The Economist

Tens of thousands of children worldwide plan to walk out of school on March 15th

But it could represent a bubble.

JAB, the owner of Peet’s and Pret a Manger, is pressuring suppliers already ground down by low prices.

Tough times for a consumer-goods leviathan backed by 3G Capital and Warren Buffett

Brexit is accelerating Britain’s declining influence at the United Nations

Before an audience of 500 people on the outskirts of Pamplona, Maialen Lujanbio, the reigning champion of bertsolaritza, the Basque oral tradition of improvised song, steps up to the microphone. She stands in silence, thinking.

China's efforts to build a massive global food trader are not entirely reassuring

In a new musical, with songs by Kele Okereke, Brexit causes a relationship to change course

PEPE CARVALHO is Spain’s most famous detective. In 23 novels over 32 years, he idled in Barcelona’s cafés and bars and fell in and out of love; sometimes he solved cases. Often more gripping than the machinations of criminals were his observations of the transformation of post-Franco Spain, particularly Barcelona, Carvalho’s adopted city (he hails from Galicia).

How chicken became the rich world’s most popular meat

Europe pointlessly disrupts the way funds cope with negative interest rates.

Dry summers and hostile neighbours have pushed Israel to innovate

Poland wants a fort with Donald Trump’s name on it (with Shashank Joshi)

Charities try new tactics to be remembered in wills

Wall Street firms take aim at America’s stock-exchange oligopoly

Amateur buyers of fine Burgundy fear a speculative bubble

Investors’ appetite for airports remains undiminished.

Architects are adapting to the need for more multisensory design

A as much for its financial crashes as for its juicy steaks and nifty footballers. But even compared with its usual performance, 2018 was a particularly miserable year for the economy. The worst drought in 50 years wrecked the corn and soyabean harvests, knocking 2% off . The peso lost half its value against the dollar, pushing inflation to 46%. That tipped the country into its second recession in three years and led to a crisis that forced it to seek one of the largest credit lines in the ’s hi

In his festive tale, released 175 years ago, Charles Dickens prescribed not Marxist revolution or Victorian beneficence but free trade and commerce

When the FARC was a guerrilla army, among its many illegal sources of income was the kidnapping and ransom of tourists. It started disarming in 2016 but is still making money from tourists in a more peaceful way. In Camp Mariana Páez in Meta province, about eight hours’ drive from Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, visitors can “live like a guerrilla” with 260 demobilised members.

The trade war gives agricultural merchants a surprise fillip - but not salvation.

Until 2008 the crown dependency had a feudal constitution. Some people miss it

Price guarantees are common at art auctions

Unlike books or paintings, films are never the work of an individual: they are products of a collective, and children of compromise. But if any director could be called a one-man band, it was Stanley Kubrick.

Buying nuclear fuel is back in fashion.

Construction of a controversial railway has kicked off Britain’s biggest-ever archaeological dig

For a wandering people, Andalusia, at the edge of the Iberian peninsula, is the end of the road. Many Roma have settled there and, compared to communities in other European countries, they are well integrated. They make use of education and health care, as well as housing and employment programmes; culturally, Roma are the lifeblood of flamenco. But when it comes to representation on screen, they are either invisible or mocked.

Social media makes a joke of Poland's ban on surveys near elections

Poland’s state-owned giants cope with unprecedented turnover