Events Forum of The Economist: News & Analysis

The decline of boy preference

More parents now often lean towards daughters

The real loser generation

Don’t cry for Gen Z. Save your pity for Gen X

American finance is changing

Trump is putting an untested system under strain

Poland must not turn inward

Poland’s presidential election is finely balanced

The assault on science

MAGA’s attack is an act of grievous self-harm

The man with a plan

Vietnam has grown faster than India and China

Crypto meets the swamp

The industry’s grubby relationship with politics

Europe’s free-speech problem

And how to fix it

What Vladimir Putin wants

And how Europe should thwart him