A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
A viral Instagram video brings Russians’ wider grumbling into the open
Artificial intelligence is booming. Its heartland is not
The incoming Fed chair says he wants regime change. But a revolution is unlikely
India is restoring the credibility of its statistics. Will it last?
The incident revives questions about the competence of the Secret Service
Krishna Sheth, our director of photography, muses on the art of the perfect shot
John Prideaux, our US editor, unpacks how provocation has become a political strategy
How to dismantle democracy
Tom Wolfe could not have invented a more outlandish satire of America in the 2020s
How we chose this week’s image
Some big studies say yes. Many experts have reservations