Leaders
Hollywood v Silicon Valley
Disney’s troubles show how technology has changed the business of culture
At 100, the mouse can still roar. But it faces a new kind of rival
Recep for trouble
Turkey could be on the brink of dictatorship
President Erdogan could tip his country over the edge
Flashing red
Excess deaths are soaring as health-care systems wobble
What lessons can be learned from a miserable winter across the rich world?
Arresting development
South Africa’s collapsing railway company is a cautionary tale
A “developmental state” is less useful than keeping the lights on and trains running
Letters
On free speech, Starlink terminals, America’s towns, future populations, weight, Pope Benedict’s shoes, food, presents
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Thrills and spills
As Disney turns 100, its business is on a rollercoaster ride
The decline of TV and cinema and rise of streaming will reshape entertainment
Britain
Predators in the police
The toxic culture of the Metropolitan Police Service
Populism, Scottish-style
The SNP response to the blocking of its transgender act is illiberal
Equine decline
Horse-racing in Britain is in deep trouble
The silent treatment
Why super-strict classrooms are in vogue in Britain
Europe
Reaching over the Rhine
France and Germany stifle their spats to celebrate a 60-year friendship
Invisible dead
A Russian town counts the cost of Vladimir Putin’s war
Uncertain allegiance
Some liberated Ukrainian regions have mixed loyalties
There will be mud
The next Czech president will be a Trumpish oligarch or a general
Between three seas
The Ukraine war is forcing eastern Europe to build more links
United States
The unstuck middle
Incomes are rising in America, especially for the poorest
Proud, distracted boys
How America’s far right flits from issue to issue
The Americas
Boom or bust?
What does China’s reopening mean for Latin America?
Ever more polarised
Peru’s political chaos looks likely to persist
Fewer bellies full
Brazil’s new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
Middle East & Africa
In from the cold but still miserable
Turkey eyes reconciliation with a Syrian regime it tried to topple
Vive la résistance
How young Sudanese are still fighting for democracy
Economics lessons
Why Zimbabwe’s schools have taken to selling chickens
Asia
Military muscle
Japan’s armed forces are getting stronger, faster
Cracks in the façade
India’s sinking towns spark debates about development
Renuclearising
Why South Korea is talking about getting its own nukes
China
Preparing for launch
A planned spaceport in Djibouti may give China a boost
Has the wave peaked?
Covid-19 has already torn through large swathes of China
International
Special report
Friends and relations
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s relatives are becoming increasingly powerful
Political Islam
Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad
Foreign policy
Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
Business
Buying time
How the young spend their money
Going electric
Mexico’s electric-car ambitions
Foot off the throat
China’s tech crackdown starts to ease
Growing pains
The painful development of India’s startups
Finance & economics
Return to sender
China’s re-globalisation paradox
Buttonwood
Venture capital’s $300bn question
Speculators swatted
Japan’s extraordinarily expensive defence of its monetary policy
Marginal profits
Investment banks are struggling in a high-interest-rate world
Science & technology
Private moonshots
Which firm will win the new Moon race?
Dopamine. Dogma. Doubt
A decades-old model of animal (and human) learning is under fire
Culture
The spy in your pocket
“Pegasus” lifts the lid on a sophisticated piece of spyware
Swing and a miss
A philosopher offers four case studies in failure
Home Entertainment
“O Caledonia” teaches girls how to grow up
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Mother of invention
A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution
Obituary
By Invitation
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
How gas stoves became part of America’s culture wars
The Economist explains