The Economist

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Business

How to win the long war • After doing well early in the war, Ukraine is losing ground. What next?

After the shattering of Roe • America needs to find a better way to resolve its thorniest issues

The reckoning • The startup bust is bad, but not as bad as the dotcom fiasco

A new order in Asia • Singapore is on top in Asian finance. The biggest risks to its primacy are at home

Mexico’s shame • Staggering numbers of Mexicans are disappearing. Here’s how to save some of them

Letters

Briefing The long warOn and on • KYIVDoes a protracted conflict favour Russia or Ukraine?

The fallout from overturning Roe • WASHINGTON, DCIn an even more divided America, the battle over abortion goes on

An end-of-term report • NEW YORKThe scope of change flowing from the court’s rulings has been staggering

Win one, lose one • NEW YORKOne branch of government passes gun reform, another rejects a gun law

Where have all the lifeguards gone? • THE JERSEY SHOREA shortage means many pools and beaches may be closed or unmanned

Questions of trust • SANTA FENew Mexico offers a warning of election battles to come

A tragedy in Texas • NEW YORKWhy more migrants have been dying

The courage of a conservative • Even without Donald Trump, says our departing columnist, the Republican Party may be unreformable

100,000 missing Mexicans • PUEBLA AND SALTILLOMany victims of the drug war lie in unmarked graves in the desert

Rain strain • SÃO PAULOMore Brazilians are dying in floods and downpours

Open and shut • SINGAPOREResentment of rich foreigners and worries about inequality complicate the city-state’s role as a financial hub

On the edge • SINGAPOREThe country’s finances are in trouble, but it may yet turn the corner

Feeling the chill • The government celebrates democracy abroad and locks up critics at home

Indomitable valley • BAZARAKNorth-east Afghanistan resumes its fight against an old enemy

Memory loss • Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, a kleptocrat’s son, takes over the Philippines

Three steps to heaven • China still claims to be moving towards communism. Some want it to pick up the pace

Low school • HONG KONGChina is improving its human capital. Gradually

Holes in the great firewall • BEIJINGAs censorship in China increases, vpns are becoming more important

Speakeasies v snitches • SHANGHAIGetting around covid controls in China’s biggest city

Echoes of war • NAIROBIThe return of regional rivalry endangers eastern Congo

Digital stevedores • KAMPALAAfrica’s mobile-money agents face an uncertain future

One shield to guard them all? • JERUSALEMIsrael has joined an unexpected alliance with former foes

Safer at last • DUBAIThe un needs more money to defuse a bomb and avert a famine in Yemen

The great moustache comeback • BAGHDADFacial fur is again a matter of style, not safety

Back in business • MADRIDThe Atlantic alliance holds its most important summit in decades

Nest of vipers • KYIVThe battle for Snake Island

The quiet German • BERLINGermany’s chancellor takes taciturnity to new levels

Changing friends • BELGRADEThe war is forcing pro-Russian Balkan leaders to recalibrate

Jacket, tie, nationalism • PARISFresh faces on the far right and left fill...