The future of war: A special report
The world this week
The Economist reads
How to write
What to read to become a better writer
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Why Hong Kong is criminalising a song
The Economist explains
Can Russia’s navy thwart attacks by repainting its ships?
By Invitation
Leaders
The future of war
A new era of high-tech war has begun
Technology has transformed the battlefield. Democracies must respond accordingly
East Asia’s lopsided revolution
The new Asian family
East Asian governments must try to manage a momentous social change they cannot prevent
An enduring error
“Greedflation” is a nonsense idea
Inflation is the result of economic policy mistakes and war, not corporate avarice
Britain’s water mess
The real problem with Britain’s water companies
Blame financial blunders and timid regulation, not privatisation
Supreme sort
Why affirmative action in American universities had to go
And why what comes after could be better
Deep-sea mining
The world needs more battery metals. Time to mine the seabed
Getting nickel from the deep causes much less damage than getting it on land
Letters
On Denmark’s Social Democrats, vaping taxes, the Indian diaspora, Daniel Ellsberg, Sierra Leone, the Multiverse, Douglas Adams
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Neighbourhood botch
Why China should be friendlier to its neighbours
If it wants to challenge America’s global leadership, it will need their backing
United States
Right at the end
What to make of the Supreme Court’s tumultuous term
Major League Cricket
Can baseball fans be won over by the world’s second-biggest sport?
Citizenship
Dick Ravitch, New York’s fiscal superman
Affirmative inaction
How American universities will react as race-based admissions end
Lab monkey shortage in America
America has a shortage of lab monkeys
The Americas
Dumping the Trump of the tropics
Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office for eight years
Little boy blues
This year’s El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
The worms return
Cuba’s Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
Asia
China
Scrutiny on the bounty
Hong Kong puts a price on the heads of democracy activists
Middle East & Africa
Middle East diplomacy
What MBS wants from Joe Biden
Another battle for Jenin
Israel launched its biggest raid on the West Bank in over 20 years
Shake it up
Nigeria’s new president acts fast
Civil war in Sudan
Genocide all over again?
Europe
Russia, Europe and Ukraine
Vladimir Putin’s useful idiots
Bomblets away
Why Ukraine needs American cluster bombs
Europe’s defence
The Baltic states fear that NATO is being complacent
Europe’s worst performer
Can Sweden’s two-track economy avoid a recession?
Charlemagne
The burning of the banlieues
Britain
Privatisation in Britain
How to understand the woeful state of Britain’s water utilities
Britain’s national health service
The NHS in England gets a plan for fixing its broken workforce
Rural shows in Britain
Britons love country fairs. Why?
Not yet stopping the boats
Britain’s tough asylum plans are held up in court and by the Lords
International
Shaping up and tooling up
NATO is drafting new plans to defend Europe
Special report
Lessons from Ukraine
The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
Electronic warfare
The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams
Military logistics
Why logistics are too important to be left to the generals
Russian adaptation
How Ukraine’s enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
Naval warfare
How oceans became new technological battlefields
Battlefield lessons
Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
Warfare after Ukraine
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
Punch-up in the public square
The Musk-Zuckerberg social-media smackdown
Full metal straitjacket
In its tech war with America, China brings out the big guns
The long hydrogen sunrise
Can a viable industry emerge from the hydrogen shakeout?
Finance & economics
A belated victory
How to win the battle against inflation
Coming a cropper
Copper is unexpectedly getting cheaper
Party cooler
Does it pay to be a communist in China?
The city sleeps
How far will Wall Street job losses go?
Buttonwood
Can anything pop the everything bubble?
Free exchange
Erdoganomics is spreading across the world
Science & technology
Raiding Davy Jones’s locker
Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world’s battery-metal shortage
Digging up the jungle
New technology could cement Indonesia’s dominance of vital nickel
Hitting peak peak
A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow
The Fred Flintstone diet
A Belgian company wants to create woolly-mammoth burgers
Culture
Man of dishonour
A new book revisits the trial of Philippe Pétain in 1945
Home Entertainment
Forough Farrokhzad gave voice to Iranian women’s despair and defiance
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
One size does not fit all
Prescription rules for obesity drugs may unfairly exclude non-whites
Obituary
Through the dark clouds shining