The right goes gaga: Meet the Global Anti-Globalist Alliance
The world this week
Leaders
The right
The growing peril of national conservatism
It’s dangerous and it’s spreading. Liberals need to find a way to stop it
Prepare for President Trump
Europe must hurry to defend itself against Russia—and Donald Trump
The ex-president’s invitation to Vladimir Putin to attack American allies is an assault on NATO. Ultimately, that is bad for America
Decline and fall
Pakistan is out of friends and out of money
A botched election and an economic crisis show how low it has fallen
A shock to the system
A new answer to the biggest climate conundrum
Will electrification of industry live up to its promise?
Silicon rally
As San Francisco builds the future of technology, can it rebuild itself?
People feared a doom loop. Reality has been more surprising
America’s shadow central banks
Another bank subsidy America should kill off
The Federal Home Loan Banks offer loans to Wall Street that are too cheap
Letters
On export controls on China, charter schools, council tax, Ukraine, DEI, Peter Schickele, common sense
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
Nationalists of the world, unite!
“National conservatives” are forging a global front against liberalism
The alliance may be incoherent, but that does not make it harmless
The burning question
First electric cars. Next, electric factories?
They could be a major new way to slow global warming
Britain
Getting nowhere fast
The horror story of HS2
Crime prevention
Why British police should focus on victims
Britain’s silver zones
How to live to one hundred
A life more ordinary
British lives are getting duller
Roses are perishable
Love, frugality and home-grown flowers are in the air
Europe
Back from the slagheap
As German industry declines, the Ruhr gives hope
Overcooked controversy
Europe decides it doesn’t like lab-grown meat before it’s tried it
United States
Racial progress in America
Black workers are enjoying a jobs boom in America
House of cowards
House Republicans fear Trump too much to aid Ukraine
All in the family
Cousin marriage is probably fine in most cases
Lexington
Donald Trump’s tremendous love
Middle East & Africa
The next phase of the Gaza war
If Israel invades, hell looms in Rafah
The case against UNRWA
The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians
Helping the bad guys
How Yemen’s dominant Houthis blackmail foreign aid agencies
South African politics
Is Julius Malema the most dangerous man in South Africa?
Ukrainians in Sudan
Evidence mounts that Ukrainian forces are in Sudan
The Americas
The perils of Petrobras
Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America’s top oil company
From model to muddle
Chile’s crisis is not over yet
Asia
A historic shift
India’s unprecedented love-in with the Middle East
File under F for “fiasco”
Pakistan’s voters tell the generals where to put it
General, elected
Prabowo Subianto will be Indonesia’s next president
China
China and the world
Xi Jinping’s paranoia is making China isolated and insular
Life’s a beach
China is trying to boost domestic tourism
International
Counting the votes
2024 is a giant test of nerves for democracy
Business
Tokyo Electrified
Japan’s semiconductor toolmakers are booming
Paramount’s paramours
Suitors are wooing Paramount
The super store
Why Costco is so loved
Finance & economics
Artificial intelligence
How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback
Putting out fires
How the world economy learned to love chaos
Conflict trading
The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
American banks
Is working from home about to spark a financial crisis?
Science & technology
Milk and two microbes
For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
Shame, set and match
What tennis reveals about AI’s impact on human behaviour
Culture
Indecipherable fingerprints
A secret room in Florence boasts drawings by Michelangelo
Laughing to tears
On “A Wonderful Country”, Israelis joke their way through trauma
Drugs, terms and steel
The Wa: the world’s biggest drug-dealers, with a tiny profile
The Economist reads
The Economist reads
What to read about Indonesia
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
A line through the jungle
Jack Jennings was one of the Allied POWs who built the Burma Railway
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
What is Russia’s mysterious new space weapon?
The Economist explains