Chairmen of Chinese companies are vanishing. As the country’s economy slows, more businesses are likely to go bust—and their bosses to go missing. That is making investors nervous: econ.st/3taaxAh 👇

The best video games of the year involve fighting, fishing and fantasy worlds econ.st/3uJ4F1i 🎮

“Sweden comes with a very strong message of climate hope,” @BuschEbba, Sweden’s deputy prime minister, tells “The Weekend Intelligence”. We travel to the north of Sweden to see how close that message hews to reality econ.st/3RA7TNG 🎧

But Will Cathcart argues that end-to-end encryption protects everyone, and that “client-side scanning” could mark the end of private communication online. Read the head of WhatsApp’s opposing view econ.st/46R0lKG 👇

“If end-to-end encryption is introduced without appropriate safeguards, it will become a lot easier to commit and hide terrible crimes against minors,” writes an online-safety expert in a guest essay econ.st/3tdvudJ 👇

The Inflation Reduction Act is “the most important piece of climate legislation in American history”, says @cleantechsonia. She assesses how America’s green transition is going, on our “Checks and Balance” podcast econ.st/4884zyD 🎧

One in five young Americans think the Holocaust is a myth, according to our new polling econ.st/3TnM7xM ⬇️

For pioneering electric cars and reusable rockets, Elon Musk has earned his place in history. Will his saviour complex bring him down? econ.st/415Xnkx 👇

There is something ironic, and telling, about China’s love of Henry Kissinger. His foreign policy held that big countries mattered most and put national interests before principles. That is a type of thinking China understands well econ.st/3TiHntC 👇

What happens when it is too hot to work? Heat hurts both human health and economies econ.st/3RtvsHN 👇

The coming year could be critical for the future of India’s democracy—and its relations with the West econ.st/3uVYC9G 🌐

Telling advertisers to clear off is a bold approach for a company that last year made 90% or so of its revenue from them—and it leaves him especially vulnerable to an ad boycott. Read why: econ.st/3thOhEB Image: Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times/Redux/Eyevine

London has been dubbed the “libel capital of the world”. 1843 magazine profiles the law firm that helped make this happen econ.st/46PlRQ6

Between January and May this year North Korea’s commercial fleet grew by 14 ships, according to the latest report by a UN panel of experts. Transferring vessels to North Ko­rea is forbidden under sanctions placed on the country econ.st/3RbIrgc 👇

International support—and what Israel calls its “window of legitimacy” to conduct intensive warfare—is eroding in the face of the bloody toll in civilian lives in Gaza. The clock is ticking econ.st/3NgbeyU 👇

You hit the “snooze” button for a third time before eventually dragging yourself out of bed thinking, here we go again. It is a feeling many recognise all too well. But why do workers hate Mondays so much? econ.st/3uNJFXt 👇

Since 2018 an American charity has sent the equivalent of $22.50 a month to thousands of villagers in western Kenya. Results from the first two years of the basic-income trial have found that giving a wodge of cash is better than dripping it out econ.st/3Gx3i8u 👇

A new paper has highlighted suspicious activity that suggests someone might have known enough about Hamas’s attacks to profit on the stockmarket. The study has critics, but has prompted an inquiry by Israel’s securities authority econ.st/3sYdUdL 👇

Xi Jinping must decide whether to set an ambitious growth target for China in 2024 econ.st/41gmgdg 👇

In January voters in Taiwan will elect their next president. How to deal with China is the central theme of the campaign. Try our interactive election tracker and learn more about each candidate econ.st/47K65aF 👇

Bosnia has long been paralysed by ethnic divisions. Can a new mining project revive one town's economy? econ.st/3TgteNd 👇

What is krav maga? We explain econ.st/3NeQhEk 👇

Britain’s marathon rail strikes may be nearing an end. But don’t expect more reliable services soon econ.st/46Of8WG 👇

Britain’s mental-health crisis is a tale of unintended consequences. Rising awareness may be hurting the people with the most serious conditions econ.st/3TfHrKk 👇

The theatrical launch of Palmer Luckey’s new anti-drone missile, Roadrunner, reflects a divide in America’s arms industry econ.st/3Rwb4WI 👇

Neither America nor Russia has detonated a nuclear device since 1996; nor has China. Yet satellite imagery suggests intense activity at their test sites. A detonation at any of them could start an arms race more dangerous than that of the cold war econ.st/47st2yR 🌐

Which albums did you love this year? Throwback sounds such as folk, punk and soul dominate our list econ.st/3RheBGS 👇

Across Ukraine, tens of thousands of children are coping with the loss of parents in harrowing circumstances. The exact number is secret, since it correlates with the number of soldiers killed in action. But the trauma casts a devastating shadow econ.st/3GszPN1 👇

Will a fiscal mess thwart Japan’s nascent economic growth? econ.st/47NVWJY 👇

Once it is completed, the world’s biggest optical telescope will shed light on everything from the role of black holes in shaping the large-scale structure of the universe to how dark matter and dark energy affect the rate at which it is expanding econ.st/4amHF8S 👇