The general and specific threats: Iran
Killing Iran’s top military commander does not seem likely to further America’s aims for the region. What should America and its allies expect now? Biologists have long struggled to explain why homose...
6 Jan 202023min
Negative feedback: reversing carbon emissions
It is increasingly clear that putting less carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will not be enough to combat climate change; we take a look at the effort to actively remove the stuff from the air. Our cor...
3 Jan 202023min
Made (entirely) in China: a tech behemoth rises
No longer content just to assemble devices, Chinese firms want to design them and the infrastructure around them—and in some sectors they look set to succeed. Our correspondent visits indigenous commu...
2 Jan 202023min
Lifesaver: meet a death-row detective
Death sentences are occasionally overturned in America; we meet a private detective responsible for saving many of those lives. We scour our foreign department taking nominations for The Economist’s c...
24 Dec 201923min
Lying in states: fibbing politicians
Lies and politics have always come as a pair, but the untruths keep getting bigger and more frequent; our correspondent digs into why. We speak with an adventurer who fought off the murderous boredom ...
23 Dec 201921min
Old China hands: ageing in the Middle Kingdom
Next year, China’s median age will surpass America’s, but with just a quarter the median income; the government is nervous that China will get old before it gets rich. This weekend’s elections in Uzbe...
20 Dec 201922min
Exclusionary rule: India’s citizenship law
The Hindu nationalist government’s latest move pointedly excludes Muslims from immigration reform. Protesters reckon that is an attack on the country’s cherished secularism. Tuberculosis is still amon...
19 Dec 201921min
Marching orders: impeachment around the world
America’s impeachment battle falls along unhelpfully partisan lines—but the process has other shortcomings. We take some lessons from how the rest of the world does it. Cuba has long run an official t...
18 Dec 201923min
