The bidding war for Warner Brothers has become an instant blockbuster. Netflix’s $83bn deal to buy the storied studio seemed all but done when David Ellison, the son of tech billionaire Larry Ellison ...

In July 2019 Nicolas Pelham, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, received a rare journalist’s visa to Iran. On the day he was due to fly home, he was detained. He was held in Tehran for seven ...

President Donald Trump says he will punish any state that implements its own regulations on artificial intelligence. The bodyshot to federalism is a gift to the tech industry, and one that upsets many ...

A t every technological revolution, the industry of indecency is close at hand. We look at how sex workers and porn-peddlers are making use of AI. The sites of Syria’s most brutal civil-war deeds are ...

China says it doesn’t interfere with the affairs of its neighbours, but a leaked transcript suggests that, behind closed doors, diplomats are more than willing to apply the country’s considerable ...

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Chinese entertainment is booming. This surge poses a dilemma for the Communist party. Listen to what matters most, from global ...

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. As drug gangs expand, human trafficking becomes part of their portfolios. It remains low on governments’ lists of priorities.

I n Britain, Germany and France, populist-right leaders and parties are making hay. What unites their movements, and how do their respective political environments shape their future prospects? And ...

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Global workers average 42 hours per week, but preferences vary. The hours managers set reveal what kind of leader they are.

A merica’s seizure of a Venezuelan oil tanker fits with the stated goals in its new national-security strategy: untrammelled hemispheric dominance. How much of the document is polemic and how much ...

How do you make an object invisible? Professor Sir John Pendry worked out that it involves guiding and bending light in precise ways by changing the structure of the material it is travelling through.

A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Despite low inflation and rising wages, Americans remain furious about high prices. There’s an odd but effective solution Listen ...