1843-2018: A manifesto for renewing liberalism
The world this week
Leaders
The Supreme Court
America’s highest court needs term limits
Deepening partisanship is bad for the court and bad for America
The Economist at 175
A manifesto for renewing liberalism
Success turned liberals into a complacent elite. They need to rekindle their desire for radicalism
Britain and the European Union
Selling the Chequers plan
Theresa May’s Chequers plan is in big trouble at home. More flexibility from the EU would help its chances
Reckless in Lusaka
Zambia’s looming debt crisis is a warning for the rest of Africa
A decade after debt relief, the country is horribly in hock again
Ma where he came from?
China will struggle to produce another Jack Ma
No entrepreneur has defined the country’s transformation like Alibaba’s founder
Letters
Letters
Letters to the editor
Briefing
And Brett makes five
How America’s Supreme Court became so politicised
And what you can expect it to do next
Europe
Can you prove it?
How Europe determines whether asylum-seekers are gay
Orban sceptics
The European Parliament condemns Hungary
At the crease in Greece
How cricket thrives in Corfu
Brother enemy
The realities of life in Russia’s far east
Charlemagne
The storm-clouds are building above Europe
Essay
Liberalism
The Economist at 175
Britain
The Brexit negotiations
The unlikely survival of May’s Chequers plan for Brexit
The clown prince
Boris Johnson’s bid for the Tory leadership
The worker takes it all
Labour launches a worker-ownership plan
Boundary ch-ch-ch-changes
Britain’s electoral system favours not Labour but the Conservatives
University in need of repair
Rebuilding British higher education’s most unusual institution
Sex, drugs and non-enforcement
Councils in England and Wales hatch their own solutions to prostitution
Colour me happy
British hospitals are having a dementia-friendly makeover
Bagehot
A hunger for new thought
Middle East & Africa
End of the road
Zambia slumps towards another debt crisis
War and cheese
The world’s least blessed cheesemakers are in Congo
Middle East peace-making
America turns its back on the Palestinian leadership
Heat check
Yemen tries gun control
United States
Make America Germany Again
The Democratic Party’s left flank has ideas for fixing the country
Sleaze and the city
An exceptionally underhanded smear lands Andrew Cuomo in hot water
Minority politicians
Two Muslim women are headed for Congress
Lexington
Gary Johnson for liberty
The Americas
Asia
No nukes is fake news
The South clings to hope that North Korea is scrapping its nukes
Turning the tide
Australia’s aboriginals try a novel approach to fighting crime
Liberal apostasy
Pakistan’s new government betrays the Ahmadi minority
Fishy business
Economies of scale: why Asia is obsessed with arowanas
China
Class struggle
Anger grows in China over school crowding
The original tea party
The Economist’s new China column: Chaguan
International
Global problems, local solutions?
California leads subnational efforts to curb climate change
Business
Command and control
China’s tech founders mostly keep an iron grip over their firms
Final episode
CBS faces up to its #MeToo moment
Safe at any Swede
Volvo abandons its plans for an IPO
Fixer-uppers
Tech firms disrupt the property market
Internet regulation in Europe
A controversial new copyright law moves a step closer to approval
Finance & economics
Feeling the heat
America is pushing the labour market to its limits
The half-life of a currency
Hyperinflation is hard to grasp, harder still to tolerate
The highway, my way
Colombia’s development bank has brought in private-sector discipline
Opposites attract
Money managers and charities are offering joint investment products
Science & technology
Scientific publishing
European countries demand that publicly funded research be free
Wildlife conservation
Churches help to preserve bird biodiversity
Culture
The Trump chronicles
Bob Woodward takes on Donald Trump
The other side of paradise
Gary Shteyngart’s novel of high finance and Greyhound buses
Wind and smoke
The rise and fall of an alchemical Scottish economist
Achilles and the heels
Pat Barker beautifully fills in the gaps in the “Iliad”
Another country
“Moneyland” is an urgent exposé of the world of mega-wealth
Obituary
The drift of humankind