Jul 27th 2024

Can she win?

The world this week

Leaders

American politics

Can Kamala Harris win?

Joe Biden’s vice-president has an extraordinary opportunity. But she also has a mountain to climb

Game changer

A global gold rush is changing sport

Fans may be cooling on the Olympics, but elsewhere technology is transforming how sport is watched

Don’t stop the buck

MAGA Republicans are wrong to seek a cheaper dollar

It is hard to cast America as a victim of the global financial system

The lost leader

Germany’s failure to lead the EU is becoming a problem

A weak chancellor and coalition rows are to blame

Africa 2.0

How to ensure Africa is not left behind by the AI revolution

Weak digital infrastructure is holding the continent back

Letters

On India, Starbucks, African farmers, electoral systems, behavioural economics, conferences

Letters to the editor

By Invitation

The American election

A prominent donor on why the Democrats shouldn’t anoint Kamala Harris

The state of Britain

Neil Kinnock on the post-war-like challenges facing Keir Starmer

Briefing

The state of play

A shift in the media business is changing what it is to be a sports fan

Team loyalty is being replaced by “fluid fandom”

Asia

Japanese defence

Is this a new age of warrior Japan?

Pomp and preparation

Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China

What Modi 3.0 may mean

A weakened Narendra Modi subsidises jobs and doles out pork

Banyan

Sheikh Hasina faces her biggest crisis in years

China

An ample supply of promises

China unveils its new economic vision

The state of the union

The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens

Chaguan

The nationalism of ideas

United States

The switch in time

Which Kamala Harris is now at the top of the Democratic ticket?

The mobiliser

The clues in Kamala Harris’s championing of reproductive rights

The “brat” vote

Is Kamala Harris “brat”?

Kammander-in-chief?

How to decode Kamala Harris’s foreign policy

Patience, please

Reliable numbers on Trump v Harris are scarce for now

Native spirit

A Texas judge gives a nod to America’s at-home distillers

Moving on up

Class, race and the chances of outgrowing poverty in America

Lexington

What identity politics will Kamala Harris practise?

Middle East & Africa

Africa unplugged

Why the AI revolution is leaving Africa behind

Congo’s intensifying war

Rwandan soldiers may outnumber M23 rebels in Congo

Jaw-jaw and war-war

Bibi Netanyahu offered spectacle over substance in America

Mutual attrition

Israel and the Houthis trade bombs and bluster

The Americas

On its knees

Cuba is out of supplies and out of ideas

Greenback blues

The strong dollar is hurting exports from Latin America

Europe

Europe’s bantamweight

The Germany-shaped void at Europe’s heart

Robocommander

Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine’s drones

Bumpy landing

Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan’s airport after Silvio Berlusconi

Fixing the roof

European countries are banding together on missile defence

The bricklayer

Peter Magyar is reinvigorating Hungary’s struggling opposition

Charlemagne

To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936

Britain

Labour’s honeymoon

Is Britain’s economy finally moving?

Swan-upmanship

How King Charles III counts his swans

Turnout trouble

Are Britons losing the habit of voting?

Fighting talk

Britain’s army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks

A Belfast symbol

The builder of the Titanic is struggling to stay afloat

Bagehot

Why Britain’s Labour government enjoys hippy-punching

International

A golden opportunity

Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good

1843 magazine

Election 2024

How the Proud Boys are prepping for a second Trump term

Entertainment

How to get rich (Taylor’s version)

Israel/Palestine

Marwan Barghouti, the world’s most important prisoner

Cyber-security

Secrets of a ransomware negotiator

Desert island risks

The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard

Business

A fossil-fuel fantasy

Donald Trump’s promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful

Bump start

China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s

Prestige and the podium

LVMH is splurging on the Olympics

Dogfight

Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?

Bartleby

Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse

Schumpeter

Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels?

Finance & economics

Broken record

The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration

Breaking the greenback

Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?

Heterodox thought

Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala

War economy

How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble

China’s reserves

Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?

Buttonwood

Why investors are unwise to bet on elections

Schools brief

Artificial intelligence

AI firms will soon exhaust most of the internet’s data

Science & technology

Drums of war

How Ukraine’s new tech foils Russian aerial attacks

Deep breaths

The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”

The war on AIDS

Clues to a possible cure for AIDS

Road safety

Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience

Culture

Read trip

Packing for your summer holiday? Take these books published in 2024

Page-turners

The real theme of J.D. Vance’s and Donald Trump’s memoirs

The river runs through it

The Seine may determine athletes’ success at the Paris Olympics

Going down to the woods

How “The Blair Witch Project” changed horror films

The Economist reads

The Economist reads

The romance and reality of Paris, the Olympics’ host

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Obituary

Weapons into light