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The Economist (April 11th - 17th 2026)

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Key Articles
Pakistan plays peacemaker

Family businesses: succession dramas

Hospitals after covid

The parable of Kanye West

How China hopes to win from the war
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Geopolitics
How China hopes to win from the war
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake
United States Marines conduct a simulated reconnaissance and surveillance mission.
I-ran a war badly
The perils of a ground war in Iran
Donald Trump may send in troops. Does he know what to do with them?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Defeating Viktor
Lessons for the world from tiny Hungary
A regime loved by MAGA may soon lose power. That matters
Illustration of cockroaches made out of 100 dollar bills
Finance
How worried should you be about private credit?
Its humbling could raise borrowing costs
S&P 500 Index information at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, USA.
Say no to the world’s richest man
Index providers should not bend the rules for Elon Musk
They will only expose ordinary investors to unnecessary risks

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
A portrait of Ethan Mollick
Keep it unreal
The IT department: Where AI goes to die
Briefing
A photo collage featuring portraits of Viktor Orbán, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Steve Bannon.
The Tisza is flooding
Might Hungary’s election sweep away MAGA’s favourite foreign leader?
Whether Viktor Orban wins or loses, the world’s populists and their opponents are watching
An illustration of multiple safes arranged in a circle, toppling into one another like dominoes, with banknotes spilling out as they fall.
Private-equity firms
A guide to the private-credit crisis
Why some panicky investors are running for the exit
Asia
Motorcycles queuing at a petrol station in Bangkok, as motorists scrambled to beat a massive fuel price increase, 26 March 2026.
Second-order effects
How the Gulf’s war is becoming Asia’s crisis too
Bear hug
America’s foes see opportunity in Asia’s oil shock
The ladies vanish
Why women, more than men, are abandoning rural Japan
Banyan
Is Bollywood’s latest megahit propaganda for Narendra Modi?
China
A tanker unloads imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port crude oil terminal in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China on March 19, 2026.
Shaken giant
Why the Iran war hurts China less than its rivals
Controlling the situation
Is China covering up a violent attack at a Beijing market?
The succession machine
China’s leadership is about to be shaken up
Chaguan
For China’s officials, the goal was once growth. Now it’s loyalty
United States
President Donald Trump talks to workers as he tours U.S. Steel Corporation's Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant.
The cruellest year
“Liberation Year” has not freed American factories
Shipping lame
The war with Iran has blown up an America First policy
Being judgey
Our prediction for how SCOTUS will rule on birthright citizenship
RFK in trouble
From MAHA to haha
The autism boom
Demand for autism care is soaring. The system is struggling to cope
Lexington
Donald Trump and the art of bad diplomacy

The Americas
Prime Minister Mark Carney
Power moves
Mark Carney’s honeymoon is about to get even better
A dispatch from Caracas
The Venezuela Donald Trump “runs” is a land of surreal contrasts
Middle East & Africa
U.S. Marines assigned to Maritime Raid Force, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct daytime fast rope operations from an MV-22B Osprey aboard USS Boxer
Taking that island
How would American ground forces take Kharg?
Defending the base
Iran has damaged a surprising amount of American kit
Decision time
The war in Iran is nearing a crossroads
Not in my name
Iran’s opposition in exile is rethinking its support for the war
Pleasure on the peripheries
Iran’s permissive party islands contain hidden dangers
A new front
The Houthis’ attack on Israel may point to escalation in the Iran war
Life in him yet
Binyamin Netanyahu is down—but not out
In denial over debt
Senegal’s government denies the gravity of its debt crisis
Europe
An advertisement for the German Spy Museum Berlin (R) hangs in front of the German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) headquarters in Berlin, Germany, 31 January 2019.
Vegetarian no more
A revolution is coming for Germany’s intelligence services
The Nordic-EU saga
Will the European Union’s next member come from the north?
Dead souls
On the front lines, Russian soldiers pay officers to stay alive
Charlemagne
A final favour Emmanuel Macron could do for France
Britain
A pile of old desktop computers and CRT monitors, stacked with servers, cables, and papers. Screens show green code on black.
A blind Leviathan
How poor data hobble Britain’s immigration policy
Small boats, big plans
Right-wingers want ICE-style mass deportations in Britain
Heading off ECHRexit
Can reforms save the European Convention on Human Rights?
Blowin’ in the wind
Labour needs to slow down its clean-power mission
Energy prices
The British government should not panic over fuel bills
Sweet somethings
For the love of sticky toffee pudding
Bagehot
The tarts and vicars party
International
Catholic bishops attend a mass for peace in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on January 28, 2024.
African Catholics
How Africa is changing Catholicism
The Telegram
Hurricane Trump threatens to blow China off course
Business
Collage ilustration showing Mike Davis, the Department of Justice building and a scales with one pan on the left and two on the right
Swamped
How the Department of Justice became a feeding ground for MAGA lobbyists
Public spirited
The plan to make IPOs great again
From Russia, with a price
India’s oil refiners are feeling the squeeze from the Gulf war
Into the deep
War with Iran could accelerate Africa’s oil revival
Bartleby
The hidden currency of office life
Schumpeter
How Fox News is luring in Gen Z
Finance & economics
A general view of the Port of Kharg Island Oil Terminal, Iran.
Steaming ahead
How Iran is making a mint from Donald Trump’s war
Black is the new black
Coal is back in fashion
Liberation Year
“Liberation Day” has reshaped trade—but not as Donald Trump hoped
Buttonwood
After Iran, gold is looking less glittery
Free Exchange
Can a country get too rich?
Science & technology
A circle of syringes pointing inwards
Immunology
Scientists are working on “everything vaccines”
Blast off
A trio of firms want to clean up steelmaking
Your brain on video games
Why a startup is teaching human brain cells to play “Doom”
Well Informed
Should you track your VO2 max?
Culture
Friars pray before the remains of Francis of Assisi inside the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Assisi, Italy
A boom in the canon
The number of Catholic saints is climbing heavenwards
Old at heart
Why Gen Z is taking up boomer hobbies
The Economist reads
Six books about basketball to read after March Madness
Saving face
Is looksmaxxing dangerous or silly?
Back Story
Bots are often bad writers. But so are most humans
Artificial intelligence
Who is Demis Hassabis, the man behind Google DeepMind?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Michel Rolland poses with a glass of red wine in Bordeaux, France, in April 2012
The vine whisperer
Michel Rolland was the world’s first flying winemaker

Advantage Iran
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Our cover
Advantage Iran
A month of bombing has achieved nothing. Will Donald Trump escalate, or talk?
Illustration of a row of buildings wafing and merging into each other, with an EU flag on the top of the middle building
Mythbusting on trustbusting
Europe should think twice before weakening its merger rules
A strict competition policy is not the barrier to bigger firms
The Musel E-Hub regasification terminal in the Spanish city of Gijon
Let markets work
The case against energy bail-outs
As war rages in Iran, governments must not repeat the mistakes of 2022
An employee works at the Kold Roll steel bar factory in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico
Stop the impoverishment
Mexico must unleash its private sector
Claudia Sheinbaum’s biggest problem is weak investment and growth, not Donald Trump
Sheep beside solar panels in England
Country first
England has shown the world how to replace farm subsidies
A rare Brexit dividend

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Should Europe’s pensions be reformed?
By Invitation
A portrait of Ulrike Malmendier
At war with itself
Europe’s choice: Grow, or become a vassal
Guarding whom?
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards won’t defend the regime to the last man
Briefing
An oil tanker trapped inside a glass bottle.
Unsafe passage
Hormuz is not the only weak spot for global trade
Many shipping routes are vulnerable, from the Strait of Malacca to the Panama Canal
An oil tanker twisted and contorted into a corkscrew-like form.
Stranglehold
What a battle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would look like
A lot of ships, aircraft and soldiers would have to spend a long time in harm’s way for uncertain results
Asia
Residents of a small apartment building do house chores outside their units, amid the lockdown to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in a slum area in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, May 4, 2020.
Home truths
The world’s most unaffordable housing is not where you think
India’s rebels
The end of the world’s longest-running Maoist insurgency
Welcome to Chevroletstan
China is breaking into one of the world’s weirdest car markets
Southward ho!
How Chinese companies are reshaping Indonesia
Thai-ed in knots
Millions of Burmese struggle to find safety in Thailand
Banyan
Why Bangalore has India’s best billionaires
China
A man collects oysters near anti-landing spikes at a beach where the Chinese city of Xiamen is visible from afar, in Kinmen, Taiwan, on May 11, 2025.
China and Taiwan
Does the Iran war increase the risk of a Chinese attack on Taiwan?
Women’s rights
Jiang Shengnan is the most vocal woman in Chinese politics
High-rise pork pies
China’s huge pork industry is a victim of its own success
Chaguan
China’s government both drives and constrains the rise of AI
United States
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the press.
From “Little Marco” to loyal lieutenant
Marco Rubio, the chameleon in the war room
AIPAC’s new playbook
America’s pro-Israel lobby is facing a backlash
Lines of control
Snarled airports and frozen funding test the new DHS secretary
Uneasy spooks
America’s spies have a lot to complain about
Into the breach
America goes on cyber-offence
Love me, legal tender
Why Donald Trump is putting his face on a coin
Lexington
For Donald Trump, Cuba is everything Iran is not

Essay
A photo collage depicting America from the 1860s to the 1920s, featuring a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, European immigrants arriving, the Statue of Liberty, and factory smokestacks rising over industrial cities.
America at 250
Industrial liberalism and its critics
America at 250
If 19th-century plutocrats are dinosaurs, we’re now in Jurassic Park
The Economist reads
Six books to understand the Gilded Age
The Americas
A rider trots past a refreshment stand at a horse festival.
Becalmed
Mexico’s broken economy
Liquid courage
Brazil has a secret weapon against oil shocks
Integration game
Why the number of Islamic schools in Canada is soaring
Middle East & Africa
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Memphis Air National Guard Base in Memphis, Tennessee
Bargain or bluff?
Donald Trump says he is close to a deal with Iran
Command and control
The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran
The threat of thirst
In the current Gulf war, water may prove as decisive as oil
No connection
Iran’s regime walls off the internet
Seizing the moment
Israeli settlers are growing more violent in the West Bank
The latest quagmire
How long will Israel stay in Lebanon?
From Anglo to Botswanan
Botswana prepares to take an even bigger gamble on diamonds
Europe
A woman looks at her mobile telephone as she descends on an escalator in a metro station in central Moscow on February 10, 2026
Spring offensive
Russia wants to limit contact with the outside world
German politics
Germany’s Social Democrats gaze into the abyss
French mayors
France offers some hope for defeating populists
Humbled
Giorgia Meloni’s big setback in Italy
Ecosystem warrior
Ukraine’s top drone commander wants to bleed Russia’s army dry
Charlemagne
Europe’s populist right should be outvoted rather than ostracised
Britain
Poppies in flower at the edge of a wheat field in North Yorkshire, England
A new agricultural landscape
English farming is changing quickly, for the better
Peak dog
A golden decade for British vets is coming to an end
Pints to spare
Britain’s dairy farmers are pouring milk away
RPC RIP?
What Sir Keir Starmer gets wrong about deregulation
Agents of influence
The Bank of England’s eyes and ears
Losing grandeur
Britain’s diplomatic footprint is diminishing
Good or bad ODA?
Britain’s foreign aid morphs from open-handed to hard-headed
Business
Illustration showing the swallowing of of apps, wwww, bot, Yen, phone with apps on screen,chats, user profile image, a story with likes flying off, data and shopping icons
Boogie monster
ByteDance is swallowing the internet—in China and beyond
Seeking scale
Will the EU’s new merger rules unleash a wave of dealmaking?
Silicon scandal
A new case of chip smuggling shows the limits of export controls
Bartleby
Welcome to emoji school
Oil change
The war’s biggest corporate winners and losers may surprise you
Well lubricated
How much will America’s oilmen benefit from the Iran war?
Food poisoning
Big food’s troubles go from bad to worse
Social media on trial
Meta and Google face a reckoning over social-media addiction
Schumpeter
Amazon’s unprecedented gamble on AI redemption might just work
Finance & economics
An oil barrel flying away with a person hanging at the end of a rope around it.
Here we go again
How high could global inflation go?
Smoke and horrors
Even the best-case scenario for energy markets is disastrous
Techno-Utopia
China’s new masterplan for its tech economy in 2030 and beyond
Navigating a Trumpian world
Christine Lagarde’s sober tone on the Gulf war energy shock
The expat economy
Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers
Buttonwood
Markets are gripped by an alarming cognitive dissonance
Free Exchange
The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire
Science & technology
A conveyor belt carrying gleaming golden brains, symbolizing China’s rapid and large-scale production of AI talent.
Picking their brains
China is winning the AI talent race
Boots on the regolith
NASA’s Moon-base plans mark a rethinking of its future
Stronger together
Autonomous swarms are the future of drone warfare
Well Informed
Is playing music good for the brain?
Culture
A pink kids’ bike leaning against a fork-in-the-road sign.
The biggest loser
Everyone knows divorce is costly. But children pay most dearly
Fascism’s first act
The forgotten man who pre-dated Mussolini and Hitler
Classical literature and art
What is the big deal with Ovid and artists?
The funny business
With “SNL UK”, Britain’s laughing stock appreciates
Back Story
Russia should not be welcome at the world’s top art show
It’s on the table
Young people all over the world are clicking with mahjong
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Chuck Norris in "Missing in Action 2: The Beginning"
The king of kicks
Chuck Norris made onions cry

The world this week
Politics
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The weekly cartoon

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Operation Blind Fury
War in Iran is making Donald Trump weaker—and angrier
By diminishing the president’s political superpowers, his reckless campaign may make him more dangerous
A man stands atop the rubble as smoke rises from a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, March 14th 2026
Lebanon’s last chance
Lebanon’s leaders must take on Hizbullah
And Israel must not play the spoiler
A worker arranges pepper plants in a greenhouse that uses agri-tech in Jos, Nigeria
Open for business
Africa after aid is more resilient than you might think
But more needs to be done to ensure a prosperous future
A Cuban and a US flag flutter on the roof of a tricycle in Havana, Cuba
Dealing with Havana
A dirty deal with Cuba would be better than the alternatives
A prolonged blockade risks creating a humanitarian crisis on America’s doorstep
A woman walks her dog on the beach in front of an offshore wind farm.
Lingering fumes
Gas will not be killed off by renewables any time soon
But there are ways to rely less on it

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Are data centres in space less crazy than we think?
By Invitation
A portrait of Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi
Shocking war
America’s friends must help extricate it from an unlawful war
Briefing
Satellite image shows smoke rising from UAE's Fujairah port
Double deadlock
There is plenty of scope for the Iran war to intensify
But no obvious way to bring it to an end
Munitions, believed to be JDAM bunker-busting bombs, are loaded into a US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber
Fire-retardant spray
The Iran war could sap American military power for years
It is devouring munitions and exhausting an already stretched navy
An Iranian holds a portrait of Iran's newly nominated supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei ROTEST
No quarter
The assassination of senior leaders weakens Iran—but at a cost
The regime is becoming ever less predictable
Asia
South Korean Buddhist monks and members of civic groups bow and prostrate themselves as they march towards the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, to protest against President Donald Trump, March 17, 2026.
Holding fire
Will America’s Asian allies get dragged into the Iran war?
The energy shock in India
Panicked Indians are scrambling to buy gas
Banyan
What Nitish Kumar did for Bihar, India’s poorest state
Burmese days
Life in Myanmar’s biggest city is increasingly grim
Playing with fire
A deadly strike in Kabul could have big knock-on effects
China
An engineer debugs robots at the factory of AgiBot, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, on December 8, 2025 in Shanghai, China.
Cake, robots and electrons
Is cheap energy the key to China gaining AI supremacy?
A hawkish turn
Public opinion in China is hardening on America and Taiwan
Clear the skies
Why China’s fight on air pollution has slowed
Chaguan
A Maoist survival guide to the Iranian energy crisis
United States
Donald Trump throwing a small fighter jet like a paper airplane that's looping around and about to hit the back of his head
The man with no plan
How the Iran war is hurting Donald Trump
Conversation with an apostate
Tucker Carlson on whether Donald Trump has betrayed his base
Collateral advantage
A muddled war and rising prices are boosting Democrats’ midterm hopes
From Hormuz to the heartland
American farmers are feeling the squeeze
Distracted defences
Is an obsession with immigration leaving America exposed?
Lexington
Does Donald Trump even care about the midterms?

The Americas
A man repairs a bicycle tire on the sidewalk
Blackout economics
Cuba’s broken economy leaves it at Donald Trump’s mercy
Middle East & Africa
Portrait of Aliko Dangote.
Aliko Dangote
Africa’s richest man has ambitious plans for the continent
No peace in sight
The war in eastern Congo is escalating far from view
Rocking the Nation
A shake-up at Africa’s spikiest media group
Israel and Hizbullah
Israel contemplates a ground invasion of Lebanon
Europe

Low on gas
The Iran war is forcing Europe to confront its energy problem
Barrels of laughs
Vladimir Putin enjoys a huge windfall from the Iran war
Yeah, baby
Viktor Orban’s pro-natalist policies are not working
Catfishing in the Alps
A spy scandal upends Slovenia’s election campaign
The Kneecap effect
The quiet recovery of Ireland’s ancient tongue
Charlemagne
How Ukraine and Europe got caught in a geopolitical lovers’ tiff
Britain
Rachel Reeves, interviewed for the Economist, London, UK, March 17th 2026
Destination Brussels
Britain’s chancellor starts a tilt towards Europe
U-turn if you want to
By our calculations, motoring in Britain has rarely been so cheap
Not so NEET
Britain’s youngsters are increasingly out of work
Rational recreation
The Duke of Edinburgh’s award is more popular than ever
Holy divided
The new Archbishop of Canterbury inherits a church in turmoil
Scrapheap Britain
Industrial-scale fly-tipping is spreading across Britain
Bagehot
CBeebies or barbarism!
International
Blast furnaces, in a copper smelter where copper ore is smelted and raw copper sheets are cast.
Get paid, not aid
The future of Africa will be shaped by investment rather than aid
The Telegram
America’s failing gunboat diplomacy
Business

Space Nvader
Nvidia is expanding its empire
Of cockroaches, canaries and termites
Trouble is brewing among America’s corporate borrowers
Clearing the air
War may bring lasting change to the airline business
Noises off
The Iran war casts a shadow over BASF’s nascent revival
Coding against the machine
Why AI has not yet upset India’s IT industry
En vogue
How Zara fought off H&M and Shein
Bartleby
The secrets to a good employee survey
Schumpeter
Elliott Management and the art of telling bosses they’re wrong
Finance & economics
A worker changes the prices for gas at a 76 station in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
Disunited petro-states of America
America may be a petrostate. But the energy shock still hurts
Terminal solution
What if Donald Trump decided to ban oil exports?
Green, brown and red
China cannot escape the energy shock
The darkest hours
Which country is the biggest loser from the energy shock?
Scattershock
The Iran war is roiling commodities far beyond oil
Buttonwood
Will South Korea’s epic bull market survive the energy shock?
Free Exchange
The new economics of sex work
Science & technology
In front of the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s first tokamak donated to the Institute by the Soviet Union.
Chasing the sun
China is a serious contender in the race for fusion energy
Chips away
The next phase of artificial intelligence may require very different processors
Leading the charge
Rapid-charging EV batteries are on the way
Well Informed
Should you take GLP-1 drugs for longevity?
Culture
Empty beds are pictured before high-rise buildings along a beach at Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR) in Dubai.
Wanderlust and lost
War is only the starkest way that politics is disrupting tourism
World in a dish
Which is the best sparkling water?
Hatchet job
Re-examining one of the world’s most notorious assassinations
The gang’s all here
It’s strictly business: the enduring allure of mafiosi in culture
Rooms with a view
Looking for a Paris hotel with a past?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Jürgen Habermas
The Mole of Reason
Jürgen Habermas hoped rational discussion could save the world

An attack on the world economy
The world this week
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The weekly cartoon

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Beyond oil
An attack on the world economy
Whatever happens in the Strait of Hormuz, energy markets have been changed for ever

A new dynasty
China’s hereditary elite is taking shape
The Communist Party is afraid to tax inherited wealth
Smoke and flames rise at the site of airstrikes on an oil depot in Tehran.
Iran’s nuclear programme
There are no good options for Iran’s nuclear programme
If America cannot eliminate the threat, what should it do?
Hispanic lady wearing red cowboay hat, boots, jacket and skirt standing outside an event checking her phone.
America’s midterm elections
How to teach Donald Trump a Latin lesson
By alienating Hispanics, he has given Democrats an open goal
Kenyan police officers are reflected on the glasses of one of their colleagues as they arrive at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Drones v gangs
Haiti needs order first, then elections
Voters must be able to turn out without risking death

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Is it optimistic to think that Hungary’s election in April will be free but not fair?
By Invitation
A watercolour portrait of Pedro Sánchez
Spain’s leader speaks
Pedro Sánchez: No to war
Briefing
A man smokes a cigar on a yacht at the SO! Dalian yachting event in China in 2014
Communist estate-planning
China is wrestling with a novel phenomenon: inherited wealth
Even as the economy slows and opportunity narrows, a lucky few receive big windfalls
Smoke rises following a strike on the Bapco Oil Refinery in Bahrain
Epic consequences
The damage to the world economy from the Iran war will be severe, but uneven
It has already caused the biggest energy supply shock in history
Aftermath of an attack by Iranian drone, in Seef, Manama
The sick man of the Gulf
America’s war on Iran may bring Bahrain to its knees
The tiny, indebted kingdom is seeing its main sources of revenue dry up
Asia
A solider releases a drone during a military exercise outside a naval base in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 29 January 2026.
“China-free” drones
Taiwan’s bid to export drones free of Chinese parts is taking off
Landslide in the Himalayas
Nepal’s new prime minister is a 35-year-old former rapper
Don’t mention the war
Islamists woo Bangladesh with everything but Islam
Seoul traders
Seoul’s housing market is a huge political and economic headache
Banyan
Is India the fourth- or fifth-biggest economy? It does not matter
China

The downside of Hong Kong’s upswing
Hong Kong’s property market has turned
Performance anxiety
Some of China’s officials are becoming social-media stars
From China with propaganda
China’s nationalist spy thriller has few girls and lots of government
Chaguan
There are 56 ethnicities in China—and 55 are getting squashed
United States
US President Donald Trump wearing a 'Make America Great Again' cap.
MAGA, c’est moi
Why MAGA backs Donald Trump’s war—for now
Make Iran Great Again
The view from Tehrangeles
Forced removal
Kristi Noem’s ignoble legacy as homeland-security secretary
Deport, lose support
Lost Latino love could cost Republicans the midterms
Treating an ailing market
Two very different states take aim at soaring hospital prices
Lexington
America’s blame-Israel lobby

The Americas
A woman poses for a portrait with her son as they return to their home, destroyed by armed gangs in 2024, in the Solino neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
A sense of security
At last, Haiti has some hope
The new national pride
Brazilian cinema is having its moment
Middle East & Africa
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps armed personnel wear masks and participate in a military rally.
Resilient or ramshackle?
Iran’s praetorian guard may emerge from the war diminished but undefeated
Supreme but mysterious
Who is Iran’s new leader?
Only the mission matters
Could special forces truly obliterate Iran’s nuclear programme?
How to end a conflict
America’s war aims may be diverging from Israel’s
On their guard and on edge
Should the Gulf states join attacks on Iran?
Dire strait
Can America clear the Strait of Hormuz of Iran’s drones and mines?
Conflict data
What data reveal about the war’s progress
Done with sweet deals?
Kenya’s ailing sugar sector is a test case for reform
Europe
Protesters held banners calling for 'freedom' for the former mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu
Trial of strength
As war rages, Turkey‘s strongman puts the opposition on trial
Two wheels v four
In Paris’s mayoral race, it’s drivers against cyclists
Comeback kid
A popular German Green wins a surprise victory
Location, location, location
Ukraine’s housing market is increasingly peculiar
Charlemagne
Viktor Orban’s illiberal intellectual patronage system
Britain
An illustration of a moka pot and an over-filled mug of coffee decorated with the Union flag.
A narrower Channel
Ten years after the EU referendum, Britain has become more European
A Green and unpleasant land
The Green Party’s economic plans are Corbynism on steroids
Ever closer allies
Shared interests are binding Britain and Norway together
Animal spirits
Lions or hedgehogs? The vital choice for England’s banknotes
Springer into action
What Germany’s Springer plans for one of Britain’s oldest dailies
Cleaning up
Britain’s chimney sweeps are as lucky as lucky can be
Not before time
They’re not Swiss, but British watch brands are gaining ground
Bagehot
How Britain became a Compo Nation
International
The US Military launches Operation Epic Fury attacking Iran
War in Iran
How America and Israel built vast military targeting machines
The Telegram
India has much to lose from a world in chaos
Business
collage illustration featuringDario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk
Caps out, knives out
Altman, Amodei and Musk fight dirty for the biggest prize in business
Festive freebies
China’s AI giants are handing out cash to lure in users
Move fast and heal things
A new wave of disrupters takes on American health care
Retail revival
How Gap is trying to get its cool back
Take cover
In Trump’s world, companies seek insurance against political risk
Bartleby
In praise of grunt work
Schumpeter
Why corporate lawyers always win
Finance & economics
An aerial view as a crude oil tanker is guided to a berth at the oil terminal at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province.
After shock
Donald Trump’s options to cool oil prices are sorely limited
Denatured
Liquefied natural gas: the overlooked economic chokepoint
Technomyopia
Why investors won’t know what to make of AI for a while
Buttonwood
Time to buy the most rubbish stocks you can find
Free Exchange
Would America be in recession without the super-rich?
Science & technology
A play on the classic Vitruvian man image, but he's injecting himself, holding out his phone, and holding supplements
Pep tide
Want to hack your body with peptides? If only the science agreed
Collision course
AI is helping expand the frontier of theoretical physics
Well Informed
What is your maximum heart rate?
Culture
Two theater masks showing sadness and distress
Screen tests
What nobody clutching their Oscar this weekend will tell you
Mind over matter?
Solving the mystery of consciousness
That’s how they roll
Adults are on board with life-size board games
From mean streets to Wall Street
Tell-all or tell-nothing? A polite account of high finance
Bookworm food
The best new novels to read this spring
Back Story
An Oscar-nominated documentary goes behind enemy lines
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Professor Sir Nicholas White
Mosquito versus man
Nick White was a hero of mankind’s oldest war

March 7th 2026

A war without a strategy

February 28th 2026

Digging for victory

The Robin Hood state
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

The Robin Hood state
Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets
It will not work, and is wrong in principle

Conflict in Ukraine
Vladimir Putin is caught in a vice of his own making
Russia’s president cannot win the war, but fears peace
Saudi-backed Yemeni counter terrorism forces
The next Gulf crisis
Saudi Arabia and the Emirates must resolve their own differences
America’s neglect is allowing an unwelcome tension to fester between two of its allies
Cartoon-style illustration of a person whispering into a crystal ball, which is held by two pink hands, set against a purple background.
The case for informed trading
Why insider trading isn’t always bad
At least on prediction markets
The U.S. Capitol building.
Putting the House in order
How to improve American legislators’ lot
Doing so would be good for members of Congress, and for democracy

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Will AI wipe out white-collar jobs?
By Invitation
A portrait of the Alex Edmans
The trillion-dollar question
Dizzyingly high CEO pay is fine. It just needs to be earned
Briefing
A woman stands on a balcony of an apartment building in St. Petersburg, Russia.
No escape
How four years of war have changed Russia
The fighting in Ukraine has reshaped everyday life
Portrait of the author
The logic of persistence
Russia’s economy has entered the death zone
Alexandra Prokopenko wonders how much longer it can go on metabolising its own muscle tissue
Asia

Artificially Inflated
The flaws in India’s AI plans
Rahman’s return
Can Bangladesh’s old guard build a new democracy?
Martial law on trial
South Korea is still haunted by its disgraced ex-president
Smoke and mirrors
India’s pollution is becoming an economic roadblock
Australia opposition politics
Could One Nation soon become Australia’s most popular party?
Biting back
A nasty spate of shark attacks in the Sydney area
China

Step aside, Singapore
Dubai’s crazy rich Chinese
Playing the referee
Why the IMF’s newest report finds that the yuan is undervalued
In good taste
China now fills the world’s luxury hampers
Chaguan
Why American allies are flocking to see Xi Jinping in Beijing
United States

Trumpcare
Donald Trump’s policies are reshaping American health care
Revealing Wheeling
The front line in America’s child-vaccine battle
Greenhouse gases
How dangerous is Donald Trump’s “endangerment” decision?
Anti-antifa
The Trump administration wants to put antifa on trial
Food for thoughtlessness
Americans are unleashing their anger on food-delivery robots
Bleak House
The crummiest job in Washington—congressman—is getting worse
Lexington
Different ideas about faith are dividing Republicans over Israel

The Americas
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega (R) speaking next to his wife and Vice President Rosario Murillo
The third regime
Nicaragua has so far dodged the fate of Cuba and Venezuela
Happy new year
Peru ousts a president under the shadow of Chinese meddling
Connected cats
The battle to save South America’s skull-crushing big cat
Middle East & Africa

The Saudis v the Emiratis
Why the Gulf’s most powerful countries are at odds
What’s next for Libya?
Libya has no good options for leaders
Of books and freedom
A book fair in Damascus is a window on the new Syria
A more common thread
The global triumph of Nigerian fashion
Europe

Against all odds
How a four-year onslaught has changed Ukraine
Made in Beijing, feared in Berlin
How Germany fell out of love with China
The exasperated ally
Poles have split and soured on America
Stamina contest
Serbia’s protesters learn it’s hard to topple a president
Charlemagne
That irritating feeling that France was right
Britain
Illustration of a personified laptop with a cracked padlock on its screen, holding a magnifying glass and papers, surrounded by circuit lines, a boxing glove, and a stethoscope—symbolizing cybersecurity investigation and digital threat response
AISI does it
Britain is the closest the world has to an AI safety inspector
Don’t look under the kilt
The Scottish government’s new bonds will waste taxpayers’ money
Rules for regicide
How to oust a prime minister
Measles
North London is suffering a measles outbreak
Know Iorwerth
Plaid Cymru is on the cusp of power
International
An illustration showing a giant scale, with one side weighed down by a large pile of money and the other much lighter. Two figures push money from the heavier side to the lighter one, symbolising redistribution—a “Robin Hood” economy.
Soaked
The Robin Hood state is coming for the rich
The Telegram
Donald Trump’s envoys failed to reassure Europe
1843

Immigration
He was a Texan dad who had never left America. Then he got deported to Laos
Business
A humanoid robot performs a dance with robot dogs dressed in lion costumes
Year of the droid
China’s humanoids are dazzling the world. Who will buy them?
Downshift
Beware China’s shrinking car market
The king is dead, long live the king
Giorgio Armani’s bizarre will has caused a rift at his fashion label
Bartleby
The case for workplace inefficiency
Right off the money
Why MAGA brands have been a flop
Data juggernaut
India is in the midst of a data-centre investment boom
Rolling the dice
Could the next big gambling destination be in the Gulf?
Schumpeter
Welcome to the era of anarchic antitrust
Finance & economics
An illustration of a hand passing a white credit card to a red bear's paw against a blue background.
Chequebook diplomacy
How big is the prize of reopening Russia?
Markets and muscle
The EU is thrashing out a more muscular set of economic policies
Superforecasters
Prediction markets are rife with insider betting
Buttonwood
The financialisation of AI is just beginning
Untaxing
Donald Trump’s schemes to juice the economy
Free exchange
Did America’s war on poverty fail?
Science & technology
ICE Patrols New Orleans neighborhoods for undocumented immigrants.
Frontier AI
How ICE’s new software tools could speed up deportations
The nature of nurture
The Human Exposome Project will map how environmental factors shape health
Time to shine
Brain-like computers could be built out of perovskites
Well Informed
Can the shingles vaccine slow ageing?
Culture
Gisele Pelicot looks on, next to her lawyer, at the Avignon courthouse, with the media in the background.
A nightmare on Main Street
Gisèle Pelicot’s horrifying rape case changed the law—and minds
A concrete solution
Addicted to your phone? Try “bricking” it
Back Story
As “How to Make a Killing” shows, the inheritance plot is back
The show must go on
Why understudies are seeing their wages rise
Playing the tuber
The world’s most common vegetable is enjoying a great year
An alternative history of Russia and the world
Was Vladimir Putin’s tyranny inevitable?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Jesse L Jackson in 1983
The trail-blazer
Jesse Jackson made a black president possible

The most powerful woman in the world
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Revitalising Japan
The world’s most powerful woman
Japan’s prime minister has earned a once-in-a-generation chance to remake her country. Will she seize it?

Let them scroll
Don’t ban teenagers from social media
Restrictions would do more harm than good
Picture of Jeffrey Epstein over a red and black background
1.4m deadly sins
The Epstein files tell a story of justice denied
Prosecutors have moved far too slowly
A man sells towels on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro.
The parable of Brazil
The rich world should beware Brazilification
When governments are indebted, high interest rates wreak havoc
Male members of the choir at St Mark's church in Camden, London
The travails of amateur choirs
How to solve the tenor shortage
A voice that is made, not found

Britain in crisis
Britain’s predicament will get worse before it gets better
With Sir Keir Starmer weakened, the government will drift left

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Is education technology mostly useless?
Briefing
Illustration of two teenagers on their phones, seated under a sign that reads 'No social media'
Social outcasts
More and more countries are banning kids from social media
But the case for bans is weak and the benefits are uncertain
Asia
Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi speaks during a press conference
Takaichi’s triumph
How Japan’s prime minister will use her massive new mandate
Shocks absorbed
Led by a Marxist, battered by a storm, Sri Lanka is doing better
Digital money
Asia is turning stablecoins into banking infrastructure
Thai politics
Thailand’s conservatives win a shock big victory
Banyan
India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are weaponising cricket
China
A polar bear walks with her cubs near the Xue Long 2 ship in the Arctic
The melting north
What China is really up to in the Arctic
The healing process
What’s the point of AI in acupuncture?
Boom times
Why China’s concert scene has boomed since the pandemic
United States
Observers film ICE agents.
Restrain or abolish?
How Democrats aim to curb ICE without losing votes
Latin lessens
America may be reaching peak Spanish
A gathering storm?
Lawsuits over transgender medicine for minors could be huge
Of Homer and home ownership
The decline of single-earner housebuyers in America
Winning with a lottery
Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools
Lexington
RFK’s idea of making America healthy starts with making it politically sicker
Essay

Enlightenment ideals meet reality
America at 250
America at 250
The Declaration of Independence still defines America’s purpose, writes Jon Meacham
America at 250
Political parties are a feature, not a bug, of American democracy, writes H.W. Brands
America at 250
Six books to understand the Founding Fathers

The Americas
A man enjoys a sunny morning at Arpoador beach, Rio de Janeiro.
The grind
Brazil’s economy is being throttled by entrenched interests
Running on empty
Cuba’s fate may be in Marco Rubio’s hands
No off-ramp
Central America’s biggest city is eternally snarled with traffic
Middle East & Africa
Samia Suluhu Hassan
An unlikely journey
Don’t welcome Africa’s newest despot
Unwelcome guests
A deadly attack shows Nigeria’s security crisis is worsening
Bronze bust-up
How Africa’s hottest new museum unravelled
Awkward neighbours
Why Syria and Iraq cannot reconcile
The more things change
Why Saudis feel squeezed even as the economy booms
Europe
Emmanuel Macron delivers a speech in front of a Dassault Mirage 2000 and a Dassault Rafale
Flying on empty
A European fighter-jet partnership is verging on a break-up
An interview with France’s president
Emmanuel Macron declares a European state of emergency
SAMs tomorrow
Can Germany rearm its way to growth?
Northern exposure
The Epstein files are sullying Norway’s squeaky-clean image
Tales from the far side
At the last open crossing, Ukrainians flee Russia’s annexation
Charlemagne
The European Onion is a joke whose time has come
Britain
Sir Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, is silhouetted against a red backdrop.
A zombie prime minister
Sir Keir Starmer clings to office—but not power
Brotherly shove
King Charles tries to limit the fallout from Andrew’s Epstein mess
Growth’s dubious precision
Britain’s shifting GDP numbers
Cornish nice dream
Tin mining is making a surprise return to Cornwall
Dinner with Jesus
Alpha offers a starter course in salvation
Unintended consequences
Britain’s “Hillsborough law”, pledging candour, is avoiding it
Bagehot
The alternatives to Sir Keir
International
Collage illustration featuring Epstein and some of his emails.
A nightmare, quantified
Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s network
The Telegram
Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford?
Business
Government official arms wrapping around stacks of coins and buildings with green arrows trending upwards
Shaking up the boardroom
Asia’s capitalists will need to fight for their revolution
Elbow grease
Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business
Copycat crisis
China once stole foreign ideas. Now it wants to protect its own
Posh nosh
America’s hottest grocery store is also its priciest
Bartleby
The excruciating quest for a meeting room
Schumpeter
Private-equity barons have a giant AI problem
Finance & economics
Illustration of a robot hand touching a bubble with a human hand cupped beneath.
Fit to burst
How to hedge a bubble, AI edition
Comparative advantage
Who wrangled the best trade deal from Donald Trump?
Diversity hires
Ethnic minorities are driving America’s startup boom
Sex and pay
What drives the wage gap between men and women?
Bringing the house down
Chinese homebuyers are enraged by shoddy building standards
Marginalia
Why China’s central bank won’t save the country from deflation
Buttonwood
The coldest crypto winter yet
Free exchange
How to put a price on a human life
Science & technology
Candela P-12 passenger ferry is shown travelling on the water.
Anchors aweigh
“Flying” electric boats could remake urban transport
Animal hospital
Humans are not the only animals that treat each other’s injuries
Seeing the light
Robots with human-inspired eyes have better vision
Well informed
Does being induced lead to a medicalised birth?
Culture
A caveman holding a phone, sending heart emojis that float upward.
Passion and pre-history
Need a bit of dating help? The caveman’s guide to romance
Choral singing
The world is suffering from a shortage of tenors
Gimme moors
Sex, sex and more sex: Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”
Continental fates
Africa needs to follow Asia’s path to grow
What a way to make a living
The rise of the 9-to-5 influencer
Bossy Aussie
Real-life “Succession”: Media’s most dysfunctional family
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Virginia Oliver, at age 101, bands a lobster's claws on a boat in Penobscot Bay in Maine, United States, July 31st 2021
Obituary
Virginia Oliver worked Maine’s waters for nearly a century

February 7th 2026

Nothing to see here

Xi’s purge
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Chinese politics
Xi Jinping’s purge should worry the world
Installing his yes-men to lead the army could be dangerous for Taiwan

Militias and liberties
ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence
Is America’s president building his own paramilitary militia?
A Yen symbol that's cracking and being propped up
The symptom, not the cause
The weak yen and the weakening dollar are signs of financial fragility
But neither Japan nor America should meddle with exchange rates
Flowers bursting out of a red London bus
London-spurning
Haters on the right and left are wrong about London
It’s a hub, not a hellhole. Labour should give it more love
A female oil worker during turnaround maintenance at a liquefied natural gas plant on Bonny Island, Rivers State, Nigeria
Awake, sleeping giants
Africa’s two biggest economies may be turning the corner
As Nigeria and South Africa revive, the continent’s growth may outpace Asia’s in 2026
A man and a robot chatting at a watercooler
Artificial intelligence
Stop panicking about AI. Start preparing
There is time to adapt. Use it wisely

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The chronic ­weakness of the British state
By Invitation

Don’t buy American
To protect itself, Europe needs the systems that make warfare work
Briefing
Federal agents confront protestors in Minneapolis
ICE rage
Immigration agents have become Donald Trump’s personal posse
That is a liability for America and, increasingly, for him
An illustration of an office worker holding a robot’s head, pausing in thought—echoing Hamlet’s “to be or not to be” as they contemplate AI’s role and existence in the workplace.
Tech at work
How to avoid common AI pitfalls in the workplace
Advice from our latest season of “Boss Class”
Asia

Jaw v war
Taiwan’s new opposition leader wants to talk to Xi Jinping
The last panda
For the first time in 54 years there are no pandas in Japan
Indian farming
The too-slow change of Indian agriculture
Thai politics
Thailand’s liberals face a tricky election
Banyan
Takaichi Sanae relies on her keenest fans in Japan
China
Illustration of Xi Jinping painting red crosses on portraits of 5 of the members of the military commission
The pinging of brass hats
What Xi Jinping’s purge of China’s most senior general reveals
Fighting graft
Xi Jinping is immensely powerful. Why can’t he stamp out corruption?
The Chinese navy
Behind China’s race to build aircraft-carriers
Chaguan
China fears a flood of unemployed workers in rural areas
United States
A protester sits on the street with his arms up in front of a gaggle of federal agents and Minneapolis Police
From protest to disobedience
Inside the movement challenging—and disrupting—ICE
Cracks in the crackdown
Republicans are waking up to the awful optics in Minneapolis
The art of keeping schtum
How Congress viewed Donald Trump’s Greenland grab
Good neighbours
Knocking down social housing helped poor children prosper
Academic freedom
Republican states are censoring universities
Lexington
How Congress can rein in ICE—and start to redeem itself

The Americas
A female militiaman holds a Venezuelan flag during a march
Direction of travel
How to tell if Venezuela is heading for democracy
Running a middle power
Mark Carney understands the new world, but can he survive it?
Pay dirt
China’s rare-earth chokehold terrifies the West, but Brazil benefits
Middle East & Africa
An electrical transmission tower and power lines in the Ivory Park settlement in the Ekurhuleni municipality of Johannesburg, South Africa
Lekker vibes
The case for optimism in South Africa
Green shoots
Nigeria’s economy may be back from the brink
In jail or in exile
Congo’s regime hounds its opponents
The build-up
Is America about to attack Iran?
An uncertain future
Hizbullah, Iran’s most powerful proxy, has been humbled
Breaking down and breaking out
Prisons holding jihadists in Syria are no longer secure
Europe
A worker walks between wind turbine nacelles for the construction of a wind farm off Saint-Nazaire, in Saint-Nazaire, western France
Rare, not well-done
Europe is at China’s mercy to get crucial raw materials
Runners-up club
Europe’s long-awaited free-trade deal with India
Conflict fatigue
Near the front line, Russians are growing tired of war
Tilted pitch
Viktor Orban may lose his next election
The city of light
The Paris Metro is getting a dazzling extension
Charlemagne
How its long-lost empires still shape Europe
Britain
London Underground sign on a white tiled wall, with a restart symbol replacing the red circle and “London” as the location name.
The phoenix city
How London can rise again
London’s leader
Sadiq Khan is not the mayor right-wingers imagine him to be
Enemy at the gates
London is Labour’s last bastion
A manufactured panic
London is far safer than violent viral videos will have you believe
Founder factory
How London became the rest of the world’s startup capital
Bagehot
The cost of the cost-of-living obsession
International
illustration of snail with an EU-flag shell being pointed at by multiple suited hands from above
The Telegram
Lots of world leaders are attacking Europe. Why?
Business
A person holding Meta smart glasses over a smartphone. The lenses are concentrating the sun's light to burn the phone
The next big “thing”
Will the smartphone survive the AI age?
Playing to the cheap seats
Ryanair might be the world’s most successful airline
Fleshed out
How porn stars can survive in the age of AI
Bartleby
How big a threat is AI to entry-level jobs?
Next in line
The Gulf’s family businesses have a growing succession problem
Coupangst
Silicon Valley wades into a trade spat with South Korea
Out of the blue
How IBM became an AI darling
Schumpeter
Don’t be fooled. AI bosses are regular capitalists
Finance & economics
An illustration of five hands stacked together in a teamwork gesture with shirt and suit jacket sleeves visible on four of the; the fifth is a robot arm.
The cyborg workplace
Why AI won’t wipe out white-collar jobs
Buttonwood
Just how debased is the dollar?
Ghostbusted
The West and Ukraine are capsizing Russia’s shadow fleet
Burgernomics
Our Big Mac index carries an Asian warning
Unhedgemon
The fate of Japan’s $6trn foreign portfolio rattles global markets
Free exchange
Why is the yen still so weak?
Science & technology
NASA’s Artemis II SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft, secured to the mobile launcher
A new space race
For the first time in half a century, astronauts are going to the Moon
Geoengineering
Should the Arctic be refrozen?
Well informed
How to get power naps right
Culture
Army Special Forces and Danish special operators from the Jaeger Corps learn how to load and unload snowmobiles onto a CH-47G Chinook at the Yukon Training Area at Fort Wainwright military base in North Pole, Alaska.
Polar madness
What to read to understand the Arctic
Reiding between the lines
Do Democrats need another centrist old white man?
Back Story
Run for your life! The world, according to the Oscars
A different sort of ghost story
What are novels for? George Saunders has answers
In tune
How Russian brainrot became a hit for children
To have and too old
Age gaps in relationships are not as bad as you think
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Mark Tully with members of the Indian armed forces
The voice of truth
Mark Tully spoke to Indians as one of them

The true danger posed by Donald Trump
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Greenland’s meaning
The true danger posed by Donald Trump
Despite a tactical retreat, great risks remain
Modi dressed as Austin Powers jumping in front of an Indian flag
India
The odd thing about Modi’s mojo
Constraints make India’s prime minister govern better
A Palestinian girl looks out from a makeshift tent in a refugee camp in Gaza.
Stay the course
Trump’s Board of Peace is a distraction from the real work in Gaza
America’s president has unusual power to impose peace; he must continue to use it
An angry-looking robot on the left standing next to a US flag. On the right is the EU flag and the China flag closer together and another robot waving
Europe’s DeepSeek moment
Chinese AI is a risk for Europe. So is shunning it
Especially now that America is becoming a less reliable partner
An abstract RNA strand with flower buds sprouting
Trust the process
Britain’s good idea for custom genetic medicines
A way to tackle the tricky economics of drugs designed for one person
Letters
A selection of correspondence
Could Europe take on Russia without American help?
By Invitation
A portrait of Indermit Gill
Standards complaint
The biggest drag on global trade isn’t tariffs, but standards
Briefing
Danish military forces participate in an exercise in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland in 2025
Ice and heat
Donald Trump’s expansionist itch has undermined global security
He has suspended his predation of Greenland, but he cannot retract the mistrust it generated
Coloured houses covered by snow are seen from the sea in Nuuk, Greenland
Illogical expansionism
Donald Trump’s grab for Greenland makes no sense
It would harm America’s security and its economy
Illustration of two lighthouses at night: a dark U.S.-themed lighthouse on the left and a glowing Chinese lighthouse on the right, casting light onto paper boats bearing the UK and Canadian flags.
The Telegram
Western leaders navigate a lonely world
China cannot and will not save mid-size American allies from Donald Trump
Asia
Illustrated portrait of Narendra Modi
Bouncing back
The remarkable recovery of Narendra Modi
Rolling the dice
Japan’s popular new prime minister gambles on a snap election
Banyan
Who really won the war between India and Pakistan?
Plenty of fish
Homegrown apps are making dating in India less awkward
Antique planters
Ageing farmers threaten South-East Asia’s growth
China
Illustration of Trump facing Xi with a grid of icons between them including, an oil drum, a missile, an assault rifle, a drone, dollar signs, a globe and the outlines of Veneziela, Iran and Taiwan
What to do?
Donald Trump’s adventurism is unsettling China
Boosting consumption
Which Chinese provinces splash their cash?
The head and the heart
What’s a good man worth in China’s marriage market?
Chaguan
Xi Jinping is carrying Deng Xiaoping’s authoritarian torch in China
United States

Realists and restrainers
The meaning of “America First” is in flux
Trump v the central bank
Lisa Cook’s job at the Federal Reserve looks safe
Ski-haw!
Welcome to the wild world of skijoring
Failing the screen test
Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless
ICE in a cold climate
Donald Trump’s siege in Minneapolis is floundering
Lexington
Why Minneapolis is at the centre of Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

The Americas
Illustration of Mexico's flag destructed with holes.
Power on paper
Mexico’s mighty left-wing government is floundering
Friendly fire
Canadian soldiers are subject to Donald Trump’s orders
Master fraud
The collapse of a Brazilian bank ensnares politicians and judges
Middle East & Africa
Armed members of Iran's police special forces stand guard at a pro-Government rally in Tehran, Iran
The cost of bloodshed
After Iran’s massacres, tensions grow inside the regime
Bored of peace
Trump’s grandiose peace plans may spell more pain for Gaza
An American ally is abandoned
How the Kurds lost control of north-eastern Syria
From candidate to fugitive
Uganda’s opposition leader is on the run
Fishy figures
African trade has been vastly underestimated
Europe
A collage illustration showing Donald Trump on one side with his arms wide open, on the other side are Viktor Orbán, Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, Georgia Meloni and Alice Wiedel. A Greenland flag is between them and around there are stars within which
MAGA v MEGA
Donald Trump’s bullying is irritating his European populist chums
Derailing progress
An awful crash blots Spain’s gleaming super-fast trains
From Europe into space
A German company is poised to send a rocket into space from Norway
Drones and frost
Ukraine’s new air-defence whiz must stop a redoubled blitz
Speaking loudly, carrying a tiny stick
Russia’s no-show in Venezuela weakens its bad-boy image
Charlemagne
Europe’s five stages of grief for the transatlantic alliance
Britain
Kemi Badenoch holding pads for shocking the conservatives patient.
The opportunity in a crisis
A scenario for a Conservative comeback in Britain
Diego Garcia
Britain’s Chagos disposal looks like an idea out of time
Neighbourhood watch
What makes Britons oppose immigration?
Saltire of the earth
On Scotland’s nationalist fringes, a new Tartan intolerance rises
Bagehot
Affluenza: the new British disease
Business
A lipstick case containing a syringe
Looking like a trillion bucks
Why the beauty industry is booming
Code red
Chinese AI models are popular. But can they make money?
To the adopters, the spoils
Europe can still win the other AI race
On the fast track
Strava’s public listing will help it race ahead of competitors
Game of loans
The battle for Warner Bros is only getting fiercer
Bartleby
Signing the office birthday card
Schumpeter
TikTok is still a danger. America no longer cares
Finance & economics
Upwards view of silhouettes of labourers working at a Tawi Bridge construction site, with sunshine and blue sky in the background, on the outskirts of Jammu, India.
Rising giant
The ascent of India’s economy
Still afloat
Can America’s bond market keep defying the vigilantes?
The Takaichi trade
Japan’s bond-market tremble reflects a fiscal-monetary clash
Buttonwood
American decay versus American dynamism
Surprisingly stable
China hits its GDP target—in a weird way
Moving the dole posts
National job stereotypes need updating
Free exchange
An audacious new book about a “precocious” country
Science & technology
Illustration of three syringes with liquid coming out of them. The liquids are of three different colours, to signify that drugs are individualised to patients diseases.
Unique drugs for unique diseases
Treatment of a teenager with an ultra-rare condition is a medical milestone
How truffles spread
To disperse their spores, truffles rely on animals eating other animals
Wood enters the space age
Satellites encased in wood are in the works
The placebo effect
A new study highlights the brain’s role in immune health
Well informed
The most useful indicator of your overall health
Culture
Two inverted commas with cltr c written on the left one and cltr V on the right one
Copyrights and copywrongs
Are we all plagiarists now?
Painting the world red
Valentino was a fashion designer who rose above fashion trends
Back Story
Who’s afraid of Tucker Carlson?
The way we were
The credits are rolling on Sundance Film Festival in Park City
Whistle an (un)happy tune
Popular music is getting sadder and angstier
War games
A chilling, yet plausible scenario: What if Putin wins?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Cecilia Gimenez with "Ecce Homo"
Monstrosity or miracle?
Cecilia Giménez only meant to be helpful

The return of gunboat capitalism
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Multinationals and geopolitics
America’s gunboat capitalism will make the world poorer
And Donald Trump’s use of companies as a tool of state will make it no safer

Extraordinarily high stakes
What the collapse of Iran’s regime would mean
Thousands have died and America has threatened to strike back against the horror there
Jerome Powell during the Federal Reserve Board open meeting in Washington, DC, October 24th 2025
Central bankers of the world, unite!
A private memo from central banks to governments
You come at the king (of finance), you best not miss
A Petroleos de Venezuela SA oil pumpjack on Lake Maracaibo in Cabimas, Venezuela
The channel
Without democracy, Donald Trump’s Venezuelan oil quest will fail
Sidelining the democratic opposition and its leader, María Corina Machado, would be a mistake

250th birthday
America has coped with worse things than Donald Trump
Lessons from history for the next three years

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Britain’s relationship with the EU
By Invitation

Devotion to deregulation
Javier Milei: Rein in regulators, not big companies
Briefing
An illustration depicting broken conveyor belts wrapped around the globe, symbolising the fragmentation of global supply chains.
The disfiguring of big business
Geopolitics is warping multinationals’ commercial decisions
Firms are reshaping their operations, at the expense of their profits
Asia
A tangle of electrical wires in the Old City of New Delhi.
Electric dreams
To power up growth, India must be rewired
Fishy business
China is testing South Korea in the Yellow Sea
Forward or back
Will the army hold up Vietnam’s big reforms?
Banyan
Why Go is going nowhere
China
The modified ZQ-2 Y-1 carrier rocket carrying two test satellites blasts off from a commercial space innovation pilot zone in China.
It’s not (just) rocket science
The big ambitions of China’s private space industry
Pollution solution
The battle for blue skies over Beijing leaves farmers cold
In the slow lane
The best way to see Hong Kong is on its trams
Chaguan
China obsesses over America’s “kill line”
United States
Attendees observe the National Anthem during AmericaFest.
Keep out
MAGA wants a moratorium on legal migration, too
Rental illness
Why America’s corporate landlords are not villains
America’s navy
A strategy that needs rethinking
Congress awakens
Pro-science Republicans are fending-off cuts to funding
Uvalde shooting trial
Should America’s police ever be criminally liable for failing to stop crimes?
States and rights
The ICE officer who killed Renee Good may yet be charged
Lexington
Like Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani promises “a new approach to power”

The Americas
A statue of a hand holding a drilling rig near the headquarters of PDVSA, Venezuela's state oil company, in Caracas, Venezuela
Carrots and sticks
Donald Trump’s Venezuela oil deal is already up and running
After the strike
Venezuelans believe Donald Trump has offered them a better future
On tiptoe to Beijing
Mark Carney is on a mission to trade with the world
Brazil’s back yard
What the Donroe doctrine means for Brazil
Left wobbling
Cuba’s regime is in dire straits
Middle East & Africa
A member of the Iranian police attends a pro-government rally in Tehran, Iran, January 12, 2026
Khamenei or we burn the region
Bereft of legitimacy, the reeling regime in Iran massacres its own people
Reza Pahlavi speaks out
Reza Pahlavi says Iran is undergoing a revolution
Iran’s internet blackout
How Iran’s regime has hidden its brutal crackdown
Our interview with Bibi
Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan to win Israeli—and global—hearts and minds
Energy in Nigeria
Home-grown firms are helping Nigeria’s oil industry to rebound
Europe
Training of Danish Armed Forces Arctic specialists in Greenland, Oct 2025
Out in the cold
Europe has three options for defending Greenland
Judging the judges
Spain’s judiciary is caught up in a bitter political war
A new sort of transatlanticism
Europe and South America seal a trade pact for the Trump era
The Turkish throne
Who might succeed Recep Tayyip Erdogan?
Bankrupt in Berlin
Germany’s economy is so bad even sausage factories are closing
Charlemagne
Europe’s farmers no longer rule the roost unchallenged
Britain
A crewman is conducting winching training over the sea from a helicopter during the UK Carrier Strike Group deployment
Defence spending
Six months after a big review, British defence is still in trouble
Enter the robo-cops
Britain’s high-tech hunt for Russian subs in the North Atlantic
Blurred lines
Nigel Farage would bring uncertainty to Britain’s policy on Putin
Matchless scandal
The trouble with West Midlands Police
Red alert
A weapon that could help red squirrels in their Battle of Britain
Pub crawl-back
Another U-turn from Britain’s government
Pedestrianisation
The case for banning vehicles from Oxford Street in London is weak
Bagehot
Reform UK risks blowing a once-in-a-century moment
International
A man has a solitary glass of red wine in the Brasserie de l'Ile St. Louis. A waiter looks on in the background.
A vintage slump
Falling wine sales reflect a lonelier and more atomised world
The Telegram
Donald Trump used to be risk-averse. Is that changing?
Business
A chinese flag made from a shopping bag
Going global 3.0
A new generation of Chinese companies is expanding around the world
Hard drilling
Who will cash in on Venezuelan oil?
Cover up
Under growing pressure, Elon Musk backs down on nude deepfakes
Unnatural selection
Job applicants are winning the AI arms race against recruiters
Bartleby
The parable of the supermarket self-checkout
What’s mined is mine
The race for copper has brought a wave of mining mega-mergers
Shopped out
How Saks Fifth Avenue’s owner went bust
Schumpeter
Innovations in energy and finance are further inflating the AI bubble
Finance & economics
An illustration of three sledgehammers on top of a smashed layer of glass over an image of a classical building with a pediment and columned portico.
Interference day
It’s not just the Fed. Politics looms over central banks everywhere
A line drawn at the Fed
Jerome Powell punches back
Lender offenders
Donald Trump’s crusade against usury reaches Wall Street
Buttonwood
Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?
Misery loves company
Pessimism is the world’s main economic problem
Free exchange
The economics of regime change
Science & technology
Students during a training session at a full-time boarding primary and secondary football school.
Lament of the Tiger Mother
Why child prodigies rarely become elite performers
The climate in 2025
Hotter still, and hotter
Pan-sexual
Same-sex sexual behaviour in primates is a survival strategy
Well informed
Do RFK junior’s new dietary guidelines make sense?
Culture
A stylized factory scene where workers assemble a giant rifle inside an industrial workshop, rendered in bold red, black, and white tones.
Boffins v brutes
Did killers make the modern world?
Untying the knot
How well do you know the person lying next to you in bed?
Back Story
Are artists right to boycott the “Trump-Kennedy Centre”?
World in a dish
How bagels conquered the world
The beat goes on
The risky plan to take the “K” out of K-pop
Crime queen
The secret to Agatha Christie’s success
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Aldrich Ames at Allenwood Prison in Allenwood, Pennsylvania, United States, August 1995
Shopping bags of secrets
Aldrich Ames built a career on betraying trust

The Donroe delusion
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

The Donroe delusion
In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can
That will be bad for America—and everyone else
An illustration of an indicator line going up through a circle of fire.
The factory funk
Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success
Protectionism is failing to revive manufacturing
Tourists walk down a promenade leading to the Sensoji Buddhism temple.
Blaming outsiders
Does Japan have a “foreigner problem”?
Yes—but it is not what populist politicians say it is
illustration of a robot with pill-like shapes floating above its head
Pipeline dreams
AI is transforming the pharma industry for the better
It is changing the way drugs are discovered and tested
A black-and-white picture of Emmanuel Macron
An utter merde-show
France is paralysed, and everyone is to blame
The budgetary impasse is just one symptom of collective political uselessness

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Was our review of the “Wealth of Nations” at 250 uncharitable?
By Invitation
A portrait of Ricardo Hausmann
America to decapitated regime: carry on
Peace and prosperity in Venezuela will come from democracy, not oil, writes Ricardo Hausmann
Briefing
A photo pairing featuring a portrait of Donald Trump and a caravan of armed men on motorcycles in Venezuela
America unbridled
Donald Trump asserts control over Venezuela—and all the Americas
But the president’s claim of dominance over the western hemisphere may backfire
A photo pairing featuring Delcy Rodríguez, Venezuela’s vice-president, and the M/V Bella 1 oil tanker in the North Atlantic Ocean
The hunt for red Marinera
America chases down the shadow fleet serving Venezuela
Donald Trump is determined to enforce its oil blockade
Asia

Oh deer
Why is Japan souring on foreign workers and tourists?
A holy mess
Can Thailand rein in its “mafia monks”?
A state divided
Ethnic conflict festers on India’s eastern frontier
Banyan
The teenage girl who may rule North Korea
China
A drone light show featuring 11,787 drones in Chongqing, China.
Peak urban China
It’s not just China’s total population that’s falling
Military matters
China and Taiwan both see lessons in America’s raid on Venezuela
Chaguan
America’s raid on Venezuela reveals the limits of China’s reach
United States
Sketch showing Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, in court.
Rough justice
Nicolás Maduro is unlikely to beat his rap
MAGAZuela
Venezuelan immigrants in America are trapped in policy purgatory
Blood on the tracks
America’s most novel train project is too deadly
Threading the needle
Why overdose deaths are falling in America
Last of the Reaganites
What John Thune is for
Lexington
The radical honesty of Donald Trump

The Americas
Houses covered by snow are seen on the coast of a sea inlet of Nuuk, Greenland
Who’s next?
The White House weighs how to acquire Greenland
Look nervously south
Canada’s armed forces are planning for threats from America
Middle East & Africa
Iranian women sit at a bus stop in front of an anti-American mural in Tehran
Watching Maduro in Tehran
With protests at home and threats abroad, Iran’s regime looks rattled
Holiday cheer in the birthplace of Muhammad
Saudi Arabia has its first boozy new year—sort of
African demography
Burundi is running out of space
Uganda’s elections
The Museveni era is nearing its end
Europe
A blue-toned illustrated portrait of Emmanuel Macron against a red background.
Governing the ungovernable
Energetic abroad, Emmanuel Macron faces a mess at home
All along the watchtower
Ukraine now has the fortress belt it wishes it had in 2022
Not bad for a beginner
Kosovo’s election shows its democracy is solid
Terrifyingly leaky Chernobyl
A Russian drone has revived a Ukrainian nuclear nightmare
Turning them off
Latvia is needlessly alienating its Russian-speakers
Charlemagne
Why Europe is rediscovering the virtues of cash
Britain
Illustration of Keir Starmer clinging to an oversized red lever on a large mechanical switch, with a black lever opposite
Just-do-it politics
State capacity is the issue of the age
Turning a corner?
Hope springs eternal for Sir Keir Starmer
Welfare past and present
Happy birthday to the contributory old-age pension!
Left standing
Why Britain’s Stop the War movement is so resilient
North Sea oil
The collapse of Britain’s oil-and-gas industry
Bagehot
Thatcher-on-Thames
International
A symmetrical pixel-art wall of bright geometric patterns surrounds a central doorway, where a short stairway descends into darkness
Click follow for salvation
Social media are helping cults to recruit and control members
Business

Factories of the future
The “ChatGPT moment” has arrived for manufacturing
Breaking up isn’t hard to do
Germany’s industrial conglomerates are breaking up to stay alive
Memory lapse
The AI frenzy is creating a big problem for consumer electronics
Video killed the radio star
Welcome to the age of the vodcast
Bartleby
The problem with promotions
Schumpeter
Venezuela presents a big headache for big oil
Finance & economics
A flame burning natural gas is seen at an heavy-crude treatment plant operated by Venezuela's state oil company PDVSA, in the oil rich Orinoco belt, near Cabrutica at the state of Anzoategui.
Crude vision
An American oil empire is a deeply flawed idea
Without credit
Venezuela’s astoundingly messy debts are about to get messier
Building gloom
America’s missing manufacturing renaissance
Yielding to temptation
Why Europe’s biggest pension funds are dumping government bonds
Raising the bar
Vietnam’s growth is fast—but fragile
Buttonwood
Is it better to rent or buy?
Free exchange
What “Pluribus” reveals about economics
Science & technology
An illustration of pixelated tablets and capsule pills falling.
Pharmaceuticals
An AI revolution in drugmaking is under way
Spaceflight
Real flying saucers
Terraforming
A clever idea that could help the world grow a lot more food
Predation tactics
Where should predators hang out if there are no watering holes?
Well informed
Can high-intensity interval training get you fit in a hurry?
Culture
A shiny vintage microphone on a podium with red stage curtains behind.
Plodcasts
Do self-congratulating celebrities need more plaudits?
The Economist reads
Six books to read about Venezuela
World in a dish
Spore of the moment: mushrooms are the latest wellness-food trend
Killing (and dying) for a cause
The lessons of the terrorist violence of the 1970s
Back Story
The ice-cool hero of “The Night Manager” saunters to the rescue
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Nuno Loureiro
The builder of stars
Nuno Loureiro hoped to replicate the energy of the Sun

The world this week
The world this week
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Cost of living
The truth about affordability
Voters in rich countries are angry about prices. Politicians could make things worse
Sam Altman during a Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing in Washington, DC
The “Towering Inferno” of capital
OpenAI’s cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
There is a dark side to the model-maker’s stunning growth
Collage composition featuring Lula in the centre and bits of the Brazilian flag
Time for fresh faces
Brazil’s President Lula should not run again
As Joe Biden showed, candidates over 80 carry huge risks
A global mosaic of Mars created by the High Resolution Stereo Camera team of the Mars Express
Life off Earth
The future of space exploration depends on better biology
Rockets are great, but sewage treatment is what you need for the long haul
Illustration of a map of Europe with a plaster connecting the rip between the UK and the EU
Edging together
Britain and the EU should be bolder in getting closer
How post-Brexit Britain should approach relations with its nearest and biggest market

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Letters to the editor
By Invitation

Crackle, crackle, whoosh!
It’s fire season for finance, writes Ken Miller
Briefing
An illustration showing an oversized petrol can, an egg and a garden hose, each dangling with price tags, looming in the air as frightened people in the foreground scatter and run away.
Fake blues
America’s affordability crisis is (mostly) a mirage
That doesn’t diminish its political power
Asia
Pro military signs at the Chang La Pass, Ladakh, India
Holding the line
A fragile thaw at the top of the world
Antisemitism
Australia’s prime minister gets booed in Bondi
A brutal ballot
A sham poll in Myanmar opens a new phase of military rule
Banyan
Cults of personality pervade all levels of Indian politics
China
Visitors view paintings at the exhibition entitled "From Corot to Impressionism: A Flowing Platette" at Hubei Provincial Museum in China.
More Monet, more problems
How China’s property crisis helped crash its art market
Civil servants
People of dubious character are more likely to enter public service
Chaguan
China’s museum boom, take two
United States
Diptych showing the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires
From the ashes
Los Angeles after the flames
The Michigan Man
America’s most successful mayor stands down
Concrete and politics
Donald Trump has it in for Brutalism
Troops and consequences
The Supreme Court has taken the National Guard away from Donald Trump
Megabusiness
The economics of megachurches

The Americas
Collage featuring Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Flávio Bolsonaro and Tarcísio de Freitas
The great survivor
Brazil’s general election will be all about Lula—again
Burn, baby, burn
Peru’s not-so-happy new year
The corporation that became a country
Canada’s first Christmas without the Hudson’s Bay Company
Middle East & Africa
A fighter of the UAE-trained Security Belt Force, dominated by members of the Southern Transitional Council (STC) which seeks independence for south Yemen
Yemen’s civil war
A lightning advance by separatists has reshaped Yemen’s civil war
Trump and Netanyahu meet again
Netanyahu wins bigly from his meeting with Trump
One step closer
Israel recognises Somaliland
Bring on the boats
The nautical theory of African development
Prove it, prophet
Ghana tries to regulate online prophecies
Europe
A crew member on the lookout from the bridge deck of HMS Carlskrona, a Swedish patrol ship .
Deep trouble
The Baltic is becoming a battleground between NATO and Russia
Out with the old
Bulgarians join the euro and eject their government
War readiness
Europe’s generals are warning people to prepare for war
Black Sea blitz
Russia is blasting Odessa to throttle Ukraine’s economy
Charlemagne
Why America still needs Europe
Britain
A pro-EU mural painted on a concrete bus stop on the North York Moors
Brexit revisited
It’s time to rethink Britain’s relationship with the EU
Brexit and the border
How the “take back control” crowd boosted immigration to Britain
A slow-acting poison
Brexit has deepened the British economy’s flaws and dulled its strengths
Bagehot
Nigel Farage is Britain’s most European politician
International
A fisherman feeds whale sharks in the waters around Tan-Awan.
Conservation at sea
A half-planet-size gap in global governance is about to get plugged
The Telegram
Patriotism tests loom for big business
Business
illustration of a businessperson balancing on a tightrope while riding a unicycle shaped like the OpenAI logo
The greatest show on Earth
OpenAI faces a make-or-break year in 2026
Blown about
China’s wind giants are coming for Europe
A bumpy ascent
Despite a record year, airlines are grappling with big challenges
Bartleby
A new-year message from the CEO
The oracle departs
As Warren Buffett retires, uncertainty looms for Berkshire Hathaway
Boom clap
A Swedish startup wants to reignite Europe’s explosives industry
Schumpeter
What flying cars, quantum computing and fusion have in common
Finance & economics

Boom times
America’s economy looks set to accelerate
Cost of living
Forget affordability. Europe has an availability crisis
Slapped down
China’s property woes could last until 2030
Taking off
RedBird, a small firm doing big media deals
Buttonwood
Investors head into 2026 remarkably optimistic
Science & technology
A circular image split in half: the left side shows a hazy, red planet-like surface, while the right shows colourful microbe and plant growth in a Petri dish, forming a vivid, graphic pattern.
Choose life
How to export life to Mars
Ziggy played guitar
The spiders on the icecaps of Mars
Well informed
What is the best way to train for a marathon?
Culture
An illustration of a person taking shelter from the rain under a large book.
Publishing
What self-help books tell us about ourselves
The watery web
The internet’s vulnerable undersea tendrils
Espionage
Oleg Lyalin: the spy who loved too much
World in a dish
Restaurants are changing their menus for the age of Ozempic
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Brigitte Bardot in "Two Weeks in September", 1967
Huntress and hunted
Brigitte Bardot became, but refused to remain, the image of desire