Interactives
Our latest interactive stories, trackers and special projects
Latest
What does SpaceX want to do with its Starship?
A guide to the reusable spaceship’s trip—and where it might lead for space travel
Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing them
New analysis shows that the heaviest vehicles kill more people than they save in crashes
“Hell on earth”: satellite images document the siege of a Sudanese city
El-Fasher, until recently a place of refuge, is under attack
The demise of an iconic American highway
California’s Highway 1 is showing the limits of mankind’s ingenuity
Trackers, indices and forecasts
Live results of the US presidential election
Updating results and analysis of the race for the White House
Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders
Using patty-power parity to think about exchange rates
French election tracker: Marine Le Pen’s hard-right falters
See the latest results, polls and guide to the parties
UK election 2024
General-election forecast: Labour beat the Conservatives
Our seat-by-seat prediction for Britain’s Parliament
Ukraine and Russia
The truth behind Olena Zelenska’s $1.1m Cartier haul
The anatomy of a disinformation campaign
Vladivostok is a window into wartime Russia
Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is transforming the far-eastern city
Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
Our satellite view of the conflict, updated daily
How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
First-person view drones have achieved near mythical status on the front lines
Features
Archive 1945
How The Economist reported on the final year of the second world war, week by week
What “supertall” skyscrapers reveal about the countries that build them
They are miracles of engineering and “boasts in glass and steel”
Inside a month of America’s school shootings
The hidden impacts of gun crime are devastating and poorly understood
Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world’s
People’s principles were expected to align as countries got richer. What happened?
World news
Can a political underdog save Nigeria?
Peter Obi thinks he can renew Africa’s biggest economy and democracy
How to fix 30m draughty homes
And help Britain reach net-zero emissions
The Brazilian Amazon has been a net carbon emitter since 2016
Rapid deforestation outweighs carbon capture by remaining trees
Hollywood is losing the battle for China
The rise of domestic cinema counters Western cultural influence
Business and finance
The world’s richest countries in 2024
Our annual ranking compares economies in three different ways
Investments in ports foretell the future of global commerce
It will be more high-tech—and more Asian
The war in Ukraine has reshaped the world’s fuel markets
The Gulf will be a big winner
A different way to measure the climate impact of food
Meet The Economist’s banana index
