A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist. Many people assume scams are obvious and avoidable.

The Trump administration reportedly told workers at USAID to expect their numbers to drop from 10,000 to fewer than 300.

If anything, 2024 taught us to expect the unbelievable, says Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist magazine, and we can expect more of the same this year. Every year, the magazine looked at ...

Tom Standage, deputy editor of The Economist magazine with last year's assassination attempts on Donald Trump, exploding ...

The Economist is the authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion. General Motors is ending almost all its production in Russia, but others are ...

Uruguay has been recognized as the only full democracy in South America and the leading democracy in Latin America, according to the Democracy Index 2023 compiled by the Economist Group and ...

Has The Economist magazine ever been more wrong about anything than it has been about Africa? Please don’t misunderstand, I love The Economist. I’m a subscriber and have been for years.

Ever wondered how accurate are all those overseas country reports are in international journals like The Economist? Like me, you probably take it for granted that they reflect both good on the ground ...

Generalising about Africa means The Economist magazine often gets it wrong. However, this time it might well be right. Has The Economist magazine ever been more wrong about anything than it has ...

The American economy continues to prosper, with new data once again underscoring our remarkable economic track record—what The Economist magazine calls “the envy of the world.” But next week ...

according to The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of the British magazine. The ten countries with the highest scores in the world are Norway (with a score of 9.75), New Zealand ...