Leaders
Red roses and smoked salmon
What companies can expect if Labour wins Britain’s election
The party that aspires to lead the country is courting business
The new economic order
The liberal international order is slowly coming apart
Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible
A judicious suggestion
How “judge-mandering” is eroding trust in America’s judiciary
The assignment of judges to cases should be random, not political
New management in Singapore
The world’s most improbable success story still needs to evolve
Under Lawrence Wong, the city-state has a new chance to change
Risks and rewards
Threats to Europe’s economy are mounting. Finance can help fortify it
Time to press ahead with banking and capital-market reforms
Crime and punishment
How to pacify the world’s most violent region
The iron-fist approach will not solve Latin America’s gang-violence problem
Letters
On Britain’s refugee policy, Reform UK, transmission markets, San Marino, Taylor Swift
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Culture war and peace
Chigozie Obioma laments the West’s growing ideological tribalism
Briefing
The great regression
The world’s economic order is breaking down
Critics will miss globalisation when it is gone
Europe
Holding Europe’s line
Ukraine’s defenders anxiously dig in for a looming Russian assault
The shrapnel dealers
Dealers are selling war trophies to buy weapons for Ukraine
Dream a little dream of EU
Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia’s government
Fans of the other Vlad
Romania’s hard right looks strong in a year of four elections
Singing past Gaza
Why Eurovision won’t boot out Israel
Britain
Rayner of terror
Who is Angela Rayner?
The Green Party
Could the Greens become a force in British politics?
Urban planning in Britain
Now it’s Prince William’s turn to shape British town planning
Middle East & Africa
Running in place
After a dramatic week in Gaza, where does the war stand?
Land of lousy armies
Why are Arab armed forces so ineffective?
An uphill struggle
Under Joe Biden, America struggles to reassert itself in Africa
United States
Waiting to climax
Plenty of circumstantial evidence at Donald Trump’s trial
Labour pains
Will unions sweep the American South?
The Americas
Asia
The 4G era begins
An interview with Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s next PM
The view from the top
Singapore has achieved astounding economic success
Out of the blue
India has quietly transformed its ports
China
Stirring ghosts
Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance
From Russia with love?
Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men
International
International law and disorder
The world’s rules-based order is cracking
Special report
Cross-border investment
The movement of capital globally is in decline
Transactions
National payment systems are proliferating
Currency wars
The fight to dethrone the dollar
Deglobalisation of finance
Sources and acknowledgments
Business
How green is your Valley?
Big tech’s great AI power grab
Back to work
Is America Inc’s war for talent over?
Code for trouble
Will chatbots eat India’s IT industry?
Schumpeter
Can Alibaba get the magic back?
Finance & economics
Electric cars and more
What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy
Talking shop
What would get China’s consumers spending?
Funding the fight
How Ukrainian farmers are using the cover of war to escape taxes
Hot chocolate
Why the global cocoa market is melting down
Science & technology
Culture
What’s the deal?
True tales of secrecy, opacity and outright thievery in art
Death and a thousand nuts
What strategies actually work to fight dying?
Something for everyone
Why Beethoven’s ninth appeals to democrats and despots alike
World in a dish
How the chilli pepper has set fire to the internet in China
Playing to the gallery
In its 200 years the National Gallery has mirrored Britain
No laughing matter
American comedy has become too safe on TV
The Economist reads
The Economist reads
These books reveal why the brain is the biggest mystery of all
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains
The Economist explains
Could the International Criminal Court indict Binyamin Netanyahu?
Obituary
For the love of giraffes