Leaders
The shortest term
Rishi Sunak’s promise of stability is a low bar for Britain
Reasons to be cheerful are scant
Economic policy
The risks of Bidenomics go beyond inflation
Joe Biden’s protectionism is costly for America and the world
Meritocracy with Chinese characteristics
For Xi Jinping, loyalty trumps ability
China’s president has assembled a top team of yes-men
An untried skipper
Storm clouds loom for Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s new prime minister
She has reassured markets for now, but trouble lies ahead
A virtuous circle
Battery-makers are powering a circular economy
“Gigafactories” are being designed to recycle raw materials
Ire at the ayatollahs
Will Iran’s women win?
Their uprising could be the beginning of the end of Iran’s theocracy
Letters
World hunger, China and America, epilepsy, Russian literature, our Britaly cover
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
From Italy with love
The bill for campaign populism is paid in office, warns Matteo Renzi
Russia and Ukraine
Mick Ryan on why Ukraine can expect to make further gains against Russia
Briefing
Adieu, laissez-faire
Joe Biden attempts the biggest overhaul of America’s economy in decades
He is using industrial policy to create jobs, cut emissions and boost manufacturing
Europe
Life after Vladimir
Russia’s elite begins to ponder a Putinless future
Fighting dirty
Russia braces for a battle over Kherson
European energy links
Europe’s gas and electrical grids need expanding
Britain
The man atop the rubble
Rishi Sunak, Britain’s new prime minister, starts on the defensive
All in this together
The Bank of England has seen off several threats
Conservative leadership contests
Boris Johnson’s return to British politics crash-lands
Different diagnoses
Where did all Britain’s 50-somethings go?
How long have you had that goitre?
Phrasebooks are dying out
United States
Anti-democratic front
Why the Republicans’ anti-democracy turn has become normalised
Skeletons out of the closet
Tech titans rival one another in Halloween decor
Mountains to climb
America risks fumbling its chance to help schoolchildren catch up
Middle East & Africa
The ayatollahs are trembling
Could Iran’s regime fall?
Not yet bye-bye for Bibi
Israel’s Binyamin Netanyahu bids for an election comeback
The Americas
Asia
Latitude is everything
India’s regional inequality could be politically explosive
Circles of life
What Japan makes of ikigai
China
The people’s leader’s people
Xi Jinping has surrounded himself with loyalists
And then there were none
China’s problem with female representation is getting worse
International
A baleful legacy
How one pandemic made another one worse
Business
No longer so fruitful
The end of Apple’s affair with China
Ren-aissance
Can Huawei thrive despite American sanctions?
Bartleby
The archaeology of the office
Schumpeter
The reluctant rise of the diplomat CEO
Finance & economics
The fleeing committee
Xi Jinping provokes a spectacular sell-off in China’s markets
Super-regulator
Can Gary Gensler solve every problem in American finance?
Free exchange
How to escape scientific stagnation
Science & technology
Inside the gigafactory
Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones
Animal behaviour
Bumblebees like ball games
The origins of covid-19
Scientists dispute a suggestion that SARS-CoV-2 was engineered
Culture
Israeli politics
Binyamin Netanyahu’s memoir is a fascinating study of power
No heroes, only victims
The war in Yemen, as seen by ordinary Yemenis
Back Story
Pinocchio is the hero of our time
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Fertility trends
American-born women had more babies during the pandemic
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Why Ukraine’s Orthodox churches are at loggerheads
The Economist explains
