2023-07-20-Economist Graphs
1. The world this week
1.1 Politics
1.2 Business
1.3 KAL’s cartoon
1.4 This week’s cover
2. Leaders
2.1 Making babymaking better
2.2 How cities can respond to extreme heat
2.3 The world economy is still in danger
2.4 What the China-India detente means for the West
2.5 What the world’s budding autocrats are learning from El Salvador
2.6 Should Ukraine get Russia’s frozen reserves?
3. Letters
3.1 Letters to the editor
4. By Invitation
4.1 George Clooney and John Prendergast on how the West can kill the Wagner virus
4.2 Alberto Núñez Feijóo on why he deserves to lead Spain
4.3 As Spain prepares to vote, its Socialist prime minister sets out the case for continuity
5. Briefing
5.1 Could America’s economy escape recession?
6. Europe
6.1 Post-mutiny Moscow descends into factional murk
6.2 Zaporizhia braces itself for Russian nuclear tricks
6.3 France’s Zeitenwende
6.4 Why the EU will not seize Russian state assets to rebuild Ukraine
6.5 How Ukrainians affect Poland
6.6 A spat in Brussels pits an open vision of Europe against an insular one
7. Britain
7.1 Muddled policies are harming British universities
7.2 British inflation may not be as sticky as thought
7.3 A big battery investment is good news for British carmaking
7.4 Sir Tony Blair mesmerises the Labour Party, again
7.5 Whoever runs Britain will struggle to get tough on China
7.6 The rise of the self-pitying MP
8. United States
8.1 Americans are moving to places besieged by extreme heat
8.2 The FDA approves the first-ever non-prescription birth-control pill
8.3 Ron DeSantis is relying on big donors and his super PAC
8.4 What America’s bike-share schemes tell you about venture capital
8.5 How Mexico has become the “enemy” of America’s Republicans
8.6 The case for a third-party campaign in 2024 is actuarial, not ideological
9. Middle East & Africa
9.1 Why Africa is poised to become a big player in energy markets
9.2 Israel’s constitutional chaos is far from over
9.3 How well-connected Iranians import their goodies
10. The Americas
10.1 Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular
10.2 Young Latin Americans are unusually open to autocrats
11. Asia
11.1 A battery supply chain that excludes China looks impossible
11.2 Singapore is the world leader in selling cultivated meat
11.3 An American soldier has deserted to North Korea
11.4 Why are politics in West Bengal so violent?
12. China
12.1 Can academic joint ventures between China and the West survive?
12.2 A clue to China’s true covid-19 death toll
12.3 Germany’s new strategy for dealings with China
12.4 How China trains its journalists to report “correctly”
12.5 China’s foreign minister goes missing
13. International
13.1 What if China and India became friends?
14. Technology Quarterly
14.1 In vitro fertilisation is struggling to keep up with demand
14.2 IVF remains largely a numbers game
14.3 The fertility sector is booming
14.4 Not all types of families can access IVF
14.5 Some women need eggs from others, or from their younger selves
14.6 New ways of making babies are on the horizon
14.7 Lack of basic research has hampered assisted reproduction
14.8 Video: Why we know so little about human reproduction
14.9 Sources and acknowledgments
15. Business
15.1 Tesla’s surprising new route to EV domination
15.2 Workplace advice from our agony uncle
15.3 Can a Czech billionaire rescue Casino?
15.4 The winners and losers from the $69bn Microsoft-Activision mega-deal
15.5 Startups are producing real dairy without a cow in sight
15.6 A battle of rickshaw apps shows the promise of India’s digital stack
15.7 Hollywood’s blockbuster strike may become a flop
16. Finance & economics
16.1 Your employer is (probably) unprepared for artificial intelligence
16.2 How much trouble is China’s economy in?
16.3 The dollar’s dip will not become a sustained decline
16.4 Big tech’s dominance is straining the logic of passive investing
16.5 America’s big banks are in rude health—with one exception
16.6 Instant payments finally reach America with FedNow
17. Science & technology
17.1 Are the current heatwaves evidence that climate change is speeding up?
17.2 Scrapyards adopt new high-tech ways to dismantle cars
17.3 A spectacular new fossil shows a mammal making a meal of a dinosaur
18. Culture
18.1 Realism with “Oppenheimer”, or escapism with “Barbie”?
18.2 Extreme temperatures separate “the cool and the damned”
18.3 A new novel imagines life in Andy Warhol’s studio
18.4 Calder Walton’s “Spies” is a riveting history of espionage
18.5 “The Retrievals”, a tale of agony and addiction, makes listeners squirm
18.6 AI is making it possible to clone voices
19. Economic & financial indicators
19.1 Economic data, commodities and markets
20. Graphic detail
20.1 Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
21. The Economist explains
21.1 What happens when extreme weather hits several places at once?
21.2 Why developing the world’s first malaria vaccine has taken so long
