The battle for New York
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

American politics
The battle for New York
A fight is brewing between Donald Trump and Zohran Mamdani

Guns and butter
Why funding Ukraine is a giant opportunity for Europe
The bill will be huge. It is also a historic bargain
US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping.
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping
America and China have only holstered their trade weapons
Neither country wants decoupling or confrontation—at least, not yet
President Javier Milei speaks to his supporters following the mid-term elections in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Argentina
Javier Milei’s chance to transform Argentina and teach the world
Lessons in public finance from the original sinner
A health worker measures a child's mid-upper-arm circumference during a nutrition screening at Kalojuka village in Kotido district, Karamoja region, Uganda
Development
The Trump administration’s approach to global health is flawed but fixable
America First need not put Africans last

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Do Republicans in the West want to kill more wolves?
By Invitation

The new Gilded Age
Peter York on Donald Trump’s dictator-chic White House
Briefing
Skyline of New York City on a gloomy day.
Core weakness
As new jobs in finance dry up, New York City’s fiscal model is wilting
High taxes irk the rich and high prices plague everyone else
Asia
A South Korean supporter holds a placard reading "Welcome Trump" during a rally welcoming US President Donald Trump
All that glisters
Asia adapts to Donald Trump’s transactional diplomacy
Abe Shinzo’s killing
What a popular murderer reveals about Japan
New to the club
At long last, Timor-Leste joins ASEAN
Poor showing
India’s poorest and youngest electorate prepares for polls
Banyan
How East Asian pop culture is inspiring Gen Z protests
China
US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping.
The real deal?
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agree to a trade truce
Mind-reading
Xi Jinping is at his boldest and brashest
Chaguan
Xi Jinping’s latest purge: paranoid or purposeful?
United States
Zohran Mamdani greets New Yorkers.
Start spreading the views
A political drama for the ages, opening soon in New York City
Power politics
The data-centre backlash is brewing in America
Serving chips
Led by Nvidia, the AI industry has plans to reindustrialise America
DJT as FDR
Could Donald Trump become president again in 2028?
The Billups comes due
A basketball scandal highlights vulnerabilities in sports betting
Slow marathons
Crunching the numbers on every NYC marathon finisher since 2021
Scary stuff
Tear gas and Halloween costumes in America’s third-largest city
Lexington
Zohran Mamdani wants to make New York great again

The Americas
APTOPIX Argentina Election
Rev up the chainsaw
Javier Milei has won a fresh mandate to remake Argentina
Gunboat diplomacy
The meaning of America’s vast military build-up off Venezuela
Fighting gangs
A bloody police raid in Rio was the deadliest in Brazil’s history
Extreme weather
Jamaica’s nightmare comes true
The new left
The Colombian left has chosen a successor to Gustavo Petro
Middle East & Africa
Sudanese refugee child Islam Ibrahim, aged 27 months, who had been in an MSF hospital for 24 days suffering from Kwashiokor, is tube fed by his mother, Salwa Daoud
A silent crisis
Aid cuts are devastating health services in Africa
El-Fasher falls
Darfur’s besieged capital falls to the Rapid Support Forces
Turkey in Syria
The limits of Turkey’s influence in Syria are showing
Gaza’s fragile peace
The next stage of the Trump peace plan for Gaza is stalling
From biting satirist to court jester
An Egyptian comedian makes a (virtual) comeback
Europe
ESP lab at The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft)
Paying the charge
Europe’s need for green electricity is blowing fuses
French public finances
France’s finance minister on how to pass a budget
Yes, he can
The Dutch choose optimism over anti-immigrant populism
Hanging by a thread
Turkey’s president is moving to eviscerate democracy
The power war
The Kremlin’s blitz to make Ukraine “go dark”
Charlemagne
The Finnish lifestyle philosophy that could save Europe
Britain
Abstract picture of classroom
Schools in England
England’s broken system for meeting special educational needs
Pioneering Portsmouth
A fresh approach to helping children with special educational needs
Running clubs
Parkrun has become an unwitting British public-health success
Questionable value
Question 1: why are questionnaires in trouble?
Catch and release
Britain’s overstretched prisons are releasing inmates by mistake
Defying gravity
A Welsh startup wants to make semiconductors in space
Bagehot
The idolatry of victimhood
International
A firefighter speaks with a local security employee at the site of food warehouses hit by an overnight Russian missile strike in Kyiv, Ukraine, October 25th 2025
Defending Ukraine
What will it cost to make Vladimir Putin stop?
The Telegram
Donald Trump’s trade power is vast, but self-defeating
Business
Aermacchi M-346 Advanced Jet Trainer
Bangs for euros
Europe’s defence firms are flying. Now for the hard part
A shrinking divide
Weight-loss drugs are spreading across the world
The House of Wallenberg
Sweden’s leading business dynasty prepares for succession
Fast, in the wrong direction
Porsche’s warning lights are flashing
Black mood
Why big oil is missing out on the AI energy bonanza
Bartleby
LinkedIn and the art of self-promotion
Schumpeter
Google v Microsoft: the battle of AI business models
Finance & economics
Illustration of a car priced at $5500, but with diagrams pointing to flat tyres and engine issues that suggest $5000 would be a better price
Robocomplainer
The end of the rip-off economy
Stash of the titan
China’s secret stockpiles have been a great success—so far
Buttonwood
A letter to investors from the White House Opportunities Fund
Small consolation
Investors will help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa
Firm foundations
India’s IPO boom is good news for its economy
Tobacconomics
The counterintuitive economics of smoking
Free exchange
The new globalisation paradox
Science & technology
An illustration in three panels: on the left, the back half of a pig with an outline of a kidney; in the centre, a double helix with a portion separated from one of the strands; on the right, a person with an outline of a kidney.
Xenotransplants
How pig-organ transplants might soon save lives
Jamming the jammers
America is upgrading GPS to catch up with rivals
Well informed
Can you eat your way to lower cholesterol?
Herpetology
Scientists may have found a panacea for snake bites
Culture
An illustration of a zombie hand coming out of the ground holding a box of popcorn, with a graveyard and the moon in the background.
Mission creepy
Frightfully good stuff: why this is a golden age of horror films
Moving fast and breaking things
Strongmen in politics and technology are changing the world
World in a dish
Young people are hot for ramyeon, spicy instant noodles
Palace intrigue
Lessons from history on renovating official buildings
A cuticle above the rest
Does nail art have art nailed?
Back Story
The serious reasons for wearing silly costumes to protests
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Bomb disposal expert Peter Gurney breaks the window of a car, hauls out the rear seat stuffed with explosives, and disconnects a bomb in London, 1973
Dicing with death
Against all odds, Peter Gurney loved his work