The World Ahead
The World Ahead
The World Ahead 2024
Leaders
Compassion and its consequences
How to stop over-medicalising mental health
What the world could learn from Britain’s flawed approach
The war in Gaza
Israel and Palestine: How peace is possible
A peace process can go wrong in many ways, but a real possibility exists that it could go right
The race for second place
A messy contest is coming to a head behind Donald Trump
Our poll tracker sheds light on that competition. It may yet matter
Gensler v Griffin
Bashing hedge funds that trade Treasuries could cost taxpayers money
Why fears about the “basis trade” are overblown
Power trip
Green protectionism will slow the energy transition
Expanding renewable-power capacity is becoming ever harder
The learning power of PISA
Covid-19 was a disaster for the world’s schoolchildren
The costs of wasting brainpower are huge
Letters
On solar geoengineering, carbon accounting, Britain’s Treasury, meetings, Dutch, public toilets
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
Solution or delusion?
Despite the war in Gaza, talk of a two-state solution persists
For there to be any hope, both Israelis and Palestinians need new leaders
Britain
Immigrants and the economy
How Britain plans to cut immigration
The covid-19 inquiry
Boris Johnson: star turn at Britain’s covid inquiry
Bagehot
Inside the Spectocracy
Europe
The southern exception
Southern Europe’s employment boom is not strong enough
Prospects of hope
A mining project revives a dying Bosnian town
Patrolling Baltic airspace
French fighter jets join the Baltic mission
Poking the bear
Armenia is turning against its erstwhile guardian, Russia
United States
Call of the wild
How the culture wars came for grizzly bears
A Don-horse race
Our tracker of voters’ intentions shows the contest behind Trump
Science and the city
American life-sciences firms are moving labs downtown
Middle East & Africa
The final battle looms
Israel is pushing into southern Gaza as the clock ticks down
Money troubles
Israel is strangling the West Bank’s economy
Israel’s irrelevant prime minister
Binyamin Netanyahu is at the mercy of his hardline coalition partners
Free money on trial
Giving the poor a wodge of cash is better than dripping it out
The Americas
Making Venezuela great again?
Venezuela’s autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana
Their man in Havana
America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
General purpose
Latin America’s armed forces have increasing clout
Asia
Cow-belt elections
Narendra Modi’s party sweeps in north and central India
Available on Zoom
The new geishas
Campus politics
Foreign students are pouring back into Australia
Rusty buckets
North Korea is getting new ships
China
Eyeing Russia’s backyard
Could China, Russia’s “no-limits” friend, help rebuild Ukraine?
More and more like the mainland
Why Agnes Chow fled Hong Kong and isn’t likely to return
Goodbye to an old friend
Henry Kissinger, a statesman beyond reproach, in China at least
International
Business
Unsustainable developments
The renewables business faces a make-or-break moment
Step on the gas
Big oil agrees to slash methane emissions
Partying like it’s 2023
Europe’s technology startups are doing just fine
Mad man v mad men
Elon Musk’s X is especially vulnerable to an ad boycott
A corporate whodunnit
The case of China’s vanishing chairmen
Finance & economics
The 5% question
Will China leave behind its economic woes in 2024?
Tax and pretend
Will a fiscal mess thwart Japan’s nascent economic growth?
Making friends
How to sell free trade to green types
Buttonwood
Why it might be time to buy banks
Fixing finance
Is the world’s most important asset market broken?
Science & technology
It does what it says on the tin
The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy
Meep-meep. Boom!
A startup called Anduril has unveiled a reusable missile
Culture
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
What is antisemitism—and why do differences in interpretation matter?
Obituary
A cowgirl on the bench