Leaders
Getting the job done
Vladimir Putin’s war is failing. The West should help it fail faster
Ukraine’s friends should reinforce its success by sending more and better weapons
Britain’s constitution
Why the monarchy matters
The monarchy is an anachronism, yet it thrived under Elizabeth II. That holds lessons for her successor and for democracies elsewhere
The perils of wishful thinking
To fix America’s inflation problem, the Federal Reserve must go big
The odds that a painful recession can be averted look woefully long
House on fire
China’s property crisis hasn’t gone away: it is getting worse
Officials may have little choice but to bail out the industry
Getting away with murder
America should reform its police forces, not defund them
Cops need to be trusted if they are to curb a surge of killings
Letters
On big tech in the EU, the Soviet Union, museums, farming, planning
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
The death of the queen
A.N. Wilson on the art of Queen Elizabeth II’s communication
Europe
Chasing the bear away
A stunning counter-offensive by Ukraine’s armed forces
Strife on the right
Italy’s probable next government contains many tensions
Injudicious
Spanish politicians are arguing over judges
A budget battle looms
France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, gets back to work
How to waste 2bn zlotys
Poland opens a propaganda-heavy canal
Britain
Of royals and sentiments
How the death of Elizabeth II has affected Britain
Nationalism, unionism and royalty
The queen helped effect a change in Anglo-Irish relations
The new monarch
What sort of king will Charles III be?
Realms and republics
Will Charles III keep the Commonwealth going?
The new chancellor
An official’s defenestration rattles the Treasury
United States
Midterm maths: Senate scenarios
Will America’s polls misfire again?
Let ‘er buck
A rodeo in Oregon encapsulates the old Wild West
Environmental economics
The Biden administration aims to quantify the costs of ecological decay
Hillbilly effigy
How the left and J.D. Vance learnt to despise each other
Middle East & Africa
Missing an open goal
How oil-rich Nigeria failed to profit from an oil boom
The ones who sweep
In the Gulf 99% of Kenyan migrant workers are abused, a poll finds
From ayatollahs to Albania
Iran’s cyberwar goes global
A tale of two scarcities
From tea to cars, Egypt and Tunisia struggle to pay for imports
The Americas
Poilievre the pugilist
Canada’s Conservatives pick a brainy brawler as leader
Asia
Changing climate
Australia passes a law to reduce emissions, at last
China
Next-generation thinking
New leaders will soon inhabit China’s top decision-making bodies
Change the channel
China has plans for grand canals
They will take blood
China’s government is mass-collecting DNA from Tibetans
Forbidden love story
A film about rural outcasts made waves in China
Special report
Violent crime in America
How to stop the killing
The sociology of murder
An anatomy of hard times in the city
The global context
American exceptionalism exists, but other countries also have problems
Solving murders
America is unusually bad at clearing up homicides
Decline and reform
How Baltimore became a sad harbinger of the future
The politics of policing
The public wants to refund, not defund, the police
Alternatives to policing
How softer non-policing strategies might help
Violent crime
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
The homecoming king
The world’s biggest bet on India
Morgenthau’s revenge
Germany faces a looming threat of deindustrialisation
Poxy no more
Makers of monkeypox drugs face a rash of orders
Schumpeter
The rise of the borderless trustbuster
Finance & economics
The Chinese economy
China’s Ponzi-like property market is eroding faith in the government
The libor of energy?
The European Commission searches for a gas-price villain
Core of the matter
America still has an inflation problem
Free exchange
Richer societies mean fewer babies. Right?
Science & technology
Asteroseismology
Want to know what’s inside a star? Listen closely
Music and the mind
Playing an instrument is linked to better cognition
Culture
The queen on screen
“The Crown” will help shape the memory of Queen Elizabeth II
Mussolini’s shadow
Italians’ memories of Fascism are dangerously inaccurate
World in a dish
Mooncakes, an ancient tradition, are constant yet variable
Population and prosperity
More people mean more innovation, not just more consumption
The pill machine
Dispatches from the struggle to treat mental illness
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Do Russia’s military setbacks increase the risk of nuclear conflict?
The Economist explains
Why Azerbaijan and Armenia are fighting again
Obituary
The weight of duty