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The new economic order | The liberal international order is slowly coming apart
Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible
Leaders
What companies can expect if Labour wins Britain’s election
The party that aspires to lead the country is courting business
Europe
Ukraine will hold if it gets the arms it needs, says a top general
An interview with Lieutenant General Oleksandr Pavliuk, head of Ukraine’s ground forces
The Americas
The world’s most violent region needs a new approach to crime
Gangs are gaining ground in Latin America. Iron-fist policies won’t beat them back
The world in brief
Russia’s army launched a big assault on the region of Kharkiv in north-eastern Ukraine...
The United Nations warned that an Israeli invasion of Rafah could cut off supplies of humanitarian aid to Gaza...
Meanwhile the UN General Assembly voted to pass a resolution to grant Palestine new rights and asked the Security Council to approve its request to admit Palestine as a member...
Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of Delhi and the leader of the opposition Aam Aadmi Party, was granted bail by India’s top court...
The trial of Donald Trump, considered as courtroom drama
Is it more like “Witness for the Persecution” or “A Few Rude Men”?
Chaguan: In today’s China, to get rich is perilous
Business sectors can be praised one day and banned the next
The world’s most, and least, walkable cities
Those who want to ditch their car might want to avoid North America
Israel is defying calls to shun it at Eurovision
Keeping the contest apolitical proves harder than ever
This week
The most important political stories this week
Xi Jinping visits France, Serbia and Hungary, Israel carries out air strikes on Rafah—and more
Dateline: The Economist history quiz
May 10th edition
KAL’s cartoon
A lighter look at the week's events
Letters to the editor
On Britain’s refugee policy, Reform UK, transmission markets, San Marino, Taylor Swift
World news
How to pacify the world’s most violent region
The iron-fist approach will not solve Latin America’s gang-violence problem
An interview with Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s next PM
He will be just the fourth person to hold that position
How Kristi Noem missed her shot to be vice-president
A failure to do things by the book
Business, finance and economics
Is America Inc’s war for talent over?
Competition has cooled—for now
Schumpeter: Does Perplexity’s “answer engine” threaten Google?
Taking aim at one of the best business models of all time
Big tech’s great AI power grab
Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft are on the hunt for new energy sources
The movement of capital globally is in decline
Geopolitics is altering its trajectory
Strife in the Middle East
After a dramatic week in Gaza, where does the war stand?
The Rafah offensive has not really begun, and a ceasefire is probably still weeks away at best
Israel and Hamas are not that far from a ceasefire agreement
But does Israel’s prime minister actually want to reach a deal?
Why are Arab armed forces so ineffective?
Governments are splashing the cash, but that may do little to burnish their armies’ reputations
Israel’s prime minister does not know where to go
Binyamin Netanyahu may be losing the plot
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In its 200 years the National Gallery has mirrored Britain
When Old Masters meet TikTok
The war in Ukraine
Ukraine’s defenders anxiously dig in for a looming Russian assault
The West’s delays on weapons help Vladimir Putin exploit superior numbers
How Ukrainian farmers are using the cover of war to escape taxes
“Black grain” infuriates exporters playing by the rules
A fresh Russian push will test Ukraine severely, says a senior general
An interview with Vadym Skibitsky, deputy head of Ukraine’s military intelligence
Russia’s gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
Hopes of a Chinese rescue look increasingly vain
Disinformation
The truth—and lies—behind Olena Zelenska’s $1.1m Cartier haul
The anatomy of a disinformation campaign
How to counter disinformation
More co-ordination is needed, and better access to data
Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?
Understanding it will lead to better ways to fight it
The vocabulary of disinformation
From AI-generated news to verification
India’s election
1843 magazine | Rahul Gandhi is on the march. But where is he heading?
He wants to be the champion of Indian liberalism. First he needs to save his party from irrelevance
Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi
They worry about their future, but do not blame the BJP
How strong is India’s economy?
It isn’t the next China, but it could still transform itself and the world
Radio Modi: How India’s prime minister sweet-talks the nation
We analysed hundreds of Narendra Modi’s broadcasts. They reveal a meticulously cultivated image
America’s election year
Joe Biden is practising some Clintonian politics
But he needs to do more than crack down on “junk fees” to woo swing voters
In brief
Stormy Daniels holds her own; Senate passes aviation funding
Our daily political update, featuring stories that matter
US election 2024
Can you build a Trump voter?
Try our tool—and see which attributes make voters more likely to pick one candidate over the other
Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the polls?
The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
Other highlights
Why Beethoven’s ninth appeals to democrats and despots alike
Since its first performance 200 years ago, few pieces of music have won such varied devotees
These books reveal why the brain is the biggest mystery of all
Eight of the best books on brains and consciousness—human, octopus and other
1843 magazine | “It’s been a very long two weeks”: how the Gaza protests changed Columbia
The camp has been cleared. But the faculty of the Ivy League university remains deeply divided
Jeremy Clarkson, patron saint of the Great British bore
He who speaks for the bore speaks for Britain
Weekly edition: May 11th 2024
The new economic order
“Judge-mandering” and how to cure it
The assignment of judges to cases should be random, not political
Singapore under new management
Under Lawrence Wong, the city-state has a new chance to change
China Shock II
Despite Xi Jinping’s protestations, China does have an overcapacity problem
Gangs on Latin America
How to pacify the world’s most violent region
Special reports: May 11th 2024
Worlds apart
The American-led financial order is giving way to a more divided one
The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
How crises reshaped the world financial system
The movement of capital globally is in decline
National payment systems are proliferating
The fight to dethrone the dollar
How the financial system would respond to a superpower war
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