Leaders
American politics
Why Biden must withdraw
The president and his party portray themselves as the saviours of democracy. Their actions say otherwise
Keir not
Labour has won the British election. Now it has to seize the moment
A volatile electorate and a strong showing for Reform UK are no reason for caution
Everything in store
As Amazon turns 30, three factors will define its next decade
It will have to deal with trustbusters, catch up on AI and revive its core business
The end of the beginning
Central banks are winning the battle against inflation. But the war is just getting started
Politics and protectionism will make life difficult
Cloud and dagger
How spies should use technology
Digital tools are transforming spycraft, but won’t replace human agents
Letters
On solar power, the New York Times bestseller list, Metallica, football, presidential debates
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Europe’s other flashpoint
NATO must tackle instability in the Balkans, says an ex-head
Briefing
Demotivational speaking
Democratic bigwigs are starting to call for Joe Biden to step aside
A sitting congressman has broken ranks
President Lear
Senility in high office
Even leaders who are spry for their age eventually lose their grip
Gerontocrats ascendant
One generation has dominated American politics for over 30 years
How have they become so entrenched?
A new podcast
Introducing “Boom!”
A six-part series about the generation that blew up American politics
Europe
France’s parliamentary election
Le Pen’s hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
Send in the Turks
Turkish tourists can now easily visit nearby Greek islands
Green policies
The EU should be the world’s heat-pump pioneer
Britain
The British election
Labour’s landslide victory will turn politics on its head
Legacy thinking
The inheritance awaiting Britain’s next government
Onboarding
Nukes and King Charles—but no door key
Political retirements
A prime minister, a plotter and others say farewell as British MPs
Middle East & Africa
The northern front
The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
The new nationalists
Meet the victors in Africa’s coup belt
The forest for the trees
How EU do-goodery risks harming Africa’s small farmers
United States
Supremely controversial
The Supreme Court’s term ends with a rash of divisive rulings
Vulture capital
The unsteady comeback of the California condor
Bureaucratic power
What the Chevron ruling means for the next US president
Lexington
Joe Biden is fooling only himself
The Americas
The sleepwalkers
China’s presence in Latin America has expanded dramatically
The other China
Paraguay and Taiwan strengthen their embrace, for now
A different kind of therapy
Mexico has become a testing ground for psychedelic therapies
Asia
A new era begins
Japan’s mind-bending bento-box economics
The strange death of liberal arts
Why many young Asians are no longer studying history
An Asian model
Why is Thai health care so good?
Going nuclear
Demand for uranium is booming. Who is benefiting?
China
Worrying about water
China is struck by floods and drought—at the same time
No defence
How to provoke the fury of Xi Jinping
An attack and a crackdown
China takes a step to curb anti-Japanese rhetoric online
International
Technology Quarterly
New-look spooks
The tools of global spycraft have changed
Dead drop drops dead
Ubiquitous technical surveillance has made spying more difficult
Dot-dot-dot dashed
Signals intelligence has become a cyber-activity
Old-school broadcasts
Sometimes the old ways of espionage are the best
Spycraft
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
Growing closer
What next for Amazon as it turns 30?
Erase and rewind
Hollywood enters a frugal new era
A bunker mentality
Panic rooms and private bunkers are all the rage in Germany
Finance & economics
A sequence of zeroes
What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
Business creation
How Starbucks caffeinates local economies
Disappearing act
Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
In the wars
Ukraine has a month to avoid default
Science & technology
Brewed awakenings
New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager
Best foot forward
A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone
Culture
Call of the desert
Can Saudi Arabia become a premier tourist hotspot?
Not of an age, but for all time
Making a case for Shakespeare, 400 years after his death
Manners maketh money
Finishing schools for the age of TikTok
Stories from Kerala
The rise of Mollywood, India’s more subtle film hub
Melancholy in the mountains
Like its Montana setting, Kevin Barry’s novel is brutal and gorgeous
The Economist reads
The Economist reads
The best and worst memoirs by British prime ministers
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Ten plausible contenders to replace Joe Biden
The Economist explains
How will Democrats replace Joe Biden as their candidate for president?
Obituary
The keeper of memory