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The most powerful woman in the world
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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
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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

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
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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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スペシャルインタビュー
松山奈未 (再春館製薬所)
「新たな発見を次の原動力に」

技術特集　前衛力を磨く!
実演&解説/松山奈未

特別企画
グッズ特集
ウォームアップウェアカタログ 2025

ほねごり相模原バドミントン部に聞く
「お悩み解決」の基本

バドマガPick Up
バドミントンが変わる!?
世界で試行が続くルールや
システム変更の中身とその現実性

話題の舞台裏
「北の大地から新風を」ブリリアンツ (札幌) の挑戦

連載
私の勝負飯
保木卓朗 (トナミ運輸)

古財和輝 「努力は裏切らない!」
一勝負の神様は細部に宿る

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Step By Step
栗原琉夏 (NTT東日本)

プレゴールデンエイジのための
バドミントンドリル

キラめけ! ジュニアの星
藤城百蘭 (ワイズワン)

シニアのコンディショニング

ビギナー&指導者のための手引書
高校始めや中学始め
どこで躓く? 何をやる?

レポート&ニュース
ワールドツアーダイジェスト

全日本学生
上位校&上位者紹介

ジュニア国際大会レポート
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ピックアップ・レポート

世界移植者スポーツ大会

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Japanバラバドミントン国際大会

リザルト

ワールドダイジェスト

ニューススマッシュ

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ファイナルゲーム

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