All-American silicon
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Leaders

All-American silicon
Donald Trump’s fantasy of home-grown chipmaking
To remain the world’s foremost technological power, America needs its friends
Ahmed al-Sharaa holds a press conference
Syrian politics
A new opposition could be a healthy sign for Syria
Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new president, needs to bring his critics closer
Photography of Vladimir Putin with a red overlay
The war for Donald’s ear
Who will America’s president listen to next on Ukraine?
The problem with Donald Trump’s fast-moving, unpredictable diplomacy
Abstract image of a globe-like womb with warm orange and purple tones, faint grid lines, and a subtle fetal silhouette inside.
In the oven
Pregnant women need protecting from heatwaves
As temperatures rise, so must understanding of the risks

Rogue Britannia
Britain leads the world in a new global business—a criminal one
What to do about its rampant steal-and-export industry

Letters
A selection of correspondence
How significant is the rise of fraudulent scientific papers?
By Invitation

After Anchorage
Margaret MacMillan on the promise—and perils—of wartime summits
Briefing
An illustration shows computer chips forming the shape of Taiwan, with multiple hands reaching to take pieces, symbolizing TSMC’s global demand and its ambition to become a worldwide company.
TSMC
The world’s biggest chipmaker needs to move beyond Taiwan
Easier said than done
Asia
Illustration of Mount Fuji with a large red microchip rising behind it like the sun and lots of circuitry running around it
Roaring back?
Japan storms back into the chip wars
When the chips are up
TSMC could revolutionise rural Japan
Poll politics
How fair are India’s elections?
Terror trade
Pakistan is critical in the fight against Islamic State terrorism
Banyan
The world is learning to live with the Taliban
China
Portrait of Jimmy Lai
Judicial independence
Hong Kong’s courtroom dramas
The second act
China’s mid-year economic wobble
United States
Two men paddle in high water after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area, August 31, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Muskrat ramble
Does it make sense for America to keep subsidising a sinking city?
Swampoodle, No More
Welcome to the YIMBYest neighbourhood in America
When abundance meets resistance
The Democrats who find abundance liberalism threatening
No-man’s-land
The young American female soldiers of TikTok
Cloudbusting
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to stop them from making it rain
Lexington
How Washington became Donald Trump’s chew toy

The Americas

Turning over a new leaf?
Life after death for Canada’s crushed Conservatives
Not snow sure
Climate change threatens an Andean ski boom
Cubans sandwiched
The new fears of Cubans in Florida
No left turn
After 20 years in power, Bolivia’s socialists crash out of it
More than manga and microwaves
Why Mexicans love Japan and Korea
Middle East & Africa
Tribal and bedouin fighters mobolise amid clashes with Druze near Swedia in Syria
After Assad
A new twist in Syria: a political opposition
Another kind of conflict
What’s in a name in the Middle East?
Voices from the strip
Gaza’s Gen-Z influencers
Autocrats without borders
Are east African governments colluding to stifle dissent?
Going viral
How Sierra Leone beat back mpox
Europe
Russia's President Putin meets senior officials in Moscow
The view from Moscow
Putin’s hunger to destroy Western unity rages on
After a deal
Security “guarantees” for Ukraine are dangerously hazy
The Aussenkanzler
Friedrich Merz cuts a good figure abroad but is struggling at home
Wildfires
Europe is ablaze
Sublime sport
Why Turkey’s football clubs can pay more cash for talent
Charlemagne
Trump wants a Nobel prize. Europe can exploit that to help Ukraine
Britain

Grand Theft Global Inc
The new geography of stolen goods
Manufacturers v thieves
How thieves could break into your car
For whom the Bell tolls
A court ruling threatens to disrupt Britain’s asylum policy
Flunking it
England’s white working class falls further behind at exams
The poor me’s lament
The moral of “The Salt Path”, an embellished bestseller
Bagehot
What it means when Britain talks about “Bosh”
International

What to expect when you’re expecting
A burning threat to pregnant women
The Telegram
Was globalisation ever a meritocracy?
Business
A 3D render of the intel logo separated in two.
Chipmaking in America
To survive, Intel must break itself apart
Bad tech
How AI-powered hackers are stealing billions
Sun-safe fashion
China’s hottest new look: the facekini
DeepSeek aftershocks
China is quietly upstaging America with its open models
From trees to test tubes
Big chocolate has a growing taste for lab-grown cocoa
Bartleby
The last days of brainstorming
Schumpeter
American tech’s split personalities
Finance & economics
Illustration of five workers standing on icons symbolizing different job sectors: manufacturing, retail, healthcare, tech, and delivery/logistics.
Pressed into service
Can China cope with a deindustrialised future?
Heading south
The green transition has a surprising new home
Hedging against America
Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks
Farshlepteh krenk
Where has the worst inflation problem?
Tech support
How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy
Buttonwood
In praise of complicated investing strategies
Free exchange
Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?
Science & technology
An abstract collage of a syringe and an RNA stranf
Shooting the messenger
RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA technology endangers the world
Pass the screwdriver
AI-powered robots can take your phone apart
Oil’s well that ends well
Old fossil-fuel plants are becoming green-energy hubs
Well informed
Should you use a standing desk?
Culture
A woman wearing a protective mask takes a ride on a carousel in Paris, France, July 10th 2020
A plague on both your houses
Covid-19 sent the world mad
Censory deprivation
How publishers became scared of books
A man called “Superstar”
How Rajinikanth, a 74-year-old actor, drives fans into a frenzy
Drugs and religiosity
High priests: why scientists gave magic mushrooms to the clergy
Steamy stuff
An anonymous chef serves up stories of food and flings
High-heeled shoes to fill
Farewell to Carrie Bradshaw, TV’s exasperating, enduring heroine
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Terence Stamp outside at night in 1965
The most beautiful man in the world
Terence Stamp preferred philosophy to celebrity