Stop the presses! Hong Kong’s media crackdown
The closure of two independent, Chinese-language media outlets all but completes the push to silence pro-democracy press; we ask what is next for the territory. Sudan’s military seems as uninterested ...
5 Jan 202222min
Holmes stretch: Theranos’s founder convicted
Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of fraud. We ask what lessons her downfall holds for Theranos’s high-profile backers—and for a startup culture of hype before science. As Apple crosses a $3trn v...
4 Jan 202221min
Separate weighs: Brexit, one year on
Trade is down, red tape is up, details of regulatory harmony are still being hammered out. Britain may be less divided about it, but the benefits of the divorce are still to be seized. For the clinica...
3 Jan 202222min
All she wrote: our obituaries editor reflects on 2021
From Prince Philip to Desmond Tutu, from an anti-racism campaigner and member of the Auschwitz Girls’ Orchestra to a war surgeon focused on civilians to an impoverished Ethiopian whose school for the ...
30 Dec 202125min
A few bright spots: our country of the year
Each year The Economist selects its country of the year: a place that has improved the most. Improvement, though, was damnably rare in 2021. We run through our nominations and the shortlist, and take ...
29 Dec 202120min
You bet your dollar-bottomed: Erdogan’s next gambit
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s idea for saving the lira by backing deposits with dollars means the Turkish taxpayer will end up bailing out the Turkish depositor. Our correspondent finds striking in...
28 Dec 202123min
Beginning of the endemic? Omicron’s spread
The lightning-fast spread of a seemingly milder coronavirus variant may represent a shift from pandemic to endemic; we ask how that would change global responses. Concern about video-game addictivenes...
27 Dec 202122min
No safety in numbers: security in Haiti
The security situation is hopeless, following violent unrest and a presidential assassination—as one family’s epic and ultimately failed attempt to leave reveals. The sum total of the missing banknote...
23 Dec 202124min
