The Economist | Independent journalism
The US in brief
Trump’s a felon. Now what?
Dateline
Try The Economist's history quiz
Analysing Africa
Introducing our latest newsletter
Business
How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame
The world’s biggest energy firm is the linchpin of the kingdom’s ambitions
Europe
In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
The peninsula is becoming a death trap for the Kremlin’s forces
United States
What Republicans make of Donald Trump’s conviction
The party is never as unified as when its members are defending the former president
The world in brief
An aide to Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, confirmed on Sunday that the country had agreed to a plan to end its war in Gaza espoused by President Joe Biden, despite there still being a “lot of details to be worked out”...
The African National Congress said that it would not replace Cyril Ramaphosa, its leader and South Africa’s president, in order to form a coalition...
Five years after its record-breaking initial public offering (the biggest ever), Saudi Aramco, a state-owned oil colossus, launched a secondary sale of shares...
Jensen Huang, the boss of Nvidia, unexpectedly unveiled the company’s next generation of artificial-intelligence processors at a conference in Taiwan...
What is the point of the Lib Dems?
They’re nice, like raincoats and don’t like sewage—or power
Bartleby: How to write the perfect CV
A job applicant walks into a bar
Xi Jinping’s surprising new source of economic advice
What China’s leader may learn from a pair of reform-minded academics
Remembering D-Day, as a new war rages in Europe
World leaders and surviving soldiers will attend the 80th anniversary of Normandy
The US in brief
Trump’s a felon. Now what?
Dateline
Try The Economist's history quiz
Analysing Africa
Introducing our latest newsletter
Donald Trump convicted
The disgrace of a former American president
But this prosecution of Donald Trump was wrongheaded and counter-productive
Donald Trump is a convicted felon
Historic, yes. Game-changer? Don’t bank on it
1843 magazine | Trump’s charm offensive in the Bronx
Can boasts of past glories win over a tough crowd?
Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the polls?
The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president
South Africa’s election
South Africa stands on the brink of salvation—or catastrophe
To prevent a coalition of chaos, Cyril Ramaphosa and the Democratic Alliance must do a deal
The failing ANC is rejected by over half of South Africa
The country now faces its biggest test since the end of apartheid
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?
Business, finance and economics
Japan and South Korea are getting friendlier. At last
As the world economy fragments, two export powerhouses see the virtue of chumminess
Is your rent ever going to fall?
Too often politicians tout awful solutions for helping tenants
Can Elon Musk’s xAI take on OpenAI?
It has some advantages. But it is entering a crowded field
Baby-boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?
The mystery matters for global economic growth
World news
Violence mars Mexicans’ biggest elections ever
A lot is at stake besides who will become the new president
The undoing of Roe v Wade has created a mighty political movement
The power of women with clipboards
The evolution of forced labour in Xinjiang
China has wound down its re-education camps, but is still using work to remould the thinking of Uyghurs
America could face its most active hurricane season ever
Coastal states must brace themselves for extreme weather in an election year
Video
Britain’s election
Incompetence or opacity: the choice facing British voters
The first week of the election campaign points to a failure of political competition
Bagehot: The British election is becoming an episode of mob justice
A punishment beating is on the cards for the Conservatives
UK election 2024
General-election forecast: will Labour destroy the Conservatives?
Our seat-by-seat prediction for Britain’s next Parliament
The seats where Labour is concentrating its campaign firepower
Our analysis shows that activists are not just being dispatched to Tory targets
The Israel-Hamas war
Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
Arguments fly over Israel’s duty to maintain aid
Outrage at a strike in Rafah is unlikely to change policy
America has already said the incident does not cross its red lines
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
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
Stories most read by subscribers
Featured read
New fronts are opening in the war against malaria
After years of stalemate, ground-breaking vaccines and better nets are raising hopes
The war in Ukraine
Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
Our satellite view of the conflict, updated daily
Ukraine’s desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
Thousands of military-age Ukrainians are risking their lives by swimming across treacherous waters
There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine
Europe lacks TNT and other propellants for shells and missiles
Ukraine’s desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
It is holding off Russia’s attack — for now
Other highlights
New fronts are opening in the war against malaria
After years of stalemate, ground-breaking vaccines and better nets are raising hopes
There is more to breasts than meets the eye
A new book offers a cultural history of mammary glands
Footballer, broadcaster, podcast mogul: the career of Gary Lineker
And what it says about modern Britain
Canadians are taking dramatic steps to avoid more ruinous firestorms
The focus is as much on mitigation and preparation as on suppression
Weekly edition: June 1st 2024
Meet America’s most dynamic political movement
Election watch: incompetence or opacity
The choice facing British voters
Will abortion swing America's election?
The pro-choice movement that could help Joe Biden win
Boomers: loaded and stingy
What the penny-pinchers mean for the world economy
Generation rent goes global
Too often politicians tout awful solutions for helping tenants
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
Sources and acknowledgments
