Economist

Germany’s election marks the end of an era of stability and stagnation. What international challenges will Angela Merkel's successor face?

isaster struck the world’s biggest social network on October 4th when Facebook and its sister apps were knocked offline for six hours. It was one of the less embarrassing...

None of this makes Xi Jinping, China’s ruler, happy. According to a leaked account by a professor who grew up with him, he is “repulsed by the all-encompassing...

he four candidates for the presidency of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (ldp) come from different corners of the party’s big tent. Takaichi Sanae (pictured,...

n june a newly surfaced segment of a German talk show from 1997 set the internet alight. The clip shows Angela Merkel, a fresh-faced environment minister in Helmut Kohl’s...

Will prolonged disruptions shift the pattern of trade?  

If Germany’s election campaign has hardly been fizzing with ideas, the volatility of the polls has provided tremendous sport.

Climate change, covid-19 and bad governance are to blame  

Failure in Afghanistan shows it has not learned the lessons of Vietnam  

And much of the blame lies squarely with Joe Biden  

America and Britain send troops to evacuate their citizens after Herat and Kandahar fall into the hands of the jihadists  

But America is refusing to try  

Protests sparked by the arrest of Jacob Zuma highlight the country’s lawlessness.

The consequences of the conflict for Afghans, already catastrophic, are likely to get worse.

ubans have always been resourceful,” says Ana, the owner of a private farm-to-table restaurant near Havana. “But now we need to be magicians and acrobats.” The...

Tilting towards China has not done it much good

But few parents have rushed to have even a second since the government launched a two-child policy in 2016

In a world plagued by authoritarian populists, Mexico’s president has somehow escaped the limelight. Liberals furiously condemn the erosion of democratic norms under...

MALI, SAYS Kevin, a 32-year-old teacher in Bamako, the capital, “has absolutely no future.” “Malians don’t deserve this,” he adds. “It's political...

ALEXANDER LUKASHENKO has committed what is tantamount to an act of piracy. On May 23rd the embattled dictator of Belarus forced a Ryanair passenger plane to make an unscheduled stop...

When richard nixon made his historic visit to Beijing in February 1972, he reassured Mao Zedong that neither of their countries had plans for global hegemony, meaning that they...