Why Israel must hold itself to account
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

War in Gaza
Why Israel must hold itself to account
And how it can be made to do so
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House
The new imperial preference
Donald Trump’s awful trade policy will outlast him
He thinks America is winning. It is not
This illustration shows an hourglass placed inside a shopping cart
Credit where it’s due
Buy now, pay later gets a bad rap. But it could be useful
Provided lenders open up
This illustration shows a man from behind holding a puzzle piece, trying to complete a puzzle. Around him, three other men are interacting: one is handing over a piece, another is whispering in his ear, and the third is typing on a laptop
Ripe for transformation
McKinsey and its peers need a new strategy. And some humility
AI could make consultancy more effective—or redundant
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New ways of looking
Will an astronomical anomaly challenge the idea of scientific revolutions?
Not everything is a paradigm shift

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The economic aspect of cancer prevention
By Invitation
Portrait of the author
Turkey’s future
Ekrem Imamoglu on how Turkey can have peace at home and respect abroad
Briefing
Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas
Justice in Gaza
Israel on trial: can the country police its own war crimes?
Israel’s legal system claims to be fiercely independent. On the Gaza war it is largely silent
Asia
Field General Asim Munir prays after laying a wreath at the Martyrs' Memorial during a guard of honor ceremony at the Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Marshal arts
Pakistan’s army chief is cosying up to Donald Trump
Turning green
Islamist parties are gaining ground in Malaysia
A strongman struggle
Narendra Modi and Donald Trump go head-to-head
Banyan
Nuclear nightmares are back
China
A human hand high fiving a computer chip hand
China’s AI juggernaut
Six months after DeepSeek’s breakthrough, China speeds on with AI
From colouring in to calligraphy
Savvy staff are moving from China’s nurseries to its care homes
Sputtering along with the dirty stuff
Shanxi province is struggling to diversify away from coal
United States

America First, no exceptions
MAGA’s disenchantment with Israel
Battle lines
Democrats are likely to lose the redistricting war
Inconvenient data
Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers
Parks and consternation
The National Park Service is in disarray
Political theatre
Alligator Alcatraz is an exercise in performative cruelty
Lexington
How is Trump’s Brazil-bashing putting America first?

The Americas

Opposition divided
Can Peronists, Argentina’s former masters, stop Javier Milei?
Perpetual power
Nayib Bukele could now rule El Salvador for life
A man, a plan, a canal—Panama!
Panama brings lawfare to the canal ports saga
Middle East & Africa

Irreversible damage
A glimpse of Gaza’s miserable future
The ones who care
Israeli sentiment on the war in Gaza is shifting
Hot buzz
How climate change could spread malaria
Flying low
Why it’s a pain to take a plane in Africa
The other hunger crisis
As the world focuses on Gaza, starvation also looms in Sudan
Europe
Shengjin migrant processing centre in Albania.
Is it safe?
Europe’s top court nixes Italy’s plan to expel migrants, for now
All stick, no carat
A tariff avalanche catches Switzerland unawares
How the mighty are falling
Albania’s new anti-corruption unit is taking down bigwigs
Battling Russia’s bots
Moldova’s election will test its resistance to Russia
Tapping out
Why the Germans are falling out of love with beer
Charlemagne
Europe’s Hogwarts has a new Dumbledore
Britain
An illustration of the British crown with a pill in front that has fallen off the crown leaving a space between the gems.
Big Pharma
AstraZeneca’s falling out with Britain
The last lap-dance
British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs
Green and pleasant
Is Britain’s Green Party too nice to emulate Reform UK?
A novel spy
Stella Rimington battled communists, terrorists and literary critics
Innovation nation
What’s Britain good at?
Bagehot
Starmer versus the burrito taxi
International

Guns v gavels
Why the laws of war are widely ignored
The Telegram
How to write laws of war for a wicked world
Business
A group of people climbing around the McKinsey logo and tinkering with it
Management consulting
How McKinsey lost its edge
Practising what they preach
Do consultants make good CEOs?
Miles-high club
How loyalty programmes are keeping America’s airlines aloft
Bartleby
How to greet people at work
The noose tightens
American businesses are running out of ways to avoid tariff pain
Hostage situation
The Elon Musk theory of pay
Confirming destination
Uber is readying itself for the driverless age—again
Crude awakening
South America is fast becoming the world’s hottest oil patch
Schumpeter
McDonald’s secret sauce—plus a pickle or two
Finance & economics
Illustration of a hand tapping a credit card on a calendar
Giving credit
Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good
Baby slump
America’s fertility crash reaches a new low
Sweet and sour
If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit
One-thousand-year vision
Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life
Buttonwood
Want better returns? Forget risk. Focus on fear
Free exchange
An economist’s guide to big life decisions
Science & technology

Cosmic horror
Astronomers cannot agree on how fast the universe is expanding
Inside job
Fraudulent scientific papers are booming
Safe and sound
Microphones can spot radar-evading hypersonic missiles
Well Informed
Should you take collagen?
Culture
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Literature and politics
The novels conservatives want you to read
Prudes with attitude
America’s barmy battle to ban bawdy books
The glow of woe
Why “Wednesday” is wickedly successful
Back Story
Swimming pools are cauldrons of envy, danger and lust
Summer in pink
Provence is not just a destination. It is a lifestyle brand
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Father Patrick Ryan marches to the British Embassy in Dublin during a demonstration in 1989
Old Father Timer
Fr Patrick Ryan, the “Devil’s Disciple”, improved IRA bomb-making