Leaders
Pumped up
America’s extraordinary economy keeps defying the pessimists
Both Donald Trump and Joe Biden have ideas that endanger it
Beyond Ukraine
Rogue Russia threatens the world, not just Ukraine
The West must show its enemy is Vladimir Putin, not 143m ordinary Russians
Time’s up
Time for TikTok to cut its ties to China
To stay on Western screens, the video app needs new owners
Geopolitics
The Gulf’s scramble for Africa is reshaping the continent
Its increased influence brings economic rewards and political risks
Angry young men
Making sense of the gulf between young men and women
It’s complicated. But better schooling for boys might help
Crude awakenings
Oil’s endgame could be highly disruptive
The oil shocks of the future will be driven by demand, not supply
Letters
On skiing, defence, Russian refugees, mining, Blackpool, the Moon, office meetings, Twitter
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
American trade policy
Donald Trump’s former trade chief makes the case for more tariffs
The Israel-Hamas conflict
An Israeli scholar explains why he no longer supports the war in Gaza
Briefing
Who’s afraid of Wile E. Coyote?
America’s economy has escaped a hard landing
But there are still pitfalls ahead
Britain
The ancient deal that saved the Barclays
Was the Barclay brothers’ business empire built on a fraud?
Warm words, tough choices
Northern Ireland’s new government puts on a show of unity
Yellowing red tape
England’s historic buildings are causing headaches
Forty years on
British museums remember the 1984 miners’ strike
Europe
A plebiscite and a funeral
Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president
Everyday Putinism
Vladivostok is a window into wartime Russia
Ventura’s gain
Portugal’s hard right gets a big election boost
United States
Unorthodox ways
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women are staging a sex-strike
Choo choo choices
Amtrak’s ridership is touching record highs
Moving the needle
Time is called on Oregon’s decriminalisation experiment
Middle East & Africa
The Israel-Hamas conflict
Hopes for a truce in Gaza give way to fears of a long stalemate
Gaza’s shadow economy
A shadowy wartime economy has emerged in Gaza
Restitution gone wrong
The return of a mask stolen by Belgium is stoking violence in Congo
Don’t call it a scramble
Gulf countries are becoming major players in Africa
The Americas
The China-Mexico-US triangle
Could there be a US-Mexico trade war?
Infinite regress
The struggle to free Haiti from violence and impotent governance
A tempting package
Mexico and Brazil dither as chip supply chains are reforged
Asia
Wealth creation in India
Inside the world of crazy rich Indians
Religious politics
India’s government implements a controversial citizenship law
Hydra-headed nukes
India is souping up its nuclear missiles
China
Blowing hot and cold
Is China a climate saint or villain?
International
Of Mars and Venus
Why young men and women are drifting apart
Special report
A changing market
Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more
Last men standing
Oil’s endgame will be in the Gulf
The molecular turn
Can Big Oil run in reverse?
The oil industry
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
Tick, tock
Will TikTok still exist in America?
A freighted question
Can lorries go green faster?
Not beyond petroleum
Is Saudi Aramco cooling on crude oil?
Domestic strife
Why are Chinese nationalists turning on Chinese brands?
Finance & economics
Plentiful helium
Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?
Global trade
China’s economic bright spots provide a warning
Princely demands
Saudi Arabia’s investment fund has been set an impossible task
Bullet dodged
Russia’s economy once again defies the doomsayers
Free exchange
How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
Science & technology
Water, water, everywhere
How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
AI alignment
How to train your large language model
Under construction
New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
Culture
Silicon Valley’s scribes
Why is it so hard to write a good book about the tech world?
True crime’s first crime
A double murder in 1843 ushered in a new era of tabloid journalism
Once upon a time, again
What’s behind the wave of literary retellings?
Lessons in decryption
How Aesop’s fables fostered a secret language of protest in Russia
Art with history
Maastricht is where museums go on shopping sprees
The Economist reads
The Economist reads
What to read to understand God and sex
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
From strength to strength
Toriyama Akira was probably Japan’s greatest manga master
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
What is photo retouching and when is it permissible?
The Economist explains