The Economist (Middle East and Africa) - 18 Okt 2025
The coming debt emergency
Giorgia Meloni, three years in
The Arctic’s real vulnerability
Parable of Château d’Yquem
Next-gen narcos
Governments are living far beyond their means. Sadly, inflation is their most likely escape:
The new war on drugs
UK- China relations
Three years of Meloni
What Trump gets right in the Middle East
Unease in Caracas
The next crash could torch $35trn of wealth,
On wealth taxes, extremism on social media, splitting investments, lift operators, opera singers, genius
In many of the world’s big economies, public finances are heading for a crisis, writes Henry Curr.
What agricultural drones, submarine seizures and stablecoins reveal about the trade: briefing,
America’s weakest flank is not near Greenland, but around Alaska,
Giorgia Meloni, three years in Italy’s prime minister marks her third anniversary in remarkable political shape,
Governments going broke
The traffickers are winning
Plutocrats are turning their backs on luxury assets,
Donald Trump is looking the wrong way: leader,
Next-gen narcos
America’s new war on drugs takes inspiration from the war on terror,
A summary of political and business news
Would inflation-linked bonds survive an inflationary default?
Gita Gopinath on the $35trn crash
The only way out
The American revolution
Time for a Sixth Republic?
No more safe seats
Balance of terror
Half-baked Alaska
Crash testing
Next-gen narcos
Madagascar’s Gen Z coup
Dan Gilbert and Detroit
The next battle for Gaza
Terrorism in west Africa
Betting on Javier Milei
Building in California
Mapmaking in Utah
Presidential revenge
Mutual aid in Sudan
Ukraine’s elite units
Bolivia swings right
Spain’s solar surge
The start of peace
Bonkers conkers
The Whittle lab
Power grids
Madagascar's seeds
American law
America’s merger wave
The trade war reignites
Struggle for the Arctic
Australian diplomacy
Self-driving safety
Saul Zabar, lox-smith extraordinaire
Statistics on 42 economies
Barefoot shoes
China’s blind spots
China’s trade shock-and-awe
Inflation-linked bonds
The Antichrist—he’s back!
Economics of fertility
Andrew Ross Sorkin on 1929
Sloponomics
Volcanoes and the climate
A chipmaker nationalised
China’s antitrust arsenal
History lessons
Dark patterns
Impersonating officials
Ancient lead poisoning
The Taliban v Pakistan
The economics Nobel
Diane Keaton’s charm
Wall Street’s earnings
The rise of AppLovin
Afghanistan’s history
Plutocratic spending
Indian microfinance
TED’s new direction
Tough video games
Streaming sermons
Business in India
Japanese politics
The world this week
The world this week
The coming debt emergency
Next-gen narcos
Mutually assured disruption
Crash testing
Half-baked Alaska
Luxury beliefs
Threatening messages
Spread your bets
No lift for job growth
Tone determines the role
Genius is often ridiculed
Letters
Gita Gopinath
The traffickers are winning
The conservative caretaker
Ukraine’s elite units
Charlemagne: A Sixth Republic?
Protecting electricity grids
Spain’s solar surge
The ads and spreadsheets of war
Tweaking the solar system
Concrete measures
The ghost of de Gaulle
Know your enemy
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The Whittle lab
Bagehot: No more safe seats
Bonkers conkers
Thrust and throttle
Bonkers conkers
Labour’s crumbling fortresses
Why terrorism has spared Ghana
A Gen Z coup in Madagascar
Sudan’s mutual-aid groups
The start of peace in Gaza
Gaza after Hamas
Embrace the chaos
The start of peace
The next battle for Gaza
Safe haven
The Gen Z coup
The last resort
Kill on sight
Lexington: The American revolution
The president and the law
Dan Gilbert and Detroit
Building in California
Mapmaking in Utah
Build, baby, build
Cracking up
The man who is all about Motown
Department of Revenge
Dreams from their fathers
Governments going broke
The case against holding bonds
How to avoid high public debt
How much debt is too much?
The ways out that aren’t
Ageing welfare states
Houdini’s advice
A looming crisis
Governments going broke
How much debt is too much?
Silver hairs, silver spoons
The ways out that aren’t
Houdini’s advice
How to avoid high public debt
The case against holding bonds
Licensing our content
More special reports
Acknowledgments
Uneasy in Caracas
The big bet on Javier Milei
Bolivia swings right
Double or nothing
Zip or zap?
Southern exposure
The Taliban v Pakistan
Banyan: Japan’s history lessons
A coalition split in Japan
Bankruptcy laws in India
Daggers drawn
A messy divorce
Code of misconduct
BANYAN
Hands off
Squishing streamed sermons
Chaguan: China’s blind spots
Impersonating officials
Cheating the chiefs
Streaming services
Full steam ahead
In the Arctic, Trump looks the wrong way
The Telegram: China’s shock-and-awe
China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump
The deal economy
China’s antitrust arsenal
Schumpeter: AI sloponomics
AppLovin or AppLoathin?
Bartleby: Dark patterns
Nexperia nationalised
TED’s new partner
SAMR-rattling
Guarding their chips
TEDucation
Loved and loathed
Light and shade
Sloponomics
Taking a battering
Indian microfinance is in trouble
Plutocrats’ changing spending habits
Free exchange: How to make babies
Buttonwood: Inflation-linked bonds
A deserved Nobel for economics
America’s barnstorming banks
Debtly serious
The parable of Château d’Yquem
Take a beat
Past winners
Into the fire
The new economics of babymaking
Seed capital
Climate change and volcanoes
Well informed: Barefoot shoes
Ancient lead poisoning
A song of ice and fire
Don’t drink the cave water
Are “barefoot shoes” good for runners?
Court in the crossfire
Video games: harder than ever?
Andrew Ross Sorkin on 1929
The Antichrist—he’s back!
Diane Keaton’s charm
Afghanistan’s history
A load of speculation
On her own terms
Level up
Under new management
Apocalypse now
Economic & financial indicators
Saul Zabar
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