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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...