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The US in brief

Competing campaign stops in New York; Baltimore’s long recovery

Ukraine at war

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Leaders

The triple shock facing Europe’s economy

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

Leaders

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

Ukraine must prepare


Middle East & Africa

Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine

Israel and Hamas reject a ceasefire even as people starve




The world in brief

Russia claimed to have evidence linking the terrorist attack that killed more than 140 people in Moscow last week with “Ukrainian nationalists”...

The Palestinian Authority announced a new cabinet after Mohammed Shtayyeh, the prime minister, resigned in February...

Russia vetoed a UN resolution to extend the mandate of the panel that monitors whether North Korea is violating sanctions...

Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone maker, kicked off sales of its first electric car...


What next for Pakistan?

The new government faces polarised politics, a faltering economy and terrorist threats

Six great books about baseball

The sport inspires great literature. Here is some of the best

The Economist today

The best of our journalism in a free daily newsletter

The US in brief

Competing campaign stops in New York; Baltimore’s long recovery

Ukraine at war

All our coverage of the war in one place

This week

The most important political stories this week

Gunmen attack a Russian concert hall, the UN demands a temporary ceasefire in Gaza—and more

The most important stories in the business world this week

Boeing overhauls its senior management, the yen falls to a 34-year low—and more


KAL’s cartoon

A lighter look at this week's events


Letters to the editor

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


World news

The impact of the Baltimore bridge disaster

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge will hurt the city, but highlight its resilience, too

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

America and others offer rich details of what Chinese spies are up to


Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong

Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s win is a triumph for the country’s democracy


Nicolás Maduro’s sham election: the sequel

Venezuela’s unpopular president is reusing a familiar script


Strife in the Middle East

Gaza could face a famine by May. What does that mean?

Some parts of the strip are already experiencing “catastrophic hunger”

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


At a moment of military might, Israel looks deeply vulnerable

America should help it find a better strategy


Deposing Israel’s king

America wants Binyamin Netanyahu out. But his exit is fraught with dangers



More on the conflict in the Middle East

Abortion in America

Abortion-pill foes get a chilly reception at the Supreme Court

The justices are sceptical that the plaintiffs have “standing” to challenge mifepristone

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

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



IVF is a slam-dunk issue for Democrats. Abortion may not be

The Democratic Party is so giddy about Alabama’s daft court ruling that it risks overlooking its own vulnerabilities


Business, finance and economics

Which country will be last to escape inflation?

A new dividing line in the global fight


Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?

The golden age for CEO whisperers may be coming to an end


The fallacious case for abolishing the rich

Arguments for caps on income and wealth are simple, rousing and wrong


America’s election year

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

In Arizona, a growing Hispanic electorate should help Democrats. Yet Donald Trump is gaining ground

Winners and losers as America at last reaches a budget deal

A long saga is over and a painful government shutdown is avoided


Donald Trump tries his hand with meme-stocks

Investors in his SPAC may get burned, but they don’t seem to mind


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

Threats will go unthwarted, whoever wins in November, says the former national security adviser


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

A curator’s battle to commemorate Germany’s forgotten genocide in Namibia

India’s election

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

Toxic majoritarianism is just part of the story, says the policy scholar

To see India’s future, go south

The country’s regional division could make it—or break it


India’s government implements a controversial citizenship law

It may be trying to please its base shortly before a general election


What is Hindutva, the ideology of India’s ruling party?

It seeks to equate Indianness with Hinduism


The spread of AI

A new generation of music-making algorithms is here

Their most useful application may lie in helping human composers

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

Nvidia and Microsoft are not the only winners


Schumpeter: Can anything stop Nvidia's Jensen Huang?

He has become the generative-AI showman of our time


AI models can improve corner-kick tactics

Football coaches should pay attention


The war in Ukraine

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

But it is suffering from a shortage of munitions and manpower

Might Russia run out of big guns?

Its armed forces may be out-shelling the Ukrainians—but they are wearing out their artillery



Rogue Russia threatens the world, not just Ukraine

The West must show its enemy is Vladimir Putin, not 143m ordinary Russians


Other highlights

Dateline: The Economist history quiz

Can you guess when these extracts were published?

How moussaka made it into the pantheon of Greek gastronomy

Patriotism revolutionised a classic dish


How the discovery of dinosaur fossils caused a revolution

“Impossible Monsters” looks at 70 years that changed human thought


Seven of the best war novels

For a fuller understanding of war, read fiction as well as history and journalism


Visual storytelling

Vladivostok is a window into wartime Russia

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is transforming the far-eastern city

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

In Arizona, a growing Hispanic electorate should help Democrats. Yet Donald Trump is gaining ground


Can you build a British voter?

See how Britons might vote in the next election


How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine

First-person view drones have achieved near mythical status on the front lines


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