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.
Coronavirus data • To 6am GMT November 4th 2021
The world this week
One year on • Democrats face a calamity unless the party can distance itself from the new, new left
Bond traders stir • The message from the newly roused fixed-income markets
Are rules for losers? • Boris Johnson treats checks and balances with contempt
The uses and abuses of green finance • Why the net-zero pledges of financial firms won’t save the world
Act now to avert carnage in Ethiopia • As rebels march on the capital, ethnic persecution accelerates
Letters
Stuck in place • WASHINGTON, DC
The maths wars • WASHINGTON, DC
Physics for politics • WASHINGTON, DC
Lawyers, guns and babies • NEW YORK
No sympathy for the devil • NEW YORK
Portrait of a detransitioner • WASHINGTON, DC
Glenn Youngkin and Ivy League populism • Virginia’s governor-elect is the latest Republican culture warrior with an expensive education
From hero to villain • SÃO PAULO
1001 episodes • SANTIAGO
Spooked by Venezuela • A more extreme kind of right-wing politics is emerging in Latin America
Baby, it’s toxic outside • DELHI
Hot shots • SEOUL
Spilling over • The mistreatment of minorities in one country is causing unrest in the other
Wishy-washy • TOKYO
Mine for the taking • Mongolia and Kyrgyzstan struggle with the blessed curse of mineral wealth
Control the present, control the past • Xi Jinping is rewriting history to justify his rule for years to come
An unpacific contest • WASHINGTON, DC
A battle for the capital looms • ADDIS ABABA
Hegemon no more • JOHANNESBURG
Money for old trees • RAPONDA WALKER ARBORETUM, LIBREVILLE
The disputed desert • DAKHLA AND MAHBES
The Mario magic • ROME
The contraption crashes • LISBON
Hot cuisine • How will climate change affect gastronomy?
Heavy vetting • TBILISI
From guest worker to citizen? • COLOGNE AND DÜSSELDORF
Noisy neighbours • Rows between Britain and the EU are inevitable, but need not be harmful
Tory sleaze, again • The government has behaved disgracefully in protecting one of its MPS from justified censure
Government v judges • Tory claims that judges intrude too far into politics are wrong-headed
Blue Leviathan • The Conservatives are building a bigger, busier state, from raising taxes to stoking culture wars
Up a tree • KYIV AND SÃO PAULO
Passing the buck • Businesses’ ability to pass on costs is highly prized by investors
The audacity of hoops • HONG KONG
Paperchase • Soaring newsprint costs make life even harder
Strike season • BERLIN
Reinvention as a service
Why executives like the office • Blame a mixture of carpets, caring and conditioning
The Gorgon knot • Supermajors are in a bind over their lng ambitions
Inner strength • WASHINGTON, DC
Bond markets v central banks • HONG KONG
Living the high life • Cautionary tales from high-inflation economies
Turf wars • Fintech firms vie for domination
Schrödinger’s markets • A quantum walk down Wall Street
The greedy-jobs gap • Mothers’ careers suffer when parents maximise their combined income, says a new book
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