floyd was murdered by a Minneapolis policeman, the city votes on an ov...
Cool heads needed: COP26 begins
Mon, 01 Nov 2021
World leaders are gathering in Glasgow for the UN climate summit. Can they agree on the path to meet...
Going critical: Iran’s nuclear programme
Fri, 29 Oct 2021
The Islamic Republic is closer than ever to a bomb’s worth of fissile material. Talks with America...
Competitive spirit: tech after the pandemic
Thu, 28 Oct 2021
After a year of breakneck growth, the big five tech companies—Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple an...
Winter is coming: Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis
Wed, 27 Oct 2021
Two months after the Taliban’s victory, civilians face a looming disaster. Will Western government...
Trouble in Khartoum: Sudan’s coup
Tue, 26 Oct 2021
Just as the country was moving towards democracy, its generals have overthrown the civilians—again...
You shall not pass: standardising vaccine passports
Mon, 25 Oct 2021
Covid certificates are a global mess, with countries operating a patchwork of incompatible systems. ...
Flu into a rage: Brazil’s Bolsonaro inquiry
Fri, 22 Oct 2021
President Jair Bolsonaro’s early dismissal of the pandemic as “a little flu” presaged a calami...
States of emergency: Nigeria
Thu, 21 Oct 2021
Criminal gangs in north-western states, jihadists in the north-east, a rebellion in the south-east: ...
Gas-trick distress: a visit to Ukraine
Wed, 20 Oct 2021
Russia continues to pile pressure on the country, and will soon have the power to cut off its natura...
Meeting them where they are: a British MP’s murder
Tue, 19 Oct 2021
Sir David Amess was killed doing what he loved: speaking directly with voters. We examine the danger...
Chinese draggin’: growth slows
Mon, 18 Oct 2021
A paltry GDP rise is down to the pandemic, power and property. We ask what growing pains President X...
Port, and a storm: sectarian violence in Lebanon
Fri, 15 Oct 2021
The effort to investigate last year’s port explosion in Beirut has fired up political and religiou...
For watt it’s worth: energy markets’ squeeze
Thu, 14 Oct 2021
A fossil-fuel scramble reveals energy markets in desperate need of a redesign. We examine what must ...
Keep your friends close: Pakistan’s shifting role
Wed, 13 Oct 2021
As the Taliban’s closest ally, the country bears a big responsibility for Afghanistan’s fate. We...
Exit Poles? A bold challenge to the EU
Tue, 12 Oct 2021
After a court ruling in Poland that is an affront to a core European Union principle, Poles hit the ...
Zero-to-some game: Asia-Pacific covid-19 plans crack
Mon, 11 Oct 2021
Where governments enacted zero-tolerance coronavirus strategies, numbers indeed stayed low. That was...
Strait of tension: Chinese jets test Taiwan
Fri, 08 Oct 2021
China has sent more than 100 planes to probe Taiwan’s air-defence zone. We explain why Beijing has...
How to lose friends and alienate people: Ethiopia’s civil war
Thu, 07 Oct 2021
Abiy Ahmed is sworn in again as prime minister, even as continuing strife increases the country’s ...
Ticker shock: London’s wheezing stockmarket
Wed, 06 Oct 2021
A global financial centre must move with the times, and—so far—London has not. Our correspondent...
When it goes dark: Facebook’s terrible week
Tue, 05 Oct 2021
Yesterday’s global outage is not even the worst of it: today’s congressional testimony will exam...
Docket launch: a new term for America’s Supreme Court
Mon, 04 Oct 2021
The court will be tackling just about every judicial and social flashpoint in the country during the...
The courage of two convictions: Nicolas Sarkozy
Fri, 01 Oct 2021
The first conviction of France’s former president shocked the nation; the second confirms for citi...
Nobody’s fuel: Britain’s shortages
Thu, 30 Sep 2021
From chicken to petrol, Britons are facing long queues and bare shelves. We ask about the multifario...
Suga-free Diet: Japan’s next leader
Wed, 29 Sep 2021
The ruling party’s choice for its president—a shoo-in for prime minister—seems to overlook the...
A run for its money: funding crunches in Congress
Tue, 28 Sep 2021
America’s crash of deadlines carries risks for the government’s budget and just possibly its sov...
Colour schemes: Germany’s coming coalition
Mon, 27 Sep 2021
The country heads for a three-party government after a nail-biting election. We cut through the flur...
Clubs seal: China’s view as alliances multiply
Fri, 24 Sep 2021
Leaders of “the Quad” are meeting in person for the first time; drama from the AUKUS alliance st...
Same assembly, rewired: the United Nations meets
Thu, 23 Sep 2021
The annual United Nations General Assembly is more than just worthy pledges and fancy dinners; we as...
The homes stretch: Evergrande
Wed, 22 Sep 2021
China’s property behemoth has slammed up against new rules on its giant debt pile. We ask what wid...
Running to stand still: Canada’s election
Tue, 21 Sep 2021
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau remains in power after Monday’s election, but he emerges without the...
Potemkin polls: Russia’s elections
Mon, 20 Sep 2021
The winner of Russia’s elections was not in doubt. Vladimir Putin’s party, United Russia, came o...
Sub plot: the AUKUS alliance
Fri, 17 Sep 2021
The alliance between America, Britain and Australia has enormous significance, most of all for its n...
Shake, rattle the roles: Britain’s cabinet reshuffle
Thu, 16 Sep 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has re-allocated a number of key government posts. We ask how the chang...
Hunger gains: Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis
Wed, 15 Sep 2021
Economic collapse and halting international aid following the Taliban’s takeover have compounded s...
Percent of the governed: California’s recall vote
Tue, 14 Sep 2021
Governor Gavin Newsom is fighting off a bid to remove him that puts the world’s fifth-largest econ...
Getting their vax up: America’s vaccine mandates
Mon, 13 Sep 2021
President Joe Biden’s requirements for employers to insist on vaccinations are a bold move amid fl...
From the ground up: New York after 9/11
Fri, 10 Sep 2021
The horrors of 20 years ago spurred an ambitious transformation, not just at the site of the attacks...
Putsch back: Africa’s latest coup in Guinea
Thu, 09 Sep 2021
It is unclear whether better governance lies ahead after a military takeover; what is certain is tha...
The call before the storm? Brazil’s protests
Wed, 08 Sep 2021
Tens of thousands of people aligned with President Jair Bolsonaro held protests—at his direction. ...
Bitcoin of the realm: El Salvador’s experiment
Tue, 07 Sep 2021
President Nayib Bukele thinks obliging businesses to take the cryptocurrency will help with remittan...
Heartbeat of the matter: Texas’s draconian abortion law
Mon, 06 Sep 2021
The Supreme Court’s surprise decision to let the country’s harshest “heartbeat bill” stand b...
Taking the fifth: Venezuela’s talks
Fri, 03 Sep 2021
Four previous resolution meetings involving President Nicolás Maduro have changed little. This time...
Reeling and dealing: how to engage the Taliban
Thu, 02 Sep 2021
In some ways America has more leverage now that its forces have left; we ask how diplomatic and aid ...
Out for blood: the Theranos trial
Wed, 01 Sep 2021
Elizabeth Holmes founded a big blood-testing startup; her claims were founded on very little. As her...
CDU later? Germany’s topsy-turvy election
Tue, 31 Aug 2021
The party of Angela Merkel, the outgoing chancellor, is flailing in polls. We ask why the race has b...
Banks note: the Jackson Hole meeting
Mon, 30 Aug 2021
The message for central bankers at the annual jamboree: relax a bit about inflation and be loud and ...
The terror of their ways: Kabul and global jihadism
Fri, 27 Aug 2021
The suicide-bombings that have killed scores of people signal how the Taliban will struggle to rule ...
To all, appearances: Israel’s PM in Washington
Thu, 26 Aug 2021
Naftali Bennett’s first face-to-face meeting with President Joe Biden will look calm and co-operat...
Delta‘s force: Australia’s covid plans crumble
Wed, 25 Aug 2021
For a while, closed borders and strict contact-tracing held the coronavirus at bay. What lessons to ...
How you like them: Apple’s decade under Tim Cook
Tue, 24 Aug 2021
The tech firm has ballooned under his leadership, but Mr Cook’s next ten years will not be as rosy...
Annexed question, please: Ukraine’s summit on Crimea
Mon, 23 Aug 2021
President Volodymyr Zelensky wants to draw attention to Russia’s continued occupation of Crimea, a...
Value-free investing: China and Afghanistan
Fri, 20 Aug 2021
The Taliban’s takeover is a boon for China’s propaganda machine: America is tired, its policies ...
Fits and starts: SARS-CoV-2’s origin
Thu, 19 Aug 2021
In the end, the World Health Organisation’s report in March revealed little. We ask why the corona...
Stymie a river: the American West dries up
Wed, 18 Aug 2021
The first-ever water shortage declared for the Colorado River is just one sign of troubles to come; ...
It rains, it pours: Haiti’s tragedy compounds
Tue, 17 Aug 2021
A president’s assassination, a cratered economy and now this: a tropical depression that will hamp...
Nothing to break the fall: Afghanistan
Mon, 16 Aug 2021
The fall of Kabul, the capital, sealed the country’s fate: after 20 years, the Taliban are back in...
Thicket and boarding pass: travel’s tangle of rules
Fri, 13 Aug 2021
Restrictions are opaque, fickle and often illiberal—and it is not even clear how much they help cu...
Bridges and divides: America’s infrastructure push
Thu, 12 Aug 2021
The Senate has passed the first part of President Joe Biden’s mammoth plan, which is now tied to a...
Blazed and confused: Turkey’s raging fires
Wed, 11 Aug 2021
Across the Mediterranean and beyond, flames are consuming the landscape. Our correspondent says Turk...
Shots or fired: America’s vaccine mandates
Tue, 10 Aug 2021
Inoculation or testing requirements are spreading nearly as fast as the Delta variant. But it is not...
Hot prospects: a sobering IPCC report
Mon, 09 Aug 2021
The UN climate body’s latest doorstopper report is unequivocal: climate change is human-caused, an...
Coming in harder: Iran’s new president
Fri, 06 Aug 2021
Ebrahim Raisi takes office as the country is blamed for multiple attacks in the region; a more mistr...
No consent of the governed: Andrew Cuomo on the brink
Thu, 05 Aug 2021
After a damning report into sexual-harassment allegations, support for New York’s governor has cra...
No port, still a storm: Lebanon a year after the blast
Wed, 04 Aug 2021
The explosion at Beirut’s port was a symptom, not a cause, of the country’s malaise. We find mor...
Block off the old chips? Nvidia’s fraught merger
Tue, 03 Aug 2021
The semiconductor giant wants to acquire ARM—a British firm that is more complement than competito...
No-sanctuary cities: the Taliban’s latest surge
Mon, 02 Aug 2021
Sweeping rural gains made as American forces have slipped out are now giving way to bids for urban a...
Neither borrower nor renter be: America’s coming foreclosures
Fri, 30 Jul 2021
America’s pandemic-driven measures granting relief on mortgages and rent arrears will soon expire,...
Good news, ad news: Facebook’s big bucks and bets
Thu, 29 Jul 2021
The social-media behemoth revealed huge profits and stressed even bigger plans: to become an e-comme...
Borderline disorder: the UN’s refugee treaty at 70
Wed, 28 Jul 2021
An international convention devised after the second world war is ill-suited to the refugee crises o...
Alight in Tunisia: a democracy in crisis
Tue, 27 Jul 2021
The president has sacked the prime minister and suspended parliament. It is clear that the country n...
The blonde leading: Britain’s two years under Boris Johnson
Mon, 26 Jul 2021
As the country tests a bold reopening strategy in the face of the Delta variant, our political edito...
A dangerous games? A muted start to the Olympics
Fri, 23 Jul 2021
Tokyo is under a state of emergency; covid-19 cases are piling up. But for Japan, a super-spreader e...
Three-degree burn: the warmer world that awaits
Thu, 22 Jul 2021
It seems ever more certain that global temperatures will sail past limits set in the Paris Agreement...
Changing horses mid-streaming? Netflix’s next act
Wed, 21 Jul 2021
On the face of it, the streaming giant’s quarterly results were lacklustre. But our media editor e...
Joint pain: a rare rebuke of China’s hackers
Tue, 20 Jul 2021
The European Union, NATO and the “Five Eyes” intelligence partners have all joined America in ac...
In a flash: floods devastate Europe
Mon, 19 Jul 2021
Disaster-recovery efforts continue, even as heavy rains continue in many places. The tragedy brings ...
A pounder of a quarter: American banks report
Fri, 16 Jul 2021
Bank bosses are jubilant: revenues were down but profits way up. We look at the pandemic-driven reas...
Loot cause: South Africa’s unrest
Thu, 15 Jul 2021
Widespread looting and the worst violence since apartheid continue, exposing ethnic divisions and th...
Texas hold-’em-up: a voting-rights standoff
Wed, 14 Jul 2021
The state’s Democratic lawmakers have fled to Washington, stymieing a voting-rights bill. We exami...
Flight attendance: airlines after the pandemic
Tue, 13 Jul 2021
Which carriers will thrive? Long-haulers or short-hoppers? The no-frills or the glitzy? The bailed-o...
Hasta la victoria, hambre: rare protests rock Cuba
Mon, 12 Jul 2021
Food shortages are nothing new. But it has been decades since shelves have been so empty—and since...
A decade decayed: South Sudan
Fri, 09 Jul 2021
The world’s youngest state was born amid boundless optimism. But poverty is still endemic and ethn...
Assassins’ deed: Haiti’s president killed
Thu, 08 Jul 2021
Jovenel Moïse presided, in an increasingly authoritarian way, over a country slipping toward failed...
Dropped shots: Russia’s third wave
Wed, 07 Jul 2021
Despite registering the world’s first coronavirus vaccine, the country is being lashed by covid-19...
Taken for a ride: why China is leaning on Didi
Tue, 06 Jul 2021
Just after the ride-hailing giant made a splashy stockmarket debut, Chinese regulators came down har...
Leave them in no peace: America’s Afghan exit
Mon, 05 Jul 2021
Passport queues are lengthening; ad-hoc civilian militias are strengthening. As foreign powers bow o...
Repetitive strains: SARS-CoV-2 variants
Fri, 02 Jul 2021
The coronavirus’s Delta variant accounts for ever more infections; we ask about mutational surpris...
Party piece: China’s Communists at 100
Thu, 01 Jul 2021
Pomp and rhetoric marked the centenary of what are arguably the world’s most successful authoritar...
No day in court: Jacob Zuma’s jail sentence
Wed, 30 Jun 2021
South Africa’s embattled former leader will be imprisoned for failing to show up to trial—a sign...
Bear necessities: learning to handle Russia
Tue, 29 Jun 2021
As both summitry and military near-misses proliferate, some want measured dialogue while others want...
Third time’s the harm: Africa’s crippling covid-19 wave
Mon, 28 Jun 2021
Hopes that the continent had escaped the worst of the pandemic have proved too hasty; our correspond...
Iraq to its foundations: a chance to remake the state
Fri, 25 Jun 2021
With elections looming, there is an opportunity to remake a state ravaged by war and riven by power ...
Bench marks: weighing recent SCOTUS rulings
Thu, 24 Jun 2021
The court’s term is not quite over, with contentious rulings still pending. We examine the latest ...
Hunger strikes: North Korea’s food shortages
Wed, 23 Jun 2021
An admission that the country’s food situation is “tense” is a rare glimpse into the compoundi...
Drop it when it’s hot: the Fed’s consequential hint
Tue, 22 Jun 2021
The merest mention of future interest-rate rises from America’s central bank sent markets into a t...
A vote with no confidence: Ethiopia’s untimely election
Mon, 21 Jun 2021
The northern region of Tigray, consumed by war and facing famine, will not vote today. It is all a f...
Press to exit: Hong Kong’s media arrests
Fri, 18 Jun 2021
The raid of an outspoken pro-democracy newspaper, carried out under the city’s newish security law...
A hardline act to follow: Iran’s presidential election
Thu, 17 Jun 2021
The supreme leader is consolidating theocratic power and ensuring a hardline legacy. Voters know the...
Present, tense: Biden and Putin meet
Wed, 16 Jun 2021
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin have much to hammer out today—but don’t expect it to be genial. We ...
Patrons’ taint: Brazil’s pork-barrel politics
Tue, 15 Jun 2021
President Jair Bolsonaro campaigned on a promise to overturn the country’s political patronage, bu...
Promises, promises: the G7’s fuzzy climate pledges
Mon, 14 Jun 2021
Where they are clear, the summit’s commitments do not add much to existing targets; mostly, though...
Staying powers? The G7’s changing role
Fri, 11 Jun 2021
For the seven world leaders meeting in Britain the immediate crises are clear. But a broader questio...
An exit wounds: America’s Afghanistan retreat
Thu, 10 Jun 2021
Air bases have been handed over; America’s remaining troops are shipping out and NATO forces are f...
You don’t say: Indonesia joins Asia’s digital censorship
Wed, 09 Jun 2021
As governments across South-East Asia crimp online freedoms, the region’s healthiest democracy mig...
Criminal proceedings: America’s spike in violence
Tue, 08 Jun 2021
Piecemeal criminal-justice reforms following last year’s protests are coming up against hard numbe...
Ballots and bullets: Mexico’s elections
Mon, 07 Jun 2021
The run-up to the country’s largest-ever election has been bloody; the aftermath will set the tone...
Peace out: from bad to worse in Yemen
Fri, 04 Jun 2021
The Saudi-backed government is hobbled; separatism is spreading; a humanitarian crisis grows by the ...
Catch-up mustered: Europe’s vaccination drive
Thu, 03 Jun 2021
The bloc seems at last to have a firm hand on inoculation and recovery—but efforts to engineer eve...
Swiping rights: Republicans’ vote-crimping bids
Wed, 02 Jun 2021
A walkout in the Texas legislature is just the most dramatic of broad efforts to restrict voting rig...
Bibi, it’s cold outside: Israel’s improbable coalition
Tue, 01 Jun 2021
The only thing that unites the parties of a would-be government is the will to oust Prime Minister B...
From the head down: rot in South Africa
Mon, 31 May 2021
Jacob Zuma, a former president, at last answers to decades-old corruption allegations. But graft sti...
Caught in the activists: oil majors’ shake-ups
Fri, 28 May 2021
Activist investors installed green-minded board members at ExxonMobil; Chevron’s shareholders push...
On the origins and the specious: the SARS-CoV-2 lab-leak theory
Thu, 27 May 2021
The suggestion that the virus first emerged from a Chinese laboratory has proved stubbornly persiste...
From out of thin air: Belarus dissidents' fates
Wed, 26 May 2021
The regime got its quarry—a widely read, dissident blogger and his girlfriend—but faces internat...
To protect and serve: police reform one year after George Floyd
Tue, 25 May 2021
Protests have followed police killings in America with saddening regularity, but the scope of demons...
From a tax to attacks: Colombia’s unrelenting unrest
Mon, 24 May 2021
Protests that began last month show no sign of abating; our correspondent speaks with Iván Duque, t...
The dust settles: ceasefire in Gaza
Fri, 21 May 2021
After 11 days of fierce fighting, Israel and Hamas agreed to a ceasefire beginning in the ...
Game on: the Tokyo Olympics
Thu, 20 May 2021
The Tokyo Olympics are due to begin in just over two months. But with coronavirus cases climbing in ...
Populists poised: Italian politics
Wed, 19 May 2021
Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, has been cheered by the markets since taking on the job in F...
Hot air: emissions reduction
Tue, 18 May 2021
The International Energy Agency has published a report explaining what needs to happen if the world ...
Feast and famine: vaccine supply
Mon, 17 May 2021
Though over 10bn doses of covid-19 vaccine may be produced this year, much of the poor world will se...
Home front: Israel’s war within
Fri, 14 May 2021
As Israel's war with Hamas has intensified, mob violence between Arabs and Jews within the country h...
Purged: Liz Cheney’s sacking
Thu, 13 May 2021
Liz Cheney had been a rising Republican star. Now the staunch conservative has been purged by her ow...
Baby bust: China’s census
Wed, 12 May 2021
China just unveiled the results of its first census in over a decade. The results are striking, if n...
Rockets over Jerusalem: Israeli-Palestinian violence
Tue, 11 May 2021
Tension in the holy city of Jerusalem has been rising for weeks, amid the attempted eviction of Pale...
North poll: Boris Johnson’s election victory
Mon, 10 May 2021
Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, is celebrating a wave of election victories for his Conse...
Down to brash tax: Colombia’s protests grow
Fri, 07 May 2021
Demonstrations initially against tax reform have bloomed—and turned violent. The reforms have been...
Who’s to say? Facebook, Trump and free speech
Thu, 06 May 2021
The social-media giant’s external-review body upheld a ban on former president Donald Trump—for ...
Cache and carry: American states’ gun-law push
Wed, 05 May 2021
Today another state will enact a “permitless carry” law—no licence, checks or training require...
Strait shooting? The growing peril to Taiwan
Tue, 04 May 2021
A decades-old policy of “strategic ambiguity” is breaking down; we ask about the risks and the s...
The turn at a century: Northern Ireland’s anniversary
Mon, 03 May 2021
The province’s largest party aligned with Britain has lost its leader; in the 100 years since the ...
Illiberal-arts degrees: Hungary’s universities seized
Fri, 30 Apr 2021
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s proudly “illiberal democracy” has nobbled nearly every instituti...
A word in edgewise: Turkey, Armenia and genocide
Thu, 29 Apr 2021
In calling the 1915 campaign against Armenians a genocide, President Joe Biden has rekindled tension...
A great deal to be desired: Europe-Britain trade
Wed, 28 Apr 2021
Europe’s parliament has overwhelmingly voted to extend a stopgap trade agreement. But the rancour ...
SPAClash: the buzz and the bust
Tue, 27 Apr 2021
Special-purpose acquisition companies offer a novel way for companies to list on stockmarkets. We lo...
Extremist prejudice: rebranding Navalny
Mon, 26 Apr 2021
Russian courts’ bid to designate opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s movement as a terrorist orga...
Carbon date: Biden’s climate summit
Fri, 23 Apr 2021
President Joe Biden laid out ambitious emissions targets yesterday, but in order to be taken serious...
Growth negligence: India’s covid-19 failings
Thu, 22 Apr 2021
Mass gatherings and in-person voting continue, even as new case numbers smash records and fatalities...
Insuperable: Europe’s football fiasco
Wed, 21 Apr 2021
A “Super League” plan wrong-footed fans, clubs, even governments. We examine what the failed bid...
A case rests, a city does not: Derek Chauvin’s trial
Tue, 20 Apr 2021
The former police officer involved in George Floyd’s death awaits a verdict. What would conviction...
Lai of the land: Hong Kong’s democrats quashed
Mon, 19 Apr 2021
Some of the territory’s most outspoken activists—from media mogul Jimmy Lai to “father of demo...
The path of increased resistance: Myanmar
Fri, 16 Apr 2021
Protests against February’s military coup are only growing, even as the army becomes more murderou...
Boots off the ground: America’s Afghanistan drawdown
Thu, 15 Apr 2021
Few believe President Joe Biden’s withdrawal plan is wise; it is already prompting allied forces t...
Arms’ reach: Russia flexes at Ukraine border
Wed, 14 Apr 2021
The troops and hardware piling up at the border are probably just posturing. But look closely: Russi...
Fission expedition: nuclear-site attack in Iran
Tue, 13 Apr 2021
An apparent act of sabotage at an Iranian nuclear site, blamed on Israel, has complicated the prospe...
Plagued by uncertainty: German politics
Mon, 12 Apr 2021
As the country wrestles with another covid-19 wave, the battle to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel i...
Like a tonne of bricks: violence in Northern Ireland
Fri, 09 Apr 2021
The ostensible reason for continuing clashes relates to a well-attended funeral. But the terms of Br...
Clotting factors: the AstraZeneca vaccine
Thu, 08 Apr 2021
British and European regulators have addressed a possible link with blood clots. Expect more rare si...
Deaths spiral: America’s spike in murders
Wed, 07 Apr 2021
Estimates suggest that last year’s rise in murder rates was the greatest in perhaps half a century...
Crown and thorn: Jordan’s royal ruckus
Tue, 06 Apr 2021
Pressure on the king’s half-brother may represent a mere family feud, but Prince Hamzah’s compla...
He said, Xi said: America-China ructions
Mon, 05 Apr 2021
The Biden administration’s early moves suggest no “reset” in relations; we recall a time when ...
Battle acts: France beefs up its forces
Fri, 02 Apr 2021
After years of peacekeeping and counter-insurgency campaigns, the country is getting tooled up and t...
Cresting: India’s second covid-19 wave
Thu, 01 Apr 2021
Case numbers are on the rise—at a more worrying rate even than the first wave. We ask why, and wha...
Takeaway lessons: Deliveroo’s listing disappoints
Wed, 31 Mar 2021
The tepid debut of Britain’s dominant food-delivery app signals doubts not only about the gig econ...
High threat-count: boycotts in China
Tue, 30 Mar 2021
Western fashion brands are in Chinese consumers’ crosshairs, the victims of political wranglings o...
The smell of gas: insurgency in Mozambique
Mon, 29 Mar 2021
In a province that is home to a massive natural-gas project, a long-simmering insurgency has burst i...
Growth and stagnation: Bangladesh’s first 50 years
Fri, 26 Mar 2021
The country has empowered its women, established itself as a garment-industry powerhouse and vastly ...
Export-control panel: the EU meets on vaccines
Thu, 25 Mar 2021
European leaders will address the thorny question of vaccine-export controls today. We look at the r...
Can’t take a hike: more economic turmoil in Turkey
Wed, 24 Mar 2021
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan just does not like interest-rate rises. So he has again sacked a cent...
Always be their Bibi? Israel votes, again
Tue, 23 Mar 2021
It’s the fourth poll in two years, but a stable government is still far from guaranteed. We examin...
Not-purchasing power: boycotts in Myanmar
Mon, 22 Mar 2021
As demonstrations against February’s coup continue, many are trying a subtler form of resistance: ...
Another race question: murder in Atlanta
Fri, 19 Mar 2021
A shooting in the city left eight dead, six of them women of East Asian descent. We examine the past...
Forces to be reckoned with: Afghan peace talks
Thu, 18 Mar 2021
Negotiations in Moscow may at last forge agreement between the Afghan government and Taliban insurge...
Harms weigh: AstraZeneca vaccine fears
Wed, 17 Mar 2021
Scattered reports of blood clots have sparked curbs across Europe, even though the jab is almost cer...
Earning them: Stripe’s monster valuation
Tue, 16 Mar 2021
The firm got in early providing online-payment software to tech startups. Now it’s the most valuab...
Redrawing the map: a fragmented Syria
Mon, 15 Mar 2021
As the country marks ten years of civil war, the economy is crippled; it has broken up into statelet...
Casting the net wider: remaking the welfare state
Fri, 12 Mar 2021
As the Biden administration fires a $1.9trn pandemic-relief bazooka, we consider how governments mig...
Nuclear inaction: the legacy of Fukushima
Thu, 11 Mar 2021
The cleanup effort in and around the melted-down power plant is still progressing, but rebuilding co...
Whither permitting? Vaccine passports
Wed, 10 Mar 2021
Formalising systems to divide the vaccinated from the unvaccinated is neither as risky nor as useful...
Reconciled to it: America’s stimulus bill
Tue, 09 Mar 2021
Thanks to a parliamentary contortion called reconciliation, the $1.9trn covid-relief plan is likely ...
Despair and disparities: covid-19 consumes Brazil
Mon, 08 Mar 2021
State and local pandemic responses are scattershot; a national effort is all but nonexistent. A cree...
Rubber-stamping ground: China’s parliament meets
Fri, 05 Mar 2021
The National People’s Congress kicked off with two big signals of Beijing’s intentions: a return...
Exit stages left: America and the Middle East
Thu, 04 Mar 2021
The Biden administration would like to pull back from the region; America’s strategic interests ha...
Owing to the pandemic: Britain’s budget
Wed, 03 Mar 2021
The finance minister has a plan that will keep many safeguards in place—for now. We ask how the co...
A dark picture emerges: atrocities in Ethiopia
Tue, 02 Mar 2021
It is becoming more certain that war crimes are being committed in the northern region of Tigray. Ye...
Coup fighters: Myanmar’s persistent protesters
Mon, 01 Mar 2021
The temperature keeps rising: as demonstrations continue to grow, the army is becoming more brutal. ...
Mutual-appreciation anxiety: Putin and Erdogan
Fri, 26 Feb 2021
The presidents of Turkey and Russia make an odd couple; their former empires have clashed over centu...
Hell for Tether: a cryptocurrency crimped
Thu, 25 Feb 2021
The notionally dollar-pegged “stablecoin” quietly underpins many crypto-market moves. We ask wha...
Let the games be thin: Tokyo’s Olympic tussles
Wed, 24 Feb 2021
Planners are in a corner. Delaying or cancelling the summer tournament looks like defeat; pressing a...
Confirmation biases: Biden’s cabinet picks
Tue, 23 Feb 2021
President Joe Biden’s top posts are shaping up as Senate confirmation hearings continue—but some...
Contrary to popular opinion: Mexico’s president
Mon, 22 Feb 2021
Andrés Manuel López Obrador roared into office with a grand “fourth transformation” agenda. Ev...
Have I not news for you: Facebook’s Australian battle
Fri, 19 Feb 2021
A media code that would obligate tech giants to pay for linking to news stories looks set to pass. I...
Watts the problem: Texas’s energy failings
Thu, 18 Feb 2021
Crippling blackouts can be explained in part by the state’s unique energy market, but the disaster...
The next of 1,000 cuts: Hong Kong activists on trial
Wed, 17 Feb 2021
It is not violent young protesters in the dock: the accused are the architects of the territory’s ...
Desert stands: France in the Sahel
Tue, 16 Feb 2021
Terror groups and separatists run riot in the sprawling region, and France has had some success in k...
No Capitol punishment: Trump’s acquittal
Mon, 15 Feb 2021
Donald Trump was all but certain to be cleared in his Senate trial, and so it went. But the few Repu...
Exit-stage plight: Brexit’s costs come due
Fri, 12 Feb 2021
Stock-trading is shifting to the continent; businesses are bound up in red tape; border issues are s...
The coup is on the other foot: Myanmar
Thu, 11 Feb 2021
A power-grab by the army’s commander, Min Aung Hlaing, is not turning out to be easy: the greatest...
Like hell out of a bat: SARS-CoV-2’s origin
Wed, 10 Feb 2021
The World Health Organisation unveiled preliminary findings, suggesting the coronavirus probably jum...
Very long covid: the lasting risks to Africa
Tue, 09 Feb 2021
So far it seems the continent has weathered the pandemic well. But current numbers mask a future rec...
The art of the done deal: Trump on trial, again
Mon, 08 Feb 2021
The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump will make history, but its outcome is assured. We ask w...
Ballot bonanza: Latin America’s year of elections
Fri, 05 Feb 2021
Ecuador’s elections on Sunday kick off a packed year of polls in the region. Democracy’s foothol...
Cheques notes: getting America’s stimulus right
Thu, 04 Feb 2021
Congress is on the cusp of pushing through a $1.9trn stimulus bill. But would it be money well spent...
Rise above the cloud: Amazon’s new chief executive
Wed, 03 Feb 2021
Jeff Bezos is relinquishing the reins—partly—of the firm he founded. We take a look at Andy Jass...
As a general rules: Myanmar’s coup
Tue, 02 Feb 2021
The army already had plenty of political power, but following a landslide election loss it dramatica...
More needles in the haystack: vaccine candidates proliferate
Mon, 01 Feb 2021
That a coronavirus vaccine could be developed in a year is astonishing—and promising candidates ju...
Tug of warheads: the nuclear order
Fri, 29 Jan 2021
Successful arms-control diplomacy has kept proliferation at bay for decades. But many states now hav...
Conte’s inferno: political crisis in Italy
Thu, 28 Jan 2021
The president is scrambling to pull together a workable government following Prime Minister Giuseppe...
Vials and tribulations: the EU’s vaccine push
Wed, 27 Jan 2021
The European Union’s vaccine rollout was slow and fragmented even before pharma companies warned o...
Party down: Vietnam’s Communist leaders meet
Tue, 26 Jan 2021
At this week’s five-yearly congress there will be pride in the handling of the pandemic—but broa...
Vlad tidings: demonstrations across Russia
Mon, 25 Jan 2021
The arrest of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny—and an exposé he released alleging deep corruption—...
Biting the hands that would feed: Ethiopia
Fri, 22 Jan 2021
There are signs that the federal government is obstructing humanitarian aid to the war-torn region o...
Much to repair: Biden’s first day on the job
Thu, 21 Jan 2021
The watchword was unity as Joe Biden took office—he struck a calming tone and got immediately to w...
Costly disbelief: covid-19 ravages Brazil again
Wed, 20 Jan 2021
Desperate scenes in the city of Manaus may foretell a dire wave throughout the country. A misguided ...
Hell no, we won’t grow: Indian farmers’ mass protests
Tue, 19 Jan 2021
Hundreds of thousands of farmers have participated in protests around Delhi, demonstrating against l...
Landed, in trouble: Alexei Navalny returns to Russia
Mon, 18 Jan 2021
The opposition leader was detained as soon as he arrived—but President Vladimir Putin has no good ...
Bold Wine in new battles: Uganda’s election
Fri, 15 Jan 2021
After a violent campaign in which the opposition candidate Bobi Wine was extensively intimidated, au...
Two-timer: Trump impeached, again
Thu, 14 Jan 2021
Some House Republicans broke ranks, joining Democrats to hand President Donald Trump an ignominious ...
Trial ensnarer: human-rights law’s new tool
Wed, 13 Jan 2021
War criminals and their ilk often evade justice solely because of squabbling over who can be tried w...
You don’t say: tech’s Trump bans
Tue, 12 Jan 2021
Moves to shutter the president’s accounts and to crimp corners of the internet given to right-wing...
Wrest wing: the bid to oust Trump
Mon, 11 Jan 2021
Today Democratic lawmakers will begin attempts to remove President Donald Trump. It could fail, or b...
The longer arm of the law: Hong Kong
Fri, 08 Jan 2021
A national-security law imposed by Beijing had not, until this week, bared its teeth; the arrests of...
Riot act: Biden confirmed amid chaos
Thu, 07 Jan 2021
After previously unthinkable scenes played out in Washington’s legislature, we ask what the violen...
Run-off, their feat: Georgia’s Senate races
Wed, 06 Jan 2021
Democrats look set to win both the run-off elections that will determine control of the Senate—and...
Stresses of strains: emerging coronavirus variants
Tue, 05 Jan 2021
It is no surprise that more-transmissible coronavirus variants are cropping up. We ask how worrisome...
Arms within reach: Israel's vaccination lead
Mon, 04 Jan 2021
Aggressive purchasing, solid logistics and a competitive health-care system have led to a world-beat...
Isle talk to EU later: a vote on a scant Brexit deal
Wed, 30 Dec 2020
Britain’s parliament will vote today on its last-gasp agreement with the European Union. But that ...
Cheques, imbalances: America’s fraught stimulus
Tue, 29 Dec 2020
After months of deadlock, a covid-19 relief package has passed, but the battles continue. We ask how...
Going around the bloc: Europe’s vaccination push
Mon, 28 Dec 2020
The first inoculations are happening across the continent as part of a co-ordinated push—but level...
Old acquaintance not forgot: the notable deaths of 2020
Wed, 23 Dec 2020
In a year marked by more than a million and a half deaths, mortality has rarely been so front of min...
Bubbles in the market: Mexico’s Coca-Cola obsession
Tue, 22 Dec 2020
For decades, the country has been an almighty consumer of the fizzy drink. But amid a woeful covid-1...
Get the lead out: Zambia’s toxic mine
Mon, 21 Dec 2020
A site that closed more than a quarter-century ago is still slowly poisoning the residents of Kabwe ...
Rehousing project: Bangladesh’s Rohingya
Fri, 18 Dec 2020
The country’s refugee camps are packed and squalid, so the government is moving perhaps 100,000 Ro...
And then, winter: ten years after the Arab Spring
Thu, 17 Dec 2020
A revolutionary conflagration a decade ago has almost entirely flickered out. We ask what happened t...
This market went a little piggy: a capital-raising frenzy
Wed, 16 Dec 2020
Astonishingly, companies have raised more capital this year than ever before. We ask how capital mar...
Joe, College: Biden’s victory affirmed
Tue, 15 Dec 2020
America’s by-the-book electoral-college vote calmed concerns about another Trump-camp bid to overt...
So long, and we’re keeping all the fish: Brexit
Mon, 14 Dec 2020
Britain’s divorce from the European Union still hinges on sticky matters of fishing rights and the...
Taking the temperature: a climate chat with the UN chief
Fri, 11 Dec 2020
Ahead of a weekend meeting to assess and bolster the Paris Agreement, our correspondent speaks with ...
If you already joined ‘em, beat ‘em: Facebook gets sued
Thu, 10 Dec 2020
American regulators have put mergers that they approved years ago at the heart of antitrust lawsuits...
Laïcité, égalité, fraternité? France’s secularism bill
Wed, 09 Dec 2020
President Emmanuel Macron’s draft bill walks a fine line balancing the country’s foundational se...
Granting immunity: America weighs vaccine approval
Tue, 08 Dec 2020
As Britons receive the first doses of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine, authorities in America are mee...
Fairly unusual: Ghana’s elections
Mon, 07 Dec 2020
In a region racked by dodgy polls, the country looks to continue a trend of uncontested handovers of...
Intensive scare: covid-19 ravages America
Fri, 04 Dec 2020
Numbers of cases, hospitalisations and deaths are rocketing across the country. We examine the situa...
Your planet, or mines? Kicking the coal habit
Thu, 03 Dec 2020
In the West market forces are squeezing coal—even as its use rises in Asia. We examine how the wor...
Trans formative: a landmark children’s-rights ruling
Wed, 02 Dec 2020
Britain’s High Court has ruled that puberty blockers for children with gender dysphoria have been ...
Nuclear-war head: assassination in Iran
Tue, 01 Dec 2020
The killing of the country’s top nuclear scientist comes at a tricky time: violent retribution may...
No show of force: France’s controversial police-protection bill
Mon, 30 Nov 2020
Protesters are raging against a proposed bill that would outlaw posting videos of alleged police bru...
One party to rule them all? India’s fraying democracy
Fri, 27 Nov 2020
Many of the country’s institutions are being slowly hobbled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s go...
At his majesty, displeasure: Thailand’s anti-monarchy push
Thu, 26 Nov 2020
A long string of pro-democracy protests are railing more and more against the king himself—and the...
Tigray area: Ethiopia’s deadly standoff
Wed, 25 Nov 2020
The northern region’s surrounded forces are ignoring Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s deadline to dis...
What funds we’ll have: green venture capital
Tue, 24 Nov 2020
The boom-and-bust of environmental-technology investing has settled out, and money is flooding in—...
Playing his Trump cards: Biden’s China policy
Mon, 23 Nov 2020
The tone of America’s president-elect on China changed markedly through the campaign; his policies...
Undercut a deal: the threat to Afghan peace
Fri, 20 Nov 2020
Peace talks continue in Doha but on the ground the Taliban are consolidating control. America’s ru...
Quit it cold, Turkey: policy tightens at last
Thu, 19 Nov 2020
Now that the economic reins have been taken back from the president’s son-in-law, the country is m...
Concession stand: Trump’s intransigence
Wed, 18 Nov 2020
America’s outgoing president is sticking with an insidious fiction, lashing out at those who deny ...
Out on a LegCo: Hong Kong under pressure
Tue, 17 Nov 2020
Following a purge based on a harsh new security law, the territory’s Legislative Council lacks a s...
Disrupter, disrupted: Britain’s government
Mon, 16 Nov 2020
The chief aide to the prime minister had been a driving force in policy but a dividing force in gove...
Going to cede: Armenia and Azerbaijan
Fri, 13 Nov 2020
The longest-running conflict in the Caucasus could well be over. We examine a peace deal that benefi...
Sahel of a mess: France’s impossible peacekeeping mission
Thu, 12 Nov 2020
Jihadism is growing in a continent-wide strip of Africa, and the riskiest operations to contain it f...
We’ll again have Paris: Biden’s ambitious climate plans
Wed, 11 Nov 2020
President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign had the environment front and centre. We analyse his pledges—...
Nine out of ten, doctors say: a promising coronavirus vaccine
Tue, 10 Nov 2020
A vaccine claimed to be 90% effective represents an enormous achievement. We discuss what questions ...
Brought to heal: Biden’s chance to unite America
Mon, 09 Nov 2020
President Donald Trump will go, but Trumpism will remain. Our editor-in-chief considers how Presiden...
Abiy damned: Ethiopia’s looming civil war
Fri, 06 Nov 2020
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has taken drastic steps to quieten a state stacked with trained militias. ...
The lawyers of diminishing returns: America’s election
Thu, 05 Nov 2020
As President Donald Trump’s re-election path slims, his pledges to fight the results in court are ...
Tally forth: America’s elections
Wed, 04 Nov 2020
The outcome remains unclear as vote-counting continues. We look at some of the surprise results, ask...
Poles’ position: an abortion-law backlash
Tue, 03 Nov 2020
Poland already had some of the strictest laws on terminations, but the ruling party’s bid to tight...
Lock step: England to shut down, again
Mon, 02 Nov 2020
Prime Minister Boris Johnson all but ruled out a second lockdown, but his hand has been forced by En...
Net losses: plunder of the oceans
Fri, 30 Oct 2020
The staggering extent of illegal fishing, and its human and environmental costs, are only just becom...
What Xi said: China’s five-year plan
Thu, 29 Oct 2020
The party’s Fifth Plenum sets out a five-year vision; we mine the plan for clues about how China v...
Stumbling bloc: Europe’s second wave
Wed, 28 Oct 2020
Across the continent, covid-19 cases are rising steeply and containment measures are still divergent...
Chagrin, and Barrett: America’s Supreme Court
Tue, 27 Oct 2020
Amy Coney Barrett’s confirmation marks the first time since the 1930s the court has leaned so cons...
Coming write-up: Chile votes to overhaul its constitution
Mon, 26 Oct 2020
The country has roundly rejected its dictatorship-era charter and mapped out how to fashion a new on...
Civil proceedings: America's presidential debate
Fri, 23 Oct 2020
America’s final presidential debate had less noise and more substance. But polls seem immovable an...
Pandemic power-grabs: autocrats’ covid opportunism
Thu, 22 Oct 2020
As it has with so many other trends, the pandemic has hastened the decline of democracy and human ri...
Secular-stand nation: terror in France
Wed, 21 Oct 2020
The brutal murder of a schoolteacher comes amid warnings of mounting Islamism in the country. The at...
The persecution of a people: China’s repression of the Uyghurs
Tue, 20 Oct 2020
Reporting by The Economist reveals deepening efforts by Chinese authorities not just to imprison the...
Loved Labour’s won: landslide in New Zealand
Mon, 19 Oct 2020
After a term spent steering the country through crises, Jacinda Ardern has led her Labour party to a...
Más MAS? Bolivia’s election
Fri, 16 Oct 2020
After last year’s vote was marred by fraud allegations, the electorate is split ahead of Sunday’...
A close-it call: Nigeria’s uprising
Thu, 15 Oct 2020
Angry protests following an alleged police killing continue, even after a hated police unit was shut...
Scared strait: Taiwan
Wed, 14 Oct 2020
Rhetoric and sabre-rattling from mainland China are rapidly ramping up; we examine the risk of an in...
Food chain broken: famine in Yemen
Tue, 13 Oct 2020
The country yet again faces widespread starvation as a civil war grinds on, and both sides are to bl...
In their own Swede time: pandemic pragmatism
Mon, 12 Oct 2020
By the numbers to date, Sweden's light-touch covid-19 measures may not seem successful. But its prag...
Buy the way? Kyrgyzstan’s post-election chaos
Fri, 09 Oct 2020
Citizens are furious after a poll seemingly tainted by vote-buying; its annulment leaves a power vac...
More-civil discourse: Pence and Harris debate
Thu, 08 Oct 2020
That a housefly could steal the show at America’s only vice-presidential debate is telling, but a ...
Clerical era: Iraq in a hard place
Wed, 07 Oct 2020
A pilgrimage that is sure to become a covid-19 hotspot is a sign of how much the country’s governm...
Sailing into the wind: Boris Johnson
Tue, 06 Oct 2020
Britain’s prime minister will outline big wind-energy plans at his party’s annual conference, ev...
Ill-disposed: Trump’s hospital stay
Mon, 05 Oct 2020
Amid a flurry of conflicting information over the weekend, details of Donald Trump’s progress and ...
In Syria’s trouble: an embattled despot digs in
Fri, 02 Oct 2020
Unexpected defeats at rebels’ hands, a cratered economy, a hungry citizenry and a runaway covid-19...
Enclave on edge: Armenia and Azerbaijan
Thu, 01 Oct 2020
The region of Nagorno-Karabakh has been the subject of dispute and skirmishes for decades—but the ...
Shoutshow: Trump and Biden clash
Wed, 30 Sep 2020
America’s first presidential debate was unmitigated chaos, revealing little more than the rancour ...
No-tax-and-spend policy: Trump’s tax returns
Tue, 29 Sep 2020
Just ahead of the first presidential debate, a trove of tax documents suggests the president has som...
Bench press: Trump’s Supreme Court pick
Mon, 28 Sep 2020
On gun rights, abortion policy and health care Amy Coney Barrett, the seemingly unstoppable successo...
Another matter: the Breonna Taylor verdict
Fri, 25 Sep 2020
A grand jury’s decision has re-energised months-long protests. We ask how much another tragic deat...
Winter is coming: covid-19’s next phase
Thu, 24 Sep 2020
Soon the pandemic will have claimed a million lives. We take a broad look at what has been learned—...
America’s next top chamber, modelled: the Senate battle
Wed, 23 Sep 2020
Congressional elections will decide the direction of America’s governance irrespective of the pres...
Stumbling block: the battle over WeChat
Tue, 22 Sep 2020
The Trump administration’s bid to block the Chinese app has been stymied—for now. The tussle ref...
Judge dread: the fight for Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat
Mon, 21 Sep 2020
Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a liberal icon. Her death last week opens a Supreme Court vacancy for Donald...
Uneasy lies the head: Thailand’s under-fire king
Fri, 18 Sep 2020
Thailand is bracing for a large anti-government protest, with some of the anger directed at the usua...
Conviction politics: Florida’s disenfranchised felons
Thu, 17 Sep 2020
More than a million former felons in Florida regained the right to vote in 2018. Last week, many of ...
Sanctuary in Sochi: Belarus’ dictator clings on
Wed, 16 Sep 2020
Belarus dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, has travelled to Sochi amid major protests at home to ask Vl...
After Abe: Japan’s new prime minister
Tue, 15 Sep 2020
Japan’s new prime minister will be Yoshihide Suga, the son of a strawberry farmer from the country...
Homework: the future of the office
Mon, 14 Sep 2020
The pandemic has been a giant experiment in working from home. We examine whether workers are happie...
Great walls of fire: America’s west coast burns
Fri, 11 Sep 2020
Relentless climate change will make devastating blazes more likely; urbanisation in woodland areas w...
Genocidal intent? Deserters recount Rohingya atrocities
Thu, 10 Sep 2020
Two Burmese soldiers have described in harrowing detail what has long been alleged: that the army ta...
Unpicking the thread: forced labour in Xinjiang
Wed, 09 Sep 2020
Sanctions are tightening around the Chinese province amid suspicions of forced labour. Western firms...
Subcontinental drift: India’s covid spike
Tue, 08 Sep 2020
A hurried lockdown early in the pandemic has cratered the country’s economy, and infection rates a...
Pact unpacked: wobbly Brexit talks
Mon, 07 Sep 2020
Negotiations on Britain’s post-Brexit relationship with Europe were floundering—even before reve...
Back to the future-planning: France
Fri, 04 Sep 2020
Alongside a green-minded, 100bn-euro stimulus, President Emmanuel Macron’s recovery plan borrows i...
Rough seas and safe seats: Caribbean elections
Thu, 03 Sep 2020
The outcome of Jamaica’s election isn’t much in doubt. What’s uncertain is how the wider Carib...
In a class, by themselves: pupils head back to school
Wed, 02 Sep 2020
Millions of schoolchildren are heading back to classes, many of them online. We examine the evidence...
Integration, differentiation: migrants in Germany
Tue, 01 Sep 2020
Five years ago, a vast wave of migrants and refugees began to spill into the country. We examine the...
Ill be going: Abe Shinzo’s legacy
Mon, 31 Aug 2020
Japan’s longest-serving prime minister leaves behind a mixed bag of policy successes and shortcomi...
Shot down, in flames: Kenosha, Wisconsin
Fri, 28 Aug 2020
Another shooting of an unarmed black man by police has reopened wounds still not healed after George...
Team-building exercise: America’s Middle East diplomacy
Thu, 27 Aug 2020
American officials hope more Arab states will follow the United Arab Emirates in normalising relatio...
The grande scheme of things: corruption in Mexico
Wed, 26 Aug 2020
The former head of the state-owned oil firm has presented stunning claims of high-level graft. Are t...
Insecurity services? Alexei Navalny’s poisoning
Tue, 25 Aug 2020
Doctors believe Russia’s opposition leader was poisoned, and suspicion naturally falls on the Krem...
Isle take it: Turkey’s adventures in the Med
Mon, 24 Aug 2020
The considerable oil and gas reserves beneath the eastern Mediterranean have sparked Turkey’s inte...
In over its head of state: Mali’s coup
Fri, 21 Aug 2020
The military has again ousted the president, after months of protests and years of ethnic violence. ...
Not free, not fair, not finished: Belarus’s election
Thu, 20 Aug 2020
Huge protests following a rigged election reveal that the people have had enough of “Europe’s la...
Blast from the past: a long-awaited verdict in Lebanon
Wed, 19 Aug 2020
For 15 years, the truck-bomb killing of a former prime minister went unpunished. But an even more de...
From Chapo to Mencho: Mexico’s cartels
Tue, 18 Aug 2020
Mexico’s new top cartel, led by a kingpin called El Mencho, has taken the country’s shocking vio...
Insufficient postage: the fight over America’s mail service
Mon, 17 Aug 2020
The US Postal Service is one of America’s most popular and necessary public institutions. Now it i...
To a concerning degree: dire climate assessments
Fri, 14 Aug 2020
Recent reports paint a dark picture, from heatwaves to hurricanes to high-water marks. But some prom...
Youngish, gifted and black: Kamala Harris
Thu, 13 Aug 2020
Joe Biden’s choice of running mate is simultaneously groundbreaking and conventional, and reveals ...
Therein Lai’s a tale: Hong Kong’s revealing arrests
Wed, 12 Aug 2020
The dramatic arrest of Jimmy Lai, a pro-democracy newspaper owner, reveals just how enthusiastically...
Buy now, save later: financing vaccine candidates
Tue, 11 Aug 2020
As clinical trials progress, policymakers must determine how heavily to fund the pre-emptive manufac...
Bytes and pieces: America’s Chinese-tech attack
Mon, 10 Aug 2020
First it was Bytedance’s app TikTok, now it’s Tencent’s WeChat: the Trump administration’s f...
That history should not repeat: Hiroshima’s storytellers
Fri, 07 Aug 2020
Survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings are now in their eighties. A new generation is lear...
A broken system, a broken city: Beirut
Thu, 06 Aug 2020
Some 300,000 people are homeless after an explosion of unthinkable size. The culprit appears to be s...
One nation, under gods? India’s divisive temple
Wed, 05 Aug 2020
Consecration at Ayodhya, the country’s most contested holy site, is another tick box in Prime Mini...
Going old Turkey: a regional power spreads
Tue, 04 Aug 2020
Since the Arab spring the country has vastly expanded its military and diplomatic efforts—filling ...
Ballot blocks: the squeeze on Hong Kong
Mon, 03 Aug 2020
The territory’s elections have been postponed, its activists barred from running—police are even...
Living larger: Google’s challenges
Fri, 31 Jul 2020
Enormous growth over 22 years has brought challenges, both from within and from outside; we examine ...
Barriers to entry: covid-19 and migration
Thu, 30 Jul 2020
The crisis has disproportionately squeezed migrants and has given many leaders an excuse to tighten ...
One mightily damaging backstory: 1MDB
Wed, 29 Jul 2020
Five years ago a $4.5bn hole in a development fund scrambled Malaysia’s politics. Now the inquiry ...
Feds up: Trump orders troops on America’s streets
Tue, 28 Jul 2020
Camouflaged personnel with no insignia, protesters bundled into unmarked vans: the President Donald ...
Bat out of elsewhere? Tracing SARS-CoV-2’s origins
Mon, 27 Jul 2020
Scientists are looking to South-East Asia to find how the virus got its start in humans. Knowing tha...
For old timers’ sake: covid-19 and care homes
Fri, 24 Jul 2020
The pandemic has taken its greatest toll in the world’s nursing homes—but the systemic problems ...
Without a trace: Israel’s covid-19 spike
Thu, 23 Jul 2020
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has gone from boasting about progress to battling protests as the ...
Full-meddle racket: Britain’s “Russia Report”
Wed, 22 Jul 2020
It remains unclear whether influence and misinformation campaigns have had significant effects on Br...
Grant them strength, or loan it: Europe’s historic deal
Tue, 21 Jul 2020
After days of gruelling debate, European leaders have agreed a recovery plan. It includes, for the f...
Cheques imbalances: America’s partisan stimulus battle
Mon, 20 Jul 2020
As Congress reconvenes and covid-19 rages largely unabated, the biggest question is how much to prop...
Laughing all the way: banks’ pandemic windfall
Fri, 17 Jul 2020
Pandemic panic has subsided, and economic pain deferred—so far. But never mind investment banks’...
No school, hard knocks: developing-world students hit hard
Thu, 16 Jul 2020
For many of the 1.5bn pupils affected by school closures, fewer lessons just means more labour—or ...
Eastern exposure: Russia’s telling protests
Wed, 15 Jul 2020
The arrest of a popular governor in the country’s far east has sparked unrest that reveals Preside...
Crude awakening: the Arab world after oil
Tue, 14 Jul 2020
Historic price fluctuations are hastening a post-oil transition that many Arab countries were alread...
Binary choice: a tech cold war looms
Mon, 13 Jul 2020
Tensions between China and America are hastening a global technology-industry split. That is not jus...
Return to centre? Poland’s presidential run-off
Fri, 10 Jul 2020
Integration or isolation? Conservative family values or liberal ones? The knife-edge election will d...
Centrifugal force: attacks on Iran
Thu, 09 Jul 2020
Another strike, evidently on a nuclear-fuel centrifuge facility, is being blamed on Israel—and, by...
In front, and centred: Joe Biden
Wed, 08 Jul 2020
The former vice-president has shifted leftward with his party, but it is his centrist tendencies tha...
Off like a shot: the race for a covid-19 vaccine
Tue, 07 Jul 2020
A British team is leading the race for the one innovation that could, in time, halt the coronavirus ...
Attention deficit: China’s campaign against Uighurs
Mon, 06 Jul 2020
Unparalleled surveillance, forced labour, even allegations of ethnic cleansing: atrocities in Xinjia...
Into left field? America's chief justice
Fri, 03 Jul 2020
Recent Supreme Court rulings might seem like a leftward shift. But Chief Justice John Roberts is lea...
Unsettled question: Israel’s annexation threat
Thu, 02 Jul 2020
A once-fringe position on annexing the West Bank is now a real prospect. But both international supp...
Two systems go: a new law grips Hong Kong
Wed, 01 Jul 2020
A sweeping new national-security law deeply undermines Beijing’s “one country, two systems” ap...
The next threat: confronting global risks
Tue, 30 Jun 2020
Six months on from the first reports of the coronavirus, this special episode examines the catastrop...
States of alarm: America’s covid-19 surge
Mon, 29 Jun 2020
An entirely predictable pattern is playing out: the states quickest to exit lockdowns are being hit ...
Council insecurity: the UN at 75
Fri, 26 Jun 2020
The founders of the United Nations expected it would move with the times. It hasn’t. Can reforms k...
Rush to a conclusion: Latin America’s lockdowns
Thu, 25 Jun 2020
After scattershot enforcement of lockdowns, the region has become the pandemic’s new focal point. ...
Leave in peace: Afghan-Taliban negotiations
Wed, 24 Jun 2020
A withdrawal agreement struck with America has been damnably hard to implement, but the two sides ma...
Past its Prime? Amazon comes of age
Tue, 23 Jun 2020
The pandemic has been great for sales; for profits, not so much. We examine the e-commerce giant’s...
Isle be damned: Britain ravaged by covid-19
Mon, 22 Jun 2020
Cosmopolitan, overweight, multi-ethnic: the country’s makeup has made the pandemic more deadly. Bu...
Syria’s condition: Bashar al-Assad
Fri, 19 Jun 2020
The country’s dictator has spent nearly half his time in power waging war on his own people. His p...
Painting the red towns: covid-19 in America
Thu, 18 Jun 2020
Coronavirus cases are easing in Democrat-held jurisdictions and rising in Republican-held areas. Wha...
Himalayan assault: India and China clash
Wed, 17 Jun 2020
The first deaths at the contested border in 45 years signal broader geopolitical shifts—and mark a...
No port in a storm: the world’s stranded sailors
Tue, 16 Jun 2020
Pandemic policies seem to have overlooked the key workers who keep the global trade system afloat: m...
A shifting alliance: NATO
Mon, 15 Jun 2020
As the organisation’s defence ministers meet this week we look at two of its principal challenges:...
Heavy lifting: India’s lockdown tradeoffs
Fri, 12 Jun 2020
As the world’s largest lockdown loosens, we examine how it went wrong and the challenges ahead for...
Spend, sometime: Germany’s economic shift
Thu, 11 Jun 2020
After decades as the continent’s penny-pincher, the country seems to be splashing out. That isn’...
Haftar be going now: the balance shifts in Libya
Wed, 10 Jun 2020
Tripoli has long been under siege by Khalifa Haftar, a warlord bent on toppling the internationally ...
Cops, a plea: police reform in America
Tue, 09 Jun 2020
George Floyd will be laid to rest today; our obituaries editor reflects on his life and untimely dea...
Say his name, and others’: American protests spread globally
Mon, 08 Jun 2020
Far beyond America’s shores demonstrators are calling for justice in their own countries. It’s a...
Not everything in moderation: Twitter v Facebook
Fri, 05 Jun 2020
The seemingly similar social networks have quite different business models—and that goes some way ...
This, too, shall impasse: Brexit talks resume
Thu, 04 Jun 2020
The pandemic has made negotiations more difficult and changed the political calculus on both sides. ...
Forgoing the distance: covid-19 spreads in Brazil
Wed, 03 Jun 2020
Even those who can distance themselves are unsure whether to do so—in part because President Jair ...
An epidemic of hunger: covid-19 and poverty
Tue, 02 Jun 2020
The pandemic is driving up the number of impoverished people for the first time in more than two dec...
The flames spread: protests in America
Mon, 01 Jun 2020
Demonstrations against police violence have only amplified. We ask why George Floyd’s death touche...
Crying foul, again: Black Lives Matter
Fri, 29 May 2020
Protests have broken out in Minneapolis and far beyond, following another black man’s death at the...
Checking their privilege: Beijing’s threat to Hong Kong
Thu, 28 May 2020
China’s parliament voted today to draft legislation that would utterly undermine the territory’s...
Leading nowhere: assessing Trump’s covid-19 response
Wed, 27 May 2020
President Donald Trump’s failures of leadership have compounded the crisis. But America’s health...
Shot chasers: big pharma’s covid-19 boost
Tue, 26 May 2020
The pandemic has caused a shift in how drug firms are viewed: their capacity for big-money innovatio...
Clear skies with a chance: covid-19’s green opportunity
Mon, 25 May 2020
Emissions have plummeted as the pandemic slowed the world. It could be a mere blip—but it is an un...
Systemic concerns: China’s party congress
Fri, 22 May 2020
Legislation signalled at the annual meeting undermines the “one country, two systems” approach t...
Swimming against the currency: Turkey
Thu, 21 May 2020
A central bank struggling for independence, dwindling foreign reserves to prop up the currency and a...
Politics trumps co-operation: the WHO’s annual meeting
Wed, 20 May 2020
Rhetoric and posturing at the World Health Organisation’s annual assembly reveal an agency under g...
Extreme measures: America’s far right
Tue, 19 May 2020
Extremists are cropping up at protests and expanding their reach online. They see the pandemic as pr...
Carriers and the disease: the airlines set for hard landings
Mon, 18 May 2020
Which firms will fly above the covid-19 clouds? Big, low-cost carriers with strong finances seem lik...
Continental divides: covid-19 strains the EU
Fri, 15 May 2020
What started as a public-health crisis is developing into an existential one. The most fundamental q...
Bibi steps: Israel’s long-awaited government
Thu, 14 May 2020
After three elections and 16 months, the unity government between sworn rivals Binyamin Netanyahu an...
Fool Britannia? A covid-19 response under scrutiny
Wed, 13 May 2020
After a series of government missteps, people in Britain—and, increasingly, outside it—are lamba...
Moveable feast: a global food system adapts
Tue, 12 May 2020
The vast network moving food from farm to fork has shifted gears mightily in response to covid-19. B...
Back to the furore: protests set to reignite
Mon, 11 May 2020
The pandemic overshadowed a striking spate of uprisings around the world. In Lebanon economic condit...
Rises and false: markets v the economy
Fri, 08 May 2020
How can stockmarkets be so healthy when many businesses are so unwell? We look at the many risks tha...
Hitting a Vlad patch: 20 years of Putin
Thu, 07 May 2020
As Russia’s leader marks two decades in power, he faces almighty headwinds—not only covid-19 but...
Disarming revelation: a chance at a global ceasefire
Wed, 06 May 2020
Many were shocked when armed groups heeded a call for a global ceasefire; given a squabble at the UN...
Degrees of separation: universities and covid-19
Tue, 05 May 2020
Many universities were on thin ice financially before the pandemic. Now, with foreign travel slumpin...
Lives v livelihoods: Africa’s covid-19 tradeoffs
Mon, 04 May 2020
As Nigeria tentatively lifts its lockdown today, we examine the decisions African leaders face: pand...
Nature, or nurtured? A politicised virus-origin hunt
Fri, 01 May 2020
Scientists may soon understand how the new coronavirus got its start; that could help head off futur...
Submerging markets: developing economies and covid-19
Thu, 30 Apr 2020
The pandemic is hitting emerging markets particularly hard, and the crisis is likely to widen the ga...
Those who can, teach! The case for reopening schools
Wed, 29 Apr 2020
The world’s students are falling behind and lockdown is only exacerbating prior disparities in the...
First, pass the post: Ohio’s vote-by-mail experiment
Tue, 28 Apr 2020
The state’s all-postal primaries vote could be seen as a trial run for November’s presidential e...
End transmission: covid-19 in New Zealand
Mon, 27 Apr 2020
The country is aiming for complete elimination of the coronavirus; so far, so good. But renewed free...
Unsteady states: America’s piecemeal reopening
Fri, 24 Apr 2020
Some governors are co-ordinating mutual lockdown plans, others are already reopening their states. T...
Rakhine and ruin: insurgency in Myanmar
Thu, 23 Apr 2020
The Rohingya genocide was just one of many sectarian flashpoints in Rakhine state; now a slick separ...
Held in cheque: corporate payouts and covid-19
Wed, 22 Apr 2020
Even before the pandemic, companies were accused of returning too much money to shareholders. As a r...
Symbols’ status: arrests in Hong Kong
Tue, 21 Apr 2020
Authorities have re-ignited tensions by arresting some of the democracy movement’s most prominent ...
Restarting Europe’s engine: Germany’s lockdown lightens
Mon, 20 Apr 2020
Non-essential businesses are opening; schools soon will be, too. The country’s fortunes are down t...
Gross domestic plummet: China’s historic contraction
Fri, 17 Apr 2020
The covid-19 pandemic has caused the country’s first GDP dip in more than four decades. What strug...
This sequestered isle: Britain’s covid-19 response
Thu, 16 Apr 2020
The prime minister is still convalescing; Parliament is still finding ways to meet virtually. Meanwh...
The gloves are on: South Koreans vote
Wed, 15 Apr 2020
Today’s legislative elections in South Korea are the world’s first to take place amid the covid-...
Dis-Kurti-ous: intrigues in Kosovo
Tue, 14 Apr 2020
We speak to Albin Kurti, a reformist prime minister, after his ouster—and ask how American officia...
Opening arguments: Europe’s cautious restart
Mon, 13 Apr 2020
This week, some European countries are beginning to switch their economies back on, but leaders face...
The fascists and the furious: remembering the 43 Group
Fri, 10 Apr 2020
Many have forgotten that, even after the second world war, a fascist movement held sway in Britain. ...
What Viktor’s spoiled: ten years of Orban
Thu, 09 Apr 2020
Under Hungary’s shape-shifting prime minister the country has essentially become a dictatorship—...
Movement at the epicentre: Wuhan’s lockdown lifts
Wed, 08 Apr 2020
People are spilling from the Chinese metropolis where the global outbreak took hold. But controls ac...
States’ evidence: Brazil’s messy covid-19 response
Tue, 07 Apr 2020
President Jair Bolsonaro still dismisses the disease as “just the sniffles”, so state and local ...
An app for that: covid surveillance
Mon, 06 Apr 2020
To keep track of the spread of covid-19, some governments are turning to digital surveillance, using...
Trough to peak: how high will American unemployment go?
Fri, 03 Apr 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has sent America’s mighty jobs machine into screeching reverse. How bad m...
No port of call: coronavirus may sink the cruise industry
Thu, 02 Apr 2020
Cruise ships had been enjoying a golden era—until covid-19 came along. The pandemic has been a cat...
Wishful thinking: America’s offer to Venezuela
Wed, 01 Apr 2020
The Trump administration makes Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro an offer he seems sure to refuse: an en...
In need of Comfort: New York's covid-19 crisis
Tue, 31 Mar 2020
New York is at the centre of America’s—and the world’s—coronavirus crisis. The metropolis ha...
Containment or complacency? Covid-19 in Japan
Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Japan has reported a relatively low number of coronavirus cases. But concern is growing. The Olympic...
Life sentences? Prisons and covid-19
Fri, 27 Mar 2020
Outbreaks among inmates are all but inevitable. Efforts at prison reform that were already under way...
Going to townships: covid-19 threatens Africa
Thu, 26 Mar 2020
Governments across the continent have had a head start, but that will not address some worrying syst...
Fiscal firepower: governments’ covid-19 aid
Wed, 25 Mar 2020
As American lawmakers reach a deal on the country’s largest-ever rescue package, we examine how pl...
Trial, trial again: the race for covid-19 treatments
Tue, 24 Mar 2020
The world’s scientists are swiftly identifying drugs that may help with the pandemic, and setting ...
Continental shift: covid-19 grips Europe
Mon, 23 Mar 2020
The novel coronavirus is spreading around the world, but its grip on Europe is curiously tight; we a...
Lessons unplanned: school shutdowns spread
Fri, 20 Mar 2020
Schools are closing down as covid-19 measures take hold; we look into the social, economic and educa...
Pandemic, meet politics: the US-China spat
Thu, 19 Mar 2020
Prior tensions have blunted the chances for a co-ordinated response to covid-19—and both countries...
Drawbridges up: lockdowns and covid-19
Wed, 18 Mar 2020
Borders are closing; suggestions to stay home are becoming mandates. We examine how the national res...
Same old song, and Gantz: fresh coalition talks in Israel
Tue, 17 Mar 2020
He has four weeks to form a government, but Binyamin Netanyahu’s rival Benny Gantz is likely to fi...
Flight risk: airlines and covid-19
Mon, 16 Mar 2020
Travel restrictions that are proliferating worldwide may represent an existential threat to many air...
Coming two terms with it: Putin’s power grab
Fri, 13 Mar 2020
A resetting of the clock on the Russian leader’s tenure will almost certainly pass into law. That ...
Stimulating discussion: policy responses to covid-19
Thu, 12 Mar 2020
Britain’s central bank made an emergency cut and released a budget with a whopping £30bn ($38bn) ...
Hollywood moment: Harvey Weinstein’s sentencing
Wed, 11 Mar 2020
The disgraced producer’s conviction may seem a clear-cut win for the #MeToo movement, but it’s a...
When in Rome...stay put: Italy on lockdown
Tue, 10 Mar 2020
The unexpected expansion of quarantine measures are a look into the near future of many countries, e...
A day without women: a vast strike in Mexico
Mon, 09 Mar 2020
Millions of women will stay home today, protesting against rising levels of violence against them. I...
Nevertheless, she persisted: the futility of restricting abortion
Fri, 06 Mar 2020
America’s Supreme Court is again tussling with the age-old question of abortion rights. Internatio...
Testing times: the world responds to covid-19
Thu, 05 Mar 2020
Our journalists explore the variance in both policy and preparedness among different countries and r...
Joe through a rough patch:Biden’s super Tuesday
Wed, 04 Mar 2020
The former vice-president stormed a raft of primaries yesterday, setting up a two-horse race to the ...
Caught in the middle: Idlib’s humanitarian disaster
Tue, 03 Mar 2020
Turkey sees the fall of Idlib as an existential threat; Russian-backed Syrian forces see the provinc...
EU’ve heard this one before: Brexit trade talks
Mon, 02 Mar 2020
Once again, Britain’s negotiators are talking tough, threatening a no-deal scenario as a long seri...
Playing with fire: Democrats may get Bern
Fri, 28 Feb 2020
Bernie Sanders's rise in the Democratic primaries has echoes of Donald Trump’s road to the Republi...
Delhi melee: India’s citizenship protests
Thu, 27 Feb 2020
Violence in the country’s capital is the worst in decades. The unrest pits the ruling party’s Hi...
Clash pipe: Canada’s widening protests
Wed, 26 Feb 2020
Successive governments have overlooked the concerns of indigenous peoples, and that has elevated a s...
Mitigating circumstances: coronavirus spreads
Tue, 25 Feb 2020
Global markets tanked yesterday as governments reported startling rises in covid-19 cases. Our corre...
Peace-meal: ceasefire in Afghanistan
Mon, 24 Feb 2020
For now, a “reduction in violence” is holding, and a long-awaited agreement hangs in the balance...
Clerical era: Iran’s elections
Fri, 21 Feb 2020
In a bid to unite a fractious populace, hardliners barred half of the parliamentary candidates; by s...
Uncut emerald: Ireland’s unification prospects
Thu, 20 Feb 2020
Spurred on by demographic shifts, Brexit and the success of the Sinn Fein party in this month’s el...
Many hands light of work: China’s 170m migrant workers
Wed, 19 Feb 2020
Strict controls meant to contain the spread of the coronavirus are affecting many of the country’s...
A friend of mines: America’s explosive policy turn
Tue, 18 Feb 2020
The Trump administration’s stance on anti-personnel landmines worries many—but also speaks to a ...
The snails of justice: the International Criminal Court
Mon, 17 Feb 2020
Sudan’s transitional government has pledged to hand over the country’s brutal former leader to t...
Another man’s Treasury: Britain’s cabinet upheaval
Fri, 14 Feb 2020
The dramatic departure of the head of the Treasury reveals Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s desire—...
Defence on the defensive: NATO under scrutiny
Thu, 13 Feb 2020
It’s not just President Donald Trump piling pressure on the alliance. As defence ministers meet in...
Bern turn: New Hampshire’s primary
Wed, 12 Feb 2020
Bernie Sanders and Pete Buttigieg led the pack in New Hampshire. Two candidates have exited the race...
Christian Democratic disunion: Germany’s political upheaval
Tue, 11 Feb 2020
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s hand-picked successor is out of the running. The ruling CDU party must ...
Trust the process? China’s coronavirus response
Mon, 10 Feb 2020
The Communist Party is exuding an aura of complete control over the outbreak, but our correspondent ...
From out of left field: Ireland’s election
Fri, 07 Feb 2020
After the adulation, the discontent. Voters are abandoning the party of the young, progressive leade...
Imperfect call: Trump’s exoneration
Thu, 06 Feb 2020
A predictable outcome in President Donald Trump’s Senate trial will have unpredictable effects on ...
Address change: the State of the Union
Wed, 05 Feb 2020
President Donald Trump seemed to be going out of his way to rankle Democrats while he pitched his te...
An app-polling delay: Iowa’s caucus chaos
Tue, 04 Feb 2020
Technical glitches and “inconsistencies” threw America’s first Democratic caucuses into disarr...
Economic contagion: Hong Kong
Mon, 03 Feb 2020
Hong Kong’s GDP report released today reflects the squeeze that enormous protests at home and econ...
When one door closes: Brexit day
Fri, 31 Jan 2020
The costs of leaving the European Union are likely to outweigh the benefits. But as Britain re-align...
Viral hit: the costs of China’s lockdown
Thu, 30 Jan 2020
Our correspondent travels to the border of the locked-down Hubei province, finding among the people ...
They went that Huawei: Britain’s crucial 5G call
Wed, 29 Jan 2020
Facing pressure from both China and America on allowing Huawei into its next-generation network, Bri...
Showpiece in the Middle East: Trump’s “ultimate deal”
Tue, 28 Jan 2020
Palestinian leaders have already rejected the American administration’s peace plan. But the propos...
Spread bet: China’s coronavirus quarantine
Mon, 27 Jan 2020
In Hubei province and increasingly across China, new-year celebrations are muted. Authorities are tr...
Ill-judged: Poland’s rule-of-law crisis
Fri, 24 Jan 2020
Poland's government has been trying to nobble the courts for years. Now the European Union is interv...
On the right track: a trend in diplomacy
Thu, 23 Jan 2020
When conflict-resolution efforts falter in official channels, there are unofficial ones. We ask why ...
Justin time, again: Trudeau’s second term
Wed, 22 Jan 2020
Canada’s prime minister now leads a minority government, and has lost support in the country’s w...
Can I get a witness? Impeachment
Tue, 21 Jan 2020
The rules are set, battle lines drawn and the outcome is all but assured. We ask why the Senate tria...
Tripoli crown: the battle for Libya
Mon, 20 Jan 2020
This weekend’s peace talks in Berlin were a good start, but the situation is still ripe for a long...
Address the problem: the global housing blunder
Fri, 17 Jan 2020
Badly run housing markets are linked to broader ills, from financial crises to the rise of populism....
Checks and Balance: Trailer
Fri, 17 Jan 2020
US editor John Prideaux and his colleagues from across the US and around the world go beyond the hea...
Set for life? Putin’s power-grab
Thu, 16 Jan 2020
After Russia’s president proposed vast constitutional change, the whole government resigned. It se...
Going through a phase: US-China trade deal
Wed, 15 Jan 2020
Negotiators will sign a “phase one” pact today—but the trickiest issues remain unresolved, and...
A Biden by their decision? Democrats debate
Tue, 14 Jan 2020
The race for the Democratic nomination looks much like it did a year ago—but previous contests pro...
Tsai of the times: Taiwan’s defiant election
Mon, 13 Jan 2020
China has been getting more aggressive in its claims over the island, but voters have made it clear ...
Scorched-earth policies: Australia and climate change
Fri, 10 Jan 2020
Evacuations are expanding as fast as the flames, and worse may yet be to come. We visit the fiery ex...
Will you still feed me when I’m 62? Macron’s pension fight
Thu, 09 Jan 2020
He won a landslide victory campaigning on it, but like French presidents before him Emmanuel Macron ...
Return fire: Iran’s missile attacks
Wed, 08 Jan 2020
Attacks on bases that house American troops seem a dramatic retaliation to the killing of Iranian co...
Two heads aren’t better than one: Venezuela
Tue, 07 Jan 2020
After chaotic scenes in the National Assembly, it seems the country’s legislature has two leaders....
The general and specific threats: Iran
Mon, 06 Jan 2020
Killing Iran’s top military commander does not seem likely to further America’s aims for the reg...
Negative feedback: reversing carbon emissions
Fri, 03 Jan 2020
It is increasingly clear that putting less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will not be enough to co...
Made (entirely) in China: a tech behemoth rises
Thu, 02 Jan 2020
No longer content just to assemble devices, Chinese firms want to design them and the infrastructure...
Lifesaver: meet a death-row detective
Tue, 24 Dec 2019
Death sentences are occasionally overturned in America; we meet a private detective responsible for ...
Lying in states: fibbing politicians
Mon, 23 Dec 2019
Lies and politics have always come as a pair, but the untruths keep getting bigger and more frequent...
Old China hands: ageing in the Middle Kingdom
Fri, 20 Dec 2019
Next year, China’s median age will surpass America’s, but with just a quarter the median income;...
Exclusionary rule: India’s citizenship law
Thu, 19 Dec 2019
The Hindu nationalist government’s latest move pointedly excludes Muslims from immigration reform....
Marching orders: impeachment around the world
Wed, 18 Dec 2019
America’s impeachment battle falls along unhelpfully partisan lines—but the process has other sh...
Majority rules: Britain’s new Parliament sits
Tue, 17 Dec 2019
Now that the prime minister has a thumping parliamentary majority, Brexit is assured—but on what t...
COP out: the UN climate talks
Mon, 16 Dec 2019
Again, the annual COP conference ran long and ended with disappointment. Why can’t countries agree...
Bolt from the blue: Britain’s Conservatives triumph
Fri, 13 Dec 2019
A thumping win for Boris Johnson’s Tory party is more complex than it seems; the returns cast a li...
Defending the indefensible: Aung San Suu Kyi
Thu, 12 Dec 2019
Myanmar’s de facto leader appeared before the International Court of Justice to answer allegations...
Articles of faith: charges laid against Trump
Wed, 11 Dec 2019
House Democrats have issued their narrowly focused articles of impeachment against President Donald ...
Running into debt: Argentina’s new president
Tue, 10 Dec 2019
For the first time in decades, a non-Peronist president will peacefully hand over power. But the new...
Oil be going: Canada’s separatist west
Mon, 09 Dec 2019
Long-simmering tensions in the oil-rich west of the country have boiled over, and now there’s an i...
Writing on the Wall: a revealing British-election hike
Fri, 06 Dec 2019
Our correspondent walked the length of Hadrian’s Wall, in northern England, finding shifting party...
Not shy about retiring: strikes in France
Thu, 05 Dec 2019
A massive, rolling, national strike begins today, in protest against proposed reforms of the sprawli...
Inquiring minds: impeachment’s next stage
Wed, 04 Dec 2019
The House Judiciary Committee will now take up the inquiry into President Donald Trump. But will any...
With allies like these: NATO’s bickering leaders hold a summit
Tue, 03 Dec 2019
It will be all smiles at the NATO summit today in London--but many of them will be forced. Behind th...
Terrorist on parole: A jihadist killer fools Britain’s justice system
Mon, 02 Dec 2019
The Islamic militant who killed two people in London last week was supposedly being monitored by the...
AMLO and behold: Mexico’s president tries to tackle corruption
Fri, 29 Nov 2019
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexico’s president, is wildly popular, in part because of his deter...
Presidential SEAL: Donald Trump puts his stamp on military discipline
Thu, 28 Nov 2019
Donald Trump used to lionise generals, but this week he had a falling out with the top brass. Are th...
Global warning: The UN sounds the alarm on climate change
Wed, 27 Nov 2019
The UN has just released its annual report on how well the fight to slow climate change is going. It...
Start spreading the cash: Michael Bloomberg runs for president
Tue, 26 Nov 2019
Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire former mayor of New York, has announced he is running for preside...
Protest vote: Hong Kongers send a message to Beijing
Mon, 25 Nov 2019
After almost six months of protests and street battles, Hong Kongers have had a chance to vote in lo...
Bibi in the corner: Binyamin Netanyahu’s indictment
Fri, 22 Nov 2019
After years of investigations, Israel’s prime minister has been indicted. A fraught legal case wil...
Fuel to the fire: growing unrest in Iran
Thu, 21 Nov 2019
After petrol subsidies were slashed, protests of surprising ferocity have flared up across the count...
Settling in: Israel-Palestine policy
Wed, 20 Nov 2019
The American administration’s shifting position on Israeli settlements in the West Bank will have ...
Bits in pieces: a fragmenting internet
Tue, 19 Nov 2019
The early vision for a borderless, unregulated internet has not panned out as its pioneers hoped. Ho...
Head for the Hill: this week’s impeachment hearings
Mon, 18 Nov 2019
Democrats have a hard task as the hearings’ public stage proceeds: not uncovering new evidence, bu...
Better the devil they know? Sri Lanka’s election
Fri, 15 Nov 2019
After multiple suicide bombings in April, much campaigning has been about security. Will Sri Lankans...
Language barrier: Cameroon’s forgotten conflict
Thu, 14 Nov 2019
There is widespread terror in the largely Francophone country’s English-speaking region. Both hard...
Umbrellas to firebombs: Hong Kong’s escalating protests
Wed, 13 Nov 2019
Molotov cocktails are flying and live rounds have been fired. Once-peaceful pro-democracy demonstrat...
The American Dreamer: DACA in the Supreme Court
Tue, 12 Nov 2019
The Trump administration has long wanted to scrap the “Dreamers” scheme, which allowed illegal i...
Unpresidented: Bolivia’s leader resigns
Mon, 11 Nov 2019
After weeks of protests following a disputed election, Evo Morales has stood down. Who is in charge,...
Persistence of division: after the Berlin Wall
Fri, 08 Nov 2019
This weekend marks three decades since the wall fell, yet stark divides remain between East and West...
Allez, Europe! Macron’s diplomatic push
Thu, 07 Nov 2019
This week our correspondent joined Emmanuel Macron on his visit to China. The French president is st...
Demonstrative: a global wave of protest
Wed, 06 Nov 2019
Today’s public-sector demonstrations in Zimbabwe are just the latest in a wave of protests around ...
Stone unturned? Trump’s adviser on trial
Tue, 05 Nov 2019
Today Roger Stone, a colourful associate of President Donald Trump for 40 years, goes on trial facin...
Facebooklets: breaking up Big Tech
Mon, 04 Nov 2019
Few politicians are as ambitious about dismantling the tech behemoths as Elizabeth Warren, one of Am...
Impeach-y keen: Trump investigation goes public
Fri, 01 Nov 2019
America’s House of Representatives took its first vote on how to proceed with impeachment proceedi...
Iraq in a hard place: deadly protests continue
Thu, 31 Oct 2019
Demonstrations have been growing for a month and show no signs of abating. But would the reforms tha...
May as well: Boris Johnson’s electoral bet
Wed, 30 Oct 2019
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has at last secured a general election. Just as with his predecessor Th...
Not fare enough: Chile’s protests
Tue, 29 Oct 2019
The ongoing unrest is no longer about a rise in metro fares; Chileans have risen up to demand that t...
State of disarray: the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
Mon, 28 Oct 2019
The man who brought Islamic State to the world stage with visions of a brutal “caliphate” has be...
Poll dance: Boris Johnson’s election ploy
Fri, 25 Oct 2019
Britain’s prime minister is making a risky move by calling for a general election in December. Wil...
Calls to action: Lebanon’s continued protests
Thu, 24 Oct 2019
What began as protests against a tax on WhatsApp calls has blossomed into surprisingly united and pe...
Putin, he’s back into it: Russia’s growing influence
Wed, 23 Oct 2019
Vladimir Putin’s diplomacy regarding northern Syria is just one example of the Russian president’...
The course of Trudeau love: Canada’s election
Tue, 22 Oct 2019
Justin Trudeau will remain prime minister, but will lead a minority government. He will probably be ...
Going through the motion: more Brexit contortions
Mon, 21 Oct 2019
It might have been a clarifying vote on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Brexit motion; instead, mor...
Irish ayes? A new Brexit deal
Fri, 18 Oct 2019
Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson has a newly struck European Union divorce deal in hand. He ...
Antsy about ANC: reform in South Africa
Thu, 17 Oct 2019
Our journalists interview Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa’s president, about his efforts to clean up...
Back to Square one? Tiananmen veterans in Hong Kong
Wed, 16 Oct 2019
Amid the growing disquiet in Hong Kong are a few survivors of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Th...
Then there were 12: the Democrats’ fourth debate
Tue, 15 Oct 2019
Twelve candidates take to the stage again tonight, with two clear front-runners. We ask how the winn...
The enemy of their enemy: the Kurds ally with Syria
Mon, 14 Oct 2019
Turkey’s violent strikes on north-eastern Syria came as swiftly as America’s withdrawal. The ove...
PiS prize: Poland’s crucial election
Fri, 11 Oct 2019
It is at once a story of post-communist success and of populist threats to the rule of law by the go...
Uncomfortable president: Trump’s stonewalling
Thu, 10 Oct 2019
The White House is stonewalling the impeachment inquiry. Could that hinder the Democrats’ ability ...
Sorry state: Kashmir on lockdown
Wed, 09 Oct 2019
Two months after India’s Hindu-nationalist government stripped the state of Jammu and Kashmir of i...
Just a Kurd to him: Trump’s Syria withdrawal
Tue, 08 Oct 2019
The president’s sudden talk of departure from a contested strip of the Turkey-Syria border betrays...
Trade disunion: America’s tariff wars
Mon, 07 Oct 2019
Chinese and American trade negotiators will again be trying to avoid more eye-watering tariffs this ...
Duty call: how Ukraine sees the Trump scandal
Fri, 04 Oct 2019
A phone call between the presidents has sparked an impeachment inquiry in America. But how do the pe...
Immunisation shot? The case against Binyamin Netanyahu
Thu, 03 Oct 2019
Political deadlock in Israel is now inextricably intertwined with a case against the prime minister....
Reform over function: Peru’s political crisis
Wed, 02 Oct 2019
A long-running dispute between the president and the opposition-controlled Congress has spun out of ...
Party like it’s 1949: China’s National Day
Tue, 01 Oct 2019
As at the founding of the People’s Republic, the 70th anniversary featured a tightly controlled pa...
Out-of-office messaging: Britain’s Tory conference
Mon, 30 Sep 2019
Lawmakers are back in Parliament while the ruling party is elsewhere, laying out its legislative mis...
Spoiled ballot: Afghanistan’s election
Fri, 27 Sep 2019
The country is set for another violent and disputed election. But the fact that Afghans will head to...
Call to account: Trump-Ukraine intrigues
Thu, 26 Sep 2019
President Donald Trump’s call to his Ukrainian counterpart is under ever-greater scrutiny. An unex...
And the law won: Boris Johnson’s latest defeat
Wed, 25 Sep 2019
Once again, Britain’s prime minister has been thwarted, this time for trying to stymie Parliament ...
Aid for abetting? Trump’s Ukraine call
Tue, 24 Sep 2019
President Donald Trump’s critics say a telephone call with his Ukrainian counterpart would reveal ...
Madurable: impasse in Venezuela
Mon, 23 Sep 2019
International sanctions have crimped the regime, and the country’s people. Yet President Nicolás ...
To all, concern: a climate-change special
Fri, 20 Sep 2019
As the Global Climate Strike gets under way, we look at all matters climatic. History shows that fer...
I can do that, Dave: AI and warfare
Thu, 19 Sep 2019
Artificial intelligence is making its way into every aspect of life, including military conflict. We...
Ursa minor: Russia-China relations
Wed, 18 Sep 2019
In the 20th century Russia was the more powerful partner. Take a look at the flows of money and infl...
Always be my Bibi? Israel back at the polls
Tue, 17 Sep 2019
The country has never had two elections in a year, and the second looks to be as close-run as the fi...
Pipe down: attacks on Saudi oil
Mon, 16 Sep 2019
Strikes on the world’s largest refinery are bad news for the state oil firm ahead of a record-brea...
To Viktor, more spoils: Hungary’s autocracy
Fri, 13 Sep 2019
He was once a liberal reformer, but now no institution is safe from Viktor Orban’s iron grip. His ...
Trust issues: Huawei’s radical plan
Thu, 12 Sep 2019
The tech giant finds itself enmeshed in a broad battle between China and America. But Huawei’s bos...
Scapegoating: xenophobia in South Africa
Wed, 11 Sep 2019
Migrants have become a convenient scapegoat for South Africans frustrated by a slumping economy and ...
Things fall apart: Britain’s fading centre-right
Tue, 10 Sep 2019
Parliament is suspended for weeks. The Conservative party has been hollowed out. The prime minister’...
Tali-banned: Trump calls off Afghan peace talks
Mon, 09 Sep 2019
President Trump has abruptly cancelled talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan, raising fears of renew...
Disunited Russia party? Moscow’s elections
Fri, 06 Sep 2019
This weekend’s vote will fill some fairly inconsequential city positions. But how it plays out wil...
Age-old problem: reforming France
Thu, 05 Sep 2019
President Emmanuel Macron embarks on a serious policy challenge today over pensions. Will his effort...
This is revolting: Britain’s parliament rebels
Wed, 04 Sep 2019
Boris Johnson has lost his parliamentary majority. Conservative party rebels will now help push for ...
No safety in numbers: America’s immigration raids
Tue, 03 Sep 2019
Workplace raids catch many undocumented migrants in one place. But they do nothing to tackle the cri...
Until blue in the face: Hong Kong’s protests
Mon, 02 Sep 2019
The territory’s authorities have used live rounds, pepper spray and water cannon with blue dye to ...
Out to launch: American nuclear policy
Fri, 30 Aug 2019
There is a push in America to subscribe to a “no first use” policy on nukes, in a bid to reduce ...
Suspend, disbelief: Parliament and Brexit
Thu, 29 Aug 2019
Boris Johnson, Britain’s prime minister, sparked widespread outrage by suspending Parliament in th...
Ex-Seoul-mate: Japan-South Korea spat escalates
Wed, 28 Aug 2019
Century-old discord is never far from the surface for the two countries, but the latest flare-up ris...
Emmanuel transmission: outcomes of the G7
Tue, 27 Aug 2019
The weekend summit hosted by France’s President Emmanuel Macron resulted in few concrete actions; ...
A friend of mines: Asia’s coal habit
Mon, 26 Aug 2019
The region accounts for three-quarters of the world’s coal consumption—even as giants such as Ch...
Fight or flight: Cathay Pacific
Fri, 23 Aug 2019
China’s central government has made an example of the huge, Hong Kong-based carrier. Will the ploy...
Pull out all the backstops: Boris Johnson in Europe
Thu, 22 Aug 2019
Britain’s prime minister is on the continent ahead of this weekend’s G7 meeting. We ask whether ...
League of its own? Italian politics
Wed, 21 Aug 2019
Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini has pulled the rug from under the country’s government, betti...
Power rationing: Sudan in transition
Tue, 20 Aug 2019
After months of unceasing protests, military leaders have struck a deal to share power with civilian...
Scarcely surviving: Zimbabwe
Mon, 19 Aug 2019
Electricity, food, water: everything is in short supply in the country, including faith in the gover...
Yield signs: the global economy
Fri, 16 Aug 2019
Investors are piling into safe assets as markets whipsaw: what’s driving the global economy these ...
Poll reposition: Macri fights back
Thu, 15 Aug 2019
President Mauricio Macri’s thumping presidential-primary loss in Argentina left the markets fearin...
Let’s not make a deal: Brexit
Wed, 14 Aug 2019
Talk grows ever-louder of Britain exiting the European Union without a divorce agreement. Most parli...
Sex cells: the modern fertility business
Tue, 13 Aug 2019
Companies are rushing to fill new niches for would-be parents: in vitro fertilisation extras, swish ...
Raid in Aden: Yemen’s fragmented conflict
Mon, 12 Aug 2019
Over the weekend, armed rebels overran Aden, the seat of Yemen’s internationally recognised govern...
Withdrawal symptoms: America-Taliban talks
Fri, 09 Aug 2019
America’s envoy claimed “excellent progress” in negotiations ahead of the country’s planned ...
Clear-cut risks: the Amazon degrades
Thu, 08 Aug 2019
Deforestation is on the rise and Brazil’s government is all but encouraging it. Beyond a certain t...
State of alarm: India moves on Kashmir
Wed, 07 Aug 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government has gutted the autonomy of the restive and disputed Jamm...
PLA a part? Hong Kong’s growing unrest
Tue, 06 Aug 2019
China’s central government held another press conference to address increasingly chaotic unrest in...
Sticking to their guns: violence in America
Mon, 05 Aug 2019
Two mass shootings over the weekend add to the unrelenting stream of gun violence in America. We loo...
A farewell to arms control: the INF treaty dies
Fri, 02 Aug 2019
As America abandons the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces treaty we examine the future of arms contr...
Disbelief, dysfunction, disaster: Congo’s Ebola outbreak
Thu, 01 Aug 2019
As aid workers battle the second-worst outbreak in history, they face violence and disbelief. A hist...
Apply liberally: Trudeau’s re-election bid
Wed, 31 Jul 2019
Canada’s prime minister may not have an easy campaign ahead; we sit down with Justin Trudeau to di...
Primary culler: Democrats’ second debates
Tue, 30 Jul 2019
The fields of American presidential candidates just keep getting bigger, and party rules incentivise...
One country, one system: Hong Kong’s protests
Mon, 29 Jul 2019
Authorities in Beijing held a rare press conference addressing unrest in Hong Kong. That gives lie t...
A plight in Tunisia: the president passes
Fri, 26 Jul 2019
Beji Caid Essebsi promised to fix the economy, re-establish security and consolidate Tunisia’s dem...
Nothing new to report: Robert Mueller testifies
Thu, 25 Jul 2019
As promised, the special counsel revealed no more than appeared in his report into Russian election-...
Ricky situation: Puerto Rico’s protests
Wed, 24 Jul 2019
Rolling protests have rocked the island after leaked texts revealed the governor’s insults. But Pu...
You, May, be excused: Boris Johnson ascends
Tue, 23 Jul 2019
Britain has a new prime minister—who will inherit all the same problems his predecessor had. Good ...
Get one thing strait: Iran’s tanker stand-off
Mon, 22 Jul 2019
The seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Gulf may seem counter to Iran’s international objec...
Servant’s entrance: Ukraine’s elections
Fri, 19 Jul 2019
Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party looks set to make big gains in Ukraine’s parlia...
Unmoving movement: Venezuela’s bloody stalemate
Thu, 18 Jul 2019
The opposition’s momentum has faded; many protesters are too tired to go on. Nicolás Maduro, the ...
In like a Leyen: the European Commission’s new president
Wed, 17 Jul 2019
Ursula von der Leyen has a tough task ahead, pressing a broad agenda in a fragmented European Parlia...
At stake, chips: Japan-South Korea trade spat
Tue, 16 Jul 2019
A dispute about industrial chemicals reveals tensions that have remained unresolved since the second...
Tip of the ICE work: the immigration raids that weren’t
Mon, 15 Jul 2019
There was little evidence this weekend of the widespread immigration raids long promised by Presiden...
Tsai hopes: Taiwan’s president on tour
Fri, 12 Jul 2019
The delicate diplomatic dance that America is performing during Tsai Ing-Wen’s visit hints at the ...
Unspeakable truths: Britain’s US ambassador
Thu, 11 Jul 2019
The “special relationship” has been strained this week, following the leak of frank diplomatic c...
From Russia with launch codes: Turkey’s new hardware
Wed, 10 Jul 2019
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan faces increasing pressures at home and abroad, and he’s adding to t...
Late to the parting: Deutsche Bank shrinks
Tue, 09 Jul 2019
For years, management at Germany’s largest bank knew the firm was in serious trouble. Why didn’t...
In the after-Ba’ath: Syria’s rising Kurds
Mon, 08 Jul 2019
For years, Syria’s Kurdish people were largely invisible: their language, flag and festivals were ...
New Democracy in an old one: Greece’s election
Fri, 05 Jul 2019
Kyriakos Mitsotakis looks likely to lead his New Democracy party to victory in this weekend’s snap...
Putin on a show: Russia’s resurgence
Thu, 04 Jul 2019
Russia’s president is glad-handing in Italy, where his anti-liberal roadshow resonates. But Mr Put...
Growth anatomy: America’s expansive decade
Wed, 03 Jul 2019
What’s behind the record-breaking economic boom and how much longer can it last? Does America’s ...
Break a LegCo: Hong Kong’s protests boil over
Tue, 02 Jul 2019
Protesters are in a defiant mood—a hard core of them has smashed up Hong Kong’s Legislative Coun...
Armoured Khartoum: Sudan’s bloody transition
Mon, 01 Jul 2019
Protesters returned to the streets of Khartoum this weekend, again with deadly consequences. We look...
Census and sensibility: landmark SCOTUS rulings
Fri, 28 Jun 2019
America’s highest court has handed down decisions that will shape voter representation for years t...
Fight if you Haftar: the struggle for Libya
Thu, 27 Jun 2019
Life in Libya’s capital seems calm, even as a warlord backed by ragtag forces bids to take the cit...
Rights on Q: same-sex marriage in Japan
Wed, 26 Jun 2019
A bill to recognise same-sex marriage has failed in Japan’s parliament, exposing a widening divide...
Money in the West Bank: Kushner’s peace plan
Tue, 25 Jun 2019
Tensions between Iran and America are distracting from Jared Kushner’s long-awaited Israeli-Palest...
Lover or Leaver? How Brexit divided Britons
Mon, 24 Jun 2019
Exactly three years after the referendum result, it’s clear: Brexit has driven Britain a bit batty...
Blonde ambition: Boris’s bid for power
Fri, 21 Jun 2019
Charming buffoon or cunning chameleon? Welcoming liberal or snarling Brexiteer? We ask why, despite ...
Hawks, stocks and peril: Iran-America brinkmanship
Thu, 20 Jun 2019
Iran’s downing of an American drone today is just the latest source of tension between the countri...
Moving stories: the UN’s refugee report
Wed, 19 Jun 2019
The worldwide count of people forced from their homelands has increased sharply, again. What’s dri...
Florida Man: Trump’s re-election campaign
Tue, 18 Jun 2019
America’s president heads back to the Sunshine State today to announce his candidacy. What to expe...
Lam to the slaughter: Hong Kong’s shocking U-turn
Mon, 17 Jun 2019
Calls for the resignation of Carrie Lam, the territory’s leader, are intensifying. Hong Kongers ma...
What’s yours has mines: the Gulf of Oman attack
Fri, 14 Jun 2019
America has blamed Iran for yesterday’s tanker attacks in the Gulf of Oman. If that’s true, Iran...
Vlad the un-jailer: the Ivan Golunov case
Thu, 13 Jun 2019
An investigative journalist’s release may look like a press-freedom win in Russia—but it represe...
Once more, with felines: half the world gets online
Wed, 12 Jun 2019
Half of humanity is now online. What will the second half do when it logs on? The same as the first:...
Independence say: Hong Kong’s ongoing protests
Tue, 11 Jun 2019
A proposed change to the judicial system is just the latest sign that mainland China is exerting pre...
No way to tweet a friend: Trump’s Mexico tariffs
Mon, 10 Jun 2019
In the end, President Donald Trump’s tariff threat did what he had hoped: Mexico has pledged to ti...
Tory story: Britain’s next prime minister
Fri, 07 Jun 2019
Today Theresa May stepped down as leader of the Conservative Party, and would-be replacements are al...
Basta! The EU challenges Italy’s finances
Thu, 06 Jun 2019
European officials have threatened a substantial fine if Italy doesn’t shrink its debt and budget ...
Same as the old boss? Crackdown in Sudan
Wed, 05 Jun 2019
Nearly two months after staging a coup, military leaders have brutally cracked down on protesters in...
Thirty years of forgetting: Tiananmen
Tue, 04 Jun 2019
On the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square tragedy, our correspondents reflect on a dark and co...
Get pomped up: Trump’s British visit
Mon, 03 Jun 2019
President Donald Trump kicks off his state visit to Britain with some opening shots at London's mayo...
Protectionist racket: trade-war rhetoric
Fri, 31 May 2019
As President Donald Trump threatens new tariffs on Mexican goods, retaliatory ones between China and...
Likudn’t: Israel’s political crisis
Thu, 30 May 2019
For the first time since Israel’s founding, efforts to form a government have failed. What will th...
Baba Go Slow: Nigeria’s President gets another term
Wed, 29 May 2019
Muhammadu Buhari earned the nickname “Baba Go Slow” for a lackadaisical approach to reform as Ni...
Continental breakfast: European elections
Tue, 28 May 2019
Europe’s voters have shown they are not happy with traditional parties. But even as the Brexit Par...
This May hurt: British politics
Fri, 24 May 2019
Britain’s prime minister Theresa May has at last revealed the date she will step down. She had the...
Repeat performance: India’s election
Thu, 23 May 2019
Narendra Modi’s BJP appears to have won a convincing re-election victory. What will that mean for ...
Ibiza remix: Austria and the European fringe
Wed, 22 May 2019
As a scandal involving Austria’s hard-right Freedom party causes the government to unravel, we exa...
In a heartbeat: abortion in America
Tue, 21 May 2019
The strict anti-abortion bills cropping up in multiple American states aren’t expected to become t...
Battle for legitimacy: Afghanistan v the Taliban
Mon, 20 May 2019
After 18 years and almost a trillion dollars to fight the Taliban, Afghanistan’s government still ...
Private iniquity? The Abraaj case
Fri, 17 May 2019
Not long ago, Abraaj was one of the world’s highest-profile private-equity firms. We take a look a...
May, EU live in interesting times: Brexit
Thu, 16 May 2019
As party leaders grill Britain’s prime minister—and with a looming European election the country...
Don’t spend it all at once: Pakistan and the IMF
Wed, 15 May 2019
The International Monetary Fund has struck another deal to bail out Pakistan—its 22nd. But how did...
Supply demands: Yemen peace talks
Tue, 14 May 2019
UN negotiators are trying to salvage a ceasefire agreement surrounding the Yemeni port city of Hodei...
Spare the Rodrigo: Philippine elections
Mon, 13 May 2019
Personalities, not policies, will determine votes in today’s poll in the Philippines to fill some ...
Unbalance of trade: China-America talks
Fri, 10 May 2019
Negotiations to end the trade war have been ruffled as the Trump administration again ramped up tari...
Generals’ election: Thai politics
Thu, 09 May 2019
The military junta that runs Thailand almost completely sewed up a momentous vote—almost. After fu...
Nuclear diffusion: Iran
Wed, 08 May 2019
Exactly a year after President Donald Trump pulled America out of the Iran nuclear deal—and days a...
Mayor may not: Turkey’s election re-run
Tue, 07 May 2019
Turkey’s ruling AK party never conceded defeat in Istanbul’s mayoral election in March. Now the ...
Everything in moderation: YouTube
Mon, 06 May 2019
Susan Wojcicki, YouTube’s chief executive, tells our correspondent that moderating the streaming g...
Barr, none: the White House’s defiance
Fri, 03 May 2019
The no-show of America’s attorney-general in Congress is just the latest example of the White Hous...
Buy the bullet: global defence spending
Thu, 02 May 2019
Governments the world over are beefing up defence spending—chief among them America’s and China’...
Putsch comes to shove: Venezuela
Wed, 01 May 2019
Juan Guaidó, the opposition figure widely viewed as the legitimate leader of Venezuela, has made a ...
Inflationary pressure: Argentina’s strikes
Tue, 30 Apr 2019
Patience runs thin amid rampant inflation and a devaluing currency; Argentines are taking to the str...
Crossing the “t”s: China-America trade talks
Mon, 29 Apr 2019
American negotiators will be in Beijing this week, for what appears to be the final stages of striki...
The strain in Spain: an election looms
Fri, 26 Apr 2019
Ahead of this weekend’s general election, we examine Spain’s fractured political landscape. A mu...
Five Eyes and 5G: the Huawei debate
Thu, 25 Apr 2019
Leaked discussions reveal that Britain is going against the grain of its “Five Eyes” security pa...
Troubling: a death in Northern Ireland
Wed, 24 Apr 2019
A young journalist will be buried today, after being accidentally shot by dissident republicans in N...
Worrying new threat: tragedy in Sri Lanka
Tue, 23 Apr 2019
After co-ordinated bomb attacks that killed hundreds, Sri Lanka is reeling. But if the government wa...
Early to wed: child marriage in Africa
Mon, 22 Apr 2019
Marrying too young has lifelong effects: on a girl’s body as much as on her education and career. ...
Planes, trains and automobiles: the travails of travel
Fri, 19 Apr 2019
Easter weekend is a busy travel time for the many people who celebrate it. If you’re lucky, it mea...
[Redacted]: the Mueller report
Thu, 18 Apr 2019
Today the report by Robert Mueller, the special counsel who investigated Russian links to the Trump ...
Roads to success: Indonesia’s election
Wed, 17 Apr 2019
Joko Widodo, the incumbent president, is expected to win today’s vote, after a people-pleasing ter...
And then, silence: a Paris icon burns
Tue, 16 Apr 2019
Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, was already battling the flames of national protest when fire...
Modi’s operandi: India’s enormous election
Mon, 15 Apr 2019
The world’s largest democratic exercise is under way. Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks likely to...
Bashir and present danger: Sudan’s coup
Fri, 12 Apr 2019
A protest movement that began in December at last brought Sudan’s military brass on board. The cou...
Brussels’ doubts: another Brexit delay
Thu, 11 Apr 2019
Britain now has a new Brexit deadline: the end of October. But those negotiations magnified division...
Bibi got back: Israel’s election
Wed, 10 Apr 2019
Binyamin Netanyahu looks set to win a fifth term as prime minister. How will his policies affect neg...
The new mediocre: the world economy
Tue, 09 Apr 2019
The International Monetary Fund releases its global-growth forecast today. Expect news of a downgrad...
Tripoli threat: a warlord’s bid to take Libya
Mon, 08 Apr 2019
As rebel forces advance on Tripoli and American troops withdraw, we look at the Libyan general leadi...
Theresa looks left: Brexit negotiations
Fri, 05 Apr 2019
Having seemingly exhausted options within her own party, Prime Minister Theresa May is now trying to...
Resigned to it: Algeria’s president
Thu, 04 Apr 2019
After two decades as president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned. But the cabal that’s been runni...
Fund while it lasted: the 1MDB scandal
Wed, 03 Apr 2019
Today Malaysia’s former prime minister faces his first of several trials, for alleged involvement ...
Vote with pride: LGBT politicians
Tue, 02 Apr 2019
Chicago votes for a new mayor today. Either way it will become the largest American city run by an A...
AK, not quite OK: Turkey’s elections
Mon, 01 Apr 2019
Turkey’s ruling AK party made historic losses in local elections. Voters, it seems, are fed up wit...
Comic’s relief? Ukraine’s presidential race
Fri, 29 Mar 2019
A television show’s everyman character winds up as president: and now the actor who plays him lead...
Another dance ‘round the May poll: Brexit
Thu, 28 Mar 2019
Britain’s prime minister has promised to step down if Parliament passes her deal with the European...
Seeing the Lighthizer: China trade talks
Wed, 27 Mar 2019
Another week, another round of negotiations between China and America. But as domestic and economic ...
Loan behold: a global-economy danger
Tue, 26 Mar 2019
The world has only just recovered from the last global financial shock. But a new trend has economis...
Collusion elusion: the Mueller report
Mon, 25 Mar 2019
Robert Mueller, the special counsel, has at last delivered his report on President Donald Trump’s ...
The never-ending saga: Brexit delayed
Fri, 22 Mar 2019
European leaders nixed Theresa May’s request to postpone Brexit for three months, but have given h...
Not now, Theresa: Postponing Britain’s EU goodbye
Thu, 21 Mar 2019
With just eight days to go before Brexit, Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May wants to extend the...
Alpha Beto: O’Rourke’s appeal
Wed, 20 Mar 2019
Beto O’Rourke launched his bid for America’s presidency. Despite his relative lack of experience...
War and pestilence: Ebola makes a comeback
Tue, 19 Mar 2019
Five years ago Ebola spread across West Africa, killing more than 10,000 people. In August a fresh o...
Replacement anxiety: White supremacist terrorism
Mon, 18 Mar 2019
The terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, has left 50 people dead and a lot of unanswered q...
Can't deal with it: Brexit
Fri, 15 Mar 2019
It’s been another brutal week for Britain’s prime minister as her deal to leave Europe was swatt...
Lights out: Venezuela’s blackout
Thu, 14 Mar 2019
Power cuts in Caracas have endangered lives and deepened the misery of Venezuelans. It’s another s...
Losing the plot: Brexit
Wed, 13 Mar 2019
The second defeat of British Prime Minister’s plan for withdrawal from the EU has weakened her. Bu...
Flying stop: Boeing
Tue, 12 Mar 2019
Following a second fatal crash of Boeing’s 737-MAX, China was quick to ground its fleet of the new...
The sensitive month: Tibet
Mon, 11 Mar 2019
China’s party leaders get nervous in March—a month full of anniversaries that Tibetans hold dear...
Fifth time unlucky: Algeria’s protests
Fri, 08 Mar 2019
Widespread protests will continue today against the re-election run of President Abdelaziz Bouteflik...
Guilt and association: Paul Manafort
Thu, 07 Mar 2019
President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager can expect to have the book thrown at him at his ...
Trudeau in trouble: a sunny leader in stormy times
Wed, 06 Mar 2019
Canada’s fresh-faced leader has been a icon for embattled liberals. But now he faces damaging accu...
Xi’ll meet again: China’s People’s Congress opens
Tue, 05 Mar 2019
The National People's Congress of China gathers today for ten days of deliberations. Tensions with t...
A thirsty world: the future of water
Mon, 04 Mar 2019
Fresh water is becoming increasingly scarce, as climate change and population growth puts greater pr...
Bibi one more time? Binyamin Netanyahu
Fri, 01 Mar 2019
Israel’s prime minister has been indicted, pending a hearing, just weeks before an election. We lo...
Line of control: India-Pakistan
Thu, 28 Feb 2019
Air strikes by India and Pakistan this week represent a worrying flare-up of tensions that have simm...
Chaos and calculation: Brexit
Wed, 27 Feb 2019
Grand fissures have opened in Britain’s politics; the two main parties’ leaders are struggling t...
Two for the show: Trump meets Kim
Tue, 26 Feb 2019
As Kim Jong Un arrives in Vietnam ahead of a second summit with President Donald Trump, we ask about...
It’s bean difficult: the China-America trade war
Mon, 25 Feb 2019
As President Donald Trump delays further tariffs on $200bn-worth of Chinese goods, there are hints o...
Alms held up: Venezuela
Fri, 22 Feb 2019
Venezuela is in dire need of humanitarian aid, and Juan Guaidó, the interim president, has pledged ...
Sins of the fathers: the Vatican and child abuse
Thu, 21 Feb 2019
The Vatican is hosting a high-profile meeting on child abuse by the clergy. It’s a topic that has ...
Prince on tour: Muhammad bin Salman
Wed, 20 Feb 2019
Muhammad bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince, is on a tour of Asia, striking deals and trying to poli...
Labour’s love lost: British politics
Tue, 19 Feb 2019
Seven parliamentarians have split from Britain’s opposition Labour party. That could change the ca...
State of the unionising: Amazon
Mon, 18 Feb 2019
We examine the aftermath of the online behemoth’s withdrawal of its New York expansion plans, and ...
Emergency measures: America’s border deal
Fri, 15 Feb 2019
President Donald Trump is expected to declare a national emergency today, to fund his southern-borde...
IS this the end? Islamic State’s last stand
Thu, 14 Feb 2019
In Syria the few remaining Islamic State fighters are hemmed in. The caliphate’s territory may be ...
It’s not easy: the Green New Deal
Wed, 13 Feb 2019
As America’s Senate majority leader pledges a vote on the Green New Deal, a sweeping set of polici...
Independents’ day: Catalans on trial
Tue, 12 Feb 2019
Today 12 leaders of Spain’s Catalonia region go on trial, accused of rebellion. The proceedings wi...
You say you want: Revisiting Iran’s revolution
Mon, 11 Feb 2019
We examine how the echoes of Iran’s revolution, 40 years ago, still influence how the Islamic Repu...
Princess unbridled: Thai politics
Fri, 08 Feb 2019
A Thai princess enters the running for prime minister—a development that reshuffles the country’...
The Intelligence: Weapons redrawn
Thu, 07 Feb 2019
After America and Russia pull out out of a cold war-era weapons treaty, we examine the picture of gl...
The Intelligence: Credible, but critical
Wed, 06 Feb 2019
Today the Trump administration is expected to announce its nomination for head of the World Bank tod...
The Intelligence: Don’t despair, America
Tue, 05 Feb 2019
Tonight President Trump will deliver his State of the Union address; we ask what he’ll be saying, ...
The Intelligence: A despot’s calculation
Mon, 04 Feb 2019
Internal and international pressure on President Nicolás Maduro brings Venezuela to the brink of ch...
The Intelligence: Be careful on the way out
Fri, 01 Feb 2019
As progress appears to have been made in peace talks between America and the Taliban, the Senate urg...
The Intelligence: Down and out in “iPhone City”
Thu, 31 Jan 2019
As trade talks with China continue in Washington, our correspondent takes a trip to China’s “iPh...
The Intelligence: This is not a coup
Wed, 30 Jan 2019
International pressure is mounting on the dictatorial regime of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro. As he...
The Intelligence: Deal, delay or dither?
Tue, 29 Jan 2019
It’s another crucial vote in the Brexit saga as Prime Minister Theresa May learns whether her leav...
The Intelligence: Trailer
Wed, 23 Jan 2019
The Intelligence is a new current-affairs podcast, published every weekday by Economist Radio, that ...
The World Ahead: Trailer
Thu, 05 Jul 2018
Coming soon: a new future-gazing series from The Economist that examines an assortment of speculativ...
Babbage: Trailer
Wed, 06 May 2015
Babbage is our weekly podcast on science and technology, named after Charles Babbage—a 19th-centur...
Money Talks: Trailer
Tue, 05 May 2015
Take a seat at the table and learn about the biggest stories in financial markets, the economy and b...