Aug 31st 2024

Sudan: Why its catastrophic war is the world’s problem

The world this week

Leaders

A humanitarian disaster

Why Sudan’s catastrophic war is the world’s problem

It could kill millions—and spread chaos across Africa and the Middle East

Good policy, not good luck

Why inflation fell without a recession

High interest rates, not the passage of time, have restored price stability

There must be blood

People should be paid for blood plasma

Shortages are hampering the production of essential medicines

The virtual world

Digital twins are fast becoming part of everyday life

Welcome to the mirror world

The new wall

Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportation” is unworkable

Yet he could cause serious harm by trying

Letters

On nuclear weapons, carry trades, American visas, sports, war, Churchill’s urinal

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

Debt and development

Break the taboos propping up unsustainable debt, pleads a former central banker

Briefing

An intensifying calamity

Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years

Millions are likely to perish

Chaos machine

The ripple effects of Sudan’s war are being felt across three continents

It is a sign of growing global impunity and disorder

Disaster in Darfur

“Hell on earth”: satellite images document the siege of a Sudanese city

El-Fasher, until recently a place of refuge, is under attack

Asia

Fraying saffron

Narendra Modi faces a new threat: his Hindu-nationalist patrons

Visa lottery

Rich parts of Asia are on the hunt for immigrants

Succession in Indonesia

The King of Java inflames an Indonesian “democratic emergency”

Not digging it

Why Australia is not yet a critical minerals powerhouse

Banyan

Why does the West back the wrong Asian leaders?

China

Technology and power

Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?

Two very different leaders

Why Xi Jinping is envious of his predecessor

Our Beijing bureau chief’s valedictory dispatch

China’s new age of swagger and paranoia

United States

Power hungry

Why Texas Republicans are souring on crypto

Over the Rainbow

What Texas’s oldest motel reveals about the rural South

180 degrees

The fate of America’s for-profit colleges hinges on the election

Return to sender

Donald Trump’s dream of mass deportations is a fantasy

Campaign calculus

To hold the Senate, Democrats have to do something extraordinary

Middle East & Africa

Real estate and religion

Israel’s settlers are winning unprecedented power from the war in Gaza

A kingdom divided

Have Israel’s far-right religious nationalists peaked?

The Middle East

Israel and Hizbullah play with fire

Nigeria parties on the cheap

A Nigerian’s guide to weddings during the cozzie livs

The Americas

Canada’s rising populist

Canada’s Conservatives are crushing Justin Trudeau

Still stolen

Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court

The rule of law in Mexico

AMLO’s dangerous last blast threatens Mexico

Europe

Germany’s fraught state elections

Why east Germany is such fertile ground for extremists

French politics

France seeks a new government

Fluid front lines

Even as it humiliates Russia, Ukraine’s line is crumbling in the Donbas

The new enemy

Azerbaijan’s government turns on its critics at home

Charlemagne

Europe’s lefties bash migrants (nearly) as well as the hard right

Britain

An old-age problem

Fixing social care in England is a true test of Labour’s ambition

Careful consideration

Funding social care: an international comparison

Vroom vroom

Britain’s unusual stance on Chinese electric vehicles

Do not go to gate

Heathrow’s third runway asks questions of the airport and Labour

Keep up, your honour

A language guide for judges is a window into modern Britain

What ho, y’all

Why country music is booming in Britain

International

Too much, too little. Too late?

The poisonous global politics of water

Business

The case against “Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg” will have lasting effects

Hard landing

From Southwest to Spirit, budget airlines are in a tailspin

Back in style

How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again

French correction

Renault readies itself to take on Chinese rivals

Rise and fall

Pinduoduo, China’s e-commerce star, suffers a blow

The Zuckerberg mankini

Meta is accused of “bullying” the open-source community

Bartleby

Four questions for every manager to ask themselves

Schumpeter

What could stop the Nvidia frenzy?

Finance & economics

The cushioned blow

Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?

Trustbusting

Are American rents rigged by algorithms?

Blood boom

The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical

Eastern promise

How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade

Buttonwood

Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?

Free exchange

Vast government debts are riskier than they appear

Science & technology

Off to the races

Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing

Mirror worlds

Digital twins are enabling scientific innovation

E-businesses

Digital twins are making companies more efficient

Culture

Leagues of their own

Why the world is teeming with so many new sports leagues

Master clash

John Sainsbury, a donor to the National Gallery, had the last laugh

An arboreal affair

How “reading trees” can unlock many mysteries

Guest who?

Nudity, drinking, smoking: Winston Churchill’s unusual diplomacy

Monkey business

“Black Myth: Wukong” is China’s first blockbuster video game

Back Story

Twenty-five years on, “Fight Club” punches harder than ever

The Economist reads

The Economist reads

Six novels about India, perhaps the world’s most interesting place

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Obituary

The anatomy of love