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Leaders


America and the world
What’s about to hit the world economy?
Trumponomics tees off
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks on stage.
The loyalty test
Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be attorney-general is an ill omen
It shows how far Donald Trump is willing to go to dominate the machinery of government
General manager of Dunhuang Shouhang Energy Saving New Energy Co. Liu Fuguo speaks to reporters next to heliostat mirrors, at the site of Shouhang 100MW Tower Solar Thermal Power Generation Project in Gansu province, China, October 16th 2024
The long haul
Everything about climate change may seem grim. It isn’t
The fight for a stable climate will be fought using technology
Unfinished apartment buildings at Royals Garden, a housing development in Shanghai
Not too early to say
China should not wait to stimulate its economy
It is heading into a trade war
Muhammad Yunus at the COP29 Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 13th 2024
Caretaker, take care
After the revolution, Bangladesh is stable. For the moment
Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader, needs to set a date for elections
A red eagle, it's pupil has been replaced by a yellow earth
America’s lame-duck period
How to avoid global chaos in the next ten weeks
Risks abound in the limbo between now and Donald Trump’s swearing-in

Letters

On Donald Trump, obesity drugs, Ethiopia, grief, our Telegram column
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Ending it in one day?
War in Ukraine may only intensify under Trump, says Dmytro Kuleba
Briefing

An illustration showing the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy and the costs associated with it.
Carbon bargain
The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think
Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances
Asia

A collage illustration of Muhammad Yunus in the centre with Begum Khaleda Zia on the left and Shafiqur Rahman on the right. Red dots and cutout green shapes from the Bangladesh flag are scattered in the background.
Bangladesh
2024’s biggest revolution may yet devour its children
No dough
South Australia tries to ban political donations
A shot in the dark
Can the Philippines keep Donald Trump on its side?
Wheels and fortune
India is turning into an SUV country
Banyan
How South-East Asia can weather the Trump trade typhoon
China

Photovoltaic panels at a photovoltaic power station in Yinchuan, China
The COP29 conference
Mega-polluter China believes it is a climate saviour
Loss and control
A spate of horrific car-rammings shakes China
Hidden debts, crouching rulers
China’s stimulus falls short, as a showdown with Trump looms
Going for grub
China’s greatest dumpling run
United States

A duplicated photo of Donald Trump pointing at the camera with red gradients.
They’re hired
What Trump’s picks suggest about how his presidency will go
Thune’s tune
Senate Republicans flex their independence
Crusader in the Pentagon
The man picked as defence secretary wants to purge the Pentagon
National security
Mike Waltz wants America to focus on the threat from China
The brown revolution
Climate change and the next administration
Give him your tired, your poor
Back to the 1850s
Lexington
The promise Donald Trump is sure to keep

The Americas

The Canadian Armed Forces Parachute Team, the SkyHawks.
Canada’s military
Justin Trudeau’s dodgy defence promise
From underworld to white collar
Brazil’s gangsters have been getting into politics
Instability in Haiti
Haiti has lost its prime minister. Gangs aren’t going anywhere
Middle East & Africa

Construction site in Luanda Angola
Flying blind
To get more capital, Africa needs more data
The anxiety of hope
The world’s next country?
Itinerant Islamists
Quitting Qatar is the least of Hamas’s problems
Iraq, Iran and Israel
Iraq could be the Middle East’s next battleground
Deepening divides
The world’s most unlikely safe haven
Europe

German Chancellor Scholz addresses parliament in Berlin
Kanzlerdämmerung
The sun begins to set on Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship
Russian ruins
Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell
Dividing dodgy spoils
The war in Ukraine has rattled both sides of Cyprus
An imploding star
Italy’s oddest political party is splitting
Sexy at 60
How older French women are redefining the aesthetics of ageing
Charlemagne
Elon Musk threatens to deepen the rift between Europe and America
Britain

Sheep in pasture, with 42m-long-bladed wind turbines behind them.
We are the turbine-builders
How to frame the argument over clean power
Sins and forgiveness
The archbishop and the abuser
Lost connection
The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service
The stressed is Vistry
Britain’s star builder hits trouble
Brideshead, borrowed
Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
Goal setting
Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?
Bagehot
Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
International

Donald Trump and Joe Biden shaking hands in the Oval Office of the White House
From Biden-world to Trump-world
The danger zone between two presidents
Dethroning fossil fuels
King coal is dirty, dangerous—and far from dead
The Telegram
How to avoid Oval Office humiliation
Business

A hand throwinf the MAGA hat that cuts through the tax increase on corporations.
Levy breaks
America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed
Return of the Wundertüte
Donald Trump is bad news for German business
Semiconductors
TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope
Trainer wars
Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes
A postcard from Baku
Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation
A sticky situation
Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
Bartleby
The magic and the minefield of confidence
Schumpeter
Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump
Finance & economics

A globe with the American continent looming over another globe of the rest of the world
America v the world
China, Europe, Mexico: the biggest losers from Trumponomics
Money mantras
What does America’s next treasury secretary believe?
Buttonwood
Why financial markets are so oddly calm
Bitcoin flip
Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Reality cheque
How to pay for the poor world to go green
Free exchange
Economists need new indicators of economic misery
Science & technology

Display of an image of the world on the Hyperwall at the NASA Ames Research Center
Future imperfect
Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
Goldbugs at work
There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps
Shuttle shock
Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena
Yesterday’s fish
Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
Culture

Paul Mescal plays Lucius in "Gladiator II"
Ancient Rome on screen
What does “Gladiator II” get wrong?
The night that nearly broke Paris
The long shadow of the Paris terrorist attacks of 2015
You burn something new every day
“Energy transition” has been profoundly misunderstood
Back Story
In “Anora”, strippers and Russian heavies are not what you expect
Not the same old stories
The best films of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Baltazar Ushca extracts ice from the slopes of the Chimborazo volcano, in Chimborazo province, Ecuador on November 16th 2007
Three donkey-loads of ice
Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week