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Republicans’ doomed double impeachment hopes
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Ukraine at war
All our coverage of the war in one place
Technology Quarterly
Artificial intelligence will make health care safer and better
It could even make it cheaper, too
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...
America’s core inflation, which does not include food and energy, dropped to 0.3% month-on-month in February, according to the personal consumption expenditures index, the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation...
Poland said it had scrambled fighter jets, which were joined by “allied” aircraft, in response to Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure...
Jeffrey Donaldson resigned as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, Northern Ireland’s second largest party, after being charged with sexual offences...
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
Business, finance and economics
Europe’s economy is under attack from all sides
First Putin, now Xi. Next Trump?
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
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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
Russia is gearing up for a big new push along a long front line
Ukraine must prepare
Ukraine is in a race against time to fortify its front line
But it is suffering from a shortage of munitions and manpower
The cyberwar in Ukraine is as crucial as the battle in the trenches
So far, no one is winning
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
Weekly edition: March 30th 2024
The AI doctor will see you…eventually
What’s delaying the AI health revolution?
Artificial intelligence holds huge promise in health care. But it also faces massive barriers
Corpulent consultancies
With growth slowing, consulting firms like McKinsey need some counsel of their own
Trump and the world
How to predict the former president’s foreign policy
Antarctica loses its brrrr
The world must pay more attention to its southern pole
Technology Quarterly: March 30th 2024
A new prescription
AIs will make health care safer and better, reports Natasha Loder. It may even get cheaper too