Leaders
The Trump effect
After the midterms, America and its democracy look stronger
On top of his other flaws, the former president is a serial vote loser
War in Ukraine
Imagining peace in Ukraine
How a stable and successful country could emerge from the trauma of Russia’s invasion
A troubling silence
America and China must talk
Refusing to speak is what children do when they are angry
An unpalatable choice
Israel’s centrists should back Binyamin Netanyahu
It is a price worth paying to keep out the far right
Britain’s economy
The best ways to fix Britain’s budget
Controlling pensions spending and taxing property are the right answers
Debunking degrowth
Economic growth no longer requires rising emissions
Now this decoupling must accelerate
Letters
On environmental issues, the housing market, phrasebooks
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
Finding an ending
On what terms could the war in Ukraine stop?
Pressure for peace talks is growing, even as Russia retreats from Kherson
Europe
The flight from Kherson
Russia says it is abandoning the Ukrainian city of Kherson
Hamiltonian rules
The European Commission wants to be in charge of new fiscal rules
Back to Europe
France is preparing for a new kind of war
Who’s spying on whom?
Fresh allegations in a Greek phone-hacking scandal
Charlemagne
How Brussels sprouted its own unique dialect
Britain
Infrastructure planning
The real reason it takes so long to build infrastructure in Britain
The nerds are in charge
The OBR will be the arbiter of Britain’s autumn budget
Upholder of legacies
Remembering Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman of The Economist for 17 years
Constituent parts
Britain’s electoral boundaries are being redrawn
Bagehot
The night-watchman welfare state
United States
False tsunami alert
A Republican victory will be much smaller than Democrats feared
States of play
Ron DeSantis and other winners
Midterm maths: Polls v results
How well did America’s pollsters do?
The anti-democrats
Many Republican election deniers lost their statewide races
Hamelin on the Hudson
Eric Adams, New York’s Pied Piper, declares war on rats
Middle East & Africa
Bibi’s dodgy friends
The changing nature of Israeli politics
Welcome back to the occupation
A Netanyahu government may raise the temperature in a boiling West Bank
Good COP, bad cops
Egypt, host of the UN climate summit, persecutes its own greens
Of beer and banks
A Ghanaian brewery shows how hard life is for small businesses
Stopping the killing
A peace deal highlights the pointlessness of Ethiopia’s war
The Americas
Asia
Taipei personality
No contest is too obscure in Taiwan’s quest for global recognition
China
Dim hopes of detente
Can Joe Biden and Xi Jinping stabilise Sino-American relations?
Neighbourhood watch
How Xi Jinping is mobilising the masses to control themselves
Going home early
Why Chinese players of Go aren’t winning any more
International
Rebuilding Ukraine
Donors are already mulling a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
Business
Cooking the books
A sleuth’s guide to the coming wave of corporate fraud
Feeling the AdBlues
A series of shortages threatens EU supply chains
Rebooting the system
As tech lay-offs spread, Meta sacks 11,000 workers
Trainer trouble
The sportswear giants are running into hurdles
Freedom lighters
Can American liquefied natural gas rescue Europe?
Wake up, boss!
The UN takes on corporate greenwashing
Finance & economics
Cryptocurrencies
The spectacular fall of FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried
Unconscious decoupling
Economic growth no longer means higher carbon emissions
Another marathon
Financial markets bet on an end to China’s “zero-covid” policy
Buttonwood
Are tech stocks now good value?
Fresh factories
Who wins from the unravelling of Sino-American trade?
Science & technology
Palaeontology
The oldest known mass extinction
Growing transfusable blood cells
Blood cells made in a lab have been infused into people
Culture
The Lion of the Senate
Ted Kennedy was a champion of liberalism
Primal instincts
Many animals are surprisingly creative, a new book argues
World in a dish
Sohan gives a flavour of Iran’s complex contradictions
Fleshing out the invisible hand
“For Profit” offers thrilling tales of commercial endeavour
State-of-the-nation fiction
“Bournville” is Jonathan Coe’s most ambitious novel yet
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Who is Alaa Abd el-Fattah?
Obituary
The joy of voting