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Number three for Xi: power in China
Xi Jinping won a third term as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. Our correspondent explains how the recent party congress solidified …
3 years, 4 months ago
No wilt to go on: let us bid Truss goodbye
The Economist’s comparison of Liz Truss’s staying power to that of a lettuce captured global imaginations. Will the next prime minister have a longer…
3 years, 4 months ago
Redrawing the lines: cocaine policy in Latin America
Regional leaders recognise the abject failure of the war on drugs. We speak with Colombia’s president about some bold new ideas to tackle the problem…
3 years, 4 months ago
Variety in the price of life: inflation and the midterms
In the next instalment of our American midterms series we visit Rhode Island to see how inflation—at its highest since the early Reagan era—is affect…
3 years, 4 months ago
Hell hath no fury: a look inside Iran’s protests
Unrest is only spreading and the authorities trying to quell it are looking increasingly desperate. We hear from one protester among many who are rac…
3 years, 4 months ago
Helmsman’s high water: China’s Communist Party Congress
State media have taken to calling President Xi Jinping “the helmsman”; at the five-yearly meeting he defended his means of steering the country. We a…
3 years, 4 months ago
Witness self-protection programme? Trump and the Capitol riot inquiry
The former president may well ignore the January 6th committee’s summons; the whole affair may be unceremoniously shut down next year. But that is no…
3 years, 4 months ago
Gilt trip: Liz Truss’s hobbled leadership
Paroxysms in the market for gilts—British-government bonds that were once safe-haven assets—reveal just how wounded the new government’s plans have l…
3 years, 4 months ago
Don kingmaker: Trump and the midterms
The latest instalment of our series asks how much difference Donald Trump’s imprimatur has made to candidates—and whether that influence will carry o…
3 years, 4 months ago
Help them, Obi: one hopeful candidate in Nigeria
Our correspondent meets with Peter Obi, who has a handsome poll lead and an appeal that spans the country’s religions and ethnicities. But his presid…
3 years, 4 months ago