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Asia
Is America giving Narendra Modi an easy ride?
The West is struggling to balance interests and values in India
United States
Texas’s Republicans eat their own
Run-off primary elections are an exercise in retaliation
Finance & economics
OPEC heavyweights are cheating on their targets
That is tamping down global oil prices
The world in brief
Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, said that civilian deaths in an Israeli air strike on a tent camp for displaced Palestinians in Rafah were a “tragic mishap”, and that Israel was investigating...
Spain pledged €1bn ($1.1bn) in military aid to Ukraine...
Russia criticised NATO’s boss, Jens Stoltenberg, for saying in an interview with The Economist that Ukraine should be free to strike inside Russia using Western weapons...
The death toll from a landslide in Papua New Guinea on Friday rose sharply...
Mexico’s next president can reset relations with the United States
She will have much work to do on drug-trafficking, security, migration and trade
Bartleby: The Economist’s agony uncle returns
Pets, drugs and schedule send: another postbag for Max Flannel
Footballer, broadcaster, podcast mogul: the career of Gary Lineker
And what it says about modern Britain
Five of the best books on climbing mountains
The books and a documentary that capture the pull of the peaks
The US in brief
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Business, finance and economics
Baby-boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?
The mystery matters for global economic growth
AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board
For humanity’s sake, regulation is needed to tame market forces, argue Helen Toner and Tasha McCauley
Global firms are tapping India’s workers like never before
They want their brains more than their brawn
Walmart’s latest product? Its customers
The retail giant is selling advertisers access to its shoppers
South Africa’s election
How to save South Africa
The rainbow nation needs an alternative to decline under the ANC
South Africa election poll tracker, results and guide to the parties
Who will form the next government?
Next week’s election is South Africa’s most important since 1994
It may force the country’s indecisive leader to make a fateful choice
How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid
Poverty is rife and inequality still starkly racial
Britain’s election
UK election 2024
General-election forecast: will Labour destroy the Conservatives?
Our seat-by-seat prediction for Britain’s next Parliament
UK election 2024
Can you build a British voter?
Explore the groups driving Britain’s political shifts using our interactive tool
Bagehot: Rishi Sunak’s snap election is odd and illogical—much like him
Whether an act of political genius or lunacy, Britons should welcome it
Sir Keir Starmer meets the public. Sort of
The Labour leader is better than he was at campaigning but that is not saying a lot
World news
There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine
Europe lacks TNT and other propellants for shells and missiles
Fewer migrants are crossing America’s southern border
Joe Biden has Mexico to thank—for now
The sorry story of children in care in England
The state is struggling to perform one of its most basic functions
In the Philippines a decades-long conflict nears its endgame
Peace in Mindanao matters for regional security
The Israel-Hamas war
How many people have died in Gaza?
The fog of war may be thick, but some figures are solid
The ICJ orders restraint from Israel in Rafah
But the court has no way to enforce its judgment, and there is no chance Israel will heed it
What does it mean to recognise Palestinian statehood?
Ireland, Norway and Spain will be the latest to do so
Powerful states are finding it harder to dodge legal challenges, says Marc Weller
The law professor believes the ICC’s creeping jurisdiction is part of a broader trend
America’s election year
Rural white voters in Wisconsin could decide America’s election
They are less enthusiastic about Donald Trump than their counterparts elsewhere
Why America is vulnerable to a despot
Its democratic system is not as robust as it seems
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
Pro-natalist policies
Why paying women to have more babies won’t work
Economies must adapt to baby busts instead
Can the rich world escape its baby crisis?
Governments are splurging on handouts to avert catastrophe
Shrinking populations mean less growth and a more fractious world
Politicians must act now to avert the worst
Some good news about America’s fertility problem
Part of the decline in births should be celebrated
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How the hard right both reflects and creates prejudice
It’s one way to get votes
The war in Ukraine
Ukraine’s desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
It is holding off Russia’s attack — for now
Russia is ramping up sabotage across Europe
The Kremlin believes it is in a shadow war with NATO
What are the Russian “turtle tanks” seen in Ukraine?
Wrapping vehicles in corrugated metal might protect them from drone attacks
Sergei Shoigu’s sacking points to yet more attrition in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin wants Russia’s armed forces to be better supplied
Other highlights
Meet the man causing cracks in the antiquities trade
Matthew Bogdanos employs unorthodox tactics to repatriate stolen art and antiquities
From Zidane to Vinícius: the reinvention of Real Madrid
The galácticos have become the pragmáticos
Americans are fretting over their body odour
They are covering themselves in new types of deodorant
Spices have their own riveting, piquant history
How spycraft and cartography flourished in their wake
Weekly edition: May 25th 2024
Cash for kids: Why policies to boost birth rates don’t work
Where next for Iran?
The death of the president changes the power dynamic
Meet Nvidia’s challengers
A new generation of AI chips is on the way
How to save South Africa
The rainbow nation needs an alternative to decline under the ANC
Britain’s election surprise
Rishi Sunak’s election call makes no sense, but is good news
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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