Americans are fretting over their body odour econ.st/44ThPXv

Why Hong Kong is sending its old people to Guangdong econ.st/3yAljSY

Olaf Scholz on why Vladimir Putin’s brutal imperialism will fail econ.st/3wP3u1W

Almost 1bn people will cast their ballots in India's election, making it the biggest democratic exercise in history. Here is a guide to what is happening econ.st/3wRbHm8 👇

Politicians seem to consider fake meat a threat to Europe's “strategic autonomy”. So long as foodie innovators are kept at bay, traditionalists can sleep easy econ.st/44YiNSj 👇

For India, YouTube has become a refuge for independent voices. But the government is trying to silence its critics at source econ.st/4dVCyyg 👇

China’s government wants state-owned enterprises to step in to buy unsold property and turn it into affordable housing. But its new policy will make only a modest contribution to solving the problem: econ.st/3WVKKbM

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Making a grilled-cheese sandwich, for most, requires about ten minutes. But for these influencers, it can take days. Meet the “tradwives” taking the internet by storm econ.st/4bRsuV7 👇

The 100 least active cities in a recent study were all found in one region econ.st/3Ke7pIK 👇

For years new home-buyers in America have enjoyed lower housing payments than renters. But today the choice between buying and renting looks very different. Read why econ.st/3K533nf 👇

As Mexico steps up enforcement, fewer migrants are crossing America’s southern border. But its scheme to keep crossings down may not be sustainable—and may come with unintended consequences econ.st/3UXawcG 👇

Can you build an American voter? Plug in any combination of attributes—age, sex, religion and more—into our interactive tool to learn how a hypothetical voter might cast their ballot in the presidential race econ.st/4dPQd9I 🗳️

In recent decades there has been a substantial shift in global values—and an extraordinary one. Explore our interactive to discover what it is econ.st/4bivQjD 👇

“Freakonomics” was at the apex of a wave of books that promised a quirky—yet rigorous—analysis of things that the conventional wisdom had missed. The approach was fun, but has fallen out favour econ.st/3UK10Lt 👇

“First we are named as foreign influence agents, then we are imprisoned like agents. It happened in Russia. This is a Russian playbook.”

An activist in Georgia outlines his fears for the former Soviet republic’s future, on “The Weekend Intelligence” econ.st/3QZ0Z3S 🎧

Election campaigns are odd things. Visits by candidates to meet people and see industry feel—with their lights, speakers, cameras, trailing wires and officious flunkeys with clipboards—more like film sets than anything real. Albeit for boring films econ.st/4aGK3pM 👇

American courts have narrowed the definition of criminal bribery involving public officials in recent years. But when does politics as usual turn into corruption? econ.st/3QXkObP 👇

The best option would be for the ANC to work in coalition with the Democratic Alliance, a moderate, liberal party that governs well at a local level. The ruling party may, however, reunite with its extremist offshoots econ.st/3URMEY4 👇

As Ukraine comes under mounting pressure on the battlefield, Europe is scrambling to boost its puny production of artillery shells and missiles.

The biggest bottleneck is something that was an afterthought until recently: a shortage of explosives econ.st/4bU5ViE 👇

The NFL’s ability to turn the most routine events into social-media phenomena is an impressive feat. The best example of this prowess may be the release of the annual schedule of matches, which some teams have made into an art form econ.st/4bvwcUB 👇