Apr 13th 2024

The next housing disaster

The world this week

Leaders

The sense of an ending

The rights and wrongs of assisted dying

Britain’s next great social reform is coming. Here’s how it should work

A $25trn hit

Global warming is coming for your home

Who will pay for the damage?

Four-leafed voters

True swing voters are extraordinarily rare in America

We have found some

The Cass Review

America should follow England’s lead on transgender care for kids

Its approach is neither as harsh as in red states nor as lax as in blue states

War in Gaza

The short-sighted Israeli army

Force alone cannot bring security

What’s in a name

In praise of Peter Higgs

The particle named after him became a selling point. For the man, it was a bit of a pain

Letters

On management consultants, Hong Kong, Jonathan Haidt, underpants, describing X, three-letter acronyms

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

Abortion and crime

Steven Levitt and John Donohue defend a finding made famous by “Freakonomics”

Erdogan humbled

Ekrem Imamoglu on Turkey’s renewed faith in democracy

A Chinese view of Russia

Russia is sure to lose in Ukraine, reckons a Chinese expert on Russia

Briefing

Risk of subsidence

Homeowners face a $25trn bill from climate change

Property, the world’s biggest asset class, is also its most vulnerable

Asia

Indo-Pacific statecraft

America’s Asian allies are trying to Trump-proof their policies

Usefully oleaginous

How India’s imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets

After the fight, then what?

Myanmar’s junta is losing ever more ground

Banyan

Some Australians are increasingly sceptical of AUKUS

China

An ageing autocracy

China’s high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster

A relationship under fire

Will China’s ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?

Chaguan

What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang

United States

The parent trap

Who are the swing voters in America?

Mud slinging

Mike Johnson may have to choose between Ukraine aid and his job

Surf City goes MAGA

How one California beach town became Gavin Newsom’s nemesis

Jersey unsure

New Jersey’s electoral process just got upended

Conservatives on campus

A challenge to leftist bias moves into America’s public universities

Middle East & Africa

An assessment of the IDF in Gaza

The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza

AI and Gaza

Israel’s use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny

Death threats

Congo brings back the death penalty

Slavery at sea

China’s fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa’s coasts

Opposition rising

Is South Africa ready for a change in government?

Israel v Hamas

America, Israel and Hamas are trapped in a dangerous impasse

The Americas

The great green rivalry

Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America

The first small steps

Haiti’s transitional government must take office amid gang warfare

Falling felling

Brazil and Colombia are curbing destruction of Amazon rainforest

Europe

Herbert Kickl

Austria’s accidental hard-right leader

The continent’s narco-ports

Criminal networks are well ahead in the fight over Europe’s ports

Cheap and nasty

Russia’s ferocious glide-bomb campaign

Missing in Ukraine

Russia is struggling to find its missing soldiers

Charlemagne

What happens if Ukraine loses?

20km from the enemy

The Kremlin wants to make Ukraine’s second city unliveable

Britain

All things must pass

Britain is moving towards assisted dying

A landmark judgment

The Cass Review damns England’s youth-gender services

Playtime’s over

Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close

Pipe dreams

How not to run a water utility

A Tale of Two Kitties

A story of Scottish wildcats

Je regrette quite a lot

Why most people regret Brexit

Bagehot

Bootlicking: a guide to pre-election British politics

International

On the rise

Who’s the big boss of the global south?

1843 magazine

Election 2024

Robert F. Kennedy junior doesn’t care if he condemns America to Trump

Business

Unplugged

Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals

Strategy and stockpiles

Who wields the power in the world’s supply chains?

Bartleby

Productivity gurus through time: a match-up

No-sun seekers

Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels

Raising Arizona

TSMC’s American chipmaking plans grow $25bn more ambitious

Schumpeter

Generative AI has a clean-energy problem

Finance & economics

Fantasy economics

The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch

The big stick

Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?

Xi’s healthy appetite

China’s state is eating the private property market

Beyond GDP

How fast is India’s economy really growing?

Buttonwood

What China’s central bank and Costco shoppers have in common

Behind enemy lines

Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia’s oil industry

Put the axe away

When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?

Free exchange

What will humans do if technology solves everything?

Science & technology

Prisoners’ health

The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates

Conservation

New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships

Hive minds

Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions

AI at war

How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia

Culture

Return to Gettysburg

Americans are turning to stories of civil war, real and imagined

Sailing close to the wind

An enthralling account of Captain Cook’s final, fatal voyage

Barely gettin’ by

Adelle Waldman’s new novel follows workers in a big-box store

All by myself

The drawbacks—and benefits—of solitude

Johnson

How to protect an endangered language

World in a dish

Flat whites are Australia’s greatest culinary export

The Economist reads

The Economist reads

What to read about golf

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Obituary

The militant debutante