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The US in brief

Republicans’ doomed double impeachment hopes

The Intelligence

Our daily podcast. Today: Vladimir Putin’s penal system

Ukraine at war

All our coverage of the war in one place

Technology Quarterly

AIs will make health care safer and better

It may even get cheaper, too, says Natasha Loder

Leaders

The triple shock facing Europe’s economy

After the energy crisis, Europe faces surging Chinese imports and the threat of Trump tariffs


International

Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: India’s diaspora

Migrants help campaign for the prime minister at home and lobby for the country abroad




The world in brief

Israeli air strikes hit a Syrian town near Aleppo, killing at least 42 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitoring group...

Global stockmarkets recorded their best first quarter of the year since 2019...

Poland said it had scrambled fighter jets, which were joined by “allied” aircraft, in response to Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure...

Huawei’s earnings grew at their fastest rate in four years in 2023, signalling that the Chinese tech giant is recovering from the impact of American sanctions...


Some advice to the corporate world’s know-it-alls

With growth slowing, consulting firms like McKinsey need some counsel of their own

Who is up and who is down on China’s economic team

Xi Jinping is in charge. The rest need sorting

Lexington: The case of Stormy Daniels echoes past scandals

It should make all involved check their righteousness

Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?

Our satellite view of the conflict, updated daily

The US in brief

Republicans’ doomed double impeachment hopes

The Intelligence

Our daily podcast. Today: Vladimir Putin’s penal system

Ukraine at war

All our coverage of the war in one place

This week

The most important political stories this week

Gunmen attack a Russian concert hall, the UN demands a temporary ceasefire in Gaza—and more

The most important stories in the business world this week

Boeing overhauls its senior management, the yen falls to a 34-year low—and more


KAL’s cartoon

A lighter look at this week's events


Letters to the editor

On Russia and Ukraine, bitcoin, Mohammad Mustafa, God and sex, the theories of Sam Vimes


World news

What next for Pakistan?

The new government faces polarised politics, a faltering economy and terrorist threats

Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong

Bassirou Diomaye Faye’s win is a triumph for the country’s democracy


Bagehot: British boomers are losing out for the first time

A generation used to having everything its own way is not happy


The impact of the Baltimore bridge disaster

The collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge will hurt the city, but highlight its resilience, too


Strife in the Middle East

Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine

Israel and Hamas reject a ceasefire even as people starve

The war in Gaza may topple Hamas without making Israel safer

It will end up even more deeply mired in the conflict that is the main threat to its security


At a moment of military might, Israel looks deeply vulnerable

America should help it find a better strategy


Deposing Israel’s king

America wants Binyamin Netanyahu out. But his exit is fraught with dangers



More on the conflict in the Middle East

Business, finance and economics


Which country will be last to escape inflation?

A new dividing line in the global fight


Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?

The golden age for CEO whisperers may be coming to an end


The spread of AI

How to define artificial general intelligence

Academics and tech entrepreneurs disagree. A court may soon decide

A new generation of music-making algorithms is here

Their most useful application may lie in helping human composers


Just how rich are businesses getting in the AI gold rush?

Nvidia and Microsoft are not the only winners


Schumpeter: Can anything stop Nvidia's Jensen Huang?

He has become the generative-AI showman of our time


America’s election year

Both chambers of America’s Congress may flip in November

A historic first is in the offing—with big consequences

Georgia’s black Republicans have a battle plan for 2024

Joe Biden will have to work harder to win the state’s black voters this year


Joe Biden’s weakness among Latinos threatens his re-election

In Arizona, a growing Hispanic electorate should help Democrats. Yet Donald Trump is gaining ground


Trump v Biden: who’s ahead in the polls?

The Economist is tracking the race to be America’s next president


Stories most read by subscribers

Featured read

Six great books about baseball

The sport inspires great literature. Here is some of the best

India’s election

Yamini Aiyar laments the damage done to Indian democracy under Narendra Modi

Toxic majoritarianism is just part of the story, says the policy scholar

To see India’s future, go south

The country’s regional division could make it—or break it


India’s government implements a controversial citizenship law

It may be trying to please its base shortly before a general election


What is Hindutva, the ideology of India’s ruling party?

It seeks to equate Indianness with Hinduism


The war in Ukraine

Ukraine is in a race against time to fortify its front line

But it is suffering from a shortage of munitions and manpower



Might Russia run out of big guns?

Its armed forces may be out-shelling the Ukrainians—but they are wearing out their artillery


Other highlights

The fallacious case for abolishing the rich

Arguments for caps on income and wealth are simple, rousing and wrong

How moussaka made it into the pantheon of Greek gastronomy

Patriotism revolutionised a classic dish


How the discovery of dinosaur fossils caused a revolution

“Impossible Monsters” looks at 70 years that changed human thought


Seven of the best war novels

For a fuller understanding of war, read fiction as well as history and journalism


Visual storytelling

Vladivostok is a window into wartime Russia

Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is transforming the far-eastern city

Joe Biden’s weakness among Latinos threatens his re-election

In Arizona, a growing Hispanic electorate should help Democrats. Yet Donald Trump is gaining ground


Can you build a British voter?

See how Britons might vote in the next election


How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine

First-person view drones have achieved near mythical status on the front lines


The AI doctor will see you…eventually

Weekly edition: March 30th 2024

The AI doctor will see you…eventually