THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘WIPEOUT’…
Donald Trump’s humiliation offers America an opportunity
Voters demand a new way of doing things in Washington. Let them have it
SURFERS CALL it the washing machine. When a giant wave throws you off your board and plunges you underwater, you lose all sense of where you are. That is what befell Donald Trump and his party on November 3rd, as they were slammed by tens of millions of American voters. They have still to grasp just how much their country has changed.
Already it is clear this was not a normal midterm swing against a sitting president, but the biggest wave-election since the aftermath of Watergate more than 50 years ago. Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress, flipping seats deep into once-safe red waters, from South Carolina to Texas.
El Salvador’s gangbuster tries his luck in Haiti
The status quo is so dire Nayib Bukele might improve it. But the risks are huge
The world must act to stop a cyber-disaster
Governments should make sure defenders have better models than attackers do
Patients are acting more like consumers. Good
Health care cannot be an ordinary market. But it could be much more like one
England’s new ban on kinky porn will misfire
Bans make moralists feel good, but will not work as planned
