How a dollar crisis would unfold
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover

Leaders

Biting the hand that funds
How a dollar crisis would unfold
If investors keep selling American assets, a grim fate awaits the world economy
Hispanic Caucus Members Demand Return Of Immigrant Deported To El Salvador Prison
Leaders
In its pursuit of a policy, Donald Trump’s government is content to destroy a man
What’s at stake in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seen on Capitol Hill.
Swipe it away
Zuckerberg on trial: why Meta deserves to win
Social media has plenty of problems. Lack of competition isn’t one of them

The rule of law
Brazil’s Supreme Court is on trial
How a superstar judge illuminates an excessive concentration of power
A man employed in a plastic recycling plant breaks down plastic barrels
In praise of plastics
Don’t overlook the many benefits of plastics
If they are a problem, it is because they are badly managed
Garbage collectors on strike outside a waste management depot in Birmingham
Something rotten
The lesson of Birmingham’s striking binmen
The moment is ripe to reform Britain’s equal-pay rules

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The threat to university research in America, and more
By Invitation

Aid and development
The head of the Gates Foundation on how to keep helping the poor as aid shrinks
Cracks in the bedrock
The bond market’s problems aren’t all to do with Donald Trump, write Anil Kashyap and Jeremy Stein
Asia
Indian women try on gold ornaments at a jewellery shop in Bangalore, India.
Sticks and carats
The biggest bugs in the new gold rush are Asian
Risky routines
Indians are losing big on the stockmarket
History wars
Why Narendra Modi has embraced an anti-caste icon
Risen and rising
Why Christianity is taking an Asian turn
China
The American hawk with its wing being clipped.
Hawks v MAGA
China hawks are losing influence in Trumpworld, despite the trade war
Your time’s your own
Chinese officials are encouraging office workers not to work so hard
Standing up
China’s propagandists preach defiance in the trade war with America
United States
Portrait of US President Donald Trump sat in shadow during a cabinet meeting at the White House.
Falling feeling
Donald Trump’s approval rating is dropping
By the numbers
Tracking Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown
Eating the rich
Berniechella: America’s left protests against Donald Trump
Hurrah for exams
America’s progressives should love standardised tests
Human shields
Abortion becomes more common in some US states that outlawed it
Lexington
Can Progressives learn to make progress again?
The Americas
People protest against Argentine President Javier Milei’s adjustment policies, after his government sealed a new loan deal with the IMF, outside the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace
23rd time lucky
Milei’s bold move: making Argentina’s economy normal
House Bukele at the court of Trump
Nayib Bukele provides Donald Trump with a legal black hole
Spring unsprung
Guatemala’s indigenous people grow impatient with their champion
Democrat or dictator?
The judge who would rule the internet
Nobody’s perfect
Daniel Noboa wins another term as Ecuador’s murder rate soars

Middle East & Africa
This illustration shows the Emblem of the United Arab Emirates. The golden falcon holds torn pieces of land marked with "X" in its claws. The background is dark, making the falcon stand out boldly. The image suggests themes of power, control, and influence
The UAE’s destabilising influence
The UAE preaches unity at home but pursues division abroad
Trouble in the Horn of Africa
A new smash and grab for Red Sea ports
Israel’s Qatargate
Binyamin Netanyahu’s other war
Young and broke
Populism meets reality in Senegal
Pre-poll lock-up
When does opposition become treason in east Africa?
Europe
Photomontage of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin repeated through a hypnotic red and white spiral with stars dotted around them
Fighting and talking
Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire is slipping away
When politics becomes the weak point
Power is being monopolised in Ukraine
Germany’s gag reflex
The threat to free speech in Germany
The battle on the right
Young men in Spain love the hardline Vox
Charlemagne
Europe’s streets are alive with the sound of protests
Britain
Steel worker walks in front of furnace at Scunthorpe Steel Works
British Steel
Britain’s government has entered the steel industry with no plan
When “equal value” comes to town
Birmingham’s bin strikes reveal local problems—and a national one
The Hollywood of Europe
Are hits like “Adolescence” good or bad for Britain?
The Economist poll tracker
The splintering of British politics
The value of a life
How Britain decides which drugs to buy
Gender wars
What is a woman? Britain’s Supreme Court gives its answer
Bagehot
In praise of flag-shagging
International
A worker places plastic bottles in the assembly line
Polymeramory
Plastics are greener than they seem
The Telegram
Xi Jinping’s Trump-sized puzzle
Business
An illustration of two cogs, grinding against each other and causing a spark between them. The larger cog on the left has the image of a Chinese dragon on the side whereas the smaller cog on the right depicts an American eagle.
Uncle Sam v the dragon
Pity American firms in China. Xi Jinping is hitting back
When the levies break
How to swerve Donald Trump’s tariffs
Europe’s sunny south
Spanish business thrives while bigger European economies stall
Mutual connections
LinkedIn’s unlikely role in the AI race
Trash talk
A new way to recycle plastic is here
Bartleby
Reclaiming the office lunch
Schumpeter
The trade war may reverse Hong Kong’s commercial decline
Finance & economics
A dollar sign cracked in the middle.
Check your privilege
How Trump might topple the dollar
A time for bravery
Can the euro go global?
Collateral damage
Poor countries would miss King Dollar
The coming flood
America is turning away China’s goods. Where will they go instead?
Buttonwood
Stockmarkets do not reward firms for investing in Trump’s America
Free exchange
Hell is other people’s currencies
Science & technology
A plastic bag floats in the sea
Plastic and health
Microplastics have not yet earned their bad reputation
Artificial diplomats
AI models could help negotiators secure peace deals
Deep freeze
Scientists are getting to grips with ice
Well informed
Electric vehicles also cause air pollution
Culture
An arrangment of different characters facing each other, pulling silly faces trying to make the other laugh
Humour me
The success of “LOL: Last One Laughing” is no joke
He said, she said
Bill v Melinda Gates: whose memoir should you read?
The Economist watches
The six best films about financial turmoil
Literary retellings
A celebrated novelist grapples with “Moby-Dick”
Mobbed
Feral teen “Minecraft Movie” fans might just be a good sign
Looking sharp
A century on, Art Deco is as stylish as ever
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Mario Vargas Llosa, writer and politician, attends the Oxford Literary Festival in Oxford, England in 2009
A passion for freedom
Mario Vargas Llosa was shaped by authoritarianism