Leaders
Zero-sum
The destructive new logic that threatens globalisation
America is leading a dangerous global slide towards subsidies, export controls and protectionism
The tools for the job
The West should supply tanks to Ukraine
Allies have been too cautious about giving it the means to resist Russian aggression
The storming of Brazil’s Congress
How Brazil should deal with the bolsonarista insurrection
Punish those who broke the law, but govern inclusively
Leaders
America’s trustbusters plan to curtail the use of non-compete clauses. Good
The clue is in the name
Waiting-longer rooms
Fixing Britain’s health service means fixing its family doctors
Don’t change the partnership model. Do change the targets
Letters
On Italy, James Callaghan, mental health, education in Sierra Leone, inflation, cricket, The Economist’s cover price
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Efficiency be damned
Globalisation, already slowing, is suffering a new assault
Subsidies, export controls and curbs on foreign investment are proliferating
Britain
The NHS in crisis
How many excess deaths in England are associated with A&E delays?
Weathering the storm
Lower gas prices will provide only limited relief to Britons
Newquay, we have a problem
What the failure of Virgin Orbit means for Britain’s space ambitions
Agricultural subsidies
The longed-for transformation of English farming isn’t happening
Europe
Retirement gamble
Emmanuel Macron unveils his pension reforms
Little green mayhem
The war has devastated Ukraine’s environment, too
Gyros and gunboats
Might Turkey seize a tiny Greek island?
Taking aim at the Kurds
Turkey is on the point of banning the main Kurdish opposition party
United States
Marching on their stomachs
America’s army has launched a scheme to slim down its recruits
Disrupting the dyad
Polyamory is getting slivers of legal recognition in America
Red and blue science
America’s culture wars extend into medicine
The Americas
The storming of Congress
A copycat insurrection in Brazil, and its troubling aftermath
Barrios and baristas
Latin American cities are becoming far nicer for poorer inhabitants
Middle East & Africa
Baba go-slow to go-go
After eight dismal years, Nigeria prepares to replace President Buhari
Asia
Land of the riven atom
Japan pivots back to nuclear power
The hidden powers of flowers
Myanmar’s generals are deeply superstitious
Digital dead zones
India’s rocketing internet-user growth has stalled
No fly zone
South Korea’s travel spat with China
Unhappy valley
The mirage of peace and prosperity in Kashmir
China
Data, diplomacy and disease
Covid is complicating China’s efforts to re-engage with the world
Shrine to a whistleblower
The cult of Li Wenliang, the doctor who spotted covid-19
A different type of lockdown
China is still punishing those who protested against zero-covid
International
The generation game
The age of the grandparent has arrived
By Invitation
America and China
Daleep Singh on America’s economic statecraft
Business
The fuzzy corporation
How technology is redrawing the boundaries of the firm
Shipping forecast
Investments in ports foretell the future of global commerce
The costs of transparency
German companies fret about a new supply-chain law
High-performance motoring
The priciest cars are selling fast
Scandal at Air India
A humiliating incident on an Air India flight triggers outrage
Finance & economics
The wrong competition
What America’s protectionist turn means for the world
Good day sunshine
The energy crisis and Europe’s astonishing luck
Professional problems
Has economics run out of big new ideas?
Absent billions
The hunt for FTX’s missing riches
Science & technology
Authenticating images
Proving a photo is fake is one thing. Proving it isn’t is another
Bug bites bird
A praying mantis attacks a nestling
The elephant in the room
What causes elephant poaching?
Ancient concrete
Roman civil engineering has lessons for the modern world
Culture
Arms and the men
To their critics, Mexican drug ballads glorify violence
Swords and sandals
Cinema meets radicalism in “Picture in the Sand”
World in a dish
The quest for the perfect chip
Going underground
How Cambodian music survived the horrors of the Khmers Rouges
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Needles in haystacks
Antidepressants are over-prescribed, but genuinely help some patients
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
What is the House Freedom Caucus?
The Economist explains
