Xi’s failing model: Why he won’t fix China’s economy
The world this week
Leaders
Xi’s broken model
Why China’s economy won’t be fixed
An increasingly autocratic government is making bad decisions
Götterdämmerung
Prigozhin’s death shows that Russia is a mafia state
A healthy country uses justice to restore order. Mr Putin uses violence instead
Fair warning
El Niño has started. Preparations must too
It will bring chaotic weather to much of the world
Geopolitics
How Joe Biden is transforming America’s Asian alliances
America is working to deter China even as it defends Europe from Russia
Thailand’s new government
Thaksin Shinawatra shows his true colours
A grubby political compromise with the army has enraged Thai voters
Letters
On trafficking children, electric cars, liberal values, narrow banking, Warren Buffett, Saudi customs
Letters to the editor
Briefing
A problem child
El Niño and global warming are mixing in alarming ways
Havoc in poor countries and commodities markets is inevitable
Britain
The low-wage economy
Britain’s failed experiment in boosting low-wage sectors
Now museum…Now you don’t
Stealing from museums is easier than you might think
Russians in Britain
How are Russians in Britain faring?
Bullies by nature
Britain has a growing problem with dangerous dogs
Lessons from the Blitz
How the Blitz changed London for the better
Europe
A plane crash outside Moscow
Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death may consolidate Putin’s power
Frustrated expectations
Ukraine’s sluggish counter-offensive is souring the public mood
United States
Throngs of praise
American megachurches are thriving by poaching flocks
Middle East & Africa
Vox pops on Niger
West African views on Niger’s coup
The Phoenician problem
Lebanon is experiencing a tourism boom
Rehabilitating jihadists
Failing to reintegrate Iraq’s Sunni rebels could prove costly
Grapes of wrath
The challenge of making Palestinian wine
The Americas
A win for democracy
Elections in Ecuador and Guatemala suggest an anti-incumbent surge
Asia
The great mateship
Australia is becoming America’s military launchpad into Asia
Strange bedfellows
Thailand’s new Thaksinist government
Regulating sex
Japan’s porn industry comes out of the shadows
China
How do you say “not interested”?
Why fewer university students are studying Mandarin
Political science
The clock is ticking on an old deal between America and China
Score one for the countryside
How an amateur football league in China took off
International
America and the Middle East
Reassessing Obama’s biggest mistake
Business
Goliath’s triumph
America’s corporate giants are getting harder to topple
Arm-twisting
Arm’s public listing is set to break records
Strike up the band
Arm’s flotation could revive the market for IPOs
Too hot to handle
How climate change will hit holidaymaking
A question of furnace
America’s steelmakers forge a future together
Finance & economics
Science & technology
Electric cars
Superbatteries will transform the performance of EVs
Culture
A Chinese superhero
The Monkey King is one of China’s most successful cultural exports
A different tour of duty
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra is on tour
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Obituary
Cleanliness, godliness
Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India’s future depended on toilets
By Invitation
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Donald Trump and the history of the mugshot
The Economist explains
How Europe’s new digital law will change the internet
The Economist reads
The Economist reads