The Economist is a global weekly magazine written for those who share an uncommon interest in being well and broadly informed. Each issue explores domestic and international issues, business, finance, current affairs, science, technology and the arts.
The world this week • To 6am BST April 13th 2022
What China gets wrong • Xi Jinping is exhibiting poor judgment in an all-important year
Get off the fence • Russia wants to impose its brutal vision on its neighbour. That is everyone’s business
Mismanaged democracy • The meddling generals should try letting politicians run the country for once
Don’t panic • Emmanuel Macron still has the edge in the second round
Partygate, the final episode • Boris Johnson broke his own lockdown rules, but he won’t be forced from office
Letters
A country that comes together • KYIV AND LONDON
The seventh week of war
The builder’s bill • BERLIN
In praise of the IRS • WASHINGTON, DC
Keep the change • WASHINGTON, DC
Enter the startups • BALTIMORE, MARYLAND
New York City subway shooting
What happens after Roe • FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, ILLINOIS, AND JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI
The heart of Texas • Ken Paxton’s bid for re-election is a high-stakes test of Texas Republicans’ values
Losing their religion • BUENOS AIRES
Going for growth • The Liberal government shuffles towards the centre
A new Sharif in town • ISLAMABAD
Going for broke • COLOMBO AND DELHI
No Everest for the wicked • The fallout from the war reaches the peaks of Himalayas
Sold down the river • MAE SOT
Metabolism, digested • TOKYO
Disagree to agree • A bipartisan consensus on Australian security masks the need for more debate
Locked down, fed up • BEIJING
Lingua no thank ya • BEIJING
China sees no universal values • Xi Jinping tells European critics that former colonisers may not judge China
Hope against hope for a lasting peace • DUBAI
Keep your cool • JERUSALEM
Following the money • NAIROBI AND PRETORIA
Horror heaped on horror • ADDIS ABABA
Marmageddon • JOHANNESBURG
Macron v Le Pen, again • PARIS
Stretching the border • HELSINKI
Truth and lies • MARZAHN
Vox populi • MADRID
The boomer bulwark • The elderly are keeping Europe’s extremists out of power. For how long?
Waiting for Boris • The Conservative Party cannot move forward with its current leader. But it cannot face life without him
Victorian values • Britons don’t want to open new prisons or close old ones
An expert runs out of road • Martin Lewis has become one of the most powerful people in politics
Friends like these • BUENOS AIRES, DELHI, DUBAI, ISTANBUL, MEXICO CITY, NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO
A new atlas • BENGALURU AND SINGAPORE
The ordnance in the arsenal • What other weapons could the West wheel out?
Reputation v revenue • BERLIN
How to sign off an email • Epistolary etiquette for the 21st century
Screening transactions • The unforeseen advantages of virtual negotiations
The TikTok of frocks • How much of a risk is Shein’s Chinese opacity?
Xi’s incubator state • SHANGHAI
Pervasive problems • Inflation in America is becoming more broad-based
Default settings • Sri Lanka’s sovereign default may be the first of many
Talent wars • The latest industry to suffer labour shortages: investment banking
Satoshi-alism • Does crypto represent a libertarian dream or a socialist Utopia?
Guns and...