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All grown up
Saudi Arabia is pulling off an astonishing transformation
Muhammad bin Salman is going from troublemaker to peacemaker

An existential struggle
What Putin wants—and how Europe should thwart him
Many Europeans are complacent about the threat Russia poses—and misunderstand how to deter its president
A Pakistani Ranger stands guard at the scene of India's missile strike in Muridke, Punjab, Pakistan, May 7th 2025
The Himalayas of peace
Luck stands between de-escalation and disaster for India and Pakistan
Sooner or later, the luck will run out
A view of the destruction following Israel's attacks on a camp in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on May 7th 2025
Israel’s forever conflict
The war in Gaza must end
America should press Binyamin Netanyahu to accept a ceasefire, then press Hamas to disarm
Illustration of hands grabbing at some Nvidia computer chips that are flying through the fingers
Illusion of control
Donald Trump is right to ditch Joe Biden’s chip-export rules
Time to get realistic

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Are plastics greener than they seem?
By Invitation

Dollar dolour
This time really is different for the dollar, writes Kenneth Rogoff
Briefing
An illustration depicting Putin's military expansion and his growing threat to the West.
Watching the bear
Would Vladimir Putin attack NATO?
Russia is building up its forces, causing fear in its neighbours

Russia’s military-industrial complex
A glimpse inside Putin’s secret arms empire
The Economist tracks mobile signals to plot the Kremlin’s build-up
Visitors take photographs of the Maraya in Alula, Saudi Arabia
Not your father’s kingdom
Saudi society has changed drastically. Can the economy change, too?
The government’s push to reduce dependence on oil is creating other distortions
Asia
Ambulances leave from a complex near the site of a suspected Indian missile attack, in Muridke, Pakistan
Punishment time
Can India and Pakistan control a new cycle of escalation?
The Australian Labor Party’s thumping win
Australia is no longer lucky
The devil you know
Trade tensions help Singapore’s prime minister to a big win
A call to arms
Taiwan’s other war
Banyan
How should India promote Hindi? By doing nothing
China
Food delivery workers on scooters gather for their daily morning briefing in Beijing
Deliverance
China’s gig economy could help it survive the trade war
Toil and struggle
Xi Jinping glorifies hard work, but the young are not so sure
The very long arm
China intensifies its campaign against exiled Hong Kong dissidents
Right on cue
The men’s and women’s world snooker champions are now both Chinese
United States
A man skateboards past a row of homeless tents on Skid Row in Los Angeles.
After Grants Pass
American cities are criminalising homelessness. Will that help?
Pete’s purge
Pete Hegseth is purging both weapons and generals
Replacement rate
A social history of America in a warehouse
Born in the USA
One of the most controversial executive orders will shortly land at SCOTUS
America’s sort of Cass Review
Where the Trump administration has science on its side
Mr Equal Protection
Trump knocks down a controversial pillar of civil-rights law
Lexington
Harvard has more problems than Donald Trump

The Americas
Trucks transport containers to a COSCO container vessel at Tianjin Port
The strategic south
Xi Jinping tries to press China’s advantage in South America
Farmacias Similares
A Mexican pharmacy chain revolutionised health care at home
Breaking point
Killer gangs are inches from ruling all of Haiti
Middle East & Africa
Displaced Palestinians queue for hot meals amid worsening crisis in Gaza
Who will feed the strip?
Israel’s radical new course in Gaza
Gaza’s death toll
How many people have died in Gaza?
Agree to disagree
MAGA meets MBS
The Red Sea
A Faustian pact with the Houthis
Threat from above
The fight for Sudan’s skies
A nation in the dark
Nigeria has more people without electricity than any other country
Europe
The newly elected Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz being sworn in
The ides of Merz
Trouble at home threatens Friedrich Merz’s global ambitions
Frugal times ahead
Berlin’s culture bosses must become more commercial
MAGA man
Romania’s next president may be George Simion, a Trump ally
When enough is not enough
Portugal heads to the polls for the third time in barely three years
The tethered threat
How new drones are sneaking past jammers on Ukraine’s front lines
Charlemagne
To grasp Europe’s fragmentations, look to a 31-year treasure hunt
Britain
Winter sun highlights the church steeple
Churchgoing, going…gone?
The Church of England is dying out and selling up
Time to transubstantiate
Young British men are turning to Catholicism in surprising numbers
Double-Trussed
Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disaster
The start of the deals
The Britain-India trade deal is a sign of things to come
The very few
Britain’s second-world-war veterans are dying out
The green stuff
Aberdeen shows why the UK’s clean-energy transition will be messy
Bagehot
Kemi Badenoch is simply too interesting for Downing Street
Business

Nvidious
How China is still getting its hands on Nvidia’s gear
Silicon surprise
Huawei and other Chinese chip firms are catching up fast
Board games
OpenAI’s flip-flop will not get Elon Musk off its back
Battle of the bulge
Eli Lilly looks set to steal Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss crown
Us against the world
What is behind the staggering ascent of Palantir?
Bartleby
Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong
Schumpeter
Bosses beware: the tariff shock is not like covid-19
Finance & economics
Illustration of a man in a suit shackled to a giant stone X by his arms and legs
Poor slackers
Why Gen X is the real loser generation
Over a barrel
How Saudi Arabia is cranking up the pressure on its OPEC allies
Taiwan straits
Trump is a threat to Asia’s giant insurers
Dollar drama
Global turmoil has at least one beneficiary: currency traders
Cheap thrills
Buy the dip: the trend that keeps stocks from crashing
The oracle plans to step down
Warren Buffett has created a $348bn question for his successor
Free exchange
What happens when a hegemon falls?
Science & technology
illustration of a crane shaped like a toy claw machine, with a yellow star-shaped magnet lifting a container ship surrounded by colorful shipping containers. The crane arm is metallic with yellow stars decorating it
State of flux
How to build strong magnets without rare-earth metals
Uneasy listening
Compressed music might be harmful to the ears
Dog and pony show
Companies have plans to build robotic horses
Friends like these
Dogs really do look and act just like their owners
Well informed
Is your hay fever getting worse?
Culture
An illustration of a film reel showing frames of the Hollywood sign with one of the letters falling down.
Lights, camera, tariffs?
Hollywood is in trouble. Politicians should not try to save it
Proto type
The language that changed the world
Forged in blood
The friendship of a Chilean dictator and a Nazi war criminal
Bringing back the Queen of Crime
How to write, according to the bestselling novelist of all time
Back Story
The morals of “Sinners”, a fantasia of vampires and the blues
Making a splash
If you haven’t heard of webtoons, you will soon
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Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Alice Tan Ridley busking at the 34th Street subway station, New York, United States, February 6th 2010
Notes from underground
Alice Tan Ridley knew how to make New York’s subways ring

The Taiwan test
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The showdown
A superpower crunch over Taiwan is coming
China has a new chance to call America’s bluff
Shipping containers at Port Newark Container Terminal in Newark, New Jersey, United States on April 8th 2025
Wishful thinking
Investors’ risky bet: they can shrug off the trade war
The relief they are banking on needs to come fast
Paramilitary soldiers board a patrol boat as Indian tourists take boat rides on Dal Lake in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 25th 2025
A neighbourhood nightmare
India must prove Pakistan’s complicity in the attack in Kashmir
It would then have every right to strike back
Illustration of shattered glass with a hole in the middle in the shape of the UK
The price of public decay
Britain’s social contract is fraying
But a patch-up job would be cheaper than politicians think
A polymetallic nodule collected in the Pacific Ocean is displayed in San Diego, United States on June 8th 2021
Race to the bottom
Donald Trump is right to go after metals in the deep sea
Environmentalists should push the UN body that governs deep-sea mining to pass regulations to allow it

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The IMF’s planned new loan to Argentina
By Invitation

Trump’s first 100 days
Trump’s revolution is the only way to save America, says the architect of Project 2025
Briefing
A Taiwan Coast Guard vessel chases a Chinese Coast Guard ship off the coast of Hualien, Taiwan
A darker shade of grey zone
Chinese military exercises foreshadow a blockade of Taiwan
The Trump administration’s fickleness is adding to the island’s anxieties
A person carrying the Taiwanese flag near Pratas Island, Taiwan
Hoping for despair
Can China sap a divided and isolated Taiwan of its will to resist?
Taiwanese are growing more doubtful that they can fend off their hostile neighbour
The container ship is leaving the Port of Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Trade raid
Any Chinese curbs on Taiwan’s trade would carry big economic costs
But China could calibrate a trade “quarantine” to limit unintended consequences
Asia
A man walks through the debris of a demolished house in Murran village near Pulwama, India on April 26th 2025
On the brink
India and Pakistan are bracing for a military clash
Tech supply chains
India’s new chip fab rises from the dust
Assault and flattery
Trump, trade and troops: South Korea’s nightmare
A national rethink
Aussies are doing a political pivot
China
An employee works at a toy factory specialising in solar powered plastic gadgets in Yiwu.
In the trenches
American tariffs are starting to hammer Chinese exporters
Identity crisis
Is China justified in still calling itself a developing country?
The rural economy
Edible rats are China’s latest live-streaming stars
United States
American flag bunting hangs above a photocopier at the Internal Revenue Service campus in Austin, Texas, US.
Taxing times
Donald Trump is creating chaos at the IRS
ICE storm
How a judge’s arrest fits into America’s deportation drive
Gilded gulps
Water sommeliers say the simplest drink is the future of luxury
Survivor: Ivy League edition
How one Ivy League university avoided the president’s wrath
Baby rights
Why does America have birthright citizenship?
Lexington
Donald Trump could rescue John Roberts

The Americas
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney gestures to an aeroplane.
The vote-swinger’s tricky future
Mark Carney’s plan for Canada
Two sides of the same coin
Canada’s new Conservative movement resembles Donald Trump’s
Middle East & Africa
A mural depicting a mock version of the Statue of Liberty with the torch-bearing arm broken is seen painted on the outer walls of the former US embassy in Tehran
Death to America no more
Iran’s leader hopes America can save his faltering regime
In surprising communion
Donald Trump’s Syria policy is still a work in progress
A smoky affair
Africa’s charcoal economy
Back to the bad old days
Ivory Coast is gearing up for an unfair election
Sunken and rusting
What a wrecked ferry reveals about war in South Sudan
Europe
This is a collage-style illustration with fighter jets, yellow stars, an American flag. Donald Trump, Macron, and Ursual von der leyen. The background is beige, and the image has a bold, dramatic feel with elements of war and politics.
The break-up
100 days of Trump: the growing dismay in Europe
The hundredth day
America and Ukraine agree on a minerals deal, a good omen for the peace process
Hard pounding
Ukraine’s fighters fear Russian attacks and America’s ceasefire
Buttoned-down caprice
Germany’s staid-seeming new chancellor has a mercurial streak
Charlemagne
The unbearable self-indulgence of Europe
Britain
City workers and other pedestrians pass roadworks signs
The public realm
Broken windows and pockmarked roads
Immigrants’ earnings
Britain’s Poles now earn more than the natives
Lairds and the land
Scotland’s outdated land laws threaten the future of rural towns
City limits
Why building anything in London is so hard
Trans rights
Women win legal clarity—but Britain’s gender wars intensify
Bagehot
The strange success of snooker
International
An aerial view of the Maersk Launcher, a ship chartered by the Metals Company.
The last mining frontier
A Trump executive order will unleash a global deep-sea mining boom
Deadbeats united
The UN could run out of cash within months
The Telegram
Donald Trump picks the wrong trade fight with China
Business

Less cheap, less cheerful
Can Shein and Temu survive Trump’s trade war?
MAGA v MAMAA
Big tech has a big Trump problem
Trouble brewing
Can Starbucks be turned around?
Lacking a certain je ne sais quoi
When can AI book my summer holiday?
“60 Minutes”, one big headache
For media companies, news is becoming a toxic asset
Factory fantasies
The trouble with MAGA’s manufacturing dream
Bartleby
Your AI meeting notes are ready
Schumpeter
Will the trade war capsize shipbuilders?
Finance & economics

Battle-ready
Why China has the upper hand in its trade war with America
Stormy seas
America may be just weeks away from a mighty economic shock
The kopek drops
Vladimir Putin’s money machine is sputtering
Buttonwood
How a mortgage transforms your investment portfolio
Something for everyone?
A takeover bid promises consolidation in Italian finance
PE for the people
The risky world of private assets opens up to retail investors
Free exchange
Why economists should like booze
Science & technology
Illustration showing three human silhouettes—a child, an adolescent, and an adult—each displaying abstract representations of gut bacteria inside their bodies
Root of the problem
Rates of bowel cancer are rising among young people
A trial on trial
A landmark study of gender medicine is caught in an ethics row
Shots in the dark
The great Iberian power cut need not spell disaster for renewables
Well informed
Can at-home brain stimulators make you feel better?
Culture
A photo illustration depicting a hand holding a key coming out from a hole in the centre of the painting of The Acrolopolis at Athens by Leo von Klenze.
Rise of nations
How golden ages really start—and end
War crimes
Did Hitler order the murder of Einstein’s relative in Italy?
A steamy romance
Saunas are so hot right now
World in a dish
Mumbai wants to extinguish the charcoal tandoor
Death, Inc
How “Putin’s chef” built the world’s most notorious private army
Streams of consciousness
What people should learn from rivers
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Martin Graham with chickens at Longborough
Wagner in a chicken shed
Martin Graham was determined to see his dream come true

Trump’s first 100 days, and beyond
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Only the beginning
Trump is a revolutionary. Will he succeed?
He has already done lasting harm to America

Reform UK
The man Britain cannot ignore
Nigel Farage’s return means a new, more volatile era in British politics
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell stands in front of the American flag
Recession and succession
President Trump’s attacks on the Fed are not over
Jerome Powell wins a reprieve. But expect more showdowns between the White House and the Fed
An African migrant holds a European Union flag on board a ferry to Algeciras, Spain
On the move
Africans need jobs. The rest of the world needs workers
Migration from Africa is a mega-trend that transcends today’s populist surge
A poster for Canada's Liberal party candidate, Prime Minister Mark Carney, is attached to a telegraph pole.
Maple-leaf makeover
How Canada went from preachy to pragmatic
On the eve of an election, its political transformation is stunning
A wire frame hand hooked up to a lie detector. The graph indicates lying
Expecting the unexpected
How to keep AI models on the straight and narrow
Interpretability techniques are powerful, but must be used with care

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The challenges faced by Brazil’s Supreme Court, and more
By Invitation

Canada’s election
To see off the Trump challenge, Canada must fix its productivity problem, says Michael Ignatieff
Briefing
Young people in Kenya take part in extracurricular activities in school
Tomorrow’s workers
Emigration from Africa will change the world
As other countries age, they will need African youth
Asia

Multipolar problems
J.D. Vance flies into a giant trade storm in India
Opportunity in the air
Taiwan flogs America drones “not made in China”
A very stable city-state
What’s at stake as Singapore goes to the polls
Chaos in Jammu & Kashmir
India and Pakistan could come to blows over Kashmir
Banyan
How the global south forgot its own birthday
China

Two fronts
Amid a trade war, Xi Jinping may be purging China’s armed forces
Pro-natalism
China’s $38,000 baby formula
The trade war
China’s fine diners switch from American to Aussie beef
United States
Donald Trump arrives for his inauguration in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC on January 20th 2025
Separation of powers
Who will stop Donald Trump’s drive for unchecked power?
Lawfare
How courts might stop Donald Trump’s attack on civil society
Will the levies brake?
Expect more chaos in Donald Trump’s tariff policies
Chainsaws on
Donald Trump hopes to become a one-man deregulator
Amazon Prime for humans
How Donald Trump plans to ramp up deportations
The Proust of Truth Social
America’s poster-in-chief is very, very online

The Americas
A red and black illustration of two silhouettes back to back representing Mark Carney on the left and Pierre Poilievre on the right with a map leaf overlap and intersecting the colours in negative.
Captain election
How Donald Trump caused a political earthquake in Canada
Hunkered down
Bolivia’s wild politics are dragging it into the abyss
Middle East & Africa
This illustration shows several political leaders, African and Ukrainian, against a backdrop of famous landmarks like St. Basil’s Cathedral (Moscow) and the Motherland Monument (Kyiv). It’s styled with bold red, green, and yellow triangles, hinting at
A cool reception
Why Ukraine is losing the war for African opinion
Beach bummed
The Mauritius miracle is losing its sheen
The pitfalls of an Iran deal
Is Donald Trump about to bomb Iran or rebuild it?
Kingmakers in the Levant
The Druze’s influence outweighs their numbers
The church in Gaza
The pope phoned a priest in Gaza every day
Europe
Dr. Godineau, from the Maison de Sante in La Bastide-de-Serou, visits one of his patients, Andre, 75, who has no car and lives in a remote hamlet
Healthy living
France is a far healthier country than America
Not from Mars
Why Italy’s defence spending lags far behind
No room to roam
Europe wants Sweden’s minerals. That’s more bad news for the Sami
Slow progress
The Kremlin’s grey-zone war in the Black Sea shows its real intent
Deal or no deal?
America is selling a Ukraine peace plan. No one is buying, yet
Charlemagne
Europe’s reluctant reset with Turkey
Britain
Nigel Farage enters Newton Aycliffe Working Men’s Club for campaign speech
Nigel’s world
Nigel Farage leads a movement that is hungrier and better organised
Inside the rally
Ice cream and immigration at the Farage show
Stop press
Can a six-year-old startup revive the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper?
Cannabis cops
Why Britain’s police forces have taken to cultivating cannabis
Reset moment
Donald Trump’s antics mean new boldness is needed in UK-EU links
Bagehot
Britain’s 20-20-20-20 vision
International

American air strikes
Trump’s red-hot war on terror
Cluster-struck
Learning to love the cluster bomb
Big decisions in the Vatican
The coming struggle to choose the next pope
The Telegram
The ugly task of Putin-proofing your border
Business
An illustration of Peter Thiel waving a small American flag.
The new atomic age
Peter Thiel doubles down on patriotism in the Trump era
Pipe dream
America won’t be able to bully the world into buying more gas
Crash course
Even Republicans are falling out of love with Tesla
Meals on wheels
For Volkswagen, things go from bad to wurst
President Grinch
How Donald Trump might steal Christmas
Mall mercies
Shopping malls are making a comeback in America
Bartleby
The early lives of bosses
Schumpeter
Watch out, Elon Musk. Chinese robots are coming
Finance & economics
Illustration of a house of cards built from computer chips, arranged in a triangular pyramid structure against a solid blue background
Chipping away
Why American tech stocks are newly vulnerable
Give me your jetsetters, your multi-millionaires
Trump wants a certain kind of immigrant: the uber-rich
Til they drop
Will China’s shoppers cushion the Trumpian blow?
Buttonwood
Should investors spend the trade war in India?
Nasty taste
Not just Trump: Asia has a trade problem of its own making
Bog data
Economists don’t know what’s going on
Zooming ahead
Unlike everyone else, Americans and Britons still shun the office
College blues
What price cool? $31 a month, according to students
Free exchange
Trump’s sovereign-wealth fund won’t make America richer
Science & technology
An AI person made of wireframe is doing the crossed fingers sign behind his back while having the other hand up, as a sign of it lying.
Code of misconduct
AI models can learn to conceal information from their users
Breaking the mould
Lethal fungi are becoming drug-resistant—and spreading
Dingo? Bingo
Australia’s dingoes are becoming a distinct species
Well informed
How to form good habits, and break bad ones: trick your brain
Culture
A collage that compositionally mimicks the US flag. There's images of protests against the war in Vietnam, famous artists, films, and badges from the era.
The times, they did a-change
The Vietnam war made American culture bolder and more varied
Recruiting athletes
The NFL has turned the draft into thrilling television
Internet personalities
They sing and dance—but rarely show their faces. Meet VTubers
Back Story
An old, leisurely way to watch television drama is back in vogue
Eau yes
TikTok is changing the perfume business
The heart of art
Exploring the mysteries of the Louvre
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Pope Francis waves as he arrives for his weekly audience in St. Peter's Square, Vatican City, Vatican on September 26th 2018
The works of mercy
Pope Francis changed the Catholic church, but not as much as he hoped

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Biting the hand that funds
How a dollar crisis would unfold
If investors keep selling American assets, a grim fate awaits the world economy
Hispanic Caucus Members Demand Return Of Immigrant Deported To El Salvador Prison
Leaders
In its pursuit of a policy, Donald Trump’s government is content to destroy a man
What’s at stake in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg seen on Capitol Hill.
Swipe it away
Zuckerberg on trial: why Meta deserves to win
Social media has plenty of problems. Lack of competition isn’t one of them

The rule of law
Brazil’s Supreme Court is on trial
How a superstar judge illuminates an excessive concentration of power
A man employed in a plastic recycling plant breaks down plastic barrels
In praise of plastics
Don’t overlook the many benefits of plastics
If they are a problem, it is because they are badly managed
Garbage collectors on strike outside a waste management depot in Birmingham
Something rotten
The lesson of Birmingham’s striking binmen
The moment is ripe to reform Britain’s equal-pay rules

Letters
A selection of correspondence
The threat to university research in America, and more
By Invitation

Aid and development
The head of the Gates Foundation on how to keep helping the poor as aid shrinks
Cracks in the bedrock
The bond market’s problems aren’t all to do with Donald Trump, write Anil Kashyap and Jeremy Stein
Asia
Indian women try on gold ornaments at a jewellery shop in Bangalore, India.
Sticks and carats
The biggest bugs in the new gold rush are Asian
Risky routines
Indians are losing big on the stockmarket
History wars
Why Narendra Modi has embraced an anti-caste icon
Risen and rising
Why Christianity is taking an Asian turn
China
The American hawk with its wing being clipped.
Hawks v MAGA
China hawks are losing influence in Trumpworld, despite the trade war
Your time’s your own
Chinese officials are encouraging office workers not to work so hard
Standing up
China’s propagandists preach defiance in the trade war with America
United States
Portrait of US President Donald Trump sat in shadow during a cabinet meeting at the White House.
Falling feeling
Donald Trump’s approval rating is dropping
By the numbers
Tracking Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown
Eating the rich
Berniechella: America’s left protests against Donald Trump
Hurrah for exams
America’s progressives should love standardised tests
Human shields
Abortion becomes more common in some US states that outlawed it
Lexington
Can Progressives learn to make progress again?
The Americas
People protest against Argentine President Javier Milei’s adjustment policies, after his government sealed a new loan deal with the IMF, outside the Casa Rosada Presidential Palace
23rd time lucky
Milei’s bold move: making Argentina’s economy normal
House Bukele at the court of Trump
Nayib Bukele provides Donald Trump with a legal black hole
Spring unsprung
Guatemala’s indigenous people grow impatient with their champion
Democrat or dictator?
The judge who would rule the internet
Nobody’s perfect
Daniel Noboa wins another term as Ecuador’s murder rate soars

Middle East & Africa
This illustration shows the Emblem of the United Arab Emirates. The golden falcon holds torn pieces of land marked with "X" in its claws. The background is dark, making the falcon stand out boldly. The image suggests themes of power, control, and influence
The UAE’s destabilising influence
The UAE preaches unity at home but pursues division abroad
Trouble in the Horn of Africa
A new smash and grab for Red Sea ports
Israel’s Qatargate
Binyamin Netanyahu’s other war
Young and broke
Populism meets reality in Senegal
Pre-poll lock-up
When does opposition become treason in east Africa?
Europe
Photomontage of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin repeated through a hypnotic red and white spiral with stars dotted around them
Fighting and talking
Trump’s Ukraine ceasefire is slipping away
When politics becomes the weak point
Power is being monopolised in Ukraine
Germany’s gag reflex
The threat to free speech in Germany
The battle on the right
Young men in Spain love the hardline Vox
Charlemagne
Europe’s streets are alive with the sound of protests
Britain
Steel worker walks in front of furnace at Scunthorpe Steel Works
British Steel
Britain’s government has entered the steel industry with no plan
When “equal value” comes to town
Birmingham’s bin strikes reveal local problems—and a national one
The Hollywood of Europe
Are hits like “Adolescence” good or bad for Britain?
The Economist poll tracker
The splintering of British politics
The value of a life
How Britain decides which drugs to buy
Gender wars
What is a woman? Britain’s Supreme Court gives its answer
Bagehot
In praise of flag-shagging
International
A worker places plastic bottles in the assembly line
Polymeramory
Plastics are greener than they seem
The Telegram
Xi Jinping’s Trump-sized puzzle
Business
An illustration of two cogs, grinding against each other and causing a spark between them. The larger cog on the left has the image of a Chinese dragon on the side whereas the smaller cog on the right depicts an American eagle.
Uncle Sam v the dragon
Pity American firms in China. Xi Jinping is hitting back
When the levies break
How to swerve Donald Trump’s tariffs
Europe’s sunny south
Spanish business thrives while bigger European economies stall
Mutual connections
LinkedIn’s unlikely role in the AI race
Trash talk
A new way to recycle plastic is here
Bartleby
Reclaiming the office lunch
Schumpeter
The trade war may reverse Hong Kong’s commercial decline
Finance & economics
A dollar sign cracked in the middle.
Check your privilege
How Trump might topple the dollar
A time for bravery
Can the euro go global?
Collateral damage
Poor countries would miss King Dollar
The coming flood
America is turning away China’s goods. Where will they go instead?
Buttonwood
Stockmarkets do not reward firms for investing in Trump’s America
Free exchange
Hell is other people’s currencies
Science & technology
A plastic bag floats in the sea
Plastic and health
Microplastics have not yet earned their bad reputation
Artificial diplomats
AI models could help negotiators secure peace deals
Deep freeze
Scientists are getting to grips with ice
Well informed
Electric vehicles also cause air pollution
Culture
An arrangment of different characters facing each other, pulling silly faces trying to make the other laugh
Humour me
The success of “LOL: Last One Laughing” is no joke
He said, she said
Bill v Melinda Gates: whose memoir should you read?
The Economist watches
The six best films about financial turmoil
Literary retellings
A celebrated novelist grapples with “Moby-Dick”
Mobbed
Feral teen “Minecraft Movie” fans might just be a good sign
Looking sharp
A century on, Art Deco is as stylish as ever
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Mario Vargas Llosa, writer and politician, attends the Oxford Literary Festival in Oxford, England in 2009
A passion for freedom
Mario Vargas Llosa was shaped by authoritarianism

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A photo illustration of a Chinese worker's hat featuring the text "MAKE CHINA GREAT AGAIN."
MAGA and China
How America could end up making China great again
A big beautiful opportunity
An illustration of Trump carving a U.S.-shaped hole beneath his feet, symbolizing that he may be on the verge of falling in.
Ruination Day
President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc
But the rest of the world can limit the damage
Children celebrate Eid-al-Fitr at an amusement park set up in the Yarmouk Refugee Camp, Damascus, Syria, April 1st 2025
A shattered nation
Lift sanctions to give Syria a chance of rebuilding
Our poll shows Syrians trust their new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. So should the West
Marine Le Pen attends a debate at the National Assembly in Paris, France, February 5th 2025
Ill-suited sentence
Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president
Punish the offender without also punishing French democracy

Chainsaw reaction
Why the IMF should bail out a serial deadbeat
Under President Javier Milei, Argentina has changed
Person falling over inside a clock, struggling to keep up
Stop changing all the clocks
Donald Trump was right. Daylight Saving Time needs to go
Evidence on the health costs is piling up

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Training young workers in Britain, and more
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You call this liberation?
Even Americans don’t want Trump’s barmy tariffs, writes Douglas Irwin
French politics
The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi
Briefing
Shoppers at a street market in Shanghai, China
Arise, consumers!
As Donald Trump’s trade war heats up, China is surprisingly confident
Should it be?
Asia
A man works inside a steel warehouse in Mumbai
Tariff king v tariff man
India sees opportunity, as well as risk, in Trump’s trade war
South-East Asia’s tremor
Myanmar’s junta takes advantage of a devastating earthquake
Unwanted influence
As Chinese drills begin, Taiwan expels mainland influencers
Stans with a plan
Ending Central Asia’s endless squabbles over eccentric borders
Banyan
Australia’s election could come down to independent MPs
China
Trucks next to stockpiles of coal at the Guoyuan Port Container Terminal in Chongqing, Chin
Burn, baby, burn
China could greatly reduce its reliance on coal. It probably will not
Dox shocks
China has a thriving black market for personal data
Taking on water
The Panama ports deal is delayed, as China signals dissent
United States
JD Vance speaks to an auditorium full of people
Great exhortations
How (and why) J.D. Vance does it
Madison as hell
The Trump train slows
Turn it down
How Donald Trump is shaping other countries’ politics
The zip ties that bind
Is it ever right to pay disabled workers pennies per hour?
Losing count
DOGE comes for the data wonks
Lexington
Donald Trump is attacking what made American universities great

The Americas
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Pix a winner
Brazil’s government-run payments system has become dominant
A turnaround, eh?
The Liberal Party’s polling surge is Canada’s largest ever
An iron fist, please
Peruvians long for a Bukele-like strongman to beat crime
The rise before the fall
Latin American migrants transfer money like never before
Middle East & Africa
Widows and mothers of war victims gather for Iftar, the fast-breaking meal amid the rubble of homes of the Jobar neighborhood in Damascus
Sunny Sunnis
Syrians are still surprisingly upbeat
Many bombs, little thought
America steps up bombing the Houthis but lacks a clear strategy
Island strategy
Talks over the Chagos Islands show the rising clout of Mauritius
Capitalising on success
Khartoum changes hands, marking a new phase in Sudan’s civil war
Europe
Members of the RN party distribute leaflets in support of Marine Le Pen in Henin-Beaumont
Bar one
Marine Le Pen’s ban polarises France
‘Twere well it were done quickly
The prospect of early elections in Ukraine has everyone in a spin
FSB v Army
Russia’s army is being subordinated to its security services
Unifying factor
Irish willingness to join NATO could ease unification
Goodies for grannies
Germany’s Mütterrente is a poor way to pay parents
Charlemagne
Europe cannot fathom what Trumpian America wants from it
Britain
Migrants try to board a smuggler's inflatable dinghy
The small-boat business
How to run a smuggling business
The fortunate few
Every year, a few thousand people win Britain’s refugee lottery
Death by committee?
The assisted-dying bill isn’t dead. It is in limbo
Fiscal frictions
Britain’s budget watchdog has ruffled feathers in Westminster
You’d better release me
What happens when Britain frees thousands of prisoners at once?
Bagehot
The tyranny of TikTokkers who turn up
International
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Pillage people
State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard
The Telegram
China debates whether Trump is a revolutionary, or just rude
Business
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Use it or lose it
China and America are racing to develop the best AI. But who is ahead in using it?
Faster, higher…richer?
Athletics pays less than other sports. Michael Johnson wants to change that
Shock and ore
Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining
Bear in a China shop
One of the world’s biggest mega-malls is worryingly empty
Roads closed
Donald Trump’s plan for American carmaking is full of potholes
Bartleby
Does it pay for bosses to embrace nationalism?
Schumpeter
Are there any business winners in Trump 2?
Finance & economics
President Donald Trump signs an executive order on tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House
He’s done it
Trump takes America’s trade policies back to the 19th century
The battle to come
Can the world’s free-traders withstand Trump’s attack?
Buttonwood
The American government’s accidental private-credit subsidy
After the chainsaw
How Milei made Argentina deserving of an IMF bail-out
Soldering on
Tin, an overlooked critical metal, is enjoying a boom
Free exchange
What a refugee camp reveals about economics
Science & technology
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Repairing body cells
Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives
Wheels within wheels
Motors in the wheels take EVs further
Out of this world
What does space miso taste like?
AI think, therefore AI am
Researchers lift the lid on how reasoning models actually “think”
Well informed
How Daylight Saving Time affects your sleep and diet
Culture
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Reading the entrails
Hungry for more “Hunger Games”? There is plenty in store
From invisible hand to fist
An insider’s guide to economic warfare
On the back foot
Sneakernomics and the surprising future of sneakers
Hare today, still hare tomorrow
Why memoirs involving animals are so successful
The spies that bind
A forgotten CIA programme that changed minds
Song of myselves
Is there anything left to learn about The Beatles?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
George Foreman strikes a fighting pose in front of Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, New York, United States, 1976
The punch of fate
George Foreman’s career was about resurrection

Elon Musk’s efficiency drive
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Efficiency drive
Is Elon Musk remaking government or breaking it?
So far, there is more destruction than creation

A perilous path
Israel’s expansionism is a danger to others—and itself
It risks turning hubris into disaster
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan makes statements at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey on March 24th 2025
Dark times
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is throttling Turkey’s democracy
But no one outside Turkey seems to care
A US cargo container blocking containers on the left and dollar signs on the right
The cost of uncertainty
The unpredictability of Trump’s tariffs will increase the pain
Businesses are struggling to adjust
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves carries a folder as she walks in Downing Street ahead of presenting the Spring Statement to Parliament, in London, Britain, March 26th 2025
Not too late
Labour can still rescue Britain’s growth prospects
But after a messy Spring Statement, the window of opportunity is narrowing
A nurse prepares to administer a malaria vaccine to an infant at the health centre in Datcheka, Cameroon, January 22nd 2024
Prioritising foreign aid
First, jab more babies
As aid shrinks, donors and recipients should focus more on health

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Trying to define a “labour shortage” in economics
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Rethinking trade
The global trading system needs new rules, not tariffs, say Wally Adeyemo and Joshua Zoffer
Turkey’s political crisis
Ekrem Imamoglu’s wife on how his arrest has turned a mayor into a movement
Briefing
A photo collage with a triumphant-looking Netanyahu at the center, surrounded by images of Israeli bombings in Gaza and Lebanon, refugees, grieving victims, and figures like Trump, Khamenei and al-Sharaa.
Living by the sword
An unrestrained Israel is reshaping the Middle East
Its quest for hegemony will strain domestic cohesion and foreign alliances
Asia
A bilboard of MK Stalin in with background with supporters walking past
Seating plans
Why India’s south is fighting plans to overhaul parliament
Droning on
Myanmar’s battered junta embraces drone warfare
India’s history wars
Riots over a dead Muslim ruler put Narendra Modi in a tight spot
A new era for salarymen
Japanese people are starting to quit their jobs
Banyan
How a year of tremor and terror transformed Japan
China
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Tracking the hacking
Chinese hackers are getting bigger, better and stealthier
Shakedown
The Chinese government is cracking down on predatory law enforcement
Unreal estate
Estate agents in China are trying everything to sell flats
United States
A Tesla on the lawn of the W\hite House, with mud flying everywhere.
Cyber muck
Elon Musk is powersliding through the federal government
Re-education classes
MAGA is already rewiring American education
Bayou boundaries
America’s Supreme Court tackles a thorny voting-rights case
2 fast 2 furious
Texas troopers are in more and more lethal car chases
Lexington
The cover-up is worse than the group chat

The Americas
People wait in Ouanaminthe, Haiti to cross into Dajabon, Dominican Republic
Hispaniola
One island, two worlds
Just one big question
Mark Carney calls a snap election in Canada
Disappearances in Mexico
A newly discovered killing site shocks Mexico
Middle East & Africa
A child receives a shot during the launch of the extension of the worlds first malaria vaccine
A shot of hope
A faster rollout of malaria vaccines would save many lives
Troubled Rivers
Nigeria’s president pushes the limits of his power
My enemy’s enemy
Israel courts the Middle East’s minorities
The Jewish diaspora
The war in Gaza has unsettled the Jewish diaspora
Europe
Protest in Istanbul against the detention of Istanbul mayor Imamoglu, Turkey
Dictatorship’s edge
Protests are the last thing keeping Turkey’s democracy alive
Adrift
Russia plays for time in Ukraine ceasefire talks
Draining brains
Trump is driving American scientists into Europe’s arms
The longer they stay
Ukrainian refugees may be in Europe for good
Vowing not to be silent
A fight over a cloister in tourist-filled Florence
Charlemagne
The prospect of war has turned Europe into a continent of preppers
Britain
Rachel Reeves takes questions during a press conference after the Spring Statement
Events, Keir boy
Britain’s wimpish effort to balance its books
Calendar quirk
Why does the British tax year end on April 5th?
Meta data
New data show that the class divide in Britain may not be so wide
Critical infrastructure
Heathrow’s outage raises questions about Britain’s resilience
Draught-dodgers
Can Britons be enticed to fix their draughty homes?
Hospital pass
What is the future of British hospitals?
Bagehot
Who will speak for Henry?
International
President Donald Trump stands on red carpeted stairs as he talks to the media in the Grand Foyer during a tour at the John F. Kennedy Center, Washington DC, USA.
Trumplash
Donald Trump is affecting politics everywhere
Wing women
Trump is a problem for Europe’s most important hard-right leaders
The Telegram
Europe will have to zip its lip over China’s abuses
Business
An illustration of Elon Musk as a Napoelan-style bust statue.
An X on his back
Musk Inc is under serious threat
Swamp creatures
Lobbyists hope that Trump will produce a bonanza
New chapters
Barnes & Noble, a bookstore, is back in the business of selling books
Spit take
How safe is your DNA in a bankruptcy?
The chips are down
ASML’s boss has a warning for Europe
Bartleby
Teams and extremes
Schumpeter
Big law’s capitulation to Donald Trump may be bad for business
Finance & economics
A $100 bill with 'MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN' cut out of it, placed on a red background with letter fragments scattered below
Will he? Won’t he?
Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence
Spoiler power
How Europe can hurt Russia’s economy
Mo’ problems, mo’ money
Live music seems recession-proof. Thank ticket scalpers
Sitting on a…
The surging gold price is boosting Central Asia’s economies
A Latin American fintech star
Nubank has conquered Brazil. Now it is expanding overseas
Buttonwood
Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
Free exchange
Even priests need the free market
Science & technology
Image of Mars sent by Hope Probe.
Don’t stop him now
Can Musk put people on Mars?
Hunt for the red-hot October
Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines
Well informed
How harmful are electronic cigarettes?
Culture
Golden trophy made from TV's
Television’s most valuable player
How Shonda Rhimes became a billion-dollar asset for streamers
The debt sealing
Transatlantic fights over war budgets are nothing new
Let’s air this out
Five years after covid, have scientists learned their lesson?
Unhappily ever after
What the controversial new “Snow White” can teach Hollywood
Zuckraking
How not to handle a corporate kiss-and-tell book
Back Story
Why “Adolescence” has become a global smash hit
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

To Finland in a car boot
Oleg Gordievsky worked for both sides in the cold war

Rise of the superhuman
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Humanity 2.0
How to enhance humans
Finding ways to live much longer—and better—shouldn’t be left to the cranks

Russia and America talk
The trap Vladimir Putin has set for Donald Trump
The Russian president wants to suggest that Ukraine is just a detail in a wider relationship
Salvadoran police officers hold down an alleged member of the Tren de Aragua gang, on his way to the Terrorism Confinement Center prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 16th 2025
Gangster law
The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground
The rule of law is at stake

Rent, killed
If you can’t find a place to rent, blame the government
Foolish crusades against landlords have made housing shortages worse
Pedestrians pass a job centre plus
Working it out
Britain at last takes aim at worklessness
But Labour’s other economic policies risk undermining its efforts

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Cuts to foreign aid will harm Africa’s future
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He alone can’t fix it
Donald Trump’s unwillingness to heed allies’ advice is foreign-policy folly, writes Gary Bass
Briefing
An illustration showcasing human enhancement, featuring zoomed-in sections highlighting enhanced body parts and their corresponding treatments.
Cyborgs, superhumans and cranks
Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science fiction
But the “enhancement” industry is still hobbled by out-of-date regulation
Asia
Illustration of a group of shadowy people working on glowing screens while the shadow of Kim Jong Un looms over them
Hermit hackers
Why are North Korean hackers such good crypto-thieves?
Bait and switch
North Korea is remarkably entrenched in global supply chains
Beyond the bromance
Why the Indian diaspora has not yet embraced Donald Trump
Reams of red tape
India is obsessed with giving its people “unique IDs”
The enemy within
Taiwan’s president takes on alleged Chinese infiltration
Banyan
China’s cynicism offensive in Asia
China
A Chinese flag is seen in front of containers at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port, Shanghai
Pass the port
Why China hates the Panama Canal deal, but still may not block it
The curse of 35
Ageism is rampant in Chinese companies
On the beach
China is developing some startling new kit in its quest to reclaim Taiwan
United States
A photo montage of the USA flag with the top of the Kremlin on it.
To Russia with love
The American and Russian right are aligning
Blue-state blues
The pandemic hit pupils hardest in America’s Democrat-leaning states
Cambridge yimbies
Cambridge yimbies
Not so bullish
America is facing a beef deficit
Worth a shot
Why America has not passed a law to treat addiction better
Christian Vegas
What a Christian theatre town can teach Trump’s Kennedy Centre
Lexington
Donald Trump is testing more than America’s Constitution

The Americas
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, greets supporters.
Power play
Will Donald Trump shape the Mexican president’s domestic agenda?
Go north, if you can
Donald Trump has reshaped one of the world’s most important migration routes
The disputed definition of a doctor
How Cuba competes with Uncle Sam in the Caribbean islands
Middle East & Africa
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike, in Khan Younis
War in Gaza
Israel’s strikes may be only the start of a new offensive in Gaza
The Houthis’ resilience
America’s strikes on the Houthis could whip up a regional tempest
Playing with fire
A coup attempt in Tigray raises tensions in the Horn
Hostile environment
Nigerian politics is a nasty place for women
A quiet renaissance
The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret
Europe
People gather outside the City Hall to protest the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu in Istanbul, Turkey
Discarding democracy
Erdogan arrests the candidate who could beat him
Peace by piece
Putin woos Trump with a partial ceasefire and big geopolitical deal
Rollback
Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth
Raising the boom
Europe’s armsmakers have ramped up capacity
Goodbye debt brake
The Bundestag approves the biggest fiscal expansion in post-war history
Charlemagne
Europe needs to spend more on defence, not just pretend to
Britain
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Tinker tailor investor spy
Why British spooks are reaching out to the private sector
Work to welfare—and back again?
The thinking behind Labour’s benefits cuts
Gut feelings
ZOE, a British personal-nutrition app, is growing fast
Basket case
Comparing apples and oranges. And also small caged mammals
War and peace
A Northern Irish factory has a deal to make missiles for Ukraine
Training and skills
Why apprenticeships are so rare in Britain
Bagehot
The British state has a bad case of long covid
International
Illustration of massive spy with glowing red eyes and an American flag patch has his hands around a group of four tiny spies in hats
MAGA and espionage
Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes
Voicelessness of America
Donald Trump shoots his own global mouthpiece
The Telegram
The right way to fight nativists
Business
A red model shipping container on fire
Burning the boats
Will Trump’s tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America?
Boom time
East Asia’s armsmakers are on the rise
For all they care
How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill
Couture consolidation
The luxury industry is poised for a deal wave
Bartleby
The horrors of shared docs
Schumpeter
Should BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale learn from Chinese rivals?
Finance & economics
Illustration of American flag balloon floats between tall green cacti against a soft pink sky
Prickly situation
The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game
Everyone’s a loser
Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering
Hammer and sickie
Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?
Charging ahead
Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?
Buttonwood
Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shifting
Housing problems
Why rents are out of control
Free exchange
America’s Democrats should embrace “abundance liberalism”
Science & technology
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Going viral
Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
Deep dives
Why don’t seals drown?
Hear no evil
Rumours on social media could cause sick people to feel worse
Debunkology
Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation?
Well informed
What is the best way to keep your teeth healthy?
Culture

The importance of being Ernest
What baby names reveal about American and British society
World in a dish
Why everyone is harping on about Guinness
Down in the dumps
What really happens to everything you recycle
Back Story
At 100 “The Great Gatsby” is as urgent as ever, old sport
The Economist reads
The best novels of the year so far
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Richard Fortey with a fossil
A gaze across millennia
Richard Fortey remade the world with fossils

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MAGAlomania
Donald Trump’s economic delusions are already hurting America
The president and reality are drifting apart

Winston Starmer
Britain’s leader has found purpose abroad. He needs it at home too
But do the clothes fit?

The death of giving
The demise of foreign aid offers an opportunity
Donors should focus on what works. Much aid currently does not
Friedrich Merz speaks during a press conference on planned major investments, in Berlin, Germany on March 4th 2025
Well done, Mr Merz
A fantastic start for Friedrich Merz
The incoming chancellor signals massive increases in defence and infrastructure spending
A Team Dover Airman loads weapons cargo bound for Ukraine onto a C-17 Globemaster III during a security assistance mission at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware
America and Ukraine
The lesson from Trump’s Ukrainian weapons freeze
And the grim choice facing Volodymyr Zelensky
Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa talks to attendees during a national dialogue, in Damascus, Syria, February 25th 2025
Helping Syrians
Lifting sanctions on Syria seems mad, until you consider the alternative
Without a reprieve, the country will become a failed state

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On America and Europe, artificial intelligence, building development, Japan, book blurbs, the penny
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European security
Camille Grand on why Ukraine’s future turns on security guarantees
War’s other victims
It’s time to treat sexual violence in war as torture, writes a UN rapporteur
Briefing
A young girl poses with an HTS fighter and his AK-47 in Damascus
New regime, old problems
Syria has got rid of Bashar al-Assad, but not sectarian tensions
Its new rulers seem torn between reassuring minorities and appeasing their jihadist base
A long queue outside a bakery in Damascus
Liberty, poverty, asphyxiation
Syria’s economy, still strangled by sanctions, is on its knees
It will not improve until they are lifted
Asia
Muslim devotess offer prayer at Jama Masjid, Parliament street in New Delhi
Faith estate
A new law targets India’s third-biggest landowner: Allah
Aid in Asia
Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID will hurt Asia, too
Applying pressure
Indonesia’s shakedown of Apple comes to an end
Kiwi exodus
Why New Zealanders are emigrating in record numbers
A scary new game
Asian allies fear being dumped by Trump
China
A group of Chinese hostesses at the opening session of the National Peopls's Congress in Beijing
The National People’s Congress
China’s leaders reveal their plan to cope with 2025
Out and about
Chinese warships circumnavigate another island: Australia
Demon child on the silver screen
A new film is breaking box-office records in China
United States
Empty seats are seen after Democratic members of Congress walked out during an address by President Donald Trump
The headless opposition
Democrats are struggling to respond to Trump
Rebuilding Cuomolot
Andrew Cuomo plots a comeback in New York
On Musk’s scent
Three principles are at play in the cases concerning DOGE
The freeze-out
DOGE shutters the government’s in-house tech consultancy
Stop press
Donald Trump deploys new tactics to manage the media
Right click
The women vying to make conservatism fashionable online
Lexington
Donald Trump’s Washington reaches a new partisan peak

The Americas
An illustration of Mark Carney wearing an ice hockey shirt with the Candadian Liberal Party logo on the front. He has a pointed foam hand raised in the air.
Anatomy of a surge
Canada’s Trumpian nightmare is the Liberal Party’s dream
Up in arms
Mexico claims US gunmakers sold weapons to cartels
Funky Brazil
A new kind of Brazilian music is poised for a global boom
Middle East & Africa
A Somali internally-displaced person (IDP) child looks out from her family's makeshift home in Maslah camp on the outski
Africa after aid
Why some Africans see opportunity in foreign-aid cuts
Fragile ceasefires in the Middle East
Israel’s army adopts a high-stakes new strategy: more terrain
All at once now
Lebanon’s new government must do three big things immediately
Europe
A collage of Trump and on one side and Zelensky and Starmer hugging on the other. There are pieces of maps around too.
The old world wakes up
The dangerous tension in Europe’s response to Trump
All Gaullists now
Europe sounds increasingly French
Coping with the switch-off
Donald Trump’s chokehold on Ukraine
Farewell to arms
Kurdish rebels in Turkey declare a ceasefire
Malign influencers
Romania is caught between Putin, Trump and Europe
Charlemagne
Can Friedrich Merz get Europe out of its funk?
Britain
Collage featuring Keir Starker with fragmented maze pieces and stars around.
Eat that, Acheson
Sir Keir Starmer finds a role
Keir cordial
Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are forging a tight link
Making growth legal
Britain’s government may be about to waste its best chance of success
Free to blaspheme?
A thorny debate in Britain around the definition of “Islamophobia”
The people v the critics
Jack Vettriano was a fantastic painter
Bagehot
How Mumsnet changed Britain
International
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Illegal narcotics
The tech bros selling drugs by drone
The Telegram
America First is a contagious condition
Business
An illustration of a large red boxing glove punching downwards on a blue pickup truck and crushing its roof.
Crash barriers
America's carmakers win a tariff reprieve, but still face a tricky dilemma
From cars to tanks
As Germany’s defence stocks go ballistic, armsmakers are tooling up
Hunger games
Catering to protein-rich diets is a tasty business
No longer narrowing
The pay gap between men and women won’t go away
Bright and breezy
Mistral, Europe’s biggest AI startup, is blowing hot
Bartleby
The behaviour that annoys colleagues more than any other
Schumpeter
The world’s trustbusters hint that they want more deals
Finance & economics
Commercial trucks cross over the Ambassador Bridge from Detroit, Michigan to Windsor, Ontario
Bridge to nowhere good
Trump’s tariff turbulence is worse than anyone imagined
International finance
Aid cannot make poor countries rich
Buttonwood
Why silver is the new gold
Bukele buckles
El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure
Free exchange
It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying
Science & technology
An illustration of hands and arms going through a nest of lines.
Show your stuff
AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future
Fully woolly
Mice have been genetically engineered to look like mammoths
Where the air is clear
Satellites are polluting the stratosphere
Well informed
Is posh moisturiser worth the money?
Culture
Scales holding a .338 calibre round on the left and a basketball on the right
A basketball star for a bullet tsar
Prisoner swaps are controversial, but there are sure to be more
Let them eat (and make) cake
Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show is out of touch with the times
A (bit)coin toss
Why the art market is growing more friendly to crypto
Let the camera troll
AI unleashes a weird new genre of political communication
Back Story
Surreal “Severance” brilliantly captures the reality of office life
Dream on
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: novelist or polemicist?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Rose Girone with her daughter Reha
Knit one, purl one
Stitch by stitch, Rose Girone kept her family going

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The end of the post-1945 order
Donald Trump has begun a mafia-like struggle for global power
But the new rules do not suit America

The return of inheritocracy
Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working
More wealth means more money for baby-boomers to pass on. That is dangerous for capitalism and society
Friedrich Merz speaks at an election campaign event in Darmstadt, Germany, on February 20th 2025
Move fast and break things
Germany’s election victor must ditch its debt rules—immediately
Friedrich Merz has weeks to shore up his country’s defences
Prabowo Subianto reacts to supporters from a car as he leaves his residence in Jakarta, Indonesia on February 14th 2024
The man who would be Musk
Prabowo Subianto takes a chainsaw to Indonesia’s budget
The result? More money for the president’s boondoggles
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Gene editing
CRISPR technologies hold enormous promise for farming and medicine
Don’t waste it

Letters
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An alliance upended
The transatlantic relationship is crumbling, says an ex-head of NATO
Oversight, out of mind
Donald Trump should not replace us with his stooges, warns a fired inspector-general
Briefing
An illustration depicting a player holding a wild card and a pair of Aces, while Trump sits anxiously on the other side of the table.
Gangster’s paradise
The transactional world Donald Trump seeks would harm not help America
Ukraine, Gaza and China will all test his self-interested approach to diplomacy
Asia
Indonesian protesters demonstrate against President Praboao's government
DOGE days in Jakarta
Prabowo Subianto is drastically cutting Indonesia’s budget
Keeping it in the family
The election in Tajikistan is unlikely to be democratic
Demography
The trouble with ancient Indians
Banyan
How overt religiosity became cool in India
China
A market stall holder in Shenzhen, China
China employment
Who works where, doing what, in China
Watching and waiting
Could there be Chinese troops in Europe?
Weidel in China
The AfD’s unusual China connection
United States
The silhouette of a mother holding her baby.
Under the knife
To make their numbers work, Republicans must slash health spending
Oregone
Critics of Medicaid point to a rigorous study conducted 15 years ago
DOGE days
Elon Musk’s outfit is running into opposition from Donald Trump’s appointees
Believe it
America’s Gen Z has got religion
“It’s just some energy”
The spread of mariachi tells a very American story
Race and diversity in America
Edward Blum has new allies in his fight against affirmative action
Lexington
America has never had state media like it does today

The Americas
A collage of Diana Salazar Méndez.
Ecuador’s iron lady
The bravest woman in Latin America?
Border conundrums, again
Mexico deploys 10,000 troops to the US border
Bullfighting
The matadors’ last stand in Colombia
Middle East & Africa
Israeli hostages are brought to Beilinson Hospital by military helicopter as they are returned to Israel
Running out of road
Israel and Hamas have something in common
Jordan’s monarchy
Could political upheaval hit Jordan next?
Syria’s new constitution
In a dictator’s palace, Syrians debate a new constitution
Resource nationalism in the Sahel
How to make cash in Africa’s coup belt
Sink and swim
The sea is swallowing an African island
Europe
Chancellor Freiderich Merz with a pensive expression
On the edge in Germany
Merz wins a messy election then calls for independence from America
Mr Global
John Parker, one of The Economist’s finest correspondents, was a polymath journalist
The price of security
Europe will need to pull all the levers to up its defence spending
A deal, of a kind
Ukraine has fended off Donald Trump, for the moment
Pluses and minuses
Ukraine is scrambling to find fresh fighters
Pay up or blow up
Swedish businesses are being bombed
Charlemagne
Which European should face off against Trump and Putin?
Britain
HMS Victorious a Vanguard class submarine
The new nuclear question
Does Britain’s nuclear deterrent have a Trump-shaped problem?
The last cut is the deepest
Britain halves its foreign-aid budget
Conditional cash transfers
Paying teenagers to go to school was a bad idea
Paper trail
Britain’s capital markets are waging a war on paper
Caveat patient
Anybody in Britain can call themselves a therapist
Bagehot
Running the Liberal Democrats is the easiest job in British politics
International
British soldiers storm enemy poitions in a simulated attack during NATO military exercises
Five minutes to midnight
Can Europe confront Vladimir Putin’s Russia on its own?
The Telegram
America’s self-isolating president
Technology Quarterly
Collage of fish scales, DNA, and cells
CRISPR
Gene editing has arrived
Next-generation medicine
CRISPR cures face cost and safety concerns
The epigenome
Epigenetic editors are a gentler form of gene editing
Scientific research
Gene editing has put biological research on a new trajectory
Editing crops
Eat your GE-greens
CRISPR animals
Editing pigs, mice and mosquitoes may save lives
Reproductive science
Designing babies
The way forward
Gene editing can still change the world
The age of CRISPR
Acknowledgments
Business
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Ground control to Jensen Huang
Nvidia is fighting both Trump and China
Making America fab again
The trouble with MAGA’s chipmaking dreams
Skipping duties
A guide to dodging Donald Trump’s tariffs
Gummed up
Zyn is giving investors a buzz—for now
Cruising
Airbus has not taken full advantage of Boeing’s weakness
Re-commerce
The business of second-hand clothing is booming
Bartleby
The Economist’s office agony uncle is back
Schumpeter
The smiling new face of German big business
Finance & economics
A grave stone set as an ATM, implying that inheritance is worth a lot of money.
Wealth transfer
How to get rich in 2025
Buttonwood
How cheap can investing get?
Vigilante justice
Meet Trump’s fiercest opponent: the bond market
Hard cash, soft rules
Stablecoins: the real crypto craze
Free exchange
India has undermined a popular myth about development
Science & technology
Views of a copper mine
Dig it
The skyrocketing demand for minerals will require new technologies
Sharp eyes in the sky
Spy-satellite-grade images could soon become available to everyone
Your move
How artificial intelligence can make board games better
Well informed
Do better shoes help you run faster?
Culture
An illustration of a PVC black stiletto boot crushing the stem of a rose on top of a book.
Full steam ahead
Erotic writing is becoming more explicit
007’s new handler
In James Bond, Amazon gains a thrilling new asset
World in a dish
Caviar is the internet’s favourite indulgence
The babble and the beyond
Finding meaning in people’s first words—and their last
Been there, heard that
Why are live albums back in fashion?
Flipper the switch
Do you play a mean pinball?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Imam Muhsin Hendricks at Masjadul Ghurbhh mosque in Cape Town, South Africa
A safe space for queerness
Muhsin Hendricks fought homophobia with the Koran

The would-be king
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How far will he go?
Donald Trump: the would-be king
America is fated to wage a titanic struggle over the power of the president

Europe’s nightmare
How Europe must respond as Trump and Putin smash the post-war order
The region has had its bleakest week since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The implications have yet to sink in
United States President Donald Trump peers over two Executive Orders signed in the Oval Office at the White House, Washington DC, USA.
Trade at the pleasure of the president
Reciprocal tariffs really mean chaos for global trade
America has tried reciprocity before, and discovered its flaws
Customers at a counter inside a mobile phone screen repair kiosk at the Ikeja computer village market in Lagos, Nigeria
Generation Hustle
How to help young Africans thrive
As the rest of the world ages, young Africans are becoming more important
Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with representatives of private entrepreneurs in Beijing.
Conditional love
Xi Jinping wants the private sector to thrive again
Within limits

Letters
On Heathrow airport, Mexican trade, Arctic sea ice, parliamentary speeches, diamonds
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European security
Now is the time for Europe to show strength, not division, argues Sanna Marin
Executive power
Donald Trump is taking presidential power to alarming places, writes Jack Goldsmith
Briefing
A photo collage illustrating the chaos Trump is causing, featuring Trump, Eric Adams, Elon Musk, a plastic straw, Mt. McKinley, the USAID flag, the Kennedy Center DEI, and the transgender symbol.
Orders and chaos
Donald Trump is a reckless president, but not yet a lawless one
He has yet to flatly defy a court order, which would initiate a constitutional crisis
Asia
Ships under construction at the HD Hyundai Heavy Industries Company shipyard in Ulsan, South Korea
Vessel states
Only Asia can help America counter China’s shipbuilding prowess
All-weather friends
India’s other, little-known infrastructure revolution
Air supply
The US-Russia dogfight to sell India fighter jets
Watching the watchmen
Singapore’s leader of the opposition is convicted of lying
China
An intelligent quadruped robot developed by DeepRobotics walks down stairs
A new Silicon Valley
Behind DeepSeek lies a dazzling Chinese university
Bare branches
China’s alarming sex imbalance
Cheating in exams
Chinese authorities try to stop parents gaming the exam system (again)
United States
Protesters gather for a demonstration outside of a Tesla dealership to protest businessman Elon Musk's current role in US President Donald Trump's administration in New York.
DOGE police
Is Elon Musk’s war on fraud just cover for a power grab?
Foreign policy
DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalism
Ee-I-ee-I no!
Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts threaten his rural voters
Vax populi
In Texas, vaccine-choice activists are ascendant
Inattentive medicine
Why so many children in America have ADHD
Lexington
For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point

The Americas
Workers carry equipment during the construction of the Nestor Kirchner gas pipeline.
A dead cow comes alive
Argentina’s Javier Milei is betting big on an oil gusher
Crypto problems
Javier Milei’s crypto misadventure
Paiving the way
An Oscar-nominated film sparks a reckoning with Brazil’s dictatorship
Middle East & Africa
Street Seller in Accra, Ghana
Demographic destiny
Africa’s young “generation hustle” hits the big time
The battle for Khartoum
Sudan’s national army is on the brink of retaking the capital
No end in sight
Rwanda tightens its grip over eastern Congo
America’s allies in the Middle East
Egypt and Jordan are struggling to make themselves useful to Donald Trump
Inching forward
Syria’s next steps towards a new order
Europe
Russian President Vladimir Putin
Talks in the desert
How Vladimir Putin plans to play Donald Trump
Surviving MAGA
Team Trump wants to get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky
Size matters
Germany’s mind-bending electoral maths
Charlemagne
Can Europe withstand four years of Trumpian assault?
Britain
Illustration of a bald eagle flying away with the Mexican and Canadian flags while the British flag stays flying on its pole
Trade diplomacy
Why Britain has so far dodged Donald Trump’s tariffs
Immigration politics
Britain’s government can ignore objections to its asylum policies
Puffed-up politicians
Rachel Reeves is not alone in inflating her résumé
Getting to the point
Should all knives with pointed ends be banned?
Fast fashion
Shein attempts to mend its public image before its London debut
Sign of the times
Right-wing Britons are turning to e-petitions
Bagehot
How Britons became happy hawks on Russia
International
US soldiers in the sunset
Present at the destruction
Donald Trump is junking the transatlantic alliance
Deterring China
Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?
The Telegram
Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world
Business
This illustration shows the U.S. Capitol building with various speech bubbles around it. The bubbles contain symbols like a checkmark, dollar sign, question mark, graphs, and charts. The colors are bold, with red, yellow, white, and black
Change management
Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals
Clearing the thicket
Europe is set to start cutting red tape—lightly
Rehabilitation
Why Xi Jinping is making nice with China’s tech billionaires
In rude health
It’s not just AI. China’s medicines are surprising the world, too
Bartleby
Leaving the seat of power
Schumpeter
Hollywood’s Trump-baiting Oscars
Finance & economics
Illustration of a hand holding 3 balloons in the shape of US coins
As the balloon goes up
Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be right
Cold weather, hot prices
American inflation looks increasingly worrying
Unlucky for some
Why American credit-card delinquencies have suddenly shot up
Fiscal Vollgas
To spend big, Germany’s next government may need EU help
Hungary for it
Will Europe return to Putin’s gas?
Vanke panky
China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off
Free exchange
Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd
Science & technology
A science flask with a belt tightening around the neck
Trump v science
How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science
Everything’s relatives
New research uncovers polygamy and intermarriage in ancient Eurasia
Assuming the mantle
Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
Well informed
Do bans on smartphones in schools improve mental health?
Culture
An illustration of a woman standing on the beach with the wind in her her and snow falling. In the reflection in the water people can be seen huddled and reaching out.
Ghost writer
Han Kang is South Korea’s pride—and its conscience
Attacking play
British football hooligans are on the offensive once again
Aim for the stars
Why are pop singers popping up in films?
Back Story
Escapism and fear made “The White Lotus” a pandemic-era hit
Of muses, museums and money
The Louvre is hosting its first fashion exhibition
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Food writer and photographer Pableaux Johnson in New Orleans
Bean there, done that
Pableaux Johnson, peerless host and chronicler of New Orleans

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High alert
Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon?
America’s security depends upon their success

European politics
Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe?
He is on track to win the election, but to fix Europe he will have to fix his country first
US Vice President JD Vance delivers a speech during the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on February 11th 2025
The Paris discord
After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong
Europe has a chance to catch up, whereas America should ease up
A Chinese naval ship during naval exercises
Words before war
Countering China’s diplomatic coup
China has turned much of the global south against Taiwan. That could be laying the ground for forced unification
The image shows a black judge's gavel resting on a sound block, symbolizing justice or legal authority. The background is red with a halftone pattern, and the faint eyes of Lucy Letby are visible in the background
Blind Britain
The Lucy Letby case shows systemic failure and a national malaise
Whether or not the neonatal nurse is guilty of murder, her saga is revealing

Letters
On diversifying portfolios, the London Gazette, exit taxes, social media, red tape, braindance
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Jaw-jawing at Yalta, 80 years ago
The neglect of Asia was the great failure of Yalta, writes Stephen Kotkin
Briefing
Soldiers of the Ukrianian Armed Forces inspect FPV drones
Disrupting the Pentagon
America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy
To win future wars it needs new weapons, new suppliers and a new system of procurement
Asia
A woman browses Chinese clothing on sale in Bangkok, Thailand
A tidal wave of trade
South-East Asian producers are being hammered by Chinese imports
America and India
Is MAGA great for India?
Three’s a crowd
New Zealand and the Cook Islands fall out over China
Banyan
Can Indonesia make its Top Gun dreams a reality?
China
An elderly farmer digging a field of sweet potatoes, beneath a high-speed railway line in Beijing
Food security
Tensions with the West are fuelling China’s anxiety about food supplies
Get your skis on
Hail China’s new “ice-and-snow economy”
Own goal
Panama symbolises the Sino-American struggle for influence
United States
Pro-sanctuary supporters hold placards whilst a demonstrator shows his displeasure with a proposed "sanctuary city" ordinance, as the Los Angeles City Council considers the measure during a meeting at City Hall in Los Angeles, California.
Federalist capers
Donald Trump wants states and cities to do as they are told
Dodgy politics
Donald Trump and the art of the quid pro quo
Plane to see
Inside the world’s most famous aeroplane boneyard
Foreign aid
What happened next at USAID
America’s payment system
Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury
The Treasury
What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system?
Lexington
How Bob Dylan broke free

The Americas
Venezuelan migrant holds his daughter while resting in a hammock
Migration
Most Latin American migrants no longer go to the United States
Showdown
Guatemala is grappling with a globetrotting Jewish “cult”
Slashing the state
Javier Milei’s liberal reforms are hurting yerba mate growers
Middle East & Africa
Residents attends a meeting at a community hall on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa
Volk music
For Donald Trump, South Africa is DEI in the form of a country
Tasty Tilapia
How to go from fish lover to fish farmer
The new disorder
Homs’s troubles show the challenges facing Syria’s leaders
Raiding a bookshop
Israel mounts an attack on Palestinian intellectual life
Militants, disempowered
Hizbullah’s decline is a boon for Lebanon’s new government
Playing with fire
Instead of luxury condos, Gaza faces a resumption of war
Europe
Friedrich Merz, Chairman of CDU
The man who could lead Europe
Germany’s “business model is gone”, warns Friedrich Merz
Going over their heads
Ukraine’s fears are becoming reality, after Trump talks to Putin
An interview with Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine fears being cut out of talks between America and Russia
A populist turns towards Putin
Robert Fico’s pleas for cheap Russian gas bring Slovaks onto the street
Erdogan’s endgame
A new crackdown is gathering strength in Turkey
A feline helper
Le Chat, the cat-bot France has pinned its AI hopes on
Charlemagne
How India became an unexpected role model for Europe
Britain
Lucy Letby face with a red piece of paper torn over her eyes
Letby case
It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafe
Criminal incompetence
Britain’s review body for criminal convictions is struggling
Carrot and stick
Parliament is advertising for a new Black Rod
Founders and flyers
A British incubator of businesses often bound for the Bay Area
Romance in Britain
Valentine’s Day may need to adjust to the times
Urban demography
London is ageing twice as quickly as the rest of England
Bagehot
Is Sir Keir Starmer a chump?
International
A collage illustration showing part of Xi Jinping's face, the UN logo, a map of Taiwan and the word "peaceful" with part of it cut away.
Semantic strikes
China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
Business
Workers work on the production line at the production workshop of Qingdao Wushun Auto Mold Parts Co. LTD. in China.
High-speed chase
Chinese cars are taking over the global south
Crisis in Standort Deutschland
German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape
Back to petroleum
BP is underperforming and under pressure
Spoiler alert
Elon Musk’s $97bn offer is a headache for Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Rearmament revolution
Could a German startup disrupt Europe’s arms industry?
Bartleby
How to get people to resign
Schumpeter
Defence tech is blowing up Silicon Valley’s beliefs
Finance & economics
A man in a suit going up an escalator made of glowing mesh material. It represents AI in the workforce. Two workers, on in a suit and one in a blue overall are at the bottom of the escalator, unable to take it to go up.
Ascension, for some
How AI will divide the best from the rest
Buttonwood
Why you should repay your mortgage early
Bluster-busting
Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending
In rust we trust
Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm
War economics
Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter?
Sunburst
Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
Free exchange
The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research
Science & technology

AI up to bat
How artificial intelligence is changing baseball
A game of two graphs
AI is being used to model football matches
Whizz-bang
A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic
For a fistful of dollars
Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still
Well informed
Does intermittent fasting work?
Culture
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Infinite jest
The secret to the success of “Saturday Night Live”
By the book
Do societies need more, or less, discretion in enforcing rules?
Haplessly ever after
What explains the enduring appeal of Bridget Jones?
Face-off
Faceless influencers are becoming famous online
Chapter and (re)verse
How did the Catholic church go so wrong?
The old college try
Does more education lead to less sex?
The Economist watches
Six of the best films about love
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Donald Shoup beside a parking meter
Aparkalypse Now
Donald Shoup knew how to get cities going

Scam Inc
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International crime
The vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that is Scam Inc
Online scamming leaves nobody safe
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about the collision of an American Airlines flight with a military Black Hawk helicopter near Ronald Reagan National Airport, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House.
American business and politics
The meaning of Donald Trump’s war on woke workers
A worthwhile idea is straying into cruelty and, possibly, illegality
Destroyed buildings stand on the Gaza coast, June 25th 2024
MAGA in Gaza
America’s scheme for Gaza contains much to regret
As well as some hard truths
This illustration shows a large green military truck with multiple wheels. It has a red shipping container mounted on its back, raised at an angle by hydraulic arms. The background is plain yellow.
The end of the beginning
It’s not over: Donald Trump could still blow up global trade
Ideology, complacent markets and a need for revenue may still lead to big tariffs
This illustration shows Cambridge and Oxford universities. They are surrounded by a curved, black-and-white striped path. The background is bright red with black and white speckles.
Going up
How Labour can unshackle Britain’s most innovative region
It will have to confront the charge of elitism

Letters
On airport slots, oligarchies, Africa, rock climbing, dishonest societies, corporate hierarchies
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Canada in Donald Trump’s tariff sights
Donald Trump poses a grave threat to others’ sovereignty and freedom, says Chrystia Freeland
Briefing
An illustration shows scammers at their desks, linked by glowing wires resembling a computer hard drive. The wires connect to microchips stamped with global currency symbols, symbolizing the vast, intricate network of digital fraud.
Scam Inc
Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs
And they are growing fast
Asia
People welcome China's space-tracking ship Yuanwang-5 at Sri Lanka's Hambantota International Port in Sri Lanka
Subcontinental drift
Why India isn’t winning the contest with China
Big cats, big lessons
India’s attempt to save the tiger has been a remarkable success
A belated reckoning
Japan could finally face its own #MeToo crisis
Durand under duress
Pakistan is furious with the Afghan Taliban
Banyan
Donald Trump and Japan’s Ishiba Shigeru make for an odd couple
Tai, spy
China is infiltrating Taiwan’s armed forces
China
Illustration of A long conveyor belt. Big products, barrels, shipping palettes, pass through a Chinese gate. They turn to smaller parcels on the way and pass a Mexican gate and in the end get piled up behind a US gate.
Fentanyl and free trade
Donald Trump’s new trade war with China is also an opioid war
Shutdown
Cuts in American aid are crippling groups promoting rights in China
United States
Elon Musk arrives in the Rotunda of the US Capitol in Washington DC before the presidential inauguration at
The Twitter playbook
Elon Musk is shredding America’s government as he did Twitter
Hard reboot
Florida comes to Washington, DC
Confirmation bias
RFK junior and Tulsi Gabbard, set to sail through a cowed Senate
Crisis management
New York City commits to involuntary commitment
A rocky start
The clean-up after the LA fires is already revealing tensions
Lexington
Donald Trump is turning payback into policy

The Americas
President Claudia Sheinbaum of Mexico
Round one
How Mexico and Canada handled Trump’s tariff threat
A chink of light
The Trump tariff saga offers Canada’s Liberals a lifeline
A record of violence
Ecuador chooses a leader amid murder, blackouts and stagnation
Middle East & Africa
A Palestinian flag flies above detroyed buildings in the Magrafe neighbourhood of Gaza
From MAGA to Gaza
Donald Trump’s eye-popping plan to make Gaza American
From rebel to ruler
Warlord, jihadi or nation-builder?
Of Mecca and Mammon
Why Islamists in the Arab world speak the language of free markets
The long au revoir
France’s bitter retreat from west Africa
An interview with a Congolese rebel
A leader of Congo’s rebels vows to fight on
Europe
A collage showing Putin, Trump, Merz and Scholz with tanks and the European flag, on the colours of the german flag.
Only halfway there
Germany’s election campaign is creating a security risk
The transparent battlefield
The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible
Protest and repression
Can Georgia’s shadowy despot survive?
Per Erdogan ad astra
Turkey is building a spaceport in Somalia
Charlemagne
Can Europe afford to be the world’s last free-trader?
Britain
Illustration of a molecular diagram representing a connection being made between Oxford and Cambridge, at the bottom left there's an image of the Radcliffe Camera in Oxford and at the top right is the King's College chapel in Cambridge
Build the Arc
Oxford and Cambridge are too small
Expanding cities
Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow
Plan it and the builders will come
Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdone
Causing concern
Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no one
Equal pay
British “equal value” lawsuits have become an absurd denial of markets
Rhetoric and reality
Speeches in Britain’s Parliament are getting shorter—and worse
Bagehot
Must Leeds always lose?
International
An illustration showing a wireframe globe vertically divided in two halves by a red chain. On the left side are clouds and on the right are red cargo ships with the stars of the china flag on the stern.
Trade trouble
Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare
The Telegram
Allies will not appease Donald Trump for ever
Business
Overlapping shadows of Donald Trump, a man and a women
Whiplash
Corporate America’s diversity wars are just getting started
Splashing the cache
The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping
Next level
Can Nintendo’s new console propel it to even greater heights?
Parcel out
Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs
Bartleby
An encounter with the reception desk
Schumpeter
Donald Trump loves big oil. Does big oil love him back?
Finance & economics
President Donald J Trump signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House
Worse to come
Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown
Mercantilist menace
Tariff uncertainty can be as ruinous as tariffs themselves
All good things
When will remote workers see their pay cut?
Onwards and sideways
Europe has no escape from stagnation
Seventh heaven
Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth
Buttonwood
How to invest like a MAGA bigwig
Free exchange
Don’t propose with a diamond
Science & technology
A member of a drone operations team, keeps a careful eye out for enemy drones
Fighting flight
Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum
Make some noise
Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky
Crypto crime-hunters
Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes
Well informed
Are ice baths good for you?
Culture
An illustration of pink praying hands holding a phone and a rosary with a tiktok logo.
What the flock?
How TikTok became a religious pulpit
Puffed out
It’s spellbinding! Riveting! A triumphant tour de force!
Hammered
Why auction houses are turning to private sales
Brain fog
Have doctors been wrong about how to treat Alzheimer’s disease?
Back Story
Performing in a cinema near you: Bob Dylan and Maria Callas
Let’s Thai the knot
Fans are going crazy for Thai television shows and music
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Marianne Faithfull
“Virgin on a Pedestal”
Marianne Faithfull battled labels all her life