A broken system, a broken city: Beirut
Some 300,000 people are homeless after an explosion of unthinkable size. The culprit appears to be sheer negligence, brought on by a broken system of governance. The Economist’s data team has updated ...
6 Elo 202022min
One nation, under gods? India’s divisive temple
Consecration at Ayodhya, the country’s most contested holy site, is another tick box in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu-nationalist agenda. Is India’s foundational secularism at risk? The pandemi...
5 Elo 202020min
Going old Turkey: a regional power spreads
Since the Arab spring the country has vastly expanded its military and diplomatic efforts—filling an evident power vacuum and harking back to the days of the Ottoman Empire. Tanzania’s economy was rec...
4 Elo 202019min
Ballot blocks: the squeeze on Hong Kong
The territory’s elections have been postponed, its activists barred from running—police are even targeting them abroad. What next for the democracy movement? We ask whether the global protests about r...
3 Elo 202023min
Living larger: Google’s challenges
Enormous growth over 22 years has brought challenges, both from within and from outside; we examine the tech behemoth’s prospects. Wealth has always exploded wherever humans interacted more—and so hav...
31 Heinä 202022min
Barriers to entry: covid-19 and migration
The crisis has disproportionately squeezed migrants and has given many leaders an excuse to tighten borders. Will the restrictions outlast the pandemic? Balkan countries were notorious for organised c...
30 Heinä 202022min
One mightily damaging backstory: 1MDB
Five years ago a $4.5bn hole in a development fund scrambled Malaysia’s politics. Now the inquiry has claimed its first scalp: that of Najib Razak, a former prime minister. We examine the grand shift ...
29 Heinä 202023min
Feds up: Trump orders troops on America’s streets
Camouflaged personnel with no insignia, protesters bundled into unmarked vans: the President Donald Trump's plan to put federal officers into American cities is a worrying political ploy. Our annual B...
28 Heinä 202021min
