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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

Leaders

The triple shock facing Europe’s economy

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

International

Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: India’s diaspora

Migrants help campaign for the prime minister at home and lobby for the country abroad


Leaders

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

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




The world in brief

Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison for defrauding customers and investors at his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX...

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...


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

Xi Jinping is in charge. The rest need sorting

Lexington: The case of Stormy Daniels echoes past scandals

It should make all involved check their righteousness

Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?

Our satellite view of the conflict, updated daily

Dateline: The Economist history quiz

Can you guess when these extracts were published?

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

What next for Pakistan?

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

Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong

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



The impact of the Baltimore bridge disaster

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


Strife in the Middle East

Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine

Israel and Hamas reject a ceasefire even as people starve

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

Business, finance and economics

Oil’s endgame could be highly disruptive

The oil shocks of the future will be driven by demand, not supply


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 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


America’s election year

Both chambers of America’s Congress may flip in November

A historic first is in the offing—with big consequences

Georgia’s black Republicans have a battle plan for 2024

Joe Biden will have to work harder to win the state’s black voters this 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


Stories most read by subscribers

Featured read

Six great books about baseball

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

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


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 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


Other highlights

The fallacious case for abolishing the rich

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

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


The AI doctor will see you…eventually

Weekly edition: March 30th 2024

The AI doctor will see you…eventually