The Economist

October 5th - 12th 2024

Contents

1. The year that shattered the Middle East

2. Don’t celebrate China’s stimulus just yet

3. Socially liberal and strong on defence, Japan’s new premier shows promise

4. Dismantling Google is a terrible idea

5. A map of a fruit fly’s brain could help us understand our own

6. Japan’s new prime minister is his own party’s sternest critic

7. Worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night

8. Tim Walz is the most popular candidate on either ticket

9. A dangerous dispute in the Horn of Africa

10. Jair Bolsonaro still shapes Brazil’s political right

11. Pedro Sánchez clings to office at a cost to Spain’s democracy

12.Ukrainians are settling down in Britain. That creates a problem