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
Ideology versus prosperity • How Xi Jinping is damaging China’s economy
Perhaps make it a bit harder to buy one? • In many states it is easier to own a gun than a dog. That is absurd
Don’t stop now • Volodymyr Zelensky needs continued support, not timorous advice
Containing the North Korea of Africa • An arms embargo and sanctions should be reimposed on Issaias Afwerki’s regime
Prophets and profits • Why investors are increasingly worried about recession in America
Letters
Fortified but not enriched • SINGAPORE
A senseless slaughter • DALLAS
A slap for Trump • ATLANTA
Live better • BENTONVILLE, ARKANSAS
The name game • New trade unions are successfully using company brands
Bordering on chaos • MCALLEN, TEXAS
Russians wanted, sort of • WASHINGTON, DC
Sex scandal and Southern Baptists • White evangelicals look even less able to self-correct than the Catholic church
The costs of inaction • BOGOTÁ
The wealth of the Andes • A test of whether big mining can be socially sustainable
Bargaining chip • SINGAPORE AND TAIPEI
Quiet comfort • SEOUL
Chadchart topping • BANGKOK
Avian idol • JAKARTA
Political weather • SYDNEY
Testing situation • Widespread cheating is yet another symptom of a poor education system
The Abe era • Abe Shinzo, a hawkish former prime minister, still looms large over Japan
How to see Xi • Reading the runes in a year of political tension for China and its ruler
A timely reminder
Storming the fortress • HONG KONG
No mercy • SHANGHAI
A generational divide • Older Chinese intellectuals find the young childish, nationalist and scary
Spies like us • Outraged by Russia’s war, anonymous tipsters are helping detect sanction-busters
Issaias’s army • ASMARA
Clicks and middlemen • TATU CITY
The new man tips the scales • DUBAI
Marriage markers • Better screening may make cousinly weddings safer
When and how might the fighting end? • KYIV AND WASHINGTON, DC
The tide turns • WARSAW
So far, so good • BRUSSELS
The return of the king • MADRID
Tiered and emotional • Reheated plans for a multilevel Europe revive familiar suspicions
Neither black nor white • Sue Gray gives a strikingly patchy account of the Downing Street parties
The wind changes • The Tories flip-flop on the merits of windfall taxes
Headline removed for your own safety • The Online Safety Bill promises huge changes to what Britons can do online
The useless machine • How the Conservatives became an opposition in government
Secret sauce • BERLIN
Postcard from a world on edge • DAVOS
Broader still • SAN FRANCISCO
The power of small gestures • Showing appreciation is an art, not a science
A taste of things to come • Plant-based proteins are increasingly popular with diners
Chemical hazard warning • basf, like its German homeland, needs to wean itself off cheap Russian gas
Empty promises • SHANGHAI
A new pact for Asia • WASHINGTON, DC
Home run • Wall Street’s housing grab continues
Bloody but unbowed • Despite a painful repricing, the credit market hasn’t cracked
Up in the air…