Mar 23rd 2024

Israel alone

The world this week

Leaders

An unexpected beacon

Britain is the best place in Europe to be an immigrant

What other countries can learn from its example

The war in Gaza and beyond

At a moment of military might, Israel looks deeply vulnerable

America should help it find a better strategy

Pills by post

America’s Supreme Court should reject the challenge to abortion drugs

The case against mail-order mifepristone is legally and medically spurious

Steel men

The hidden costs of Biden’s steel protectionism

Uncertain political benefits do not justify the president’s vetoing a Japanese takeover of US Steel

Japan today, Japan tomorrow

Why Japan’s economy remains a warning to others

Low real rates, low growth and high debts are not going away

Letters

On American trade policy, universities, anger, Al Gore, artificial intelligence, the middle ages, markets

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

American foreign policy

Both Biden and Trump are foreign-policy flops, argues John Bolton

A way forward?

The new Palestinian prime minister maps out his vision for a path to peace

India’s election

Gurcharan Das on why it’s lonely being an Indian liberal

Briefing

No winners

The war in Gaza may topple Hamas without making Israel safer

It will end up even more deeply mired in the conflict that is the main threat to its security

Asia

East Asian dramas

Relations between Japan and South Korea are blossoming

Immobile republic

How to make India richer

That’ll cost you

India’s election could be the world’s most expensive

Banyan

A string of setbacks for the junta in Myanmar presents an opportunity

China

Clicks and control

America is concerned about social media. China is, too

Bang and blast! It’s too noisy to muffle

Even China’s own state media sometimes resent state control

Article 23

Hong Kong passes a security law that its masters scarcely need

Chaguan

China’s low-fertility trap

United States

Political demographics

Joe Biden’s weakness among Latinos threatens his re-election

That’s DWAC

Donald Trump tries his hand with meme-stocks

Down is up

Fewer states allow abortions, yet American women are having more

Miffy-ed

The Supreme Court hears its first abortion case since ending Roe

Militant tendency

Is the most powerful teachers union in America overreaching?

Lexington

Binyamin Netanyahu is alienating Israel’s best friends

Middle East & Africa

Israel and America

Deposing Israel’s king

A new prime minister for Palestine

A new leader offers little hope for Palestinians

Game on

Jacob Zuma’s new party could swing South Africa’s election

Africa unplugged

Damage to undersea cables is disrupting internet access across Africa

When the wells run dry

Nigeria’s high-cost oil industry is in decline

Trouble on the high seas

Somali pirates are staging a comeback

The Americas

The chainsaw and the blender

After 100 brutal days, Javier Milei has markets believing

Fiddling the figures

AMLO is trying to bury the tragedy of Mexico’s missing people

Europe

From high to low

Drug decriminalisation in Europe may be slowing down

After the show

Vladimir Putin celebrates his fake election win

On shaky ground

Earthquake fears loom large in Istanbul’s mayoral race

Bringing up baby

Europe is giving more parental leave to its workers

Charlemagne

Ukraine’s European allies are either broke, small or irresolute

Stealth bombers

The cyberwar in Ukraine is as crucial as the battle in the trenches

Britain

Migration and society

Without realising it, Britain has become a nation of immigrants

Totting it up

Parents in Britain are getting more government-funded child care

Wolfson prized

Next, Britain’s retail superstar

Road to hell

Britain’s dimmed love affair with motorways

Bagehot

The Conservative Party’s Oppenheimer syndrome

Business

The AI pie

Just how rich are businesses getting in the AI gold rush?

Supersize me

Europe wants startups to do AI with supercomputers

Corporate A&E

Demand is soaring for capitalism’s emergency surgeons

Posh space

Luxury hotels are having a glorious moment

Coming to a strip mall near you

Could Aldi’s supermarkets conquer America?

China’s other TikToks

TikTok is not the only Chinese app thriving in America

Bartleby

The secret to career success may well be off to the side

Schumpeter

Can anything stop Nvidia’s Jensen Huang?

Finance & economics

Oil and beyond

How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties

Hamilton’s heir

First Steven Mnuchin bought into NYCB, now he wants TikTok

The 6% problem

America’s realtor racket is alive and kicking

Buttonwood

How to trade an election

Free exchange

Why “Freakonomics” failed to transform economics

The last mile

Why America can’t escape inflation worries

Interesting times

Japan ends the world’s greatest monetary-policy experiment

Science & technology

AI got rhythm

A new generation of music-making algorithms is here

Back of the neural net

AI models can improve corner-kick tactics

Third time lucky—ish

Elon Musk’s Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt

Aggressive dogs

How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs

Culture

The young and the relentless

How worried should people be about Generation Z?

Jurassic spark

How the discovery of dinosaur fossils caused a revolution

Court disorder

Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s accuser returns with a memoir

House of horrors

One of the smallest museums in Africa might be its most important

A miracle on 92nd Street

New York’s 92nd Street Y turns 150

Back Story

Kate Winslet explores how to be a good autocrat

The Economist reads

The Economist reads

Seven of the best war novels

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Obituary

Monkeys and morality