The Economist Jul 19 2024 Calibre by Calibre instant download after payment.

Articles in this issue:
Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s cover
Where would Donald Trump and J.D. Vance take America?
Euphoric markets are ignoring growing political risks
Gaza could become “Mogadishu on the Med”
To halt Brazil’s decline, Lula needs to cut runaway public spending
Millions of birds have died. How to stop humans dying, too
How Labour should reform Britain’s overstuffed prisons
Letters to the editor
Rachael “Raygun” Gunn on the new sport that will invigorate the Olympics
Halt the Olympics to save the planet, pleads a sports historian
Will Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to America repair or weaken ties?
Optimistic plans for post-war Gaza have little basis in reality
Why MAGA is the future, not just present, of the GOP
The Trump shooting has made a mockery of the Secret Service
What was the motive of Trump’s would-be assassin?
A maverick judge tosses out Donald Trump’s classified-documents case
Momentum against Joe Biden is mounting again
Bob Menendez is found guilty of corruption
Calling Donald Trump a threat to the rule of law has backfired
Under Lula, Brazil is walking on the financial wild side
Peru’s president survives because she’s not in charge
Crypto cowboys have found paradise in Paraguay
The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending
Climate change is making the monsoon more dangerous
Imran Khan comes under further pressure in Pakistan
The Bay of Bengal should be an economic superpower
Xi Jinping is trying to love-bomb China’s entrepreneurs
Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
The No.1 reason for success in China? Connections
A spectre looms over Hong Kong’s property market
When party propaganda falls flat
Africa’s surprising new age of rail
The far-right has captured Israel’s police
To see the future of urban warfare, look at Gaza
Russia’s vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out
Half Ukraine’s power is knocked out; winter is coming
Romania is now a magnet for the world’s medical students
The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode
A crisis in prisons gives Britain’s new government its first test
Why do penguins struggle with modernist architecture?
The potential listing of Shein is a test of London’s allure
Can Britain’s “mission-led” government defy gravity?
Britain is a home but not a haven for Hong Kongers
The secret to good government? Actually trying
Could America fight its enemies without breaking the law?
China is the West’s corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?
Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?
What a $600m wedding says about India’s attitude to wealth
Google wants a piece of Microsoft’s cyber-security business
Can anyone save Macy’s?
How a CEO knows when to quit
Tech bros love J.D. Vance. Many CEOs are scared stiff
Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurk
Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
At last, Wall Street has something to cheer
Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
China’s leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents
Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship
A short history of AI
H5N1 avian flu could cause a human pandemic
Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
AI can predict tipping points before they happen
Shallow thinking about water imperils the planet
Taking on the global brotherhood of despots
Why American sports teams switch cities so often
The largest sting operation you’ve never heard of
Plenty of words have no clear origin
The best film and television of 2024 (so far)
Five books on the glories and flaws of the Olympics
Economic data, commodities and markets
Dr Ruth aimed to shake America out of its puritan ways
When markets ignore politics