Leaders
The sense of an ending
The rights and wrongs of assisted dying
Britain’s next great social reform is coming. Here’s how it should work
The Cass Review
America should follow England’s lead on transgender care for kids
Its approach is neither as harsh as in red states nor as lax as in blue states
What’s in a name
In praise of Peter Higgs
The particle named after him became a selling point. For the man, it was a bit of a pain
Letters
On management consultants, Hong Kong, Jonathan Haidt, underpants, describing X, three-letter acronyms
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Erdogan humbled
Ekrem Imamoglu on Turkey’s renewed faith in democracy
A Chinese view of Russia
Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine, reckons a Chinese expert on Russia
Briefing
Risk of subsidence
Homeowners face a $25trn bill from climate change
Property, the world’s biggest asset class, is also its most vulnerable
Britain
All things must pass
Britain is moving towards assisted dying
A landmark judgment
The Cass Review damns England’s youth-gender services
Playtime’s over
Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close
Pipe dreams
How not to run a water utility
A Tale of Two Kitties
A story of Scottish wildcats
Je regrette quite a lot
Why most people regret Brexit
Europe
20km from the enemy
The Kremlin wants to make Ukraine’s second city unliveable
Cheap and nasty
Russia’s ferocious glide-bomb campaign
Missing in Ukraine
Russia is struggling to find its missing soldiers
Herbert Kickl
Austria’s accidental hard-right leader
The continent’s narco-ports
Criminal networks are well ahead in the fight over Europe’s ports
Charlemagne
What happens if Ukraine loses?
United States
The parent trap
Who are the swing voters in America?
Surf City goes MAGA
How one California beach town became Gavin Newsom’s nemesis
Jersey unsure
New Jersey’s electoral process just got upended
Conservatives on campus
A challenge to leftist bias moves into America’s public universities
Middle East & Africa
An assessment of the IDF in Gaza
The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza
Death threats
Congo brings back the death penalty
Opposition rising
Is South Africa ready for a change in government?
The Americas
The great green rivalry
Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
The first small steps
Haiti’s transitional government must take office amid gang warfare
Asia
Indo-Pacific statecraft
America’s Asian allies are trying to Trump-proof their policies
Usefully oleaginous
How India’s imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
After the fight, then what?
Myanmar’s junta is losing ever more ground
China
An ageing autocracy
China’s high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster
A relationship under fire
Will China’s ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?
International
On the rise
Who’s the big boss of the global south?
1843 magazine
Business
Strategy and stockpiles
Who wields the power in the world’s supply chains?
Raising Arizona
TSMC’s American chipmaking plans grow $25bn more ambitious
Schumpeter
Generative AI has a clean-energy problem
Finance & economics
Fantasy economics
The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch
Behind enemy lines
Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry
The big stick
Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
Put the axe away
When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
Xi’s healthy appetite
China’s state is eating the private property market
Free exchange
What will humans do if technology solves everything?
Science & technology
Prisoners’ health
The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates
Culture
Return to Gettysburg
Americans are turning to stories of civil war, real and imagined
Sailing close to the wind
An enthralling account of Captain Cook’s final, fatal voyage
Barely gettin’ by
Adelle Waldman’s new novel follows workers in a big-box store
World in a dish
Flat whites are Australia’s greatest culinary export
All by myself
The drawbacks—and benefits—of solitude
The Economist reads
The Economist reads
What to read about golf
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
The militant debutante