The Economist Asks: Ro Khanna
The Democratic congressman for Silicon Valley represents a district home to tech industry titans. Anne McElvoy asks him how their power can be checked...
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Every weekday our global network of correspondents makes sense of the stories beneath the headlines. We bring you surprising trends and tales from around the world, current affairs, business and finance—as well as science and technology.
Sharpest tools, in a box: miniature vaccine factories
BioNTech, the German firm behind the first licensed coronavirus jab, reveals its attempts to stuff its technology into shipping containers—to be used ...
Money Talks: How high?
Persistently high inflation has brought back fears of a wage-price spiral. Our economics team Soumaya Keynes, Simon Rabinovitch and Callum Williams ex...
Judge, jury and executive: another power-grab in Tunisia
Last summer President Kais Saied nobbled the legislature; now he has abolished the judiciary. We ask where the country is headed, and why there is so ...
Babbage: A Starship is born
Elon Musk’s rocketry firm SpaceX has announced that its monstrous, dirt-cheap Starship rocket will soon be ready for its maiden voyage into orbit. Hos...
Yen here before: Japan’s “new capitalism”
Today’s figures showing the first annual economic growth in three years may seem promising. But the grand plans of Prime Minister Kishida Fumio resemb...
Editor’s Picks: February 14th 2022
A selection of three essential articles read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. This week, what would happen if financial markets crashed? ...
Not trucking around: Canada’s protests spread
It has become much more than a fight against proof-of-vaccination strictures. The anti-government mood has spread in Canada and abroad. What happens n...
Checks and Balance: Affirmative reaction
Next term the Supreme Court will hear two cases challenging race-conscious admissions programmes. The court’s conservative supermajority is likely to ...
Withdrawal symptoms: Afghanistan goes hungry
Since American forces left, pessimism has skyrocketed—and with good reason. Starvation is driving Afghans to sell their organs and even their children...