Playing his Trump card: Bolsonaro and the election
In Brazil, fears are growing that if Jair Bolsonaro loses in October, as polls suggest is likely, he may try to stage a coup or foment violence. He’s been sowing distrust in the country’s electoral sy...
8 Sep 202227min
America’s next top model: predicting the midterm results
Our model, built to predict the outcome of this year’s midterm elections, tips Republicans to take the House and Democrats to retain control of the Senate. The model’s architect discusses how and why ...
7 Sep 202226min
Deed of Truss: Britain’s new leader
As Liz Truss becomes prime minister, we ask whether her meat-and-potatoes tax-slashing agenda will work for a crisis-stricken Britain. Japan’s prison population is ageing just as its wider society is—...
6 Sep 202222min
Cereal numbers: the fall in food prices
The worst predictions for costs have not come to pass, partly because Russia is selling plenty of wheat. But plenty of food-price woe may still await. We examine the curious re-appearance of the polio...
5 Sep 202224min
No quiet on any front: Ethiopia’s clash of conflicts
After a five-month hiatus, violence has returned to the northern region of Tigray—but that is just one of the conflicts threatening to pull the country to pieces. China’s Belt and Road Initiative has ...
2 Sep 202224min
Ready, steady, slow: Ukraine’s bid for Kherson
The long-trailed counter-offensive to retake the Russian-occupied regional powerhouse and symbolically powerful provincial capital has begun. But Ukraine’s forces are in no hurry. Visa and Mastercard ...
1 Sep 202224min
Iron Curtain call: Mikhail Gorbachev
The leader who oversaw the Soviet Union’s collapse had only intended to reform it. But the propaganda and repression he abhorred were what held it together. A speed bump lies ahead for electric vehicl...
31 Aug 202226min
Home truths: a global property wobble
As interest rates rise, lots of pandemic-era property trends are fading—but not every market is equally vulnerable as the boom peters out. Generals have long avoided fighting in cities: it is messy an...
30 Aug 202223min
