Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
End run: Silicon Valley Bank
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
An old-fashioned bank run has caused American regulators to intervene in a big way to save the bank’...
A vote for Ukraine: why Estonia’s election matters
10 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world’s biggest military donor to Ukraine, relative to GDP, is Estonia. Kaja Kallas, its prime...
Not so Pacific: the frightening prospect of war over Taiwan
09 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The risk of a Sino-American war over Taiwan appears to be growing. Our diplomatic editor assesses th...
Home affairs: America’s revealing property market
08 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Economists and politicians around the world are consumed with one question: is the world headed for ...
Bakhmut point: Ukraine readies a counter-offensive
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ukraine is using a torrent of Western arms and training to prepare for a spring offensive. We learn ...
Hedge of allegiance: South Africa’s diplomatic shift
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A policy of ambiguity is swiftly shifting; the country is falling into a Sino-Russian orbit at just ...
Seed of doubt: venture capital tightens up
03 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A slump in tech is driving investors to rediscover old ways. Out are the cash-splashing long bets; i...
Losing the threads: Bangladesh
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Shifts in the garment industry, which powered development in the country, represent one risk; meagre...
The belt buckles up: China’s grand plan slims
01 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Belt and Road initiative to encircle much of the world with Chinese-funded, Chinese-built infras...
Let’s remake a deal: Brexit and Northern Ireland (again)
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Since Brexit’s earliest days, the trade status of Northern Ireland and its border with the Republi...
Has Obi won, can Obi? Nigeria’s elections
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Excitement still surrounds the spoiler candidate Peter Obi, whose down-to-earth ways appeal to a lar...
A year of war: a Ukraine special
24 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After a year of a conflict that was predicted to last just days, we examine the battle lines—seein...
The prices fight: conflicting views on inflation
23 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Markets seem to think the worst is over; central bankers are not so sure. We ask why determining the...
Fire and grim tone: Putin’s and Biden’s speeches
22 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
President Joe Biden’s riposte to the bellicose speech of his counterpart Vladimir Putin was a stud...
The air of their ways: South Asia’s crippling pollution
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Particulate matter is shortening lives and hobbling economies in the region. We ask how policy chang...
What it is in aid of: Syria’s earthquake response
20 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The country’s war-torn north-west has been getting far less aid than it needs in the earthquakes’...
Give fast, spry young: the new philanthropists
17 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Charitable giving is being disrupted by the same youthful tech folk who got rich disrupting other se...
Independence fray: Scotland’s leader steps down
16 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nicola Sturgeon is bowing out after shaping a party that has defined itself on the notion of Scottis...
Haley to the chief? A long-shot candidacy begins
15 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina and UN ambassador, has declared her 2024 presidenti...
End-Gulfed: Preparing for a post-oil future
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The petrostates of the Gulf are modernising their economies, growing more tolerant and liberalising ...
Toil and rubble: a report from Turkey
13 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our correspondent visits town after devastated town. Poorly enforced building codes are one clear fa...
A chance at renewal: Nigeria’s coming election
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Young voters are fired up and the electoral system has been strengthened, but Nigeria’s challenges...
Long division: America’s busy state legislatures
09 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
America’s Congress may be gridlocked, but its state legislatures certainly aren’t. The laws they...
Bot the difference: AI and the future of search
08 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The race for AI supremacy is on. Microsoft, Google, Baidu and a host of smaller firms are all placin...
Race against time: rescue efforts in Turkey and Syria
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amid unthinkable destruction and loss of life, we examine the factors that will frustrate relief eff...
Tony isn’t blinkin’: Sino-American relations, post-balloon
06 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
American fighters shot down a balloon that China says was monitoring the weather, but America insist...
Bold eagle: America's industrial evolution
03 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As part of The Economist’s new series on the remaking of the country's economy, our correspondent ...
Poll fishing: Peru’s persistent protests
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The country remains riven by unrest since the “self-coup” and subsequent arrest of its president...
Troubled shares, troubles shared: Adani and India Inc
01 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Adani Group, one of India’s biggest conglomerates, has come under fire from a tiny American re...
Not shy about retiring: strikes in France
31 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Fixing the complex, creaking pension system remains central to President Emmanuel Macron’s agenda ...
Didn’t protect or serve: Tyre Nichols’s killing
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The response to the death of the 29-year-old has differed from that of previous cases of police kill...
Tunnel, no lights: South Africa’s crumbling infrastructure
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
South Africa’s infrastructure—its ports, railways and power grid—are struggling and poorly man...
Bibi’s gambit: Israel’s government v its judiciary
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel’s right-wing coalition government has the country’s supreme court in its sights. Their pr...
Tanks, a lot: arming Ukraine
25 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
After months of foot-dragging, Germany is sending tanks to Ukraine, with America poised to follow su...
Marshalling resources: rebuilding Ukraine
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Around one-fifth of Ukraine’s population has fled. The country’s GDP has plummeted and foreign i...
Feeling un-Wellington
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Jacinda Ardern resigned as New Zealand’s prime minister last week. As Chris Hipkins prepares to ta...
A rarefied air: a dispatch from Davos
20 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The global elite’s annual Alpine jamboree may have lost some of its convening power, our editor-in...
Turkey stuffed? A democracy’s last stand
19 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismantled the country’s institutions. As an election looms we ...
Tanks-giving parade? Arming Ukraine
18 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For nearly 11 months Western powers have resisted providing tanks to Ukraine, fearing an unpredictab...
Get down to Syria’s business: coming talks with Turkey
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Through years of Syria’s messy civil war, Turkey has been a foe. As the conflict slowly fades, the...
What did the president stow and when did he stow it? Biden‘s mess
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A drip-feed of discoveries of classified material in Joe Biden’s home and offices—and the presid...
Zero-sum: the imperilled global economic order
13 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Countries across the world are turning inward, embracing protectionism, subsidies and export control...
Unveiled threats: Iran's patient protesters
12 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Iran’s protests may have gone quiet for the moment, but that does not mean they’ve been defeated...
Doctors’ disorders: Britain’s overwhelmed health service
11 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Britain’s National Health Service is in crisis. Wait times are rising, nurses and paramedics are s...
Unquiet on the eastern front: fighting in the Donbas
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russian troops have turned Bakhmut, in eastern Ukraine, into a charnel house—and a proving ground ...
Cloud coup-coup land: riots in Brazil
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In a scene reminiscent of the US Capitol riot two years ago, supporters of Brazil’s defeated presi...
Bibi’s got backup: Israel’s right-wing government
06 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Israel’s new government is its most right-wing ever—but, in a break from the past, that may not ...
Silva’s mettle: Brazil’s newish president
05 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Our Brazil correspondent surveys the state of the country, as Lula assumes the presidency precisely ...
We need to balk about Kevin: Congress opens in chaos
04 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Republican control of America’s House of Representatives began in chaos: they failed to elect a sp...
Ill news, spreads apace: covid in China
03 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The sudden rescinding of zero-covid strictures has, as expected, led to a spike in cases. Our corres...
The dragon chasing: China and a new nuclear order
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
China’s arsenal of nuclear weapons has swiftly expanded; it is now roughly the size of Russia’s ...
In passing: the notable lives lost in 2022
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From Pelé, the “king of football”, to Britain’s longest-reigning queen, our editors and corre...
Best-of three: our country, books and games of the year
29 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is that best-of time of year. We outline the case for our country of the year, after an uncharact...
Debasement all around: lessons from 16th-century inflation
28 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022 global inflation spiked at a rate not seen in decades. A look at the world’s very first su...
Cattle lines are drawn: cows in India
27 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cows are venerated in India, but precisely how intensely often depends on politics. And being venera...
Land, sea and air: let us move you
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In a special episode, our Paris bureau chief witnesses the political divides that become apparent as...
An oily sheen: Nicolás Maduro in from the cold
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Waves of protest after a stolen election in 2019 came to nothing. Now, thanks to the luck of geopoli...
A figure of speeches: Volodymyr Zelensky in his own words
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of the war, editors from The Economist went to Kyiv, the first Western journalists ...
Needs Musk? Tumult at Twitter
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk may be stepping down as chief executive, but he has already changed the firm’s fortunes—...
Trump card marked: the January 6th investigation
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Congressional committee probing the riot at America’s Capitol recommended that the Justice Dep...
Under the missile flow: North Korea
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The country has been slinging missiles skyward at an alarming pace, and with ever-greater technologi...
More generals, less pacific: Japan’s new defence policy
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A strategy approved today peels back some of the country’s constitutional pacifism; in large part ...
No rest for the weary: meeting Ukraine’s high command
15 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our correspondent sits down with President Volodymyr Zelensky and two top military commanders—conc...
Precious joules: a fusion-energy result
14 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scientists have reported a long-awaited nuclear-fusion breakthrough, using lasers to ignite hydrogen...
Continental drift: Europe’s challenges
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A pair of crises will bedevil Europe, starting with crippling energy prices in the short term. And A...
Zero to sickly? China’s covid climbdown
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
With astonishing speed, the machinery of testing, tracing and lockdowns is being dismantled. We exam...
Second time as farce: Peru’s president falls
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps Pedro Castillo thought he could repeat the coup staged by his predecessor, Alberto Fujimori,...
Like biding a Reich: Germany’s alleged coup plot
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Raids across the country netted 25 far-right extremists suspected of trying to overthrow the governm...
Pastor present: Georgia’s Senate runoff
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Democrats will have a bit more breathing room in the Senate, with an outright majority provided by R...
Suspension of this belief? Iran’s morality police
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The enforcers of the hardliners’ mores may have been disbanded; it is hard to know if the regime i...
The for-sixty-dollar question: a cap on Russian oil
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shippers and insurers of Russian crude are now subject to a $60-per-barrel price cap. That may spark...
In sofa as I can recall: troubles for Cyril Ramaphosa
02 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
South Africa’s leader says a pile of cash stashed in a sofa represents no wrongdoing. The outcome ...
Square dealing: Jiang Zemin dies
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Chinese leader who took over a squabbling party following the Tiananmen Square massacre surprise...
On the Horn’s dilemma: meeting Somalia’s president
30 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The Horn of Africa’s resurgent jihadists of al-Shabab pose the biggest problem to Hassan Sheikh Mo...
The French connection: Macron’s state visit to America
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Behind the pageantry, Presidents Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron will have much to chew over, from a u...
Patience zero: China’s remarkable unrest
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Protests have become as bold as they are widespread—mostly against the country’s unsustainable z...
Forgoing a song: protest inside and beyond Iran
25 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Players’ refusal to sing their national anthem at the World Cup has brought their country’s prot...
Scar from the madding crowd: Korea probes a tragedy
24 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Grief about the deaths of more than 150 people in a crush has turned to anger, and the investigation...
A whole other kettle of fission: Ukraine’s imperilled nuclear plant
23 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The power station in Zaporizhia has served as an impromptu military base for Russian forces—but da...
Ploy story: a defenestration at Disney
22 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Executives have squeezed out Bob Chapek and re-anointed Bob Iger as boss. But the firm’s woes are ...
Damage collateral: a tide turns at COP27
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
An issue ignored for three decades came to dominate the summit’s agenda: reparations to poor count...
In come taxes: Britain’s austere economic plan
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The “Autumn statement” was filled with belt-tightening, from stealthy tax rises to public-servic...
Musketeers heading for the exits: chaos at Twitter
17 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk gave Twitter’s remaining staff an ultimatum: commit to “working long hours at high int...
Strike price: missiles fall in Poland
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How did apparently Russian-made munitions kill two people on NATO soil? An accident in the fog of wa...
Get the Bali rolling: the G20 meet begins
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The G20 Summit gets under way in Bali today at a time of tensions over Ukraine and Taiwan, and worri...
Bolt from the blue: Democrats hold the Senate
14 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
America’s upper legislative chamber remains in Democrats’ hands; they may even expand their majo...
Tales from the crypto: An exchange implodes
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
At the start of this week, FTX was the world’s third-largest crypto exchange. After rumours of ill...
Beaten, a retreat: cautious hope in Kherson
10 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia says it will withdraw from the only captured Ukrainian provincial capital. We ask how the dra...
Red ripple: America’s midterm elections
09 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
America’s midterm elections have finished. While the full results may not be known for some time, ...
Who counts wins: Election-administration fears
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of our midterms series, we examine how the Republican party’s anti-democratic...
Introducing Drum Tower
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Two of The Economist's China correspondents, Alice Su and David Rennie, analyse the stories at the h...
Degrees of risk: COP27 and the 1.5C myth
07 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As the UN’s annual climate jamboree begins, our correspondent calls for a strong dose of realism: ...
Red fights and blue: America’s midterm elections
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
America’s midterm elections, which will determine control of both chambers of Congress, end on Tue...
Peace meal: Ethiopia’s civil war
04 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A surprise peace agreement should permit desperately needed humanitarian relief for millions in the ...
The elephant in the chamber? America’s midterms
03 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Our election model suggests that at least one legislative chamber will revert to Republican control;...
The curious case of Binyamin’s butt-in: Israel’s election
02 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After a 16-month absence from leadership, Binyamin Netanyahu is back at the centre of the country’...
Falling tsar? Russians eye life after Putin
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine continues to falter, Russian elites are now daring to...
Once and future: Brazil’s Lula wins again
31 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a leftist former president, has won again. Even if President Jair Bolson...
Elon-gate: the Musk-Twitter story
28 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
After months of wrangling, Elon Musk completed his deal to buy Twitter, and immediately sacked sever...
Power play: electricity in Ukraine
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s energy infrastructure with missiles and drones. Ukraine’s ai...