Mar 30th 2024

The AI doctor will see you…eventually

The world this week

Leaders

Squeeze, surge, slap

The triple shock facing Europe’s economy

After the energy crisis, Europe faces surging Chinese imports and the threat of Trump tariffs

Health technology

The AI doctor will see you…eventually

Artificial intelligence holds huge promise in health care. But it also faces massive barriers

War in Ukraine

Russia is gearing up for a big new push along a long front line

Ukraine must prepare

It’s not just about the penguins

The looming threat from Antarctica

A big thaw will have unexpected consequences for the rest of the world

Management consulting

Some advice to the corporate world’s know-it-alls

With growth slowing, consulting firms like McKinsey need some counsel of their own

Letters

On Russia and Ukraine, bitcoin, Mohammad Mustafa, God and sex, economics, the theories of Sam Vimes

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

False narratives

Video will kill the truth if monitoring doesn’t improve, argue two researchers

India’s election

Yamini Aiyar laments the damage done to Indian democracy under Narendra Modi

Briefing

Stranger danger

How to predict Donald Trump’s foreign policy

He may be inconsistent, but his advisers offer some clues

Asia

Imran Khan in prison

What next for Pakistan?

Holier than thou

The Islamic State’s branch in Afghanistan is at war with the world

No country for critics?

Arvind Kejriwal’s imprisonment is a stain on India’s democracy

Banyan

Vietnam’s head of state leaves under a cloud

China

The men with Xi’s ear

Who is up and who is down on China’s economic team

Spooks in the machine

What to make of China’s massive cyber-espionage campaign

Spare the rod?

A gruesome murder sparks a debate about juvenile justice in China

Three-body shaming

Chinese nationalists have issues with “3 Body Problem”

United States

O say can you see

The impact of the Baltimore bridge disaster

Double flip-flopping

Both chambers of America’s Congress may flip in November

Grin and bear it

Do undocumented immigrants have the right to own guns?

Glock, stock and barrel

Chicago wants to stop Glock pistols being turned into machineguns

Biden’s blacklash

Georgia’s black Republicans have a battle plan for 2024

Lexington

The case of Stormy Daniels echoes past scandals

Middle East & Africa

The unbearable weight of history

Three decades after Rwanda’s genocide, the past is ever-present

Intentionally or by negligence?

Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine

A crisis deferred

After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out

Crisis averted

Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong

The Americas

Not another one

Nicolás Maduro’s sham election: the sequel

Hanging by a thread

Can Haiti’s police hold on?

Keeping it in the family

The cocaine trade is booming in Europe’s Caribbean territories

Europe

French drinking habits

Why the French are drinking less wine

Catalonia’s elections

Carles Puigdemont aims to reignite Catalan separatism

Perishable Goods

Turkey’s opposition hopes for a shake-up in local elections

The uses of terror

Vladimir Putin blames an Islamist attack on Ukraine and America

Charlemagne

How Europe’s fear of migrants came to dominate its foreign policy

Digging in

Ukraine is in a race against time to fortify its front line

Britain

The energy estuary

How Britain’s dirtiest region hopes to become a hub for clean energy

Smoke alarm

The future of Drax, Britain’s largest power plant

Rule intentions

What fiscal rules should Britain have?

You can’t say that

A new hate-crime law in Scotland causes widespread concern

Geary’s Bakeries

Britain’s kings of sourdough

This is not just an archive

Marks & Spencer’s archive is a window on 20th-century Britain

Bagehot

British boomers are losing out for the first time

International

Indians and the world

Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: India’s diaspora

Technology Quarterly

Self-programming panaceas

AIs will make health care safer and better

Picture this

Artificial intelligence has long been improving diagnoses

Talking things through

Medical AIs with human faces are on their way

Intelligent design

Artificial intelligence is taking over drug development

The AIs have it

Can artificial intelligence make health care more efficient?

Business

The lost art of self-management

Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?

Numbers guys and gals

Making accounting sexy again

Three stripes and you are out

A marketing victory for Nike is a business win for Adidas

Bartleby

The pros and cons of corporate uniforms

Trustbusters v the machine

Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy

Beware of low-flying aircraft-makers

Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing

Schumpeter

Meet the digital David taking on the Google Goliath

Finance & economics

Battered and bruised

Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides

Hide and seek

China’s banks have a bad-debt problem

Curse of the Anglosphere

Which country will be last to escape inflation?

Buttonwood

How the “Magnificent Seven” misleads

Free exchange

How India could become an Asian tiger

Hunting for value

As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?

Science & technology

Out of sight out of mind

Antarctica, Earth’s largest refrigerator, is defrosting

Killers’ tactics

Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting

Culture

Inequality

The fallacious case for abolishing the rich

Survival stories

Could your marriage survive a shipwreck?

A different sort of art heist

Museums are becoming more expensive

Where the wild thing is

How “The Gruffalo” went global

Take me to Texas

What lies behind Beyoncé’s country turn?

World in a dish

How moussaka made it into the pantheon of Greek gastronomy

The Economist reads

The Economist reads

Six great books about baseball

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Obituary

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