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Christmas double issue
The world this week
The world this year 2025
The weekly cartoon

Leaders
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves as he prepares for a bilateral meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump at Gimhae Air Base on October 30, 2025 in Busan, South Korea.
Superpowers
China proved its strengths in 2025—and Donald Trump helped
It was a good year for Xi Jinping
A woman sits by a tent surrounded by floodwater in the Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, on November 25th 2025
Bored of peace
Two months in, the Gaza ceasefire is floundering
The consequences will ripple beyond the Middle East
A cartoon Earth running with legs, wrapped in a white ribbon, on an orange background.
A better life for some
The Economist’s country of the year for 2025
Which country improved the most this year?
This illustration is a stylized, modern take on the myth of Icarus falling from the sky after flying too close to the sun.
Beyond the one-hit wonder
What Novo Nordisk, OpenAI and Pop Mart have in common
All three have suffered the curse of overnight success
Two clinking martini glasses with red hearts, topped by festive mistletoe on a red background.
Festive feasting
Your Well Informed guide to surviving Christmas
Drink slowly, eat cake and remember that fun is good for you, too

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Europeans should be worried by America’s new national security strategy
Asia
A menorah is lit as people participate in a candlelight vigil at Bondi Pavilion at Bondi Beach.
Terror on the beach
Can Australia defend itself against jihadist murderers?
Asia’s audiowars
Why has the border between the Koreas fallen silent?
A flood of failures
The botched response to a devastating storm infuriates Indonesians
China

The verdict
Jimmy Lai’s judgment day
Snow globalisation
The Christmas-industrial complex centres on Yiwu
United States
Illustration of 3 TVs with the Netflix, Warner Brothers and Paramount logos on them, tied up in red tape
Lights, camera, legal action!
Will California try to block Hollywood’s next megadeal?
Turnspike
Toll roads are spreading in America
Show that 4 > 5
More schools in America are adopting a four-day week
God complex
The race for an AI Jesus is on
Lexington
A vote against gerrymandering shows why political courage is rare
The Americas
The Cabo Orange National Park located at the northern tip of the Brazilian coast and home to one of the best-preserved mangrove forests on the planet.
Drill, baby, drill!
An oil boom where the Amazon meets the Atlantic
Argentina’s economy
Javier Milei loosens his grip on the peso
Middle East & Africa
Men walk along a muddy alley at a makeshift camp sheltering displaced Palestinians after heavy rains in the Zeitoun neighbourhood of Gaza City
What’s next for Gaza?
Donald Trump’s peace plan is faltering in the chaos of Gaza
On its knees
Just 74 intensive-care beds remain in Gaza
The next mega-project
Ethiopia wants to build Africa’s biggest airport

Europe
A drone view of apartment buildings damaged by Russian military strike in the frontline town of Kostiantynivka, Ukraine
Bitter struggle
Ukraine scrabbles for handholds against Russia’s massive assault
Swish as they come
Italy is using the Winter Olympics to appeal to the ultra-wealthy
Same procedure as every year
Why German cities feel like war zones on New Year’s Eve
Charlemagne
European nationalism is dead. Long live European gastronationalism
Britain
Murals honoring the loyalist paramilitary movement in a Protestant area of Belfast, Northern Ireland
The Troubles
How to heal the trauma from Northern Ireland’s killings
Family pawtrait
Britons are becoming obsessed with pet photography
Declining, not falling
A portrait of Britain’s aristocrats
Bagehot
All sides have learned a lot from Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder
Christmas Specials

Inside Africa’s great green lung
A journey into the world’s most mysterious rainforest
Dating advice
What The Economist discovered at dating bootcamp
Drunken monkey, dry future
How humankind’s 10m-year love affair with booze might end
A wonderful, awful idea
The tariffs that nearly stole Christmas
Caste and cuisine
From honeycomb curry to blood fry: India’s “untouchable” cooking
Geeks, mules and whales
The battle to stop clever people betting
The “Wealth of Nations” at 250
Adam Smith is misinterpreted and his influence overstated
The sultans of slang
What street talk reveals about Anglophone civilisation
Muscle beachhead
America’s fight back against China starts in Los Angeles—in flip-flops
Jainism in the world
The long, strange journey of a temple from profane to sacred
The Great Games
What if the best way to learn about history is by playing with it?
Lewis, Clark and Pompey, too
How two explorers, a mother and a baby made America
The feeding of the 7,600
The titanic task of catering on the world’s biggest cruise ship
Your flexible friend
How wolves became dogs
The Black Stream
A journey along East Asia’s hidden artery
Austenomics
How Jane Austen revealed the economic basis of society
Single men in possession of good fortunes
Was Mr Darcy the richest of all Jane Austen’s characters?
Unmoored in Madagascar
The most friendless place on earth
An uprising in St Petersburg
Two centuries ago, Russian revolutionaries tried to change the world
China’s tea industry
The rise and fall and rebirth of lapsang souchong
From Harry Houdini to Harry Potter
How magicians stay relevant in the age of AI
International
An electrician installs wiring at Ontario Airport, Canada
Toolbox versus textbook
Ditch textbooks and learn how to use a wrench to AI-proof your job?
The Telegram
How to survive abandonment by America
Business
Photomontage showing Maziar Mike Doustdar and Lars Sorensen surrounded by images of pipettes, wegovy pens, a Novo Nordisk flag and a spiral staircase from the company headquarters in Copenhagen
Slim shaky
The plan to rescue Novo Nordisk
Cruising for a bruising
Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers
The future of work
Job apocalypse? Not yet. AI is creating brand new occupations
Bags not it
Luxury handbags may be shoddier than you think
Bartleby
How to conduct a job interview
Schumpeter
SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic and their giga-IPO dreams
Finance & economics

The short view
Where America’s most prominent short-sellers are placing their bets
Minefield
Meet the American investors rushing into Congo
Former glory
This Christmas, raise a glass to concentrated market returns
Buttonwood
Crypto’s real threat to banks
Free exchange
Watch who you’re calling childless
Science & technology
A skull with a blue treatment on top on a beige background
Palaeontology
A debate is raging over the origins of an elusive cousin to modern humans
Chips in the desert
Saudi Arabia wants to host the world’s cheapest data centres
Paws and effect
How dogs make teens feel less anxious
Well informed
Are some types of sugar healthier than others?
Culture

Christmas food
What goes into raising the turkey on your holiday table
Back Story
And 2025’s winners are…Timothée Chalamet and Sydney Sweeney
Sound advice
The best podcasts of 2025
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Iain Douglas-Hamilton monitoring elephants in the 1970s
Flying with elephants
Iain Douglas-Hamilton fought to save the beasts he loved

Europe’s populist right
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

On the rise
Can anyone stop Europe’s populist right?
Apocalyptic warnings by mainstream politicians are doomed to fail
A U.S. Army patch on the uniform of an American soldier
The national security strategy
More reasons for America’s friends to plan for the worst
A strategy that scorns Europe, bullies Latin America and is vague on Asia
An illustration of a shipping container in a stack of banknotes.
The global economy
Don’t fear China’s trillion-dollar trade surplus
It is a problem not for the rest of the world, but for China
Illustration of a gavel hitting an orange hand.
A major question
America’s Supreme Court should strike down Donald Trump’s tariffs
The judges’ credibility is at stake
Ezra Miller as The Flash, on set, 2017
Entertainment
The battle for Warner Bros is a prelude to the real streaming war
Professionally made shows face tough competition from independent makers

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Has repression in Iran been curtailed?
By Invitation

Make Europe Centrist Again?
It’s time Europe got to grips with the MAGA challenge, writes Mark Leonard
Briefing
A photo collage featuring a serious portrait of Nigel Farage, leader of Reform UK, combined with images of both pro- and anti–far-right protests, alongside visuals symbolising Britain’s industrial decline.
Right riveting
The populists of Reform UK, already topping the polls, may climb higher
Claims that it has hit a ceiling are probably wishful thinking
A photo collage featuring Alice Weidel, Tino Chrupalla and Björn Höcke, leaders of Germany’s AfD, combined with images reflecting the country’s social and political tensions, including immigration pressures and signs of industrial decline.
Growing without restraint
The Alternative for Germany is the leading party in some German polls
Despite retaining its far-right positions
A photo collage featuring Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, leaders of France’s National Rally, combined with images of various protests, alongside visuals symbolising France’s own economic strains and industrial decline.
Preparing for power
Once a pariah, the National Rally is now France’s most popular party
It could win the presidency in 2027 or parliamentary power even sooner
Asia
Aerial view of the housing complex in the Jatinegara district in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Agglomerate this!
Why many Asian megacities are miserable places
So much for Trump the peacemaker
Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia breaks out again
Dodgy outfits
Australia’s hard right is resurgent
Banyan
How did one airline bring Indian aviation to its knees?
China
A crystal ball with a factory inside it. A golden dragon is surrounding it.
Not so self-reliant
The meaning of China’s record-high trade surplus
Weighing the threat
Hedging against Trump, Canada reconsiders ties with China
A persistent craving
Why do so many Chinese still smoke?
The pain of the doghouse
China knows how to punish countries that offend it
United States
Illustration of Trump's profile with a gavel and Warner Bros logo in it with Netflix and Paramount logos next to it
The war over independence
The Supreme Court is handing Donald Trump more power
Paradise lost?
Miami elects a new mayor at a pivotal moment
Spies and narcos
How much does America know about its boat-strike targets?
Point of contact
College campuses have become a front line in America’s sports-betting boom
Dr Feelbad
American doctors are rich and miserable
Lexington
All hail “The President of Peace”

The Americas
The illustration is showing a portrait of José Antonio Kast on a blue and red background
The future of Chile
José Antonio Kast is Chile’s probable next president. How will he govern?
Good Morning, Puerto Rico
How the “Donroe Doctrine” is changing Puerto Rico
Chainsaw politics
MAGA’s man in LatAm
Middle East & Africa
An aerial view of the over 650 kilometers long railway line from Simandou to Morebaya port in Guinea
The promise of Simandou
A giant iron-ore mine could bring Guinea riches or ruin
A peace deal without peace
Donald Trump has not ended conflict between Congo and Rwanda
Sorry states
Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis
No time like sometime
A window of opportunity for reform in Lebanon is closing
A dangerous border
Israel refuses to withdraw from Syria
Europe
A pedestrian walks past a mural depicting a Russian general and a cadet in Moscow, Russia
Biting the bullet
Russia is not as resilient as it wants you to think
Working the bouncers
Albania is trying to charm its way into the EU
Stumbling towards peace
Talks stall between Turkey’s government and the Kurds
From Russia with gas
Europe bans Russia’s gas exports, but still buys its gas-based fertiliser
One battle after another
Ukraine struggles to cope with America’s destructive peace plans
Rolling crisis
Ukraine’s trains, the country’s lifeline, have money problems
Britain
Women drinking brightly coloured drinks in Morelli's Cappuccino Bar, Broadstairs.
Contact with reality
Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has moderated in office
’Tis the season to be stingy
Britain’s pitiful Christmas bonuses
ChatPC
Why Britain’s police forces are taking to AI
Changing the subject
A new breed of quizzer is wresting control of an old hobby
Ewe-turn
What’s behind the revival in the price of British wool
Bend it like Barnet
Pro-growth sports fans are getting organised in Britain
International
President Donald Trump speaks with members of the military at Fort Bragg in North Carolina
America First foreign policy
Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy
The Telegram
What’s worse for innovation: MAGA or Mao?
1843

Luxury
The Hermès heist: how an heir to the luxury dynasty was swindled out of $15bn of shares
Business
Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California, United States
That’s not all, folks!
Netflix and Paramount are battling for more than Warner Bros
Bot and sold
How AI is disrupting shopping
The Nvidia way
Donald Trump’s flawed plan to get China hooked on Nvidia chips
Nannying the internet
From social media to porn, age checks are spreading across the web
Speeding downhill
Vietnam’s EV champion is bleeding cash
Bartleby
A short guide to every business-hotel room
Schumpeter
Oracle and the hard truths about software
Finance & economics

Muito bom
Which economy did best in 2025?
Deal season
Wall Street is drooling over bank mergers
Interest rates
America’s bond market is quiet—almost too quiet
Cheap shots
What a stiff drink says about China’s economy
Buttonwood
Asia’s inexpensive AI stocks should worry American investors
Free exchange
Germany has a lawyer problem
Science & technology
Five wireframe hands extend outward, each holding an icon—a plane, calendar, restaurant, shopping cart, and car—against a blue and yellow gradient background.
Intelligent agents
The next version of the web will be built for machines, not humans
Head to head
The Chinese rocket industry takes off
Sparks will fly
Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought
Well informed
Why hangovers get worse as you get older
Culture
An illustration of a smiling woman in a kitchen wearing a red apron that reads "MABA" and cutting into a pie.
Make America Bake Again
The apple-pie-scented world of conservative women’s media
Climbing the Tower of Babel
The race to translate the Bible into every language by 2033
Art and exile
India’s best-known artist gets his own museum—in Qatar
Strike a chord
The best albums of 2025
A decent proposal
Proposing this Christmas? Go for a yellow-gold ring
Back Story
Every sheet of wrapping paper tells a story
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Frank Gehry in front of his latest creation, the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health, in Las Vegas
Plywood, titanium and light
Frank Gehry shook up buildings as never before

How AI is rewiring childhood
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Generation AI
How AI is rewiring childhood
The technology presents dazzling opportunities—and ominous risks

Crackpot or jackpot?
Britain’s slot-machine politics
Voting is becoming a high-stakes, wildly unpredictable gamble
A female soldier is about to launch a drone at a military position in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine on October 6th 2025
Squabbling while Ukraine burns
Enough dithering. Europe must pay to save Ukraine
America will not. Europe’s security depends on agreeing how to
A person holds up an image of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during a protest in support of Syrian territorial unity and against division, in Damascus, Syria, November 28th 2025
Two cheers for Ahmed al-Sharaa
Syria’s transition has gone better than expected
The president has been a deft diplomat, but must do more reassure Syrians
A diptych of Kevin Hassett and Chris Waller.
Choosing the chair
Chris Waller, not Kevin Hassett, should lead the Federal Reserve
President Trump should choose the technocrat over the partisan

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Do minimum wages kill jobs?
By Invitation

Blockchain boon
Larry Fink and Rob Goldstein on how tokenisation could transform finance
Briefing
An illustration of a girl happily studying in a classroom with a gentle, caring personalised AI robot teacher.
Generation AI
At home and at school, AI is transforming childhood
It brings many benefits, but also hidden dangers
Asia
A 3D illustration of the Indian flag. The Ashoka Chokra is a drone instead of the usual symbol.
Boom times
India’s defence-tech startups are thriving
Natural disasters
South-East Asia and Sri Lanka are reeling from storms and flooding
Third wheel
Donald Trump looms over Vladimir Putin’s visit to India
Regressing to the mean
Kyrgyzstan is losing its status as Central Asia’s only democracy
Banyan
Lessons from Japan’s efforts to wean itself off Chinese rare earths
China
An illustration of boxes in a empty room. A person in the background is leaving with one of the boxes.
Talent flows
America is foolishly waving goodbye to thousands of Chinese boffins
Elections approach
After a terrible fire in Hong Kong, public fury smoulders
Suppressing democracy in China
The general who refused to crush Tiananmen’s protesters
United States
Pete Hegseth.
Drifting with purpose
Will Congress rein in Pete Hegseth and his boat-bombing campaign?
Concepts of a plan
Republicans still don’t know what to do with Obamacare
After the fall
Leaf blowers are the latest thing dividing Americans
But no cigar
A special election puts Democrats on track to flip the House
Confirmation bias
AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish
Dell gift
What will your child’s Trump Account be worth?
Lexington
Some cocaine-smuggling presidents are more innocent than others

The Americas
A few women are visible, seen through a small keyhole
The price of a person
Trafficking humans is the drug-gangs’ grimmest business
Xi’s first XI
China built a swanky cricket pitch to win over tiny Grenada
Elections in Honduras
Why does Donald Trump care about Honduras’s election?
Remember, remember the 20th of November
Brazil is embracing its African roots
Middle East & Africa
A person carries a bunch of balloons through destroyed streets in Aleppo, aerial view
A year After Assad
Syria uneasily celebrates a year of liberation
Trouble brewing
An insurgency may be brewing against Syria’s new leaders
Binyamin Netanyahu’s trial
Binyamin Netanyahu has asked for a presidential pardon
Purchasing power
Africa needs to generate more electricity
An oily deal
Russia’s dodgy plan for a pipeline in Congo
Latter-day Saints on the march
Mormonism’s surprising boom in Africa
Europe
French soldiers work on a Leclerc tank, at Mourmelon military camp in Northern France
Pumping iron
Europe is going on a huge military spending spree
Flame out
America’s peace initiative has stalled in Moscow
The last shall be average
Greece is teaching Germany how to get government online
Basta means basta
Italy’s populist right stalls a sexual-consent law
Not so judgy
The Hague is coping with the decline of international courts
Charlemagne
Why a small corruption scandal is a big problem for the EU
Britain
Sir Keir Starmer being interviewed by Zanny Minton-Beddoes
The man versus the moment
Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer
Slot-machine politics
Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system
Pinch of salt
Polls predicting the next British election are not to be trusted
Fury over juries
Britain’s plan to curb jury trials is a sharp break with tradition
Flight of fancy
Are Brits really leaving the country in droves?
Bagehot
Pity the AVOCADOs
International
New US Marine recruits train in San Diego, California
Defence
Western armed forces have struggled to fill their ranks to deter Russia
The Telegram
Trumpworld thinks Europe has betrayed the West
Business
illustration of a bright red room set up like a film studio. A woman in a yellow dress sits on a bed holding a drink, while a man in a white shirt and gray pants stands nearby gesturing
Creative tension
From micro-dramas to video games, Chinese entertainment is booming
Showing up
China’s unlikely new entertainment capital
Jobs for the bots
Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption
Animals, ink
Even Europe’s penmakers are under threat
Changing lanes
To halt their decline, VW and others are turning Chinese
High and Drahi
Patrick Drahi has bested his lenders yet again
Bartleby
How many hours should employees work?
Schumpeter
Will the mega-merger wave destroy value for shareholders?
Finance & economics
For people striving to break into the middle class, hard work is no longer enough
Labouring the point
Why worries about American job losses are overstated
Central banking
Which Kevin Hassett would lead the Federal Reserve?
Once you pop
How to spot a bubble bursting
Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin has plunged. Strategy Inc is an early victim
Feeling flush
Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?
Refined attacks
American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure
Buttonwood
Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital
Free exchange
AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences
Science & technology
Human head split in two, formed from layered, wavy paper that extends outward in shapes resembling a brain.
The new neurotribes
Why autism should not be treated as a single condition
My God, it’s full of Starlinks
Surging satellite numbers threaten to dazzle even space telescopes
Well informed
Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits?
Head to head
A Chinese firm attempts to bring a booster rocket back to Earth
Culture
Men ride a motorcycle by the Great Colonnade (Decumanus Maximus) at the ancient ruins of Palmyra in central Syria.
Dark tourism
Why do tourists visit sites of atrocities?
Language
And The Economist’s word of the year for 2025 is…
Show me the doors
Why there is an Advent calendar for absolutely everything
Hotshot
Tyler Mitchell: the photographer of the moment
Stuff of fiction
The 30-year-old dystopian novel that is the talk of TikTok
Right on cue
The best TV shows of 2025
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Tom Stoppard in November 2023
A man of multitudes
Tom Stoppard was an inexhaustible fountain of ideas

The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Frontier technologies
What China will dominate next
The country’s high-speed innovation holds lessons for the world

Fiscal failure
This bodge-it budget does not give Britain what it needs
Without ambitious reform, the country will not thrive
The president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky
Ambush averted
How to avoid an unjust peace in Ukraine
If Ukraine and Europe want to control their destiny they must seize the initiative
Illustration of a Yen symbol at the top of Mount Fuji.
The yen
Japan’s big-spending Takaichinomics is ten years out of date
In a time of higher inflation, a falling yen and rising bond yields make a noxious blend
An Iranian woman walks past a map of Iran in Tehran
An offer from Tehran
Iran’s reformists extend a hand
The West should heed Iran’s call to restart nuclear talks

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Taiwan’s real estate problem
By Invitation

The threat from within
Ukraine must change how it is governed, writes a former adviser
Postcard from Pokrovsk
Russia must get no amnesty in any peace deal for Ukraine
Briefing
People in Tehran walk next to a mural showing Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his predecessor, Ayatollah Khomeini
Emollient mullahs
Why Iran is making surprising overtures to America
Its clerical regime appears to be adapting to survive
An Iranian man drags the American and Israeli flags along a giant Israeli flag during a rally in Tehran
A respite, not a reset
Many Israelis believe another war with Iran is coming
The only question is whether it will be sooner or later
Asia
Yogi Adityanath, the chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, address a meeting
Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh
Meet the road-building, Muslim-baiting monk who could rule India
Picking up the pieces
Nepal’s youth toppled the government. Now they want to remake it
Swinging state
America’s oldest ally in Asia is drawing closer to China
Own goal
When is a Malaysian footballer not a Malaysian footballer?
China
Staff members work in a Chinese factory producing penicillin antibiotics
Drug dependency
Chinese pharma is on the cusp of going global
Medical innovation
Dr Chatbot is popping up all over China
Buildings ablaze
A terrible inferno kills dozens in Hong Kong
Chaguan
China’s Communist Party wants positive energy only, please
United States
Illustration of a bald eagle and another bald eagle that's covered in glitches about to pounce on a MAGA hat
Silicon Valley Forge
MAGA is divided over the promise and perils of AI
Quis custodiet
A shooting in Washington prefigures tougher immigration policies
Medicine show
The federal government will now pay for Native American healing
Second city broke
Chicago is facing a giant budget crisis
Eureka!
California’s latest gold rush
Licence to kill
More Americans are being put to death
Lexington
“I love the smell of deportations in the morning”

The Americas
Supporters of Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro, on trial for his alleged role in an attempted coup, take part in a demonstration
Messiah no more
Jair Bolsonaro is jailed, leaving the Brazilian right fractured
Time to heal
Canada’s indigenous-style prisons are designed to right historical wrongs
Kamikaze craze
Colombia’s armed groups are experimenting with deadly drones
Middle East & Africa
Chinese and Zambian medical staff perform a surgery at a hospital in Kitwe, Zambia
Strategic generosity
The changing shape of Chinese aid to Africa
Coup in cocaine country
Armed men take power in Guinea-Bissau, again
Yemen’s endless war
Mired in financial crisis, the Houthis resume threats to Saudi Arabia
Febrile states
The killing of a Hizbullah commander shows how fragile truces are
The soft-drinks war
How Pepsi trounced Coca-Cola in the Middle East
Europe
This illustration is a collage of Zelensky, Trump and Putin, scenes of war damage, armed soldiers, and a tense meeting, all arranged in contrasting red and blue tones.
The maze runners
Ukraine may be a step closer to peace, or to destruction
Europe’s new diplomacy
Macron, Merz and Starmer are forming a new trilateral leadership
Gonna sit right down and write myself a letter
Denmark gets ready to cancel Christmas cards
Tilting the pitch
Turkey’s refs are caught up in a huge sports gambling scandal
Marriage of convenience
Denmark has become a red-tape-free wedding destination
Charlemagne
If the fighting ends in Ukraine, the infighting in Europe will begin
Britain
Rachel Reeves holds the red briefcase at 11 Downing Street as she prepares to deliver the budget.
Party first, country second
Britain’s budget prioritised Labour's political survival
One honk for Rachel Reeves
Britain will tax electric cars more heavily. Good
The mudslinging metric
How did Rachel Reeves’s budget compare?
Gender medicine
A landmark trial of puberty blockers could end up in court
The Mail and the Telegraph
Who should control British newspapers?
Comparing countries
Which country is most similar to Britain?
Bagehot
Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing
International
A blurred close-up image of two people holding each other, overlaid with a loading bar that says "Generating"
Silicone valley
AI is upending the porn industry
The Telegram
The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war
Business
illustration of yellow robotaxis speeding down a road as though racing toward a raised hand representing a customer hailing a ride.
Robots on the road
The self-driving taxi revolution begins at last
Driving east
Why China is pulling ahead in the robotaxi race
Shop till you drop
American consumers are miserable. But they keep spending
Silicon smackdown
Google has pierced Nvidia’s aura of invulnerability
Eclipsed
Europe is struggling to compete in the second space race
Bartleby
Observed in the wild: office snackers and foragers
Schumpeter
From Nvidia to Nike, American firms face a margin squeeze
Finance & economics

Generally Paused Technology
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Make work
Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force
Problems of the 0.00002%
China’s property market is (somehow) worsening
Wheels of fortune
Self-driving cars will transform urban economies
Buttonwood
How to short the bubbliest firms
Free exchange
One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis
Science & technology
An illustration of the human body, zooming in on the arteries
Cardiovascular health
There’s more to cholesterol than simply “good” or “bad”
AI safety
When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil
Blue power
A new way to generate electricity from water
Well informed
Should adults take colostrum supplements?
Culture
A black and white image of a drive-in cinema with the Netflix logo on the big screen.
Hollywood
“Stranger Things” and the surprising truth about hit-making
Animal magnetism
What has webbed feet, a big snout and is adored on the internet?
Back Story
In the latest “Knives Out” mystery, reason takes on faith
Cinematic wizardry
The gravity-defying success of “Wicked”
The history of biology
Francis Crick was an extraordinary scientist—and a flawed man
Play it cool
The best video games of 2025
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
He Yanxin
The words of ants
He Yanxin was the steward of a women-only language

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The hidden risks in Taiwan’s boom
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

The World Ahead
An illustration of the world on a football, with politicians, boats, war missiles and other elements pointing to the coming year.
The World Ahead
The World Ahead 2026

Leaders

Trade and exchange rates
The hidden risks in Taiwan’s boom
A weak-currency policy is punishing consumers and storing up financial risk

Artificial-intelligence test
How markets could topple the global economy
If the AI bubble bursts, an unusual recession could follow
An illustration of the BBC logo carved in stone which is cracking and beginning to crumble.
Do adjust your sets
How the exasperating, indispensable BBC must change
Its latest crisis needs to spur reforms to bolster its news division
Claudia Sheinbaum waves from a car as she leaves the Los Pinos Cultural Complex in Mexico City, Mexico
Taking on the gangs
Mexico’s surprising record on murder
Claudia Sheinbaum’s security strategy is working. She has a mountain to climb
A soldier from the Ethiopian National Defence Force looks on in Kombolcha , Ethiopia
The Horn of Africa
How to avoid Africa’s next war
Pressure from America and its allies can prevent a return to fighting
Letters
A selection of correspondence
How dangerous is life in Syria?
By Invitation
An illustration of Laura Murphy
University challenge
A human-rights researcher on why she pushed back when China bullied her university
Briefing
An illustration of a tsunami made of banknotes crashing toward Taiwan’s Dragon and Tiger Pagodas, symbolizing the contrast between the island’s booming exports and rising wealth and its struggling domestic economy.
Formosan flu
Taiwan’s amazing economic achievements are yielding alarming strains
It has the world’s most undervalued currency and one of its biggest trade surpluses
Asia
A collage of elements from the Gujarat and Tamil Nadu regions in India. The maps of the regions are set in a star, torn in half.
Sigma Octantis
Which is India’s superstar state?
One and done?
A bombing in Delhi raises tensions in the region
Air-traffic control
South Korea’s new president is fixing relations with America, Japan and China
A bout time
Japanese women are wrestling with sumo’s boundaries
Desperate times
Asia’s most treacherous sailing season
Banyan
Kerala can teach India a thing or two about social welfare
China
Photomontage of fentanyl pills and shipping containers.
Calibrating co-operation
America and China share a dangerous addiction
Ugly-cute contest
China’s growing global fan club
Uyghur pronounciation
The way Uyghurs speak Mandarin is now a joke
Chaguan
Tianmen is China’s test site for baby-boosting policies

United States

All the president’s enforcers
See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force
A pointless quarantine
Democrats collapsed in the shutdown fight
Norway in the desert
One of the poorest states in America introduces free child care
Zippy-de-doo-Dad
Parents on e-bikes are transforming the school run
Homeschooling
Florida is running a radical experiment in education
Lexington
Why the Democrats may lose again to Donald Trump
The Americas
A heavily armed state police convoy in Culiacan, Sinaloa.
Curbing violence
Making Mexico less of a gangster’s paradise
The rose-tinted gangsters
Racy fictional depictions of gangs irk people in Latin America
Crime and punishment
Chile heads for a sharp right turn
Middle East & Africa
A Palestinian stands next to the rubble of destroyed and heavily damaged buildings in Gaza City
Where to begin?
Gaza’s zombie ceasefire
The remnants of war
The dangers beneath Gaza’s rubble
Stars and stripes v black flags
Syria’s ex-jihadist president, now Donald Trump’s new bestie
Back on the brink
Ethiopia is perilously close to another war
Europe
Madrid residents wait in the street during the funeral of Francisco Franco in November 1975
A country transformed
Half a century after the death of Franco, Spain is a far better place
Goodbye, Europe
Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy
A new glow
Even on Ukraine’s front line there is time, and a need, for beauty
Mobsters online
How Italy’s mafia uses social media to recruit new blood
Charlemagne
Europe is cracking down on Russian tourists
Britain
A TV set with the BBC logo crashing through it
Inform, educate, enrage
The BBC’s boss quits over a “doctored” Trump speech
Time to come clean
Labour’s tax-and-spend policy has been dominated by wild gambling
Confidence trick
British businesses say they are furious with the government
For four eyes only
Why Britain may have stopped sharing some intelligence with America
Of molluscs and men
A slimy scheme to avoid property tax
Bagehot
Sir Keir Starmer is a prisoner of the politics he pledged to end
International
Collage of police training across the world
Order here please
China’s creepiest export surge
The Telegram
Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump
Business
illustration of a burning briefcase on a red background
Before the fall
The seven deadly sins of corporate exuberance
Rise of the people people
How HR took over the world
Semi-slow
TSMC’s cautious expansion is frustrating the AI industry
Virtual malice
Libellous chatbots could be AI’s next big legal headache
Bartleby
The 10-4 rule for interacting with customers
Dangerous liaisons
The costs of dating your boss
Schumpeter
Elon Musk’s $1trn pay deal highlights companies’ superstar dilemma
Finance & economics

Recession recession
Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble
Boomers and busts
Old folk are seized by stockmarket mania
All fogged up
The problem with America’s shutdown economy
Signal failure
How AI is breaking cover letters
Buttonwood
In defence of personal finance
Free exchange
Tree murders and the economics of crime
Science & technology
Illustration of a man in an armchair talking to a laptop in another armchair. On the laptop screen, a friendly robot is waving.
Machines of loving grace
Millions are turning to AI for therapy
Casting the runes
A new project aims to predict how quickly AI will progress
Thanks for all the fish
Sperm whales communicate with vowels
Well informed
Can peptides give you superpowers?
Culture
An illustration of a microphone with the design of the Indian flag on it under a spotlight.
Stand-up and fight
Indian comedians have never been so successful or endangered
A law unto itself
Is “All’s Fair” really the worst television drama ever made?
Rest in prose
An affecting chronicle of a man’s death—and his life
European politics
Francisco Franco: the charmless man who became Spain’s dictator
Back Story
Has culture in the 21st century become samey and dull?
The reel deal
The best films of 2025
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
James Watson with a molecular model of DNA, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1957
The secret of life
James Watson was stunned by the beauty of the double helix

China’s global power play
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Power play
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising

The great relationship recession
The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world
In good ways and bad
An illustration of a US flag-themed ballot box with a dollar price tag on the left and a rising graph line on the right.
The meaning of Mamdani
Democrats risk drawing the wrong lessons from one good day
Moderate governors offer a better model than a charming socialist in New York
An illustration of a dollar sign ballancing on a globe.
Too much of a good thing
America should not push other countries to adopt the dollar
More dollarisation would be a double-edged sword
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage hold press conference in London
Fiscal Farage
Nigel Farage’s newfound fiscal prudence is welcome, if unproven
Britain’s leading populist says he won’t cut taxes dramatically after all
Lockheed Martin's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) launch at sunset.
Star wars, the sequel
America’s plans for a Golden Dome are dangerously obscure
Without clarity, the missile shield risks becoming a costly, destabilising white elephant

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Can charity sustain conservation at scale?
By Invitation

Winds of change
The climate action that matters is in the global south, argues an architect of the Paris agreement
Briefing
An illustration of a crowded beach filled with pairs of deck chairs under colorful parasols — but in each pair, only one chair is occupied. The diverse single people lounging there look relaxed and content, enjoying their independence.
Generation single
All over the rich world, fewer people are hooking up and shacking up
Social media, dating apps and political polarisation all play a part
Asia
choolchildren walk passed the Kabul river.
Liquid front lines
South Asia’s water wars
Hitting them for six
India’s women win the cricket World Cup
Dangerous grounds
America and China circle each other in the South China Sea
Budget shenanigans
Indonesia raids its rainy-day pot
Banyan
Queen Sirikit’s death shows changing Thai views of the monarchy
China
Chinese construction workers walk together after work, in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Buckle up
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is booming again
Behind the scenes
What a leaked transcript reveals about China’s muscular statecraft
Against the tide
Hong Kongers support gay marriage. Their leaders, not so much
Chaguan
How a little Chinese island rose to global chemical dominance
United States
Democrat Abigail Spanberger walks out on stage after she was declared the winner of the Virginia governor's race
Off-year, on it
A night of big wins for the Democrats
Duty call
The Supreme Court seems sceptical of Donald Trump’s tariffs
Why rot the sheriff?
How the sheriff of St Louis ended up in jail
CAHOOTS is kaput
The rise and fall of America’s model mobile crisis service
Medicine haul
America’s health-care costs are shooting up
Strategic inanity
Donald Trump’s alarming muddle about nuclear-weapons testing
Lexington
Gerrymandering is now the wind beneath Gavin Newsom’s wings

The Americas
The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford
Regime change, again
War looms in Venezuela as Trump tests an “Americas First” doctrine
Santa Marta salsa
An EU-Mercosur trade deal looks close to ratification
Middle East & Africa
Displaced Sudanese families who fled the recent clashes in North Darfur's capital El-Fasher and nearby villages gather around vehicles after arriving in Al Dabbah, Sudan
Horror upon horror
Will anything—or anyone—stop the slaughter in Sudan?
Blood on the ballots
Tanzania has its Tiananmen moment
An errant crusade
Donald Trump says he may strike Nigeria to save Christians. Really?
The Iraqi paradox
Iraq’s election may ensure stability but leave militias in control
Israeli politics
Israel’s politicians are taking on its lawyers once again
Europe
French far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally) RN party's President Jordan Bardella
France’s populist right
Jordan Bardella starts to lay out his plans
Gradually, then suddenly
Ukraine’s valiant defence of Pokrovsk is nearing its end
Location, location, location
War is blasting Ukraine’s border city of Kharkiv but boosting Lviv
Ukraine-bashing Babis
A Czech shift to the right is worrying news for Ukraine
The woke pope
Pope Leo XIV is infuriating MAGA Catholics
Charlemagne
Why moderates are reclaiming Europe’s national flags
Britain
A man in a beret looking through the spyglass on the Eiffel Tower. Through the lens you can see the Union Jack surrounded by sparkles
Unbroken Britain
Brand Britain has bounced back
The acrobat and the knife-thrower
Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage compared
A prudent populist?
Nigel Farage bows to the bond market
Tech firms and copyright law
A British legal ruling about AI delights nobody
Urban renewal in a remote place
Boom times in a British manufacturing town
Bagehot
If Labour cranks up income taxes, the left will boo loudest
International
A female figure facing a digital male figure that look as though they're about to touch hands
My boyfriend is a model
A new industry of AI companions is emerging
The Telegram
China places a Hong Kong-sized bet on Western decline
Special report
Cooling towers of a power plant with pink flowers growing out of them.
China, energy and climate
The world’s renewable-energy superpower
Gigawatts-a-go-go
Solar in China has become too big to fail
1,500 Great Pyramids
Cleaning up a coal-fired mess
Cleaner air, quicker heat
China’s air-quality improvements have hastened global warming
Solar eclipse
How China sparked a rooftop solar revolution in Pakistan
Code red
Why climate change now threatens China’s future
1843

Demography
Make America procreate again: among the MAGA fertility fanatics
Business
A red hot air balloon lifts a wooden bed with white bedding into the air against a plain beige background.
Room to grow
Has Airbnb reached its peak?
To the moon and back
Why Palantir’s success will outlast AI exuberance
Unboxed
First, grinning Labubu dolls. Now, a TV show and theme parks
Bartleby
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
When you only have a hammer
America’s furniture-makers exemplify the folly of tariffs
Cupid’s new helper
Will AI make dating apps better—or even worse?
Schumpeter
China’s life-sciences industry is turning American
Finance & economics

Don’t rock the cradle
Universal child care can hurt children
Whack-a-levy
How Donald Trump can dodge a Supreme Court tariff block
Before the fall
Why Wall Street won’t see the next crash coming
Let’s break it down
Don’t blame AI for your job woes
Flip the script
The mystery of China’s slumping investment
Buttonwood
Investors are telling Britain to cheer up a bit
Free exchange
What explains India’s peculiar stability?
Science & technology
President Donald Trump speaks with officials and staff in the Oval Office before his announcement of the Golden Dome missile defense system
A sequel to Star Wars
Golden Dome is one of the most ambitious military projects ever
Pyroecology
Was the Pacific Palisades blaze a “zombie fire”?
Well informed
Can a dopamine detox reset your brain?
Culture
An illustration of a delivery man on a motorised tricycle piled high with parcels against a blurred background.
Boxing days
What a hit memoir reveals about work in China
The ABCs of the ABCs
Why Anglophones use the alphabet so oddly
Dead centre
An enthusiast wanders through the world’s graveyards
Trial by fury
A new film about the Nuremberg trials is gripping but bloodless
Don’t get me to the church on time
Looking for a chic wedding venue? Try a town hall
Mightier than the knife
Salman Rushdie: stabbed 15 times but still laughing
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
ice President Dick Cheney meets with senior staff in the President's Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in Washington, DC.
Architect of the war on terror
Dick Cheney divided Americans

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

The coming debt emergency
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Everyone is Argentina
The rich world faces a painful bout of inflation
Governments are living far beyond their means. Sadly, inflation is the most likely escape

Next-gen narcos
Brute force is no match for today’s high-tech drug-runners
They are more inventive and adaptable than ever
Chinese national flags flutter near shipping containers at Yangshan Port outside Shanghai, China, February 7th 2025
Mutually assured disruption
The America v China spat reveals a dangerous dynamic
A balance of economic terror is no basis for stability
A rearview mirror with a downward arrow graph.
Crash testing
First Brands is a painful but necessary warning for Wall Street
Lessons from a $10bn panic on the prairie
An international research expedition being conducted in the Beaufort Sea aboard the Coast Guard heavy icebreaker ship Polar Sea
Half-baked Alaska
Why Trump is looking the wrong way in the Arctic
Forget Greenland; worry about Alaska

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Should wealth be taxed?
By Invitation

A meltdown like no other?
Gita Gopinath on the crash that could torch $35trn of wealth
Briefing
Members of the US coastguard board a semi-submersible vessel containing cocaine
Of passion fruit, narcosubs and stablecoins
The traffickers are winning the war on drugs
New decentralised networks are even harder to disrupt than the hierarchical gangs they have replaced
Asia
The illustration shows a map of China painted on a red brick wall, with the flags of Australia and Papua New Guinea placed inside it.
Southern exposure
Australia’s ambitious new push to counter China
Daggers drawn
Border clashes erupt between Pakistan and Afghanistan—again
A messy divorce
Takaichi Sanae’s path to power in Japan grows more complex
Code of misconduct
India’s bankruptcy laws are hobbling the country
Banyan
Japan’s wartime history causes contemporary problems
China
A white car drives up a winding black road against a red background with a yellow sun. The road has patterns like graphs and circuits, giving a futuristic or data-driven feel
Autonomous driving
The secret fuel powering China’s self-driving cars
Scammers
How Xi Jinping’s war on corruption has driven more of it
Streaming services
China is rounding up Christian leaders
Chaguan
Consequences be damned. China loves its own economic model
United States
An illustration of a pile of white powder that has spattered outwards with a target shape in the powder.
Kill on sight
The new war on drugs
Build, baby, build
California tries to fix its housing mess
Cracking up
Utahns are fighting for fair maps
Motown’s revival
A billionaire has rebuilt downtown Detroit
Justice for some
The Department of Revenge
Lexington
Donald Trump should love Ken Burns’s new documentary

The Americas
Venezuela's President Maduro participates in a demonstration to mark indigenous Resistance Day, in Caracas
Uneasy in Caracas
Venezuelans wonder if America will bring down Nicolás Maduro
Go big or go home
America doubles down on Javier Milei
Zip or zap
After 20 years of left-wing rule, Bolivia is about to swing right
Middle East & Africa
President Trump smiles during official signing of the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire agreement
Embrace the chaos
What Donald Trump gets right in the Middle East
The start of peace
Fighting flares in Gaza as Donald Trump says “The war is over”
After Hamas
The new players who could run Gaza
Between the fire and the sea
Why Ghana is safe from jihadists, for now
Malagasy mayhem
Gen Z revolution or military coup in Madagascar?
Last resort
Sudan’s remarkable mutual-aid groups
Europe
Giorgia Meloni
The conservative caretaker
Giorgia Meloni marks her third anniversary in great political shape
The ads of war
Ukraine’s most prestigious military units are run like businesses
Tweaking the solar system
The high costs of Spain’s renewables revolution
Concrete measures
Grid operators in the Baltics and Poland are preparing for Russian attacks
Charlemagne
Charles de Gaulle’s constitution has failed to shield France from turmoil
Britain

UK-China relations
Has Britain gone soft on China?
Thrust and throttle
Why can’t Britain’s leading aerospace lab raise more money?
Bonkers about Conkers
The World Conker Championships fosters a quirky English tradition
Giant vegetables
Why is Britain so good at growing giant veg?
The wheels on the bus
Labour is reluctant to get off the bus
Bagehot
Britain’s Labour Party has no more safe seats
Special report
Illustration of classical architectural columns casting long shadows, with a roadwork warning sign in front
Governments going broke
Across the rich world, fiscal crises loom
The limits of borrowing
How much public debt is too much?
Welfare states
Fixing the welfare state looks electorally impossible
The ways out that aren’t
Economic growth is unlikely to prevent fiscal crisis
Lessons from history
Big, rich countries have rarely repaid debt with surpluses
The miracle workers
How do some countries avoid debt?
The end game
The case against holding bonds
International

The struggle for the Arctic
The icy cold war America is busy losing
The Telegram
China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump
Business
Illustration of a row of men handshaking
Merger mania
Never mind America’s real economy. Its deal economy is booming
SAMR-rattling
China is going after American firms to hit back at Donald Trump
Guarding their chips
The Dutch seize control of Nexperia from its Chinese owner
TEDucation
TED gets new bosses and changes direction
Loved and loathed
The remarkable rise of AppLovin
Bartleby
Why bosses need to wake up to dark patterns
Schumpeter
Sloponomics: who wins and loses in the AI-content flood?
Finance & economics
A cargo ship waits in the water nearby the Port of Los Angeles in Los Angeles, California, USA. A cyclist in the foreground.
Taking a battering
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping: both weaker than they think
Debtly serious
Indian microfinance is in trouble
The parable of Château d’Yquem
Why the ultra-rich are giving up on luxury assets
Take a beat
America’s bankers are riding high. Why are they so worried?
Past winners
Joel Mokyr deserves his Nobel prize
Buttonwood
Would inflation-linked bonds survive an inflationary default?
Free exchange
The new economics of babymaking
Science & technology

Seed capital
How to save Madagascar’s dwindling forests
Climate and tectonics
Global warming may have volcanic consequences
Don’t drink the cave water
The strange role of lead poisoning in humanity’s success
Well informed
Are barefoot shoes good for runners?
Culture
A collage of Anthony Kennedy and Amy Coney Barrett with scribbling over their faces.
Court in the crossfire
The terrifying reality of being a judge in America
The history of stockmarkets
Lessons from the Wall Street crash of 1929
On her own terms
Diane Keaton brought an offbeat charm to every role
Level up
Are video games getting harder?
Under new management
Cocktails and coups: the view from a luxury hotel in Kabul
Apocalypse now
The Antichrist: he’s back!
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Saul Zabar in front of a cheese counter at Zabar's in 2014
Of bagels, Nova and blintzes
Saul Zabar was king of the Upper West Side

A new beginning
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The deal over Gaza
A new beginning for the Middle East
The breakthrough in Gaza could open up a new approach to peace

The costs of confinement
Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America
The pain from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Sanae Takaichi celebrates after winning the LDP leadership election
Metallic maiden
Japanese politics enters its heavy-metal phase
Takaichi Sanae is a refreshing change—but problems loom
An illustration of a screen with a dollar sign in it and surrounded by eyes, the Earth and slocking arrows.
Crime shouldn’t pay
Cybercrime is afflicting big business. How to lessen the pain
Banning the payment of ransoms would be a start
Collage of African political men.
Big men mean big trouble
Africa’s leaders-for-life offer a warning to the world
The longer autocrats stay in power, the worse they become

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Is Morocco practising a strange sort of colonialism?
By Invitation

After the Manchester synagogue attack
Rising antisemitism reflects wider social ills, says Britain’s former counter-terrorism co-ordinator
Briefing
Celebrations in Tel Aviv after Gaza peace deal announcement.
Deliverance
Israel and Hamas agree to the first phase of Donald Trump’s peace plan
But neither side is fully reconciled to what is supposed to come next
Asia
This illustration shows Sanae Takaichi in a blue suit with pearl jewelry, and gold earrings, set against a bold red background with white elements
Drum roll
Meet Japan’s “Fireball”, Takaichi Sanae, its polarising new leader
Critical minerals in South Asia
The global gold boom’s $150bn final frontier: Pakistan
In a state
Will this experiment fix India’s Silicon Valley?
Banyan
What rich Indians fear
China
Employees work on the production line of Jiangsu Poppula Semiconductor Co., Ltd
Industrial strategy
Xi Jinping is personally involved in China’s new five-year plan
Hey, big spenders!
China’s industrial largesse may cost it $370bn a year in lost output
China’s new K-visa
China’s H-1B-visa alternative excites interest abroad—but fury at home
Chaguan
Chinese officials boast a god’s-eye view of towns from above
United States
A U.S. soldier watches the southern border from a high vantage point near Santa Teresa, New Mexico.
All quiet on the southern front
Donald Trump is victorious at the southern border
Forcing mechanism
Blame, strategising and America’s government shutdown
Farmageddon
Agriculture faces a MAGA reckoning
Best served hot
What American voters really think of the revenge agenda
Tail risk
A data-rich look at New York’s battle against rats
Smash doors, smash subscribe
What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism

The Americas
Portrait of Mark Carney
The Player of Games
Mark Carney’s radical vision for handling Trumpian America
Currency chaos
The Argentine peso, and Javier Milei, are in trouble
Soy boys
American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient
Middle East & Africa

Leaders for life
The new age of the African Big Man
Mobilising in Mozambique
TotalEnergies leads the dash for Africa’s new oil and gas
A problem from hell
The forgotten horror of Western Tigray
Europe
A microphone is set up in the courtyard of the Hotel Matignon in Paris
French politics
Macron seeks to buy time with a new prime minister
The war over energy
Ukraine’s hellfire is intensifying the Kremlin’s fuel crisis
Systemic and widespread
Russia is torturing its Ukrainian captives
Czechs voted
The comeback of Andrej Babis
Charlemagne
“Brussels” is the phantom menace Europe loves to blame
Britain
Britain's Conservative Party Leader Kemi Badenoch
Kemi Badenoch’s Milei model
The stricken Tories reach for the chainsaw
Leadership stakes
Who might be Britain’s next prime minister?
Jolly sad
Britain mourns its bonkbuster queen
Steel tariffs
A dangerous post-Brexit world
Shocking, but not surprising
British Jews and police work closely together to prevent attacks
Selling beer
What J D Wetherspoon understands about the British pub
Bagehot
Meet the real opposition
International
A rental e-bike is seen parked in a pedestrian area outside the National Gallery in London
Four wheels good, two wheels better
Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport
The Telegram
Europe struggles to put homeland defence first
1843

Russia
The Kremlin put her on trial. She stole the show
Business
Illustration of a man in business attire being interrogated by shadowy officials in a smoky room with a large portrait of Xi Jinping in the background
China’s missing bosses
The sinister disappearance of China’s bosses
No small beer
Businesses are grappling with a wave of cybercrime
Posh holidays
Luxury goods are out, but luxury travel is in
Liquid assets
Bottled water is going upmarket
Unbossing it
Bonfire of the middle managers
Bartleby
A short guide to white-collar warfare
Schumpeter
What if OpenAI went belly-up?
Finance & economics
A descending brick wall with a hard hat toppling down and a worker walking off
Building up trouble
Welcome to Zero Migration America
The levy paradox
Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade
Development
Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth
Far from finished
Front-line economics: lessons from Russia’s neighbours
Buttonwood
The most dangerous corner of a balance-sheet
Free exchange
The stockmarket is fuelling America’s economy
Science & technology
An illustration of the Nobel Prize gold medal in the centre repeated in black and white to the left and right surrounded by references to scientific research
The 2025 science Nobels
This year’s Nobel laureates have now been announced
Insect migration
Hover flies are long-distance travellers
Look at me!
AI video: more than just “slop”
Well informed
Is dark chocolate actually healthy?
Culture
a loading screen with a palm tree and swords.
Pixel diplomacy
How Saudi Arabia became a video-game superpower
The hatred that will not die
What people talk about when they talk about antisemitism
A brush with fame
Is there anything left to say about Frida Kahlo?
American fiction
Thomas Pynchon returns with a tale of Nazis, spies—and cheese
Bawdy ballads by bots
X-rated, AI-generated country songs are taking over the internet
Back Story
“One Battle After Another” wins the war
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Jane Goodall with chimpanzee David Greybeard, 1965
Of chimps and men
Jane Goodall spent her life telling humans to honour animals

Russia tests the West

DRONES OVER Poland; MiG fighters traversing Estonian airspace; telecom cables damaged deep beneath the Baltic Sea; airports paralysed by cyber-attacks and quadcopters; mysterious explosions and assassinations; bot swarms pumping out propaganda to disrupt elections: none of these on its own is a casus belli, but together they are adding up to something new and dangerous. Vladimir Putin is waging a grey-zone campaign against NATO: a cheap, deniable and calibrated effort to unsettle Europe that is carefully short of outright conflict. “We are not at war,” Germany’s chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said this week. “But we are no longer at peace, either.”


On September 29TH President Donald Trump stood with Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel’s prime minister, and set out a 20-point plan for “eternal peace” in Gaza. It is tempting to be dismissive. Although the hyperbole was exceptional, it is hardly the first peace plan since the war began in 2023. And while the talking continues, the horror in Gaza persists. Yet dismissal would be a mistake. This proposal is a milestone because it sets parameters for a way out of the nightmare and marks a change in the positions of America and Israel, and, just possibly, Hamas.



Few things infuriate Americans as much as drug prices. Republicans and Democrats alike agree that poorly patients are being ripped off by greedy pharma firms. They point to the fact that America’s list prices for branded drugs are, on average, more than four times those in other rich countries.

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An illustration showing a group of young people seated on chairs, with one suddenly shooting upward like a rocket—capturing how superstar talent rises above and leaves the rest behind.
How to spot a genius
The desperate search for superstar talent
Too much potential goes to waste
A photo-illustration of a TV crew—cameramen, reporters, and mic handlers—all portrayed as Trump, with wigs, masks, or red ties, to symbolize how America’s media is being molded and influenced by his administration.
Free speech in America
Donald Trump is trying to silence his critics. He will fail
But the country could still lose
The colours of Ukraine's flag sparkle on the Motherland Monument at night in Kyiv, Ukraine
Volodymyr Zelensky
Fixing the rot in Ukraine
Things are going wrong away from the front line. Europe needs to help
A portrait of Kim Jong Un.
Asia’s nastiest regime
The deadly allure of a bad deal with North Korea
Donald Trump may be tempted to sell out America’s allies
An illustration of red bridges with circles on top of it with Venn diagram.
Crossing the bridge
How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta”
Coders need to start thinking like mechanical engineers
An illustration of Keir Starmer turning out empty pockets, serving as a visual metaphor for Britain’s financial troubles—or its slide toward being broke.
Broken or just broke?
Britain is slowly going bust
Even with a huge majority and plenty of time, Labour is drifting towards a fiscal crisis

Letters
A selection of correspondence
How can Britain compete in artificial intelligence?
By Invitation
Portrait of the author
Uniting against Putin
Yulia Navalnaya on why Europe needs a better Russia strategy
Fade against the machine
Two scholars ask whether democracy can survive if AI does all the jobs
Briefing
A photo collage on North Korea’s international relations and domestic life, featuring images of Kim Jong Un, his meetings with Xi, Putin, and Trump, the North Korean army’s involvement in the Russia–Ukraine war, the pandemic, propaganda posters, and
Intensifying menace
North Korea is becoming even more repressive and threatening
Kim Jong Un is in a much stronger position than when Donald Trump last wooed him

Making media great again
Can Donald Trump muzzle America’s press?
He has bullied some outlets, but intimidating them all is a daunting task
Asia
This illustration depicts the relationship between Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, symbolized through their flags, maps, and handshaking silhouettes.
Rent-a-bomb
Would you shelter under Pakistan’s nuclear umbrella?
Herd on the street
Indian cities have a devilish animal problem
Time to act
The world’s most persecuted people
Higher Education
Asian countries are nabbing a lot more foreign students
China
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Chinese President Xi Jinping attend a meeting in Beijing, China.
Toxic neighbours
Why Xi Jinping now accepts Kim Jong Un at the grown-ups’ table
Agricultural trade
China is turning up its nose at American soyabeans
America’s globetrotting basketballers
All eyes on the NBA as its players return to China
Chaguan
A restaurant scandal sticks in China’s throat
United States
Outreach worker of Harm Reduction participates in a needle clean-up.
Harm’s way
Democratic mayors and the president are converging on drugs policy
Tom Homan
The president’s border czar was caught in a sting operation
Right on track
Rail travel is booming in America
Slam dunk
Women’s pro-ballers want more cash
Doctor-in-chief
The president is wrong on Tylenol
Stay in place
It is getting much harder to get evicted in New York City
Kofi’s heirs
Immigrants are narrowing the black-white wage gap in America
Lexington
Donald Trump is raising the stakes for holding power

The Americas
A currency exchange house in the financial district of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Propping up the peso
Argentina’s finances just got even more surreal
Colombian politics
Is Colombia at the “gates of hell”?
Middle East & Africa
Thick smoke rises after an Israeli strike on the Tel al-Hawa neighbourhood in Gaza City
The next battle for Gaza
Could Tony Blair run Gaza?
Twaddle at Turtle Bay
It will take more than speeches to change Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians
Ahmed al-Sharaa woos the world
Syria’s new leader makes a star turn in New York
Africa’s missing war dead
Measuring mortality is getting even harder in Africa
Cyber-nationalism in the Sahel
Burkina Faso’s strongman has gone viral
Europe
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky
Turning hollow
Ukraine faces deepening military, political and economic problems
After the war
What happens when Ukraine stops fighting?
French public finances
Why France is thinking of targeting the super-rich
Weeping and railing
Can’t anyone get Germany’s trains to run on time?
Charlemagne
Europe wants to turn frozen Russian assets into Ukrainian firepower
Britain
Red hoarding surrounding a building under refurbishment in the city centre
Britain’s economy
Why Labour’s growth mission remains grounded
Vigilantes watching
Why British bond yields are higher than elsewhere
Rule, Britannia!
Should Britain deploy the navy to prevent small-boat crossings?
Canterbury trails
Old routes to Britain’s sacred sites are getting more foot traffic
Light from the East
The Orthodox Church is thriving in Britain, thanks to immigration
Nuclear-waste storage
Where should Britain hide its nuclear waste?
Bagehot
Keir Starmer’s Kevin Keegan moment
International
Libyan policemen arrest a group of migrants in Tripoli, Libya, July 26th 2025
Irregular migration
Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration
The Telegram
A made-in-China plan for world domination
Business
Illustration of a man in a hoodie using a croupier's rake to rake in lots of gold coins on a globe in front of him
Superstar capitalism
The individual usurps the firm as the leading actor in business
H-1B sting
The perverse consequence of America’s $100,000 visa fees
Circular thinking
Nvidia’s $100bn bet on OpenAI raises plenty of questions
LAPping it up
A fast-growing German coffee chain causes a stir
Bartleby
How AI is changing the office
Schumpeter
Novo Nordisk v Eli Lilly: return of the weight-loss wars
Finance & economics

Invisible talent
How to spot a genius
Race to the death
Russia’s besieged economy is clinging on
Do buy
Will Dubai’s super-hot property market avoid a crash?
Buttonwood
Investing like the ultra-rich is easier than ever
Free exchange
The AI talent war is becoming fiercer
Science & technology
An illustration of a laptop with three circles filled with black and white stripes overlapping like a Venn diagram. The central intersection is red with a large yellow exclamation mark.
Computer security
Why AI systems may never be secure, and what to do about it
Nobel spoilers
People are using big data to try to predict Nobel laureates
Human biology
In some sports, left-handed athletes seem to have an innate advantage
Huntington’s disease
A clever genetic technique may treat a horrible brain condition
Well informed
Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?
Culture

Land of colours
The market for Indian art is booming
Classical music
Who was the greater singer: Pavarotti or Fischer-Dieskau?
Back Story
First, they come for the comedians
Writing on the borderline
Why you should read Tawada Yoko’s books
Putt on a good show
Golf videos going viral? These days it is par for the course
From Huizhou to Hackney
SKAI ISYOURGOD: the Chinese rapper thrilling global audiences
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Kim Seong-Min shouts slogans during a rally to improve human rights conditions in North Korea, in Seoul, South Korea, 2014
Last train to freedom
Kim Seong Min risked everything to escape from North Korea

Gig factory: Lessons from China’s precarious workforce
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China’s young workers, representing diverse jobs, are depicted walking, climbing, floating, and falling through a vast, moody void—symbolizing the uncertainty and precariousness of their situation.
From proletariat to precariat
China’s 200m gig workers are a warning for the world
What a giant precarious workforce reveals about the future of jobs
Federal Reserve Chair Powell Holds Monthly News Conference On Interest Rates
Rate expectations
America’s monetary policy risks getting too loose
Jobs growth is probably weak because of low migration, not a cold economy
A Union Jack and St George's flags on Nelson's Column during the "Unite The Kingdom" rally in London, England, September 13th 2025
Different drums
What Elon Musk gets wrong about Europe’s hard right
He imagines a continental revolt against Islam and elites
Two hands touching fingers creating a ripple of water. One hand is a human one with indian ornaments and the other one is a robot/chip one.
Artificial intelligence
India could be a different kind of AI superpower
It won’t look like America or China. It could still be a winner
The Israeli and US flags are tightly stitched together at the top, but the middle threads have begun to loosen and unravel—symbolizing a relationship that is no longer as strong as before.
The Middle East
How Israel is losing America
Public opinion is souring even in Israel’s strongest ally. Israelis should worry

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Is Donald Trump a friend of the electrification of cars?
By Invitation

Drug prices
Europe is not pulling its weight in paying for drug development, says Tomas Philipson
Briefing

Lurching apart
America is falling out of love with Israel
The war in Gaza has undermined one of the world’s closest alliances
Benjamin Netanyahu talks to Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC
An essential friendship
Israelis do not like to think about estrangement from America
But they are beginning to have to
Asia
The illustration is showing a chip as the base of an Indian temple and some eagles are flying above it.
A fresh perch
AI is erupting in India
What lies beneath
Sri Lanka’s mass graves need proper investigation
Banyan
Meet Thailand’s karaoke-crooning prime minister
Double trouble
Asian countries should prepare for a higher rate of twin births
The last prince?
A rare ceremony revives debate over imperial succession
China
Aerial view of a wind farm on Pingtan Island in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China
Silicon linings
Don’t fret over China’s new climate targets
Projecting concern
The surprising nature of protest in China
With barely a whimper
Our new “wolf warrior” index on Chinese diplomacy
Chaguan
The return of our China column
United States
U.S. National Guard members walk on the National Mall
Soldiers as cops
The president is putting America’s armed forces in a bind
Capital crime
In Washington, the obvious thing is probably true
Deathly data
Is the far left to blame for more political killings in America?
Retribution tour
Donald Trump targets progressive non-profits after Charlie Kirk’s killing
Golf populi
What this year’s Ryder Cup says about America’s duffers
Fluid identity
How stable are the gender identities of younger children?
Lexington
The Donald Trump guide to DEI on campus

The Americas
Portrait of Jair Bolsonaro
Brazil convicts
America calls Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction a “witch hunt”
Polyp pioneers
Colombia is using “coral IVF”
Guyana’s election
From a forgotten country to an 11bn barrel petrostate
Middle East & Africa
A Palestinian woman reacts near house at the entrance of the Palestinian market in the old city of Hebron, which was reportedly confiscated the previous night by Israeli settlers
The mirage of statehood
Palestine is unrecognisable on the ground
Re-running old battles
Israel goes to the brink in Gaza city
The fallout from Qatar
Arab states respond to Israel’s Doha strikes with angry bombast
Western Sahara
Morocco is practising a strange sort of colonialism
Father figures
The crisis of South Africa’s missing dads
Europe
Women walk past a former pub in Ueckendorf district, Gelsenkirchen
Ruhring ahead
The AfD is not sweeping Germany. But it is dividing it
Le Pen and Bardella
France’s hard right is secretly courting the elite
NATO’s splurge
Dodgy defence maths conquers in Europe
Enough!
Russia’s most famous diva tells Vladimir Putin to end the war
Britain
Britain's King Charles stands beside U.S. President Donald Trump and Kate, Princess of Wales, to deliver a speech
Against the odds
Britain’s relationship with America endures, against the odds
The king’s speeches
King Charles III has mellowed over the past 30 years
Losing the aisles
Britain’s rising food prices are a political headache
Refugee policy
Britain’s attempts to stop asylum-seekers have failed so far
Wasted talent
Britain’s work restrictions set up asylum-seekers to fail
Bagehot
How Westminster became obsessed with paedophiles
International
The symbol of the United Nations at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
The United Nations at 80
The UN’s grim future
The Telegram
Cold war deterrence doesn’t work any more
1843

Diplomacy
The education of Steve Witkoff
Business
The ''BYD Explorer No. 1'' car carrier, loaded with new evs, setting sail from Yantai Port in China.
The theory of permanent involution
The brutal fight to dominate Chinese carmaking
One quarter or two?
If quarterly-earnings rules were scrapped, would anyone notice?
Bartleby
How many reports should a manager have?
A Trump bump
Despite presidential animus, America’s solar industry is buzzing
AI things to all people
Can the UAE gain a foothold in AI by being friends with everyone?
From retail to therapy
Are you addicted to shopping?
Schumpeter
The $4trn accounting puzzle at the heart of the AI cloud
Finance & economics
A group of young workers waiting for a train in the subway
Making it, breaking it
China’s future rests on 200m precarious workers
The slowing slowdown
America’s economy defies gloomy expectations
War spending
Ukraine faces a $19bn budget black hole
Eurosclerosis
Why European workers need to switch jobs
Buttonwood
Europe’s great stockmarket inversion
Free exchange
Would an all-out trade war be better?
Science & technology
Aerial photograph women enjoying the sun on a beach surrounded by parasols.
Walking on sunshine
The health benefits of sunlight may outweigh the risk of skin cancer
Lab to table
Pink pineapples and lab-grown meat: tasting the foods of the future
Large diagnostic models
A new AI model can forecast a person’s risk of diseases across their life
Well informed
What nicotine does to your brain
Culture
An playdough illustration of a person opening a door in their head containing loads of other persons.
Human psychology
What naked emperors and Super Bowl ads have in common
The Economist reads
The best recent novels to read this autumn
Three brings a crowd
People are going pretty mad for “The Summer I Turned Pretty”
Back Story
Should a controversial Russian soprano sing in London?
The way he was
Robert Redford was a new kind of movie star
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Patrick McGovern with a glass of ancient beer
Extreme beverage, anyone?
Patrick McGovern was the maven of ancient tipples

The $3trn bet on AI
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Burnt fingers
What if the $3trn AI investment boom goes wrong?
Even if the technology achieves its potential, plenty of people will lose their shirts

Peak human
Don’t panic about the global fertility crash
A world with fewer people would not be all bad
Benjamin Netanyahu at the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on July 8th 2025
The Middle East
Israel’s Qatarstrophic error
Its extra-territorial campaign against terrorists has to have limits
A Polish F-16 and two Eurofighters Typhoon jets during the Polish Army Parade in Warsaw, Poland, on August 15th 2025
Europe’s air space
The Kremlin’s plot to kill NATO’s credibility
The alliance needs an emphatic response to Russian air incursions
A 3D rendered image of pills and syringes and powder.
The futility of drug wars
Nitazenes: another failure of drug prohibition
As countries crack down on fentanyl, a new synthetic opioid takes off

Electoral volatility
Is British politics broken? Its centre is cracking
The two traditional parties of government are under siege as never before

Letters
A selection of correspondence
British agriculture is the bedrock of food and drink
By Invitation

Trouble agents
AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
The Draghi report, one year on
A finance minister on what Europe must do to please Mario Draghi
Briefing
A night-time cityscape where most building windows are dark. The few illuminated windows form the shape of a downward-pointing arrow, symbolizing the rapid decline in population. The mood feels stark and unsettling.
Population implosion
Humanity will shrink, far sooner than you think
Demography sneaks up on you
A close-up of one of the lit windows reveals a couple enjoying dinner together. This scene conveys warmth and intimacy, representing the idea that even with a sharp demographic decline, life may not be as bleak as expected.
Shrinking without sinking
A contracting population need not be a catastrophe
The economics of a shrinking world
Asia
Shigeru Ishiba in a suit carrying a folder walks in front of a large red circle. On the left and right edges are close-up faces of Koizumi and Takaichi. Geometric lines divide the composition.
The prime minister quits
Japan’s new leadership struggle is far from business as usual
People power in Asia
Huge demonstrations bring down Nepal’s government
Fire and water
A giant “knife-fight” in the Pacific
Banyan
The world’s most powerful volunteers
China
This illustration shows a globe-like shape made of grid segments, filled with blended images of currency faces — one from U.S. dollars (Benjamin Franklin) and one from Chinese yuan (Mao Zedong)
From greenback to redback
China is ditching the dollar, fast
Consumer culture
“Dalifornication” grips China
Chinese comedy
Director Fang is laughing all the way to the bank
United States
Charlie Kirk hands out hats at a speaking event in Utah before he was shot and killed
Beyond debate
Charlie Kirk challenged liberals until the day he was murdered
Bye-undai
The ICE raid at Hyundai was a massive own goal
Swab tests
The pitfalls of being a non-profit that is beholden to government
Silly season
San Francisco’s recall fever
Lights, camera, truncheon
The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre
Schumer’s dilemma
A budget battle offers Democrats a chance to show some backbone
Lexington
Who’s afraid of the Democratic Socialists?

The Americas
The U.S. Navy San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship is seen on the horizon
Monroe 2.0
Making the Americas grate again
Argentine politics
What Javier Milei’s first defeat means for his future
Justice in Brazil
Jair Bolsonaro has been sentenced to 27 years in prison
Middle East & Africa
This frame grab taken from an AFPTV footage shows a man looking at smoke billowing after explosions in Doha's capital Qatar
All tactics, no strategy
America can’t or won’t protect its friends in the Gulf
A long wait for help
What it takes to evacuate an injured child from Gaza
Hydropower
A high-risk mega-dam in Ethiopia
Another outbreak
Ebola returns to Congo
Safety first
Africa’s deadly ferries
Europe
Loal people look at damage caused to a house after a Russian drone struck it in Poland
Europe on a knife-edge
Putin’s dangerous drone probe is a moment of truth for NATO
Last-chance saloon in Paris
France gets a new prime minister
Alarm bells
Might Bosnia be about to break up?
Old money
A crisis in long-term care of Europe’s elderly
Sweet and sour on Vladimir Putin
Italy’s coalition sends mixed messages on Ukraine and Russia
Charlemagne
Europe has an urgency deficit
Britain

Electoral science
The new battle for Britain
No working-men’s club
Labour has become the party of Britain’s rich
Mob rule
A British island infested with wallaby invaders
Out of time
The BBC’s best programme loses its star
Home truths
Fixing Britain’s broken property-tax system will take courage
London’s strikes
Rebellious tube drivers have less bargaining power than before
Bagehot
A reshuffle and a raucous conference show the misery of power
International
Sailors at drone unit 700X Naval Air Squadron make preparations for Operation Highmast, the deployment of the Royal Navy’s Carrier Strike Group to the Far East this year.
War in the air and sea
Top Gun—without Maverick
The Telegram
Meet the leader of Europe’s anti-Trump resistance
Business
Illustration of a wind up toy robot about to step off the peak of a mountain
Peak LLM?
Faith in God-like large language models is waning
Making waves
Sea Ltd, Singapore’s e-commerce king, prepares to battle TikTok
Chasing returns
From volleyball to tag, investors are piling into niche sports
A new chef
Can Nestlé’s third boss in little over a year turn things round?
Marketing missteps
How do you pronounce Biemlfdlkk? The brands lost in translation
The son wot won it
Lachlan Murdoch, media’s newest mogul
Bartleby
Reviewing the annual performance review
Schumpeter
In French business, boring beats sexy
Finance & economics
A coin made of pixels and numbers that's fragmenting and falling apart
Revolutionary road
What if the AI stockmarket blows up?
Futile fortress
Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks
International development
Meet Donald Trump’s aid agency
Long time coming
Europe’s economy at last shows signs of a recovery
Food markets
How grain has gone from famine to feast
Buttonwood
Why American bondholders are jumpy about inflation
Free exchange
Can you make it to the end of this column?
Science & technology
Illustration of a pile of nitazene pilla in and out of blister packs, with syringes and some white powder
High risk
A dangerous new class of synthetic opioid is spreading
So near and yet so far
NASA has found a Martian rock with what may be signs of life
Soft power
How to build table-top fusion reactors
Well informed
Do hangover supplements work?
Culture
An illustration of Prague with the Castle in the background and a woman on the bridge. Her shdow forms the shape of a woman with a spikey crown.
Robert “Da Vinci Code” Langdon is back
Dan Brown offers another silly mash-up of fact and fiction
The fastest kid on Earth
Gout Gout, a 17-year-old sprinter, may be athletics’ new mega-star
Government and lawmaking
America’s constitution is too hard to change
Lad-loathing lyrics
Why female pop stars are lambasting mediocre men
Strawberry thieves forever
The ironic ubiquity of William Morris’s prints
Toffs on screen
Meet the real lord of “Downton Abbey”
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Giorgio Armani examines drawings for new designs in the late 1970s
Elegance, not extravagance
Giorgio Armani freed the forms of both men and women