Leaders
Free the north
How to invigorate Britain’s second-tier cities
One superstar city does not a successful economy make
What is the plan?
China is loosening its covid restrictions, at great risk
The government has not done enough to prepare
The Italian job
Why Italy, like Europe, is crying out for big reform
Giorgia Meloni needs to be bold. Sadly, she appears reluctant
Charter fights
Canada’s constitution is being trampled by populists
The “notwithstanding clause” lets politicians nullify citizens’ rights. It needs to go
The new rules in financial markets
Investing in an era of higher interest rates and scarcer capital
Prepare for impatient investors and pain in private markets—but also higher returns
Letters
On Chinese students, FTX, Britain’s spending cuts, Kazakhstan, classical music, “When Harry Met Sally”
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Russia and Ukraine
A former French ambassador on the paradox unveiled by the war in Ukraine
Briefing
When the tide turns
Rising interest rates and inflation have upended investing
Not all assets have been affected equally
Europe
The traffic-light at one
Germany’s ruling coalition marks its first anniversary
The silence of the Russians
In Moscow, all dissent is muzzled
French brand names
Why the French are mangling their own language
Britain
The sputtering engine of the north
Manchester lacks the power to change its fortunes
Left, right, left
Britain’s Labour Party ponders a new generation of “social rights”
Beer and inflation
Brewers pray for England to stay in the World Cup
Britain’s growth crisis
Small pension funds are Britain’s likeliest source of growth capital
United States
Last-minute bargains
What to expect from Congress’s lame-duck session
A SCOTUS double feature
The Supreme Court searches for a middle way
The elephant not in the room
Two Trump Organisation companies are found guilty of tax fraud
Cat got your tern
Feral house cats have invaded Hawaii
The weight of the world on their shoulders
Young Americans increasingly end their own lives
Middle East & Africa
Arabs looking east
The Gulf looks to China
Off with those scarves!
Iran’s rattled government may be backing down
A lesson in incentives
What Tanzania’s “per diem town” says about African governance
Lessons in Poverty
One of the world’s poorest countries is betting big on schools
The Americas
Fights over citizens’ rights
The ticking bomb under Canada’s constitution
Castillo the brief
After a bungled coup attempt, Peru’s president falls
Peronist in peril
Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is found guilty of corruption
Asia
India’s development
Narendra Modi’s tough medicine
Killing journalists
Dead convicts and a peculiar murder in the Philippines
Bad news for Bali
Indonesia’s ban on extramarital sex represents a turn for the worse
Cross-border gambling
China’s ban on gambling is a cash gift to the rest of Asia
China
Loosening up
China is dismantling its zero-covid machine
Obstinate elders
Getting China’s old people vaccinated has been slow work
Dissidents v censors
How Chinese netizens breached the great firewall
International
Pelagic politics
China’s deep-water fishing fleet is the world’s most rapacious
Special report
Wanted: an Italian Thatcher
Italy’s new government needs to make deep economic reforms
The cost of vulnerability
External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
Spreadeagled
Why is Italy’s public-debt burden so big?
Structural faults
Italy’s protected sectors need exposure to more competition
Sunrise or sunset?
Southern Italy needs private enterprise and infrastructure
The houses that Giuseppe sold
Italy is trying to deal with its demographic decline
A new reform spirit
Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
Business
Generating buzz
Artificial intelligence is permeating business at last
The bard of AI-von
How good is ChatGPT?
The value of zero
What next for China’s covid-industrial complex?
Axeing questions
Is a white-collar recession looming?
Schumpeter
The rise of the super-app
Finance & economics
The incredible shrinking plan
Can you afford to retire?
The chips hit the fan
A global electronics slump is driving East Asia to the wall
The monetary marathon
Inflation is falling—but not enough
Science & technology
Culture
Our books of the year
These are The Economist’s best books of 2022
Books by our writers
Our correspondents wrote about polling, sanctions and economics
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
The Economist explains
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Why Darjeeling tea may face extinction
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