Leaders
Economic malaise
Is Germany once again the sick man of Europe?
Its ills are different from 1999. But another stiff dose of reform is still needed
The danger of letting it rot
China’s economic malaise is causing disillusion among the young
Xi Jinping wants them to focus on the party’s goals. Many cannot see why they should
Beware the Licence Raj
India must abandon protectionism
High tariffs and licensing do not help development—they hurt it
England’s green belt
Britain should scrap its green belt
It has a stranglehold over the economy and protects the wrong bits of land
Substitution required
Why sex differences matter in football
Women are not simply men with long hair, even on the pitch
Letters
On college costs, climate change, our double issue, ice cream, dragons on flags, harsh critics
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
China’s infrastructure bank
The AIIB’s former communications chief on why he blew the whistle
Briefing
Generation Stagnation
China’s defeated youth
Young Chinese have little hope for the future. Xi Jinping wants them to toughen up
Britain
The green belt
Britain’s green belt is choking the economy
Not so black and white
Reckoning with slavery remains an elite project in Britain
Sporting girls
England’s Lionesses reach the World Cup final
Treasure from the Thames
Britons are ever keener on mudlarking in the River Thames
Europe
Germany own goals
Germany is becoming expert at defeating itself
Metre by metre
Ukraine’s counter-offensive is making progress, slowly
According to the conventions
How Russian prisoners of war see Putin’s invasion
The booming baguette
French bakeries are thriving in unlikely places
United States
California leavin’
The Hollywood strikes reveal Los Angeles’s deepest anxieties
Lock, stock and pork barrel
Iowa has become a petri-dish of Republican radicalism
Paradise lost
Lessons from the blaze that levelled Lahaina
Diabolical follicles
The mullet has had a resurgence in right-wing America
Middle East & Africa
Divided they fall
The Kurds’ dreams of independence look farther off than ever
The Horn of Africa
Ethiopia risks sliding into another civil war
Scrambled skies
Herders and farmers seek reasons for east Africa’s drought
The Americas
The lion’s roar
Argentina could get its first libertarian president
Democracy in doubt
Guatemala’s elite may try to scupper the presidential election
Sub-national and sub-optimal
Latin America’s local governments too often fail their people
Asia
Power to the people
How to fix India’s decrepit cities
South-East Asian syncretism
Indonesia wants to export moderate Islam
Malaysian politics
In Malaysia, Anwar Ibrahim survives his first electoral test
China
International
Is a bigger party a better one?
The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
Business
Digging for digits
AI is setting off a great scramble for data
Dusting off the guns
War in Ukraine has triggered a boom in Europe’s defence industry
The great untangling
Can India Inc extricate itself from China?
Ready for lift-off
Flying taxis could soon be a booming business
The fast and the dubious
Is Vietnam’s EV darling heading for a crash?
Finance & economics
How the wheels came off
The German economy: from European leader to laggard
Unemployed and uncounted
China’s consumers, officials and statisticians all lack confidence
Free exchange
Democracy and the price of a vote
Science & technology
Mean and green
Can computing clean up its act?
Regenerative dentistry
Scientists want to fix tooth decay with stem cells
The second shall be first
A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
Sports science
Should women’s football have different rules from men’s?
Culture
The right stuff?
Conservatives are attacking capitalism
A mirror on our times and theirs
Mint, wax, poisonous plants: beauty tips from Renaissance Italy
Meet me at the bubble pit
The rise of “kidulting”
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Red giveaway
What drives people to vote the way they do?
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Why are Moscow’s air defences performing so badly?
The Economist explains
