Jan 7th 2023

Exit wave

The world this week

Leaders

The end of magical thinking

A realistic path to a better relationship between Britain and the EU

The question of Europe has caused a decade of turmoil. Here’s how to use the next ten years better

Exit wave

How China’s reopening will disrupt the world economy

A tale of death, growth and inflation

Northern delights

Why the gusty North Sea could give Europe an industrial edge

Wind power is breathing life into a new green economy on its coasts

Internet from the sky

Starlink’s performance in Ukraine has ignited a new space race

Never mind the moon; look to low-Earth orbit

Unspeakable

What the Kevin McCarthy saga means for America’s Congress

Power struggles, public humiliation and a government shutdown may follow

Letters

On Britain’s constitution, Canada, Dutch auctions, bad translations

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

Europe’s economy

Paschal Donohoe on how the euro will thrive in spite of the war in Ukraine

Briefing

A murmuration of Starlinks

How Elon Musk’s satellites have saved Ukraine and changed warfare

And the worries about what comes next

United States

Making little plans

Chicago’s woes are over-hyped

Business time

Eric Adams and Kathy Hochul have grand plans for New York City

McCarthy and the new House

Republicans struggle to elect a speaker of the House

Wealth warning

Pay-transparency laws do not work as advertised

Lexington

The great mystery of American politics

The Americas

Big plans, not much money

Brazil’s new president faces a fiscal crunch and a fickle Congress

Asia

Asian geopolitics

Reinventing the Indo-Pacific

Cloud coup-coup land

A historic transfer of power in the South Pacific

Groping in the dark

Postponing India’s census is terrible for the country

Banyan

Pakistan and China find they have little leverage with the Taliban

China

The tsunami

China is overwhelmed, yet an even bigger covid wave may be coming

Chaguan

The Chinese Communist Party plans to avoid a zero-covid reckoning

Middle East & Africa

Nothing’s gonna stop us now

Israel’s new government will test the ties with Arab states

The cost of the coup

Sudan’s troubled east is a microcosm of a wider crisis

Sex toys and taboos

Women in the Middle East are leading a revolt against prudish men

Europe

Hills to die on?

A Russian warlord’s savagery is sending a loud message to Moscow

Game-shooting in France

France reviews its hunting rules

Frenemies on the Oder

Why Poland loves to hate Germany

Charlemagne

Fifty years ago, the EU cracked the secret of its current success

Britain

Je regrette quelque chose

Assembling a better British relationship with Europe

The gender wars

Scotland’s new gender-reform law presents Rishi Sunak with a dilemma

Windrush

Britain’s offshore wind farms attract tourists

Bagehot

Britons in their thirties are stuck in a dark age

International

Late prelate

The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics

Joy and severity

Pope Benedict XVI was an iron fist in a white glove

Business

Mare industriae

Can the North Sea become Europe’s new economic powerhouse?

Bartleby

How to have the most productive working day of your life

Bitter syrup

A scandal rocks India’s pharmaceutical industry

The Tesla conundrum

Investors conclude that Tesla is a carmaker, not a tech firm

Schumpeter

How to avoid flight chaos

Finance & economics

Life after covid-19

What the great reopening means for China—and the world

The sound of silence

Imagine an India without hawkers

Whydunnit?

Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty

Buttonwood

Will investors have another awful year in 2023?

Science & technology

Covid-19

All around the world, covid surveillance is faltering

Killing SARS-CoV-2

Acidifying the air may protect against covid

The changing nature of science

Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive

Culture

Kings of the world

Alexander the Great and the birth of the modern world

Genetic engineering

“As Gods” is a valuable primer on a controversial science

Creepy fiction

“The Thing in the Snow” is a weird but wonderful novel

Courtly love

For the Tudors, love was an elaborate game

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail

The secret is out

America’s 117th Congress accomplished a lot. So did its recent predecessors

The Economist explains

The Economist explains

Who is Andrew Tate, the misogynist hero to millions of young men?

Obituary

King of the beautiful game