May 11th 2024

The new economic order

The world this week

Leaders

Red roses and smoked salmon

What companies can expect if Labour wins Britain’s election

The party that aspires to lead the country is courting business

The new economic order

The liberal international order is slowly coming apart

Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible

A judicious suggestion

How “judge-mandering” is eroding trust in America’s judiciary

The assignment of judges to cases should be random, not political

New management in Singapore

The world’s most improbable success story still needs to evolve

Under Lawrence Wong, the city-state has a new chance to change

Risks and rewards

Threats to Europe’s economy are mounting. Finance can help fortify it

Time to press ahead with banking and capital-market reforms

Crime and punishment

How to pacify the world’s most violent region

The iron-fist approach will not solve Latin America’s gang-violence problem

Letters

On Britain’s refugee policy, Reform UK, transmission markets, San Marino, Taylor Swift

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

Culture war and peace

Chigozie Obioma laments the West’s growing ideological tribalism

Briefing

The great regression

The world’s economic order is breaking down

Critics will miss globalisation when it is gone

Asia

The 4G era begins

An interview with Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s next PM

The view from the top

Singapore has achieved astounding economic success

Banyan

In South-East Asia, the war in Gaza is roiling emotions

Out of the blue

India has quietly transformed its ports

China

Stirring ghosts

Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance

From Russia with love?

Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men

Chaguan

In today’s China, to get rich is perilous

United States

Judge-mandering

America’s federal district courts may soon be harder to manipulate

Waiting to climax

Plenty of circumstantial evidence at Donald Trump’s trial

Absent no more

American pupils have missed too much school since the pandemic

Barking mad

How Kristi Noem missed her shot to be vice-president

Good stuff

Why online marketplaces have not killed the estate sale

Labour pains

Will unions sweep the American South?

Lexington

Why the Republicans will convene in a forge of American socialism

Middle East & Africa

Running in place

After a dramatic week in Gaza, where does the war stand?

Land of lousy armies

Why are Arab armed forces so ineffective?

An uphill struggle

Under Joe Biden, America struggles to reassert itself in Africa

The Americas

Mano nula

The world’s most violent region needs a new approach to crime

When gangs rule

Rural Colombia welcomes gangs that mete out vigilante justice

Europe

Dream a little dream of EU

Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia’s government

Fans of the other Vlad

Romania’s hard right looks strong in a year of four elections

Singing past Gaza

Why Eurovision won’t boot out Israel

Holding Europe’s line

Ukraine’s defenders anxiously dig in for a looming Russian assault

The shrapnel dealers

Dealers are selling war trophies to buy weapons for Ukraine

Charlemagne

National days offer a study into the inner psyche of Europeans

Britain

A new deal

The Labour Party’s grand bargain with business

Rayner of terror

Who is Angela Rayner?

The Green Party

Could the Greens become a force in British politics?

Wayve hello

Wayve achieves Britain’s largest-ever fundraising round

Urban planning in Britain

Now it’s Prince William’s turn to shape British town planning

Bagehot

The Conservatives’ world has disappeared. Don’t tell Rishi Sunak

International

International law and disorder

The world’s rules-based order is cracking

Special report

Worlds apart

The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting

Realignment

How crises reshaped the world financial system

Cross-border investment

The movement of capital globally is in decline

Transactions

National payment systems are proliferating

Currency wars

The fight to dethrone the dollar

Future shock

How the financial system would respond to a superpower war

Deglobalisation of finance

Sources and acknowledgments

Business

How green is your Valley?

Big tech’s great AI power grab

Getting serious

AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century

Back to work

Is America Inc’s war for talent over?

Bartleby

For Gen-Z job-seekers, TikTok is the new LinkedIn

Code for trouble

Will chatbots eat India’s IT industry?

Schumpeter

Can Alibaba get the magic back?

Finance & economics

Talking shop

What would get China’s consumers spending?

Hot chocolate

Why the global cocoa market is melting down

Bona fide

Against expectations, European banks are thriving

Buttonwood

Banks, at least, are making money from a turbulent world

Free exchange

Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?

Electric cars and more

What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China’s economy

Funding the fight

How Ukrainian farmers are using the cover of war to escape taxes

Science & technology

Past lives

Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya

Blade runners

Wind turbines keep getting bigger

AI on the farm

New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever

Lunar living

To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts

Culture

What’s the deal?

True tales of secrecy, opacity and outright thievery in art

Death and a thousand nuts

What strategies actually work to fight dying?

Something for everyone

Why Beethoven’s ninth appeals to democrats and despots alike

Playing to the gallery

In its 200 years the National Gallery has mirrored Britain

No laughing matter

American comedy has become too safe on TV

World in a dish

How the chilli pepper has set fire to the internet in China

The Economist reads

The Economist reads

These books reveal why the brain is the biggest mystery of all

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Obituary

For the love of giraffes

Anne Innis Dagg devoted her life to the world’s tallest creature

The Economist explains

The Economist explains