Leaders
Technology and society
How to worry wisely about artificial intelligence
Rapid progress in AI is arousing fear as well as excitement. How worried should you be?
Waiting for the order
Ukraine’s coming counter-offensive may shape its future—and Europe’s
It will set the scene for any future peace talks
On the brink
Bolivia’s crisis shows the limits of left-wing populism
The country is running out of money. It should serve as a warning to Latin America
The curse of civil war
In Sudan and beyond, the trend towards global peace has been reversed
Conflicts are growing longer. Blame complexity, criminality and climate change
The prize of size
Why America will soon see a wave of bank mergers
Cheap valuations and a stricter rulebook point towards more consolidation
Great wheels from China
Why the world should welcome competition from Chinese carmakers
Deglobalisation would be bad for drivers and the planet
Letters
On economics and business, the rice crisis, cyberwar, drought, cycling in London, the Beatles
Letters to the editor
Essay
Browsers, the printing press, Freud and AI
How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history
Britain
Thistle hurt
A deepening crisis in Scotland’s ruling party
Bread and circuses
Britain’s inflation rate is not falling fast enough
Less jam tomorrow
Britain needs to embrace road pricing
Europe
Waiting for D-Day
Ukraine’s counter-offensive is drawing near
Enter the dummies
How Ukraine is using fake tanks and guns to confuse the Russians
Financial indigestion
Italy needs to spend more, faster
Elections in Greece
Greece is a European success story
United States
Rulings have consequences
Abortions have become 6% rarer since the end of Roe v Wade
Counting Christians
American religion is becoming less exceptional
Lexington
Detroit is working again
The Americas
Out of gas and good ideas
Bolivia is on the brink of an economic crisis
Middle East & Africa
Sudan’s crisis
Sudan is sliding towards civil war
Pretty words for petty corruption
How to ask for a bribe without asking for a bribe
Together in the Sinai desert
Arab tourism to Israel is still thwarted by politics and Palestine
Asia
Fumbling the future
How Japan is losing the global electric-vehicle race
People power or power grab?
Uzbekistan’s president clings to power while passing liberal reforms
China
Welcome to ChatCCP
Can Xi Jinping control AI without crushing it?
The lessons of Kong Yiji
What China’s graduates really think about their job prospects
Chaguan
Why China wants to be a risk
International
Forgotten conflicts
The world’s deadliest war last year wasn’t in Ukraine
By Invitation
Special report
The car industry
Everything about carmaking is changing at once
Electrification
The future lies with electric vehicles
Barriers to entry
It is getting easier for new entrants to make cars
The new challenge
China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
The software shuffle
Software is now as important as hardware in cars
Hands off the wheel
Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
The car industry
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
The too-big four
Why EY and its rivals may eventually break up, after all
Branching out
Why Apple is betting big on India
Ahead of the pack
Why crashing lithium prices will not make electric cars cheaper
Bartleby
What makes a good office perk?
Close to the edge
Big pharma’s patent cliff is fast approaching
Finance & economics
The art of interpretation
How to explain the puzzle of the world economy
After the storm
Is the worst now over for America’s banks?
Cautious pioneers
Development finance needs to be bolder
Free exchange
Is China better at monetary policy than America?
Science & technology
Culture
With a little help from his friends
Shakespeare’s First Folio assembled the world’s greatest literature
Lessons unlearnt
An entertaining history of humanist thought
World in a dish
How the chocolate fondant became a ubiquitous indulgence
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Graphic detail
Rainy-day funds needed
Accounting for flood risk would lower American house prices by $187bn
Obituary
The look of an era
Mary Quant launched the clothes that made the Sixties swing
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Why is Ukraine suing eastern European countries over grain?
The Economist explains