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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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All-American silicon
Donald Trump’s fantasy of home-grown chipmaking
To remain the world’s foremost technological power, America needs its friends
Ahmed al-Sharaa holds a press conference
Syrian politics
A new opposition could be a healthy sign for Syria
Ahmed al-Sharaa, the new president, needs to bring his critics closer
Photography of Vladimir Putin with a red overlay
The war for Donald’s ear
Who will America’s president listen to next on Ukraine?
The problem with Donald Trump’s fast-moving, unpredictable diplomacy
Abstract image of a globe-like womb with warm orange and purple tones, faint grid lines, and a subtle fetal silhouette inside.
In the oven
Pregnant women need protecting from heatwaves
As temperatures rise, so must understanding of the risks

Rogue Britannia
Britain leads the world in a new global business—a criminal one
What to do about its rampant steal-and-export industry

Letters
A selection of correspondence
How significant is the rise of fraudulent scientific papers?
By Invitation

After Anchorage
Margaret MacMillan on the promise—and perils—of wartime summits
Briefing
An illustration shows computer chips forming the shape of Taiwan, with multiple hands reaching to take pieces, symbolizing TSMC’s global demand and its ambition to become a worldwide company.
TSMC
The world’s biggest chipmaker needs to move beyond Taiwan
Easier said than done
Asia
Illustration of Mount Fuji with a large red microchip rising behind it like the sun and lots of circuitry running around it
Roaring back?
Japan storms back into the chip wars
When the chips are up
TSMC could revolutionise rural Japan
Poll politics
How fair are India’s elections?
Terror trade
Pakistan is critical in the fight against Islamic State terrorism
Banyan
The world is learning to live with the Taliban
China
Portrait of Jimmy Lai
Judicial independence
Hong Kong’s courtroom dramas
The second act
China’s mid-year economic wobble
United States
Two men paddle in high water after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area, August 31, 2005 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Muskrat ramble
Does it make sense for America to keep subsidising a sinking city?
Swampoodle, No More
Welcome to the YIMBYest neighbourhood in America
When abundance meets resistance
The Democrats who find abundance liberalism threatening
No-man’s-land
The young American female soldiers of TikTok
Cloudbusting
Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to stop them from making it rain
Lexington
How Washington became Donald Trump’s chew toy

The Americas

Turning over a new leaf?
Life after death for Canada’s crushed Conservatives
Not snow sure
Climate change threatens an Andean ski boom
Cubans sandwiched
The new fears of Cubans in Florida
No left turn
After 20 years in power, Bolivia’s socialists crash out of it
More than manga and microwaves
Why Mexicans love Japan and Korea
Middle East & Africa
Tribal and bedouin fighters mobolise amid clashes with Druze near Swedia in Syria
After Assad
A new twist in Syria: a political opposition
Another kind of conflict
What’s in a name in the Middle East?
Voices from the strip
Gaza’s Gen-Z influencers
Autocrats without borders
Are east African governments colluding to stifle dissent?
Going viral
How Sierra Leone beat back mpox
Europe
Russia's President Putin meets senior officials in Moscow
The view from Moscow
Putin’s hunger to destroy Western unity rages on
After a deal
Security “guarantees” for Ukraine are dangerously hazy
The Aussenkanzler
Friedrich Merz cuts a good figure abroad but is struggling at home
Wildfires
Europe is ablaze
Sublime sport
Why Turkey’s football clubs can pay more cash for talent
Charlemagne
Trump wants a Nobel prize. Europe can exploit that to help Ukraine
Britain

Grand Theft Global Inc
The new geography of stolen goods
Manufacturers v thieves
How thieves could break into your car
For whom the Bell tolls
A court ruling threatens to disrupt Britain’s asylum policy
Flunking it
England’s white working class falls further behind at exams
The poor me’s lament
The moral of “The Salt Path”, an embellished bestseller
Bagehot
What it means when Britain talks about “Bosh”
International

What to expect when you’re expecting
A burning threat to pregnant women
The Telegram
Was globalisation ever a meritocracy?
Business
A 3D render of the intel logo separated in two.
Chipmaking in America
To survive, Intel must break itself apart
Bad tech
How AI-powered hackers are stealing billions
Sun-safe fashion
China’s hottest new look: the facekini
DeepSeek aftershocks
China is quietly upstaging America with its open models
From trees to test tubes
Big chocolate has a growing taste for lab-grown cocoa
Bartleby
The last days of brainstorming
Schumpeter
American tech’s split personalities
Finance & economics
Illustration of five workers standing on icons symbolizing different job sectors: manufacturing, retail, healthcare, tech, and delivery/logistics.
Pressed into service
Can China cope with a deindustrialised future?
Heading south
The green transition has a surprising new home
Hedging against America
Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks
Farshlepteh krenk
Where has the worst inflation problem?
Tech support
How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy
Buttonwood
In praise of complicated investing strategies
Free exchange
Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?
Science & technology
An abstract collage of a syringe and an RNA stranf
Shooting the messenger
RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA technology endangers the world
Pass the screwdriver
AI-powered robots can take your phone apart
Oil’s well that ends well
Old fossil-fuel plants are becoming green-energy hubs
Well informed
Should you use a standing desk?
Culture
A woman wearing a protective mask takes a ride on a carousel in Paris, France, July 10th 2020
A plague on both your houses
Covid-19 sent the world mad
Censory deprivation
How publishers became scared of books
A man called “Superstar”
How Rajinikanth, a 74-year-old actor, drives fans into a frenzy
Drugs and religiosity
High priests: why scientists gave magic mushrooms to the clergy
Steamy stuff
An anonymous chef serves up stories of food and flings
High-heeled shoes to fill
Farewell to Carrie Bradshaw, TV’s exasperating, enduring heroine
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Terence Stamp outside at night in 1965
The most beautiful man in the world
Terence Stamp preferred philosophy to celebrity

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President Unpredictable
How to win at foreign policy
Donald Trump’s capricious dealmaking destabilises the world

Trade restrictions v ingenuity
Xi Jinping’s weaponisation of rare-earth elements will ultimately backfire
How the West can break China’s grip on these vital minerals
Soldiers are seen coming ashore as part of an amphibious landing rehearsal in Cowley Beach, Australia
Defence in the Pacific
America and its Asian allies need to spend more to deter China
It should be a two-way street
The Ilulissat Icefjord in Greenland
Climate tipping-points
The shutdown of ocean currents could freeze Europe
When climate change poses a strategic threat, it needs a strategic response
Slum housing in East London, South Africa
Racial justice
Why South Africa should scrap Black Economic Empowerment
The ruling party’s flagship policy is a cause of the country’s problems, not a solution

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Is the legislation of the GENIUS Act deeply flawed?
By Invitation

Arctic geopolitics
The far north has become NATO’s soft underbelly, writes John Bolton
A weighty challenge
The world needs more than drugs to fight obesity, writes Novo Nordisk’s ex-boss
Briefing
An illustrated guide to where Rare Earth Elements are found in everyday products and technology.
Roiling stones
China’s power over rare earths is not as great as it seems
There are lots of ways for the West to get around its near-monopoly
Asia
An Australian soldier from Battle Group Kapyong runs through green smoke during an clearance of enemy positions
Weapons and words
America’s biggest ask in Asia
The white stuff
Cow’s milk, as well as Russian oil, fuels the US-India trade war
Nepo politics
What Sara Duterte’s comeback means for the Philippines
Banyan
Indonesia’s new president has daddy issues
China

Supply-chained
How scared should you be of “the China squeeze”?
Working mothers
China claims to want women to have children and a career
For good or ill
Hong Kong is super superstitious
United States
Members of the Washington, DC National Guard patrol near the Washington Monument.
Capital offensive
Why Donald Trump is wrong to take over the DC police
A sharp prick
Why the Trump administration excites some personal-injury lawyers
Conservation
How many pythons could you catch in ten days?
A room of their own
Texas’s Democrats prepare for a glorious defeat
Green new squeal
Trump 2 is pushing environmentalists to rethink their approach
Lexington
The real collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

The Americas
A helper pushes a man in a wheelchair through a field of lotus flowers. Some are in full bloom while others have shriveled, as have some of the leaves. A bright light source can be seen on the far horizon.
Assisted death
Liberal Uruguay and the right to die
The death of Miguel Uribe
A martyr in the making?
Ever-present Evo
Bolivia’s crazy kingdom of coca
Middle East & Africa

A black and white case
Race, power and money in South Africa
Out with Ouattara
Ivory Coast’s president is overstaying his welcome
The war in Gaza
The world’s hardest makeover: Hamas
Disarming Hizbullah
Lebanon’s government is taking on a weakened Hizbullah
War in the Middle East
The killing of journalists in Gaza
Europe
A warning sign alerting people to landmines in a field of sunflowers in Ukraine
The US-Russia summit
What Putin wants from Trump in Alaska
Have a good TRIPP
Donald Trump brokers a peace plan in the Caucasus
Svalbard at 100
The Russian-run town squatting on NATO territory
Frosty geopolitics
The looming military threat in the Arctic
Slow to spark
China’s planned Turkish EV factories have yet to power up
A fine Verein
The colourful civic groups that hold Germany together
Charlemagne
Must Europe choose between “strategic autonomy” and August off?
Britain
An illustration of a desktop computer showing a game with an octopus and a target. To the right is a steering wheel and games console, to the left is a hand holding a fan of smartphones like playing cards
Game changing
Britain is a global gaming superpower
Soccer stats
The Fantasy Premier League is changing Britain’s favourite sport
Foreign visitors
Asian tourists are returning to Britain. But they look different
Falling off a cliff
Vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer have plummeted in Britain
The Knowledge
Still want to be a London cabbie?
Bagehot
Aux barricades, boomers!
International
Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink, middle, and Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force David A. Flosi, look off the ramp of a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft while flying over Tinian during the U.S. Air Force’s 2025 Department-Level Exercise series
Rumble in the jungle
America’s new plan to fight a war with China
Archive 1945
The end of the second world war
Business
A hand with robots attached to its fingers.
The rise of the “solopreneur”
How AI could create the first one-person unicorn
The Toyota Way
Japan’s carmakers are trying to tinker their way out of tariff pain
Herbal essences
A 400-year-old Chinese cough syrup is winning over Westerners
Step on the gas
Italian bosses want Giorgia Meloni to hurry up with reform
Different shades of green
A new wave of clean-energy innovation is building
Bartleby
Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb?
Schumpeter
Trump wants to command bosses like Xi does. He is failing
Finance & economics
illustration of a large black boot print on a red background, with a black pot spilling gold coins that form the heel of the footprint
Putting the boot in
Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms
Asian trade
Where will win from Trump’s tariffs?
College credit
Ivy League universities are on a debt binge
Liquid courage
To sell Fannie and Freddie, Trump must answer a $7trn question
Stone cold Austin
America’s housing market is shuddering
At Orthanc’s peak
Palantir might be the most overvalued firm of all time
Free exchange
What 630,000 paintings say about the world economy
Science & technology
Mist on tropical rainforest mountain, Tropical forests can increase the humidity in air and absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Points of no return
Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points
Fires that freeze
Smoke from boreal wildfires could cool the Arctic
Eyes in the sky
Drones could soon become more intrusive than ever
Sweet dreams
Are nightmares bad for your health?
Culture

Roman, not ruins
The largest dig in a lifetime is under way in Pompeii
On the case
Bombs, dinosaurs and UFOs: Luis Walter Alvarez’s eclectic career
World in a dish
Private chefs are spilling the culinary secrets of the super-rich
Donnie, Rudy, Al and the gang
The four years when old New York died and a new one was born
Digital media
What’s your preferred playback speed: 1x, 1.5x or 2x?
From hero to zero
Thought John Proctor was one of the good guys? Think again
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Razia Jan smiles broadly while surrounded by some her young girl pupils.
Most willingly to school
Razia Jan insisted on educating Afghanistan’s girls

Why Israel must hold itself to account
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War in Gaza
Why Israel must hold itself to account
And how it can be made to do so
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks at the White House
The new imperial preference
Donald Trump’s awful trade policy will outlast him
He thinks America is winning. It is not
This illustration shows an hourglass placed inside a shopping cart
Credit where it’s due
Buy now, pay later gets a bad rap. But it could be useful
Provided lenders open up
This illustration shows a man from behind holding a puzzle piece, trying to complete a puzzle. Around him, three other men are interacting: one is handing over a piece, another is whispering in his ear, and the third is typing on a laptop
Ripe for transformation
McKinsey and its peers need a new strategy. And some humility
AI could make consultancy more effective—or redundant
This illustration shows a transition from a simple white wireframe cube (on the left) to a colorful, pixelated 3D cube (on the right). The left side is black-and-white with scattered pixels, while the right side is vibrant with solid colors (green, blue, p
New ways of looking
Will an astronomical anomaly challenge the idea of scientific revolutions?
Not everything is a paradigm shift

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The economic aspect of cancer prevention
By Invitation
Portrait of the author
Turkey’s future
Ekrem Imamoglu on how Turkey can have peace at home and respect abroad
Briefing
Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas
Justice in Gaza
Israel on trial: can the country police its own war crimes?
Israel’s legal system claims to be fiercely independent. On the Gaza war it is largely silent
Asia
Field General Asim Munir prays after laying a wreath at the Martyrs' Memorial during a guard of honor ceremony at the Army Headquarters in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Marshal arts
Pakistan’s army chief is cosying up to Donald Trump
Turning green
Islamist parties are gaining ground in Malaysia
A strongman struggle
Narendra Modi and Donald Trump go head-to-head
Banyan
Nuclear nightmares are back
China
A human hand high fiving a computer chip hand
China’s AI juggernaut
Six months after DeepSeek’s breakthrough, China speeds on with AI
From colouring in to calligraphy
Savvy staff are moving from China’s nurseries to its care homes
Sputtering along with the dirty stuff
Shanxi province is struggling to diversify away from coal
United States

America First, no exceptions
MAGA’s disenchantment with Israel
Battle lines
Democrats are likely to lose the redistricting war
Inconvenient data
Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers
Parks and consternation
The National Park Service is in disarray
Political theatre
Alligator Alcatraz is an exercise in performative cruelty
Lexington
How is Trump’s Brazil-bashing putting America first?

The Americas

Opposition divided
Can Peronists, Argentina’s former masters, stop Javier Milei?
Perpetual power
Nayib Bukele could now rule El Salvador for life
A man, a plan, a canal—Panama!
Panama brings lawfare to the canal ports saga
Middle East & Africa

Irreversible damage
A glimpse of Gaza’s miserable future
The ones who care
Israeli sentiment on the war in Gaza is shifting
Hot buzz
How climate change could spread malaria
Flying low
Why it’s a pain to take a plane in Africa
The other hunger crisis
As the world focuses on Gaza, starvation also looms in Sudan
Europe
Shengjin migrant processing centre in Albania.
Is it safe?
Europe’s top court nixes Italy’s plan to expel migrants, for now
All stick, no carat
A tariff avalanche catches Switzerland unawares
How the mighty are falling
Albania’s new anti-corruption unit is taking down bigwigs
Battling Russia’s bots
Moldova’s election will test its resistance to Russia
Tapping out
Why the Germans are falling out of love with beer
Charlemagne
Europe’s Hogwarts has a new Dumbledore
Britain
An illustration of the British crown with a pill in front that has fallen off the crown leaving a space between the gems.
Big Pharma
AstraZeneca’s falling out with Britain
The last lap-dance
British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs
Green and pleasant
Is Britain’s Green Party too nice to emulate Reform UK?
A novel spy
Stella Rimington battled communists, terrorists and literary critics
Innovation nation
What’s Britain good at?
Bagehot
Starmer versus the burrito taxi
International

Guns v gavels
Why the laws of war are widely ignored
The Telegram
How to write laws of war for a wicked world
Business
A group of people climbing around the McKinsey logo and tinkering with it
Management consulting
How McKinsey lost its edge
Practising what they preach
Do consultants make good CEOs?
Miles-high club
How loyalty programmes are keeping America’s airlines aloft
Bartleby
How to greet people at work
The noose tightens
American businesses are running out of ways to avoid tariff pain
Hostage situation
The Elon Musk theory of pay
Confirming destination
Uber is readying itself for the driverless age—again
Crude awakening
South America is fast becoming the world’s hottest oil patch
Schumpeter
McDonald’s secret sauce—plus a pickle or two
Finance & economics
Illustration of a hand tapping a credit card on a calendar
Giving credit
Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good
Baby slump
America’s fertility crash reaches a new low
Sweet and sour
If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit
One-thousand-year vision
Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life
Buttonwood
Want better returns? Forget risk. Focus on fear
Free exchange
An economist’s guide to big life decisions
Science & technology

Cosmic horror
Astronomers cannot agree on how fast the universe is expanding
Inside job
Fraudulent scientific papers are booming
Safe and sound
Microphones can spot radar-evading hypersonic missiles
Well Informed
Should you take collagen?
Culture
This illustration shows a person in a suit, but their head is an open book. The suit has various political and religious pins, like a U.S. flag, a cross, a GOP elephant, and “In God We Trust.” The background is bright red, with stacks of books on both
Literature and politics
The novels conservatives want you to read
Prudes with attitude
America’s barmy battle to ban bawdy books
The glow of woe
Why “Wednesday” is wickedly successful
Back Story
Swimming pools are cauldrons of envy, danger and lust
Summer in pink
Provence is not just a destination. It is a lifestyle brand
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Father Patrick Ryan marches to the British Embassy in Dublin during a demonstration in 1989
Old Father Timer
Fr Patrick Ryan, the “Devil’s Disciple”, improved IRA bomb-making

The economics of superintelligence
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Humanity’s next step
The economics of superintelligence
If Silicon Valley’s predictions are even close to being accurate, expect unprecedented upheaval
A large golden coin with a dollar sign on its face, radiating light like the sun
GENIUS inspiration
The world should follow Trump’s lead on stablecoins
With the right rules, innovation could flourish
A mother holds her malnourished toddler in Gaza
The Middle East
The continuation of the war in Gaza disgraces Israel
It no longer has a military justification
President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the press
A self-inflicted wound
Volodymyr Zelensky has made a strategic blunder
A new law jeopardises Ukraine’s progress against corruption—and erodes the Western support it needs
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a press conference
Presidential ambitions
Peace in Turkey must not become a smokescreen for repression
A deal with the Kurds is welcome. Erdogan’s authoritarianism is not

Letters
A selection of correspondence
What many in the asylum and migration policy world think
By Invitation
Portrait of the author
By Invitation
Asylum systems should be fixed, not scrapped, says the UN’s refugee boss
Briefing
A superintelligent robot towers over a human
Artificially incautious
AI labs’ all-or-nothing race leaves no time to fuss about safety
They have ideas about how to restrain wayward models, but worry that doing so will disadvantage them
A timeline of technological evolution, from a simple cart to superintelligent robot
Eureka all day long
What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?
Markets for goods, services and financial assets, as well as labour, would be upended
Asia
An Indian man sat in a private jet drinking champagne
When first class isn’t good enough
The new private jet pecking order
Wheely fast
“Bangla Teslas” give Musk a run for his money
Japan’s political kaleidoscope
Ishiba Shigeru’s premiership is crumbling
Neigh bother
Conservationists have rescued the world’s last truly wild horse
Banyan
“Gated communities” are flourishing in India
China
President Xi Jinping looms over smaller figures standing at a lectern
Chairman of Everything
Xi Jinping is growing more elusive
Ports and geopolitics
The looming deadline for the Panama Canal ports deal
Shamraderie
“Comrade” is making a comeback in China
United States

Death from below
Underground with America’s nuclear-missile crews
Just because you can
The year of the women’s-sports bar
Lèse-majesté in America
Epstein’s ghost haunts the Trump-Murdoch alliance
Coupon clipping
Cuts to food stamps are about to hit in America
Weekend profile
Charlie Kirk, pied piper of the American right
Lexington
A little poetic justice for Donald Trump

The Americas
A collage of images of Donald Trump, Eduardo Bolsonaro, Jair Bolsonaro, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Alexandre de Moraes
Dear Donald, thanks! Yours, Lula
Trump’s astonishing battering of Brazil
Cash no longer rules Caracas
A new paradise for crypto
Middle East & Africa
A soldier in front of the ruins of the Italian-built Mogadishu cathedral
Fragile and fragmenting
Somalia’s state-building project is in tatters
The other east Congo conflict
Ugandan intervention in Congo risks stoking ethnic violence
Cross-border jitters
A bloody week in Syria may have ripple effects in Lebanon
A deepening catastrophe
As Gaza starves, Israel fights on
Europe
President Emmanuel Macron visits the Paris air show
French defence spending
Macron was right about strategic autonomy
Topsy-turvy relationships in Turkey
Kurds and Turks are closer than ever to peace
Backsliding in Kyiv
Outrage in Ukraine as the government attacks anti-corruption watchdogs
European coffee
Could Europe be the next big coffee producer?
Charlemagne
Cigarettes, booze and petrol bankroll Europe’s welfare empire
Britain
A far-right protest in Sunderland, a city in England
The lingering effects of disorder
A year after Britain’s riots, things have deteriorated
Polling on Britain’s social unrest
Seven in ten Britons expect more riots
A striking shift
Why are British doctors so radical?
Ofswatted
Britain’s water watchdog is to be put down
LIBORated
Vindication for two bankers. Questions for Britain’s legal system
Crime and no punishment
Why Britain’s police hardly solve any crimes
Bagehot
The peril of trying to please people
International
A woman and child walk through a corridor at the Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute in Johannesburg
Fighting HIV
Rethinking the war on AIDS
The Telegram
The surprising lessons of a secret cold-war nuclear programme
1843

South Africa
Dying for gold: who killed the miners of Buffelsfontein?
Identity theft
One William Woods was telling the truth. The other was living his life
India
Would you pass the world’s toughest exam?
War
I spent 500 days as a hostage of Hamas
Business
A Swiss Army-style knife with the logo of Xiaomi on it and products of the company coming out of it.
Xiaomi the money
China’s smartphone champion has triumphed where Apple failed
That sinking feeling
Trump’s tariff mayhem has been a blessing for shippers
Going east
The rail mega-merger that could transform American supply chains
A sticky situation
The Gulf’s oil giants risk becoming sprawling conglomerates
One for the price of two
Airlines’ favourite new pricing trick
Hailing a new era
Can Grab and GoTo forge a South-East Asian tech champion?
Schumpeter
The dark horse of AI labs
Finance & economics
A comic-style explosion of coins and dollar signs bursts from a cloud against a red background.
Beyond the memes
Crypto’s big bang will revolutionise finance
Feeling green
Has Trump damaged the dollar?
Stop hopping
Want higher pay? Stay in your job
Say a little prayer
Where will be the Detroit of electric vehicles?
Buttonwood
Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea
Free exchange
What economics can teach foreign-policy types
Science & technology
The National Ignition Facility’s preamplifier module increases the laser energy as it travels to the Target Chamber
Bomb squads
Inside the top-secret labs that build America’s nuclear weapons
Deus ex machina
Fragmentary Latin inscriptions can be completed with AI
Well informed
Do probiotics work?
Culture
The illustration shows Donald Trump having tomatoes thrown at him
Sting like the Bee
How satire is adapting to the second coming of Donald Trump
A taste of the high life
How much would you pay to nab a table at a swanky restaurant?
World in a dish
Cha chaan teng, Hong Kong’s quirky fusion cafés, are going global
In (and out) of Vogue
Booze, bills and $500,000 photoshoots: the golden age of magazines
Interior design
IKEA’s prints have transformed how homes everywhere look
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Fauja Singh beside a running track before a marathon in Toronto, Canada
Sikh Superman
Fauja Singh took up running somewhat late in life

Winning the war on cancer
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A slow-burn success
The world is winning the war on cancer
Progress has been remarkable. Death rates are down substantially, and are likely to fall further
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a visit to a military training area
America and Europe
Trump’s U-turn on Russia is utterly cynical—and welcome
His pivot on supplying arms could help Ukraine defend itself
Pixel art of a retro browser showing Google behind bars with a keyhole overlay
A tragedy of the digital commons
To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model
Artificial intelligence has undermined the internet’s central bargain
A hand holding a frying pan with U.S. hundred-dollar bills flying out of it against a bright yellow background
Teflon capitalism, tested
Bit by bit, the world economy’s resilience is being worn away
Growth has held up astonishingly, given geopolitics. But it can’t last for ever
A British army officer patrols with Afghan soldiers in Helmand Province in 2007
An Afghan super-malfunction
The British people have been kept in the dark for two years
A data breach, a gag order, a stampede to duck responsibility

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The politicisation of the Federal Reserve
By Invitation

Everyday, everywhere
You don’t have to be America or China to win in AI, says Rishi Sunak
American energy policy
Climate change is a by-product of progress, not an existential crisis, says Trump’s energy czar
Briefing

Less deadly than you think
The world is making impressive progress averting cancer
And there are more improvements to come
Asia
Photomontage illustration, Ishiba Shigeru is central, with Tamaki Yuichiro in front, around them are images of the Japanese parliament, young people and TikTok
Hot mess
Japan’s politics is entering a messy new era
Crash course
How did Pakistan shoot down India’s fighter jets?
Asian diplomacy
Meet the most important voice in Australian foreign policy
Banyan
Welcome to Asia’s secret Silicon island
China
Collage of Ursula von der Leyen and Wang Yi
Fifty years of fraying ties
A savage squabble between China and Europe
Trading places
China’s exporters shrug off the trade war—for now
Sexism in universities
Why a fling with a foreigner insults China’s “national dignity”
United States

Dr Donald
The meaning of Trumpcare
Morbid maths
Quantifying Trumpcare
Peak exodus
What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?
Proof of the pudding
Americans are catching on to the joys of British food. Yes, really
All politics is national
Wyoming gets a MAGA makeover
Lexington
Why Superman is the least relevant superhero

The Americas
A woman carrying buckets of water from a well in a small Mayan community
Social welfare in Mexico
Mexico’s handouts do a bit for the poor and lots for Morena
Justice confused
Justice for Haiti’s murdered president is messy
Sargassum
Sand, sun and stench
Middle East & Africa
Israel carries out airstrike on Syrian Defense Ministry in Damascus, Syria
Another neighbour, another bombardment
Why did Israel strike Damascus?
Cease ceasefire
As the Houthis sink two ships in one week, the world shrugs
Deaths in the queue
A first-hand look at Gaza’s controversial food-distribution sites
A fragile overhaul
The dark side of Ethiopia’s liberalisation
Baba goes home
Muhammadu Buhari failed to build a better Nigeria, twice
Europe
Illustration of a Euro coin being cut by an egg slicer
Brussels sprouts a budget
Despite enormous challenges, the EU sticks with its puny budget
Art of the U-Turn
Fed up with Putin, Trump offers Ukraine arms and tariffs
Droning on
Ukrainian drones are killing ever more soldiers
Thirsty for income
Albania’s tourism boom is a boon for Jared Kushner
Integration watch
Switzerland is ticking towards a tighter deal with the EU
Charlemagne
Germany’s “memory culture” prevents it from coping with Gaza
Britain
An illustration of a person sweeping up a pile of golden mortarboards.
Leaner learning
Britain’s bankrupt universities are hunting for cheaper models
Brain gain?
Britain has a rare opportunity to lure American talent
Best of enemies
Britain and Germany sign a historic treaty
Justice delayed
How to solve the backlog in England’s courts
Protected mammals
British bats are a conservation success story
Bagehot
Operation Rubific, the portrait of failure
International
Switzerland celebrate their first goal at the women’s Euros
A whole new ball game
The rise and rise of women’s sport
The Telegram
Cynical realism won’t save India from Donald Trump
Business
An illustration of a tomb of 'The World Wide Web, 1989-2025'.
World wide worries
AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?
Castles in the cloud
Can Nvidia persuade governments to pay for “sovereign” AI?
Red flag
The spectacular folly of Donald Trump’s copper tariffs
Raring to go
America throws big money at a small rare-earths mine
Ketchup if you can
Kraft Heinz is not the only food giant in trouble
Room boom
The hottest new travel destination for hotel brands: India
Bartleby
Are superstars as good when they move jobs?
Schumpeter
Move over, Tim Cook. Jensen Huang is America Inc’s new China envoy
Finance & economics
illustration showing a red upward-pointing arrow zigzags through a field of wooden feathered arrows stuck in the ground
Disaster-proof capitalism
War, geopolitics, energy crisis: how the economy evades every disaster
American protectionism
Trump’s real threat: industry-specific tariffs
Ground down
Our Big Mac index will sadden America’s burger-lovers
The rate escape
Americans can still get a 2% mortgage
Buttonwood
Stablecoins might cut America’s debt payments. But at what cost?
Free exchange
Why is AI so slow to spread? Economics can explain
Science & technology
Thinking man statue with a digital coded overlay and his head is missing
Artificial stupidity
Will AI make you stupid?
Bedtime story
Why do people sleep? A new study points to the brain
Well informed
Should you take creatine?
Culture
A shadowy figure running away from an opening door with the light bleeding in. The door also resembles a book
Spooky stuff
Uncovering the foibles of the KGB and the CIA
Getup to get down
Feather boas and bald caps: the wacky world of concert fashion
Human trafficking
China’s child-snatching business
Top dollar
What a football shirt can tell you about finance and geopolitics
Trickle-down economics
Water bottles, the accessory Gen Z is thirsting after
If it ain’t broke
The rise of AI art is spurring a revival of analogue media
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Simon Groot holding a cabbage in a field
The joy of veg
Simon Groot scattered better plant seeds across the world

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It is not working
Scrap the asylum system—and build something better
Rich countries need to separate asylum from labour migration

Welcome to Poundland
Britain is cheap, and should learn to love it
Workers and assets are on sale to the rest of the world for bargain-basement prices
Cranes and shipping containers at a port in Pyeongtaek, South Korea
Suddenly, then gradually
America cannot dodge the consequences of rising tariffs for ever
Their economic impact has been delayed but not averted
Thailand’s Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra
Land of frowns
After another leader is brought low, Thailand’s voters need a real choice
The kingdom is stagnating while its elites squabble
Illustration of a hand popping open a pill container, with hexagonal shapes representing hormones emerging from the tube
Hormones
Sex hormones could be mental-health drugs too
If they can be liberated from ignorance and hucksterism

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Cash is an ineffective way of boosting birth rates
By Invitation

A win-lose situation?
To understand America today, study the zero-sum mindset, writes Stefanie Stantcheva
The greenlash’s silver lining
Vinod Khosla on how the anti-green agenda could help climate tech
Briefing
World Food Programme trucks at the Adre refugee camp
Wretched, refused
The global asylum system is falling apart
What should replace it?
Asia
Protestors rally in front of Vicory Monument in Bangkok demanding the resignation of the Thai prime minister
Turning to sand
Is Thailand heading for another coup?
Street dreams
How to ease pollution, gridlock and honking on India’s roads
Megashows
Osaka’s World Expo is winning over grumpy Japanese
Murder she baked
Australia’s mushroom murderess is found guilty
Banyan
Mahathir Mohamad, the leader who transformed Malaysia, turns 100
China
A person pushing a shopping cart , held back by a giant ball and chain
Left in the lurch
Why so many Chinese are drowning in debt
Balancing the books
China’s local governments are approaching a fiscal black hole
Cyber-spying
America is coming after Chinese it accuses of hacking
United States
A protester holds a sign in front of federal agents at MacArthur Park during immigration raids in Los Angeles.
Cold as ICE
ICE’s big payday makes mass deportation possible
Immigration court
What goes on in America’s immigration courts
Hell country
What went wrong in the Texas floods?
Conspiracy catnip
Jeffrey Epstein is still causing trouble for Donald Trump
Know when to fold
The Big Beautiful Bill will kill one profession
Hormonal men
American men are hungry for injectable testosterone
Lexington
What Donald Trump owes William F. Buckley

The Americas
Illustration of a British lion with a face made of the Argentinian sun, facing away from China and towards a F-16 fighter jet
Game of southern cone
Inside the secret military dialogue between Britain and Argentina
A losing battle
Brazil is bashing its patron saint of the environment
Middle East & Africa
US President Donald Trump, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a dinner at the White House in Washington, DC
An elusive ceasefire
Ending the war in Gaza is still fiendishly difficult
At its lowest ebb
Hamas looks close to defeat
Trumpafrique
Donald Trump’s approach to Africa is very, well, African
Assassin’s creed
Got an enemy? Hire a killer
Unlikely partners
Congo’s football diplomacy
Europe
A woman lights a cigarette placed in a rainbow placard depicting Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Pride before a fall
Viktor Orban’s economic luck runs out
Unfinished business
Ukraine’s political infighting gets nasty
The accidental chancellor
Austria’s leader is striving to fend off the hard right
Send the bad guys away
More European countries want to send their prisoners to other countries
Army of me
Iceland has no armed forces, but that could change
Charlemagne
Denmark’s left defied the consensus on migration. Has it worked?
Britain
An illustration of a shop front with many signs that indicate discounts and closing down sales. The sign above the door reads: “STOCKS BONDS ASSETS FUNDS INDEXES STAKES”.
Cheap and cheerful
British stocks and bonds look like a bargain
Cheap workers
British labour is a bargain
Pension pothole
Britain’s public finances are bad. Their future looks worse
Advantage: NIMBYs
The court that could thwart Wimbledon’s ambitions to grow
Bagehot, and so much more
David Lipsey, former Bagehot columnist, died on July 1st
France and Britain
Macron beats Trump to London
Bagehot
Where are all the briefcase wankers?
International
A service member of the Russian peacekeeping troops walks by a tank near the border with Armenia
At the crossroads of empires
Putin’s war in Ukraine may cost him control of the south Caucasus
The Telegram
The 19th century is a terrible guide to modern statecraft
Business
A golden unicorn in a field of digital valleys.
Venturing big
Silicon Valley is racing to build the first $1trn unicorn
Up in the clouds
Can a $9bn deal sustain CoreWeave’s stunning growth?
Work-life-balancing act
Does working from home kill company culture?
Deconstructed
America’s broken construction industry is a big problem for Trump
Muted, then blocked
Linda Yaccarino goes from X CEO to ex-CEO
Low spirits
Pity France’s cognac-makers
Bartleby
On Lego, love and friendship
Schumpeter
A CEO’s summer guide to protecting profits
Finance & economics
Illustration of a person in a blue suit with a red tie, seated at a red table with hands clasped together. In front of the person are colored shipping containers
Tariff-hopping mad
Trump’s trade deals try a creative way to hobble China
President’s bump
How America’s economy is dodging disaster
A foot like a traction engine
Struggling with the trade war? Amateur football might help
At long last
Japan has been hit by investing fever
Buttonwood
Don’t invest through the rearview mirror
Taking heat
Jane Street is chucked out of India. Other firms should be nervous
Free exchange
Want to be a good explorer? Study economics
Science & technology
Illustration of a distressed woman with white hair covering her face, while hexagonal shapes symbolizing hormones scatter from her head
Hormones and mental health
Could hormones help treat some forms anxiety and depression?
Buried treasure
Ancient proteins could transform palaeontology
A flying visit
An interstellar object is cruising through the solar system
Well informed
RFK junior wants to ban an ingredient in vaccines. Is he right?
Culture
An illustration of a pile of gold coins with stacks that form bullets and shotgun ammunition scattered around the pile.
Invisible hand-to-hand combat
In war, incentives matter more than courage
A man of steel for all seasons
What Superman tells you about American foreign policy
A thumping success
How Bad Bunny leapt to the top of the global music charts
In her prime
Handling feelings with rubber gloves: the odd life of Muriel Spark
Back Story
Why the left gains nothing from pop stars’ support
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Jimmy Swaggart preaches during a rally in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1985
Praying and weeping
Jimmy Swaggart tripped up on his progress to Heaven

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Big, beautiful…bonkers
Trumponomics 2.0 will erode the foundations of America’s prosperity
The Big Beautiful Bill is symptomatic of a wider malaise

The tragedy of Labour
Sir Keir Starmer is rapidly losing his authority
As well as his hope of achieving much in office
People look at their phones as they line up to buy Apple products outside a store in Beijing, China
Surveillance state
China is building an entire empire on data
It will change the online economy and the evolution of artificial intelligence
William Ruto
Wrong direction
William Ruto is taking Kenya to a dangerous place
The president’s authoritarian instincts are propelling a spiral of violence
collage featuring a perfume bottle, a Fenty lipstick and cream pot in the centre and on the sides, crops of charts and a pic of beats headphones and beauty ads
The new star power
How A-listers are shaking up the consumer-goods business
Hailey Bieber, Rihanna and Ryan Reynolds are among a new cohort of celebrity entrepreneurs

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Manufacturing remains a core driver of economic growth
By Invitation
Portrait of Richard Clarida
Central-bank independence
The best check on Fed politicisation is fear of being judged a failure, says Richard Clarida
The future of warfare
This is Europe’s Manhattan Project moment, argues a tech boss
Briefing
A photo illustration showing aggressive firecrackers erupting from the U.S. Capitol
The inglorious Fourth
The big beautiful bill reveals the hollowness of Trumponomics
Republicans mark America’s birthday with a profligate but insubstantial law
A portrait of Elizabeth McDonough
Fiat lex
The obscure Senate functionary whose word is law
Elizabeth MacDonough does more to shape legislation than most congressmen
Asia
Illustration of the silhouettes of 2 young men, one on a moped and one standing, they're in front of the fence of a military base. The standing man is taking a photo of a fighter jet taking off, the one on the moped is on his phone.
Mapped, monitored and manipulated
China’s bid to influence the Philippines heats up
Missiles and waterslides
Welcome to North Korea’s Benidorm
Tied down
Thailand’s prime minister has been suspended
Statues in the Stans
Central Asia still has a complex relationship with Russia
Banyan
Why all Indians are rule-breakers
China
A man looks at his mobile phone while waiting for a bus in China.
Big data will see you now
China’s giant new gamble with digital IDs
The 5%
China’s growth targets cause headaches—even when met
Peruse at your peril
Beware tomes of Chinese political gossip!
Closing time
Hong Kong’s last functioning pro-democracy party disbands
United States

Speedy justices
The Supreme Court keeps helping Donald Trump
Shari’s gambit
Will bowing to Trump win Paramount its merger?
Welcome to Trader Zoh’s
Should cities run their own supermarkets?
Inside job
Why Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave
Unhappy birthday
On its tenth birthday, gay marriage in America is under attack
Lexington
America needs an honest reckoning over its spy agencies

The Americas
This illustration shows Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a suit with Brazil's presidential sash holding a large blue balloon. A hand with a pin is about to pop the balloon. The background is the Brazilian flag.
Faded dreams
Brazil’s president is losing clout abroad and unpopular at home
Don’t believe the numbers
Cuba’s leaders fiddle the figures
Elbows down
Canada makes a first concession to Donald Trump
Middle East & Africa
Iraq's Shia Muslims commemorate martyrdom of Imam al-Hussein
The future of political Shiism
Iran’s “axis of resistance” was meant to be the Shias’ NATO
A never-ending conflict
Israel’s weird war clock: 12 days for Iran, 21 months in Gaza
A stubborn status quo
The Israel-Iran war has not yet transformed the Middle East
A downward spiral
Kenya’s president is bad news for Kenya and Africa
Nice deal, on paper
A peace agreement in Africa that will probably not bring peace
Europe
Flowers on a bridge in Moscow, part of the Summer in Moscow event
Inside Russia
In Putin’s Moscow, a summer of death and distraction
Catalan calm
A pragmatic amnesty for separatists benefits Catalonia
Trump’s turn to Tayyip
Turkey’s strongman is becoming Donald Trump’s point man
Turkey
An infestation of ticks menaces Istanbul
Gap on the right wing
Germany’s Bundestag bars AfD MPs from its football team
Charlemagne
The sleeping policeman at the heart of Europe
Britain
An illustration of a pile of mostly deflated red balloons with the Labour party logo on them.
One year of Labour
Starmer’s wasted first year
The British economy
Labour is bungling its growth “mission”
Our Starmer tracker
Measuring Sir Keir Starmer by what people actually care about
Hot protest summer
Britain’s draconian approach to pro-Gaza activism is likely to backfire
Schools in cities
A quiet education revolution in England’s secondary cities
The Shipping Forecast at 100
Britain’s least controversial national treasure
Bagehot
Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it
International
An aerial view of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) construction site, in Mersin, Turkiye.
Nuclear power for civilian use
Putin’s radioactive chokehold on the world
The Telegram
How South Africa could harness Donald Trump’s wrath
Business
A collage of Kim Kardashian, Idris Elba and Ryan Reynolds.
Fame and fortune
Kim Kardashian, Ryan Reynolds and the age of the celebrity brand
Tragedy, then farce
A Wall Street wheeze makes a surprising comeback
A fruity business
Would you pay $19 for a strawberry?
A developing divide
Superstar coders are raking it in. Others, not so much
Horse power
Ferrari is looking less like a carmaker and more like Hermès
Bartleby
Are startup founders different?
Schumpeter
Jeff Bezos 2.0: new wife, newish job, old vision
Finance & economics
illustration of a traditional Chinese pagoda, leaning to the right, with a blank price tag hanging from its top
Involutionary road
Xi Jinping wages war on price wars
The tariff show
How to strike a trade deal with Donald Trump
Fiscal foie gras
Big, beautiful budgets: not just an American problem
First-class mess
Can Trump end America’s $1.8trn student-debt nightmare?
Copper-bottomed
Vanguard will soon crush fees for even more investors
The bomb squad
Inside Iran’s war economy
Free exchange
India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons
Science & technology
A plant using photosynthesis to create new proteins.
The new nanotech
AI is helping to design proteins from scratch
Life drawing
A new project aims to synthesise a human chromosome
Kleptoplasty
How sea slugs give themselves superpowers
Well informed
Is being bilingual good for your brain?
Culture
This illustration shows three people sitting on a couch, staring at a screen. Behind them looms a large shadowy figure with hands reaching toward them. The colors are dark and moody, creating a tense, eerie atmosphere.
Fatal attraction
The TV shows people risk death to watch
Fair use on the internet
A YouTuber kicks up a stink over a flatulent “reaction” video
Dastardly, deadly and digital
Hollywood’s new favourite villain
Take their word for it
Before there was Oprah’s Book Club, there was the Book Society
Brothers in arms
Inside the uneasy, incongruous coalition of the Big Three
Please, brother, take a chance
Stop crying your heart out—for Oasis have returned to the stage
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
John Robbins eats at his kitchen table at home near Santa Cruz, California
Ice cream: good or bad?
John Robbins had serious doubts about the family business

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Trump has gambled
How to win peace in the Middle East
After the bombs should come a plan to reset the region
A protester with a sign saying "Vaccines save lives" is removed as Robert F. Kennedy junior testifies during a confirmation hearing in January.
Jabbers and nuts
RFK’s loopy approach to vaccines endangers Americans
Donald Trump’s health secretary undermines global public health, too
This illustration shows two robotic arms handling small camouflage drones, stacking them in a tall pile against an orange background.
The economic consequences of war
How the defence bonanza will reshape the global economy
As they spend big, politicians must resist using one pot of money to achieve many goals
Muhammad Yunus sits in a gilded chair in Dhaka, Bangladesh
The wrong proscription
Banning the opposition is no way to revive Bangladesh’s democracy
The Awami League has a dire record. But voters should have a free choice
The Snow King mascot on a cup at a Mixue store in Beijing, China
The new ambassadors
Chinese brands are sweeping the world. Good
From fast food to video games, new marques are making their mark

Letters
A selection of correspondence
A closer look at American finance
By Invitation
Ban Ki-Moon and Helen Clark
Big powers and the United Nations
The UN’s dysfunction undermines global security, argue Ban Ki-moon and Helen Clark
Briefing
An Iranian woman sits close to a destroyed vehicle in Tehran
Settling dust, swirling questions
Israel’s war with Iran is over
But its impact is uncertain
People walk past a mural depicting Iranian missiles in Tehran
Obliterated or simply obscured?
How much did America’s bombs damage Iran’s nuclear programme?
Assessments vary wildly and it is impossible to know for sure
A conceptual illustration showing the link between defense and the economy: at the center, a ticking clock symbolizes urgency, while behind it, costly weapons spin like gears, emphasizing rising demands and accelerating military spending.
Complex post-industrial military
The war in Ukraine shows the West can re-arm without re-industrialising
Industrial capacity in peacetime is no longer necessary for success during war
Asia
An aerial view shows Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) activists demanding justice for those injured during the 2024 mass uprising in Bangladesh, marching through the streets of Dhaka
After the revolution
A big mistake by Bangladesh
The art of no deal
India gets no favours from Trump
A tarnished legacy
Asia’s disgraced saint
Love hurts
Japan’s civil war over surnames
Banyan
A surprise East Asian love-in
China
The Dalai Lama prays at an event in Dharamshala, India.
Who will be chosen?
The Dalai Lama faces a horrible dilemma
Write and wrong
Chinese cops are cuffing erotica
The illiberal arts
China’s new army of engineers
United States
Collage featuring President Donald Trump at the centre
I came, I bombed, Iran
The fallout from Trump’s Iran strikes is political, too
Socialism for thee
The meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York
One Big Beautiful Bill
Why America’s hospitals don’t want their taxes cut
Showtime buttons up
Even for $10bn, the Los Angeles Lakers may look like a bargain
Hoop dreamers
Oklahoma City has been reborn, 30 years after the bombing
MAHA not funny
Robert F. Kennedy looks set to mess with vaccines
Lexington
Has Donald Trump solved Iran from the air?

The Americas
Dredges at an illegal gold mining area in Peru.
All that glitters
The gold bull-market has a dirty secret
Petro and the pueblo
Colombia’s dire president gets desperate
Pitch perfect
Dutch football has a secret team
Middle East & Africa
A call centre worker going from one cublicle to another with their headset. The Cubicle their leaving is orange while the one they are goign to is red, signifying the move of BPOs from India to Kenya.
The world’s new back office
Call centres could be a gold mine for Africa
Deaths in the night
Farmers in central Nigeria are being killed with impunity
Charting the horror
As all eyes are on Iran, the horror in Gaza persists
Europe
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, US President Donald Trump and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte attending a NATO meeting
Yes, daddy
At a tricky NATO summit, a Trumpian meltdown is averted
The jobs of war
A defence splurge will slow Europe’s deindustrialisation
Austerians no more
Germany is embarking on an almighty borrowing binge
Rise of the robots
Ukraine is inching towards robot-on-robot fighting
Bitcoin, Babis and automobiles
A bitcoin scandal is good news for the Czech Donald Trump
Charlemagne
How strongmen mastered the art of dividing Europe
Britain
A collage of Keir Starmer with the industries mentioned in the Industrial strategy report.
Sector selector
Britain’s industrial strategy is unlikely to boost its economy
In the driving seat
The “motorsport mindset” behind Britain’s success in Formula One
Non-doms
Britain has bungled its taxes on the super-rich
Relative values
The culture wars are coming for cousin marriage in Britain
Turf wars
Why many British gardens are giving up on lawns
Bagehot
Feral Labour: why Sir Keir Starmer’s MPs have had enough
International
Sex workers coming out of a phone. This is linked to the Sweden ban on OnlyFans and sex work online.
Red lights, green lights
Sex work in the gig economy
The Telegram
Feckless Europe accepts Trump’s Lone Ranger diplomacy
Business
Labubu dolls on display at a toy exhibition in China.
Soft-toy power
It’s not just Labubu dolls. Chinese brands are booming
Part company
How to tell the West’s car industry really is in trouble
Vibe valuing
AI valuations are verging on the unhinged
Getting paid
How OnlyFans transformed porn
Big Smell
Behind the world’s fragrances sits a shadowy oligopoly
Profile
Wendell Weeks, the small-town boss at the big-tech table
Bartleby
The three rules of conference panels
Schumpeter
Who needs Accenture in the age of AI?
Finance & economics
Businessman in a suit rappelling down a giant tax bill as if it's a rope.
Minimising, maximised
How to escape taxes on your stocks
A large hump
Jane Street’s sneaky retention tactic
Can’t live with them…
Politicians slashed migration. Now they face the consequences
Buttonwood
The dream scenario for prediction markets
Free exchange
Why commodities are on a rollercoaster ride
Science & technology
This image combines 678 separate images taken by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time.
Rising star
A new telescope will find billions of asteroids, galaxies and stars
Beyond doubt
Distrust in public-health institutions is not just an American problem
Well informed
Do longevity drugs work?
Culture
William Buckley in his office surrounded by piles of books
Standing athwart history, yelling stop
William F. Buckley, the man who put the charm into conservatism
Infectious storytelling
How zombies explain Brexit: the satire of “28 Years Later”
The Economist reads
The best novels published in the second quarter of 2025
Frame of mind
A new Dutch museum tackles migration through art
Back Story
How to hear a Hollywood star sing, for free
Pitt stop
“F1 The Movie” is a very expensive promotional film
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
After her inauguration as president of the country, Violeta Chamorro is celebrated in Managua
The woman in white
Violeta Chamorro was a mother first, a ruler second

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A torn Iranian flag with a missile-shaped negative space at the center of the rip.
Conflict in the Middle East
Where will the Iran-Israel war end?
In a worse place if Donald Trump rushes in

A new “Pug” test
To keep Russia out and America in, NATO must spend more
European members need a hard date to boost their defence budgets
Pedestrians walk past an electronic board showing the Nikkei 225 index on the Tokyo Stock Exchange along a street in central Tokyo, Japan.
A fiscal fable
Japan’s government bonds: this time it won’t end well
Even as interest costs mount, politicians promise handouts
Newborn baby girl yawning in a hospital cot
Baby brain
Why MAGA’s pro-natalist plans are ill-conceived
Efforts to deliver a baby boom either fail or cost a fortune
A billboard showing an ad with two humans peels back to reveal a grid of colorful tiles, symbolizing AI
Computers v creatives
What the “cockroaches” of the ad world teach about dealing with AI
A rosé-soaked meeting in Cannes is like a postcard from the future

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Reforming the NHS
By Invitation

War in the Middle East
For Trump, both action and inaction in Iran have consequences, says Karim Sadjadpour
Briefing
Smoke rises from locations targeted in Tehran amid the third day of Israel's waves of strikes against Iran, on Sunday, June 15, 2025
Decisive attack, unknown result
Israel’s blitz on Iran is fraught with uncertainty
Much hinges on the stubborn supreme leader and America’s mercurial president
A satellite image shows the Isfahan enrichment facility
Target acquired
Israel’s race to kill Iran’s nuclear dream
If it fails the regime could make a frantic dash for a bomb
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei
Inside the Islamic Republic
Will Iran’s hated regime implode?
Trump calls for Tehran to “immediately evacuate”
Asia
An Australian fan of K-pop band KTS holds travel cards with designs dedicated to the group in Seoul, South Korea on June 13th 2023
From shrimp to dolphin
Can South Korea’s new president get his country back on track?
Submarine warfare
Could Trump can AUKUS?
Multiple choices
India’s and China’s civil-service exams are notoriously difficult
Fangs for your attention
Why India has so many snakebites
Banyan
A White House love-in for Pakistan’s big man outrages India
China
A cat climbs in a wreckage of Russian ‘Geran’ drone shot down in Ukraine.
Clues in the wreckage
China has become the most important enabler of Russia’s war machine
Cash for clunkers
Chinese consumers are splurging—but probably not for long
Air pollution
Rich Chinese cities are suffocating poor ones
United States
Steam vents in Manhattan, New York, United States
The other half
Democrats could do a lot better with the power they hold
It tolls for thee
Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success
Voting and shooting
The attacks in Minnesota reflect a worrying trend
The Lumbee
The strange history of the tribe courted by Donald Trump
Presidential disapproval
Our model suggests President Trump is under water in every swing state
Lexington
The New York mayor’s race is a study in Democratic Party dysfunction

The Americas
A drone is launched during a Haitian police and MSS operation against armed gangs.
Whacking the gangs from above
Drone warfare is hitting Haiti
Wither Seleção’s swagger?
Brazilians love football. Their national team is past its prime
More dirt
Police allege that Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned a spy ring
Middle East & Africa

Topsy-turvy tariffs
China is trying to win over Africa in the global trade war
Expanding misery
The war in Sudan is spilling over its borders
Cheap and deadly
Africa’s scary new age of high-tech warfare
Europe
This illustration shows political leaders, military missiles, tanks, and fighter jets with a NATO flag in the background. The design uses bold black, white, and blue colors, suggesting themes of war, defense, and international politics.
Keeping the president happy
This week’s NATO summit will be all about placating Donald Trump
Foreign fighters welcome
Ukraine looks abroad to boost its manpower
Balkan bully on the ropes
Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic is rattled
Sea of troubles
Corruption at the heart of his party wounds Spain’s prime minister
Bread on wheels
A revival for the classic Renault 5
Charlemagne
Europe wants to show it’s ready for war. Would anyone show up to fight?
Britain
View from Titterstone Clee Hill on a misty day in the Shropshire Hills National Landscape Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Regional identities
The English Midlands is unjustly overlooked
Enter the dragon
Biotech is coming to Wales
Doctors’ orders
Britain’s newest way of demoralising doctors
Front of the Q
MI6’s new “C” used to be “Q”. And she’s good with the gadgets
Child sexual exploitation
The grooming-gangs scandal is a stain on the British state
Bagehot
The rise of Nigel McFarage
International
A collage of When Harry Met Sally with a skyline of Istanbul.
Harry, meet Sally
Can men and women be just friends?
The Telegram
In Trumpworld, toppling rulers is taboo
Business
Several AI-like figures with globe-shaped heads sit around a conference table, watching a presentation. One figure, standing in a suit, pitches an advert featuring another AI figure holding a red object.
Creative destruction
AI is turning the ad business upside down
Knickers in a twist
Victoria’s Secret is struggling to reinvent itself
Oh, Brother!
The family saga at Germany’s media colossus takes an unusual twist
Zucked in
Mark Zuckerberg is spending megabucks on an AI hiring spree
People’s code
Why China is giving away its tech for free
Bartleby
How to build the right corporate culture
Schumpeter
Can a car boss turn around Gucci’s owner?
Finance & economics
Illustration of a graduate wearing mickey mouse ears
Crammed and damned
Why today’s graduates are screwed
Baramaki days
Japan’s debts are shrinking. Its troubles may be only starting
Paddy problems
Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic
Offering little
Can China reclaim its IPO crown?
Dire strait
What the Israel-Iran war means for oil prices
Buttonwood
Investors ignore world-changing news. Rightly
Free exchange
Who are the world’s best investors?
Science & technology
illustration of a Rubik’s Cube floating in a digital space. One visible face of the cube features a robot head, while another shows a human face
AI benchmarking
How to find the smartest AI
Grim reaping
Climate change will hurt the richest farmers—and the poorest
Research rankings
Are China’s universities really the best in the world?
Well informed
Is the “manopause” real?
Celestial navigation
Meet the moths that use the stars to find their way
Culture
Silhouette of a man against a red background obscured by a sphere. There are blue pills scattered on the floor
Gender relations
The silly and sinister manosphere
You butter believe it
The year’s chicest shade is good enough to eat
American foreign policy
Was Zbigniew Brzezinski America’s most important foreign-policy guru?
Music mecca
The Laurel Canyon sound has reverberated down the decades
Mind your own business
The right to privacy has been hard-earned. It is imperilled again
Back Story
Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the age of the genius
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Brian Wilson of the rock and roll band "The Beach Boys" holds a copy of their 1963 album "Surfer Girl" in 1964.
The reluctant surfer
Brian Wilson attracted a fame he could hardly endure

The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Factory fever
The world must escape the manufacturing delusion
Governments’ obsession with factories is built on myths—and will be self-defeating

American disorder
When a radical performance artist has command of an army
Donald Trump’s troop deployment in LA could yet backfire
Daniel Noboa, accompanied by a group of beneficiaries of government financial assistance, speaks during a ceremony before his inauguration in Quito, Ecuador on May 24th 2025
Latin America’s new drugs hub
How to curb organised crime without shredding civil rights
Ecuador is a test case in the fight against global gangs
People walk by the Apple Store on Fifth Avenue in New York, United States
Perestroika in Cupertino
In the age of AI, Apple needs to open up
Tight control over its products, once an asset, has turned into a liability
Rachel Reeves, Chancellor of the Exchequer, exits 11 Downing Street to present her Spending Review to Parliament in London, United Kingdom
Shoestring statism
Rachel Reeves’s big-government rhetoric is a worrying sign for Britain
The country needs defence spending and nuclear power, but not more social housing

Letters
A selection of correspondence
America’s tax on foreign investors
By Invitation

Welfare that doesn’t work
Britain’s ex-chancellor on how to fix a welfare crisis that’s partly of his own making
Crime in Latin America
Ecuador’s crime wave demands a more sophisticated response, says its former attorney-general
Briefing
A Bell 206 helicopter and a passenger-grade autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) from EHang in an integrated airspace in Shenzhen.
Delivery drones and flying cars!
China’s “low-altitude economy” is taking off
The authorities have found a new industry they want Chinese firms to dominate
Asia
Employees work on a mobile phone assembly line at Padget Electronics Pvt., a subsidiary of Dixon Technologies Ltd., in Noida, India.
Indian tech
Can India really innovate?
Indic intelligence
Can India be an AI winner?
Horns of a dilemma
If China invaded Taiwan, who would enter the war?
Banyan
Fading Modi-momentum
China
Employees work on the bottling line at the Kweichow Moutai Co. liquor factory in Moutai, Renhuai, China
Adapt or dry
China’s booze business looks smashed
Can’t buy me love
Bride prices are surging in China
Great rejuvenation, grim departure
Would you want to know if you were terminally ill?
United States
Police officers look at a demonstrator during a protest against federal immigration sweeps in downtown Los Angeles, California, June 8th 2025
California screamin’
The meaning of the protests in Los Angeles
National guardians
Donald Trump can call in the troops
Give us your wealthy, from stable countries
Donald Trump’s new travel ban is coming into effect
Political neologisms
Does America now have a woke right?
Reading, writing, Jesus
How a Christian group is changing education in America
Lexington
The true meaning of Trump Derangement Syndrome

The Americas
Portrait of Daniel Noboa
Crime and justice
A Harvard man turned narco-gang-buster
Chaos in Colombia
Political violence has returned to Colombia
Controlling coca
Bolivia wants the world to stop treating coca leaves like drugs
Middle East & Africa
Visual story on the ordeal Gazans endure to get food under new aid distribution programme in Khan Younis
A shadowy aid group in Gaza
Conspiracy, cock-up or solution? The Gaza aid foundation
Enemy of my enemy
The gangster Israel is arming to fight Hamas
A report from the strip
A surprising power shift inside Hamas
The kernel of an idea
Globalisation is nuts
Putting the lux in Lagos
Luxury property’s final frontier
Europe
An employee assembles a Caesar cannon at the site of the French-German KNDS armament factory in Bourges, France.
Bombshell boomtowns
The cities winning from war
Make or break
Vladimir Putin unleashes a summer offensive against Ukraine
Dodging bullets
Five opposition-backed referendums fail in Italy
Sunshine in the Valley
Picasso’s home town is thriving
How to be good
As the NATO summit approaches, more than cash is at stake
Charlemagne
How Ireland became the Saudi Arabia of siphoned-off global profits
Britain
Collage illustration showing Rachel Reeves, houses in front, a power plant and ambulances behind her with a graph like shape in the background
Picking winners
Rachel Reeves has decided where Britain’s cash will go
The geography of public spending
For once, London is short-changed by the government
Grape Britain
The English have become wine producers as well as wine consumers
Ballymeaner
A new sort of unrest rattles Northern Ireland
Inverted snobbery
Inverted commas are falling out of fashion
To B61 or not to B61?
Might the Royal Air Force go nuclear again?
Bagehot
Welcome to Bonnie Blue’s Britain
International
A teenage boy from a Christian youth mission walk the streets of downtown Philadelphia with wooden crosses prior to a Stations of the Cross procession in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Secular stagnation
Why the West has stopped losing its religion
The Telegram
Taiwan thinks the unthinkable: resisting China without America
Business
Apple CEO Tim Cook waves during Apple's 2025 World Wide Developers Conference at the company's headquarters.
Falling from the sky
Can Tim Cook stop Apple going the same way as Nokia?
A bigger bite
The world’s biggest food company plans to beef up in America
Very demure, very mindful
Muslim “modest-wear” is a hit with fashionistas of all faiths
Taxi for Mr Musk
Can robotaxis put Tesla on the right road?
Weekend profile
The 11-year-old Ukrainian YouTuber snapping at MrBeast’s heels
Bartleby
A checklist for decision-making
Schumpeter
Make America French Again
Finance & economics
Illustration of a conveyor belt with parcels on with a cut in the middle in the shape of a worker with a hard hat on
Blue-collar blues
Factory work is overrated. Here are the jobs of the future
Neither up nor down
America and China have spooked each other
Out and about
The rise of the loner consumer
Heiry questions
How to invest your enormous inheritance
Buttonwood
European stocks are buoyant. Firms still refuse to list there
Free exchange
The economic lessons from Ukraine’s spectacular drone success
Science & technology
A drone is seen from below against a bright red background, centered in a digital green target crosshair and concentric radar-like circles
Battle of the beams
How to stop swarms of drones? Blast them with microwaves
Hidden in plain sight
A routine test for fetal abnormalities could improve a mother’s health
Well informed
How much protein do you really need?
Culture
An illustration of the world being gradually encased by a football.
The small v the mighty
The Club World Cup will be the most global football tournament ever
On thin ice
The melting of the Arctic will bring peril—and opportunity
Death of a plotter
Frederick Forsyth’s bestsellers drew on his work as a spy
Back Story
As “Jaws” turns 50, who is the blockbuster’s real hero?
In your streams
The 15 best films and TV shows released so far in 2025
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Valmik Thapar
Burning bright
Valmik Thapar was in love with all the tigers of India