Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Robert Guest, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

In 2025 we found new ways to map conflicts, crises and change.

The fires that tore across Los Angeles County nearly a year ago killed 31 people and destroyed more than 16,000 buildings.

The goal should be a new golden rule linking the search for life elsewhere to the spread of life beyond the bounds of Earth.

America’s airlines were hit by a government shutdown that stopped federal workers from travelling and kept unpaid air-traffic ...

But they have also burned through cash at “Towering Inferno” rates, as they spend on the chips and cloud computing needed to ...

I THINK 2026 can be a very good year.” What could be a slurred festive toast is in fact the cheerful forecast of Scott ...

It would be his fourth term, making him easily the most successful politician in Brazil’s modern democratic era, which began ...

W hen The Economist visited Detroit in late 2025 to interview Mike Duggan, the city’s outgoing mayor, the aide scheduling the ...

Vanke, a state-backed property giant, is teetering on the edge of default. New home sales by floor space have fallen by half ...

Higher interest rates and, in America, the president’s animus have led developers to scrap a number of big offshore wind ...

On December 2nd the Southern Transitional Council ( stc ), secessionists backed by the uae, went on a lightning offensive ...