- The world this weekThe world this weekKAL's cartoon
- LeadersTheresa Maybe, Britain’s indecisive premierBritish politicsThe strong dollar has given Abenomics another chanceThe second windThe president-elect’s perilous trade policyTrumponomicsHow to fix failed statesFirst peace, then lawHow voice technology is transforming computingNow we’re talking
- LettersOn China, drugs, management, elections, nuclear power, Japan, the elderly, economistsLetters to the editor
- BriefingAssessing the first six months of Theresa MayNavigating the landscape of Brexit
- United StatesInequality or middle incomes: which matters more?Fat tailsRepublican congressmen retreat from an attempt to gut the Office of Congressional EthicsSwamp newsPolice departments struggle to recruit enough officersThe force is weakA study by the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests stand-your-ground laws result in more fatal shootingsGun lawsCharleston’s planned International African American Museum will fill in a gap in American historyRemembering the slave tradeThe war on ticket bots is unlikely to be wonWhy you can’t get a ticket for “Hamilton”Learning to love TrumpismLexington
- The AmericasCarnage at a prison in the AmazonHorror in the jungleBolivia’s president chafes against term limitsMore and more Morales
- AsiaDesperately seeking young peopleJapanese demographyAs Japan ages, so too does its workforceSilver liningSome Muslim politicians in Indonesia want a total ban on boozeDry talkNew Zealand debates a hiking feeLord of the ker-chingsNajib Razak appears secure, but looks can deceiveBanyan
- ChinaXi Jinping is busy arranging a huge reshuffleChina’s political yearHow China uses Shakespeare to promote its own bardShashibiya, meet Tang Xianzu
- Middle East and AfricaSouth Africa has one of the world’s worst education systemsSouth Africa’s schoolsAstronomers and sheep farmers butt heads over the Square Kilometer ArrayOf deserts and stardustDecriminalising the sex trade in ZimbabweWhy some prostitutes would rather their jobs were illegalA goody and AbadiIraq’s long warPresident Trump may not be all good news for Binyamin NetanyahuAmerica and IsraelThe conviction of an IDF soldier divides IsraelIsrael and the Palestinians
- EuropeAn attack on an Istanbul nightclub widens the secular-religious divideSoft targetVladimir Putin wins his last round against Barack ObamaFeint praiseMotorway tolls are hurting German-Austrian relationsPolitical road rageIn their search for independence, Catalans can resemble BrexiteersSpain and CataloniaHow Martin Luther has shaped Germany for half a millenniumNailed it
- BritainOn Britain’s safe streets, how low can crime go?Law and orderBritain’s man in Brussels resigns less than three months before Brexit negotiations beginBritain and the European UnionGrumbles grow over Britain’s generous foreign aid budgetThe season of goodwillBritain’s genius is its ability to integrate newcomersBagehot
- InternationalWhy states fail and how to rebuild themConquering chaos
- Technology QuarterlyWhat language technology can and can’t doFinding a voiceSpeech recognitionI hear youSpeech synthesisHasta la vista, robot voiceThe limits of computer translationsBeyond BabelThe meaning of speech still eludes machinesWhat are you talking about?Brain scan: Terry WinogradWhere humans still beat computersComing to grips with voice technologyFor my next trick
- BusinessNestlé looks for ways to boost stale growth as consumers snub unhealthy foodA life less sweetToshiba admits to a ruinous overpayment for an American nuclear firmLosing countFord Motors courts Donald Trump by scrapping a planned plant in MexicoWheel spinThe three Rs behind global banks’ recoverySchumpeter
- Finance and economicsThe high economic costs of India’s demonetisationMany rupee returns“Impact investing” inches from niche to mainstreamImpacted wisdomSupervisors put off finalising reforms to bank-capital rulesPolishing the floor2016 may have been an economic as well as political turning-pointButtonwoodSub-national currencies struggle to surviveLocal difficulties“Open outcry” is in retreat but futures and options trading-volumes surgeOut of the pitsAnthony Atkinson, a British economist and expert on inequality, died on January 1stFor poorer, for richerWhen stars die, insurers count the costA star is deadThe “WTO option” for Brexit is far from straightforwardFree exchange
- Science and technologyWill artificial intelligence help to crack biology?Health careDiagnosing illness by smellOlfactory medicineWhy big hurricanes weaken before they hit America’s coastThe storm before the calmHow reptilian were dinosaur eggs?PalaeontologyThe Richard Casement internship
- Books and artsHow and why Brexit triumphedWot won it2016’s grim words of the yearJohnsonWestern economists and China’s riseOutsiders and the Middle KingdomLagos, where anything can happenMegacity meetingsMiami Beach, the world’s best parking spotDesigning car parks
- ObituaryObituary: Vera Rubin died on December 25thDark star
- Economic and financial indicatorsInteractive indicatorsOutput, prices and jobsTrade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest ratesThe Economist commodity-price indexGDP forecastsMarkets