The Economist online offers authoritative insight and opinion on international news, politics, business, finance, science and technology.

It publishes all articles from The Economist print edition (including those printed only in British copies) and maintains a searchable online archive that dates back to June 1997. It also offers a variety of web-only content, including blogs, debates and audio/video programmes.

The Economist describes its outlook as follows:

What, besides free trade and free markets, does The Economist believe in? "It is to the Radicals that The Economist still likes to think of itself as belonging. The extreme centre is the paper's historical position." That is as true today as when Crowther said it in 1955. The Economist considers itself the enemy of privilege, pomposity and predictability. It has backed conservatives such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. It has supported the Americans in Vietnam. But it has also endorsed Harold Wilson and Bill Clinton, and espoused a variety of liberal causes: opposing capital punishment from its earliest days, while favouring penal reform and decolonisation, as well as—more recently—gun control and gay marriage.