Leaders
The missing quarter of a million
Britain has endured a decade of early deaths. Why?
The mystery of 250,000 dead Britons
Too fast to land
A stubbornly strong economy complicates the fight against inflation
Higher interest rates are not sufficiently slowing global growth
Macron’s troubles
Strikes at home and war in Ukraine test the French president
It is a critical moment for Emmanuel Macron
Testing fail
American universities are pursuing fairness the wrong way
Drop legacy admissions—not standardised exams
Letters
On medical research, fertility in the OECD, soldiers’ mental health, energy firms, the car
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Storm warning
America and China are preparing for a war over Taiwan
It would spread far across the region, with devastating consequences for the world
Britain
A decade of death
Why did 250,000 Britons die sooner than expected?
Discovery process
Can an AI be an inventor?
Channel crossings
Britain’s new plan to “stop the boats”
Her pulse quickened
Sales of romance novels are rising in Britain
Europe
Lock and load
Ukraine is building up its forces for an offensive
The street v the president
France is in a stand-off against Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform
Turning the tables
Turkey’s opposition has picked its man
The centre can hold
Ukraine’s most committed backer wins a huge election victory in Estonia
Russian demography
Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse
United States
Say it ain’t Joe
What if Joe Biden decided against running for re-election?
(De)trans litigation
Legal action may change transgender care in America
O beautiful for spacious highs
Cannabis and anaesthesia do not mix
Closing down schools in America
America’s schools are heading for a crunch
Republicans and voter fraud
Three Republican states pull out of voter-fraud prevention scheme
Composting humans
Quite a few young Americans plan to end their days as compost
The Americas
Middle East & Africa
The incredible shrinking state
As they cut back on hiring, Arab bureaucracies are spending more to get less
Time’s up—whatever the time is
Fiddling with Egypt’s clocks
Beyond the megacity
The growth of Africa’s towns and small cities is transforming the continent
Asia
Free trade in Asia
How Donald Trump damaged America’s interests in Asia
Gay watching for straight women
Are Thailand’s gay TV dramas the next K-pop?
East Asian Relations
South Korea has a plan to end its forced-labour feud with Japan
China
Wolf worriers
Tough language from Xi Jinping belies his anxiety
Credibility over confidence
Interpreting China’s unambitious growth target
Learning skills, not values
Many of China’s top politicians were educated in the West
International
By Invitation
Special report
What Taiwan needs
Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
Business
Seizing the moment
How China Inc is tackling the TikTok problem
Where are all the robots?
Don’t fear an AI-induced jobs apocalypse just yet
The glass-ceiling index
After years in decline, is the gender pay gap opening up?
Finance & economics
Qiang Ker-ching
How to measure China’s true economic growth
An anti-party party
China’s Communist Party takes aim at hedonistic bankers
Financial competition
New York’s stockmarkets are thrashing Hong Kong and London
A techy tug-of-war
Lessons from finance’s experience with artificial intelligence
Science & technology
The Human Cell Atlas
A cartography of human histology is in the making
The ocean and climate change
The ocean is as important to the climate as the atmosphere
Chromosomal deletions and neurology
Studying broken chromosomes can illuminate neuroscience
Silver and democracy
Newfangled coins and mercenaries may have brought about democracy
Culture
Covid-19 in China
Two brave books tell the story of lockdown in Wuhan
Nature and nurture
Peter Frankopan looks at the past differently in “The Earth Transformed”
Back Story
It’s war at this year’s Oscars
World in a dish
Singapore’s unique dining style comes to Manhattan
Hollywood moguls
Sumner Redstone and the battle for Paramount
Fiction from New Zealand
In “Birnam Wood”, Eleanor Catton returns with a thriller
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
No good options
Retail investors are losing billions buying stock options
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Why a new UN treaty to safeguard the “high seas” matters
The Economist explains
Who blew up the Nord Stream pipelines?
Obituary
The King of Sting