India’s next move
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

America’s blunder
Humiliation, vindication—and a giant test for India
Trump has triggered a trade and defence crisis: how should Modi respond?

The trial of Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity
It is a test case for how countries recover from a populist fever
Diptych of Lisa Cook and Donald Trump
The Federal Reverse
How much danger is America’s central bank in?
Whether Lisa Cook stays or goes, important norms have been broken
Prime Minister Francois Bayrou and President Emmanuel Macron attend a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France on July 12th 2025
Europe
France’s government is on the brink of collapse, again
Emmanuel Macron looks likely to lose another prime minister over an attempt to curb public debt
illustration of a Swiss Army knife with tools replaced by symbols of communism and utility, including a hammer and sickle, a pen, scissors, a bottle opener, and a corkscrew. The knife's handle is red with yellow stars, resembling the flag of China.
Innovation v involution
Don’t forget the downsides of China’s innovation push
China’s industrial policy attracts fans abroad, critics at home

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Don’t ditch Black Economic Empowerment in South Africa
By Invitation

The global tech race
The boss of SAP on Europe’s botched approach to digital sovereignty
Briefing
A photo collage featuring portraits of Bolsonaro, Trump, and Moraes, highlighting Brazil’s political divisions ahead of Bolsonaro’s trial.
Order and progress
Jair Bolsonaro’s trial shows Brazil a way out from polarisation and stagnation
Moderates on both sides see a chance to draw a line, and start fixing deep-seated problems
Asia
President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in the Oval Office at the White House
Turning points
A defining test looms for India
Borne out of bullying
Will a harsher world accelerate India’s reforms?
All bets are off
India’s government bans fantasy sports games
Banyan
Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: the Indian consumer
China
An officer runs back to his position after correcting soldiers from the People's Liberation Army as they march in formation during a practice for an upcoming military parade
Troops, tanks and missiles in Beijing
On parade in China: Putin, the PLA and purges
No way out
Chinese courts can bar even those not accused of crimes from leaving the country
Purges
Something is amiss in China’s foreign-affairs leadership
United States
A collage illustration showing USC basketball player JuJu Watkins, Texas Tech softball player NiJaree Canady, Texas Longhorns American football quarterback Arch Manning, Michigan Wolverines American football quarterback Bryce Underwood and American college
College sports
A $19bn industry is about to pay its workforce for the first time
Insecurity clearance
Donald Trump has purged one of the CIA’s most senior Russia analysts
The art of the impossible
Zohran Mamdani is promising lots of things he can’t actually do
From sea to shining sea
Have foreign tourists really avoided America this year?
Landon calling
The Democrat who calls Trump a child of God
Lexington
New York is turning 400 and no one cares

The Americas
Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group, prepare to depart for deployment during a man the rails ceremony.
War? Games?
A surprise US Navy surge in the Caribbean
Porcine of the times
Peru’s cartoonish presidential front-runner
Middle East & Africa

Guns for hire
Putin’s botched African adventure
Unburied hatchet
The indecorous fight over a dead president’s body
Bibi’s deadly vacillation
Israel’s prevaricator-in-chief
An ailing giant
No one is satisfied with Egypt’s role in Gaza
The architecture of Syria’s prisons
A haunting new view of Assad’s brutality in Syria
Europe
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron prior to talks in Berlin
The Franco-German relationship
Time for some Merz-Macron magic
The flight of the flamingo
Ukraine shows off a deadly new cruise missile
Yet another election
After a year of chaos, the Dutch hope to return to real issues
Winds of change
Why Poland is becoming less central European and more Baltic
Charlemagne
Ten years later, “Wir schaffen das” has proved a pyrrhic victory
Britain
An illustration of Blaise Metreweli holding a document file in front of the MI6 headquarters.
On His Majesty’s Stretched Service
The choices facing Britain’s next MI6 chief
Britain’s note-takers
Hansard shows what it takes to put democracy on the record
The churning countryside
In some ways, rural Britain is changing faster than its cities
Time’s arrow
The world’s oldest daily radio serial on England’s new rural life
Chemistry lessons
Quietly, Britain is moving closer to EU rules
Bagehot
The polycrisis theory of Brexit
International
An illustration of a robotic arm holding a megaphone which has a black censorship line across it.
War on woke
Donald Trump is waging war on woke AI
The Telegram
The wrong way to end a war
1843

The plot against Brazil
The untold story of Bolsonaro’s weird and wild coup attempt
Business
A conveyor belt with lightbulbs rolling on it and falling into a shopping basket.
The ideas factory
How China became an innovation powerhouse
Emitting defeat
Donald Trump, friend of the EV?
Pulling out the stops
Service stations are getting a glow-up
Steadying Orsted
How much trouble is the world’s biggest offshore-wind developer in?
Privacy controls
The market for startup shares is getting even weirder
Bartleby
Feuds, grudges and revenge
Schumpeter
How a power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia’s rise
Finance & economics
Collage featuring Donald Trump, Lisa Cook, Jerome Powell, and the Federal Reserve building, with bold graphic design elements
Cooking up a storm
How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage
Bill’s attempted kill
Assessing the case against Lisa Cook
Buttonwood
Why you should buy your employer’s shares
Between a graph and a fist
Fear the deficit-populism doom loop
One big casino
Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred
Market mystery
Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on?
Free exchange
Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating
Science & technology
Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory Under Construction
Ghost story
A Chinese lab starts to tackle a giant mystery in particle physics
Teenage angst
The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable
Brewer’s bot
The rise of beer made by AI
Well informed
Are saunas actually good for you?
Culture
Characters around a table in "The Thursday Murder Club"
It takes a village
“The Thursday Murder Club” and the resurgence of cosy crime
The view from the arena
What gladiator shows were really like
The family’s way
A story of occupations, surveillance and exile in Albania
Literary lives
Robert Louis Stevenson was adventurous, mercurial and fragile
Hitting the top spot
Flirty and thriving: how Sabrina Carpenter became a pop superstar
World in a dish
Forget smelling flowers; now you can drink them
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Sen Genshitsu serves tea at an event to mark the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and China in Beijing, China on April 17th 2018
The Way of Tea
Sen Genshitsu spread peace through sipping