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
Power struggle • How to fix the world’s energy emergency without wrecking the climate
The man who fell to earth • Emmanuel Macron loses his majority in parliament. Can he now get anything done?
Hungry and angry • A wave of unrest is coming. Here’s how to avert some of it
The ECB’s next headache • How fighting inflation could imperil the single currency
Tiddlers, not titans • As new firms get bigger, the capital they need dries up
Letters
Nuclear family • HINKLEY POINT
Pivot to Asia • GARDEN GROVE, CALIFORNIA
Lost in conversion • WASHINGTON, DC
Pump and dump • WASHINGTON, DC
Snoozzzzzze on • WASHINGTON, DC
A victory for God • NEW YORK
Fission impossible? • WHITE MESA, UTAH
The Biden-Harris problem • Democrats face the fact that they need a better candidate for 2024 than Joe Biden or his deputy
Petrofied • BOGOTÁ AND CALI
Murder in the Amazon • A double slaying reminds Brazilians how much their president scorns greens
Birds, bees and not much else • BUENOS AIRES AND PANAMA CITY
Illusory extremists • DENPASAR
A giant stingray in the Mekong • The discovery of the world’s largest freshwater fish spells hope for the river
Another disaster • ISLAMABAD
From Moscow with money • BATKEN
Exit stage left • After years of selling the idea of personal growth, will BTS try the real thing?
The thought police • China’s mental-health crisis is getting worse. Covid lockdowns and constant surveillance probably do not help
Catapulting forward • What to make of a big new ship
Whose is it? • America and China spar over military use of a strategic waterway
The metaphor still holds water
The rot that spread • VREDE
The longhorns and the law • JOHANNESBURG
Once more unto the booths • JERUSALEM
Princes, purses and putters • DUBAI
Jupiter waning • PARIS
Running on empty • Ukraine needs more; the West is slowly stepping up
The Putin effect • ROME
The turnaround • LJUBLJANA
The great riposte of Córdoba • SEVILLE
From bullets to bail-outs • Briefly united over Ukraine, Europe faces divisions on the home front
Start up, fade away • Britain is a great place for startups but a bad one for aspiring corporate titans
Heavy metal • Britain finally gets round to memorialising post-war migrants
Remainers’ cake problem • The case for a softer Brexit is clear. How to get one is not
From inflation to insurrection • ALMATY, COLOMBO, ISTANBUL, KAMPALA, LIMA AND TUNIS
Doctor Google will see you now • Alphabet wants to shake up a seemingly undisruptable multi-trillion-dollar industry
New pharm hands • Entrepreneurs want to shake up America’s overpriced drug market
NetUnease • SHANGHAI
Why everyone wants Arm • The British chip designer behind the smartphone revolution looks destined to stay small
Bartleby Pity the managers • Don’t overdo the sympathy, but the job is both necessary and demanding
Bean-counters v lion-tamers • In EY’S split, fortune may favour the dull
Move fast and break things • WASHINGTON, DC
Thrown for a loop • BERLIN
Whenever it breaks • How inflation and rising interest rates might affect Italy’s...