Number three for Xi: power in China
Xi Jinping won a third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Our correspondent explains how the recent party congress solidified Xi’s grip on power. With record numbers of people s...
24 Okt 202228min
No wilt to go on: let us bid Truss goodbye
The Economist’s comparison of Liz Truss’s staying power to that of a lettuce captured global imaginations. Will the next prime minister have a longer shelf-life? We ask why it has proven so tricky to ...
21 Okt 202227min
Redrawing the lines: cocaine policy in Latin America
Regional leaders recognise the abject failure of the war on drugs. We speak with Colombia’s president about some bold new ideas to tackle the problem. Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, is ...
20 Okt 202227min
Variety in the price of life: inflation and the midterms
In the next instalment of our American midterms series we visit Rhode Island to see how inflation—at its highest since the early Reagan era—is affecting people’s lives, and their voting intentions. De...
19 Okt 202228min
Hell hath no fury: a look inside Iran’s protests
Unrest is only spreading and the authorities trying to quell it are looking increasingly desperate. We hear from one protester among many who are racked by fear but motivated by hope. The leader of th...
18 Okt 202226min
Helmsman’s high water: China’s Communist Party Congress
State media have taken to calling President Xi Jinping “the helmsman”; at the five-yearly meeting he defended his means of steering the country. We ask how to read between his tightly prepared lines. ...
17 Okt 202222min
Witness self-protection programme? Trump and the Capitol riot inquiry
The former president may well ignore the January 6th committee’s summons; the whole affair may be unceremoniously shut down next year. But that is not to say the process has been in vain. Russia’s int...
14 Okt 202227min
Gilt trip: Liz Truss’s hobbled leadership
Paroxysms in the market for gilts—British-government bonds that were once safe-haven assets—reveal just how wounded the new government’s plans have left it. Cuba is experiencing the worst economic cri...
13 Okt 202226min
