Jul 20th 2024

When markets ignore politics

Leaders

America’s presidential election

Where would Donald Trump and J.D. Vance take America?

The anti-globalist MAGA enthusiast is more consequential than the average veep pick

The bull’s big blind spot

Euphoric markets are ignoring growing political risks

Investors’ exuberance in the face of political ructions is unlikely to pay off

The Middle East

Gaza could become “Mogadishu on the Med”

Even if there is a ceasefire, its prospects are grim

A profligate president

To halt Brazil’s decline, Lula needs to cut runaway public spending

Investors have started to worry

Avian influenza

Millions of birds have died. How to stop humans dying, too

As isolated human cases of H5N1 emerge, now is the time to prepare

Chokka chokey

How Labour should reform Britain’s overstuffed prisons

With no room for new prisoners, something has to change

Letters

On AI and war, peer review, renewable energy, salmon farms, drugs in Canada, football, legal advice

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

Briefing

Glad-handing and grinding teeth

Will Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to America repair or weaken ties?

He may damage relations with Israel’s indispensable protector

When the shooting stops

Optimistic plans for post-war Gaza have little basis in reality

Aid, policing, reconstruction—everything is even harder than it sounds

Asia

China

United States

Middle East & Africa

The Americas

Europe

Britain

International

Business

Finance & economics

Schools brief

Artificial intelligence

A short history of AI

Science & technology

Culture

The Economist reads

Economic & financial indicators

Obituary