1. It’s not just a fiscal fiasco: greying economies also innovate less

2. Iran’s religious leaders have nuclear bombs “on demand”

3. Poland’s government creates a commission with the power to bar people from politics

4. How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine?

5. “Anatomy of a Fall”, a riveting whodunnit, wins at Cannes

6. Cash out: the digital-payments revolution | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

7. Why are China’s LGBT support groups closing down?

8. Ukraine’s Danube ports have become a lifeline

9. Digital payments are already reshaping economies

10. Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals

11. The speech police are coming for social media

12. Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush

13. Spain’s prime minister gambles on a snap general election

14. Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business

15. The comic opera of England

16. Erdogan’s presidential win in Turkey shows just how much power he already had

17. A new wave of mass migration has begun

18. Why activist investors are going to have a busy year

19. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey’s president

20. House Republicans are no closer to tying Hunter Biden’s activities to Joe

21. Why the Communist Party fears gay rights

22. Pickleball and padel are challenging tennis’s supremacy

23. America’s debt-ceiling deal means it should now avoid Armageddon

24. Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools

25. Japan’s hot-spring resorts are blocking geothermal energy plants

26. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is favoured to win Turkey’s presidential election

27. Female presidents, third-party hopefuls, how the show gets made: answers to listeners’ queries

28. Meet the hype-man for Binyamin Netanyahu’s controversial reforms

29. British voters want more immigrants but less immigration

30. China’s state capitalists celebrate their soaring shares

31. China and Russia compete for Central Asia’s favour

32. Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city

33. What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth

34. In Javier Marías’s final novel, an agent confronts his conscience

35. Britain’s semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in

36. Ciaran Martin argues that cyberspace is finally, if unevenly, getting safer

37. Davy Chou is casting a spotlight on Cambodian cinema

38. Parenting can be bad for the kids.

39. Rome fell. Will the modern-day West follow suit?

40. Who will be Iran’s next leader?

41. Japan’s ageing society is finding creative ways to dispose of its dead

42. Who are the militias raiding Russia’s Belgorod region?

43. Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape

44. We’re hiring a new Culture correspondent

45. Russia’s missile attacks on Ukraine have been ineffective

46. August Wilson was and remains a bard of black life in America

47. As it spreads across the world, who owns English?

48. Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing

49. How Donald Trump’s trials and the Republican primary will intersect

50. The push to bring insulin prices down in America

51. Vasectomies rose by 29% in the three months after the end of Roe

52. African governments say credit-rating agencies are biased against them

53. “The Perfection Trap” decries what it calls a “hidden epidemic”

54. Old tyres can become a climate-friendly fuel

55. Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to win Turkey’s presidential election

56. Why America has so many banks

57. To survive, Britain’s NHS must stop fixating on hospital care

58. What the crown jewels reveal about Britain’s colonial past

59. Clinical trials are too slow and too costly—here is how to fix them

60. Women take over France’s powerful trade unions

61. Art made by artificial intelligence is developing a style of its own

62. Russian lessons: new and improved war tactics | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

63. Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro’s influence

64. Russia’s army is improving its tactics. Can Ukraine still beat it?

65. Europe has shaken off Putin’s gas embargo

66. It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track

67. Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts

68. Reserve core: on digital finance and dollar dominance

69. Migration to Britain hits a record high

70. Can Jordan fall in love with Saudi Arabia?

71. Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point

72. Meta gets whacked with a €1.2bn penalty

73. America is lavishing attention on Pacific island states

74. The tech giants have an interest in AI regulation

75. Why are corporate retreats so extravagant?

76. Asian businesses are being dragged into the chip war

77. Satellite data show Ukraine’s forces are testing Russia’s defences

78. What properties would Sam Zell invest in next?

79. China’s cancel culture is nationalist, not woke

80. KAL’s cartoon | May 27th 2023 Edition

81. American policing has changed since George Floyd’s murder

82. How to get more bang for the buck in Western defence budgets

83. A stunning election result for Greece’s prime minister

84. Hungary is becoming more important to China

85. With a voice of astonishing power, Tina Turner evoked joy and pain

86. Business leaders fear that South Africa risks becoming a failed state

87. Is Google’s 20-year dominance of search in peril?

88. Can Ron DeSantis still beat Donald Trump?

89. How to fix the NHS

90. The spy who read me: authors under surveillance

91. The American credit cycle is at a dangerous point

92. Donald Trump is very likely to be the Republican nominee

93. The battle for internet search

94. Don’t be fooled by Meta’s fine for data breaches, says Johnny Ryan

95. The world’s most, and least, affordable cities are in Asia

96. How well does your country provide for its citizens?

97. Activist investors are needed more than ever

98. The American credit cycle is at a dangerous tipping point

99. Ron DeSantis has little chance of beating Donald Trump

100. Sheikh Hasina is Asia’s iron lady

101. Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation

102. Britain’s economy may grow by more than expected but inflation is stickier

103. Still the one that I want: Greece’s prime minister wins again | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

104. DeSantis is a truer believer, if a lesser politician, than Trump

105. China’s tech unicorns: what does the new stampede reveal?

106. What Greece’s election results say about the country’s turnaround

107. What a “war tax” means for the global economy

108. The relationship between AI and humans

109. Australia has faced down China’s trade bans, and emerged stronger

110. What would humans do in a world of super-AI?

111. Mexico could elect its first female president next year

112. The cost of the global arms race

113. “How To Have Sex” is among the standouts at Cannes Film Festival

114. Hot property: the remarkable resilience of America’s housing market

115. Business leaders fear that South Africa could become a failed state

116. Narcos and avocados: Mexico’s diversifying drug cartels | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

117. Who are the pro-Ukrainian militias raiding Russia’s Belgorod region?

118. What is the House Freedom Caucus?

119. Fentanyl, guns and avocados: how Mexico’s drug cartels are expanding

120. Billions of banknotes are missing. Why does nobody care?

121. What happens if America defaults on its debt?

122. Tree-felling is at the centre of disputes across Britain

123. Electric cars could be crucial for the EU to meet its climate goals

124. South Korea’s suicide rate fell for years. Women are driving it up again

125. What happens when Belarus loses its dictator?

126. Biden and McCarthy wrangle over America’s debt ceiling

127. The last drag queens of Tennessee

128. Greece’s prime minister wins an election, but lacks a majority

129. Martin Amis’s new book mixes autofiction and writing advice

130. With Hollywood on strike, foreign shows enjoy the limelight

131. The vital art of talking to strangers

132. Artists hope to turn selfies into comets

133. Can carbon removal become a trillion-dollar business?

134. Russia’s army is learning on the battlefield

135. Is Narendra Modi turning Bollywood against Muslims?

136. Can anyone be a writer?

137. Aboard Britain’s first commercial self-driving bus

138. The financial system is slipping into state control

139. LIBOR will at last be switched off in June

140. Is China’s recovery about to stall?

141. Henry Kissinger on averting world war

142. Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go

143. The market for dinosaur fossils is booming

144. The missing ingredient in Britain’s new law on tenants’ rights

145. Foreign airlines in Nigeria are frustrated by the blocking of their funds

146. The Economist’s science and technology internship

147. Looking for the African middle class? Head to the bus park

148. The wind-turbine industry should be booming. Why isn’t it?

149. Is America’s immigration system in crisis?

150. A forensic-accounting expert on how to treat the fraud epidemic

151. Could the 14th Amendment fix America’s debt-ceiling debacle?

152. Why have pregnant Russians flocked to Argentina since the invasion of Ukraine?

153. Shining armour: China’s new fleet | The Intelligence from The Economist

154. The fight over the future of global payments

155. Robert Lucas was a giant of macroeconomics

156. Iran’s proxies in the Middle East remain a powerful force

157. “China’s Navy has expanded dramatically over the last two decades”—closing the military gap

158. China is unusually secretive about its space programme

159. Britain’s Public Order Act goes too far

160. Insects could help turn beer waste into beef

161. The Inflation Reduction Act is turning heads among British businesses

162. Xiongan is Xi Jinping’s pet project

163. America’s new embassy in Beirut is vast

164. Truss Tour: 2023

165. The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not yet

166. Want to be a nun? You need to pass these tests

167. How a front-line city became Ukraine’s romantic capital

168. Why China fears Starlink

169. KAL’s cartoon | May 20th 2023 Edition

170. Businesses’ bottleneck bane

171. Mukesh Ambani returns to the spotlight

172. America’s culture wars threaten its single market

173. Trade in dinosaur fossils is good for science

174. Myanmar’s conflict is dividing South-East Asia

175. Can nets protect against kamikaze drones in Ukraine?

176. Congress should fund the BLM (no, not that one)

177. The humiliation of Thailand’s regime is a boost for Asian democracy

178. In 1983 Arthur Miller directed one of his best-known plays in China

179. Hot property: can anything take the heat out of the housing market?

180. In Emma Cline’s new novel, a young woman loses control of her life

181. “Fancy Bear Goes Phishing” charts the evolution of hacking

182. It turns out that Democrats bus migrants, too

183. Wings v tenders: the choice says more about you than you think

184. Abebe Aemro Selassie on Africa’s brutal funding squeeze

185. Fears about the reactors at Zaporizhia continue to mount

186. San Francisco’s “woke maths” experiment

187. Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema

188. Quiet artworks sometimes make the deepest impressions

189. In “Fatherland”, an author reckons with his Nazi grandfather

190. For Giorgia Meloni, supporting Ukraine has some useful benefits

191. The Taliban go big on animal welfare

192. Volodymyr Zelensky’s European trip secures a lot more military backing

193. Ecuador’s president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment

194. China and the West take a step to ease Africa’s debt crisis

195. Latin America’s left-wing experiment is a warning to the world

196. Meet the lefty Europeans who want to deliberately shrink the economy

197. “It’s a sad lesson. No matter how blood-soaked you are, you can find a road to diplomatic redemption”—Assad’s comeback

198. Joe Biden’s global vision is too timid and pessimistic

199. The world could soon breach its 1.5°C target for global warming

200. Britain would rather forget about Liz Truss. She won’t let it

201. How a frontline city became Ukraine’s romantic capital

202. What do George Santos, R. Kelly and FIFA have in common?

203. A conversation with Henry Kissinger

204. Kissinger: for the safety of Europe, get Ukraine into NATO

205. The coming years will be the hottest ever

206. South-East Asia is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave

207. Could phage therapy help combat antimicrobial resistance?

208. How to invest in artificial intelligence

209. Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News’s ratings

210. Henry Kissinger explains how to avoid world war three

211. Sleep and songwriting make one of the great creative partnerships

212. Better call Kissinger: an interview with the renowned diplomat | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

213. “His ideas have been circling back into relevancy for the last quarter century”—the Henry Kissinger interview

214. A digital payments revolution in India

215. The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world

216. America’s Inflation Reduction Act is turning heads among British businesses

217. Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover

218. What to read about villains in business

219. The fault lines in America’s China policy

220. CEOs need a much sharper focus on social challenges, argue Ian Davis and Daniel Litvin

221. Africa faces a mounting debt crisis

222. As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance

223. Why have netizens given China’s new rural law-enforcement officers an insulting nickname?

224. Can the West win over the rest of the world?

225. New school Thais: a military establishment voted out | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

226. How India’s states compete for investment

227. Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?

228. “Even they didn’t expect to win the number of seats that they won”—victory for reformists in Thailand’s election

229. Can we learn to disagree better?

230. The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement

231. There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments

232. What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster

233. Europe can’t decide how to unplug from China

234. Why have Russia’s armed forces been so ineffective in Ukraine?

235. Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition

236. Thailand’s pro-democracy parties trounce the military establishment

237. Why are more British adults still living with their parents?

238. Tedros Adhanom, head of the WHO, on the lessons from covid-19

239. Changing the Guard? Turkey’s inconclusive election | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

240. “Erdogan entered the elections trailing his main rival in the polls, but now appears the clear favourite”—Turkey votes

241. You studied computer science but Big Tech no longer wants you. Now what?

242. Recep Tayyip Erdogan confounds predictions in Turkey’s election

243. Introducing The War Room, our new defence newsletter

244. Pinball is booming in America, thanks to nostalgia and canny marketing

245. How to improve your trash talk

246. The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not soon

247. Narendra Modi’s party takes a beating in Karnataka

248. Recep Tayyip Erdogan leads his challenger as Turkey votes

249. How to eat to 100

250. The meaty mystery at the heart of China’s economic growth

251. How to bring scents to the metaverse

252. A new world order seeks to prioritise security and climate change

253. A ruling over ownership of the Benin bronzes may delay their return

254. Why Chinese carmakers are eyeing Thailand

255. How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise?

256. The fall of empires preys on Xi Jinping’s mind

257. A winner has emerged in the old rivalry between Singapore and Hong Kong

258. How China measures national power

259. India’s once-troubled banks are generating huge profits

260. The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO

261. Are America’s regional banks out of the worst of it?

262. China learns to manage decline

263. Conservatives dominate Chile’s constitutional assembly this time around

264. Why are bad films so enjoyable?

265. Mexico’s gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates

266. A renewed push on Bakhmut fuels rumours of a Ukrainian counter-offensive

267. Is there a crisis of masculinity?

268. What the West gets wrong about peacemaking in Sudan

269. “Bonsoir l’Europe!” How languages affect Eurovision scores

270. Horse-racing in America needs to improve its odds

271. How to recruit with softer skills in mind

272. It’s time the West committed to Ukraine for the long haul, says Fabrice Pothier

273. “The” human genome was always a misnomer

274. How free and fair will Turkey’s election be?

275. Writers on strike beware: Hollywood has changed for ever

276. Britain plays catch-up in a global scramble for critical minerals

277. How soon and at what height will China’s economy peak?

278. Suck in the middle: the hole in America’s consumer base | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast

279. “We see this pattern in a whole range of consumer industries”—the hole in America’s retail base

280. How housing became the new divide in British politics

281. The Palestinians need new leaders

282. London’s newest train line is now also its busiest

283. Are electric vehicles recharging the car industry?

284. Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India’s past

285. Why South Korean tattooists are being marked as criminals

286. KAL’s cartoon | May 13th 2023 Edition

287. Chicago’s new mayor has one of the trickiest jobs in politics

288. Serhii Plokhy’s new book traces Vladimir Putin’s road to war

289. America accuses South Africa of sending arms to Russia

290. Joe Biden is more responsible for high inflation than for abundant jobs

291. Janika Oza’s debut novel charts the Indian diaspora’s struggles

292. America is less dominant in defence spending than you might think

293. A generation after Germany reunited, deep divisions remain

294. Fentanyl trafficking tests America’s foreign policy

295. Martin Luther King was among the greatest Americans—and the most misunderstood

296. The hazards of pronouncing foreign names on air

297. We’re hiring a new Washington correspondent

298. What makes certain dogs popular in certain countries

299. Direct cremations and burials offer a different way to mourn

300. Why the boss of Wagner Group is feuding with Russia’s military leaders