Leaders
Voting intentions
How to build a British voter
Labour is assembling an electoral coalition that is young and broad, but volatile too
How high can markets go?
A golden age for stockmarkets is drawing to a close
Share prices may be surging, but even AI is unlikely to drive a repeat of the past decade’s performance
A losing battle
Fentanyl cannot be defeated without new tactics
Suppression works even less well than with other narcotics
Don’t seize: capitalise
How to put Russia’s frozen assets to work for Ukraine
Exploit them to the full, but legally
One nation under Modi
To see India’s future, go south
The country’s regional division could make it—or break it
How tyranny travels
Autocracies are exporting autocracy to their diasporas
The new danger from transnational repression
Letters
On Britain’s armed forces, cousins, business in Italy, private-equity backed insurance, age, Terry Pratchett
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
Relentless reaper
America’s ten-year-old fentanyl epidemic is still getting worse
The government is spending record amounts, just to slow its growth
Britain
Psephological profiling
A changing British electorate is propelling Labour towards victory
Own goals
English football’s financial fracas
Local politics
The institution that taught Margaret Thatcher about politics
Just add water
More than half of Britain’s ponds have disappeared
Europe
France’s National Rally
How Marine Le Pen is preparing for power
Get off the fence
Europe hopes barbed wire will keep migrants out. It won’t
United States
In vitro veritas
IVF is a slam-dunk issue for Democrats. Abortion may not be
Commitment phobia
Does Joe Biden’s re-election campaign have a Gaza problem?
Answers that raise questions
Is Google’s Gemini chatbot woke by accident, or by design?
Middle East & Africa
Dreaming of Dubai
Africa’s tiger economy is shot
Fresh blood, same problems
The Palestinians’ new prime minister faces a nightmare
The beginning of the end
As Iran scares the Middle East, at home its regime rots
The Americas
Bringing back Brazil
Lula’s gaffes are dulling Brazil’s G20 shine
Asia
India’s north-south divide
Inside Narendra Modi’s battle to win over the south
The actual opposition?
Massive farmers’ protests are a headache for Narendra Modi
China
The Chinese diaspora
Living outside China has become more like living inside China
International
Surviving in a multipolar world
Africa is juggling rival powers like no other continent
Business
Meet your new copilot
How businesses are actually using generative AI
The meaning of Mistral
Meet the French startup hoping to take on OpenAI
Divestment dilemmas
Western multinationals’ Russian dilemmas
Barrelling along
Can whisky conquer Chinese palates?
Motor no-shows
Car shows in the West are in terminal decline
Finance & economics
Fly up to the sky
Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last
Too efficient
Are passive funds to blame for market mania?
Stakeholders at the gate
Activist investing is no longer the preserve of hedge-fund sharks
Science & technology
Silicon dreamin’
AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
At the heart of the battery revolution
A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
Your brain on music
Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
Culture
Money and the arts
Britain’s arts still dazzle the world
An artist’s artist
Why did a once-revered painter, Frans Hals, fall out of favour?
Colour by numbers
Can a dozen shipwrecks tell the history of the world?
Go big or go home
Cinemas may be dying. But IMAX and the high end are thriving
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
The Economist reads
The Economist reads