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Our cover
The World Cup paradox
How the rules of both entertainment and soft power are being rewritten
5 min read
President Donald Trump looking isolated in shadows
Dire strait
Donald Trump’s least bad option in Iran
He must swallow his pride and accept a deal worse than the pre-war status quo
3 min read
Photomontage of Kevin Warsh with blue and black squares.
When the facts change
The Federal Reserve must soon give Donald Trump bad news
Kevin Warsh, the unlucky new chairman, has seen his case for lower interest rates disintegrate
4 min read
Workers at a construction site in Liangping High-tech Zone in Chongqing, China
China’s concentration risk
For its own sake, China should change its growth model
It is suffering economic costs for its industrial dominance
4 min read
Collage of De Tocqueville on a red background, with a map of the United States and blue stars.
In praise of road trips
The best way to celebrate America at 250 is to get behind the wheel
Preferably with our new podcast series for company
3 min read

Letters
This illustration depicts the Grim Reaper holding a red-and-white striped plastic straw instead of a scythe, symbolizing death being used as or acting as a gatekeeper.
A selection of correspondence
What can you learn from the Premier League?
Also this week, school meals in Indonesia, commuting, Barney Frank, MAGA tax, condoms
6 min read
By Invitation

AI-men to that!
Silicon Valley needs to get God
Tech must reorient towards moral purpose for it—and humankind—to flourish, argues Glen Weyl
5 min read
Gianni’s end?
This may just be the last World Cup
5 min read
Briefing
Photo collage featuring South African and Brazilian singers, Danish musicians, and Polish, Korean and Japanese TV series
Music, TV and video games
Forget the World Cup. Culture is becoming more fragmented
Farewell to the monoculture
14 min read
Britain
Blue-green algae infest the water on the shores of Lough Neagh, in Northern Ireland
The nationalisation dead end
Britain’s privatised utilities are a mess
But public ownership is a red herring
6 min read
Blow the whistle
Britain’s rail nationalisation is going full steam ahead
3 min read
Playground politics
A kids’ social-media ban would be a bad parting gift from Keir Starmer
4 min read
Belfast burning
A frenzied knife attack by a refugee has put Northern Ireland on edge
3 min read
King and “Country Life”
A posh and peculiar British magazine is thriving
5 min read
Bagehot
British politicians are racing to the hard right
5 min read
Europe
Tangled arrows bearing the EU flag and Chinese flag face off in the centre of the image
Trade trap
A trade war between the EU and China seems inevitable
Europe sees Chinese subsidies, China sees European weakness
5 min read
In the gang
Why Turkey likes NATO again
5 min read
Moving Kramatorsk
Ukraine is transplanting its industrial heart to the west
4 min read
Hitting the hinterland
Ukrainian strikes are inflicting pain deep inside Russia
1 min read
Pressure failure
Armenia’s election is a setback for Vladimir Putin
5 min read
Charlemagne
Ukraine’s war is now longer than the first world war
5 min read

United States

Pleasantvilles
America’s quintessential places are getting old, fast
Welcome to the greying suburbs
6 min read
Arch enemies
The ageing protesters trying to topple Washington’s “ego arch”
3 min read
Catholics and confession
Should priests have to report child abuse disclosed in confession?
4 min read
Amok on TikTok
Social media is behind both “teen takeovers” and the outrage they fuel
3 min read
Votes and likes
America’s mayors join the scrabble to become influencers
2 min read
Tik-Tocqueville
On America’s 250th, go back to “Democracy in America”
10 min read
Lexington
The Knicks represent New York—and capitalism—at its best
5 min read
Essay

America at 250
From morning in America to endless conflict
12 min read

America at 250
How the war on terror primed America for autocracy
The road from 9/11 leads directly to January 6th, writes Rosa Brooks
5 min read
Middle East & Africa
An Iranian woman walks past a wall painting of Iranian women soldiers on a street in Tehran
Rolling the dice
Iran has lost its fear of war
A once-cautious regime is making a risky bet on low-level conflict
5 min read
A growing dilemma
How Israel is frustrating Donald Trump’s Iran plans
5 min read
All at sea
The first-ever robotic rescue at sea is a milestone
2 min read
A rare winner
Syria is an unexpected beneficiary of the Gulf war
4 min read
Dilemmas in the horn
Could Eritrea come in from the cold?
4 min read
No, he won’t go
Fighting in Mogadishu risks making a weak state weaker
3 min read
The Americas
A member of the Jalisco State Security Secretariat conducts a helicopter patrol in Guadalajara, Mexico, over the stadium.
An ugly game
The World Cup will test Mexico’s control over its territory
Donald Trump, who says the government is too weak to combat the drug gangs, will be watching
5 min read
Dead heat
What happens when a presidential vote is a drawn-out contest?
4 min read
Castles made of sand
Techno-libertarians are flocking to the Caribbean
4 min read
Asia
Illustration of Lee Jae Myung
Back in the Blue House
An interview with South Korea’s president
Lee Jae Myung has put his country on track again, but challenges loom
6 min read
A chicken and egg problem
Asian activists say too much egg production is cruel
3 min read
Pest control
Can India’s cockroach party become a political movement?
2 min read
The other parent
Japan is rethinking its divorce laws
3 min read
Ashoka
Money troubles are driving India’s states to drink
4 min read

China
Kim Jong Un shakes hands with Xi Jinping during a welcoming ceremony at Kim Il-sung Square in Pyongyang
A Kim-Xi summit
Nukes were off the agenda as Xi Jinping visited North Korea
China is wary of Russian influence and another Trump-Kim summit
6 min read
Fewer and smarter?
China’s notorious university-entrance exam is changing
4 min read
Driving at the limits
In China ride-hailing work is a last resort for rural labourers
3 min read
Chaguan
A dropout-turned-influencer shakes up Chinese science
5 min read
International
Illustration of three official looking men of different nationalities playing Subbuteo
Of trophies and melting pots
How to win the World Cup
Being rich helps, but being open to immigration works best of all
6 min read
Poisoned chalice
The World Cup has always been beset by scandal and strife
5 min read
The Telegram
Why strongmen are wrong to loathe Europe
5 min read
Business
A stylized illustration of Bigfoot walking near a city skyline and bridge. It contrasts a mythical creature with a modern urban setting, highlighting the legend's larger-than-life presence.
Artificial intelligence
Fear of the SaaSpocalypse is tormenting techland
Software once ate the world. Now it is in danger of eating itself
5 min read
Rich pickings
The world’s wealthy are migrating like never before
4 min read
Pavement pioneers
Robots could soon be delivering your pizza
2 min read
A second bite
Apple’s new Siri is a dark horse in the AI race
3 min read
No golden ticket
Another new boss aims to fix the world’s biggest chocolate-maker
3 min read
Bartleby
Too many people are shockingly bad at prioritisation
4 min read
Schumpeter
American capitalism is run by millionaires, not billionaires
5 min read
Finance & economics
Illustration of two chinese dragons whose bodies are shaped like graph lines facing off
A game of two halves
China is innovative. Its economy is a mess. Which matters more?
A question that will define the 21st century
9 min read
Three measures of the new three
How big are China’s emerging industries?
4 min read
Investing by numbers
Stears wants to be Africa’s Bloomberg terminal
3 min read
Timeless fashion
A bidding war erupts for the world’s oldest bank
2 min read
Hoard behaviour
The world’s strategic oil reserves are running out fast
5 min read
Buttonwood
Wall Street’s undignified SpaceX mania
4 min read
Free Exchange
How to share AI riches
5 min read
Science & technology
illustration of a circle of robotic hands placing a puzzle piece into a matching robotic hand. The interconnected arrangement forms a continuous loop.
Over and over
How artificial intelligence got better at building itself
What does “recursive self-improvement” mean for the technology?
9 min read
Lung-range forecast
New techniques can predict and prevent lung cancer
3 min read
Doctors with borders
Too much Chinese science is ignored by the West
3 min read
Well Informed
The chemicals that reduce wrinkles
3 min read

Culture
Argentina's Diego Maradona celebrates holding the World Cup trophy aloft as he is carried off the field after Argentina won the World Cup Final
Fantasy football
Who should win the World Cup?
It’s a better question than “Who will win?” It tells you what the tournament is for
6 min read
Blood, sweat and jeers
The most hated countries at the FIFA World Cup
3 min read
Back Story
Steven Spielberg has more to say about aliens
4 min read
To high heaven?
Saint or sinner: Antoni Gaudí’s polarising style
4 min read
What’s yours is mine
The people behind the largest art heist in history
3 min read
Slaying the game
What “Backrooms” and “Obsession” reveal about Gen Z’s fears
2 min read
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Still from "Persepolis" showing Marjane Satrapi smoking
Veil and beard and nuclear weapon
Marjane Satrapi set out to correct the West’s views of Iran
The author of “Persepolis”, an international sensation, died on June 4th, aged 56
5 min read

Leaders

Our cover
How to fight back against Gen-Z socialism
The me-first doctrine is a threat to prosperity
5 min read

Our cover
India’s surprise baby bust is a warning to the world
It is not just rich places that are becoming less fertile
5 min read
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the European Council building in Brussels, Belgium
A crucial security partner
Ukraine is not a charity case
Europe needs its help just as badly as the other way round
3 min read
Photomontage of a mouth with the red cross of the british flag over it.
Muzzled Britannia
Britain is wrong to ban speakers like Hasan Piker
Even though his views are awful
4 min read
Illustration of the familiar figure from a U.S. dollar bill portrait covering their face with one hand inside an ornate frame, set against a green background.
Treasure it
America’s decaying Treasury market needs a fix
High debt, disjointed markets and pugnacious trade policy all threaten the world’s safe asset
4 min read
Illustration of a blindfolded footballer getting ready to kick a corner.
The even more beautiful game
How to make football more exciting
The World Cup is wonderful. It could be even better
4 min read

Letters
This illustration depicts the Grim Reaper holding a red-and-white striped plastic straw instead of a scythe, symbolizing death being used as or acting as a gatekeeper.
A selection of correspondence
Are most celebrity book-clubs irritating?
Also this week, SpaceX, Star Wars and cinema production, urban trees, management waffle, dressing for the City
5 min read
By Invitation
A portrait of James Tozer
Pass, pass, cross, yawn
Why the World Cup produces an ugly version of the beautiful game
FIFA could emulate other sports by tweaking rules to generate more excitement, writes James Tozer
5 min read
Roll over and groan
The pain to come in private credit
5 min read
Briefing
A girl in school uniform walking alone, surrounded by elderly figures passing by — symbolising low birth rates and an ageing population in India.
Demographic dive
India’s population will soon be falling—probably quite fast
Neither widespread poverty, nor high rates of marriage nor relatively young mothers are sustaining fertility
13 min read
Britain
A demonstrator faces police holding riot shields following a protest march in Southampton on June 2nd 2026
Henry Nowak
Was this Britain’s George Floyd moment?
No, but Nigel Farage would have you think so
5 min read
Robbing Peter to punish Paul
The Green Party’s ill-considered policy to cap CEOs’ pay
4 min read
Greens and reds
British politics has passed peak Palestine
3 min read
No entry
Britain’s government prefers visa bans to free speech
4 min read
Lessons in austerity
The impact of taxing British private-school fees starts to show
5 min read
bagehot
Build a prime minister
5 min read
Europe
A woman walks along a smoke-filled road beside heavily damaged buildings following Russian strikes in Kyiv.
Vision quest
Ukraine is now Europe’s war. Survival can’t be the only aim
America’s disengagement means it is now the old continent’s conflict to manage
6 min read
Who’s afraid of the Bundeswehr?
Why France is uneasy about German rearmament
4 min read
Playing for time
How long can Pedro Sánchez last?
3 min read
Ill-gotten loot
Italy has tracked down Cosa Nostra’s riches
3 min read
Charlemagne
Europe has reduced illegal immigration without goon tactics
5 min read

United States
An illustration of a group of silhouetted people holding out a large red secutiry cheque like a safety net.
Project 2032
America’s Social Security trust fund is disappearing
Legislators have just six years to fix things
6 min read
After Newsom
California is on the cusp of its “Becerra era”
4 min read
Past and presents
Welcome to Evanston, where woke never died
4 min read
Who needs intelligence?
The fading influence of America’s spy co-ordinator
4 min read
Jailscrapers
Meet the jailscraper
5 min read
Lexington
Donald Trump says Pete Hegseth loves war. That should disqualify him
5 min read
Middle East & Africa
A worker raises a pole bearing the Iranian flag at Enghelab Square in Tehran
Never-finished business
Even if America and Iran find an accord, don’t expect it to last
The Donald Trump Show could be back on air later this year
5 min read
Not now, Bibi
Can Donald Trump save Israel from itself in Lebanon?
3 min read
An easier target
Gulf rulers are desperate to prove they are in fact strongmen
4 min read
MAGA missionaries
Nigeria’s Christian groups scramble to win over Trump’s America
4 min read
It’s alright, Goma (I’m only wheeling)
The parable of the tshukudu, Goma’s quintessential transport
2 min read
The Americas
A Military Police officer helps members of the Electoral Justice carry electronic voting machines to a boat for their distribution to indigenous communities along the Rio Negro river, Brazil.
The Bolsonaro effect
Brazil’s high-tech voting system is losing voters’ trust
Blame social media, populist politicians and falling trust in institutions
6 min read
Peasant power
Protesters have controlled Bolivia’s capital for a month
3 min read
Colombia’s next president
Abelardo de la Espriella is now the front-runner in Colombia
4 min read
International
Illustration of Trump's hand putting a pin in a map of Cuba, another pin has the Cuban flag with Trimp's tie forming the red part of the flag
the telegram
Donald Trump could be the man to save Cuba
Ideological certainties have hurt Cubans for 70 years. Time to give cynicism a chance
5 min read
Asia
Bystanders look at the wreckage of a bus in Noshki town of Balochistan province on March 17, 2025, a bombing carried out allegedly by the separatist group Baloch Liberation Army (BLA).
Double trouble
Pakistan is battling two insurgencies
Problems mount at home as its leader plays peacemaker abroad
5 min read
Cometh the hour
The rise of One Nation is melting Australian politics
3 min read
Don’t mention Taiwan
America’s secretary of war pulls his punches on China
4 min read
Industry in East Asia
Worries about migrants imperil South Korea’s shipbuilding boom
3 min read
Anything goes
Sex tourists fuel outrage about vice in Japan
4 min read
ashoka
India’s republic of uncles
4 min read

China
A father and his son ride an electric scooter, Tianshui, Gansu province, China,
The haves and the have-bots
China’s high-tech rise is leaving much of the country behind
That could make a starkly unequal country even more so
6 min read
Meet the red experts
Xi Jinping gives China’s crack scientists new jobs inside government
4 min read
Different goals
Ma Ning will proudly represent China at the World Cup
2 min read
chaguan
China’s delivery drivers are its most obvious underclass
5 min read
Special report
Illustration of a hand gripping a twisting golden dollar-sign-shaped rope against a blue background
The $32 trillion question
The special role of the Treasury market is in peril
Government debt, inflation and unpredictable policymaking are putting the world’s most important asset under threat, argues Mike Bird in a special report
5 min read
No longer special
Foreign demand for American government debt is becoming much less reliable
6 min read
The basis trade
Like it or not, hedge funds are a permanent part of the Treasury market
8 min read
Balancing Act
Partners in prime: The Fed and Treasury’s new relationship
7 min read
New players
Neither banks nor stablecoins will rescue the Treasury market
4 min read
No other option
Could something replace the Treasury market?
3 min read
Debts of despair
Imagining a world without a safe asset
6 min read
Business

Rodeo capitalism
Texas is America Inc’s new centre of gravity
Exxon’s reincorporation is one more feather in the state’s cowboy hat
7 min read
Engine problems
BYD is losing its spark
4 min read
Sheikh, rattle and roll
A new defence champion is rising from the Gulf
3 min read
Gotta build ’em all
Lego, Pokémon and the future of fun
3 min read
Rolling the dice
Two American tycoons are betting big on a casino revival
3 min read
Chip shot
Nvidia wants to supercharge your laptop
3 min read
bartleby
What to read to understand your next employer
4 min read
schumpeter
American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn
5 min read
Finance & economics

The left in front
Gen-Z socialism, from Zohran to Zack and beyond
The world’s leftists are embracing a new set of economic ideas
10 min read
Giga-IPOs
Can the stockmarket swallow SpaceX, Anthropic and OpenAI?
6 min read
Weather markets
Indians can now bet on the monsoon
3 min read
Peak negativity
European electricity markets have too much power
3 min read
buttonwood
Want to know the future? Don’t trust the stockmarket
4 min read
Free Exchange
Some billionaires pay too little tax
5 min read
Science & technology
illustration of golden wheat field with a translucent data dashboard showing charts, gauges, and weather icons, representing agriculture and tech
Food tech
Investment in agricultural tech is growing
Startups are combining AI and genetics to make more food for less money
5 min read
Blue Origin
Rocket goes boom; so do moon plans
4 min read
Silent night
How to bring down cheap, low-flying drones
5 min read
well informed
Should you use a sleep tracker?
3 min read

Culture
Bust of Alexander the Great inside a circular globe frame on a blue background
Alexander the Greatly entertaining
How many times a day do you think about Alexander the Great?
A new book is as riveting as its protagonist was
6 min read
Jackals, parasites or heroes?
The hidden tastemakers of the literary world
4 min read
Back Story
Why you should never skip a TV intro
4 min read
Best TV/film
The best, and worst, TV series and films of 2026 (so far)
5 min read
Passport to everywhere
Travel is becoming a competitive sport
3 min read
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Close-up of Sonny Rollins playing the tenor saxophone, mid 1950s
The last colossus
Sonny Rollins believed that jazz was all there was

The new shape of war
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Smart tech is making war a dumber choice
Smaller, weaker countries can defend themselves more easily with cheap, deadly kit
Portrait of Abiy Ahmed.
Manifest destiny
The imperial vision of Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed
The prime minister’s ambitions threaten both his country and the Horn of Africa
A worker packs aluminum extrusions for shipment at the Kato Light Metal Industry Co. factory in Kanie, Aichi prefecture, Japan.
Don’t look back in Changhua
How East Asia should respond to its China shock
As they deindustrialise, Taiwan, South Korea and Japan must reform
People pass an image of the Cuban flag in central Havana.
Irate in the Caribbean
Attacking Cuba would be a huge mistake
But Donald Trump could make a deal with the communist regime
People walk past McDonald 'arches'.
Apply inside
Why the world needs more franchises
From pizza to Pilates, franchises mint millionaires and make customers happy

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Is overgrazing a problem for conservation?
By Invitation
A portrait of Francois Villeroy
Survivor of rough seas
A central banker’s lessons from a fragmented decade
Essay
Transparent battlefield: A soldier hides from scanning drones below while high-tech fighter jets operate freely above.
The world’s wars
The dangerous delusion of modern warfare
Asia
Collage of South-East Asian leaders
Springtime for hard men
llliberal leaders in mainland South-East Asia revamp their regimes
Curry crunch
Japan’s beloved Indian restaurants are under threat
Taking back control
Indonesia’s erratic president grabs the country’s commodity exports
Pilgrims’ progress
War has not deterred Asian Muslims from the hajj
Ashoka
Narendra Modi gives India’s elite a taste of the bad old days
China
Aerial view of an agrivoltaic farm illuminated by morning glow on October 25, 2025 in Luocheng Mulao Autonomous County, Hechi City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China.
Dimming prospects
China’s world-beating solar industry is in turmoil
The dark side
A coalmine explosion lays bare China’s two-speed economy
Back in its cage
Bowing to online fury, China’s censors ban a prizewinning film
Chaguan
China’s diplomatic successes are broad but shallow
United States
An illustration of Donald Trump standing in a circle being drawn on the ground by John Roberts, Chief Justice of the United States. To the left is evidence of a circle that has been rubbed out.
The nine and the one
How the Supreme Court both checks and empowers Donald Trump
The YOLO caucus
Meet the Republicans defying Donald Trump
Leave to (maybe) return
The Trump administration’s big move to limit legal immigration
Can our pets come, too?
The refugees Donald Trump wants are white and middle-class
Unscripted
Are Angelenos angry enough to elect an insurgent as mayor?
Lexington
Why can’t Elon Musk do for politics what he’s done for industry?

The Americas
A marcher holds a framed composite image of Fidel Castro, Raul Castro and Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel
The Cuban conundrum
Would American military action against Cuba work?
Havananomics
Could Donald Trump save Cuba’s economy?
Of tigers and terrorists
Colombia’s pivotal, polarised election could not be tighter
International
Illustration of a wolf howling at the moon
The Telegram
Centrists crying “Wolf!”
Middle East & Africa
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
The new emperor
Abiy Ahmed dreams of remaking Ethiopia in his image
A viral nightmare
Congo’s response to Ebola is late and chaotic
Waiting for Godot in the Gulf
America and Iran are getting close to a deal. Or not
Oil and troubled waters
The Gulf war makes devastating oil spills more likely
Jailer-in-chief
Itamar Ben-Gvir has presided over horrific abuse in Israel’s prisons
Europe
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a military briefing in Ukraine.
A turning tide
Ukraine’s latest challenge is how to deal with hope
The French Mamdani
France’s Gen Z has fallen for a 74-year-old radical socialist
Of God and Claude
Leo’s first encyclical attacks technological messianism
Vast vessels
Europe’s superyacht-builders hit choppy waters
Charlemagne
How the boomers screwed Europe
Britain
A postcard of the Cotswolds saying 'Welcome to Britain'. The postard is covered in DENIED stamps.
Migration policy
Britain has crushed immigration, and harmed itself
A question of control
Immigration remains at the forefront of British voters’ minds
Metal heads
Alloyed shows how Britain hopes to make things in the future
Swindrone
Why Swindon is emerging as a centre for Britain’s drone industry
In search of a new model
Britain is quietly de-Brexiting
Bagehot
How the Treat conquered politics
Business
Mcdonald's sign in Hachita, New Mexico
The millionaire machine
Franchising has quietly made countless Americans rich
The Houdini of Gujarat
Everything is going right for India’s richest man
War and love
The world’s top condom-maker is getting squeezed
Seeing the light
Ferrari’s electric car: divisiveness is the point
Bartleby
How should bosses talk about AI?
Schumpeter
BP cares too much about feelings and not enough about performance
Finance & economics
An illustration of a manufacturing robot in a crouched or strained position, symbolising the pressure placed on North-East Asian economies through their heavy dependence on manufacturing and export-led industries.
Boom and bust
Japan, South Korea and Taiwan are suffering industrial rot
A shore bet
Crackdowns on financial secrecy aren’t hurting offshore finance
Tax heavens
How to tax businesses in orbit and beyond
An uncomfortable chair
Kevin Warsh’s troublesome inflation in-tray
Buttonwood
Giga-IPOs are a symptom of public markets’ giga-problem
Free Exchange
Without fanfare, China is making rural migrants’ lives easier
Science & technology
Minimal illustration of a stomach and gut with an electronic pill travelling through
Edible electronics
Tomorrow’s medical sensors might come served with dinner
Southern inhospitality
Too much time with colleagues can sour social interaction
When DEET means dinner
Mosquitoes seem to be getting over insect repellent
Well Informed
You probably don’t need extra electrolytes
Culture
The illustration shows some stacked white books in soft mint tones, floating in balanced towers on a clean pastel background
Stack attack
The best books of 2026 so far
Byzantine Byzantium
The tumult of Erdogan’s rule, seen from one district in Istanbul
Sporting prodigies
The hard-hitting youngster sending cricket fans into a spin
The 100-year itch
Marilyn Monroe and the dead-star business
A perfect brake
Beverly Gage, a Pulitzer-prizewinning historian, takes the wheel
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Barney Frank waits for signatures to the National Rep. petition at the Newton bus stop on Winter Street, 5th May, 1980
Playing defence
Barney Frank always took the underdogs’ side

A Starship enterprise
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SpaceX is capitalism on rocket fuel
Make what you will of Elon Musk, his rocketry firm is a marvel of free markets

The MAGA tax
American growth could be even better
MAGAnomics shows the world what not to do. But also what America keeps getting right
Mark Rutte
Planning for divorce
Why NATO needs a Plan B
Mark Rutte is wrong to quash talk of one. The risks of the alliance unravelling are too great to ignore
A woman washes her hands at the Rwandan border following confirmation of an Ebola outbreak in Congo
Parrying pathogens
How to stop the Ebola outbreak
The latest epidemic in central Africa is a warning about future pandemics
Illustration of members of the Labour party pictured as football players, looking beaten after a game.
Political football
Lessons from the Premier League for Britain’s next premier
How a deflated country can bounce back

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Do most baristas in Norway have a master’s degree?
By Invitation
A portrait of Gill Whitehead
Power to the founder
The IPO wave will enshrine the AI gods’ control over the future
Briefing
The SpaceX Super Heavy booster rolls past the production facility toward launch pad 2 ahead of the 12th test flight of the Starship spacecraft in Starbase, Texas
Out of this world
SpaceX has initiated the biggest ever public offering
Elon Musk is again going all-in on an unproven technology—data centres in space
Asia

The Sino-Japanese spat
Why Japan and China will struggle to end their feud
Transactions over Taiwan
Is Donald Trump selling out Taiwan?
Ashoka
India’s loudest political fight obscures a more urgent one
Busy doing nothing
India’s diplomats are hosting the world
Crumbling pillars
Overseas Chinese risk losing their oldest institutions
China
A pedestrian stands near giant screens showing news footage of Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Great Hall of the People during a state visit to China, in Beijing, China May 20, 2026.
Russian in
Vladimir Putin’s turn with Xi Jinping
On the wish list
How China quietly helps Russia in Ukraine
Reflation nations
What China can learn from Japan about escaping deflation
United States
A large image of U.S. President Donald Trump hangs from the the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building.
Friends with benefits
Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8bn fund for friends is bad
A disarming delay
Drained by war with Iran, America is stalling deliveries of arms to Europe
Pulpit partisans
America’s sermons are becoming op-eds
Bottoms up
Democratic primary voters chose a dicey candidate for Georgia governor
Basqueing in it
Europe’s first known language is alive in America’s West
Three ways, not third way
Michigan’s Senate primary is a fight over the future of the Democratic Party
Lexington
Leftist populism’s next big test

The Americas
People illuminate themselves with their phones while playing dominoes as a fire set up by residents protesting against prolonged power outages burns on a street in Havana, Cub
No country for old men
Donald Trump is pushing towards the end-game in Cuba
On the block
Months after electing a centrist president, Bolivia boils over
Pharmapower
Why Brazil’s government is obsessed with vaccines
Middle East & Africa
A visitor has their temperature checked as they arrive at Kyeshero Hospital in Goma
The pathogen crosses borders
A new Ebola outbreak could be the worst in a decade
Into Africa
How to save the safari
Israel’s next election
Is Binyamin Netanyahu facing his last stand?
Guns and unicorns
Israel’s economy is booming
Feeling surrounded
The mother of the world v the upstart
Déjà vu all over again
Donald Trump is still looking for a quick fix in Iran
Europe
A soldier of the United Kingdom's 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian infantry unit storms an enemy position in a simulated attack during the NATO "Brilliant Jump" military exercises.
Transatlantic rift
Europe’s secret Plan B to replace NATO
The wild south-east
Who are Europe’s newest troublemakers?
Pitch battle
Real Madrid’s boss calls an election
Bytebreak
How Europe is fighting for digital sovereignty
Charlemagne
Bre-entry may be the next drama to grip the European Union
Britain
Kenyan fans of Arsenal FC react while watching a match on television in Nairobi, Kenya
World champions
In football, Britain has a world-beating industry
Fever pitch
Why football attendance is booming outside the Premier League
Playing by the rules?
The legal case hanging over Man City and the Premier League
Politics in Birmingham
Britain’s second-biggest city goes from dysfunctional to worse
The phoney war of the roses
Labour’s “battle for ideas” is a skirmish over small differences
Bagehot
Hate Labour? Vote Labour!
International
Illustration of a young girl sat on a pile of books shaped like a house, writing in a notebook
Education
Home-schooling is on the rise around the world
The Telegram
Israel the lonely
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Sport
Dope and glory: inside the Enhanced Games
Business

Everything engines
AI super-apps are remaking China’s internet
Agents for the masses
Google is dethroning OpenAI as the king of consumer AI
Loco for Coco
Chanel’s creative revival is paying off
Striking a new chord
The strange fate of Hard Rock Cafe
Yodanomics
How Star Wars went from space opera to soap opera
Power move
A new mega-deal shows how AI has turned utilities into hot property
Crossing the tracks
Can an Italian company disrupt Germany’s broken railway industry?
Bartleby
Why you should (almost) always look on the bright side of life
Finance & economics
A lone evergreen tree rises above a sea of clouds beneath a clear blue sky
The MAGA tax
How much is Donald Trump costing America’s economy?
Loss leaders
The insurers on the hook for war in Iran
Flying pterodactyl
The other China shock
Locked out
Economics lessons from Home Depot
New oases
Where expat escapees from Dubai end up
Buttonwood
Investors fear another surge in inflation
Free Exchange
How should economists treat morality?
Science & technology
Illustration of three glowing cylindrical batteries against a black background, each releasing blue electrical discharges from the top terminals. The center battery features a circular cutaway revealing a colorful microscopic pattern inside
Charging ahead
Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them much better
Cruise control
The hantavirus outbreak is a tragedy—and a valuable data source
Climate modification
Could microscopic spheres of silica help cool the planet?
Well Informed
How well do anabolic steroids work?
Culture
illustration of two wine-bottle cannons on wooden carts, one with a French flag and the other with an American flag, facing each other on a yellow background.
Red, white and cru
A blind tasting revolutionised the wine world 50 years ago
The Kim catechism
The unlikely inspiration for North Korea’s first dictator
Back Story
Why the sex in “Rivals” is more than mere titillation
Zionism’s Jewish opponents
Not all Jews believed their future lay in Israel
Foul copy
Beware the typo—and other lessons of literary history
Ready Reader One
Gamified novels—known as LitRPG—are a winning format
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Dr Edith Eger when young, by the sea with a little girl
The ballerina of Auschwitz
Edith Eger danced for Josef Mengele

The summit of suspicion
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The Trump-Xi summit will expose a dysfunctional duo
Mutual vulnerability is no substitute for global leadership
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi greets his supporters as he arrives at Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters
Indian democracy
Narendra Modi’s party is on a roll in India
The BJP has beaten a bad ruler in West Bengal. But India must not become a de facto one-party state
Man working with dangerous viruses in a laboratory
From cyber-security to biosecurity
The world must stop AI from empowering bioterrorists
The threat from new pathogens is an even graver danger than AI-backed hackers
A member of the Jewish community looks at the scene where two Jewish men are seriously injured after being stabbed in Golders Green, London, April 29th 2026
Antisemitism
To fight antisemitism, first grasp where it comes from
What looks like a 21st-century problem has deep, dark roots
Illustration of the European flag as a circular saw cutting through red tape.
Simplify and deregulate
Europe is unshackling business. But not enough
Why market liberals must win the battle for Brussels—and national capitals, too

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Why does Britain consistently fail to capture economic returns from innovation?
By Invitation

A bleak view from Moscow
Vladimir Putin is losing his grip on Russia
BIT of progress
The pact that could help America and China repair relations
Briefing
A photo collage featuring portraits of Trump and Xi, alongside images of container ships, medicines, and computer circuit boards, illustrating the economic relationship between the U.S. and China.
Summit in Beijing
Trump and Xi will struggle to strike a major economic deal
Just avoiding a renewed clash will count as success
A photo collage featuring a map of Taiwan, Xi’s portrait, and images of fighter jets, illustrating the security tensions surrounding Taiwan.
Pacific insecurity
China is pushing Donald Trump for concessions on Taiwan
Some in Taipei and Washington fear he may give ground
Asia
BJP supporters celebrate lead in Assam and West Bengal state elections, New Delhi, India - 04 May 2026
Saffron march
Narendra Modi has extended his grip on India
Choppy waters
Asia’s stranded seafarers suffer as the Iran war drags on
Farm to fuel
The energy shock triggers an Asian dash for biofuels
No saviours
The gutting of USAID has left a void China will not fill
Red sky in the morning
America is massing troops near Taiwan to deter troublemaking by China
Banyan
The case against trees
China
Illustration of a chessboard integrated into a computer chip, set against a green circuit board. A red king and a white king stand facing each other on the board
A MAD problem
Artificial intelligence revives a cold-war-style dilemma
Superyachts
A Chinese high-seas misadventure in luxury yachts
Chaguan
China thinks America is declining but still uniquely dangerous
United States
A child throws rocks into the East River at Brooklyn Bridge Park as the sun sets behind the NYC skyline.
The kids in America
City parenting has become a financial flex
Awake not awoke
The Democratic approach to AI is not all about bans
Calais consequences
The Supreme Court has unleashed the gerrymanderers
Honey, I got primaried
“Midwest Nice” is no match for presidential petty
Doing business
Foreign firms: have you considered America?
Virile vibes are not enough
Young men are souring on Donald Trump
Lexington
The Supreme Court has become a great place to build your brand

The Americas
Argentina's President Javier Milei attends a business event in Buenos Aires.
The slump and the spiral
Javier Milei is in serious trouble
Land and oil
Venezuela’s 100-year territorial dispute is back in court
Trialling times
Claudia Sheinbaum is in a bind, with her party accused of corruption
Middle East & Africa
An illustration showing a reilef map the United Arab Emirates breaking away from the continent. There are three Iranian arrows planted in the centre of the UAE.
Taking aim
Despite Donald Trump’s talk, a lasting peace is some way off
No way out
Diplomacy or more war? Iran’s leaders are split
Out of sync
Arab rulers have little sympathy for Iran
Desert doldrums
Mali shows the growing strength of jihadism in the Sahel
Europe
Friedrich Merz looking downcast.
The off-chancellor
Friedrich Merz can’t go on like this
Nordic education
Why Swedish schools are going unplugged
Apocalypse on the Black Sea
A Ukrainian strike on a Russian oil hub causes catastrophe
Feeling exposed
Trump’s threat to withdraw troops is serious for Europe
Pumpernickeled up
Germany claims it has the world’s best bread
Charlemagne
Inside the Brussels deep state
Britain
Prime Minister Keir Starmer meets emergency response workers as he visits Golders Green in London, April 30th 2026
Golders Grim
What to do about Britain’s rising antisemitism?
Teach first
Britain’s teenagers deserve better help getting equipped to vote
Bodge job
Watch out for the unintended consequences of Britain’s rent act
Stagflation
Britain’s deer are thriving. It’s a nightmare for the countryside
Hitting a boundary
The surprising supply-chain choke point for cricket bats
Troubles and light
Belfast’s murals are an open-air gallery of history and art
Bagehot
One decade, two Britains
International
U.S. Marines with 2nd Force Reconnaissance Company conduct final topside checks of a combat rubber raiding craft before beginning a nighttime launch and recovery operations on Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia in the Mediterranean Sea.
Which navy’s better, down where it’s wetter?
American subs rule beneath the waves, but China’s are catching up
The Telegram
America must hope Donald Trump is not a new Caligula
Business

Red lights
Global carmakers desperately want to be more Chinese
Fuming
Airlines are grappling with dwindling supplies of jet fuel
Bunged up
Not all oil giants are prospering from the Iran war
Unjumbled
The remarkable revival of eBay
Vanity project
Can a beauty mega-deal save Estée Lauder?
Bartleby
The pros and cons of commuting
Schumpeter
Only one of Berkshire Hathaway and SoftBank can survive
Finance & economics
Illustration of Europa riding a bull, brealing up red tape.
Simplify and integrate
The EU wants to unshackle its economy. For real this time
Kulturkampf
UniCredit’s lowball bid for Commerzbank causes consternation
The rent is too damn AI
DeepSeek and Alibaba rescue China’s office landlords
Disfigured
Bad government statistics can cost the economy billions
TrumpAID
Donald Trump’s foreign policy gets a muscular finance arm
Buttonwood
Can Bill Ackman save the closed-end fund?
Free Exchange
The myth of the petrodollar
Science & technology
illustration of biohazard symbol in pixel art style on yellow background.
Bio hazards
How AI tools could enable bioterrorism
Troubled waters
How worried should you be about hantavirus?
Meet the peptideins
The human genome encodes for a new category of molecule
Well Informed
Does acupuncture work?
Culture
A collage of actresses and singers with books around them.
Literary tastemakers
Many celebrities now have book clubs. Most are irritating
The world’s richest man
What is Elon Musk’s formula?
Back Story
Turn on, tune in, trust no one: the paranoid style captures TV
Literary posterity
Oscar Wilde’s grandson separates fact from fiction
Dear headgear
In an age of status symbols, tiaras take the crown
Kremlin rules
The history of Moscow helps explain Russia’s pathologies
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Craig Venter in a new greenhouse at his company, Synthetic Genomics, in La Jolla, California, in July 2010
The outsider
Craig Venter raced to decode the human genome

America prepares for the midterms
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America is vulnerable to electoral vandalism
Too many no longer believe elections are fair
Apple CEO Tim Cook gestures during the keynote at an Apple special event on September 09, 2025 in Cupertino, California
Take the iPhone, garnish with globalisation
Tim Cook wrote a winning recipe for Apple
Will it work for his successor?
Three of Shield AI's V-Bat drones during a test drill
Move fast and militarise things
How to bolster the arsenal of democracy
America’s new defence-tech industry should be a model for Europe
People climb on old tanks at the Armored Corps memorial site during a ceremony marking Israel's annual Memorial Day for the soldiers who died in the nation's conflicts and victims of nationalistic attacks, in Latrun, Israel.
Israel
The high price of forever wars
Binyamin Netanyahu is quick to start conflicts, but shows no ability to end them
Illustration of a wheelie bin with bunting with Union Jacks and American flags on it hanging out
Couples therapy
Pomp and pageantry won’t save Britain’s alliance with America
The special relationship? It’s complicated

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Is the impending food shock caused by the Iran war preventable?
By Invitation
A portrait of Alice Evans
The route to calmer waters
Iran’s insistence on controlling Hormuz is penny smart, dollar foolish
False prophets
AI is the new Oracle of Delphi. That’s bad news
Briefing
An illustration of Donald Trump running off with a ballot box, as if stealing it.
Congressional elections
Might Donald Trump try to rig the midterms?
We assess America’s democratic defences
Asia
A girl holds photos of Pakistani Chief of the Army Staff, General Syed Asim Munir, as they protest against India after recent tensions over Pahalgam's attack in Karachi, Pakistan, 02 May 2025.
A moment in the sun
What do the geopolitical successes of Asim Munir mean for Pakistan?
Sound barrier
Honking is harming India’s health—and its economy
Tremble and obey
An anti-China protest lands Kazakhs in prison
Merchants of necessity
Why Japan is loosening restrictions on exports of lethal arms
Banyan
What have the Mughals ever done for us?
China
The Lijian-1 Y5 commercial carrier rocket carrying 15 satellites onboard blasts off from a commercial aerospace innovation pilot zone on November 11, 2024 in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China.
Views of the Middle East
How Chinese satellites have boosted Iran’s war effort
Defying expectations
Why China’s exports will keep on rising
Chaguan
The world wants Chinese tech. China is determined to keep it
United States
Illustration of the US Capitol with red and blue ballots coming out of the roof.
Department of prognostication
Virginia’s redistricting may be the nail in Republicans’ coffin
Rich and restless
Wealthy New Yorkers grumble as a new tax looms
Vote for Claude
Artificial intelligence is creeping into American lawmaking
Immigration
Donald Trump’s bold new deportation machine
Lexington
Why Congress keeps getting dumber

The Americas
A man walks past a mural featuring the FIFA World Cup 2026 in Mexico City
A cup half-empty
As the World Cup approaches, North American relations are at a nadir
Waiting for Wexit
Albertans find it harder than expected to break from Canada. Good
Peruvian polls
A botched election adds to Peru’s democratic dysfunction
Middle East & Africa
Israeli soldiers stand in a moment of silence near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip
A new way of war
Israel’s open-ended wars have eroded its security
Tanker wars, continued
An extended ceasefire over Iran, but for how long?
A jungle of power
Which Iran is America dealing with?
RSF Inc
How a Sudanese militia built a military and economic empire
Missing Million
Abiy Ahmed is throttling free expression in Ethiopia
Europe
A soldier providing armed cover is pictured during the Bundeswehr exercise 'Operation Bollwerk Baerlin'.
The kriegstüchtig question
Can the Germans fight?
The odd throuple
Ukraine’s quest for new friends takes it to Turkey and Syria
Die another day
As Russia looks to slash budgets, a village fights to survive
Charlemagne
How Europe regulated itself into American vassalage
Britain
King Charles III And Queen Camilla Begin State Visit To The United States Of America
Special loathing
Britain rethinks its “special relationship” with America
More weaselly said than done
The international problem of weasel words
The DIY options
British nukes are utterly reliant on America
Synagogues as targets
A wave of antisemitic attacks in Britain reveals a new threat
Eggs and soldiers
Britain’s reliance on Ukrainian eggs is ruffling feathers
Sound book-keeping
Waterstones shows there is still life in the British high street
Bagehot
Sir Keir Starmer cannot govern. He has only himself to blame
International
An illustration showing a massive fighter jet being overwhelmed by a swarm of small, low-cost drones, symbolising the shift in military technology and the defence industry.
Shooting to prominence
Anduril, Palantir and SpaceX are changing how America wages war
Battlefield formation
There is no better spur to military innovation than war
Slow and unsteady
Europe’s defence startups face even bigger hurdles than America’s
The Telegram
A dangerous blind spot in Donald Trump’s Iran war strategy
1843

American politics
The Republican congressman taking on Trump
Business
Image of John Ternus
Too many Cooks, not enough Jobs?
Apple’s new boss needs to restore its magic for the AI era
Star wars
Jeff Bezos is raising his game in space
The salesman in the machine
Why your AI assistant is suddenly selling to you
Mid-life crisis
From Allbirds to Glossier, millennial brands have lost their mojo
Altered state
Donald Trump is giving psychedelic medicines a welcome boost
Against the grain
The curious rise of Chinese whisky
Schumpeter
America’s descent into state capitalism is exaggerated
Finance & economics
An illustration of a poker game, the dollar v the yuan. The Yuan is winning. Their are betting for oil drums.
The comfortable yuan
Xi Jinping wants a powerful currency. America’s war has helped
Imported enthusiasm
Chinamaxxing is starting to catch on, in China
War? What war?
American corporate profits keep shrugging off global tumult
Time’s up
Global energy markets are on the verge of a disaster
Vitamin-D therapy
Renewables are shining. The Iran war amplifies their appeal
Buttonwood
The stablecoin market has got too stable
Free Exchange
Has the World Bank performed a U-turn on industrial policy?
Science & technology
A worker measuring radiation contamination levels inside the new safe confinement sarcophagus at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Nuclear disaster, 40 years on
Scientists are still learning from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
Last resorts
How to stop colour-blind grouse flying into ski lifts
Cyber-security
Crypto-miners are quietly colonising computers
Well Informed
Is bone broth good for you?
Culture
A Pericles bust with Donald Trump’s mouth tied on with a string.
Uncivil war
The rhetoric of war has changed. Not for the better
Prophets of doomscrolling
In the AI propaganda war, Iran is winning
Back Story
In a new biopic, Michael Jackson is an eccentric saint. Yuck
Fiction
Judy Blume’s radical honesty changed literature for ever
In it for the long run
Runaway success: marathon organisers are seeing record demand
A black-and-white world
Ibram X. Kendi’s illiberal views on race are out of favour. Good
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Mark Mobius
Indiana Jones on Wall Street
Mark Mobius dared to go where few others did

The Economist (April 20th - 26th 2024)

Cover Story
The Mythos moment
Can five men be trusted with AI?

Key Articles
The food shock from Iran

Split levels: Divorce in China

The Economist (April 11th - 17th 2026)

Cover Story
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

Key Articles
Pakistan plays peacemaker

Family businesses: succession dramas

Hospitals after covid

The parable of Kanye West

How China hopes to win from the war
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Geopolitics
How China hopes to win from the war
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake
United States Marines conduct a simulated reconnaissance and surveillance mission.
I-ran a war badly
The perils of a ground war in Iran
Donald Trump may send in troops. Does he know what to do with them?
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban
Defeating Viktor
Lessons for the world from tiny Hungary
A regime loved by MAGA may soon lose power. That matters
Illustration of cockroaches made out of 100 dollar bills
Finance
How worried should you be about private credit?
Its humbling could raise borrowing costs
S&P 500 Index information at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, USA.
Say no to the world’s richest man
Index providers should not bend the rules for Elon Musk
They will only expose ordinary investors to unnecessary risks

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
A portrait of Ethan Mollick
Keep it unreal
The IT department: Where AI goes to die
Briefing
A photo collage featuring portraits of Viktor Orbán, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Steve Bannon.
The Tisza is flooding
Might Hungary’s election sweep away MAGA’s favourite foreign leader?
Whether Viktor Orban wins or loses, the world’s populists and their opponents are watching
An illustration of multiple safes arranged in a circle, toppling into one another like dominoes, with banknotes spilling out as they fall.
Private-equity firms
A guide to the private-credit crisis
Why some panicky investors are running for the exit
Asia
Motorcycles queuing at a petrol station in Bangkok, as motorists scrambled to beat a massive fuel price increase, 26 March 2026.
Second-order effects
How the Gulf’s war is becoming Asia’s crisis too
Bear hug
America’s foes see opportunity in Asia’s oil shock
The ladies vanish
Why women, more than men, are abandoning rural Japan
Banyan
Is Bollywood’s latest megahit propaganda for Narendra Modi?
China
A tanker unloads imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port crude oil terminal in Qingdao, Shandong Province, China on March 19, 2026.
Shaken giant
Why the Iran war hurts China less than its rivals
Controlling the situation
Is China covering up a violent attack at a Beijing market?
The succession machine
China’s leadership is about to be shaken up
Chaguan
For China’s officials, the goal was once growth. Now it’s loyalty
United States
President Donald Trump talks to workers as he tours U.S. Steel Corporation's Mon Valley Works-Irvin plant.
The cruellest year
“Liberation Year” has not freed American factories
Shipping lame
The war with Iran has blown up an America First policy
Being judgey
Our prediction for how SCOTUS will rule on birthright citizenship
RFK in trouble
From MAHA to haha
The autism boom
Demand for autism care is soaring. The system is struggling to cope
Lexington
Donald Trump and the art of bad diplomacy

The Americas
Prime Minister Mark Carney
Power moves
Mark Carney’s honeymoon is about to get even better
A dispatch from Caracas
The Venezuela Donald Trump “runs” is a land of surreal contrasts
Middle East & Africa
U.S. Marines assigned to Maritime Raid Force, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct daytime fast rope operations from an MV-22B Osprey aboard USS Boxer
Taking that island
How would American ground forces take Kharg?
Defending the base
Iran has damaged a surprising amount of American kit
Decision time
The war in Iran is nearing a crossroads
Not in my name
Iran’s opposition in exile is rethinking its support for the war
Pleasure on the peripheries
Iran’s permissive party islands contain hidden dangers
A new front
The Houthis’ attack on Israel may point to escalation in the Iran war
Life in him yet
Binyamin Netanyahu is down—but not out
In denial over debt
Senegal’s government denies the gravity of its debt crisis
Europe
An advertisement for the German Spy Museum Berlin (R) hangs in front of the German Federal Intelligence Service (Bundesnachrichtendienst, BND) headquarters in Berlin, Germany, 31 January 2019.
Vegetarian no more
A revolution is coming for Germany’s intelligence services
The Nordic-EU saga
Will the European Union’s next member come from the north?
Dead souls
On the front lines, Russian soldiers pay officers to stay alive
Charlemagne
A final favour Emmanuel Macron could do for France
Britain
A pile of old desktop computers and CRT monitors, stacked with servers, cables, and papers. Screens show green code on black.
A blind Leviathan
How poor data hobble Britain’s immigration policy
Small boats, big plans
Right-wingers want ICE-style mass deportations in Britain
Heading off ECHRexit
Can reforms save the European Convention on Human Rights?
Blowin’ in the wind
Labour needs to slow down its clean-power mission
Energy prices
The British government should not panic over fuel bills
Sweet somethings
For the love of sticky toffee pudding
Bagehot
The tarts and vicars party
International
Catholic bishops attend a mass for peace in Goma, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, on January 28, 2024.
African Catholics
How Africa is changing Catholicism
The Telegram
Hurricane Trump threatens to blow China off course
Business
Collage ilustration showing Mike Davis, the Department of Justice building and a scales with one pan on the left and two on the right
Swamped
How the Department of Justice became a feeding ground for MAGA lobbyists
Public spirited
The plan to make IPOs great again
From Russia, with a price
India’s oil refiners are feeling the squeeze from the Gulf war
Into the deep
War with Iran could accelerate Africa’s oil revival
Bartleby
The hidden currency of office life
Schumpeter
How Fox News is luring in Gen Z
Finance & economics
A general view of the Port of Kharg Island Oil Terminal, Iran.
Steaming ahead
How Iran is making a mint from Donald Trump’s war
Black is the new black
Coal is back in fashion
Liberation Year
“Liberation Day” has reshaped trade—but not as Donald Trump hoped
Buttonwood
After Iran, gold is looking less glittery
Free Exchange
Can a country get too rich?
Science & technology
A circle of syringes pointing inwards
Immunology
Scientists are working on “everything vaccines”
Blast off
A trio of firms want to clean up steelmaking
Your brain on video games
Why a startup is teaching human brain cells to play “Doom”
Well Informed
Should you track your VO2 max?
Culture
Friars pray before the remains of Francis of Assisi inside the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Assisi, Italy
A boom in the canon
The number of Catholic saints is climbing heavenwards
Old at heart
Why Gen Z is taking up boomer hobbies
The Economist reads
Six books about basketball to read after March Madness
Saving face
Is looksmaxxing dangerous or silly?
Back Story
Bots are often bad writers. But so are most humans
Artificial intelligence
Who is Demis Hassabis, the man behind Google DeepMind?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Michel Rolland poses with a glass of red wine in Bordeaux, France, in April 2012
The vine whisperer
Michel Rolland was the world’s first flying winemaker

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Advantage Iran
A month of bombing has achieved nothing. Will Donald Trump escalate, or talk?
Illustration of a row of buildings wafing and merging into each other, with an EU flag on the top of the middle building
Mythbusting on trustbusting
Europe should think twice before weakening its merger rules
A strict competition policy is not the barrier to bigger firms
The Musel E-Hub regasification terminal in the Spanish city of Gijon
Let markets work
The case against energy bail-outs
As war rages in Iran, governments must not repeat the mistakes of 2022
An employee works at the Kold Roll steel bar factory in Santa Catarina, Nuevo Leon state, Mexico
Stop the impoverishment
Mexico must unleash its private sector
Claudia Sheinbaum’s biggest problem is weak investment and growth, not Donald Trump
Sheep beside solar panels in England
Country first
England has shown the world how to replace farm subsidies
A rare Brexit dividend

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Should Europe’s pensions be reformed?
By Invitation
A portrait of Ulrike Malmendier
At war with itself
Europe’s choice: Grow, or become a vassal
Guarding whom?
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards won’t defend the regime to the last man
Briefing
An oil tanker trapped inside a glass bottle.
Unsafe passage
Hormuz is not the only weak spot for global trade
Many shipping routes are vulnerable, from the Strait of Malacca to the Panama Canal
An oil tanker twisted and contorted into a corkscrew-like form.
Stranglehold
What a battle to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would look like
A lot of ships, aircraft and soldiers would have to spend a long time in harm’s way for uncertain results
Asia
Residents of a small apartment building do house chores outside their units, amid the lockdown to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in a slum area in Tondo, Manila, Philippines, May 4, 2020.
Home truths
The world’s most unaffordable housing is not where you think
India’s rebels
The end of the world’s longest-running Maoist insurgency
Welcome to Chevroletstan
China is breaking into one of the world’s weirdest car markets
Southward ho!
How Chinese companies are reshaping Indonesia
Thai-ed in knots
Millions of Burmese struggle to find safety in Thailand
Banyan
Why Bangalore has India’s best billionaires
China
A man collects oysters near anti-landing spikes at a beach where the Chinese city of Xiamen is visible from afar, in Kinmen, Taiwan, on May 11, 2025.
China and Taiwan
Does the Iran war increase the risk of a Chinese attack on Taiwan?
Women’s rights
Jiang Shengnan is the most vocal woman in Chinese politics
High-rise pork pies
China’s huge pork industry is a victim of its own success
Chaguan
China’s government both drives and constrains the rise of AI
United States
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to the press.
From “Little Marco” to loyal lieutenant
Marco Rubio, the chameleon in the war room
AIPAC’s new playbook
America’s pro-Israel lobby is facing a backlash
Lines of control
Snarled airports and frozen funding test the new DHS secretary
Uneasy spooks
America’s spies have a lot to complain about
Into the breach
America goes on cyber-offence
Love me, legal tender
Why Donald Trump is putting his face on a coin
Lexington
For Donald Trump, Cuba is everything Iran is not

Essay
A photo collage depicting America from the 1860s to the 1920s, featuring a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, European immigrants arriving, the Statue of Liberty, and factory smokestacks rising over industrial cities.
America at 250
Industrial liberalism and its critics
America at 250
If 19th-century plutocrats are dinosaurs, we’re now in Jurassic Park
The Economist reads
Six books to understand the Gilded Age
The Americas
A rider trots past a refreshment stand at a horse festival.
Becalmed
Mexico’s broken economy
Liquid courage
Brazil has a secret weapon against oil shocks
Integration game
Why the number of Islamic schools in Canada is soaring
Middle East & Africa
U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at Memphis Air National Guard Base in Memphis, Tennessee
Bargain or bluff?
Donald Trump says he is close to a deal with Iran
Command and control
The Revolutionary Guards are taking over Iran
The threat of thirst
In the current Gulf war, water may prove as decisive as oil
No connection
Iran’s regime walls off the internet
Seizing the moment
Israeli settlers are growing more violent in the West Bank
The latest quagmire
How long will Israel stay in Lebanon?
From Anglo to Botswanan
Botswana prepares to take an even bigger gamble on diamonds
Europe
A woman looks at her mobile telephone as she descends on an escalator in a metro station in central Moscow on February 10, 2026
Spring offensive
Russia wants to limit contact with the outside world
German politics
Germany’s Social Democrats gaze into the abyss
French mayors
France offers some hope for defeating populists
Humbled
Giorgia Meloni’s big setback in Italy
Ecosystem warrior
Ukraine’s top drone commander wants to bleed Russia’s army dry
Charlemagne
Europe’s populist right should be outvoted rather than ostracised
Britain
Poppies in flower at the edge of a wheat field in North Yorkshire, England
A new agricultural landscape
English farming is changing quickly, for the better
Peak dog
A golden decade for British vets is coming to an end
Pints to spare
Britain’s dairy farmers are pouring milk away
RPC RIP?
What Sir Keir Starmer gets wrong about deregulation
Agents of influence
The Bank of England’s eyes and ears
Losing grandeur
Britain’s diplomatic footprint is diminishing
Good or bad ODA?
Britain’s foreign aid morphs from open-handed to hard-headed
Business
Illustration showing the swallowing of of apps, wwww, bot, Yen, phone with apps on screen,chats, user profile image, a story with likes flying off, data and shopping icons
Boogie monster
ByteDance is swallowing the internet—in China and beyond
Seeking scale
Will the EU’s new merger rules unleash a wave of dealmaking?
Silicon scandal
A new case of chip smuggling shows the limits of export controls
Bartleby
Welcome to emoji school
Oil change
The war’s biggest corporate winners and losers may surprise you
Well lubricated
How much will America’s oilmen benefit from the Iran war?
Food poisoning
Big food’s troubles go from bad to worse
Social media on trial
Meta and Google face a reckoning over social-media addiction
Schumpeter
Amazon’s unprecedented gamble on AI redemption might just work
Finance & economics
An oil barrel flying away with a person hanging at the end of a rope around it.
Here we go again
How high could global inflation go?
Smoke and horrors
Even the best-case scenario for energy markets is disastrous
Techno-Utopia
China’s new masterplan for its tech economy in 2030 and beyond
Navigating a Trumpian world
Christine Lagarde’s sober tone on the Gulf war energy shock
The expat economy
Westerners are fleeing their countries in record numbers
Buttonwood
Markets are gripped by an alarming cognitive dissonance
Free Exchange
The decline and fall of the Roman currency empire
Science & technology
A conveyor belt carrying gleaming golden brains, symbolizing China’s rapid and large-scale production of AI talent.
Picking their brains
China is winning the AI talent race
Boots on the regolith
NASA’s Moon-base plans mark a rethinking of its future
Stronger together
Autonomous swarms are the future of drone warfare
Well Informed
Is playing music good for the brain?
Culture
A pink kids’ bike leaning against a fork-in-the-road sign.
The biggest loser
Everyone knows divorce is costly. But children pay most dearly
Fascism’s first act
The forgotten man who pre-dated Mussolini and Hitler
Classical literature and art
What is the big deal with Ovid and artists?
The funny business
With “SNL UK”, Britain’s laughing stock appreciates
Back Story
Russia should not be welcome at the world’s top art show
It’s on the table
Young people all over the world are clicking with mahjong
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Chuck Norris in "Missing in Action 2: The Beginning"
The king of kicks
Chuck Norris made onions cry

The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Operation Blind Fury
War in Iran is making Donald Trump weaker—and angrier
By diminishing the president’s political superpowers, his reckless campaign may make him more dangerous
A man stands atop the rubble as smoke rises from a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut, Lebanon, March 14th 2026
Lebanon’s last chance
Lebanon’s leaders must take on Hizbullah
And Israel must not play the spoiler
A worker arranges pepper plants in a greenhouse that uses agri-tech in Jos, Nigeria
Open for business
Africa after aid is more resilient than you might think
But more needs to be done to ensure a prosperous future
A Cuban and a US flag flutter on the roof of a tricycle in Havana, Cuba
Dealing with Havana
A dirty deal with Cuba would be better than the alternatives
A prolonged blockade risks creating a humanitarian crisis on America’s doorstep
A woman walks her dog on the beach in front of an offshore wind farm.
Lingering fumes
Gas will not be killed off by renewables any time soon
But there are ways to rely less on it

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Are data centres in space less crazy than we think?
By Invitation
A portrait of Badr bin Hamad Al Busaidi
Shocking war
America’s friends must help extricate it from an unlawful war
Briefing
Satellite image shows smoke rising from UAE's Fujairah port
Double deadlock
There is plenty of scope for the Iran war to intensify
But no obvious way to bring it to an end
Munitions, believed to be JDAM bunker-busting bombs, are loaded into a US Air Force B-1B Lancer bomber
Fire-retardant spray
The Iran war could sap American military power for years
It is devouring munitions and exhausting an already stretched navy
An Iranian holds a portrait of Iran's newly nominated supreme leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei ROTEST
No quarter
The assassination of senior leaders weakens Iran—but at a cost
The regime is becoming ever less predictable
Asia
South Korean Buddhist monks and members of civic groups bow and prostrate themselves as they march towards the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, to protest against President Donald Trump, March 17, 2026.
Holding fire
Will America’s Asian allies get dragged into the Iran war?
The energy shock in India
Panicked Indians are scrambling to buy gas
Banyan
What Nitish Kumar did for Bihar, India’s poorest state
Burmese days
Life in Myanmar’s biggest city is increasingly grim
Playing with fire
A deadly strike in Kabul could have big knock-on effects
China
An engineer debugs robots at the factory of AgiBot, a leading robotics company specializing in embodied intelligence, on December 8, 2025 in Shanghai, China.
Cake, robots and electrons
Is cheap energy the key to China gaining AI supremacy?
A hawkish turn
Public opinion in China is hardening on America and Taiwan
Clear the skies
Why China’s fight on air pollution has slowed
Chaguan
A Maoist survival guide to the Iranian energy crisis
United States
Donald Trump throwing a small fighter jet like a paper airplane that's looping around and about to hit the back of his head
The man with no plan
How the Iran war is hurting Donald Trump
Conversation with an apostate
Tucker Carlson on whether Donald Trump has betrayed his base
Collateral advantage
A muddled war and rising prices are boosting Democrats’ midterm hopes
From Hormuz to the heartland
American farmers are feeling the squeeze
Distracted defences
Is an obsession with immigration leaving America exposed?
Lexington
Does Donald Trump even care about the midterms?

The Americas
A man repairs a bicycle tire on the sidewalk
Blackout economics
Cuba’s broken economy leaves it at Donald Trump’s mercy
Middle East & Africa
Portrait of Aliko Dangote.
Aliko Dangote
Africa’s richest man has ambitious plans for the continent
No peace in sight
The war in eastern Congo is escalating far from view
Rocking the Nation
A shake-up at Africa’s spikiest media group
Israel and Hizbullah
Israel contemplates a ground invasion of Lebanon
Europe

Low on gas
The Iran war is forcing Europe to confront its energy problem
Barrels of laughs
Vladimir Putin enjoys a huge windfall from the Iran war
Yeah, baby
Viktor Orban’s pro-natalist policies are not working
Catfishing in the Alps
A spy scandal upends Slovenia’s election campaign
The Kneecap effect
The quiet recovery of Ireland’s ancient tongue
Charlemagne
How Ukraine and Europe got caught in a geopolitical lovers’ tiff
Britain
Rachel Reeves, interviewed for the Economist, London, UK, March 17th 2026
Destination Brussels
Britain’s chancellor starts a tilt towards Europe
U-turn if you want to
By our calculations, motoring in Britain has rarely been so cheap
Not so NEET
Britain’s youngsters are increasingly out of work
Rational recreation
The Duke of Edinburgh’s award is more popular than ever
Holy divided
The new Archbishop of Canterbury inherits a church in turmoil
Scrapheap Britain
Industrial-scale fly-tipping is spreading across Britain
Bagehot
CBeebies or barbarism!
International
Blast furnaces, in a copper smelter where copper ore is smelted and raw copper sheets are cast.
Get paid, not aid
The future of Africa will be shaped by investment rather than aid
The Telegram
America’s failing gunboat diplomacy
Business

Space Nvader
Nvidia is expanding its empire
Of cockroaches, canaries and termites
Trouble is brewing among America’s corporate borrowers
Clearing the air
War may bring lasting change to the airline business
Noises off
The Iran war casts a shadow over BASF’s nascent revival
Coding against the machine
Why AI has not yet upset India’s IT industry
En vogue
How Zara fought off H&M and Shein
Bartleby
The secrets to a good employee survey
Schumpeter
Elliott Management and the art of telling bosses they’re wrong
Finance & economics
A worker changes the prices for gas at a 76 station in Beverly Hills, California, USA.
Disunited petro-states of America
America may be a petrostate. But the energy shock still hurts
Terminal solution
What if Donald Trump decided to ban oil exports?
Green, brown and red
China cannot escape the energy shock
The darkest hours
Which country is the biggest loser from the energy shock?
Scattershock
The Iran war is roiling commodities far beyond oil
Buttonwood
Will South Korea’s epic bull market survive the energy shock?
Free Exchange
The new economics of sex work
Science & technology
In front of the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China’s first tokamak donated to the Institute by the Soviet Union.
Chasing the sun
China is a serious contender in the race for fusion energy
Chips away
The next phase of artificial intelligence may require very different processors
Leading the charge
Rapid-charging EV batteries are on the way
Well Informed
Should you take GLP-1 drugs for longevity?
Culture
Empty beds are pictured before high-rise buildings along a beach at Jumeirah Beach Residence (JBR) in Dubai.
Wanderlust and lost
War is only the starkest way that politics is disrupting tourism
World in a dish
Which is the best sparkling water?
Hatchet job
Re-examining one of the world’s most notorious assassinations
The gang’s all here
It’s strictly business: the enduring allure of mafiosi in culture
Rooms with a view
Looking for a Paris hotel with a past?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Jürgen Habermas
The Mole of Reason
Jürgen Habermas hoped rational discussion could save the world

An attack on the world economy
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon

Leaders

Beyond oil
An attack on the world economy
Whatever happens in the Strait of Hormuz, energy markets have been changed for ever

A new dynasty
China’s hereditary elite is taking shape
The Communist Party is afraid to tax inherited wealth
Smoke and flames rise at the site of airstrikes on an oil depot in Tehran.
Iran’s nuclear programme
There are no good options for Iran’s nuclear programme
If America cannot eliminate the threat, what should it do?
Hispanic lady wearing red cowboay hat, boots, jacket and skirt standing outside an event checking her phone.
America’s midterm elections
How to teach Donald Trump a Latin lesson
By alienating Hispanics, he has given Democrats an open goal
Kenyan police officers are reflected on the glasses of one of their colleagues as they arrive at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Drones v gangs
Haiti needs order first, then elections
Voters must be able to turn out without risking death

Letters
A selection of correspondence
Is it optimistic to think that Hungary’s election in April will be free but not fair?
By Invitation
A watercolour portrait of Pedro Sánchez
Spain’s leader speaks
Pedro Sánchez: No to war
Briefing
A man smokes a cigar on a yacht at the SO! Dalian yachting event in China in 2014
Communist estate-planning
China is wrestling with a novel phenomenon: inherited wealth
Even as the economy slows and opportunity narrows, a lucky few receive big windfalls
Smoke rises following a strike on the Bapco Oil Refinery in Bahrain
Epic consequences
The damage to the world economy from the Iran war will be severe, but uneven
It has already caused the biggest energy supply shock in history
Aftermath of an attack by Iranian drone, in Seef, Manama
The sick man of the Gulf
America’s war on Iran may bring Bahrain to its knees
The tiny, indebted kingdom is seeing its main sources of revenue dry up
Asia
A solider releases a drone during a military exercise outside a naval base in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 29 January 2026.
“China-free” drones
Taiwan’s bid to export drones free of Chinese parts is taking off
Landslide in the Himalayas
Nepal’s new prime minister is a 35-year-old former rapper
Don’t mention the war
Islamists woo Bangladesh with everything but Islam
Seoul traders
Seoul’s housing market is a huge political and economic headache
Banyan
Is India the fourth- or fifth-biggest economy? It does not matter
China

The downside of Hong Kong’s upswing
Hong Kong’s property market has turned
Performance anxiety
Some of China’s officials are becoming social-media stars
From China with propaganda
China’s nationalist spy thriller has few girls and lots of government
Chaguan
There are 56 ethnicities in China—and 55 are getting squashed
United States
US President Donald Trump wearing a 'Make America Great Again' cap.
MAGA, c’est moi
Why MAGA backs Donald Trump’s war—for now
Make Iran Great Again
The view from Tehrangeles
Forced removal
Kristi Noem’s ignoble legacy as homeland-security secretary
Deport, lose support
Lost Latino love could cost Republicans the midterms
Treating an ailing market
Two very different states take aim at soaring hospital prices
Lexington
America’s blame-Israel lobby

The Americas
A woman poses for a portrait with her son as they return to their home, destroyed by armed gangs in 2024, in the Solino neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
A sense of security
At last, Haiti has some hope
The new national pride
Brazilian cinema is having its moment
Middle East & Africa
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps armed personnel wear masks and participate in a military rally.
Resilient or ramshackle?
Iran’s praetorian guard may emerge from the war diminished but undefeated
Supreme but mysterious
Who is Iran’s new leader?
Only the mission matters
Could special forces truly obliterate Iran’s nuclear programme?
How to end a conflict
America’s war aims may be diverging from Israel’s
On their guard and on edge
Should the Gulf states join attacks on Iran?
Dire strait
Can America clear the Strait of Hormuz of Iran’s drones and mines?
Conflict data
What data reveal about the war’s progress
Done with sweet deals?
Kenya’s ailing sugar sector is a test case for reform
Europe
Protesters held banners calling for 'freedom' for the former mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu
Trial of strength
As war rages, Turkey‘s strongman puts the opposition on trial
Two wheels v four
In Paris’s mayoral race, it’s drivers against cyclists
Comeback kid
A popular German Green wins a surprise victory
Location, location, location
Ukraine’s housing market is increasingly peculiar
Charlemagne
Viktor Orban’s illiberal intellectual patronage system
Britain
An illustration of a moka pot and an over-filled mug of coffee decorated with the Union flag.
A narrower Channel
Ten years after the EU referendum, Britain has become more European
A Green and unpleasant land
The Green Party’s economic plans are Corbynism on steroids
Ever closer allies
Shared interests are binding Britain and Norway together
Animal spirits
Lions or hedgehogs? The vital choice for England’s banknotes
Springer into action
What Germany’s Springer plans for one of Britain’s oldest dailies
Cleaning up
Britain’s chimney sweeps are as lucky as lucky can be
Not before time
They’re not Swiss, but British watch brands are gaining ground
Bagehot
How Britain became a Compo Nation
International
The US Military launches Operation Epic Fury attacking Iran
War in Iran
How America and Israel built vast military targeting machines
The Telegram
India has much to lose from a world in chaos
Business
collage illustration featuringDario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk
Caps out, knives out
Altman, Amodei and Musk fight dirty for the biggest prize in business
Festive freebies
China’s AI giants are handing out cash to lure in users
Move fast and heal things
A new wave of disrupters takes on American health care
Retail revival
How Gap is trying to get its cool back
Take cover
In Trump’s world, companies seek insurance against political risk
Bartleby
In praise of grunt work
Schumpeter
Why corporate lawyers always win
Finance & economics
An aerial view as a crude oil tanker is guided to a berth at the oil terminal at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province.
After shock
Donald Trump’s options to cool oil prices are sorely limited
Denatured
Liquefied natural gas: the overlooked economic chokepoint
Technomyopia
Why investors won’t know what to make of AI for a while
Buttonwood
Time to buy the most rubbish stocks you can find
Free Exchange
Would America be in recession without the super-rich?
Science & technology
A play on the classic Vitruvian man image, but he's injecting himself, holding out his phone, and holding supplements
Pep tide
Want to hack your body with peptides? If only the science agreed
Collision course
AI is helping expand the frontier of theoretical physics
Well Informed
What is your maximum heart rate?
Culture
Two theater masks showing sadness and distress
Screen tests
What nobody clutching their Oscar this weekend will tell you
Mind over matter?
Solving the mystery of consciousness
That’s how they roll
Adults are on board with life-size board games
From mean streets to Wall Street
Tell-all or tell-nothing? A polite account of high finance
Bookworm food
The best new novels to read this spring
Back Story
An Oscar-nominated documentary goes behind enemy lines
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Professor Sir Nicholas White
Mosquito versus man
Nick White was a hero of mankind’s oldest war