Scrutiny of other routes has changed traffickers’ strategy for shipping to Europe
Britain’s biggest-ever by-election is creating minimal buzz, writes Hugo Gye, our political correspondent
Our weekly podcast on China. This week, gender politics in the land of the one-child policy.
A gory film tests prudish government censors
Demanding that China revalue the yuan gets both the diagnosis and the cure wrong, write Gita Gopinath, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas and Hélène Rey
The returns on trillions of dollars of spending are deeply uncertain
Also on the daily podcast: women’s progress in the workplace stalls and America’s “night mayors”
The Economist investigates whether it stands up
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
CXMT’s monster initial public offering is a moneymaker for the state. Its success may not be repeated
The euro gets a makeover
But it is unclear what the rocketing number of prosecutions is achieving