1. The costs of dating your boss

2. Democrats collapsed in the shutdown fight

3. The promise and the perils of using AI for therapy

4. Old folk are seized by stockmarket mania

5. Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump

6. Blighty newsletter: Labour retreats to its comfort zone

7. Despite claims, foreign students have not yet been put off America

8. Syria joins the American-led fight against Islamic State

9. The War Room newsletter: Nuremberg 80 years on, a reckoning

10. Mexico has become a less deadly place under Claudia Sheinbaum

11. Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble

12. How HR took over the world

13. The BBC’s boss quits over a “doctored” Trump speech

14. Acknowledgements

15. A new project aims to predict how quickly AI will progress

16. Four charts explain why Donald Trump is in trouble

17. Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy

18. The mystery of America’s shutdown economy

19. South Korea’s new president is fixing relations with America, Japan and China

20. Checks and Balance newsletter: How Donald Trump became Joe Biden

21. 2025-11-07 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The great relationship recession

22. Elon Musk’s 1trn pay deal is a troubling display of corporate capture

23. Can peptides give you superpowers?

24. Zohran Mamdani lost in parts of NYC that look most like America

25. Hemedti: warlord, power-broker and the new sultan of Darfur

26. Climate Issue newsletter: China, the climate superpower

27. Sources and acknowledgments

28. America’s plans for a Golden Dome are dangerously obscure

29. What a leaked transcript reveals about China’s muscular statecraft

30. Hong Kongers support gay marriage. Their leaders, not so much

31. America and China circle each other in the South China Sea

32. Indonesia raids its rainy-day pot

33. The death of Thailand’s queen mother reveals changing attitudes to the monarchy

34. A Czech shift to the right is worrying news for Ukraine

35. Ukraine’s valiant defence of Pokrovsk is nearing its end

36. Why moderates are reclaiming Europe’s national flags

37. Pope Leo XIV is infuriating MAGA Catholics

38. Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?

39. America’s furniture-makers exemplify the folly of tariffs

40. China’s life-sciences industry is turning American

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43. 2025-11-06 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

44. Will anything—or anyone—stop the slaughter in Sudan?

45. Tanzania has its Tiananmen moment

46. Donald Trump says he may strike Nigeria to save Christians. Really?

47. Iraq’s election may ensure stability but leave militias in control

48. War looms in Venezuela as Trump tests an “Americas First” doctrine

49. The rise and fall of America’s model mobile crisis service

50. America’s health-care costs are shooting up

51. Brand Britain has bounced back

52. A British legal ruling about AI delights nobody

53. Boom times in a British manufacturing town

54. Nigel Farage’s newfound fiscal prudence is welcome, if unproven

55. India’s women win the cricket World Cup

56. South Asia’s water wars

57. What explains India’s peculiar stability?

58. Don’t blame AI for your job woes

59. America should not push other countries to adopt the dollar

60. A night of big wins for the Democrats

61. China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics

62. The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world

63. A new industry of AI companions is emerging

64. All over the rich world, fewer people are hooking up and shacking up

65. Dick Cheney divided Americans

66. Donald Trump’s tariffs could soon be toast

67. Why Palantir’s success will outlast the AI exuberance

68. Golden Dome is one of the most ambitious military projects ever

69. Universal child care can hurt children

70. Investors are telling Britain to cheer up a bit

71. If Labour cranks up income taxes, the left will boo loudest

72. Was the Pacific Palisades blaze a “zombie fire”?

73. Democrats risk drawing the wrong lessons from one good day

74. Jordan Bardella starts to lay out his plans

75. Tracking American drug-boat strikes off Venezuela’s coast

76. Israel’s politicians are taking on its lawyers once again

77. How much wealth would be destroyed by an AI stockmarket crash?

78. Gerrymandering is now the wind beneath Gavin Newsom’s wings

79. Democrats win big in New York, New Jersey and Virginia

80. For the first time, climate models show the 1.5C goal is dead

81. China places a Hong Kong-sized bet on Western decline

82. First, Labubu’s grinning dolls. Now, a TV show and theme parks

83. How the sheriff of St Louis ended up in jail

84. Blighty newsletter: Is Farage more like Trump, Wilders or Meloni?

85. Analysing Africa newsletter: Donald Trump is focusing on the wrong atrocities

86. Nigel Farage bows to the bond market

87. How Donald Trump can dodge a Supreme Court tariff block

88. An EU-Mercosur trade deal looks close to ratification

89. The mystery of China’s slumping investment

90. Will AI make dating apps better—or even worse?

91. War is blasting Ukraine’s border city of Kharkiv but boosting Lviv

92. The rise and fall of Stacey Abrams’s political machine

93. China’s air-quality improvements have hastened global warming

94. How to clean up the world’s biggest polluter

95. The boom boon

96. The world’s renewable-energy superpower

97. How China sparked a rooftop solar revolution in Pakistan

98. Why climate change now threatens China’s future

99. How a little Chinese island rose to global chemical dominance

100. The War Room newsletter: Did a Russian weapon spook Trump?

101. Woke football stickers are going viral in Britain

102. Introducing our free newsletter on health and wellness

103. Is Donald Trump as unpopular as he seems?

104. How to beat the hard right, Netherlands edition

105. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is booming

106. Has Airbnb reached its peak?

107. Why Wall Street won’t see the next crash coming

108. 2025-11-01 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The battle for New York

109. Donald Trump’s alarming muddle about nuclear-weapons testing

110. Checks and Balance newsletter: Tear gas and Halloween in Chicago

111. The War Room newsletter: The most successful amphibious invasion

112. Curtis Sliwa’s tough-guy mien evokes an older New York

113. Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage compared

114. Can a dopamine detox reset your brain?

115. How many people are already being killed by climate change?

116. What a popular murderer reveals about Japan

117. At long last, Timor-Leste joins ASEAN

118. How East Asian pop culture is inspiring Gen Z protests

119. Aid cuts are devastating health services in Africa

120. The limits of Turkey’s influence in Syria are showing

121. Darfur’s besieged capital falls to the Rapid Support Forces

122. The next stage of the Trump peace plan for Gaza is stalling

123. An Egyptian comedian makes a (virtual) comeback

124. Jamaica’s nightmare comes true

125. The Colombian left has chosen a successor to Gustavo Petro

126. The data-centre backlash is brewing in America

127. A basketball scandal highlights vulnerabilities in sports betting

128. Crunching the numbers on every NYC marathon finisher since 2021

129. Led by Nvidia, the AI industry has plans to reindustrialise America

130. Trump 2028

131. Sweden’s leading business dynasty prepares for succession

132. LinkedIn and the art of self-promotion

133. Porsche’s warning lights are flashing

134. Google v Microsoft: the battle of AI business models

135. The Trump administration’s approach to global health is flawed but fixable

136. Against all odds, Peter Gurney loved his work

137. Europe’s need for green electricity is blowing fuses

138. France’s finance minister on how to pass a budget

139. Turkey’s president is moving to eviscerate democracy

140. The Finnish lifestyle philosophy that could save Europe

141. A fresh approach to helping children with special educational needs

142. A Welsh startup wants to make semiconductors in space

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144. 2025-10-30 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

145. 2025-10-30 The World this Week - Business

146. Investors will help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa

147. The new globalisation paradox

148. In their first meeting in six years, Trump and Xi agree a trade truce

149. What will it cost to make Putin stop?

150. Why funding Ukraine is a giant opportunity for Europe

151. Asia adapts to Donald Trump’s transactional diplomacy

152. A fractious but working relationship

153. The battle for New York

154. As new jobs in finance dry up, New York City’s fiscal model is wilting

155. Zohran Mamdani wants to make New York great again

156. The Dutch choose optimism over anti-immigrant populism

157. India’s IPO boom is good news for its economy

158. A letter to investors from the White House Opportunities Fund

159. Europe’s defence firms are flying. Now for the hard part

160. A bloody police raid in Rio was the deadliest in Brazil’s history

161. Scientists may have found a panacea for snake bites

162. America is upgrading GPS to catch up with rivals

163. Javier Milei’s chance to transform Argentina and teach the world

164. The idolatry of victimhood

165. Tear gas and Halloween costumes in America’s third largest city

166. Britain’s overstretched prisons are releasing inmates by mistake

167. Blighty newsletter: Boys and their toys

168. The Economist is hiring a Britain political correspondent

169. Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest storms ever recorded

170. Donald Trump’s trade power is vast, but self-defeating

171. How pig organs may soon save lives

172. What the Trump-Xi meeting can and can’t solve

173. Weight-loss drugs are spreading across the world

174. A political drama for the ages, opening soon in New York City

175. China is backing Russia’s war to keep America distracted, says Kaja Kallas

176. El Boletín newsletter: The fallout from Javier Milei’s big win

177. Why big oil is missing out on the AI energy bonanza

178. England’s broken system for meeting special educational needs

179. Xi Jinping’s latest purge: paranoid or purposeful?

180. The end of the rip-off economy

181. The meaning of America’s vast military build-up off Venezuela

182. Javier Milei has won a fresh mandate to remake Argentina

183. The Kremlin’s blitz to make Ukraine “go dark”

184. Xi Jinping is at his boldest and brashest. How will Donald Trump fare this week?

185. China’s secret stockpiles have been a great success—so far

186. The counterintuitive economics of smoking

187. Checks and Balance newsletter: Rural America reckons with Donald Trump

188. The East Wing demolition is a parable of the Trump presidency

189. Parkrun has become an unwitting British public-health success

190. Karina Milei, Argentina’s most powerful woman, faces a storm of criticism

191. 2025-10-24 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How we chose the cover image

192. The world has become surprisingly less grumpy

193. Can you eat your way to lower cholesterol?

194. Will America’s new sanctions on Russian oil force a peace deal?

195. Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

196. What is Taiwan’s plan B?

197. How to win prizes and lose influence

198. America and Britain target Asia’s sprawling scam industry

199. Colombia has finally drawn Donald Trump’s ire

200. Javier Milei’s fate turns on an upcoming election. Can he win?

201. The obvious economics of preserving the Amazon

202. Labour is treating London shabbily

203. Britain’s welfare system has grown sicker

204. Parliament turns on Prince Andrew

205. American big business faces a 1trn capex question

206. To save the world’s tropical forests, learn from Brazil

207. Why Hong Kong is going for gold

208. China has a grave problem

209. A Supreme Court case could help entrench Republican power

210. How the Trump administration could make sensible rules for drones

211. America’s gerrymander war is heating up

212. In the race for Virginia governor, Democrats see boring as a plus

213. Donald Trump has turned the war on drugs into a real war

214. Turkey’s fabled textile industry is coming apart at the seams

215. Western drones are underwhelming on the Ukrainian battlefield

216. Poland refuses to extradite a Nord Stream suspect

217. Germany’s much-ballyhooed “autumn of reforms” is a damp squib

218. Can Ukraine get past the bouncer on the EU door?

219. In South Korea a corporate-governance revolution is under way

220. OpenAI and Anthropic v app developers: tech’s Cronos syndrome

221. Sports leagues find that streaming pirates have their purposes

222. Beware the “romance of leadership”

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226. Kanchha Sherpa had mixed emotions about Everest

227. How to preserve Africa’s natural riches for everyone

228. Qatar is a crossroads at a crossroads

229. Two flawed elections show the dangers of one-party rule

230. Never mind your children’s screen time. Worry about your parents’

231. India’s poorest and youngest electorate prepares for polls

232. The US in brief: The war on drugs hits the Pacific

233. China is being fuelled by inspiration, not perspiration

234. Can AI make the poor world richer?

235. Trumponomics is warping the world’s copper markets

236. The migration schemes even populists love

237. Why China is winning the trade war

238. China is winning Donald Trump’s trade war

239. What locals think of Birmingham’s ban on Israeli football fans

240. Why investors still don’t believe in Argentina

241. How the persecution of sparrows killed 2m people

242. AI models ace their predictions of India’s monsoon rains

243. America’s government shutdown is its weirdest yet

244. Buckaroo! The British government’s favourite game

245. How to make immigration palatable in a populist age

246. After Gaza, Israeli politics are even less predictable

247. China’s chipmakers are cleverly innovating around America’s limits

248. Wanted: a new finance writer

249. The US in brief: Putting the pay in payback

250. New “amenity buildings” are luring Americans back to the office

251. Outlandish as it sounds, Brussels feels like a city preparing for war

252. Is the mercenary business on the brink of another boom?

253. Javier Milei faces his most dangerous moment yet

254. Blighty newsletter: Labour, at last, goes for bold

255. Why are American women leaving the labour force?

256. How sumo wrestling became a hit in Britain

257. Takaichi Sanae becomes Japan’s first female prime minister

258. Despite abstemious Gen Zs, the booze industry is going strong

259. France puts a former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, behind bars

260. Why Gaza’s “eternal” ceasefire is holding—for now

261. The War Room newsletter: Three lessons from a spy scandal

262. Charles the Not-so-bad deals with Andrew the Ghastly

263. The world economy shrugs off both the trade war and AI fears

264. The toxic tragedy of US-China trade talks

265. Savage drone warfare engulfs Ukraine’s front line

266. Why Wall Street is fearful of more lending blow-ups

267. Drum Tower newsletter: The uncomfortable embrace between China and America

268. Question 1: why are questionnaires in trouble?

269. Checks and Balance newsletter: The Pentagon’s last reporters

270. Russia’s latest big Ukraine offensive gains next to nothing, again

271. Can bright light banish winter depression?

272. 2025-10-17 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: Governments are going broke

273. The leader of the cult-like Moonies is engulfed in scandal

274. The criminal case against John Bolton looks serious

275. How powerful is your passport?

276. Saul Zabar was king of the Upper West Side

277. The secret fuel powering China’s self-driving cars

278. How Xi Jinping’s war on corruption has driven more of it

279. China is rounding up Christian leaders

280. After 20 years of left-wing rule, Bolivia is about to swing right

281. Utahns are fighting for fair maps

282. The Department of Revenge

283. Donald Trump should love Ken Burns’s new documentary on the American revolution

284. Giorgia Meloni marks her third anniversary in great political shape

285. The high costs of Spain’s renewables revolution

286. Grid operators in the Baltics and Poland are preparing for Russian attacks

287. The traffickers are winning the war on drugs

288. The Dutch seize control of Nexperia from its Chinese owner

289. The remarkable rise of AppLovin

290. TED gets new bosses and changes direction

291. Why bosses need to wake up to dark patterns

292. Sloponomics: who wins and loses in the AI-content flood?

293. Australia’s ambitious new push to counter China

294. Takaichi Sanae’s path to power in Japan grows more complex

295. Japan’s wartime history causes contemporary problems

296. Why Ghana is safe from jihadists, for now

297. The new players who could run Gaza

298. Sudan’s remarkable mutual-aid groups

299. Brute force is no match for today’s high-tech drug-runners

300. First Brands is a painful but necessary warning for Wall Street