The Middle East
Much depends on its offensive in Gaza—and its politicians and neighbours
A bad example
It needs a deeper, greener single market—not more state handouts
Putting the lean into clean
Minimise the cost and hassle that green policies impose on households
Demography
Even poor countries must start planning for an ageing population
The case to STAy
Republicans are wrong to want to scrap the Science and Technology Agreement
On making movies, Frank Sinatra, HIV and PrEP, companies, diamonds, Mexican slang
Israel and the Palestinians
From shock to fury
The miscalculations of Israel’s and Gaza’s leaders are being laid bare
The darkest day
More Jews were killed on October 7th than on any day since the Holocaust
Resisting the call, for now
But it has managed to demolish America’s plans for the region
Old before their time
Waterworlds
An explosive exercise
Rubble of a country
Banyan
A pox on your houses
Xi’s Midas touch
Stressed-out grannies
Chaguan
The home and foreign fronts
Pelican swoop
Trash talk
In fine feather
Southern gerrymandering
Lexington
Protection racket
Custom redesigned
The reluctant litigant
Back to the future
Pronoun politics
Winners and losers
Out of sight, out of mind
German state elections
The persistence of memory
Charlemagne
There is an alternative
Base-jumping
Labouring a point
Off the boiler
Metrospective
Gender and politics
Bagehot
It’s not easy being green
Really big health
A shale whale
Bought for parts
A royal mess
Bartleby
Selling your sole
Shielding the shield
Schumpeter
Floating and sinking
Bills, bills, bills
STIK shift
Buttonwood
Golden Goldin
Free exchange
It’s all academic
Meet George Jetson
Neuro-philately
Camp followers
The man with the golden pen
A state of affairs
Johnson
Sleepy heads
Digital worlds
Anyone speak Nynorsk?
The Economist reads
Indicators
The Economist explains
A foe who never was