The Economist | World News, Economics, Politics, Business & Finance
The War Room
Our defence newsletter
Economics A to Z
Terms explained in plain English
The Intelligence
Our daily podcast. Today: Pakistan’s meddling army
Summer reads
Beach-friendly articles
Leaders
Ukraine strikes back
The counter-offensive is getting under way. The next few weeks will be critical
Briefing
Ukraine’s counter-offensive is gathering pace
Its army is mounting big pushes in the south and east
Business
Schumpeter: What TIM’s mega-spin-off reveals about Europe’s telecoms industry
Splitting operators’ business units could be the first step to consolidation
The world in brief
President Volodymyr Zelensky visited Kherson, a region in south-east Ukraine flooded by the partial destruction of the Kakhovka dam...
Ukraine launched attacks along the front line in Zaporizhia, a province in the country’s south-east...
Millions of Americans were urged to stay indoors as thick smoke from wildfires in Canada drifted farther down America’s east coast...
In a surprise decision, America’s Supreme Court ruled that Alabama had diluted the power of black voters by re-drawing its congressional map to consolidate them in a single district...
The PGA agrees to team up with its golfing arch-enemy
Saudi Arabia buys membership of golf’s most exclusive club
By InvitationKim Darroch on the “special relationship” between America and Britain
It’s real, but right now it lacks warmth, says Britain’s former ambassador to Washington
Buttonwood: Surging stockmarkets are powered by artificial intelligence
We calculate the extent to which the recent rally depends on tech optimism
The War Room
Our defence newsletter
Economics A to Z
Terms explained in plain English
The Intelligence
Our daily podcast. Today: Pakistan’s meddling army
Summer reads
Beach-friendly articles
Ukraine and Russia
Huge explosions breach the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine
Mass evacuations are under way as downstream villages are threatened
By InvitationMick Ryan assesses Ukraine’s counter-offensive
The retired Australian major-general on the likeliest outcome of the fighting
Daily chart: Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space
Satellite data can be used to track the counter-offensive
This week
The most important political stories this week
Catastrophic flooding in Ukraine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s shift towards sane economics—and more
The most important stories in the business world this week
A golf merger, Apple’s new headset—and more
KAL’s cartoon
A lighter look at this week’s events
World news
Smoke blackens the air in America’s north-east
New York’s current air quality is the worst of any big city in the world
1843 magazine | Chinese policemen are gaslighting Uyghurs in exile
Even those who keep their heads down find themselves the target of psychological torture
The bad bind bedevilling Mike Pence and Chris Christie
Former courtiers to Donald Trump try to take down their old boss
China’s new Great Wall
The country is building barriers to protect millions of people from rising seas
Business, finance and economics
Apple’s Vision Pro is an incredible machine. Now to find out what it is for
The meaning of “spatial computing”
How India is using digital technology to project power
Narendra Modi sees his country’s digital public infrastructure as an Indian Belt and Road Initiative
Summer reads
1843 magazine | The second world war turned Okinawa into a graveyard. Now it’s in China’s sights
A peace activist collects the bones of the dead as conflict brews once more
Sad little boys: the backlash against Britain’s boarding schools
Does posh care lead to bad outcomes?
1843 magazine | Drone cops are coming for small-town America
Some think that they can prevent confrontations from escalating. Civil-liberties groups are sceptical
Summer reads
Dive into our full collection of beach-friendly articles, regularly refreshed
The baby bust
Global fertility has collapsed, with profound economic consequences
What might change the world’s dire demographic trajectory?
It’s not just a fiscal fiasco: greying economies also innovate less
That compounds the problems of shrinking workforces and rising bills for health care and pensions
Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse
War in Ukraine has aggravated a crisis that long predates the conflict
The world’s peak population may be smaller than expected
New evidence suggests Africa’s birth rates are falling fast
The Economist reads: finance and business
Five books on the best approaches to being an investor
What to read to understand how to make your money grow
What to read to understand banking crises
Seven books, and two films, for people curious about financial catastrophe
Six books that tell the history of money
What to read to understand the roots of money
Stories most read by subscribers
Science & technology
Mosquitoes, wasps and parasitic worms could help make injections less painful
How to improve the humble hypodermic
Weekly edition: June 10th 2023
Ukraine strikes back
Why finance won’t kill off coal
Investment tools alone cannot stamp out the world’s dirtiest fuel
The perils of being loyal at work
In the office loyalty can be a liability
Are private schools worth it?
As shortcuts to elite universities, American schools work better than British ones
Vladimir Putin’s other mother
The woman who insisted Russia’s president was her son
Special reports: May 20th 2023
Cashless talk
The fight over payments systems is hotting up around the world. There may be surprising winners, says Arjun Ramani
As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
A digital payments revolution in India
The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
Video: insights from the author
