A rarefied air: a dispatch from Davos

Announcing the return of The Economist’s annual ranking for best performing economy. Are you ready for the big reveal? Dalit cuisine is barely visible, in India or beyond. And why London’s river boats are making a comeback. Get a world of insights by subscribing to Economist Podc ...  Show more

Five years after seizing power in a coup, the military junta in Myanmar is holding an election. Yet all credible opposition has been banned. And war has inspired so many films over the past century. Our correspondents battle it out to pick the best one. Listen to what matters mos ...  Show more

The global elite’s annual Alpine jamboree may have lost some of its convening power, our editor-in-chief says, but the many encounters it enables still have enormous <a href="https://espresso.economist.com/22b880633e6c3b3c7bccc56c59ff11b9?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.pod ...

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister leaves behind a mixed bag of policy successes and shortcomings. We examine his legacy and ask <a href="https://www.economist.com/asia/2020/08/29/who-will-replace-abe-shinzo-after-his-resignation-owing-to-illness?utm_campaign=the-intellige ...

Our editors traverse layers of security to reach the situation room where Ukraine’s president is so often seen addressing the world. <a href="https://www.economist.com/europe/volodymyr-zelensky-on-why-ukraine-must-defeat-putin/21808448?utm_campaign=a.io&utm_medium=audio.podcas ...

A year on from our series Next Year in Moscow, Alexei Navalny, Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, is dead. Hope for the “beautiful Russia of the future” he imagined from his prison cell in Siberia is all but extinguished. The Economist’s Russia editor Arkady Ostrovsky fin ...  Show more