1. Transcript: An interview with Abbas Araghchi

2. An interview with Iran’s foreign minister

3. The politicians protecting huge criminal networks

4. How will Japan’s defences evolve under its hawkish new leader?

5. Where being antediluvian pays

6. To glimpse Indonesia’s future, look to its president’s view of the past

7. Israel may not be popular, but its weapons are

8. A fuel blockade shows the frightening power of Mali’s jihadists

9. Russian bombing leaves no time to search for keepsakes

10. Vineyards are disappearing in France

11. Young MPs are fed up with Germany’s pension burdens

12. Private equity is reshaping American child care

13. When companies lose their way

14. How do you replace a CEO like Tim Cook or Warren Buffett?

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16. 2025-11-20 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

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18. Gillian Tindall revelled in the past of ordinary lives

19. How Chinese underground banks became the world’s biggest money-launderers

20. How to save the Galápagos from its visitors

21. How to lower America’s soaring healthcare costs

22. How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden

23. Release the Epstein files!

24. AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms

25. Will Britain copy asylum policy from a place with poor integration?

26. Britain’s new effort to balancing human rights and deportations

27. Britons are becoming less spendthrift

28. Britain struggles to distinguish between protest and terrorism

29. Africa’s other debt crisis

30. That charts that show how much money China lends to the rich world

31. Mortgage lending in America is seizing up. How to revive it

32. Indians are getting more fashionable

33. Why governments should stop raising the minimum wage

34. Donald Trump and the rise of “insider capitalism”

35. Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India

36. Economists get cold feet about high minimum wages

37. Can the Chinese economy match Aruba’s?

38. Chinese regulations and competition are panicking European manufacturers

39. In Washington, everything appears to be for sale

40. Can Europe’s deregulation drive actually deregulate anything?

41. To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny

42. Welcome to Anything Goes America

43. Texas Republicans have gerrymandered their way into a corner

44. A terrible American-Russian proposal to end the war in Ukraine

45. Cracks are appearing in OpenAI’s dominant facade

46. How Chinese-linked hackers co-opted Anthropic’s Claude

47. Don’t let a scandal undermine the defence of Ukraine

48. The panic over a male crisis in Britain is overblown

49. America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying

50. A better way to look for signs of ancient biology

51. Geothermal kit can help make the power grid flexible

52. Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies

53. The use of a rare wood pits violinists against environmentalists

54. China has too many university graduates and too few jobs for them

55. Is Donald Trump preparing to strike Venezuela or lining up a deal?

56. The loneliness of America’s model ally

57. Why crypto’s spectacular market success is going sour

58. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s big MAGA break up

59. Blighty newsletter: What Nigel Farage and ASOS have in common

60. China and Japan are in a vicious game of chicken over Taiwan

61. Geothermal’s time has finally come

62. Britain’s controversial experiment in regulating the internet

63. Cuba is heading for disaster, unless its regime changes drastically

64. Four charts show how much money China lends to the rich world

65. Saudi Arabia is in no hurry to join the Abraham accords

66. A huge corruption scandal threatens Ukraine’s government

67. Don’t cheer the end of America’s obesity crisis just yet

68. Russia’s militant bloggers are clashing with their own regime

69. The War Room newsletter: Ukraine’s war needs more than drones

70. Shut up, or suck up? How CEOs are dealing with Donald Trump

71. Europe sees China as a rival. China sees Europe as a has-been

72. For Israel a psychological reckoning is the price of bloody victory

73. Beware the scorching gold rally

74. Can Donald Trump deploy the National Guard whenever he likes?

75. Checks and Balance newsletter: A positive scenario for America in 2026

76. 2025-11-14 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How markets could topple the economy

77. Quantum computing is getting real—and Britain wants to lead

78. Do women need testosterone supplements?

79. James Watson was stunned by the beauty of the double helix

80. The way Uyghurs speak Mandarin is now a joke

81. China’s growing global fan club

82. The dangers beneath Gaza’s rubble

83. Ethiopia is perilously close to another war

84. Chile heads for a sharp right turn

85. Racy fictional depictions of gangs irk people in Latin America

86. One of the poorest states in America introduces free child care

87. Why the Democrats may lose again to Donald Trump

88. Florida is running a radical experiment in education

89. Parents on e-bikes are transforming the school run

90. How to avoid Africa’s next war

91. Mexico’s surprising record on murder

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95. China’s creepiest export surge

96. Asia’s most treacherous sailing season

97. Japanese women are wrestling with sumo’s boundaries

98. Half a century after the death of Franco, Spain is a far better place

99. How Italy’s mafia uses social media to recruit new blood

100. Europe is cracking down on Russian tourists

101. Labour’s tax-and-spend policy has been dominated by wild gambling

102. British businesses say they are furious with the government

103. A slimy scheme to avoid property tax

104. Libellous chatbots could be AI’s next big legal headache

105. TSMC’s cautious expansion is frustrating the AI industry

106. The 10-4 rule for interacting with customers

107. Elon Musk’s 1trn pay deal highlights companies’ superstar dilemma

108. Tree murders and the economics of crime

109. How markets could topple the global economy

110. How AI is breaking cover letters

111. The hidden risks in Taiwan’s boom

112. Taiwan’s amazing economic achievements are yielding alarming strains

113. Which is India’s superstar state?

114. Kerala can teach India a thing or two about social welfare

115. A bombing in Delhi raises tensions in the region

116. Gaza’s zombie ceasefire

117. The seven deadly sins of corporate exuberance

118. In defence of personal finance

119. Sir Keir Starmer is a prisoner of the politics he pledged to end

120. Why Britain may have stopped sharing some intelligence with America

121. America and China share a dangerous addiction

122. See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force

123. Sperm whales communicate with vowels

124. Babies made in China

125. Even on Ukraine’s front line there is time, and a need, for beauty

126. How the exasperating, indispensable BBC must change

127. The costs of dating your boss

128. Democrats collapsed in the shutdown fight

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

130. Old folk are seized by stockmarket mania

131. Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump

132. Blighty newsletter: Labour retreats to its comfort zone

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

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

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

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

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

138. How HR took over the world

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

140. Acknowledgements

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

142. Four charts explain why Donald Trump is in trouble

143. Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy

144. The mystery of America’s shutdown economy

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

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

147. 2025-11-07 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The great relationship recession

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

149. Can peptides give you superpowers?

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

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

152. Climate Issue newsletter: China, the climate superpower

153. Sources and acknowledgments

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

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

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

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

158. Indonesia raids its rainy-day pot

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

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

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

162. Why moderates are reclaiming Europe’s national flags

163. Pope Leo XIV is infuriating MAGA Catholics

164. Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?

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

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

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

171. Tanzania has its Tiananmen moment

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

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

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

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

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

177. Brand Britain has bounced back

178. A British legal ruling about AI delights nobody

179. Boom times in a British manufacturing town

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

181. India’s women win the cricket World Cup

182. South Asia’s water wars

183. What explains India’s peculiar stability?

184. Don’t blame AI for your job woes

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

186. A night of big wins for the Democrats

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

188. The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world

189. A new industry of AI companions is emerging

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

191. Dick Cheney divided Americans

192. Donald Trump’s tariffs could soon be toast

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

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

195. Universal child care can hurt children

196. Investors are telling Britain to cheer up a bit

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

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

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

200. Jordan Bardella starts to lay out his plans

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

212. Nigel Farage bows to the bond market

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

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

215. The mystery of China’s slumping investment

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

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

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

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

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

221. The boom boon

222. The world’s renewable-energy superpower

223. How China sparked a rooftop solar revolution in Pakistan

224. Why climate change now threatens China’s future

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

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

227. Woke football stickers are going viral in Britain

228. Introducing our free newsletter on health and wellness

229. Is Donald Trump as unpopular as he seems?

230. How to beat the hard right, Netherlands edition

231. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is booming

232. Has Airbnb reached its peak?

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

234. 2025-11-01 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The battle for New York

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

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

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

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

239. Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage compared

240. Can a dopamine detox reset your brain?

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

242. What a popular murderer reveals about Japan

243. At long last, Timor-Leste joins ASEAN

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

245. Aid cuts are devastating health services in Africa

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

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

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

249. An Egyptian comedian makes a (virtual) comeback

250. Jamaica’s nightmare comes true

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

252. The data-centre backlash is brewing in America

253. A basketball scandal highlights vulnerabilities in sports betting

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

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

256. Trump 2028

257. Sweden’s leading business dynasty prepares for succession

258. LinkedIn and the art of self-promotion

259. Porsche’s warning lights are flashing

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

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

262. Against all odds, Peter Gurney loved his work

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

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

265. Turkey’s president is moving to eviscerate democracy

266. The Finnish lifestyle philosophy that could save Europe

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

268. A Welsh startup wants to make semiconductors in space

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270. 2025-10-30 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

271. 2025-10-30 The World this Week - Business

272. Investors will help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa

273. The new globalisation paradox

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

275. What will it cost to make Putin stop?

276. Why funding Ukraine is a giant opportunity for Europe

277. Asia adapts to Donald Trump’s transactional diplomacy

278. A fractious but working relationship

279. The battle for New York

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

281. Zohran Mamdani wants to make New York great again

282. The Dutch choose optimism over anti-immigrant populism

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

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

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

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

287. Scientists may have found a panacea for snake bites

288. America is upgrading GPS to catch up with rivals

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

290. The idolatry of victimhood

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

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

293. Blighty newsletter: Boys and their toys

294. The Economist is hiring a Britain political correspondent

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

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

297. How pig organs may soon save lives

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

299. Weight-loss drugs are spreading across the world

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