Trump’s first 100 days, and beyond
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Only the beginning
Trump is a revolutionary. Will he succeed?
He has already done lasting harm to America

Reform UK
The man Britain cannot ignore
Nigel Farage’s return means a new, more volatile era in British politics
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stands in front of the American flag
Recession and succession
President Trump’s attacks on the Fed are not over
Jerome Powell wins a reprieve. But expect more showdowns between the White House and the Fed
An African migrant holds a European Union flag on board a ferry to Algeciras, Spain
On the move
Africans need jobs. The rest of the world needs workers
Migration from Africa is a mega-trend that transcends today’s populist surge
A poster for Canada's Liberal party candidate, Prime Minister Mark Carney, is attached to a telegraph pole.
Maple-leaf makeover
How Canada went from preachy to pragmatic
On the eve of an election, its political transformation is stunning
A wire frame hand hooked up to a lie detector. The graph indicates lying
Expecting the unexpected
How to keep AI models on the straight and narrow
Interpretability techniques are powerful, but must be used with care

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The challenges faced by Brazil’s Supreme Court, and more
By Invitation

Canada’s election
To see off the Trump challenge, Canada must fix its productivity problem, says Michael Ignatieff
Briefing
Young people in Kenya take part in extracurricular activities in school
Tomorrow’s workers
Emigration from Africa will change the world
As other countries age, they will need African youth
Asia

Multipolar problems
J.D. Vance flies into a giant trade storm in India
Opportunity in the air
Taiwan flogs America drones “not made in China”
A very stable city-state
What’s at stake as Singapore goes to the polls
Chaos in Jammu & Kashmir
India and Pakistan could come to blows over Kashmir
Banyan
How the global south forgot its own birthday
China

Two fronts
Amid a trade war, Xi Jinping may be purging China’s armed forces
Pro-natalism
China’s $38,000 baby formula
The trade war
China’s fine diners switch from American to Aussie beef
United States
Donald Trump arrives for his inauguration in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC on January 20th 2025
Separation of powers
Who will stop Donald Trump’s drive for unchecked power?
Lawfare
How courts might stop Donald Trump’s attack on civil society
Will the levies brake?
Expect more chaos in Donald Trump’s tariff policies
Chainsaws on
Donald Trump hopes to become a one-man deregulator
Amazon Prime for humans
How Donald Trump plans to ramp up deportations
The Proust of Truth Social
America’s poster-in-chief is very, very online

The Americas
A red and black illustration of two silhouettes back to back representing Mark Carney on the left and Pierre Poilievre on the right with a map leaf overlap and intersecting the colours in negative.
Captain election
How Donald Trump caused a political earthquake in Canada
Hunkered down
Bolivia’s wild politics are dragging it into the abyss
Middle East & Africa
This illustration shows several political leaders, African and Ukrainian, against a backdrop of famous landmarks like St. Basil’s Cathedral (Moscow) and the Motherland Monument (Kyiv). It’s styled with bold red, green, and yellow triangles, hinting at
A cool reception
Why Ukraine is losing the war for African opinion
Beach bummed
The Mauritius miracle is losing its sheen
The pitfalls of an Iran deal
Is Donald Trump about to bomb Iran or rebuild it?
Kingmakers in the Levant
The Druze’s influence outweighs their numbers
The church in Gaza
The pope phoned a priest in Gaza every day
Europe
Dr. Godineau, from the Maison de Sante in La Bastide-de-Serou, visits one of his patients, Andre, 75, who has no car and lives in a remote hamlet
Healthy living
France is a far healthier country than America
Not from Mars
Why Italy’s defence spending lags far behind
No room to roam
Europe wants Sweden’s minerals. That’s more bad news for the Sami
Slow progress
The Kremlin’s grey-zone war in the Black Sea shows its real intent
Deal or no deal?
America is selling a Ukraine peace plan. No one is buying, yet
Charlemagne
Europe’s reluctant reset with Turkey
Britain
Nigel Farage enters Newton Aycliffe Working Men’s Club for campaign speech
Nigel’s world
Nigel Farage leads a movement that is hungrier and better organised
Inside the rally
Ice cream and immigration at the Farage show
Stop press
Can a six-year-old startup revive the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper?
Cannabis cops
Why Britain’s police forces have taken to cultivating cannabis
Reset moment
Donald Trump’s antics mean new boldness is needed in UK-EU links
Bagehot
Britain’s 20-20-20-20 vision
International

American air strikes
Trump’s red-hot war on terror
Cluster-struck
Learning to love the cluster bomb
Big decisions in the Vatican
The coming struggle to choose the next pope
The Telegram
The ugly task of Putin-proofing your border
Business
An illustration of Peter Thiel waving a small American flag.
The new atomic age
Peter Thiel doubles down on patriotism in the Trump era
Pipe dream
America won’t be able to bully the world into buying more gas
Crash course
Even Republicans are falling out of love with Tesla
Meals on wheels
For Volkswagen, things go from bad to wurst
President Grinch
How Donald Trump might steal Christmas
Mall mercies
Shopping malls are making a comeback in America
Bartleby
The early lives of bosses
Schumpeter
Watch out, Elon Musk. Chinese robots are coming
Finance & economics
Illustration of a house of cards built from computer chips, arranged in a triangular pyramid structure against a solid blue background
Chipping away
Why American tech stocks are newly vulnerable
Give me your jetsetters, your multi-millionaires
Trump wants a certain kind of immigrant: the uber-rich
Til they drop
Will China’s shoppers cushion the Trumpian blow?
Buttonwood
Should investors spend the trade war in India?
Nasty taste
Not just Trump: Asia has a trade problem of its own making
Bog data
Economists don’t know what’s going on
Zooming ahead
Unlike everyone else, Americans and Britons still shun the office
College blues
What price cool? $31 a month, according to students
Free exchange
Trump’s sovereign-wealth fund won’t make America richer
Science & technology
An AI person made of wireframe is doing the crossed fingers sign behind his back while having the other hand up, as a sign of it lying.
Code of misconduct
AI models can learn to conceal information from their users
Breaking the mould
Lethal fungi are becoming drug-resistant—and spreading
Dingo? Bingo
Australia’s dingoes are becoming a distinct species
Well informed
How to form good habits, and break bad ones: trick your brain
Culture
A collage that compositionally mimicks the US flag. There's images of protests against the war in Vietnam, famous artists, films, and badges from the era.
The times, they did a-change
The Vietnam war made American culture bolder and more varied
Recruiting athletes
The NFL has turned the draft into thrilling television
Internet personalities
They sing and dance—but rarely show their faces. Meet VTubers
Back Story
An old, leisurely way to watch television drama is back in vogue
Eau yes
TikTok is changing the perfume business
The heart of art
Exploring the mysteries of the Louvre
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, Vatican on September 26th 2018
The works of mercy
Pope Francis changed the Catholic church, but not as much as he hoped