Apr 8th 2023

What America gets wrong about gender medicine

The world this week

Leaders

Hug pylons, not trees

The case for an environmentalism that builds

Economic growth should help, not hinder, the fight against climate change

Trans treatments

What America has got wrong about gender medicine

Too many doctors have suspended their professional judgment

Rules of the code

What is a responsible cyber power?

Britain’s principles for cyberwarfare are a good start

An American first

What America’s friends should make of The Trump Show

Reasons to be both relaxed and worried

A frail financial firefighter

How to fix the International Monetary Fund

The fund must get tough on obstructive creditors, but save them a seat at the table

Higher expectations

The university lottery

Students are veering away from dodgy degrees. Governments should help them

Letters

On life expectancy, the Chagos Islands, the Federal Reserve, car washes, the OECD, eggs

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

American inflation

The Fed may not get inflation down to 2%, says Richard Clarida

Briefing

Trans substantiation

The evidence to support medicalised gender transitions in adolescents is worryingly weak

The effectiveness and side-effects of the most common treatments are not well understood

United States

The irresistible nation

America’s chance to become a clean-energy superpower

Legally bland

At American law schools, a fresh fuss over freedom of speech

Bringing down the house

The message from the striking elections in Chicago and Wisconsin

Holidays in the unPacific

Guam, where America’s next war may begin

Lexington

Why do Democrats keep helping Trump?

The Americas

Prophets of the ballot box

Evangelicals may soon rival Catholics in Latin America

When the tortillas run out

Crazy policies and climate change are hurting Latin American agriculture

Asia

Wet bulb hot

India’s deadly heatwaves are getting even hotter

Hit for six

The Indian Premier League is taking over global cricket

The sonic outernationalist

Sakamoto Ryuichi heard how the world sounds—and changed it

Banyan

China’s huge Asian investments fail to buy it soft power

In the dragon’s mouth

The view from the front line between Taiwan and China

China

Europe and China

Will Xi Jinping outsmart Emmanuel Macron?

China and Taiwan

Ethnic terminology bedevils Taiwan-China relations

The West and China

It is getting even harder for Western scholars to do research in China

Chaguan

Why Xi Jinping is not another Chairman Mao

Middle East & Africa

Africa’s slowing baby boom

The world’s peak population may be smaller than expected

African demography

Kenya’s population growth is slowing in cities and towns

A real estate boom in the Gulf

Russians have helped make Dubai’s property market red hot—again

Dam-nation

February’s earthquakes have damaged the Middle East’s dams

Europe

The inner circle of Germany’s chancellor

Who does Olaf Scholz listen to?

Kingmakers and scapegoats

Turkey’s Kurds are joining the coalition to oust Erdogan

Press freedom

Calls for Russia to free Evan Gershkovich fall on deaf ears

Reversion to form

Sanna Marin concedes defeat in Finland

A battle yet to be won

Ukraine’s gay soldiers fight Russia—and for their rights

Falling off the black mountain

Montenegro’s long-time boss is ousted

Britain

A good Good Friday

Thanks to the Belfast Agreement, Northern Ireland is a better place

A tremor in the force

Cyberwarfare is all in the mind, says Britain

The Iron Lady’s chancellor

Nigel Lawson was the economic brain of Thatcherism

Bagehot

National Swing Man, the British electorate’s new-old tribe

International

Useless studies

Was your degree really worth it?

Technology Quarterly

The ultimate supply chains

The electric grid is about to be transformed

Hurry up and wait

Adding capacity to the electricity grid is not a simple task

Direct delivery

Electric grids fed by renewables need a different kind of plumbing

Defying Dunkelflaute

It is harder for new electric grids to balance supply and demand

Back in black

The physics of rotating masses can no longer define the electric grid

Electric grids

Sources and acknowledgments

Business

Asian business elites

Meet Asia’s millennial plutocrats

Game changer

How AI could disrupt video-gaming

Watching the wheels

American railways and truckers are at a crossroads

Bartleby

The resistible lure of the family business

Why, EY?

EY gets banned from new audit business in Germany

Toyota after Toyoda

Toyota gets a new hand at the wheel

Schumpeter

What the world’s hottest MBA courses reveal about 21st-century business

Finance & economics

Trouble on 19th Street

The IMF faces a nightmarish identity crisis

Post-zero-covid

Chinese officials promise foreign investors greater access

An angry farewell

The Swiss rage about the demise of Credit Suisse

Buttonwood

Stocks have shrugged off the banking turmoil. Haven’t they?

Pain to come

The rich world’s housing crunch is far from over

Free exchange

Why economics does not understand business

Science & technology

Astrobiology

Icy moons with vast oceans are the latest candidates for alien life

Digital poisons

It doesn’t take much to make machine-learning algorithms go awry

Sickies called

An algorithm can diagnose a cold from changes in someone’s voice

Culture

After the Good Friday Agreement

Northern Ireland’s arts have blossomed. But divisions endure

Feminism in South Korea

Inside the fight against misogyny and patriarchy in South Korea

Nigerian fiction

Wit and wisdom in “The Five Sorrowful Mysteries of Andy Africa”

Educational entertainment

Games are a weapon in the war on disinformation

Back Story

Picasso was a genius—and a beast. Can the two be separated?

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Graphic detail

Garbage in, garbage out

A new study of studies reignites controversy over mask mandates

The Economist explains

The Economist explains

What to make of Israel’s new national guard

The Economist explains

Who is Juan Merchan, the judge overseeing Donald Trump’s arraignment?

Obituary

Obituary