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An echo and a choice
The Trumpification of American policy
No matter who wins in November, Donald Trump has redefined both parties’ agendas

Paradise lashed
How Florida should respond to Hurricane Milton
Storms like it raise uncomfortable questions about the state’s future

Shock horror
How high could the oil price go?
Geopolitical risk is rising. But so is the supply of oil

A sting in the tail
The front line of the tech war is in Asia
The two superpowers are vying for influence. China will not necessarily win

A bad deal
Britain should not hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Once again, the Chagossians have been denied a say

Letters

On Ukraine, policing, food chains, European reforms, kindness, the Labour government, martinis
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The Israel-Hizbullah war
Lebanon needs a new army in the south, says Yair Lapid
The Israel-Hizbullah war
The framework that ended Lebanon’s war in 2006 could help end this one too, says Tarek Mitri
Briefing


Shrinking coattails
Who will control the next Congress?
The new president is much less likely than usual to see allies take charge on Capitol Hill
Asia


Digital domination
America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?
A glitch in the matrix
Asia is weighing data-centre ambitions against sustainability
Going nuclear
Kazakhstan’s referendum on nuclear energy could benefit Russia
A quieter tiger?
Is India’s economy slowing down?
Doing the locomotion
New railways could transform South-East Asia
Banyan
Has Narendra Modi lost his mojo?
China


Immigration
How to escape from China to America
United States


Policy brief
What America’s presidential election means for world trade
Policy brief
The US tax code will change next year; the presidential election will determine how
Policy brief
Donald Trump is preparing an assault on America’s immigration system
Policy brief
On energy and climate, Trump and Harris are different by degrees
Policy brief
Both candidates pledge to fortify America. How big will they go?
Policy brief
America’s presidential election marks a fork in the road for Ukraine
Policy brief
Will the next president follow Israel into war with Iran?
Policy brief
The next American president will be a China hawk
Lexington
Shirley Chisholm is still winning

Middle East & Africa


War in the Middle East
Israel has these four options for attacking Iran
Tehran’s calculus
Iran’s leader must choose how to fight his war with Israel
Waiting for war
The threat of an Israeli attack is reviving Iranian nationalism
Hizbullah’s role in Lebanon
Israel’s invasion of Lebanon may bolster support for Hizbullah
Family matters
How to send a cake from New Jersey to Accra
Off to a good start
South Africa’s coalition government has improved the vibes
The Americas


Stubborn brutality
The beating of Argentina’s former first lady fits a shameful pattern
Not the end of it
American women go to Mexico for abortions
Conservation in Latin America
The drug lords’ side-hustle: smuggling macaws, jaguars and frogs
Europe


The French budget
France stares into a “colossal” budgetary abyss
Struggling back
Turkey’s long hard struggle with inflation
A tale of a nail
Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse
Holding on
Russia continues to advance in eastern Ukraine
Alive or dead?
The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
Charlemagne
Europeans are facing the prospect of Trump like a deer caught in headlights
Britain


Scalpel, please
The story of one NHS operation
Grayday! Grayday!
The Sue Gray saga casts doubt on Keir Starmer’s managerial chops
Oceans apart
Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Modern life is rubbish
The biography of a British recycling bag
Property and technology
Can software help ease Britain’s housing crisis?
The pulses quicken
Britain’s obsession with baked beans
Bagehot
Britain’s last imperialists
International


Elections everywhere
Over a billion have voted in 2024: has democracy won?
Business


Power couple
Big tech is bringing nuclear power back to life
A digital makeover
Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
Under fire
Can Israel’s mighty tech industry withstand a wider war?
A titan departs
Ratan Tata, a consequential and beloved figure in Indian business
The standards war
China is writing the world’s technology rules
Bartleby
When workplace bonuses backfire
Schumpeter
Masayoshi Son is back in Silicon Valley—and late to the AI race
Finance & economics


The other wall
How America learned to love tariffs
Worst-keg scenario
Could war in the Gulf push oil to $100 a barrel?
C-BAM!
Europe’s green trade restrictions are infuriating poor countries
When the smoke clears
Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Buttonwood
Why have markets grown more captivated by data releases?
Hammered
China’s property crisis claims more victims: companies
Keeping up with the neighbours
How bond investors soured on France
Free exchange
Can the world’s most influential business index be fixed?
Science & technology


The 2024 Nobel prizes
AI wins big at the Nobels
Flying fish
Meet Japan’s hitchhiking fish
Still waters
Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive to marine life
Culture


From witchcraft to woke
How humans invented good and evil, and may reinvent both
Missives from a neurosurgeon
How complicated is brain surgery actually?
Song of myself
Why you should read Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
“Unleashed” and mildly unhinged
Boris Johnson shows how not to write a political memoir
Johnson on language
Americans are chuffed as chips at British English
Back Story
Is TV’s next sure-fire hit, “Disclaimer”, a must-watch or a dud?
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Two towers of white spray
Yoshioka Masamitsu saw Pearl Harbor from the air

The world this week

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The weekly cartoon
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Iran, Israel and the Palestinians
The year that shattered the Middle East
Kill or be killed is the region’s new logic. Deterrence and diplomacy would be better

Too soon to party
Don’t celebrate China’s stimulus just yet
It will take more than a spectacular stockmarket rally to revive the economy

Ishiba Shigeru, gadfly-turned-leader
Socially liberal and strong on defence, Japan’s new premier shows promise
But he must ditch his more eccentric ideas if he is to control his party

Shake up, not break up
Dismantling Google is a terrible idea
Despite its appeal as a political rallying cry

Know a fly, know thyself?
A map of a fruit fly’s brain could help us understand our own
A miracle of complexity, powered by rotting fruit

Letters

On the Cayman Islands, Afghanistan, Turkey, blood donations, private tutors, Britain, sex and Christianity
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


One year of war in Gaza
Philippe Lazzarini says the blows to humanitarian law in Gaza harm us all
Mexico
Ernesto Zedillo says AMLO has left Mexico on the verge of authoritarianism
Briefing


On many fronts
The bloodshed in the Middle East is fast expanding
Israel seems certain to retaliate to Iran’s missile attack

The great mistake
What Hamas misunderstood about the Middle East
A war meant to draw in the militant group’s allies has instead left them battered

No common purpose
A year on, Israeli society is divided about the lessons of October 7th
Hawks and doves, religious and secular, right and left—all the old cleavages are resurfacing

The Palestinians’ future
Has the war in Gaza radicalised young Palestinians?
After Gaza, how will the Palestinians try to build their state?
Asia


The outsider otaku
Japan’s new prime minister is his own party’s sternest critic
An interview with Admiral Hua Tang
China is using an “anaconda strategy” to squeeze Taiwan
Putting the AI in Mumbai
India has a unique opportunity to lead in AI
No longer showing up
America is losing South-East Asia to China
China


The fear of falling
Worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night
Making a sPLAsh
A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
Udder pressure
Why China is awash in unwanted milk
United States


Voting and victimhood
Crypto bros v cat ladies: gender and the 2024 election
October surprise
A ports strike shows the stranglehold one union has on trade
Running mate
Tim Walz is the most popular candidate on either ticket
Taking the initiative
Many Americans can decide their own policies. What will they choose?
Washed away
Hurricane Helene was America’s deadliest storm in nearly two decades
Reinventing the army
The US Army’s chief of staff has ideas on the force of the future
Lexington
The vice-presidential debate was surprisingly cordial

Middle East & Africa


Looking for trouble
A dangerous dispute in the Horn of Africa
The Americas


A long shadow
Jair Bolsonaro still shapes Brazil’s political right
World’s end
Peruvians are debating how to protect isolated tribes
Everyone’s a winner
Why is football in Latin America so complex?
Europe


Not wholly in power
Pedro Sánchez clings to office at a cost to Spain’s democracy
Austria’s election
Why the hard-right Herbert Kickl is unlikely to be Austria’s next chancellor
Hoping for better
Ukraine’s Roma have suffered worse than most in the war
In the Wildersness
The Netherlands’ new hard-right government is a mess
Sexual violence
A harrowing rape trial in France has revived debate about consent
Charlemagne
How the wolf went from folktale villain to culture-war scapegoat
Britain


Tory Benn
Britain’s Conservatives adopt the bad habits of the Labour left
Party time
Why on earth would anyone go to a British party conference?
A wartime diaspora
Ukrainians are settling down in Britain. That creates a problem
Blyth spirit
Gigafactories and dashed dreams: the parable of Blyth
The wheels of justice
The scourge of stolen bikes in Britain
Burning ambition
Britain’s last coal-fired power station closes
Bagehot
How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top
Business


Changing the program
AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world
Pound of flesh
Will America’s government try to break up Google?
If the face is fit…
Workouts for the face are a growing business
Road trip
Transit vans are the key to Ford’s future
Instantaneous consumption
India’s consumers are changing how they buy
Bartleby
What makes a good manager?
Schumpeter
The future of the Chinese consumer—in three glasses
Finance & economics


Good-vibes rally
Xi Jinping’s belated stimulus has reset the mood in Chinese markets
Economic decoupling
Why is Canada’s economy falling behind America’s?
Unaccountable accounts
A tonne of public debt is never made public
Buttonwood
Can Andrea Orcel, Europe’s star banker, create a super-bank?
Block party
The house-price supercycle is just getting going
Free exchange
Why economic warfare nearly always misses its target
Science & technology


On the fly
An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow
So much hot air
Why it’s so hard to tell which climate policies actually work
Island life
Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases
Sound of mind
AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions
Culture


The stickiness factor
The Malcolm Gladwell rule: how to succeed while annoying critics
Money matters
The best new books to read about finance
Revisiting history
Was Abraham Lincoln gay?
No passing fad
Fashion photography is in vogue
The next big thing
Turn down the K-pop and pay attention to K-healing
Back Story
Roald Dahl was a genius—and a shocking bigot
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Books that probe the secrets of the Mossad
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Obituary
Maggie Smith, the dowager countess of comic timing

The world this week

Politics
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The weekly cartoon
This week’s covers
Leaders


Starmer’s woes
The sinking feeling caused by Labour’s clumsy start
Britain’s new government is paying for the sins of the election campaign

Zelensky in Washington
The war is going badly. Ukraine and its allies must change course
Time for credible war aims—and NATO membership

Leash the dogs of war
An Israel-Hizbullah war would be a disaster for both
Both must find a way to step back

The case for taxing consumption
If you must raise taxes, raise VAT
Taxing consumption is economically efficient and politically possible

Anura Kumara Dissanayake
How worried should Sri Lanka be about its ex-Marxist president?
He is not as bad as he sounds. But the risk of disappointment is high

The future of television
YouTube’s do-it-yourself brigade is taking on Netflix and Disney
Legions of self-taught film-makers are coming for the television industry

Letters

On car safety, the UN and Palestinians, Chinese data, leaving work, museums
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The drugs don’t work
Ara Darzi on why antibiotic resistance could be deadlier than cancer
COP29
COP29 is greenwashing a dictatorship, writes Azerbaijan’s main opposition leader
Briefing


A widening breach
Ukraine is on the defensive, militarily, economically and diplomatically
Russian advances, fatigue among its allies and political divisions at home leave it in a bind
Asia


All change
An upset in Sri Lanka propels an outsider into power
Tailored solutions
How India can compete in labour-intensive manufacturing
Going soft
Has the Quad lost its way?
Banyan
Who will become Japan’s next prime minister?
China


Looking up in frustration
A new class struggle is brewing in China
Hate thy neighbour
Another attack on a Japanese local points to a big problem in China
Brains-trust blues
Xi Jinping wants to stifle thinking at a top Chinese think-tank
United States


Money for nothing
Kamala Harris is outspending Donald Trump. Will it matter?
Hizzoner and dishonour
Eric Adams, New York’s mayor, is indicted on bribery charges
Campaign calculus: mini-landslides
Recent special elections bode well for Democrats
A little secret, the Robinson affair
Mark Robinson has hijacked his own campaign in North Carolina
Direct democracy
Kamalamania and the drive for abortion rights are a potent mix
Hard cell
America’s growing row over policies for transgender prisoners
Lexington
What J.D. Vance is learning from Donald Trump

Middle East & Africa


History repeating
Hizbullah seems to have miscalculated in its fight with Israel
The view from Beirut
The flight from southern Lebanon has been swift
Iran’s calculations
Iran’s damage-limitation efforts may not go to plan
Second time as farce
Tunisia’s strongman president looks set to win another term in office
Let the sunlight in
Building an African multinational
Protecting wildlife
Can shooting some elephants save many others?
The Americas


Evelyn Matthei
The woman who will lead Chile’s counter-revolution
Remote workers
Digital nomads are a force for good in Latin America
Mexican politics
President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is militarising public security
Europe


Giant steppes
Turkey and Central Asia are riding together again
Building Fortress Austria
Austria’s xenophobic right edges towards victory
French evolution
France’s new coalition yanks the country a step to the right
A worrying turn
Turkey wants the EU to regulate the döner kebab
OK boomer
American long-range missiles are coming back to Europe
Charlemagne
A banking raid in Europe kicks up an unseemly nationalist defence
Britain


Sir Unclear Starmer
What is Britain’s Labour government for?
Loosening the chains
Britain’s budget choices are not as bad as the government says
The right reaction
Much keener on Trump, less sure about Charles III
The gravest questions
Why did Mohamed Al Fayed escape scrutiny?
Help yourselves
The self-help book began in the land of the stiff upper lip
A healthy balance-sheet
Should Britons’ health be considered a national asset?
Bagehot
Inside the chaos machine of British politics
International


Autocratic alliances
A new “quartet of chaos” threatens America
Business


Old v new media
YouTubers like MrBeast are coming for Hollywood
Electric shock
Northvolt announces more cuts, worrying investors
Star-crossed
The curse of the Michelin star
Barbell effect
The rise of the $40,000 gym membership
Silicon sally
Can dealmaking save Intel?
Bartleby
The hell of the sandwich lunch
Schumpeter
Is a Nike lifer the best person to revive the swoosh?
Finance & economics


Political economy
Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless
No rush
China’s central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
International debt
How lower American interest rates will boost Africa
Financial conflict
Can Israel’s economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?
Fuel to the fire
Is the world sleepwalking into another gas crisis?
Buttonwood
A Wall Street state of mind has captured America
Free exchange
Why the Federal Reserve is split on the future of interest rates
Science & technology


CAR-T therapy
Immune therapy shows promise for asthma, heart disease—and even ageing
Water, water everywhere
New technologies can spot pesky leaks in water pipelines
VIPER
NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover
Extra extra mature
The world’s oldest cheese sheds light on ancient Chinese culture
Culture


The edifice complex
What “supertall” skyscrapers reveal about the countries that build them
Rocket management
The SpaceX guide to exceptional engineering
Bad boys
An Indian hijack drama, “IC 814”, dares to portray terrorists as human
Back Story
Sally Rooney shows how to escape the trap of success
The centre did not hold
Understanding the Republican Party’s rightward march
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An introduction to Lebanon, perhaps the next front in a wider war
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Indicators
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Obituary

How ugly will it get?

The world this week

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How ugly will it get?
America’s election is mired in conflict
Donald Trump’s conspiracy machine is already gearing up for election night

Mixed message
Mario Draghi’s best ideas are those Europe finds least comfortable
The danger is that it picks the easy ones

The dangers of rock claiming
More storms are brewing in the South China Sea
A dangerous new stage in the conflict is beginning

Corporate crusade
How to finish Japan’s business revolution
Tokyo-listed companies have become more friendly to shareholders, but the job is only half-done

Subsidise people, not petrol
Nigeria’s catastrophic fuel crisis has a straightforward solution
How to scrap a popular yet ruinous subsidy

Letters

On Iranian hostages, handwriting, underground cables, love, Kamala Harris, artificial intelligence, gobbledygook
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Euro-vision
Mario Draghi outlines his plan to make Europe more competitive
Landmines in Ukraine
Clearing Ukraine’s mines is crucial for global food security, say Howard Buffett and Tony Blair
Briefing


A foregone confusion
What will happen if America’s election result is contested?
The system is now stronger, but so is public mistrust of it
Asia


Superpower tensions in Asia
The scary new map of the South China Sea
India v Bangladesh
Can India’s garments industry benefit from Bangladesh’s turmoil?
Machh ado about nothing
What ilish, a fish, says about India-Bangladesh relations
Of scams and syndicates
The downfall of a Philippine mayor may be linked to Chinese gangs
Corporate dynasties
Kim Beom-su, the billionaire founder of Kakao, faces trial
Banyan
Youngsters are fleeing Japan’s once-mighty civil service
China


Stability, now what?
Can Xi Jinping take Hong Kong “from stability to prosperity”?
Leading the way
China is beating America in the nuclear-energy race
We’re keeping them
Why China banned international adoptions
United States


Wicked safe
How Boston became the safest big city in America
TikTok, tarot and Trump
Astrologers are predicting the result of America’s election
Trouble in Paradise Valley
Democratic control of the Senate depends on a seven-fingered farmer
Campaign calculus
The systemic bias Kamala Harris must overcome in order to win
New term, same balancing act
America’s college heads revise rules for handling campus protests
Lexington
Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump look out of his depth

Middle East & Africa


Falling apart
Is Syria’s drug-dealing dictator coming in from the cold?
Not wanted here
Turkey is trying to deport Syrian refugees back to a war zone
The Philadelphi story
A narrow corridor in Gaza has become an obstacle to a ceasefire
No petrol, no peace
If Nigeria cannot end fuel shortages, disaster beckons
Markets amid madness
How trading in war-torn Sudan survives—just
The Americas


Dark days
Venezuela’s opposition is getting smashed
No quick fix
Antony Blinken swoops into a violent hotspot close to home
Blue gold
The sweet story of Peru’s blueberry boom
Europe


Dirty sponges
Squeaky-clean Europe is more corrupt than you think
French politics
Michel Barnier’s burden
A bloody trade
Danger in Donbas as Ukraine’s front line falters
Choice v life
Poland’s ruling coalition divides over women’s rights
No ball
A northern Italian town bans cricket
Charlemagne
Nice ideas, Mr Draghi—now who will pay for them?
Britain


Brotherly love
The harmony between Labour and Britain’s trade unions
In deep trouble
Britain’s submarines are at sea for too long—or not at all
Driven up the wall
Finding a driving test in Britain is painful, slow and expensive
Laundry list
Will Labour be better at tackling dirty money than the Tories?
Keeping the juices flowing
Volunteering has big benefits for the elderly
Urban planning
Why have Britain’s new towns become fashionable again?
Bagehot
Loons and the Tory leadership battle in Britain
International


The toil, tears and sweat of competition
Sport is getting hotter, harder and deadlier
Business


Mergers and inquisitions
Is the era of the mega-deal over?
Job half done
Japan’s sleepy companies still need more reform
Not edgy enough
AI will not fix Apple’s sluggish iPhone sales any time soon
Snapped up
Demand for high-end cameras is soaring
Raining cats and dogs
People are splurging like never before on their pets
Falling behind
European firms are smaller and less profitable than American ones
The ties that bind
Why family empires dominate business in India
Bartleby
Physical proximity has big effects in the workplace
Schumpeter
Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?
Finance & economics


The 72-year-old patient
Can anything spark Europe’s economy back to life?
Foreign-exchange markets
Norway’s weak currency presents a mystery
Delayed reaction
Strangely, America’s companies will soon face higher interest rates
Buttonwood
Can bonds keep beating stocks?
Xi, the generous
China’s government is surprisingly redistributive
Long, hot summer
The IMF has a protest problem
The big squeeze
Why orange juice has never been more expensive
Free exchange
An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Science & technology


The motherlode
Breast milk’s benefits are not limited to babies
White gold
Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk
Tests of time
The world’s first nuclear clock is on the horizon
Radiation-belt remediation
Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of orbit
Culture


Can you tell the truth?
The information wars are about to get worse, Yuval Noah Harari argues
A secret love affair
Why many French have come to like “Emily in Paris”
Off colour?
Paul Gauguin is an artist ripe for cancellation
The CIA’s Rip van Winkle
The riveting story of the longest-held American prisoner-of-war
Back Story
“The Perfect Couple” and the new map of Moneyland
It’s an ink-stained world
Tabloids are about more than trashy headlines
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How Christianity shapes politics in America
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Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Samba plus sunshine
Sérgio Mendes sent Brazil’s party spirit out into the world

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KAL’s cartoon
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Going dark
The real problem with China’s economy
The country risks making some of the mistakes the Soviet Union did

Monster vehicles
What to do about America’s killer cars
The country’s roads are nearly twice as dangerous as the rich-world average. It doesn’t have to be that way

Red lines
The Labour government’s worrying lack of ambition in Europe
Sir Keir Starmer is trapped by the mindset of the post-Brexit years

AfDer Thuringia
How to deal with the hard-right threat in Germany
As extremists win more votes across Europe, forming moderate and effective governments is getting harder

Constitutional chaos
A make-or-break moment for Mexico
In America’s biggest trading partner the rule of law and democracy are under attack

Blocked and reported
As Brazil bans Elon Musk’s X, who will speak up for free speech?
Free expression has become a culture war, and those who should defend it are staying quiet

Letters

On exposure to the sun, education, Sudan, Robert Kennedy, growing up, cold-war diplomacy
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The American election
Kamala Harris has good vibes. Time for some good policies
Artificial intelligence and society
Large language models will upend human rituals
Briefing


Lowering the veil
The Chinese authorities are concealing the state of the economy
But the Communist Party’s internal information systems may also be flawed
Asia


On the road to Mandalay
Myanmar’s military junta is battered by Chinese-backed forces
Is the past really past?
Could Japan and South Korea finally become friends?
Scary stuff sells
Why Indonesia’s horror films are booming
Amateur radio and ammo
Taiwan is trying to learn from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine
Banyan
Welcome to India, where the streets have four names
China


Yearning to think freely
Liberalism is far from dead in China
Not for the religious or lazy
How to get kicked out of China’s Communist Party
United States


Too much of a good thing
Americans’ love affair with big cars is killing them
Swing states
The Harris campaign hopes North Carolina will finally deliver
Back in black
The Onion’s cutting edge: paper
“Comrade Kamala”
The Trump campaign fires a barrage of negative advertisements
Nile-ism
America’s endless summers are good for mosquitoes, too
Campaign calculus
Where is Kamala Harris’s convention bounce?
Lexington
Why Kamala Harris has the advantage in debating Donald Trump

Middle East & Africa


Beyond Belt and Road
China’s relationship with Africa is growing murkier
Chilling prospects
How Africans can stay cool as the climate warms
Israel and Turkey’s war of words
The relationship between Israel and Turkey is at breaking point
Shoving a central banker aside
The fall of Libya’s central banker triggers a new struggle
Israel’s hostages
The one thing Israelis agree on: rescuing the hostages
The Americas


Mexican politics
Claudia Sheinbaum will inherit a poisoned chalice in Mexico
Hamstringing justice
Electing top judges has been a disaster in Bolivia
X is banned in Brazil
The all-powerful judge taking on Elon Musk
Europe


Of firewalls and fragmentation
Germany’s party system is coming under unprecedented strain
Taking the war to the invaders
American restrictions on hitting Russia are hurting Ukraine
No more blind eyes
Abuse by priests in Italy can no longer be tolerated by the Vatican
Succulent grapes, sometimes sour
The obstacles faced by Turkey’s winemakers
The awkward gas pipe
The West still needs Russian gas that comes through Ukraine
Charlemagne
Europe must beware the temptations of technocracy
Britain


Time to get closer
What’s next for Britain and the EU?
Hard power
Britain and the EU find it easier to talk about guns than butter
Labour’s Israel policy
Britain’s ban on arms sales to Israel mixes politics and legalism
Roll call
English kids are back in school. What about the teachers?
Public inquiries
A tardy, scathing report on the Grenfell Tower fire in London
Facial awareness
Police use of facial recognition in Britain is spreading
Bagehot
Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?
International


Signal boost
How encrypted messaging apps conquered the world
Business


Charging forward
Clean energy’s next trillion-dollar business
Broadly successful
How Broadcom quietly became a $700bn powerhouse
Flat-packing a punch
Can IKEA disrupt the furniture business again?
No quick fix
Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen
New Silk Roads
Commercial ties between the Gulf and Asia are deepening
Bartleby
The mystery of the cover letter
Schumpeter
Has Warren Buffett lost his touch?
Finance & economics


Reds flag
China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
The leaves are turning
As stock prices fall, investors prepare for an autumn chill
Golden moment
Will interest-rate cuts turbocharge oil prices?
Long time coming
American office delinquencies are shooting up
Buttonwood
Has social media broken the stockmarket?
Trump v Harris
America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse?
Free exchange
Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gouging
Science & technology


Cold comfort
New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet
Too darn hot
Fewer babies are born in the months following hot days
Where no man has gone since 1972
Billionaire space travel heads for a new frontier
Waste management
The noisome economics of dung beetles
Culture


The devil watches Prada
How fashion conquered television
Identity politics
Technology and Hindu nationalism have transformed India
It’s all biology
The Oxford debate where evolution triumphed over creationism
Frenemies with benefits
Despots and oligarchs have many means to meddle in American politics
Speculative fiction
A gripping new novel about AI captures what it means to be human
A maestro, due an encore
Arnold Schoenberg was one of classical music’s most important rebels
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How to mend a cathedral
Simon Verity believed in working the medieval way

The world this week

Politics
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KAL’s cartoon
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A humanitarian disaster
Why Sudan’s catastrophic war is the world’s problem
It could kill millions—and spread chaos across Africa and the Middle East

Good policy, not good luck
Why inflation fell without a recession
High interest rates, not the passage of time, have restored price stability

There must be blood
People should be paid for blood plasma
Shortages are hampering the production of essential medicines

The virtual world
Digital twins are fast becoming part of everyday life
Welcome to the mirror world

The new wall
Donald Trump’s promise of “mass deportation” is unworkable
Yet he could cause serious harm by trying

Letters

On nuclear weapons, carry trades, American visas, sports, war, Churchill’s urinal
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Debt and development
Break the taboos propping up unsustainable debt, pleads a former central banker
Briefing


An intensifying calamity
Anarchy in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst famine in 40 years
Millions are likely to perish

Chaos machine
The ripple effects of Sudan’s war are being felt across three continents
It is a sign of growing global impunity and disorder

Disaster in Darfur
“Hell on earth”: satellite images document the siege of a Sudanese city
El-Fasher, until recently a place of refuge, is under attack
Asia


Fraying saffron
Narendra Modi faces a new threat: his Hindu-nationalist patrons
Visa lottery
Rich parts of Asia are on the hunt for immigrants
Succession in Indonesia
The King of Java inflames an Indonesian “democratic emergency”
Not digging it
Why Australia is not yet a critical minerals powerhouse
Banyan
Why does the West back the wrong Asian leaders?
China


Technology and power
Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?
Two very different leaders
Deng Xiaoping envy
Our Beijing bureau chief’s valedictory dispatch
China’s new age of swagger and paranoia
United States


Power hungry
Why Texas Republicans are souring on crypto
Over the Rainbow
What Texas’s oldest motel reveals about the rural South
180 degrees
The education business
Return to sender
Donald Trump’s dream of mass deportations is a fantasy
Campaign calculus
To hold the Senate, Democrats have to do something extraordinary

Middle East & Africa


Real estate and religion
Israel’s settlers are winning unprecedented power from the war in Gaza
A kingdom divided
Have Israel’s far-right religious nationalists peaked?
The Middle East
Israel and Hizbullah play with fire
Nigeria parties on the cheap
A Nigerian’s guide to weddings during the cozzie livs
The Americas


Canada’s rising populist
Canada’s Conservatives are crushing Justin Trudeau
Still stolen
Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court
The rule of law in Mexico
AMLO’s dangerous last blast threatens Mexico
Europe


Germany’s fraught state elections
Why east Germany is such fertile ground for extremists
French politics
France seeks a new government
Fluid front lines
Even as it humiliates Russia, Ukraine’s line is crumbling in the Donbas
The new enemy
Azerbaijan’s government turns on its critics at home
Charlemagne
Europe’s lefties bash migrants (nearly) as well as the hard right
Britain


An old-age problem
Fixing social care in England is a true test of Labour’s ambition
Careful consideration
Funding social care: an international comparison
Vroom vroom
Britain’s unusual stance on Chinese electric vehicles
Do not go to gate
Heathrow’s third runway asks questions of the airport and Labour
Keep up, your honour
A language guide for judges is a window into modern Britain
What ho, y’all
Why country music is booming in Britain
International


Too much, too little. Too late?
The poisonous global politics of water
Business


Telegram
The case against “Russia’s Mark Zuckerberg” will have lasting effects
Hard landing
From Southwest to Spirit, budget airlines are in a tailspin
Back in style
How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again
French correction
Renault readies itself to take on Chinese rivals
Rise and fall
Pinduoduo, China’s e-commerce star, suffers a blow
The Zuckerberg mankini
Meta is accused of “bullying” the open-source community
Bartleby
Four questions for every manager to ask themselves
Schumpeter
What could stop the Nvidia frenzy?
Finance & economics


The cushioned blow
Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?
Trustbusting
Are American rents rigged by algorithms?
Blood boom
The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical
Eastern promise
How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
Buttonwood
Can Japan’s zombie bond market be brought back to life?
Free exchange
Vast government debts are riskier than they appear
Science & technology


Off to the races
Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing
Mirror worlds
Digital twins are enabling scientific innovation
E-businesses
Digital twins are making companies more efficient
Culture


Leagues of their own
Why the world is teeming with so many new sports leagues
Master clash
John Sainsbury, a donor to the National Gallery, had the last laugh
An arboreal affair
How “reading trees” can unlock many mysteries
Guest who?
Nudity, drinking, smoking: Winston Churchill’s unusual diplomacy
Monkey business
“Black Myth: Wukong” is China’s first blockbuster video game
Back Story
Twenty-five years on, “Fight Club” punches harder than ever
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Six novels about India, perhaps the world’s most interesting place
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


The anatomy of love
Helen Fisher found out the science behind romance

How would she govern?

The world this week

Politics
Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s cover
Leaders


Personality and policy
Kamala Harris can beat Donald Trump. But how would she govern?
Being a politician is about more than campaigning. More policy detail is needed

A deadly virus
Countries should act faster to curb the spread of mpox
The slower the response, the more people will die

Artificial intelligence
Regulators are focusing on real AI risks over theoretical ones. Good
Rules on safety may one day be needed. But not yet

Recession scares
What to make of America’s topsy-turvy economy
Don’t panic just yet

Visas, vistas and vegetarian food
How to attract Indian tourists
Destinations are competing for the travelling rupee

Letters

On education, Africa, tourism, Russia, Lyndon Johnson
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Artificial intelligence
Mark Zuckerberg and Daniel Ek on why Europe should embrace open-source AI
Briefing


Woolly warrior
Kamala Harris has revealed only the vaguest of policy platforms
Her record suggests she would be a pragmatist
Asia


A succession battle in Hanoi
Vietnam’s new ruler: hardman, capitalist, hedonist
Mining for memories
What a Japanese gold mine says about its approach to history
New city, new start?
Indonesia’s new capital is built on vanity
India’s women problem
The rape and murder of a doctor in India is fuelling outrage
Banyan
If a China and America war went nuclear, who would win?
China


Sizing up the ticket
China’s rulers are surprised by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
Tossing eggs at a national pastime
Millions of Chinese people play guandan. Is that good or bad?
The other gas problem
Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions
Access delayed
Why are VPNs getting slower in China?
Chaguan
In China’s “median city” people are surprisingly risk-averse
United States


The view from the Bay
San Francisco Democrats are embracing “law and order” politics
More deaths, less outrage
Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where’s the outrage?
Spoiler alert
Kamala Harris is winning back third-party voters
The new frontier
Behind the surge in migrants crossing America’s northern border
Stuck in low-Earth orbit
NASA insists that two astronauts are not “stranded” in space
A smashing time
Where crashing cars is the point
Lexington
History will judge Joe Biden by Kamala Harris

Middle East & Africa


The Israel-Hamas war and Iran
The Middle East’s bizarre waiting game: ceasefire or Armageddon?
Iran’s new government
The threat of war is empowering the Islamic republic’s hardliners
The real action
Making love not war in the Middle East
The sun also rises
A shift towards green investment is under way in Africa
A new epidemic
In Congo, a desperate struggle to control the deadly mpox outbreak
Click click boom
YouTube in Africa offers a new kind of news
The Americas


Mexico’s incoming president (1)
Investors panicked after Mexico’s election. Were they right?
Mexico’s incoming president (2)
Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum’s energy plan
Military Mileise
Javier Milei is splurging on the army
Europe


The Russian economy
The mysterious middlemen helping Russia’s war machine
On the edge
The Kremlin is close to crushing Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian town
Gold rush
Turkey’s asset-price boom is good for some but terrible for most
The cash flows south
How Italy’s Mezzogiorno is benefiting from a flood of EU aid
Turning round
After decades of decline, Poland’s population seems to be increasing
Not very Teutonic
The rebuilding of Berlin’s Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
Charlemagne
What Europe’s comeback politicians can teach American voters
Britain


Two cultures
The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians
Bayesian tragedy
Mike Lynch was Britain’s first software billionaire
Exaflop
Britain’s government pulls the plug on a superfast computer
Cancellarius culture
The tricky politics of choosing Oxford’s next chancellor
A place to be
Youth clubs in Britain have been vanishing
Righting wrongs
Britain’s boom in public inquiries into past disasters
International


From Bangkok to Dubai
Indian tourists are conquering the world
Business


Appetite for change
Can big food adapt to healthier diets?
Tech on wheels
Apple can’t do cars. Meet the Chinese tech giants that can
Burnt out
From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year
Blue-sky thinking
India’s largest airline is flying high
Konbini combination
What a takeover offer for 7-Eleven says about business in Japan
Changing times
Why Germany’s watchmakers are worried about the AfD
Bartleby
What to do about pets in the office
Schumpeter
Why America’s tech giants have got bigger and stronger
Finance & economics


Muddled and misguided
Kamala Harris’s cost-of-living plan will end in failure
Reds under the bed
America’s anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communist
Danger signs
Is America already in recession?
The new gender gap
Why don’t women use artificial intelligence?
Going cheap
Why investors are not buying Europe’s revival
Buttonwood
Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs
Free exchange
Artificial intelligence is losing hype
Schools brief


Risks and rules
AI needs regulation, but what kind, and how much?
Science & technology


Red planet
Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating
Cryptography
The world needs codes quantum computers can’t break
Culture


RIP adulthood
Is Western culture stopping people from growing up?
Travel and leisure
Madrid, Europe’s fourth-largest city, deserves more appreciation
Flights of fantasy
Whatever happened to flying cars and other promises?
Picture perfect
Is there such a thing as a classic?
World in a dish
In praise of mangoes
Lights, camera, Pentagon!
Hollywood has a behind-the-scenes helper you might not expect
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Sweet stardom
Wally Amos built, and lost, a delicious empire

The new nuclear threats

The world this week

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KAL’s cartoon
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Footloose and fancy degree
America is sabotaging itself in the global battle for talent
Some countries are much more serious about attracting the highly skilled

The new nuclear threat
Reluctantly, America eyes building more nuclear weapons
The superpower faces more adversaries, new technologies and less-confident allies

Fighting back
The rights, wrongs and risks of Ukraine’s Kursk incursion
Ukrainian forces should be careful not to overreach

A coin toss for the White House
Our forecast puts Kamala Harris and Donald Trump neck and neck
We relaunch our presidential-election model for a transformed race

Billions or trillions?
Time to shine a light on the shadowy carry trade
Transparency will help to avoid financial blow-ups

Letters

On Donald Harris, Burberry, sickle-cell disease, Vienna, Katherine Parr, reading books
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Economic development
Indermit Gill on what China and India must do to join the rich club
American politics
Kamala Harris must define herself before Donald Trump does it for her
Briefing


Economic self-harm
Talent is scarce. Yet many countries spurn it
There is growing competition for the best and the brightest migrants
Asia


Extended uncertainty
What if South Korea got a nuclear bomb?
The need for speed
Bangladesh’s new ruler is in a race against time
Banyan
Taiwan braces for America’s election
Heeding the call
Kishida Fumio, Japan’s prime minister, stands down
Thai politics
Thailand’s prime minister is sacked. What next?
The anniversary of the exit from Kabul
Afghans are suffering. Don’t expect any tears from the Taliban
China


Study hard, be rich, get ahead
China’s wealthy elite rigs its university arms race
Thousands of bodies for sale
A gruesome corpse scandal sparks outrage in China
Chaguan
How China thrives in a world of turmoil
United States


On the eve of escalation
America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race
The Gaza question
Can Kamala Harris win Michigan without Arab-American voters?
Too close to call
Our new forecast for America’s presidential election
God and grades
Pious pupils in America perform better
Solo and the city
Studio flats are now affordable in many more American cities
Trump v Kemp
Donald Trump plays with fire in Atlanta
Lexington
Why the 2024 Chicago convention is not the 1968 convention

Middle East & Africa


Byte the bullet
Iran’s electronic confrontation with Israel
Putting in a time of war
The bunkers on Beirut’s golf course are in the crosshairs
Conscription
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox still won’t fight, invoking scripture
A new age of austerity
The lessons of Africa’s tax revolts
Vroom vroom!
Cheap Asian motorcycles are transforming African cities
The Americas


Law of the jungle
A bold plan to close the deadly Darién Gap unravels
The lawless roads
Peru’s crazy drivers offer a data deluge for self-driving cars
Europe


Into the breach
What next after Ukraine’s shock invasion of Russia?
Freedom on the line
Ukraine’s convicts take the fight inside Russia
Stop the war
Anti-war parties are set to clean up in eastern German elections
The fungus is just starting
How a Spanish province became the world’s truffle leader
Charlemagne
The great cover-up: Europe is losing its penchant for public nudity
Britain


Immigration policy
Britain has many levers for controlling migration. Which ones should it pull?
The morning after
Britain’s justice system has responded forcefully to the riots
Subterranean assets
Britain’s government is mapping underground cable and pipes
A privy counsel
Winston Churchill’s urinal shows Britain’s hang-up with heritage
Crude realities
Britain’s oil and gas industry faces an uncertain future
Say cheese!
NHS dentistry is decaying
International


Star wars: a new hope
Can Donald Trump’s Iron Dome plan keep America safe?
Business


The new stakeholderism
Patriotism is replacing purpose in American business
Hitting the road
The global tourism boom is shifting to Asia
Less plain sailing
From Taylor Swift to Star Trek, niche cruises are on the rise
Aiming high
Hindenburg widens its attack on Adani
Use it or lose it
Startups are finding novel ways to recycle carbon
Bartleby
How to take proper breaks from work
Ground down
Can Chipotle’s boss turn Starbucks around?
Schumpeter
How bosses should play politics: the cautionary tale of Elon Musk
Finance & economics


War finance
Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia’s economy soaring
Don’t push it
How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
The danger list
Europe’s economic growth is extremely fragile
Buttonwood
How to invest in chaotic markets
Next-door vigilante
What is behind China’s perplexing bond-market intervention?
Free exchange
Why companies get inflation wrong
Schools brief


Applications for AI
LLMs will transform medicine, media and more
Science & technology


Backprop in the brain
AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns
Rays of hope
Exposure to the sun’s UV radiation may be good for you
Sleeper species
Climate change could reawaken harmful invasive plants
Carbon-based artforms
Why a new art gallery in Bangalore is important for Indian science
Culture


In defence of the “dirty documentary”
Reality TV is irritating but irresistible
Mad, bad and dangerous to know
Two centuries after his death, why is Lord Byron still seductive?
Wanna bet?
A famous forecaster takes on the establishment
Dollar Bill
What Bill Gates reveals about other billionaires
Cables from Kabul
Three years ago this month America withdrew from Afghanistan
Back Story
On some holidays, beauty and bloodshed are entwined
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Running the peaks
Joss Naylor never let any mountain defeat him

The world this week

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KAL’s cartoon
This week’s covers
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American politics
Can Kamala Harris win?
Joe Biden’s vice-president has an extraordinary opportunity. But she also has a mountain to climb

Game changer
A global gold rush is changing sport
Fans may be cooling on the Olympics, but elsewhere technology is transforming how sport is watched

Don’t stop the buck
MAGA Republicans are wrong to seek a cheaper dollar
It is hard to cast America as a victim of the global financial system

The lost leader
Germany’s failure to lead the EU is becoming a problem
A weak chancellor and coalition rows are to blame

Africa 2.0
How to ensure Africa is not left behind by the AI revolution
Weak digital infrastructure is holding the continent back

Letters

On India, Starbucks, African farmers, electoral systems, behavioural economics, conferences
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The American election
A prominent donor on why the Democrats shouldn’t anoint Kamala Harris
The state of Britain
Neil Kinnock on the post-war-like challenges facing Keir Starmer
Briefing


The state of play
A shift in the media business is changing what it is to be a sports fan
Team loyalty is being replaced by “fluid fandom”
Asia


Japanese defence
Is this a new age of warrior Japan?
Pomp and preparation
Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China
What Modi 3.0 may mean
A weakened Narendra Modi subsidises jobs and doles out pork
Banyan
Sheikh Hasina faces her biggest crisis in years
China


An ample supply of promises
China unveils its new economic vision
The state of the union
The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens
Chaguan
The nationalism of ideas
United States


The switch in time
Which Kamala Harris is now at the top of the Democratic ticket?
The mobiliser
The clues in Kamala Harris’s championing of reproductive rights
The “brat” vote
Is Kamala Harris “brat”?
Kammander-in-chief?
How to decode Kamala Harris’s foreign policy
Patience, please
Reliable numbers on Trump v Harris are scarce for now
Native spirit
A Texas judge gives a nod to America’s at-home distillers
Moving on up
Class, race and the chances of outgrowing poverty in America
Lexington
What identity politics will Kamala Harris practise?

Middle East & Africa


Africa unplugged
Why the AI revolution is leaving Africa behind
Congo’s intensifying war
Rwandan soldiers may outnumber M23 rebels in Congo
Jaw-jaw and war-war
Bibi Netanyahu offered spectacle over substance in America
Mutual attrition
Israel and the Houthis trade bombs and bluster
The Americas


On its knees
Cuba is out of supplies and out of ideas
Greenback blues
The strong dollar is hurting exports from Latin America
Europe


Europe’s bantamweight
The Germany-shaped void at Europe’s heart
Robocommander
Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine’s drones
Bumpy landing
Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan’s airport after Silvio Berlusconi
Fixing the roof
European countries are banding together on missile defence
The bricklayer
Peter Magyar is reinvigorating Hungary’s struggling opposition
Charlemagne
To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936
Britain


Labour’s honeymoon
Is Britain’s economy finally moving?
Swan-upmanship
How King Charles III counts his swans
Turnout trouble
Are Britons losing the habit of voting?
Fighting talk
Britain’s army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks
A Belfast symbol
The builder of the Titanic is struggling to stay afloat
Bagehot
Why Britain’s Labour government enjoys hippy-punching
International


A golden opportunity
Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good
1843 magazine


Election 2024
How the Proud Boys are prepping for a second Trump term
Entertainment
How to get rich (Taylor’s version)
Israel/Palestine
Marwan Barghouti, the world’s most important prisoner
Cyber-security
Secrets of a ransomware negotiator
Desert island risks
The cruise that will get you chased by the Chinese coastguard
Business


A fossil-fuel fantasy
Donald Trump’s promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful
Bump start
China’s robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla’s
Prestige and the podium
LVMH is splurging on the Olympics
Dogfight
Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?
Bartleby
Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse
Schumpeter
Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta’s crown jewels?
Finance & economics


Broken record
The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration
Breaking the greenback
Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
Heterodox thought
Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
War economy
How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
China’s reserves
Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
Buttonwood
Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
Schools brief


Artificial intelligence
AI firms will soon exhaust most of the internet’s data
Science & technology


Drums of war
How Ukraine’s new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
Deep breaths
The deep sea is home to “dark oxygen”
The war on AIDS
Clues to a possible cure for AIDS
Road safety
Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
Culture


Read trip
Packing for your summer holiday? Take these books published in 2024
Page-turners
The real theme of J.D. Vance’s and Donald Trump’s memoirs
The river runs through it
The Seine may determine athletes’ success at the Paris Olympics
Going down to the woods
How “The Blair Witch Project” changed horror films
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
The romance and reality of Paris, the Olympics’ host
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Weapons into light
Thomas Neff’s idea rid the world of a third of its nuclear warheads

The world this week

Politics
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KAL’s cartoon
This week’s cover
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Nutrition and cognition
How to raise the world’s IQ
Simple ways to make the next generation more intelligent

School scandal
Faddish thinking is hobbling education in the rich world
Test scores have been stagnant or worse for more than a decade

France’s shotgun election
The French far right may not have peaked
After winning 32% of the vote in parliamentary elections it will eye the presidency

Credit-crushed
How to prevent strongmen from hijacking the fight against dodgy money
Egypt, India and Turkey are regular abusers

Lord, make us proportional—but not yet
Britain’s skewed election reinforces the case for voting reform. After 2029
The new government has more important things to deal with first

Letters

On Joe Biden, a Palestinian state, rising seas, Willie Mays, working late
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The American election
A big donor says Joe Biden’s team has gone all Trumpian
SCOTUS and presidential immunity
Justice Sotomayor was right for the wrong reasons
Briefing


Food for thought
Small investments in nutrition could make the world brainier
Many pregnant women and babies are malnourished—and not just in poor countries
Asia


No business like sow business
The world’s next food superpower
Bear-hugging bros
Narendra Modi cuddles up to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
Politics in Japan
Social-media populists have arrived in Japan
Banyan
Singapore’s foreign admirers see only the stuff they like
China


Under Xi’s gaze
China views America’s presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
United Front summer camp
Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
Artefacts that serve a purpose
China is using archaeology as a weapon
Chaguan
What China means when it says “peace”
United States


The comeback kidder
Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
Marginal revolution
Anguish about Joe Biden’s candidacy is rational, polls suggest
The party line
The Republicans’ policy platform previews the coming campaign
North Dakota rising
Meet a leading Trump vice-presidential contender
From mafia town to metropolis
Las Vegas’s power couple says goodbye to power
Lexington
How do you solve a problem like Joe Biden?

Middle East & Africa


Elections in Iran
Iran’s new hope: a cardiologist president
The flow of aid
Why food is piling up on the edge of Gaza
Tightrope over Gaza
Jordan’s Islamists have been boosted by the war in Gaza
Half a bowl of stew
Soaring food-price inflation is hurting Nigeria’s poor
Zacchaeus climbs down
Kenya’s deadly Gen-Z protests could change the country
The Americas


Voting against Maduro
A new danger for Venezuela’s autocrat
Of Milei and Moses
In Catholic Argentina, Javier Milei embraces Judaism
Unhappy union
The irrelevance of Mercosur
Europe


The French parliamentary election
France is desperately searching for a government
A bridge too far?
When will Ukraine join NATO?
The latest outrage
A Russian missile hits a children’s hospital in central Kyiv
Houdininomics
Germany’s debt brake and the art of fantasy budgeting
Ignorance is strength
The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia
Charlemagne
Viktor Orban solidifies his credentials as the EU’s pantomime villain
Britain


Labour and the world
What does Labour’s win mean for British foreign policy?
The enemy within
Britain’s Labour government has declared war on NIMBYs
Disproportional representation
Britain’s general election was its least representative ever
Poll post-mortem
How did pollsters do in predicting the British election?
Shore things
Why are British beach huts so expensive?
Independents’ day
How the Gaza war affected the British election
Bagehot
The new front line of British politics is just lovely
International


Cable ties
How China and Russia could hobble the internet
Special report


Schooling’s stagnation
Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
Teachers
The rich world’s teachers are increasingly morose
Technology
Will artificial intelligence transform school?
Soft skills
Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
Back to basics
England’s school reforms are earning fans abroad
Schooling’s stagnation
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Past their prime
America’s giant armsmakers are being outgunned
Power drain
Why most battery-makers struggle to make money
Peering across the Rhine
What German business makes of France’s leftward turn
Where’s my money?
Europe’s biggest debt-collector has a debt problem
Tit for tat, not Tesla
The EV trade war between China and the West heats up
Bartleby
The CEO’s alternative summer reading list
Schumpeter
Once high-flying Boeing is now a corporate criminal
Finance & economics


Halting his charge
Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
On the money
Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
Retaliate, negotiate, repeat
Europe prepares for a mighty trade war
Buttonwood
The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
Good cop, bad cop
How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
Free exchange
Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
Science & technology


Artificial intelligence
Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
Periods
A scientific discovery could lead to leak-free period products
Windows on the past
Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
Aquaculture
Vaccines could keep salmon safe from sea lice
Culture


Backstabbing blockbusters
Power-grabbing tips from “House of the Dragon” and “Shogun”
Back Story
The drama of election night: a critical guide
A date with destiny and your data
What happens to your data when you die?
What a racket
Whoever wins at Wimbledon, many of tennis’s professionals are losers
Dance of death
A history of Hamas dispenses with some pervasive myths
Heads will roll
Henry VIII’s wives get their revenge
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Haunted by a painting
Pål Enger never quite knew why he had to steal “The Scream”

The world this week

Politics
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KAL’s cartoon
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Leaders


American politics
Why Biden must withdraw
The president and his party portray themselves as the saviours of democracy. Their actions say otherwise

Keir not
Labour has won the British election. Now it has to seize the moment
A volatile electorate and a strong showing for Reform UK are no reason for caution

The northern front
Hizbullah poses a grave threat to Israel
But a war right now would be disastrous

Everything in store
As Amazon turns 30, three factors will define its next decade
It will have to deal with trustbusters, catch up on AI and revive its core business

The end of the beginning
Central banks are winning the battle against inflation. But the war is just getting started
Politics and protectionism will make life difficult

Cloud and dagger
How spies should use technology
Digital tools are transforming spycraft, but won’t replace human agents

NATO at 75
How to Trump-proof America’s alliances
An essential step will be to let Ukraine into NATO

Letters

On solar power, the New York Times bestseller list, Metallica, football, presidential debates
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


Geopolitics
The West’s values are important, but so is realism, says Finland’s president
Europe’s other flashpoint
NATO must tackle instability in the Balkans, says an ex-head
Briefing


Demotivational speaking
Democratic bigwigs are starting to call for Joe Biden to step aside
A sitting congressman has broken ranks

President Lear
Senility in high office
Even leaders who are spry for their age eventually lose their grip

Gerontocrats ascendant
One generation has dominated American politics for over 30 years
How have they become so entrenched?

A new podcast
Introducing “Boom!”
A six-part series about the generation that blew up American politics
Asia


A new era begins
Japan’s mind-bending bento-box economics
The strange death of liberal arts
Why many young Asians are no longer studying history
An Asian model
Why is Thai health care so good?
Going nuclear
Demand for uranium is booming. Who is benefiting?
Banyan
Indians have grown used to getting nice things from politicians
China


Worrying about water
China is struck by floods and drought—at the same time
No defence
How to provoke the fury of Xi Jinping
An attack and a crackdown
China takes a step to curb anti-Japanese rhetoric online
United States


Supremely controversial
The Supreme Court’s term ends with a rash of divisive rulings
Vulture capital
The unsteady comeback of the California condor
Bureaucratic power
What the Chevron ruling means for the next US president
Fertile ground
Will IVF really be the next frontier in America’s culture wars?
Lexington
Joe Biden is fooling only himself

Middle East & Africa


The northern front
The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
The new nationalists
Meet the victors in Africa’s coup belt
The forest for the trees
How EU do-goodery risks harming Africa’s small farmers
The Americas


The sleepwalkers
China’s presence in Latin America has expanded dramatically
The other China
Paraguay and Taiwan strengthen their embrace, for now
A different kind of therapy
Mexico has become a testing ground for psychedelic therapies
Europe


France’s parliamentary election
Le Pen’s hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
A black hole
Ukraine’s war has created millions of broken families
Send in the Turks
Turkish tourists can now easily visit nearby Greek islands
Green policies
The EU should be the world’s heat-pump pioneer
Charlemagne
Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
Britain


The British election
Labour’s landslide victory will turn politics on its head
Legacy thinking
The inheritance awaiting Britain’s next government
Deplatforming
The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain’s DIY-investing titan
Onboarding
Nukes and King Charles—but no door key
Political retirements
A prime minister, a plotter and others say farewell as British MPs
Bagehot
A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends
Bagehot
What now for Britain’s right-wing parties?
International


Fickle friends
Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen will haunt NATO’s 75th birthday party
Technology Quarterly


New-look spooks
The tools of global spycraft have changed
Dead drop drops dead
Ubiquitous technical surveillance has made spying more difficult
Dot-dot-dot dashed
Signals intelligence has become a cyber-activity
Old-school broadcasts
Sometimes the old ways of espionage are the best
SpookGPT
Artificial intelligence can speed-sort satellite photos
Intelligence, Inc
Private firms and open sources are giving spies a run for their money
Spycraft
Sources and acknowledgments
Business


Growing closer
What next for Amazon as it turns 30?
Erase and rewind
Hollywood enters a frugal new era
A bunker mentality
Panic rooms and private bunkers are all the rage in Germany
Bartleby
Your conference-survival handbook
Schumpeter
Lessons in risk-taking from buccaneering BBVA
Finance & economics


A sequence of zeroes
What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
Business creation
How Starbucks caffeinates local economies
Disappearing act
Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
In the wars
Ukraine has a month to avoid default
Buttonwood
America’s banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
Free exchange
How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
Science & technology


Tropical biology
The world’s most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
Neurosurgery
A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
Brewed awakenings
New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager
Best foot forward
A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone
Culture


Call of the desert
Can Saudi Arabia become a premier tourist hotspot?
Not of an age, but for all time
Making a case for Shakespeare, 400 years after his death
Manners maketh money
Finishing schools for the age of TikTok
Stories from Kerala
The rise of Mollywood, India’s more subtle film hub
Melancholy in the mountains
Like its Montana setting, Kevin Barry’s novel is brutal and gorgeous
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
The best and worst memoirs by British prime ministers
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
The Economist explains


The Economist explains
Who could plausibly replace Joe Biden?
The Economist explains
How could Democrats replace Joe Biden as their candidate for president?
Obituary


The keeper of memory
Ángeles Flórez Peón, “Maricuela”, made sure Spain did not forget its history

The world this week

Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s covers
Leaders


The British election
Keir Starmer should be Britain’s next prime minister
Why Labour must form the next government

Governing America
What to make of Joe Biden’s plans for a second term
His domestic agenda is underwhelming, unrealistic and better than the alternative

Global warming
Simple steps to stop people dying from heatwaves
As much of the world roasts, don’t despair

Pointers for the plenum
A pivotal moment for China’s Communist Party
Will Xi Jinping keep ignoring good advice at the party’s third plenum?

Can you make this clearer?
LLMs now write lots of science. Good
Easier and more lucid writing will make science faster and better

The centre cannot hold
Macron has done well by France. But he risks throwing it all away
After the election, populists of the right and left could hobble a centrist president

Letters

On software attacks, lab-grown meat, the pop industry, Iraq, the Moon, breasts
Letters to the editor
By Invitation


The French election
A hard-right government might disrupt France’s relations with Europe
Business and the American election
A business leader on why he’s backing Donald Trump
Briefing


The trouble with sequels
What would Joe Biden actually do with a second term?
He has a domestic agenda, but no easy way to bring it about
Asia


Rebels without much cause
Meet the incels and anti-feminists in Asia
Beginner’s luck?
Casinos are booming in South-East Asia
Left wanting
Narendra Modi needs to win over low-income Indians
Gen Z mayor
Takashima Ryosuke is Japan’s youngest ever mayor
Banyan
Ancient artistic loot will finally make its way back to Cambodia
China


Reform in China
The surprisingly frank economic advice that Xi Jinping gets
Last call
Roxie, one of China’s few lesbian bars, closes its doors
Going private
Health-care reform is upending the lives of China’s doctors
Over the moon
China’s probe returns from the far side of the moon
United States


The enthusiasm gap
Young voters strongly favour Joe Biden, but will they turn out?
Forensic fandom
True-crime fans are banding together online to try to solve cases
Push and Pulaskix
Przekrój, an iconic Polish magazine, relaunches in America
AI and parenting
Non-white American parents are embracing AI faster than white ones
A SCOTUS snafu
What to make of the US Supreme Court’s latest abortion ruling
Marking their own homework
Research into trans medicine has been manipulated
Lexington
In New York, the Democratic establishment strikes back

Middle East & Africa


Extreme weather
The “Venice of Africa” is sinking into the sea
Surrounded by trouble
Mauritania is a beacon of stability in the coup-prone Sahel
Breaking the budget
A new breed of protest has left Kenya’s president tottering
Pier pressure
Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
No thanks
The job of Iran’s president is a study in humiliation
The Americas


Chaos in the Andes
An apparent coup in Bolivia founders, but the country remains in trouble
Canada’s overdose capital
Vancouver pioneered liberal drug policies. Fentanyl destroyed them
Mission impossible
A Kenyan-led security mission finally starts to arrive in Haiti
Europe


France’s parliamentary election
Emmanuel Macron’s centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote
Home-made highs
European gangs are getting better at making their own illegal drugs
Belgorod
Death and destruction in a Russian city
Getting them while they’re young
Finland’s shrinking high schools are importing pupils from abroad
Charlemagne
Can António Costa make a success of the world’s hardest political gig?
Britain


The Starmer method
What the remaking of Labour reveals about Sir Keir Starmer
Our best guess
The Economist’s final prediction points to a Tory wipeout in Britain
Lettuce pray
On shame, Liz Truss and the turnip Taliban
Bicester and Woodstock
The British election is not close. But the race in Bicester is
The Public Duty Cost Allowance
The cost of Britain’s cast of ex-prime ministers is mounting
Britain’s unwanted house guest
Julian Assange’s plea deal: a suitable end to a grubby saga
Bagehot
Why the next Westminster scandal is already here
International


Extreme temperatures
The rise of the truly cruel summer
Business


Keeping the lights on
Is the revival of Paris in peril?
Bolt-holes
European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
Thinking fast and slow
A new lab and a new paper reignite an old AI debate
Bartleby
Why everyone should think like a lawyer
Move over, big dirt
Why big oil is wading into lithium
Full steam ahead
Boom times are back for container shipping
The baijiu mystery
Who shaved $250bn from Kweichow Moutai’s market value?
Schumpeter
Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
Finance & economics


Industries of the future
Will services make the world rich?
Buttonwood
American stocks are consuming global markets
The Tijuana two-step
How Chinese goods dodge American tariffs
Biggie deal
McDonald’s v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
Rock steady
Is coal the new gold?
Free exchange
The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest
Science & technology


High alert on high
The race to prevent satellite Armageddon
Viruses
A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
Large language models
At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
Culture


Stage fright
Donald Trump’s return is making Hollywood nervous
Regional inequality
What ails Britain’s left-behind places?
Putin’s delusions, Ukrainians’ pain
A clear-eyed account of Ukraine under siege
World in a dish
The döner kebab has a meaty role in German society
Stringing along
How Kronos became the world’s most innovative string quartet
Frequent travellers
Why travel guidebooks are not going anywhere
The Economist reads


The Economist reads
Books (and films) about the joy and pain of music festivals
Economic & financial indicators

Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary


Just keep having fun
Willie Mays’s philosophy was simple: They throw the ball, I hit the ball