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Sticky tape
Milei, Modi, Trump: an anti-red-tape revolution is under way
Done right, deregulation could kick-start economic growth
Officials from USAID and WFP inspect food aid in Harare, Zimbabwe
Scorn thy neighbour
By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself
Donald Trump’s chaotic aid freeze makes his country weaker
This illustration symbolises the technological competition between China and the United States. It features elements of both nations' flags, with an upward green arrow on China's and a downward red arrow on America’s.
Seek and ye shall find
The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama
The Chinese model-maker has panicked investors. But it is good for the users of AI
An employee works inside a nuclear facility in Isfahan, Iran
Dealmaking in the Middle East
How to use “maximum pressure” to stop an Iranian bomb
The Islamic Republic is closer than ever to obtaining nukes
Members of the M23 rebel group drive through a street in Goma, Congo
Africa in peril
Rwanda does a Putin in Congo
To understand the seizure of Goma, consider a parallel with Ukraine
A lighter engraved with "TAXES US. Department of state", symbolising financial burden
Tax harmonies
Despite fears of a global tax war, Donald Trump has a chance to make peace
A global minimum tax on companies ought to be acceptable to America

Letters

On Russian speakers in Ukraine, Africa, standing ovations
Letters to the editor
Briefing

An illustration shows a carpenter, a surgeon and a business person—representing the infrastructure, health-care and finance sectors—cutting through red tape.
The war on red tape
Many governments talk about cutting regulation but few manage to
Yet radical deregulation is often a big boost to growth
A lawyer who specialises in shipping and maritime law.
Self-restraining Raj
Even in India, bureaucracy is being curtailed
Many small steps could make a big difference
Asia

Portrait of Lee Jae-myung with a background of red-and-blue circles and a map.
After the attempted coup, then what?
Who is Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s possible next president?
Khmer fugue
Is Cambodia slipping out of China’s orbit?
Unaffordable island
Why Taiwanese youth complain of becoming “housing slaves”
Banyan
The Quad finally gets serious on security
China

Chinese Communist Party members pose for photos with a sculpture of the party flag outside the party museum in Beijing
Purge, purge, pardon
China needs its frightened officials to save the economy
Drugs and dissent
The bad side-effects of China’s campaign to cut drug costs
Meaning what, exactly?
America and China are talking. But much gets lost in translation
United States

A rubbish skip full of office chairs
Executive power
Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
Aid and a bet
America’s foreign aid pause puts lives at risk
Pebble dash
Donald Trump revives ideas of a Star Wars-like missile shield
Deep-state news
Kash Patel is a crackpot
Murder mystery
An alternative theory to explain America’s murder spike in 2020
Lexington
Donald Trump’s defining decade
The Americas

Deportation flights have begun.
Latin America First
Donald Trump turns an angry gaze south
Calamity in Catatumbo
Armed groups are terrorising Colombia’s border with Venezuela
Champion decarboniser in the making?
Brazil’s ragged finances are holding back its green ambitions

Middle East & Africa

People displaced by the fighting with M23 rebels in Goma, in eastern Congo, make their way to the centre of the city
High stakes in the Great Lakes
The fall of Goma heralds more bloodshed in eastern Congo
The next steps
Ahmed al-Sharaa declares himself president of Syria
The Middle East and nuclear weapons
Iran’s alarming nuclear dash will soon test Donald Trump
Gaza’s future
Hamas talks a big game but is in chaos
Love ‘em or hate ‘em
Syria’s new rulers say they are keen to integrate foreign fighters
Europe

A border officer sleeping on the barrier with a protest in the background.
Papers please
Inside Europe, border checks are creeping back
Merz’s migration gamble
A day of drama in the Bundestag
Follow the tech
The EU is worried about sensitive exports to competitors and foes
Danger in the Donbas
Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling
Rebuilding the left
The French government’s survival is now in Socialist hands
Charlemagne
Meet Europe’s Gaullists, Atlanticists, denialists and Putinists
Britain

Early-morning vapour trails over Tower Bridge.
Take-off
Backing Heathrow expansion suggests Labour is serious about boosting growth
Published by Authority
Britain’s oldest newspaper is a treasure trove of trivia
An unacceptable toll
Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety
Lessons from Southport
Is British justice too secretive?
The new normal
Many Britons are waiting 12 hours at A&E
Students and retail
What the rise of bubble tea says about British high streets
Bagehot
The rise of the Net-Zero Dad
International

An illustration showing a couple holding a baby together. Through a window behind them a woman can be seen in a hospital bed and a doctor is closing the blinds.
Baby-making boom
As adoptions collapse, demand for international surrogacy is soaring
The Telegram
A big, beautiful Trump deal with China?
Business

Deepseek logo creating havoc amongst digital and tech symbols on a bold red background.
Bubble trouble
DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets
Flying high
DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley
Driving off a cliff
No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada
Real money
Football clubs are making more money than ever. Players not so much
Baby boom
From cribs to carriers, high-end baby products are in vogue
Bartleby
The allure of the company town
Schumpeter
What Elon Musk should learn from Larry Ellison
Finance & economics

The dome of the US Capitol crushing the world.
Beyond tariffs
Donald Trump’s economic warfare has a new front
The merge
Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster?
Bun fight
Don’t let Donald Trump see our Big Mac index
Melonibanca
Giorgia Meloni has grand banking ambitions
Putting Michel to work
Can Germany’s economy stage an unexpected recovery?
Buttonwood
Why your portfolio is less diversified than you might think
Free exchange
Tech tycoons have got the economics of AI wrong
Science & technology

Three rotated avocados made from small numbers
AI in the field
Heritable Agriculture, a Google spinout, is bringing AI to crop breeding
Culture shock
A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
What doesn’t kill you
Why carbon monoxide could appeal to the discerning doper
Well informed
Should you worry about microplastics?
Culture

An illustration of the Michelin man reclining on a couch and reading a yelp review on a smartphone. Loose pages are scattered near his feet.
Word of mouth
The Michelin Guide is no longer the only tastemaker in town
World in a dish
Tofu: never judge a food by its political reputation
Opening gambit
Can Magnus Carlsen convince people to watch chess?
Split screen
Why “Emilia Pérez” is loved by Hollywood and hated by everyone else
The bloom is off the rose
Are internet firms the problem, or are you the problem?
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Mauro Morandi seated on the beach at Budelli
One man on his island
Mauro Morandi needed to abandon consumer society

China’s lean, mean AI machine
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The dragon in the mirror
Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump
The success of cheap Chinese models threatens America’s technological lead

Project 1897
America has an imperial presidency
And in Donald Trump, an imperialist president for the first time in over a century
A container ship Gunde Maersk sits docked at the Port of Oakland in California.
Trading losses
Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth
Donald Trump’s pursuit of tariffs will make the world poorer—and America, too
illustration of a world map outlined by a single red electrical cord, with a plug at one end and a socket at the other
Power to the foreigners
To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world’s grids
Less than 3% of the world’s power is internationally traded—a huge wasted opportunity
Keir Starmer surrounded by the Eu stars
Britain and the European Union
Sir Keir Starmer should aim higher in his reset with the EU
And he needs to be clearer about what Britain wants

Letters

On deportations, alcohol, political perceptions, women in combat, Nordic business, children’s books, corporate hierarchy
Letters to the editor
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Covid-19, five years on
Peter Sands of the Global Fund on the pandemic’s positive legacies
Briefing


Uncomfortably close
China’s AI industry has almost caught up with America’s
And it is more open and more efficient, too
Asia

Kashmiri women queue up at a polling booth to cast their vote in the sixth round of polling in India's national election in Lidroo
Electoral goodies in India
Indian politicians are becoming obsessed with doling out cash
Cracking down in Uzbekistan
The fate of a ranting driver raises doubts about the “new” Uzbekistan
Banyan
How to end the nightmare of Asia’s choked roads
Aussie Aussie Aussie
An angry culture war surrounds Australia Day
Courting disaster
Taiwan’s political drama is paralysing its government
China

A man watches live coverage on a TV screen at his store of Chinese President Xi Jinping
Matters of opinion
How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party?
Not as bad as expected
The early days of the Trump administration, as viewed from China
Star signs and tarot cards
It’s a good time to be an astrologer in China
United States

US President Donald Trump signs executive orders during the inaugural parade inside Capital One Arena, in Washington, DC.
The quality of mercy
Two presidents compete over the worst abuse of the pardon power
Politics and mercy
Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th
Silk ties
Ross Ulbricht, pardoned by Donald Trump, was a pioneer of crypto-crime
The president’s phoney war
Donald Trump cries “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown
Into a scrap
To end birthright citizenship, Donald Trump misreads the constitution
Carolina scheming
An unfinished election may shape a swing state’s future
Lexington
America really could enter a golden age

The Americas

A Mexican National Guard member stands guard as migrants form a caravan.
Showdown
Donald Trump is targeting Mexico like no other country
Trudeau? Hardly knew him
The race to lead Canada’s Liberal Party hinges on handling Trump
The last round
Can Brazil’s left survive without Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?
Middle East & Africa

Palestinians newar a burnt-out vehicle after a group of settlers attacked a village in the West Bank
A terrifying knock-on effect
The Gaza ceasefire is stoking violence in the West Bank
The Middle East’s wars
Trump should try to end, not manage, the Middle East’s oldest conflicts
Turkey in Syria
How Turkey plans to expand its influence in the new Syria
The world’s first WhatsAppocracy
Government by social media in Somalia
Africa v big tech
Three big lawsuits against Meta in Kenya may have global implications
Europe

Polish soldiers in a tank participate in the Canadian Army Trophy tank competition at Adazi Military Base, Latvia
Vigour on the Vistula
How Poland emerged as a leading defence power
Death from above
Russian pilots appear to be hunting Ukrainian civilians
Forensic examination
Ukrainian scientists are studying downed Russian missiles
Spend, baby, spend
Germans are growing cold on the debt brake
The Francis and Giorgia show
The Pope and Italy’s prime minister tussle over Donald Trump
Charlemagne
Europe faces a new age of gunboat digital diplomacy
Britain

Rachel Reeves at the World Economist Forum in Davos, Switzerland
A mountain to climb
The Rachel Reeves theory of growth
Brexit at five
Britain’s government lacks a clear Europe policy
Quotient Therapeutics
What a buzzy startup reveals about Britain’s biotech sector
A very British affair
Britain’s brokers are diversifying and becoming less British
A bite of Cockney culture
London’s pie-and-mash shops are disappearing
Bagehot
What an arcane piece of aviation law says about Britain’s government
International

An illustration of a plug and a socket separated but a fence with barbed wire.
Power-sharing
Why don’t more countries import their electricity?
The Telegram
Trump unmasks American selfishness, say cynics
Business

A simple robot face with rolls of cash as eyes. The robot has a smiling mouth and a small antenna on top. The design is minimal, with black outlines on a light background.
Marginal revolution
OpenAI’s latest model will change the economics of software
A bad day for doomers
A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump’s AI priorities
Art of the deal, Chinese edition
Donald Trump once tried to ban TikTok. Now can he save it?
Generous benefits
Germans are world champions of calling in sick
Bartleby
Knowing what your colleagues earn
Schumpeter
Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy
Finance & economics

A cargo ship with containers near the pier of the seaport. Maritime navigation and shipping in the Arctic. Anadyr Sea Port, Chukotka, Far East Russia.
Breaking the ice
The Arctic: climate change’s great economic opportunity
Danger alert
China’s financial system is under brutal pressure
Buttonwood
How American bankers dodged the MAGA carnage
Yielding results
Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?
American vim
Saba Capital wages war on underperforming British investment trusts
In search of growth
European governments struggle to stop rich people from fleeing
Free exchange
Do tariffs raise inflation?
Science & technology

Cane toad in the pool.
Invasive species
Genetic engineering could help rid Australia of toxic cane toads
Snake bites
High-tech antidotes for snake bites
Donald Trump and the World Health Organisation
America’s departure from the WHO would harm everyone
Wasp evolution
Wasps stole genes from viruses
Well informed
Can you breathe stress away?
Culture

An illustration of two hands holding pencils and writing on each other's sleeves, which resemble books.
Pontificating autobiographies
Sex, drugs or chastity?
Ready to bag it?
Backpacks are, surprisingly, in vogue
Prime time
Henri Bergson was once the world’s most famous philosopher
(Don’t) name that tune
Spotify’s playlists have altered the music industry in unexpected ways
Back Story
Witty and wise, “A Real Pain” is a masterpiece in a minor key
Spies in disguise?
Now it’s all about TikTok. But Huawei led the way
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Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

David Lynch
What lies behind curtains
David Lynch mesmerised filmgoers with mystery, beauty and horror

The capitalist revolution Africa needs
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Free markets
The capitalist revolution Africa needs
The world’s poorest continent should embrace its least fashionable idea

Immigration
Donald the Deporter
Could a man who makes ugly promises of mass expulsion actually fix America’s immigration system?
Chairman of the Freedom Party of Austria (FPOe) Herbert Kickl leaves after a meeting with Austrian Federal President Van der Bellen in Vienna, Austria
Herbert Kickl and the hard right
The Putinisation of central Europe
Austria could soon get its most extreme chancellor since the 1940s
Workers supervise the nickel ore processing in a factory in Sorwako, Indonesia
From nickel to pickle
Just because Indonesia has nickel doesn’t mean it should make EVs
Economic nationalists are making a reckless bet
Marine recruits take part in a simualted combat situation in Parris Island, South Carolina
Women and the armed forces
Pete Hegseth’s culture war will weaken America’s armed forces
Donald Trump’s nominee for defence risks driving away talent
Upside down warning signs with an exclamation mark in the shape of martini glasses
Thinking about the demon drink
Health warnings about alcohol give only half the story
Enjoyment matters as well as risk

Letters

On Africa, Germany, sulphur, Biden, Jimmy Carter, machine translation, nicknames
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Russia and the West
Time is not on Russia’s side, argues Finland’s foreign minister
Briefing

Asylum-seeking migrants walk along the US-Mexico border fence near the Jacumba Hot Spring, California
Deportation fixation
How far will Donald Trump go to get rid of illegal immigrants?
It is his signature policy, but the obstacles are daunting
Asia

A worker supervises the disposal of slag from nickel ore processing in a nickel factory in Sorowako, Indonesia
Back to the future
Indonesia nearly has a monopoly on nickel. What next?
Spy games
Pakistan’s army puts a former intelligence chief on trial
Incorruptible
What a 472-year-old corpse reveals about India
Ambitious but expensive
AUKUS enters its fifth year. How is the pact faring?
What are friends for?
Joe Biden’s mixed legacy on Japan
Banyan
By resisting arrest, South Korea’s president challenges democracy
China

Workers work at a construction site in Shanghai
Debt, deficits and depressed consumers
Does China have the fiscal firepower to rescue its economy?
Hot TIP
Militant Uyghurs in Syria threaten the Chinese government
Grains for the iron rice bowl
A pay rise for government workers sparks anger and envy in China
The roof of the world shakes
A big earthquake causes destruction in Tibet
United States

The Palisades Fire ravages a neighborhood, Los Angeles.
A perfect storm
Los Angeles against the flames
Going big
America’s bet on industrial policy starts to pay off for semiconductors
Walking the line
Mike Johnson has his old job back, for now
Snakes on a list
When treating snakebites, American hospitals turn to zoos
Alcohol guidelines
Most Americans think moderate drinking is fine
Against expensive excellence
The US Army needs less good, cheaper drones to compete

The Americas

Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announces his resignation.
Crisis in Canada
Justin Trudeau steps down, leaving a wrecked party and a divided Canada
Wood wars
Canada and America have been fighting about timber for 40 years
Caught in the middle
Does made in Mexico mean made by China?
Middle East & Africa

An inside view of the empty Baabda Palace
Thirteenth time lucky?
Lebanon tries yet again to elect a new president
No easy fix
The West is making a muddle of its Syria sanctions
All talk and no truce
From inside an obliterated Gaza, gunfire not a ceasefire
Certifiably genocidal
America concludes genocide has been committed in Sudan—again
Halfway to revolution
Mozambique’s opposition leader flies home into chaos
Europe

The leader of the far-right Freedom party (FPOe) Herbert Kickl leaves after talks with Austria's President on January 6, 2025 at the presidential Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria
A Volkskanzler in the offing
Austria could soon have a first far-right leader since 1945
The true believer
Olaf Scholz still thinks he can win re-election as chancellor
Mining muddle
Europe has lots of lithium, but struggles to get it out of the ground
Remembering a dictatorship
Spain’s government marks 50 years since Franco died
Bones of contention
A dispute over old war crimes strains Polish-Ukrainian relations
Charlemagne
How extremist politics became mainstream in France
Britain

Photomontage illustration of Elon Musk, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage
Offline Keir, online Kemi
What Elon Musk’s tweets about sex abuse reveal about British politics
Driving up the price
Rolls-Royce cars push the pedal on customisation
Apple watches and wobble boards
A much-praised British scheme to help disabled workers is failing them
Conservation
Britons are keener than ever to bring back lost and rare species
End of the space race
The decline in remote working hits Britain’s housing market
Dangerous liaisons
The phenomenon of sexual strangulation in Britain
Bagehot
How means conquered ends
International

Marine recruits from Bravo Company move ammunition cans through an obstacle course during the Crucible, a grueling 54-hour field exercise, at Parris Island, S.C., USA.
The Kevlar ceiling
Women warriors and the war on woke
The Telegram
Donald Trump has a strong foreign-policy hand, but could blow it
Special report

Africa Gap
Like the jaws of the crocodile...
The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is growing
An urbanisation unlike any other
Africa is undergoing social change without economic transformation
Size matters
Africa has too many businesses, too little business
The need for “development bargains”
African elites should align themselves with their countries’ needs
Who you gonna call?
The African investment environment is at its worst in years
Closing arguments
To catch up economically, Africa must think big
Business

An illustration depicting a bold yellow lightning bolt in the centre, repeated to the left and right in vibrant green and yellow. Geometric shapes like circles, diamonds, and starbursts are scattered around.
It’s electrifying!
A new electricity supercycle is under way
Making friends
Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Trump gamble pay off?
High and dry
Alcohol-free drinks are becoming big business
Southern oscillation
America’s internet giants are being outplayed in the global south
Beyond the iPhone
Foxconn and other gadget-makers are expanding their empires
Alloys and allies
What next for US Steel?
Bartleby
The signals of workplace submissiveness
Schumpeter
Meet the ambitious wolf cubs of Wall Street
Finance & economics

The stars of the European Union flag falling down to the bottom of the flag.
Falling stars
Europe could be torn apart by new divisions
Labour the point
Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations?
Dark humour
China’s markets take a fresh beating
Buttonwood
How corporate bonds fell out of fashion
Free exchange
An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century
Science & technology

Workers harnessed unto the facade of the Museum of the Future, United Arab Emirates.
Return of the House of Wisdom
How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science
I can do it with a distributed heart
Training AI models might not need enormous data centres
Well informed
Does melatonin work for jet lag?
Culture

Little Red Riding Hood with the wolf, disguised as her grandmother. Illustration by Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), c1909.
Into the woods
Sex and Snow White: how Grimm should children’s books be?
Going soft
Millennials and Gen Z are falling hard for stuffed animals
No crime, plenty of punishment
Jimmy Lai’s trial is a headline-worthy example of injustice
Thinking outside the God complex
Are mystics kooks or valuable disrupters?
Free speech in France
Ten years after the Charlie Hebdo attack, satire is under siege
Back Story
Ovation inflation has spread from Broadway to London’s West End
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Obituary

Author Chiung Yao
Listening to the heart
Chiung Yao taught the Chinese all about romantic love

The fight over America’s economy
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The fight over America’s economy
Tech is coming to Washington. Prepare for a clash of cultures
Out of Trumpian chaos and contradiction, something good might just emerge
Estlink 2 repair work in July 2024
Flagship effort
Finland’s seizure of a tanker shows how to fight Russian sabotage
The growing threat to undersea cables demands a robust response
Tall buildings appearing between snow mountains
Northern lights
To see what European business could become, look to the Nordics
The region produces an impressive number of corporate giants
People wade through a flooded street during heavy rain in Chennai, India
Living with heat, drought and floods
Smarter incentives would help India adapt to climate change
It is the biggest test case for how hot, hard-up countries can cope
An open book with a red price tag on its pages, connected by a black string, set against a green background.
Labour of fluff
The Starmer government looks a poor guardian of England’s improving schools
It is fiddling with what works and not yet dealing with what doesn’t

Letters

On Taiwan, data in politics, Kevins, ultra-processed foods, Iran, Scotland, stockmarkets
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Briefing

A photo collage about plastic surgery boon, featuring public figures like Joe Jonas and Kim Kardashian
Nip, tuck, lift, plump
Young customers in developing countries propel a boom in plastic surgery
Falling costs and converging beauty standards spur new habits
Asia

A woman is crosses a dried up lake at Boklung near Kathiatoli in Nagaon District, Assam, India
Adapt or fry
How 1.4bn Indians are adapting to climate change
Wheels of fortune
Economic bright spots are getting harder to find in Thailand
Tourism
Why you’re not on holiday in India right now
Banyan
Another accidental aircraft shootdown is a matter of when, not if
China

Chinese President Xi Jinping attends BRICS in Kazan, Russia
The year ahead in China
Xi Jinping has much to worry about in 2025
Dam!
China approves the world’s most expensive infrastructure project
Eyes everywhere
How China turns members of its diaspora into spies
United States

The French Quarter, near Bourbon Street is blocked off late morning with a heavy police and FBI presence.
Terrorism in America
The Bourbon Street attack was part of a new pattern
Out for the count
Homelessness rises to a record level in America
The last ByteDance
Duelling arguments take shape in the TikTok-ban case
Tocqueville updated
Overall, American states are becoming more democratic
The upside of MAHA
RFK junior is half right about American health care
Above the fruited plain
Jimmy Carter reshaped his home town
The Americas

Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.
The coming coronation
Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro looks set to take the throne
Turning off the tap
Why Spanish firms have cooled towards Latin America
No Master in Disaster
Failure to prepare for climate change is costing Honduras dear

Middle East & Africa


Out with a whimper
The era of multilateral peacekeeping draws to an unhappy close
The endless war
Eastern Congo is as wretched as ever
Road from ruin
Syria’s new rulers have inherited an economic disaster
All together now?
The fate of minorities in post-Assad Syria
Europe

oil tanker Eagle S (L), next to tugboat Ukko, off Porkkalanniemi, Kirkkonummi, in the Gulf of Finland,
Arresting spectacle
Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
Closely watched trains
A Prague-Berlin train loses its old-world dining cars
Muskular intervention
Elon Musk’s praise for the far right infuriates most of Germany
Europe’s missing pieces
Serbia and its neighbours are still far from joining the EU
Charlemagne
Why Canada should join the EU
Britain

Illustration of school chairs falling off a red price tag.
Show your work
Labour lacks good ideas for improving Britain’s schools
Guess who’s back?
Inflation in Britain looks irritatingly persistent
Wet, wet, wet
Britons brace themselves for more floods
Bagehot
The four worst words in British politics
International

illustration of people dancing and celebrating under a colorful sunset, holding bottles and glasses, with scattered items like bottles and a cane on the ground.
Ageing disgracefully
Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation
Gen ZZZ
Young people are having less fun
Business

Illustration of a viking helmet with nordic bank notes pierced on its horns
Way of the Viking
Why are Nordic companies so successful?
Playing offence
Netflix has big ambitions for live sport
Follow the money
Meet Silicon Valley’s shrewdest talent spotters
Weed Inc
America’s marijuana industry is wilting
Party-state entanglement
China is catching up with America in quantum technology
Bartleby
Beware the dangers of data
Schumpeter
MAGA’s war on talent frightens CEOs—and angers Elon Musk
Finance & economics

Silhouettes of Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Scott Bessent, and Stephen Miller scaling down in decending order, alternating red and black.
Prepare for battle
Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?
Place your bets
What investors expect from President Trump
Footloose factories
China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers
Defying export fatalism
Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter
Free exchange
Would an artificial-intelligence bubble be so bad?
Science & technology

New Glenn during successful integrated vehicle hotfire.
Lift-off at last?
Can Jeff Bezos match Elon Musk in space?
Smoke and sensors
New firefighting tech is being trialled in Sardinia’s ancient forests
The long shots
Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last
Culture

This is an illustration of a wooden director's chair with a black seat and a backrest featuring the Colombian flag (yellow, blue, and red stripes). The background is a soft pink color.
Luces, cámara, acción!
The Colombian powerhouse behind some of streaming’s biggest hits
Sympathy for the devil
Why do rebels and revolutionaries love “Paradise Lost”?
Strange and familiar places
What Haruki Murakami’s fans get wrong about him
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Jimmy Carter in 1976
The pilgrim from Plains
Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents

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The World Ahead

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The World Ahead
The World Ahead 2025

Leaders

A surreal collage of political figures, AI, ancient statues, technology, and symbols of chaos and power.
The world
What to make of 2024
A turbulent year has shed fresh light on some important truths
Anti-government demonstrators protest in central Tbilisi, Georgia
Georgia on your mind
Keep the Caucasus safe from Russia
Georgia’s protesters and president need help
The rising Earth is about five degrees above the lunar horizon.
Of clouds and Crutzen
Global warming is speeding up. Another reason to think about geoengineering
Reducing sulphur emissions saves lives. But it could also be hastening planetary warming
This illustration shows a gold medal with a globe design hanging on a gray and white ribbon, set against a black background
When nations excel
The Economist’s country of the year for 2024
The winner toppled a tyrant and seems headed for something better
A dove holds money while baby birds in nests wait to be fed.
Doing good
How to give money to good causes
Let a balance of morals, liberty and efficiency be your guide
Letters

On gambling, Stack Overflow, museums, Africa, Britain, ancient Rome, book titles, Britishisms, lift humour
Letters to the editor
Asia

A hawker Centre in Singapore
Food fetish
Singapore’s government is determined to keep hawker centres alive
Systemic failure
South Korea’s president is impeached
Grandmaster flash
Dommaraju Gukesh’s win will accelerate India’s chess ambitions
China

A lone office worker walks in the Central Business District, Beijing
The difficult path ahead
China’s economy is in for another rough year
Charitable cooking
How to get a free meal in China
United States

A pill of fentanyl melting like a candle.
Through the eye of the needle
Is the opioid epidemic finally burning out?
Gas without light
The Biden administration pursued a mistaken policy on LNG exports
Progressive MAGA
Donald Trump’s DEI assessment
Lexington
How the Democrats wandered away from America’s workers
The Americas


Attitudes to democracy
Latin Americans are worryingly relaxed about authoritarianism
Canadian politics
A crushing blow for the Justin Trudeau show

Middle East & Africa

Ahmed al-Sharaa
Meet the boss
Everyone wants to meet Syria’s new rulers
Prospects of a ceasefire in Gaza
Israel and Hamas look close to some kind of deal
A deal in the Horn?
Ethiopia and Somalia claim to have settled a dangerous feud
When the oil stops
South Sudan’s economic crisis threatens its fragile peace
Europe

Bundestag - Vote of confidence
Fiery talk, low ambition
German politicians are talking tough, but offering little
Ink and blood
Ukrainian troops celebrate a grim Christmas in Kursk
French politics
France’s new prime minister faces a looming mess
How to beat protesters
Police brutality is not stopping Georgia’s protests
Charlemagne
We need to talk about Europe’s Kevins
Britain

F-35B re-fuel prior to launch. RFA Tidespring in the background during sunset.
Here we go again
Britain prepares for its third defence review in four years
Huel tide
Why meal-replacement drinks are shaking up the British lunch
Marley’s ghost
How to get money from Ebenezer Scrooge
Point of slow return
Britain’s Labour government is keen on deporting illegal migrants
Bagehot
The eternal Bossman
Christmas Specials

Paul Salopek taking a break in Japan
Around the world in 50m paces
A journalist retraces humanity’s journey out of Africa—on foot
Mammon and merriment
How much happiness does money buy?
The tadpole that conquered the world
How the axolotl rose from obscurity to global stardom
Annals of American populism
A Bible-bashing, gun-toting governor holds lessons for today
Batswomen v bigots
The incredible story of Afghanistan's exiled women’s cricket team
Life, the universe and everything
A chart that shows everything that has ever existed
Boy scouts with attitude
Inside the RSS, the world’s most powerful volunteer group
Carnal knowledge
How better data could lead to better sex
The titans of tuna
A day in the life of Toyosu, the world’s greatest fish market
How good are good Samaritans?
When doing the right thing goes wrong
The afterlife of aeroplanes
How retired aircraft find a second act
The megapreacher Putin hates
How a Nigerian built one of Europe’s largest churches in…Ukraine
The first age of renewables
How premodern energy shaped Britain
The Ivy League rat race
Finance, consulting and tech are gobbling up top students
The titanic Triassic
Of all the geological periods, the Triassic was the most fabulous
Really cool jobs
The harsh economics of the Arctic
Chinese calligraphy
What a fourth-century drinking game tells you about contemporary China
The Japanese art of child-rearing
Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?
Bakersfield blues
The beginning of the end for oil in California
Tales of Odessa
Cancel culture in Ukraine
Consider the monster
What a 70-year-old firebreathing lizard reveals about humanity
Home for the holidays
A network of volunteers is rescuing dogs and cats by bringing them north
International


Air cower
Is the age of American air superiority coming to an end?
The Telegram
Why warriors should welcome laws of war
Business

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Luxed out
Why Louis Vuitton is struggling but Hermès is not
Labour under false pretences
Workers love Donald Trump. Unions should fear him
Toying with new ideas
Can Lego remain the world’s coolest toymaker?
Honda’s accord
A tie-up between Honda and Nissan will not fix their problems
Bartleby
The business of nicknames
Schumpeter
Meet the most ruthless CEO in the trillion-dollar tech club
Finance & economics


Staying power
Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia
The other war’s winners and losers
Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order
GiveSmart
The search for the world’s most efficient charities
Nuts in Brazil
Why Brazil’s currency is plunging
Free exchange
Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordable
Science & technology

Sun glint on the Caspian Sea.
2023, WTF?
Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why
Hot air
Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all
Clear and present danger
Giving children the wrong (or not enough) toys may doom a society
Culture

The image shows a gift wrapped in silver ribbon with a blue star of David bow in the center. A blank gift tag is attached to the bow.
Festival of lights, stars and stripes
There is more to Hanukkah gifts than meets the eye
The snowball effect
Christmas films are cheesy, mindless and widely loved. Why?
Back Story
“Babygirl” and the trouble with equality
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Brother Harold Palmer
The work of prayer
Brother Harold Palmer lived alone in the wilds by choice

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The end of the house of Assad
How the new Syria might succeed or fail
Much will go wrong. But for now, celebrate a tyrant’s fall
A cyclist passes a painting on a shutter in a historical neighborhood in Seville, Spain
Spanish lessons
What Spain can teach the rest of Europe
Our number-crunching suggests it was the best-performing rich economy in 2024
A red arrow with circuits rises from gray clouds toward a golden coin, symbolizing crypto growth.
Artificial exuberance
America’s searing market rally brings new risks
Financial innovation is just as much to blame as the technological sort
This illustration shows a hand in a suit giving money (a green bill) to several raised hands reaching for it, symbolizing financial aid or distribution.
Abandonment anxiety
Multilateral institutions are turning away from the poorest countries
Even bail-outs are getting expensive
Person sweating after looking at reflection in mirror and seeing a neanderthal
Brain drain
Can you read as well as a ten-year-old?
Adults in rich countries are less literate than they were a decade ago. That requires attention

Letters

On nuclear weapons, Jordan Peterson, credit cards, John D. Rockefeller, our cover, behaving in lifts
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Holding the line
South Korea’s crisis highlights both fragility and resilience, writes Wi Sung-lac
Briefing

Top rebel commander Abu Mohammed al-Golani speaks to a crowd at Ummayad Mosque in Damascus
After Assad
Syria has exchanged a vile dictator for an uncertain future
It is not clear how stable or how benign the new regime will be
The torn down statue of former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad.
An unexpected juncture
The Assad regime’s fall voids many of the Middle East’s old certainties
What if Syria abandoned its hostility to the West and stopped menacing Israel?
Asia

Thousands take part in a rally near the National Assembly Building to protest against South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol, as local prosecution investigates Yoon under treason charges, in Seoul, South Korea.
The coup that crashed
South Korea’s unrepentant president is on the brink
Miracle or mirage?
Bangladesh’s economic progress may have been hyped
Banyan
India wields cricket as a geopolitical tool against Pakistan
Rubbish story
How to clean up India’s filthy cities
China

An illustration of a black dragon wearing a red hat with white writing on the front against a yellow background.
China and America
MAGA with Chinese characteristics
Intruder alert!
Chinese hackers are deep inside America’s telecoms networks
Language lessons
Why China is losing interest in English
Too much drama
China cracks down on Karate-chopping cleaning ladies
United States

Suspect Luigi Mangione is taken into the Blair County Courthouse on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (Benja
Message in a bullet
Luigi Mangione’s manifesto reveals his hatred of insurance companies
Reading, Writing and Wrestling
Donald Trump threatened to smackdown the education department
Tort report
America’s best-known practitioner of youth gender medicine is being sued
The district attorney’s downfall
The Young Thug trial could be Fani Willis’s last big act
Lexington
Trump for Dummies

The Americas

Soybean meal in a warehouse.
European (g)ratification
Can an agreement with the EU resurrect Mercosur?
Unmasked
Nicaragua’s ruling couple tighten their grip
Energy (in)security
The Caribbean struggles to break its dependence on fossil fuels
Middle East & Africa

Protest against the election result in Maputo
Tremors of earthquakes to come
Protests have shut down Mozambique
Getting away with murder
Kenyan women are fed up with rampant sexual violence
Back in the dock
Binyamin Netanyahu is in court again in Israel
Playing on
Sudan’s football team wants to reach the World Cup
Europe

Spain, Palma: People watch the Christmas lights in the city center of Palma on Mallorca
La excepción
Spain shows Europe how to keep up with America’s economy
Not so fast
Syrian refugees in Europe are not about to flock home
Why buy the cow
The Polish restaurants that dare to be dairy
Uncertain reaction
Amid Russian bombing, Ukraine is planning more nuclear reactors
Cancel that
Why Romania cancelled a pro-Russian presidential candidate
Charlemagne
Europeans are hoping they can buy more guns but keep their butter
Britain

Cars and lorries stuck on A1 looking northbound between Morpeth and Alnwick.
Fixing the foundations
Britain’s government has only half a plan to improve infrastructure
A clamour for clans
A search for roots is behind a surge in Scottish tourism
Peer pressure
Britain’s House of Lords purges itself
The foreign-aid fiddle
Britain’s aid budget is less generous than it looks
A novel award
And the prize for the oddest book title goes to…
An energy unicorn
The battles of Greg Jackson, Britain’s clean-energy disrupter
Bagehot
British politics enters the “death zone”
International

Cows
Bridging the dairy divide
What has four stomachs and could change the world?
The Telegram
The Art of the Deal: global edition
Business


Prosperity uncommon
From Apple to Starbucks, Western firms’ China dreams are dying
Add agencies
Farewell, Don Draper: AI is coming for advertising
All-In on Donald Trump
The PayPal Mafia is taking over America’s government
Trustbusting transformed
What Trump’s new antitrust enforcers mean for business
Food fight
Why judges were wrong to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger
The next big thing
What do the gods of generative AI have in store for 2025?
Bartleby
The employee awards for 2024
Schumpeter
Tesla, Intel and the fecklessness of corporate boards
Finance & economics

Stacks of gold, silver and bronze coins that look like a sports podium
Top of the charts
Which economy did best in 2024?
Monetary kombat
The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation
Buttonwood
Bitcoin is up by 138% this year. It is a nonsense-free rally
Dream, baby, dream
How much oil can Trump pump?
Stretched thin
The World Bank is struggling to serve all 78 poor countries
Remedial classes required
Are adults forgetting how to read?
Free exchange
What a censored speech says about China’s economy
Science & technology

llustration showing two human profiles facing each other, connected by beams of light and shapes, representing the translation process
The Babel wish
Machine translation is almost a solved problem
Assistive intelligence
AI can bring back a person’s own voice
Vexing visits
Carbon emissions from tourism are rising disproportionately fast
Mystery story
Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters
A thousand sails
Why China is building a Starlink system of its own
Culture

An open book with some digital display on each page
Full of sound and fury
The novel was a dominant art form last century
From the shelf to the couch
Does great literature translate into great television?
Twenty-sided dicing with death
How did “Dungeons & Dragons” win?
In tune with the times
The Economist’s pick of the best albums of 2024
The future of humanity
Was Henry Kissinger an AI “doomer”?
Singing from the same hymn sheet
The unholy alliance of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains

Islamist-led Syrian rebel fighters shoot in the air in the early hours of December 8, 2024, after taking over the central city of Homs overnight.
The Economist explains
Who are the main rebel groups in Syria?
Obituary

Shalom Nagar
The hangman’s tale
Shalom Nagar was picked by lottery to kill Adolf Eichmann

What Javier Milei can teach Donald Trump
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The weekly cartoon
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The World Ahead

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The World Ahead
The World Ahead 2025

Leaders

Black and white photograph of Javier Milei
Lessons from a surprising experiment
Javier Milei: “My contempt for the state is infinite”
Argentina’s president is idolised by the Trumpian right. They should get to know him better

The least bad deal for Ukraine
How to make a success of peace talks with Vladimir Putin
The key is robust security guarantees for Ukrainians
A man waves the Lebanese flag from a car as displaced people return home, in Sidon, Lebanon on November 27th 2024
Ceasefire at last
Peace in Lebanon is just a start
Donald Trump must build on Joe Biden’s belated success
Trucks wait in a queue to cross to the US next to the border wall at the Otay commercial crossing port in Tijuana, Baja California state, Mexico on November 26th 2024
Shots fired
Tariff threats will do harm, even if Donald Trump does not impose them
The risk of a trade war is uncomfortably high
This illustration shows an open book with a yellow background. The left page has a green leaf, a bold "n," text, and a declining graph. Small figures on the right turn a blank page, one holding a large yellow pen.
Out of juice
Lessons from the failure of Northvolt
Governments blew billions on a battery champion. Time to welcome foreign investors instead
Letters

On assisted dying, the Central African Republic, airships
Letters to the editor
By Invitation

An illustration of Julius Maada, Lazarus Chakwera and Andry Rajoelina.
International aid
Three presidents on the partnerships that can at last transform Africa
The Palestinian question
A broader peace is within Israel’s grasp, say Tamir Pardo and Nimrod Novik
Briefing

View of the snow-covered Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, Kyiv, Ukraine
Inaugural call
How will Donald Trump handle the war in Ukraine?
And how will Ukraine, Russia and Europe respond?

All disquiet on the home front
The war in Ukraine is straining Russia’s economy and society
Despite advances on the battlefield, pressure is growing

Titan targeted
The Adani bribery case could upend Indian business and politics
The allegations against the corporate champion may end up being resolved diplomatically rather than in court
Asia

A collage illustration of Nitin Gadkari with his face repeated three times, the Secretariat Building in new Delhi and a road with cars on it leading up to the building. There are green and orange shapes in the background.
The roads to the top
Meet the outspoken maverick who could lead India
Hands on
Fathers are doing more child care in East Asia
Bureaucrats, not bridge-builders
Is India’s education system the root of its problems?
Undulating ungulates
Ice Age antelopes surge back from the brink of extinction
Banyan
Indonesia’s Prabowo is desperate to impress Trump and Xi
China

Police officers and a police dog are on guard around the Japanese school in Shenzhen, Chin
Getting revenge on society
China suffers eruptions from its simmering discontents
Exercises in fertility
China’s government is badgering women to have babies
GLP-1s and China
Wegovy hits the People’s Republic, at last

United States

Gavin Newsom speaks to the press.
The resistance, part two
Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump’s return
Constraints on Tariff Man
Does Donald Trump have unlimited authority to impose tariffs?
Politics and justice
As Jack Smith exits, Donald Trump’s allies hint at retribution
Jackson drama
An FBI sting operation catches Jackson’s mayor taking big bribes
Looking for a new Illinois
America’s rural-urban divide nurtures wannabe state-splitters
The spy who purged me
Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks
The Americas


One year of anarcho-capitalism
Javier Milei, free-market revolutionary
The limits of stability
Is Uruguay too stable for its own good?
Trade in North America
Mexico and Canada brace for Donald Trump’s tariff thrashing
The noose tightens
Bolsonaro’s bid to regain Brazil’s presidency may end in prison
Middle East & Africa

A man inspects the damage at the site of an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted the Shayyah neighborhood in Beirut's southern suburbs on November 26, 2024
A ceasefire in the Middle East
Israel and Hizbullah strike a fragile deal to end their war
Massad Boulos
The Lebanese-American businessman in Donald Trump’s inner circle
America in Africa
America under Joe Biden plays the pragmatist in Africa
Surviving in Africa
New cures for Africa’s most gruesome diseases
Not just a warehouse
Nigeria seeks to restore pride in its artefacts, ancient and modern
Europe

Donald Trump shakes hands with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte as they meet in Palm Beach, Florida, United States, November 22nd 2024
America and NATO
The maths of Europe’s military black hole
An assault on Zaporizhia looms
Ukraine’s warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south
Double trouble
Marine Le Pen spooks the bond markets
Charlemagne
Ursula von der Leyen has a new doctrine for handling the hard right
Britain

People climbing, falling, being chosen, or receiving help; arrows show progress or setbacks.
The score for talent
How the best British employers find and promote their staff
The British opportunity index
The best British companies to work for to get ahead
Road rage
Can potholes fuel populism?
A British national champion
Adele is taking a break from music. Can anybody replace her?
Sexual courting
Britain’s Supreme Court considers what a woman is
Rathlin Island
A Northern Irish experiment in recycling
Securo-what now?
The slow death of a Labour buzzword
Bagehot
Are British voters as clueless as Labour’s intelligentsia thinks?
International

Special Investigation Police, conducting a citywide anti-gang operation, raid a house in the Barrio Abajo district where gang members are believed to be residing
Gangsters’ paradise
The world is losing the fight against international gangs
The Telegram
“Tariffers” v “traders”: the new contest for Donald Trump’s ear
Business

The front of a car with its logo. Instead of being a car logo, it is a representation of the European flag, with the stars falling.
Breaking down
Will the trouble ever end for Volkswagen and its rivals?
Unplugged
After Northvolt’s failure, who will make Europe’s EV batteries?
Cover artists
Audiobooks are booming, thanks to streaming subscriptions
What’s in store
TikTok wants Western consumers to shop like the Chinese
Tycoons in a knife fight
Elon Musk’s xAI goes after OpenAI
Fantastic but not plastic
Could seaweed replace plastic packaging?
Bartleby
On stupid rules and quick wins
Schumpeter
Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?
Finance & economics

Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Traverse City, Michigan, United States on October 25th 2024
First shot
Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
The price of patriotism
American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits
Frothy holidays
Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
To the hilt
How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
Looking peaky
Hong Kong’s property slump may be terminal
Buttonwood
The great-man theory of Wall Street
Free exchange
Why Black Friday sales grow more annoying every year
Science & technology

A bowl of Froot Loops cereal.
Nutrition
Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
Large behaviour models
Robots can learn new actions faster thanks to AI techniques
Fellow feelings
Elon Musk is causing problems for the Royal Society
Magic money trees
Deforestation is costing Brazilian farmers millions
Culture

Blue books forming a winner rosette on a red background
Treat your shelf
The best books of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Angela’s ashes
Germany’s former chancellor sets out to restore her reputation
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Celeste Caeiro at age 90 holds a bouquet of carnations during a military parade to celebrate the Carnation Revolution's 50th anniversary in Lisbon, Portugal on April 25th 2024
Our Lady of the Carnations
Celeste Caeiro’s small gesture named a revolution

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On another planet
The opportunities—and dangers—for Trump’s disrupter-in-chief
Elon Musk is given the ultimate target: America’s government

It’s time
Why British MPs should vote for assisted dying
A long-awaited liberal reform is in jeopardy
Friedrich Merz of the Christian Democratic Union party gives a statement at the Bundestag in Berlin, Germany, November 12th 2024
Act now, Mr Merz
Germany cannot afford to wait to relax its debt brake
It should move before the election
This illustration shows a graduation cap (mortarboard) with a small pile of coins inside its circular top. The background is green, and the cap's tassel is yellow.
Diminishing returns
Too many master’s courses are expensive and flaky
Governments should help postgraduates get a better deal
A group of protesters burn pictures Donald Trump and Joe Biden in 2020
Danger and deals in the Middle East
From Nixon to China, to Trump to Tehran
Iran is weak. For America’s next president that creates an opportunity

Letters

On ADHD, America’s election, Antarctica, canals, difficulties, Quincy Jones, Justin Trudeau
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Britain’s end-of-life debate
My assisted-dying bill safely solves a grave injustice, says Kim Leadbeater
Britain’s end-of-life debate
Assisted-dying advocates’ claims of freedom have it backward, says Danny Kruger
Briefing

A photo illustration of Donald Trump and Elon Musk
The first buddy
Elon Musk and Donald Trump seem besotted. Where is their bromance headed?
Past precedent is not encouraging
Elon Musk raises his arms to supporters at a rally in Madison Square Garden, New York
Poster boy
Elon Musk’s transformation, in his own words
Our analysis of 38,000 posts on X reveal a changed man
Asia

An illustration of silhouetted figures walking up stairs and reaching a plateau at the top.
Middle-class malaise
The surprising stagnation of Asia’s middle classes
Women in the workforce
The mystery of India’s female labour-force participation rate
A fight over rights
Racial tensions boil over in New Zealand
Extra baggage
Why is it so hard for Indians to get a visa?
Water woes
The Caspian Sea is shrinking rapidly
Banyan
Once a free-market pioneer, Sri Lanka takes a leap to the left
China

A little black figure struggles to open a door in the back of Xi Jinping's head.
The Sino-American rivalry
Helping America’s hawks get inside the head of Xi Jinping
A hill of beans
Trump, trade and feeding China’s pigs
Human rights in China
Snuffing out the flame of freedom in Hong Kong
United States

A 2024 balloon can be seen at an empty County Democrats Election Night Watch Party.
Donkey Rashomon
Democrats are still processing their defeat
Farewell to the five queens
Los Angeles decides it is sick of scandal
Stop, start
Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. Maybe
Deporting the suits
What will Donald Trump do about legal immigration?
Capitol offences
Will Donald Trump now pardon the January 6th rioters?
Fries with that
How gaga is MAHA?
Lexington
How Donald Trump could win the future

The Americas

People hold Brazilian and Chinese flags.
A match made in the Middle Kingdom
Brazil courts China as its Musk feud erupts again
Institutional failure
Parlacen, a bizarre parliament, is a refuge for bent politicians
Operation Holy Salmon
The mafia’s latest bonanza: salmon heists
Middle East & Africa

A protester holds a poster depicting former U.S. President Donald Trump, shown in a defiant pose, during a rally in Tehran, Iran, on November 3, 2024.
America and the Middle East
Get ready for “Maximum Pressure 2.0” on Iran
More chaos in Gaza
Israel’s hardliners want no one else to control Gaza
Sudan’s civil war
A genocidal militia’s quest for legitimacy
The non-appliance of science
Why GM crops aren’t feeding Africa
Europe

The logo of a rusty Volkswagen VW T1
The Germans don’t do it better
Once dominant, Germany is now desperate
The struggle with Russia
Ukraine’s secret army in France
Attack ’em
Ukraine can, at last, use its Western missiles inside Russia
Charlemagne
A rise in antisemitism puts Europe’s liberal values to the test
Britain

A nurse attending to a pateient behind curtains, the light coming through the blinds
The Victorian example
Where British MPs should look before the vote on assisted dying
False dilemma
How to fix palliative care in Britain
Asylum-seekers
Britain’s new government may cut the number of Channel crossings
Megafund pool party
Britain’s government wants bigger pension funds
Sloedown
The story of Britain’s “ginaissance”
Criminal justice
A sticking-plaster policy for Britain’s strained courts
Bagehot
Assisted dying and the two concepts of liberty
International


University in America and Britain
Is your master’s degree useless?
The Telegram
The perils of appeasing a warlike Russia
Business

A photo illustration dipicting Chinese flag is hidden behind the white ripped paper.
A corporate identity crisis
How Chinese is Shein?
All’s well that’s Blackwell
Nvidia’s boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall
Death by LLM
What ChatGPT’s corporate victims have in common
Breakout
Donald Trump’s victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies
Indian business
Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America
Flying low
Spirit’s woes reveal the dismal state of America’s budget airlines
Bartleby
How to behave in lifts: an office guide
Schumpeter
Does Dallas offer a vision of Trumpian America?
Finance & economics

Elon Musk speaks during a town hall event in support of Donald Trump at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Pennsylvania, United States on October 18th 2024
Slash and burn
How to make Elon Musk’s budget-slashing dreams come true
Europe’s revenge
Donald Trump’s gas war is about to begin
Lying flat
Is China really a nation of slackers?
Buttonwood
Should investors just give up on stocks outside America?
The 21% war
Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
Dotcom dreaming
Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?
Free exchange
What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
Science & technology

The human small intestine.
The Human Cell Atlas
Scientists are building a catalogue of every type of cell in our bodies
Fit to print
Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
Funny business
The two types of human laugh
Moving the needle
How squid could help people get over their needle phobia
Culture

Jordan Peterson dressed as a vicar
Love him or loathe him?
The cult of Jordan Peterson
Dove or raven?
Woodrow Wilson’s reputation continues to decline
In earshot
The best podcasts of 2024, as picked by The Economist
Valley and the gods
Tech and religion are very much alike
Sing it from the rooftops
The New York-London arbitrage for musicals
It’s a whole new ball game
Canadian v American football: can you catch the difference?
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Frank Auerbach in his studio
Layering up, scraping off
Frank Auerbach aimed only at one memorable image

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America and the world
What’s about to hit the world economy?
Trumponomics tees off
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) speaks on stage.
The loyalty test
Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be attorney-general is an ill omen
It shows how far Donald Trump is willing to go to dominate the machinery of government
General manager of Dunhuang Shouhang Energy Saving New Energy Co. Liu Fuguo speaks to reporters next to heliostat mirrors, at the site of Shouhang 100MW Tower Solar Thermal Power Generation Project in Gansu province, China, October 16th 2024
The long haul
Everything about climate change may seem grim. It isn’t
The fight for a stable climate will be fought using technology
Unfinished apartment buildings at Royals Garden, a housing development in Shanghai
Not too early to say
China should not wait to stimulate its economy
It is heading into a trade war
Muhammad Yunus at the COP29 Climate Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, November 13th 2024
Caretaker, take care
After the revolution, Bangladesh is stable. For the moment
Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader, needs to set a date for elections
A red eagle, it's pupil has been replaced by a yellow earth
America’s lame-duck period
How to avoid global chaos in the next ten weeks
Risks abound in the limbo between now and Donald Trump’s swearing-in

Letters

On Donald Trump, obesity drugs, Ethiopia, grief, our Telegram column
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Ending it in one day?
War in Ukraine may only intensify under Trump, says Dmytro Kuleba
Briefing

An illustration showing the transition from fossil fuels to clean energy and the costs associated with it.
Carbon bargain
The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think
Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances
Asia

A collage illustration of Muhammad Yunus in the centre with Begum Khaleda Zia on the left and Shafiqur Rahman on the right. Red dots and cutout green shapes from the Bangladesh flag are scattered in the background.
Bangladesh
2024’s biggest revolution may yet devour its children
No dough
South Australia tries to ban political donations
A shot in the dark
Can the Philippines keep Donald Trump on its side?
Wheels and fortune
India is turning into an SUV country
Banyan
How South-East Asia can weather the Trump trade typhoon
China

Photovoltaic panels at a photovoltaic power station in Yinchuan, China
The COP29 conference
Mega-polluter China believes it is a climate saviour
Loss and control
A spate of horrific car-rammings shakes China
Hidden debts, crouching rulers
China’s stimulus falls short, as a showdown with Trump looms
Going for grub
China’s greatest dumpling run
United States

A duplicated photo of Donald Trump pointing at the camera with red gradients.
They’re hired
What Trump’s picks suggest about how his presidency will go
Thune’s tune
Senate Republicans flex their independence
Crusader in the Pentagon
The man picked as defence secretary wants to purge the Pentagon
National security
Mike Waltz wants America to focus on the threat from China
The brown revolution
Climate change and the next administration
Give him your tired, your poor
Back to the 1850s
Lexington
The promise Donald Trump is sure to keep

The Americas

The Canadian Armed Forces Parachute Team, the SkyHawks.
Canada’s military
Justin Trudeau’s dodgy defence promise
From underworld to white collar
Brazil’s gangsters have been getting into politics
Instability in Haiti
Haiti has lost its prime minister. Gangs aren’t going anywhere
Middle East & Africa

Construction site in Luanda Angola
Flying blind
To get more capital, Africa needs more data
The anxiety of hope
The world’s next country?
Itinerant Islamists
Quitting Qatar is the least of Hamas’s problems
Iraq, Iran and Israel
Iraq could be the Middle East’s next battleground
Deepening divides
The world’s most unlikely safe haven
Europe

German Chancellor Scholz addresses parliament in Berlin
Kanzlerdämmerung
The sun begins to set on Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship
Russian ruins
Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell
Dividing dodgy spoils
The war in Ukraine has rattled both sides of Cyprus
An imploding star
Italy’s oddest political party is splitting
Sexy at 60
How older French women are redefining the aesthetics of ageing
Charlemagne
Elon Musk threatens to deepen the rift between Europe and America
Britain

Sheep in pasture, with 42m-long-bladed wind turbines behind them.
We are the turbine-builders
How to frame the argument over clean power
Sins and forgiveness
The archbishop and the abuser
Lost connection
The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service
The stressed is Vistry
Britain’s star builder hits trouble
Brideshead, borrowed
Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
Goal setting
Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?
Bagehot
Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
International

Donald Trump and Joe Biden shaking hands in the Oval Office of the White House
From Biden-world to Trump-world
The danger zone between two presidents
Dethroning fossil fuels
King coal is dirty, dangerous—and far from dead
The Telegram
How to avoid Oval Office humiliation
Business

A hand throwinf the MAGA hat that cuts through the tax increase on corporations.
Levy breaks
America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed
Return of the Wundertüte
Donald Trump is bad news for German business
Semiconductors
TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope
Trainer wars
Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes
A postcard from Baku
Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation
A sticky situation
Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
Bartleby
The magic and the minefield of confidence
Schumpeter
Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump
Finance & economics

A globe with the American continent looming over another globe of the rest of the world
America v the world
China, Europe, Mexico: the biggest losers from Trumponomics
Money mantras
What does America’s next treasury secretary believe?
Buttonwood
Why financial markets are so oddly calm
Bitcoin flip
Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Reality cheque
How to pay for the poor world to go green
Free exchange
Economists need new indicators of economic misery
Science & technology

Display of an image of the world on the Hyperwall at the NASA Ames Research Center
Future imperfect
Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
Goldbugs at work
There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps
Shuttle shock
Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena
Yesterday’s fish
Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
Culture

Paul Mescal plays Lucius in "Gladiator II"
Ancient Rome on screen
What does “Gladiator II” get wrong?
The night that nearly broke Paris
The long shadow of the Paris terrorist attacks of 2015
You burn something new every day
“Energy transition” has been profoundly misunderstood
Back Story
In “Anora”, strippers and Russian heavies are not what you expect
Not the same old stories
The best films of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Baltazar Ushca extracts ice from the slopes of the Chimborazo volcano, in Chimborazo province, Ecuador on November 16th 2007
Three donkey-loads of ice
Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week

The world this week

Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


The presidential election
Welcome to Trump’s world
His sweeping victory will shake up everything

Adapting to Trump’s world
Europe needs to wake up and look after itself
The biggest obstacle is Germany, which now urgently needs elections

Bombay bulls
How to protect India’s shareholder capitalism from itself
A surge in equity investment is threatened by risky derivatives trading

Out in the open
Why open-source AI models are good for the world
Their critics dwell on the dangers and underestimate the benefits

New diets, old problems
A scourge that damages babies’ brains is coming back
Yet iodine deficiency is startlingly easy to prevent

Letters

On compulsory voting, Angela Merkel, terrorism, maths, British citizenship, S&M
Letters to the editor
Briefing


Comeback king
Donald Trump’s victory was resounding. His second term will be, too
Congress is not likely to be much of a constraint on him
Asia


Indonesia’s foreign policy
Will Prabowo Subianto cosy up to Donald Trump or to China?
Pariah politics
Myanmar’s junta chief finally goes to China
A burning issue
South-East Asian Muslims are incensed by the war in Gaza
Crime and punishment
Why suspects in Japan are almost never acquitted
Banyan
What Narendra Modi’s third term may look like
China


Challenges and opportunities
Is the return of Donald Trump China’s dream or nightmare?
Eagle v Dragon
In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America
China’s economy
Chinese netizens wonder if their economy is in “garbage time”
United States


Law and peace
What a Republican trifecta will mean for governing
MAHA man
What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?
State of the states
Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policy
Governors and state legislatures
Democrats suffer in statehouse races, too
Campaign calculus: fool me thrice
Opinion polls underestimated Donald Trump again
Presidential immunity
Donald Trump also won a reprieve from justice
MAGA justice
Donald Trump’s potential SCOTUS picks
Lexington
Democrats need to understand: Americans think they’re worse
Middle East & Africa


Direction unknown
Will Donald Trump “stop the wars” in the Middle East?
Israeli politics
Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister
The war in Lebanon
Israel’s war aims in Lebanon are expanding
Democratic norms
What the world can learn from Botswana
One country, two kinds of family
Why the fertility gap between north and south Nigeria matters
Missing millions
Congo-Brazzaville has lost a big chunk of its oil revenue

The Americas


The first call
Donald Trump is poised to smash Mexico with tariffs
Mexican politics
Mexico is edging closer and closer to one-party rule
Losing friends and alienating people
BRICS isn’t exactly picky, but has just rejected Venezuela
Europe


Betrayal or bargain?
Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump’s victory
Combat and casualties
Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine’s battlefield hospitals
The exploding traffic light
Germany’s fractious coalition falls apart—and how!
After the waters fell
Spain’s flood poses far-reaching political questions
Charlemagne
A flailing economy has left the EU exposed to Trumpian outbursts
Britain


Becoming more European
Two groups are least happy about Labour’s budget
Gilt vigilantes
Labour’s budget has given the bond market indigestion
The Conservatives
Kemi Badenoch, the Tories’ new leader, plans war on the “blob”
Valuable lessons
Higher fees won’t help Britain’s beleaguered universities much
Poor law
The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habit
Past tense
What does it mean to wear a poppy today?
Bagehot
Farmer fight: Jeremy Clarkson versus Roald Dahl
International


Global disorder
America’s allies brace for brinkmanship, deals—and betrayal
The Telegram
The world faces its worst trade wars since 1930s
Business


CEOs in Trumpland (the sequel)
How will business deal with Donald Trump this time?
A nasty case of pilotitis
Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI
Pipe dreams
Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom
Harmony and enmity
Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android
Back on the bike
India’s startup scene is picking up speed again
Bartleby
Why being wrong is good for you
Schumpeter
What would Elon Musk do in government?
Finance & economics


Taxes down, walls up
The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
The wisdom of the crowd
What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
Mutual benefit
India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
The ships are down
Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Buttonwood
Barbarians on the porch
Free exchange
Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations
Science & technology


Open-minded
A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI
Crash course
China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
Out for blood
How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy
Worth its salt
As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback
Culture


Crowning achievements
The Economist’s selection of the best TV of 2024
The riled west
Montanans are ready for “Yellowstone” to end
The other Iran hostage crisis
The six-day siege that put terror on television
Earth father
Can a biography capture the complexity of a long life?
Sisterly abuse
Exposing the horrors of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries
Nation chief
Fiction captures the forces that led to Brexit
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The Prince of Bel-Air
Quincy Jones ruled popular music for half a century

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Politics
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The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover
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Our election endorsement
A second Trump term comes with unacceptable risks
If The Economist had a vote, we would cast it for Kamala Harris

Mission unaccomplished
The British budget combines large numbers and a narrow vision
A bigger state but an irrational way to fund it

A very cold war
How to avoid anarchy in Antarctica
All that stands between the status quo and chaos is a fragile treaty

Capital control
Index funds want to continue being treated as “passive” investors
They should act like them, then

Think outside the box
ADHD should not be treated as a disorder
Adapting schools and workplaces for it can help far more

Letters

On the OECD and climate, violence against women, the NHS, AI and nuclear power, Britishisms
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Middle out, not trickle-down
Kamala Harris wants to invest and cut the cost of living, says Bharat Ramamurti
America’s election integrity
Respect election officials to preserve democracy, says an Arizona county supervisor
Briefing


A sting in the tail risks
How bad could a second Trump presidency get?
The damage to America’s economy, institutions and the world would be huge
Essay


Anti-politics is eating the West
When politics is about hating the other side, democracy suffers
Asia


Neighbourhood strife
North Korea’s fanatical regime just got scarier
Prayer and profit
India’s startups pray for a Hindu super-app
Hard ball
Australia is trying to ruck China in Papua New Guinea
Cut down to size
Pakistan’s politicians seize control of the judiciary
Japan shakes
Voters deliver a historic rebuke to Japan’s ruling coalition
Banyan
Yes sir: a bizarre initiation ritual for Indonesia’s cabinet
China


An insurance policy against MAGA
Why China may be saving its bazooka for Donald Trump
A discomforting deployment
North Korea’s aid to Russia raises difficult questions in China
Frightened by Halloween
China rounds up Batman, Donald Trump and the Buddha
Readers in exile
A new intellectual hub for Chinese émigrés in Washington

United States


Take this into a count
What to watch for on election night, and beyond
Young men on couches
Will Donald Trump’s bros turn out?
Campaign calculus: miss calculation
How wrong could America’s pollsters be?
Osborn again
Could a mechanic in Nebraska determine control of the Senate?
Bringing down the House
The fight to win the most unruly institution in Washington
Lexington
This campaign is also demonstrating America’s democratic vitality
Middle East & Africa


The aftermath of the Israeli strikes
Iran needs a new national-security strategy
Diminished defences
Israel is keeping open the nuclear option
The not-quite-peace deal
Another African war looms
The Americas


US elections and Mexico
Triple trouble awaits Mexico if Donald Trump wins
Climate justice
Justin Trudeau is paying for solar panels in the cold, dark Arctic
Outshining Odysseus
Why Uruguayans rejected a government splurge
Europe


Georgia’s election
Georgia’s ruling party crushes the country’s European dream
Survival mode
Ukraine is now struggling to cling on, not to win
Spanish floods
Floods in Spain cause death and devastation
The long road to peace
Turkey could soon strike a historic peace deal with the Kurds
Free roaming
The immigrants Europe quietly wants more of
Charlemagne
The power and limits of Emmanuel Macron’s diplomatic charm
Britain


The tax lever
Britain’s budget is heavy on spending but light on reform
Grievance politics
The extreme right after the riots in Britain
Demography
Britain’s birth rate has crashed. It is likely to recover
Life on the water
A growing number of Britons live on canal boats
Money, the media and power
Meet one of Britain’s most influential, least understood people
Bagehot
Britain’s Labour Party has forgotten how to be nice
International


Diplomacy on ice
Intrigue, greed and hostility burn in the Antarctic
A column on world affairs
The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world
Business


The Medicis and Michelangelo
What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free?
Oversubscribed
Too many people want to be social-media influencers
From shuddering to shuttering
Volkswagen’s woes illustrate Germany’s creeping deindustrialisation
Flush fund
Can Japan’s toilet technology crack global markets?
Dig, baby, dig
China is tightening its grip on the world’s minerals
Bartleby
How to beat jet lag
Schumpeter
Can anyone besides Nvidia make big bucks from chips?
Finance & economics


Presidential preoccupations
America’s glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
Death of despair
American men are getting back to work
In the crossfire
Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
Economic rescue
Why China needs to fill its empty homes
Corporate heaven
Ireland’s government has an unusual problem: too much money
In search of lost revenue
Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners
Buttonwood
Will bond vigilantes come for America’s next president?
Free exchange
Greenland faces one of history’s great resource rushes—and curses
Science & technology


Into focus
Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder
Bivalve broadband
Heart-cockle shells may work like fibre-optic cables
The wrong stuff
Space may be worse for humans than thought
Blue-sky thinking
Airships may finally prove useful for transporting cargo
Culture


A Mexican wave
Made in Mexico: why the new Hollywood is south of the border
The queen of kawaii
Hello Kitty, still cute at 50
The theory of evolution
Darwin and Dawkins: a tale of two biologists
Back to black
Goth culture has returned from the dead
Electioneering
How podcasts came to rule America’s campaign conversation
The Economist watches
The best film and TV featuring fictional American elections
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The necklace in the bread
Lily Ebert lived to share her story of Auschwitz

The world this week

Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


The everything drugs
It’s not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world
As they become cheaper, they promise to improve billions of lives

Leaders
Elon’s $1m voter
Mr Musk’s scheme to boost Donald Trump is legally questionable and bad for democracy

Status anxiety
The blistering rally in gold augurs ill for the power of the dollar
Central banks are shifting away from the greenback

Criminal justice
Decarceration is the key to better prisons
Britain is not the only rich country that needs a radical change in approach

Making business roar
Time to shake up Asia’s sleepy monopolies
The cosy links between politics and business impose large costs on a dynamic region

Letters

On economics, America, the Chagos Islands, innovation in AI, the Turkic states, Abraham Lincoln, flies
Letters to the editor
Briefing


The Swiss Army knife of jabs
GLP-1s like Ozempic are among the most important drug breakthroughs ever
Their far-reaching potential could transform how chronic diseases are managed
Asia


Getting to know Prabowo
Indonesia’s macho new leader is no “cuddly grandpa”
Prabowo’s plans for nickel
Making nickel is a nightmare. Unless you are Indonesian
South-East Asia’s criminal scams
Suck up to your fake CEO
Himalayan handshake
Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping meet and resolve a border row
Banyan
Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it
China


Decoding America’s election
Ambiguity or madness? Where Harris and Trump stand on China
A long way to go
How China is trying to win back foreign tourists
The last laugh
A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms
United States


Early returns
How to read America’s early-voting numbers
Flooding the polls
Will Hurricane Helene tip the vote in North Carolina?
Fear and voting
Donald Trump’s terrifying closing message
Campaign calculus: Kamala’s camp
Gay voters are smitten with Kamala Harris
Valley fever
A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona’s elections
Lexington
Kamala Harris’s closing argument
Middle East & Africa


Killing an idea
Do Israel’s assassinations work?
Yahya Sinwar’s death
Yahya Sinwar made Hamas his own fief
Israel’s waiting game
Israel’s leaders are watching America’s election closely
The wages of truth
Mozambique’s ruling party wins a dodgy election
Not so mellow
Gold is booming. So is the dirty business of digging it up
Religion re-rooted
How African churches are keeping the faith alive abroad

The Americas


Much obliged
Millions in the West want mandatory voting. Are they right?
Dwindling prospects
Blackouts in Cuba highlight the island’s extreme energy fragility
Climate change and parasites
The flesh-eating worms devouring cows
Europe


The disrupter-in-chief
Germany’s populist superstar demands peace with Russia
Blood brothers
North Korea is sending thousands of soldiers to help Vladimir Putin
The tightrope walker
Giorgia Meloni would make Machiavelli proud
Country cuisine
The world’s most improbable smash-hit cooking show
Charlemagne
Angela who? Merkel’s legacy looks increasingly terrible
Britain


It’s worse than you think
Britain’s prison service is caught in a doom loop
The Chris Kaba case
How to hold armed police to account in Britain
The most sensible show on earth
Why “The Rest Is Politics”, a British podcast, is a hit
Fur’s aid
Britain is a world leader in pet health care
A construction slowdown
Scotland’s failure to build homes is mainly due to its government
Match postponed
The shortfall in British adoptions
Bagehot
King’s Cross, a miracle in London
International


Launching a currency war in Moscow
Putin’s plan to dethrone the dollar
Business


Earned out?
America’s growing profits are under threat
Dig out your trousers
Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office?
Tropical depression
South-East Asia’s stodgy conglomerates are holding it back
Pharma frenzy
Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger
Down memory lane
Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI
Bartleby
How to manage politics in the workplace
Schumpeter
Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple’s march towards $4trn?
Finance & economics


Going for it
What the surging price of gold says about a dangerous world
Wide Atlantic
The West faces new inflation fears
Hunger games
The economics of thinness (Ozempic edition)
Buttonwood
Investors should not fear a stockmarket crash
Economic war
Hizbullah’s sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerable
Free exchange
How bad are video games for your grades?
Science & technology


Old case files
The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes
Buzzing without being buzzed
Why Oriental hornets can’t get drunk
Robocrop
Winemakers are building grape-picking robots
Sunny side up
Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power
Culture


Opposing Putin’s tyranny
In a posthumous memoir, Alexei Navalny chronicles his martyrdom
Sexy time
Is the idea of sexual identity relatively new?
Why do you Tok like that?
TikTok is changing how Gen Z speaks
You look so familiar
Can there ever be another great le Carré novel?
The setting Son?
Softbank’s gambling founder, Masayoshi Son, is catnip for authors
Back Story
What the row over Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book reveals about free speech
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The Grand Infiltrator
Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways

The world this week

Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


The envy of the world
America’s economy is bigger and better than ever
Will politics bring it back to Earth?

Financial firepower
How the Biden administration botched America’s sanctions against Iran
With the financial deterrent undermined, only military deterrence is left

Justin’s time
Canada’s Trudeau trap
How the world’s most reasonable country grew sick of centre-left liberalism

Reeves’s first rodeo
Britain’s budget risks being a huge missed opportunity
Rachel Reeves looks set to please no one for little return

Space travel
Starship will change what is possible beyond Earth
The successful test-flight of SpaceX’s massive new space vehicle promises a host of new projects, including the colonisation of Mars

Letters

On VAT, Spain, UNRWA, electric cars, tuition fees, working lunches
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The space industry
Europe must play to win—not just play nice—in a new space race, argues ESA’s boss
America’s election
Europe should not see a potential Trump return as a threat, says Nadia Schadlow
Briefing


Filling up space
The rockets are nifty, but it is satellites that make SpaceX valuable
Elon Musk’s space venture may soon be more valuable than Tesla
Asia


The fifth Five Eye
New Zealand’s biggest pivot since the 1980s
Big dreams in a small place
Bhutan prays it can be India’s Hong Kong
Stormy weather
Pakistan rolls out the red carpet for China’s prime minister
Banyan
Myanmar’s military junta has conjured up a crazy currency system
China


The view from Beijing
Does China welcome—or dread—an Iran-Israel war?
Drill, baby, drill
China makes love and war with Taiwan
Buy, buy, buy…sell!
Do amateurs regret jumping into China’s frenzied stockmarkets?
Evil influencers
In China, fib online and find out
United States


Getting the drift
Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia
Barnstorming
Republicans ramp up efforts to court Amish voters in Pennsylvania
Degrees of difference
Polarisation by education is remaking American politics
Campaign calculus: the customer is sometimes wrong
Voters won’t thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy
Crying over split milk
Vital election races in Wisconsin are awfully close
Payback time
Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago’s teachers’ union everything
Lexington
One big thing Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in common

Middle East & Africa


Once more, with feeling
Bad ideas are back on the menu in the Middle East
Hell and horror, again
Does Israel’s new plan for Gaza include withholding food?
Above the fray
Lebanon’s army is less useless than its reputation suggests
A study in resilience
How Wagner survived Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death
Next-generation transportation
Africa’s EV revolution has two wheels not four
The Americas


The dying of the light
Justin Trudeau is killing Canada’s liberal dream
Running on empty
Bolivia’s slow-motion economic crisis is accelerating
India-Canada relations
The Mounties take on Modi. Who will win?
Europe


Out of sight, out of mind?
Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania
Maia Sandu takes a stand
This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia’s dirty tricks
Digging for victory
Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine
Between BRICS and a hard place
The limits of Turkey’s strategic autonomy
Reclaiming the centre
Poland’s new modern-art museum wants to give the capital a fresh look
Charlemagne
Hopes for religious harmony come to life in the Muslim Vatican
Britain


They will come and build it
Sir Keir Starmer’s elevator pitch for investment
The ticked-off well-off
Is Britain’s government at war with the wealthy?
Tech brothers
Trade unions have their eye on Britain’s tech sector
A shrunken giant
Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back again
Testing times
Could you pass the British citizenship test?
The right to die
An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to Westminster
Bagehot
The war on prices: British edition
International


Going feral
Vladimir Putin’s spies are plotting global chaos
Special report


Special report
The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust
Economic output
American productivity still leads the world
For richer and poorer
Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?
Energy
The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great
Stocks
Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme
The dollar
China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback
Looking ahead
What can stop the American economy now?
The American economy
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Autonomous cars
The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream
On the rack
Pity the superstar fashion designer
Little frog, bigger pond
Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant
Mine your own business
BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions
Reign of the spreadsheet
Why Microsoft Excel won’t die
Called out
Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?
Bartleby
The horrors of the reply-all email thread
Schumpeter
What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?
Finance & economics


Dark commerce
Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars
Buttonwood
Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks
Mein Gott
Germany’s economy goes from bad to worse
Everyone wins
Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
Free exchange
An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail
Science & technology


The new Moon race
SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival
The new Moon race
SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival
Life finds a way
Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents
Forget about Mars
Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons?
Culture


Who are you calling cute?
Why the world is so animated about anime
The aquatic underworld
Is the deep ocean more magnificent than outer space?
World in a dish
Food lovers the world over are tickled by pickles
Sexual politics
In the second world war, some diplomacy was done between the sheets
Known unknowns
How to analyse chance, ignorance and risk
Wall of worry
What don’t you know about your partner?
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
What to read about grief and bereavement
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The boy who aged too fast
Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease