Leaders
The Middle East
An energy crisis and geopolitics are creating a new-look Gulf
It will be richer, more powerful—and more volatile
Doubling down
Vladimir Putin vows to send more invaders. The West should arm Ukraine faster
It has a window of opportunity to push Russian forces back
Truss’s rusty Reaganism
Liz Truss’s selective Reaganomics won’t work
After cutting taxes, the Gipper reversed course
Thinking outside the box
How to keep the brain healthy
Neuroscience is experiencing a renaissance. Not before time
Should Europe worry?
How afraid should Europe be of Giorgia Meloni?
Italy’s next leader will be constrained by politics, markets and money
Letters
On America, hospital food, sea mines, autocrats, quiet quitting, Britain
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
Docks, stocks and many floating barrels
The war in Ukraine has reshaped the world’s fuel markets
The Gulf will be a big winner
Europe
The Brothers are coming
Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy look set to win the next election
Halfway measure
Vladimir Putin declares a partial mobilisation
The guns do the talking
Renewed fighting in the Caucasus shows Russia’s waning influence
Britain
The smoked-salmon offensive
After a frosty decade, business leaders are warming to the Labour Party
Race in Bristol
In one British city, Black Lives Matter still reverberates
Prisons covid
Why prisoners are spending more time in their cells
A lack of basic skills
Many British adults lack basic numeracy and literacy
Capital ideas
The City is fighting to carve out a post-Brexit role
United States
America and the world
Joe Biden warns of global disorder if Russia is not stopped
Midterm maths: The politics of abortion
Republicans’ abortion proposal could backfire
Et tu, New York
Donald Trump faces a sweeping new lawsuit
Middle East & Africa
The Abraham economy
Trade and security ties are knitting Israel into its region
Women v morality police
Why Iranian women are burning their hijabs
With friends like these...
Mali’s junta takes friendly soldiers hostage
The dead hand of dictatorship
Malawi has saved its democracy but not its economy
The Americas
Asia
Unholy spirit
India’s capital has run out of booze
Beyond a boundary
Fighting erupts between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan
China
The widening gap
Reforms to China’s hukou system will not help migrants much
A bit more Mao-like
How Xi Jinping might change the Communist Party’s constitution
International
Peddling Putin’s piffle
How Russia is trying to win over the global south
Technology Quarterly
Fixing the brain
After fallow decades, neuroscience is undergoing a renaissance
More judgment, less luck
Science needs to move beyond luck if it is to design better drugs for the brain
Precision neuromedicine
Better brain biology will deliver better medicines
The new psychedelia
Ketamine, psilocybin and ecstasy are coming to the medicine cabinet
Getting wired up
Crossing the brain’s electrical frontier
Mind over matter
What does a brain-computer interface feel like?
Neuroscience
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
Commercial brakes
The $300bn Google-Meta advertising duopoly is under attack
On the offensive
Germany’s government seizes Russian energy assets
Green-dustrialisation
Can Europe decarbonise its heavy industry?
Speed merchants
Porsche goes to market
Finance & economics
More money, no problems
Dubai is the world’s resurgent entrepot
Factories, floored
A global manufacturing slowdown suggests worse is to come
Miserable consumers
Households across the rich world have never been so gloomy
The Golden State’s golden egg
Peter Thiel says California suffers from a “tech curse”. Is he right?
Hot property
Why Wall Street is snapping up family homes
Capitol Markets
Do lawmakers beat the market?
Buttonwood
How to rebrand stockmarket indices
Free exchange
China’s rulers seem resigned to a slowing economy
Science & technology
Pain, pain, go away
Better medicines are needed to relieve pain
Flying construction robots
Teams of drones can print in 3D
Culture
Try, the beloved country
Rugby brings South Africa together—if only for 80 minutes
Home Entertainment
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan echoes in today’s war
Technology and social control
In China, surveillance crushes lives—and improves them
British cultural history
Sixty years ago, James Bond and the Beatles made debuts
Intellectual history
The “Jena Set” was the heart of German Romanticism
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
How the EU intends to collect “windfall profits” from energy firms
The Economist explains
Why is the electoral cycle of America’s Congress so short?
Obituary
The “Are we alone?” equation