Leaders
The financial system
What’s wrong with the banks
Rising interest rates have left banks exposed. Time to fix the system—again
Binyamin Netanyahu and a constitutional crisis
Will Bibi break Israel?
When Israel’s best and brightest are up in arms it is time to worry
Ron DeReckless
Ron DeSantis emboldens Vladimir Putin
Florida’s governor has blundered by saying Ukraine is not a vital American interest
Nuclear submarines
The AUKUS pact is a model for Western allies
Pooling talent and resources is the only way to match China’s heft
Lean, mean and surprisingly green
Why America is going to look more like Texas
Lessons from the surge of the Lone Star State
Letters
On obesity, colonialism, YouTube and Alphabet, air pollution, the Chagos Islands, Zoomers
Letters to the editor
Briefing
The lodestar state
Texas’s latest boom is its biggest yet
The state is sucking in people, companies and federal spending
Britain
Steady as she goes
Will Jeremy Hunt’s “budget for growth” achieve its goal?
A bridge too far
In the name of the planet, Wales curtails roadbuilding
What place in the world?
Britain takes a fresh look at its foreign policy
Hot trend
Britons warm up to saunas
Making the grade
State-school admissions are rising at Oxford and Cambridge
Europe
Austrian populists
The alarming comeback of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party
Uneasy minority
Ethnic Hungarians have been having a tricky time in Ukraine
Winning the electricity war
How Ukraine tamed Russian missile barrages and kept the lights on
United States
SNAP, crackle, pop
Theft from America’s anti-poverty programmes seems troublingly easy
Ahab in Brooklyn
Why are so many whales washing up dead on east-coast beaches?
The Americas
Borrowing from Bukele
El Salvador’s authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
Middle East & Africa
A house divided against itself
Binyamin Netanyahu is exploiting Israel’s divisions
Deal or no big deal?
China brokers an Iran-Saudi rapprochement
No flies on Kenya
How an east African country became an odd sort of global powerhouse
Asia
Transport infrastructure
India is getting an eye-wateringly big transport upgrade
China
International
Potemkin diplomacy
Russia’s friends are a motley—and shrinking—crew
Business
The new-look global corporation
Are Western companies becoming less global?
An American in Leverkusen
Shareholders have high hopes for Bayer’s new boss
Aramco’s princely sums
Saudi Aramco makes an eye-popping $160bn in profit
Uncapsized
Can Gautam Adani ride out the storm?
Finance & economics
The prop-up job
How deep is the rot in America’s banking industry?
Duration dangers
The search for Silicon Valley Bank-style portfolios
The stages of grief
What the loss of Silicon Valley Bank means for Silicon Valley
Panic on Paradeplatz
Credit Suisse faces share-price turbulence, as fear sweeps the market
Fun while it lasted
Is the global investment boom turning to bust?
Free exchange
The Fed smothers capitalism in an attempt to save it
Science & technology
Culture
American society
“Poverty, By America” is a fierce polemic on an enduring problem
Intellectual history
Are science and religion fated to be adversaries?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Punching above their weight
Upper legislative houses tend to be biased and malapportioned
Obituary
Father and son
Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis
By Invitation
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
What to make of a clash between a Russian jet and an American drone
The Economist explains