The media and the message: Journalism and the 2024 presidential election
The world this week
The World Ahead
The World Ahead
The World Ahead 2024
Leaders
Adrift
Rishi Sunak’s strategic genius
The Rwanda policy is bad. But the Conservatives are the real problem
The media and the message
Can you have a healthy democracy without a common set of facts?
America’s presidential election is a test of that proposition
Wobbly in Tehran
Iran’s regime is weaker than it looks, and therefore more pliable
America should deter it from escalating the Gaza war, but also engage with it
The Powell pivot
The Fed gives in to the clamour for looser money
Its doveish policymaking looks premature—and leaves Europe’s central banks in an awkward spot
Metropolished
London’s resilience is a lesson to policymakers everywhere
The virtues of services, scale and immigration are on full display
Green shoots
In a first, COP28 targets the root cause of climate change
Now to turn diplomacy into action
Letters
On funding research, the United Arab Emirates, Kissinger, Argentina, Joe Biden, cocaine
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Invincible city
Brexit? Hah! Lockdowns? Shrug! Can nothing stop London?
It has been bouncing back for 2,000 years and counting
Britain
A flight from reality
How a Rwandan gambit consumed the Conservative Party
Expelliarmus!
The magical thinking behind Britain’s Rwanda bill
Health tourism
Wes Streeting, a Labour frontbencher, visits Singapore
Pedicabonomics
London’s riotous pedicabs are about to be regulated
First, take one live goose…
How to kill a goose quickly
Europe
Return to the rule of law
Donald Tusk must undo years of populist subversion in Poland
Gangsters of glasnost
The crime drama Russia and Ukraine want to ban
United States
Right nation
Donald Trump is the conservative media
The partisan press
How American journalism lets down readers and voters
Measuring media ideology
American journalism sounds much more Democratic than Republican
University presidents skewered
American universities face a reckoning over antisemitism
Jack Smith, Trump and SCOTUS
The Supreme Court will decide how quickly Donald Trump is prosecuted
First bins, now congestion charging
Why New York wants to be more like London
Middle East & Africa
Taming Tehran
Iran rethinks its role as a regional troublemaker
Cobalt and chaos
Congo’s crucial election may be heading for disaster
The end of the beginning
Israel’s current large-scale operation is the last one in Gaza
The Americas
Will he, won’t he?
Could Mark Carney lead Canada?
The whirr of the chainsaw
Javier Milei implements shock therapy in Argentina
Dissing Miss Universe
Nicaragua’s dictator goes after Miss Universe
Asia
Pooch raj
Indians are going gooey over dogs
Bangladesh’s election
Sheikh Hasina’s party is set to be re-elected in January
China
A big wager on the future
Macau, China’s sin city, wants to be more like Las Vegas
High-risk pregnancies
The dangers of carrying a child for someone else in China
Lost in translation
The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping
Chaguan
China’s cities compete for kids
International
Business
Where did all the commercials go?
Welcome to the ad-free internet
Un-appy returns
What Google’s antitrust defeat means for the app economy
Season’s grumblings
German business is fed up with a government in disarray
Finance & economics
Financial flows
How to sneak billions of dollars out of China
A surplus of anomalies
Is China understating its own export success?
Sticking to his guns
Vladimir Putin is running Russia’s economy dangerously hot
Road trader
Why stockpickers should get out more
Recession response
Europe’s economy is in a bad way. Policymakers need to react
Free exchange
How to put boosters under India’s economy
Science & technology
The chicken of tomorrow
Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
Seismology (Taylor’s version)
The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth
Future of chipmaking
Jensen Huang says Moore’s law is dead. Not quite yet
Culture
Hollywood and politics
When Charlie Chaplin was cancelled
A hymn for all seasons
“Amazing Grace” is a 200-year-old song with a surprising history
Pandemic fiction
Some thought covid would change literature. It has not
Economic history
Is the age of Milton Friedman over?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Let’s talk about now
Benjamin Zephaniah stayed angry all his life
1843 magazine
Journalism
When the New York Times lost its way
By Invitation
Artificial intelligence
AI’s big rift is like a religious schism, says Henry Farrell
Humanitarian needs
David Miliband sees a new global geography of crisis
The Economist reads
The Economist reads