Europe in mortal danger: An interview with Emmanuel Macron
The world this week
Leaders
A region in mortal danger
Emmanuel Macron’s urgent message for Europe
The French president issues a dark and prophetic warning
Truth or lies?
How disinformation works—and how to counter it
More co-ordination is needed, and better access to data
All talk
Should American universities call the cops on protesting students?
The principles involved in resolving campus protests are not that hard
Uncle Sam’s fiscal folly
America’s reckless borrowing is a danger to its economy—and the world’s
Without good luck or a painful adjustment, the only way out will be to let inflation rip
The dream that darkened
Why South Africans are fed up after 30 years of democracy
After a bright start the ANC has proved incapable of governing for the whole country
The haven falls
Japan is wrong to try to prop up the yen
Supporting the currency is expensive and futile
A Holyrood ending
The wider lessons of Scotland’s political turmoil
Humza Yousaf’s resignation is the latest in a string of setbacks
Letters
On assisted dying, poor fishermen, military conscription, children and smartphones, RFK junior
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Monetary policy: quantitative tightening
Central banks may have misread the impact of QT, says an economist
Briefing
Budgetary blindness
America’s fiscal outlook is disastrous, but forgotten
On the campaign trail, both main candidates largely ignore the problem
Europe
At the Elysée Palace
Emmanuel Macron on how to rescue Europe
Chinese whisperers
Espionage scandals are hurting Germany’s far right
Don’t sign me up
Ukraine’s draft dodgers are living in fear
Holier than thou
Turkey’s President Erdogan faces a new challenge from Islamists
Britain
Steel yourselves
The fight over one of Britain’s last steel plants
London not calling
Questions grow over the future of the London stockmarket
Food or the environment?
A rare Brexit dividend for British farmers
The costs of benefits
A growing number of Britons are on disability benefits
Middle East & Africa
Democracy’s dividends
How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid
How Gulf states rule
Gulf governments are changing, but not how they talk to citizens
Campus protests
University protests about Gaza spread to the Middle East
United States
It’s raining rules
Why the Biden administration is rushing to produce regulations
Blooming encampments
Escalating protests expose three fault lines on American campuses
Going back to Cali
California’s population is growing again
Joined by a thread
A surprising Japanese presence in a traditional American craft
The Americas
Mexico’s presidential election
Andrés Manuel López Obrador will haunt his successor
Cuckoo for cocoa’s price
Latin America’s farmers are cashing in on hot hot-cocoa prices
The mine and the canal
Years of growth forged prosaic politics. Now Panamanians are fed up
Asia
Young and conservative
Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi
Pensions and penury
Japan and South Korea are struggling with old-age poverty
China
Raising revenue
China mulls a bold test of taxation without representation
Stability starts in the workplace
Why China’s companies are recruiting their own militias
Covid-19 in China
The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
International
Killing at all costs
Beware, global jihadists are back on the march
Business
Polls and profits
How to handle populists: a CEO’s survival guide
A copper-bottomed deal
Why does BHP want Anglo American?
Bartleby
How not to work on a plane
The fountain of youth
Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk?
Finance & economics
Thousands are flying
Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences
A slip of the yen
Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
Free exchange
Working from home and the US-Europe divide
Science & technology
Generation confusion
Producing fake information is getting easier
Culture
Frisky business
Is there more or less sex on screen?
Can’t get you out of my head
“Boléro” is among the most lucrative works of classical music
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
The vocabulary of disinformation
The Economist explains
Who is jamming airliners’ GPS in the Baltic?
Obituary
Inside “Apocalypse Now”