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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
By Invitation

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But the “enhancement” industry is still hobbled by out-of-date regulation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
Illustration of an eye with the british crest in the middle of it, on a green background with a digital looking texture
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
An illustration of the profile of a woman with virus shapes around her. This is about the link between Alzheimer's and viruses.
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

The world this week
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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

Letters
On America and Europe, artificial intelligence, building development, Japan, book blurbs, the penny
Letters to the editor
By Invitation

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
This is a digital illustration depicting a plastic ziplock bag containing a white powdery substance, which is often associated with illicit drugs. However, instead of actual powder falling into the bag, a stream of binary code (1s and 0s) is pouring in.T
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

The Don’s new world order
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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
The image represents gene editing, with a DNA helix and scissors symbolizing CRISPR technology used to cut and modify gene
Gene editing
CRISPR technologies hold enormous promise for farming and medicine
Don’t waste it

Letters
On America’s defence spending, the Exxon Valdez, the Oxford-Cambridge Arc, scams, Latin, TikTok
Letters to the editor
By Invitation

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
This pixel-art illustration depicts a circuit board with three microchips having human-like faces. Trump face is in the middle, the green and red side chips appear sad. Black lines represent electrical pathways, and the design is symmetrical, blending tech
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
Letters to the editor
By Invitation

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

Battle for the Pentagon
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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
An illustration of an old television set showing six people against different coloured backgrounds: Adam Sandler, Tina Fey, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, Mike Myers and Chevy Chase.
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
Letters to the editor
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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

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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?
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

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
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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
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

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

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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
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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
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

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

The fight over America’s economy
The world this week
The world this week
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover

Leaders


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
Letters to the editor
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
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary

Jimmy Carter in 1976
The pilgrim from Plains
Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents

The world this week
The world this year 2024
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover

The World Ahead

Illustration for the world ahead 2025 cover, a circle made up of squares featuring all the themes of the issue
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

Illustration of a woman being blown away with an umbrella while all her luxury shopping flies away, the handle of the umbrella is the line of a graph
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

The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s cover

Leaders


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