Leaders
Democracy
Is America dictator-proof?
The many vulnerabilities, and enduring strengths, of America’s republic
No news is bad news
Canada’s law to help news outlets is harming them instead
Funding journalism with cash from big tech has become a fiasco
Biden’s baleful barriers
America’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs: bad policy, worse leadership
The global trade system is disintegrating as you read this
The challenge posed by China
Xi Jinping is subtler than Vladimir Putin—yet equally disruptive
How to deal with Chinese actions that lie between war and peace
A trillion-dollar AI arms race
Big tech’s capex splurge may be irrationally exuberant
Beware of overhype and overbuild
Five more years?
Volodymyr Zelensky’s presidential term expires on May 20th
What does that mean for his country?
By Invitation
Mexico’s presidential election
The main opposition candidate on how to fight organised crime in Mexico
Briefing
In the worst case
Why America is vulnerable to a despot
Its democratic system is not as robust as it seems
Europe
Three-body problem
Germany’s government is barely holding together
Active measures
Russia is ramping up sabotage across Europe
Gabriel Attal
Meet Gabriel Attal, France’s young prime minister
What’s in a name?
Turkish women should soon be allowed to keep their maiden names
Britain
A new kind of threat
Spies, trade and tech: China’s relationship with Britain
The politics of students
Advisers to British government: don’t mess with graduate visas
Free speech and protest
Antisemitism is on the rise in Britain
Pick your projection
What police commissioners tell you about the British election
Levelling the terrain
Is Britain levelling up?
Middle East & Africa
Slag to riches
How a Russia-linked mine may keep the ANC in power
Somalia’s never-ending crisis
War and climate change are overwhelming Somalia
The Hamas-Israel conflict
On Independence Day Israel is ripping itself apart
Israel in Gaza
The Israeli army is caught in a doom loop in Gaza
American arms to Israel
Israel has seen arms embargoes before
United States
Spreading like a weed
Marijuana is already legal for a majority of Americans
Stacking the deck
Can playing cards help catch criminals?
The kids are still alright
After a season of Gaza protests, America’s university graduates are polarised but resilient
The Americas
Nothing to see here
Facebook turned off the news in Canada. What happened next?
Elections in the Dominican Republic
Luis Abinader is poised for a thumping re-election win
When the levee breaks
Huge floods in Brazil’s south are a harbinger of disasters to come
The other 19,999
Why Mexico’s largest-ever election matters
Asia
Heirs in races
Who could replace Narendra Modi?
A brutal civil war
The military dictatorship controls less than 50% of Myanmar
Justice in Kazakhstan
The murder that aroused a nation
A fragile grid
Taiwan, the world’s chipmaker, faces an energy crunch
China
An autocratic bromance
The Xi-Putin partnership is not a marriage of convenience
Where Sun never sets
How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
International
From grey zone to red zone
Taiwan’s new president faces an upsurge in Chinese coercion
Business
Storing up trouble
App stores are hugely lucrative—and under attack
Bartleby
How to be a good follower
Through the floor
Can Home Depot’s “amazing era” return?
Marque to market
How not to name a new car
Finance & economics
The 100% manoeuvre
Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
Farewell to the GOAT
How Jim Simons revolutionised investing
Buttonwood
Joe Biden, master oil trader
Sleepless in Shenzhen
The property firm that could break China’s back
Science & technology
Culture
Money and faith
God™: an ageing product outperforms expectations
Honey, will you be home for dinner?
#Tradwives, the real housewives of the internet, have gone viral
Originalist to the core
How did the Founding Fathers want Americans to behave?
A literary life
Alice Munro was the English language’s Chekhov
The Economist reads
The Economist reads
Five novels that imagine dictatorship in America
The Economist reads
Understand South Korea, a success story with a dark side
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
The tawdry history of “catch-and-kill” journalism
The Economist explains
What are the Russian “turtle tanks” seen in Ukraine?
Obituary
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom
Shirley Conran wrote a bonkbuster to teach schoolgirls about sex
Letters
On college protests, farming, Emmanuel Macron, public opinion, Jeremy Clarkson, working on a plane, lonely-hearts ads