THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The agony of liberal Europe‘…

The agony of liberal Europe

Centrist rulers have fallen dangerously short—and are now paying the price

“The first steps into the Unrest seem straightforward enough—anger at the fall of real wages, at capitalist aggression, at the unwillingness of Parliament; anger fomented by agitators…reason wars with instinct.” Few of those who mobbed French cities this week would recognise those words. But many would agree with George Dangerfield, the British-American journalist who wrote them. The demonstrators were consumed by rage. Rage at the failure of the state and against the floundering centrist politicians who govern. Rage at high prices and economic dysfunction. And for some, rage against the idea of centrist politics at all.

Will AI take over science?

Artificial intelligence will require scholars to reinvent their disciplines

Mysteries of the Musk Foundation

The world’s richest man disdains charity. His money is where his mouth is

How Britain’s lobbyists exploit suicide

Public policy is increasingly dictated by tragedy

Our interview with Alice Weidel

The populist-right politician says Ukraine has “already lost” against Russia and should sue for peace

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘NOT SORRY’ – What Carney and Canada can teach the world…

Mark Carney and the lessons for the middle powers

Canada demonstrates how to respond to a dangerous world

What if the machines take over science?

Artificial intelligence will require scholars to reinvent their disciplines

Hardly his finest hour

Donald Trump’s scheme to secure Russian diesel is scandalous

America makes waves in Cuba

But it shouldn’t undermine the growth of the island’s private sector

Millennials’ success deserves a toast (not the avocado sort)

How a “lost generation” found itself

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Will bonds blow up?’….

Will bonds blow up?

A government-debt crisis is looming

A selfish ploy to break up Pakistan

Its military chief wants lots of small provinces, to fragment the opposition

How Europe should deal with the new China shock

Amassing “second-strike” trade weapons is not enough

A no-rules approach to AI is mad politics and worse policy

Do not let it rip

Britain’s Greens have voted, shamefully, to say Zionism is racism

It is a damning moment for a political party with pretensions to power

Brazil is a right-wing country now

The Bolsonaro clan promises to align with Donald Trump, and to attack democratic institutions

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The century’s biggest idea’ – Effective altruism and the battle over AI…

Effective altruism is this century’s biggest idea

The movement is admirable, but dangerous

A hurricane is coming to tax systems

Governments should be preparing, but most aren’t

Don’t put Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un in a room together

A summit between the two “friends” could go horribly wrong

China’s new infrastructure push will help itself and the world

But it must still do more to lift consumption