It’s not just a fiscal fiasco: greying economies also innovate less (www.economist.com)
Iran’s religious leaders have nuclear bombs “on demand” (www.economist.com)
Poland’s government creates a commission with the power to bar people from politics (www.economist.com)
How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine? (www.economist.com)
“Anatomy of a Fall”, a riveting whodunnit, wins at Cannes (www.economist.com)
Cash out: the digital-payments revolution | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast (play.acast.com)
Why are China’s LGBT support groups closing down? (www.economist.com)
Ukraine’s Danube ports have become a lifeline (www.economist.com)
Digital payments are already reshaping economies (www.economist.com)
Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals (www.economist.com)
The speech police are coming for social media (www.economist.com)
Nvidia is not the only firm cashing in on the AI gold rush (www.economist.com)
Spain’s prime minister gambles on a snap general election (www.economist.com)
Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business (www.economist.com)
The comic opera of England (www.economist.com)
Erdogan’s presidential win in Turkey shows just how much power he already had (www.economist.com)
A new wave of mass migration has begun (www.economist.com)
Why activist investors are going to have a busy year (www.economist.com)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is re-elected as Turkey’s president (www.economist.com)
House Republicans are no closer to tying Hunter Biden’s activities to Joe (www.economist.com)
Why the Communist Party fears gay rights (www.economist.com)
Pickleball and padel are challenging tennis’s supremacy (www.economist.com)
America’s debt-ceiling deal means it should now avoid Armageddon (www.economist.com)
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools (www.economist.com)
Japan’s hot-spring resorts are blocking geothermal energy plants (www.economist.com)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is favoured to win Turkey’s presidential election (www.economist.com)
Female presidents, third-party hopefuls, how the show gets made: answers to listeners’ queries (www.economist.com)
Meet the hype-man for Binyamin Netanyahu’s controversial reforms (www.economist.com)
British voters want more immigrants but less immigration (www.economist.com)
China’s state capitalists celebrate their soaring shares (www.economist.com)
China and Russia compete for Central Asia’s favour (www.economist.com)
Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city (www.economist.com)
What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth (www.economist.com)
In Javier Marías’s final novel, an agent confronts his conscience (www.economist.com)
Britain’s semiconductor strategy shows the bind the country is in (www.economist.com)
Ciaran Martin argues that cyberspace is finally, if unevenly, getting safer (www.economist.com)
Davy Chou is casting a spotlight on Cambodian cinema (www.economist.com)
Parenting can be bad for the kids. (www.economist.com)
Rome fell. Will the modern-day West follow suit? (www.economist.com)
Who will be Iran’s next leader? (www.economist.com)
Japan’s ageing society is finding creative ways to dispose of its dead (www.economist.com)
Who are the militias raiding Russia’s Belgorod region? (www.economist.com)
Why tech giants want to strangle AI with red tape (www.economist.com)
We’re hiring a new Culture correspondent (www.economist.com)
Russia’s missile attacks on Ukraine have been ineffective (www.economist.com)
August Wilson was and remains a bard of black life in America (www.economist.com)
As it spreads across the world, who owns English? (www.economist.com)
Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing (www.economist.com)
How Donald Trump’s trials and the Republican primary will intersect (www.economist.com)
The push to bring insulin prices down in America (www.economist.com)
Vasectomies rose by 29% in the three months after the end of Roe (www.economist.com)
African governments say credit-rating agencies are biased against them (www.economist.com)
“The Perfection Trap” decries what it calls a “hidden epidemic” (www.economist.com)
Old tyres can become a climate-friendly fuel (www.economist.com)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan is set to win Turkey’s presidential election (www.economist.com)
Why America has so many banks (www.economist.com)
To survive, Britain’s NHS must stop fixating on hospital care (www.economist.com)
What the crown jewels reveal about Britain’s colonial past (www.economist.com)
Clinical trials are too slow and too costly—here is how to fix them (www.economist.com)
Women take over France’s powerful trade unions (www.economist.com)
Art made by artificial intelligence is developing a style of its own (www.economist.com)
Russian lessons: new and improved war tactics | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast (play.acast.com)
Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro’s influence (www.economist.com)
Russia’s army is improving its tactics. Can Ukraine still beat it? (www.economist.com)
Europe has shaken off Putin’s gas embargo (www.economist.com)
It will take years to get Deutsche Bahn back on track (www.economist.com)
Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts (www.economist.com)
Reserve core: on digital finance and dollar dominance (www.economist.com)
Migration to Britain hits a record high (www.economist.com)
Can Jordan fall in love with Saudi Arabia? (www.economist.com)
Downtown San Francisco is at a tipping-point (www.economist.com)
Meta gets whacked with a €1.2bn penalty (www.economist.com)
America is lavishing attention on Pacific island states (www.economist.com)
The tech giants have an interest in AI regulation (www.economist.com)
Why are corporate retreats so extravagant? (www.economist.com)
Asian businesses are being dragged into the chip war (www.economist.com)
Satellite data show Ukraine’s forces are testing Russia’s defences (www.economist.com)
What properties would Sam Zell invest in next? (www.economist.com)
China’s cancel culture is nationalist, not woke (www.economist.com)
KAL’s cartoon | May 27th 2023 Edition (www.economist.com)
American policing has changed since George Floyd’s murder (www.economist.com)
How to get more bang for the buck in Western defence budgets (www.economist.com)
A stunning election result for Greece’s prime minister (www.economist.com)
Hungary is becoming more important to China (www.economist.com)
With a voice of astonishing power, Tina Turner evoked joy and pain (www.economist.com)
Business leaders fear that South Africa risks becoming a failed state (www.economist.com)
Is Google’s 20-year dominance of search in peril? (www.economist.com)
Can Ron DeSantis still beat Donald Trump? (www.economist.com)
How to fix the NHS (www.economist.com)
The spy who read me: authors under surveillance (www.economist.com)
The American credit cycle is at a dangerous point (www.economist.com)
Donald Trump is very likely to be the Republican nominee (www.economist.com)
The battle for internet search (www.economist.com)
Don’t be fooled by Meta’s fine for data breaches, says Johnny Ryan (www.economist.com)
The world’s most, and least, affordable cities are in Asia (www.economist.com)
How well does your country provide for its citizens? (www.economist.com)
Activist investors are needed more than ever (www.economist.com)
The American credit cycle is at a dangerous tipping point (www.economist.com)
Ron DeSantis has little chance of beating Donald Trump (www.economist.com)
Sheikh Hasina is Asia’s iron lady (www.economist.com)
Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation (www.economist.com)
Britain’s economy may grow by more than expected but inflation is stickier (www.economist.com)
Still the one that I want: Greece’s prime minister wins again | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast (play.acast.com)
DeSantis is a truer believer, if a lesser politician, than Trump (www.economist.com)
China’s tech unicorns: what does the new stampede reveal? (www.economist.com)
What Greece’s election results say about the country’s turnaround (www.economist.com)
What a “war tax” means for the global economy (www.economist.com)
The relationship between AI and humans (www.economist.com)
Australia has faced down China’s trade bans, and emerged stronger (www.economist.com)
What would humans do in a world of super-AI? (www.economist.com)
Mexico could elect its first female president next year (www.economist.com)
The cost of the global arms race (www.economist.com)
“How To Have Sex” is among the standouts at Cannes Film Festival (www.economist.com)
Hot property: the remarkable resilience of America’s housing market (www.economist.com)
Business leaders fear that South Africa could become a failed state (www.economist.com)
Narcos and avocados: Mexico’s diversifying drug cartels | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast (play.acast.com)
Who are the pro-Ukrainian militias raiding Russia’s Belgorod region? (www.economist.com)
What is the House Freedom Caucus? (www.economist.com)
Fentanyl, guns and avocados: how Mexico’s drug cartels are expanding (www.economist.com)
Billions of banknotes are missing. Why does nobody care? (www.economist.com)
What happens if America defaults on its debt? (www.economist.com)
Tree-felling is at the centre of disputes across Britain (www.economist.com)
Electric cars could be crucial for the EU to meet its climate goals (www.economist.com)
South Korea’s suicide rate fell for years. Women are driving it up again (www.economist.com)
What happens when Belarus loses its dictator? (www.economist.com)
Biden and McCarthy wrangle over America’s debt ceiling (www.economist.com)
The last drag queens of Tennessee (www.economist.com)
Greece’s prime minister wins an election, but lacks a majority (www.economist.com)
Martin Amis’s new book mixes autofiction and writing advice (www.economist.com)
With Hollywood on strike, foreign shows enjoy the limelight (www.economist.com)
The vital art of talking to strangers (www.economist.com)
Artists hope to turn selfies into comets (www.economist.com)
Can carbon removal become a trillion-dollar business? (www.economist.com)
Russia’s army is learning on the battlefield (www.economist.com)
Is Narendra Modi turning Bollywood against Muslims? (www.economist.com)
Can anyone be a writer? (www.economist.com)
Aboard Britain’s first commercial self-driving bus (www.economist.com)
The financial system is slipping into state control (www.economist.com)
LIBOR will at last be switched off in June (www.economist.com)
Is China’s recovery about to stall? (www.economist.com)
Henry Kissinger on averting world war (www.economist.com)
Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go (www.economist.com)
The market for dinosaur fossils is booming (www.economist.com)
The missing ingredient in Britain’s new law on tenants’ rights (www.economist.com)
Foreign airlines in Nigeria are frustrated by the blocking of their funds (www.economist.com)
The Economist’s science and technology internship (www.economist.com)
Looking for the African middle class? Head to the bus park (www.economist.com)
The wind-turbine industry should be booming. Why isn’t it? (www.economist.com)
Is America’s immigration system in crisis? (www.economist.com)
A forensic-accounting expert on how to treat the fraud epidemic (www.economist.com)
Could the 14th Amendment fix America’s debt-ceiling debacle? (www.economist.com)
Why have pregnant Russians flocked to Argentina since the invasion of Ukraine? (www.economist.com)
Shining armour: China’s new fleet | The Intelligence from The Economist (shows.acast.com)
The fight over the future of global payments (www.economist.com)
Robert Lucas was a giant of macroeconomics (www.economist.com)
Iran’s proxies in the Middle East remain a powerful force (www.economist.com)
“China’s Navy has expanded dramatically over the last two decades”—closing the military gap (www.economist.com)
China is unusually secretive about its space programme (www.economist.com)
Britain’s Public Order Act goes too far (www.economist.com)
Insects could help turn beer waste into beef (www.economist.com)
The Inflation Reduction Act is turning heads among British businesses (www.economist.com)
Xiongan is Xi Jinping’s pet project (www.economist.com)
America’s new embassy in Beirut is vast (www.economist.com)
Truss Tour: 2023 (www.economist.com)
The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not yet (www.economist.com)
Want to be a nun? You need to pass these tests (www.economist.com)
How a front-line city became Ukraine’s romantic capital (www.economist.com)
Why China fears Starlink (www.economist.com)
KAL’s cartoon | May 20th 2023 Edition (www.economist.com)
Businesses’ bottleneck bane (www.economist.com)
Mukesh Ambani returns to the spotlight (www.economist.com)
America’s culture wars threaten its single market (www.economist.com)
Trade in dinosaur fossils is good for science (www.economist.com)
Myanmar’s conflict is dividing South-East Asia (www.economist.com)
Can nets protect against kamikaze drones in Ukraine? (www.economist.com)
Congress should fund the BLM (no, not that one) (www.economist.com)
The humiliation of Thailand’s regime is a boost for Asian democracy (www.economist.com)
In 1983 Arthur Miller directed one of his best-known plays in China (www.economist.com)
Hot property: can anything take the heat out of the housing market? (www.economist.com)
In Emma Cline’s new novel, a young woman loses control of her life (www.economist.com)
“Fancy Bear Goes Phishing” charts the evolution of hacking (www.economist.com)
It turns out that Democrats bus migrants, too (www.economist.com)
Wings v tenders: the choice says more about you than you think (www.economist.com)
Abebe Aemro Selassie on Africa’s brutal funding squeeze (www.economist.com)
Fears about the reactors at Zaporizhia continue to mount (www.economist.com)
San Francisco’s “woke maths” experiment (www.economist.com)
Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema (www.economist.com)
Quiet artworks sometimes make the deepest impressions (www.economist.com)
In “Fatherland”, an author reckons with his Nazi grandfather (www.economist.com)
For Giorgia Meloni, supporting Ukraine has some useful benefits (www.economist.com)
The Taliban go big on animal welfare (www.economist.com)
Volodymyr Zelensky’s European trip secures a lot more military backing (www.economist.com)
Ecuador’s president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment (www.economist.com)
China and the West take a step to ease Africa’s debt crisis (www.economist.com)
Latin America’s left-wing experiment is a warning to the world (www.economist.com)
Meet the lefty Europeans who want to deliberately shrink the economy (www.economist.com)
“It’s a sad lesson. No matter how blood-soaked you are, you can find a road to diplomatic redemption”—Assad’s comeback (www.economist.com)
Joe Biden’s global vision is too timid and pessimistic (www.economist.com)
The world could soon breach its 1.5°C target for global warming (www.economist.com)
Britain would rather forget about Liz Truss. She won’t let it (www.economist.com)
How a frontline city became Ukraine’s romantic capital (www.economist.com)
What do George Santos, R. Kelly and FIFA have in common? (www.economist.com)
A conversation with Henry Kissinger (www.economist.com)
Kissinger: for the safety of Europe, get Ukraine into NATO (www.economist.com)
The coming years will be the hottest ever (www.economist.com)
South-East Asia is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave (www.economist.com)
Could phage therapy help combat antimicrobial resistance? (www.economist.com)
How to invest in artificial intelligence (www.economist.com)
Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News’s ratings (www.economist.com)
Henry Kissinger explains how to avoid world war three (www.economist.com)
Sleep and songwriting make one of the great creative partnerships (www.economist.com)
Better call Kissinger: an interview with the renowned diplomat | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast (play.acast.com)
“His ideas have been circling back into relevancy for the last quarter century”—the Henry Kissinger interview (www.economist.com)
A digital payments revolution in India (www.economist.com)
The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world (www.economist.com)
America’s Inflation Reduction Act is turning heads among British businesses (www.economist.com)
Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover (www.economist.com)
What to read about villains in business (www.economist.com)
The fault lines in America’s China policy (www.economist.com)
CEOs need a much sharper focus on social challenges, argue Ian Davis and Daniel Litvin (www.economist.com)
Africa faces a mounting debt crisis (www.economist.com)
As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance (www.economist.com)
Why have netizens given China’s new rural law-enforcement officers an insulting nickname? (www.economist.com)
Can the West win over the rest of the world? (www.economist.com)
New school Thais: a military establishment voted out | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast (play.acast.com)
How India’s states compete for investment (www.economist.com)
Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar? (www.economist.com)
“Even they didn’t expect to win the number of seats that they won”—victory for reformists in Thailand’s election (www.economist.com)
Can we learn to disagree better? (www.economist.com)
The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement (www.economist.com)
There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments (www.economist.com)
What America does after a debt-ceiling disaster (www.economist.com)
Europe can’t decide how to unplug from China (www.economist.com)
Why have Russia’s armed forces been so ineffective in Ukraine? (www.economist.com)
Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition (www.economist.com)
Thailand’s pro-democracy parties trounce the military establishment (www.economist.com)
Why are more British adults still living with their parents? (www.economist.com)
Tedros Adhanom, head of the WHO, on the lessons from covid-19 (www.economist.com)
Changing the Guard? Turkey’s inconclusive election | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast (play.acast.com)
“Erdogan entered the elections trailing his main rival in the polls, but now appears the clear favourite”—Turkey votes (www.economist.com)
You studied computer science but Big Tech no longer wants you. Now what? (www.economist.com)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan confounds predictions in Turkey’s election (www.economist.com)
Introducing The War Room, our new defence newsletter (www.economist.com)
Pinball is booming in America, thanks to nostalgia and canny marketing (www.economist.com)
How to improve your trash talk (www.economist.com)
The aviation industry wants to be net zero—but not soon (www.economist.com)
Narendra Modi’s party takes a beating in Karnataka (www.economist.com)
Recep Tayyip Erdogan leads his challenger as Turkey votes (www.economist.com)
How to eat to 100 (www.economist.com)
The meaty mystery at the heart of China’s economic growth (www.economist.com)
How to bring scents to the metaverse (www.economist.com)
A new world order seeks to prioritise security and climate change (www.economist.com)
A ruling over ownership of the Benin bronzes may delay their return (www.economist.com)
Why Chinese carmakers are eyeing Thailand (www.economist.com)
How fast can European steelmakers decarbonise? (www.economist.com)
The fall of empires preys on Xi Jinping’s mind (www.economist.com)
A winner has emerged in the old rivalry between Singapore and Hong Kong (www.economist.com)
How China measures national power (www.economist.com)
India’s once-troubled banks are generating huge profits (www.economist.com)
The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO (www.economist.com)
Are America’s regional banks out of the worst of it? (www.economist.com)
China learns to manage decline (www.economist.com)
Conservatives dominate Chile’s constitutional assembly this time around (www.economist.com)
Why are bad films so enjoyable? (www.economist.com)
Mexico’s gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates (www.economist.com)
A renewed push on Bakhmut fuels rumours of a Ukrainian counter-offensive (www.economist.com)
Is there a crisis of masculinity? (www.economist.com)
What the West gets wrong about peacemaking in Sudan (www.economist.com)
“Bonsoir l’Europe!” How languages affect Eurovision scores (www.economist.com)
Horse-racing in America needs to improve its odds (www.economist.com)
How to recruit with softer skills in mind (www.economist.com)
It’s time the West committed to Ukraine for the long haul, says Fabrice Pothier (www.economist.com)
“The” human genome was always a misnomer (www.economist.com)
How free and fair will Turkey’s election be? (www.economist.com)
Writers on strike beware: Hollywood has changed for ever (www.economist.com)
Britain plays catch-up in a global scramble for critical minerals (www.economist.com)
How soon and at what height will China’s economy peak? (www.economist.com)
Suck in the middle: the hole in America’s consumer base | The Intelligence from The Economist on Acast (play.acast.com)
“We see this pattern in a whole range of consumer industries”—the hole in America’s retail base (www.economist.com)
How housing became the new divide in British politics (www.economist.com)
The Palestinians need new leaders (www.economist.com)
London’s newest train line is now also its busiest (www.economist.com)
Are electric vehicles recharging the car industry? (www.economist.com)
Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India’s past (www.economist.com)
Why South Korean tattooists are being marked as criminals (www.economist.com)
KAL’s cartoon | May 13th 2023 Edition (www.economist.com)
Chicago’s new mayor has one of the trickiest jobs in politics (www.economist.com)
Serhii Plokhy’s new book traces Vladimir Putin’s road to war (www.economist.com)
America accuses South Africa of sending arms to Russia (www.economist.com)
Joe Biden is more responsible for high inflation than for abundant jobs (www.economist.com)
Janika Oza’s debut novel charts the Indian diaspora’s struggles (www.economist.com)
America is less dominant in defence spending than you might think (www.economist.com)
A generation after Germany reunited, deep divisions remain (www.economist.com)
Fentanyl trafficking tests America’s foreign policy (www.economist.com)
Martin Luther King was among the greatest Americans—and the most misunderstood (www.economist.com)
The hazards of pronouncing foreign names on air (www.economist.com)
We’re hiring a new Washington correspondent (www.economist.com)
What makes certain dogs popular in certain countries (www.economist.com)
Direct cremations and burials offer a different way to mourn (www.economist.com)
Why the boss of Wagner Group is feuding with Russia’s military leaders (www.economist.com)