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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
Middle East & Africa
Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine
Israel and Hamas reject a ceasefire even as people starve
Finance & economics
Which country will be last to escape inflation?
A new dividing line in the global fight
The world in brief
Britain’s economy went into a recession in the second half of 2023...
Israel asked America to reschedule a meeting about plans to attack the southern city of Rafah in Gaza...
Colombia ordered the expulsion of Argentine diplomats, worsening a spat between the leaders of the two countries...
China said it would scrap tariffs on Australian wine on Friday in a sign of thawing relations between the two countries...
What next for Pakistan?
The new government faces polarised politics, a faltering economy and terrorist threats
Bagehot: British boomers are losing out for the first time
They do not like it one bit
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
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
Fewer states allow abortions, yet American women are having more
What’s going on?
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
Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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
Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing
The beleaguered aerospace giant announces a management shake-up
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
Stories most read by subscribers
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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
The cyberwar in Ukraine is as crucial as the battle in the trenches
So far, no one is winning
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
Weekly edition: March 30th 2024
The AI doctor will see you…eventually
What’s delaying the AI health revolution?
Artificial intelligence holds huge promise in health care. But it also faces massive barriers
Corpulent consultancies
With growth slowing, consulting firms like McKinsey need some counsel of their own
Trump and the world
How to predict the former president’s foreign policy
Antarctica loses its brrrr
The world must pay more attention to its southern pole
Technology Quarterly: March 30th 2024
A new prescription
AIs will make health care safer and better, reports Natasha Loder. It may even get cheaper too