1. Should you use a standing desk?

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3. Which are the deadliest European cities in a heatwave?

4. How to make sense of Donald Trump’s bizarre tariff rates

5. Must Europe choose between “strategic autonomy” and August off?

6. Razia Jan insisted on educating Afghanistan’s girls

7. America’s new plan to fight a war with China

8. The end of the second world war

9. China’s planned Turkish EV factories have yet to power up

10. The colourful civic groups that hold Germany together

11. Africa is undergoing social change without economic transformation

12. Hong Kong is super superstitious

13. China claims to want women to have children and a career

14. Liberal Uruguay and the right to die

15. A martyr in the making?

16. Bolivia’s crazy kingdom of coca

17. Why the Trump administration excites some personal-injury lawyers

18. Texas’s renegade Democrats prepare for a glorious defeat

19. A 400-year-old Chinese cough syrup is winning over Westerners

20. Japan’s carmakers are trying to tinker their way out of tariff pain

21. Italian bosses want Giorgia Meloni to hurry up with reform

22. A new wave of clean-energy innovation is building

23. Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb?

24. America and its Asian allies need to spend more to deter China

25. The shutdown of ocean currents could freeze Europe

26. Why South Africa should scrap Black Economic Empowerment

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30. America’s biggest ask in Asia

31. Indonesia’s new president has daddy issues

32. What Sara Duterte’s comeback means for the Philippines

33. Ivory Coast’s president is overstaying his welcome

34. Lebanon’s government is taking on a weakened Hizbullah

35. The world’s hardest makeover: Hamas

36. The killing of journalists in Gaza

37. The Fantasy Premier League is changing Britain’s favourite sport

38. Asian tourists are returning to Britain. But they look different

39. The real collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

40. How to win at foreign policy

41. Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms

42. What 630,000 paintings say about the world economy

43. Where will win from Trump’s tariffs?

44. To sell Fannie and Freddie, Trump must answer a 7trn question

45. China’s power over rare earths is not as great as it seems

46. Trump wants to command bosses like Xi. He is failing

47. Trump 2 is pushing environmentalists to rethink their approach

48. Drones could soon become more intrusive than ever

49. Smoke from boreal wildfires could cool the Arctic

50. Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points

51. Ivy League universities are on a debt binge

52. What Putin wants from Trump in Alaska

53. Aux barricades, boomers!

54. Xi Jinping’s weaponisation of rare-earth elements will ultimately backfire

55. Vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer have plummeted in Britain

56. Nerves are on a knife-edge ahead of the Trump-Putin summit

57. How scared should you be of “the China squeeze”?

58. How many pythons could you catch in ten days?

59. Race, power and money in South Africa

60. The looming military threat in the Arctic

61. Blighty newsletter: The Tories go cold on the gig economy

62. Palantir might be the most over-valued firm of all time

63. Britain is a global gaming superpower

64. Trump v DC

65. Why Donald Trump is wrong to take over the DC police

66. How AI could create the first one-person unicorn

67. The Russian-run town squatting on NATO territory

68. Cow’s milk, as well as Russian oil, fuels the US-India trade war

69. The War Room newsletter: Seven of the best books on the Pacific war

70. America’s drug regulator is in turmoil

71. America’s housing market is shuddering

72. Instead of sanctions, Donald Trump announces a summit with Russia

73. Donald Trump brokers a peace plan in the Caucasus

74. Still want to be a London cabbie?

75. OpenAI’s latest step towards advanced artificial intelligence

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77. Are nightmares bad for your health?

78. Pascal Soriot, the pharma titan tiring of Britain

79. Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil are more bark than bite

80. How to greet people at work

81. McDonald’s secret sauce—plus a pickle or two

82. Shanxi province is struggling to diversify away from coal

83. McKinsey and its peers need a strategic rethink

84. Will an astronomical anomaly challenge the idea of scientific revolutions?

85. Islamist parties are gaining ground in Malaysia

86. How climate change could spread malaria

87. Why it’s a pain to take a plane in Africa

88. Israeli sentiment on the war in Gaza is shifting

89. As the world focuses on Gaza, starvation also looms in Sudan

90. Panama brings lawfare to the canal ports saga

91. How is Donald Trump putting America first by bashing Brazil?

92. British authorities are cracking down on strip clubs

93. Is Britain’s Green Party too nice to emulate Reform UK?

94. What’s Britain good at?

95. Israel on trial: can the country police its own war crimes?

96. Fr Patrick Ryan, the “Devil’s Disciple”, improved IRA bomb-making

97. Albania’s new anti-corruption unit is taking down bigwigs

98. Europe’s top court nixes Italy’s plan to expel migrants, for now

99. Moldova’s election will test its resistance to Russia

100. Europe’s Hogwarts has a new Dumbledore

101. Why the Germans are falling out of love with beer

102. The Elon Musk theory of pay

103. Uber is readying itself for the driverless age—again

104. South America is fast becoming the world’s hottest oil patch

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108. Wanted: a junior motion-graphics designer for our video department

109. Xi Jinping’s city of the future is coming to life

110. An economist’s guide to big life decisions

111. Why Israel must hold itself to account

112. Buy now, pay later gets a bad rap. But it could be genuinely useful

113. How much of Gaza is left standing?

114. Want better returns? Forget risk. Focus on fear

115. If America goes after India’s oil trade, China will benefit

116. The long-term effects of hunger in Gaza

117. How loyalty programmes are keeping America’s airlines aloft

118. Fraudulent scientific papers are booming

119. Microphones can spot radar-evading hypersonic missiles

120. Astronomers cannot agree on how fast the universe is expanding

121. Stella Rimington battled communists, terrorists and literary critics

122. Starmer versus the burrito taxi

123. Nuclear nightmares are back

124. Alligator Alcatraz is an exercise in performative cruelty

125. Blighty newsletter: Are 100m Britons too many?

126. MAGA’s disenchantment with Israel

127. How to write laws of war for a wicked world

128. Why the laws of war are widely ignored

129. Six months after DeepSeek’s breakthrough, China speeds on with AI

130. America’s fertility crash reaches a new low

131. Democrats are likely to lose the redistricting war

132. Do consultants make good CEOs?

133. Narendra Modi and Donald Trump go head-to-head

134. Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers

135. On Ukraine’s front lines the kill zone is getting deeper

136. Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good

137. Deadheads hope to “make America grateful again”

138. America’s tariff avalanche catches Switzerland unawares

139. The War Room newsletter: How receiving aid became fatal in Gaza

140. The National Park Service is in disarray

141. How McKinsey lost its edge

142. AstraZeneca’s falling out with Britain

143. Savvy staff are moving from China’s nurseries to its care homes

144. Pakistan’s army chief is cozying up to Donald Trump

145. Nayib Bukele could now rule El Salvador for life

146. Trump will not let the world move on from tariffs

147. American businesses are running out of ways to avoid tariff pain

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149. Should you take collagen?

150. Donald Trump thinks he’s winning on trade, but America will lose

151. Parliament restores independence to Ukraine’s corruption-fighters

152. Álvaro Uribe, a former president of Colombia, is convicted

153. How to build a ship for interstellar travel

154. Scientists want to sequence all animals, fungi and plants on Earth

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158. Tom Lehrer found matter worth roasting everywhere he looked

159. Could AI tilt the outcome of elections?

160. Can pensioners rescue China’s economy?

161. Everyone loses in the rage of China’s delivery wars

162. Why did Thailand and Cambodia fight a senseless border war?

163. Ziad Rahbani held a mirror to Lebanese society

164. Famine in Gaza shows the failure of Israel’s strategy

165. Helen Zille wants to save South Africa, starting in Johannesburg

166. Can a home-grown telecoms firm connect South Sudan to the world?

167. Modular homes are helping LA’s wildfire survivors rebuild

168. Donald Trump’s redistricting ploy is politics at its most cynical

169. The German politicians who want to bar the AfD from government jobs

170. France’s top general says Russia could attack in five years

171. Why Italy’s next cultural capital looks like a disaster zone

172. Ever more Ukrainian women are joining the army

173. Britain presses on with its tilt to the Indo-Pacific

174. Does Nigel Farage’s plan for halving crime in Britain add up?

175. Lessons from the last nuclear power plant in Scotland

176. In Britain, same-sex marriages are more common for women than men

177. England’s women’s soccer team bring it home

178. America’s ailing health insurers

179. Who will pay for the trillion-dollar AI boom?

180. Hello Kitty’s owner is purring contentedly

181. The world needs a better way to share genetic information

182. Spain’s scandal-plagued prime minister should step down

183. America is easing chip-export controls at exactly the wrong time

184. Uncovering the secret food trade that corrupts Iran’s neighbours

185. The climate needs a politics of the possible

186. The humbling of green Europe

187. The trade deal with America shows the limits of the EU’s power

188. Is Britain’s net-zero push to blame for its high energy prices?

189. America is slashing its climate research

190. Donald Trump’s war on renewables

191. Japan’s dealmaking machine revs up

192. The deeper reason for banking’s retreat

193. Why Indians suffer from a colonial mindset

194. South Asian women will be hurt by the trade war

195. Indian firms aim to gorge on weight-loss drugs

196. Donald Trump’s unprecedented attack on Brazil’s judiciary

197. The Federal Reserve sees a rare double dissent

198. What opponents of the EU-US trade deal get wrong

199. Starmer’s Palestine problem

200. What Donald Trump is teaching Harvard

201. How Trump’s U-turn on chips could unleash Chinese AI

202. Iran’s supreme leader is fading into the shadows

203. What pro wrestlers in Chicago say about America

204. In recognising Palestine, Britain and France won’t advance peace

205. Even the sight of an infection can trigger an immune response

206. The remarkable rise of “greenhushing”

207. How spy agencies are experimenting with the newest AI models

208. Can interceptor drones stop Russia’s terror bombing?

209. Panamanian farmers versus global shipping—and Donald Trump

210. Blighty: Why Corbyn’s comeback matters

211. A fresh retail-trading frenzy is reshaping financial markets

212. What the World Snail Racing Championships say about rural England

213. Can China save South Africa from Donald Trump?

214. South-East Asia makes an AI power grab

215. American governors split over how to handle Donald Trump

216. How big tech plans to feed AI’s voracious appetite for power

217. America is remaking its disaster-relief system

218. Satellite images show how receiving aid in Gaza became so deadly

219. Look inside The Economist’s summer issue for 2025

220. Can Peronists, Argentina’s former masters, stop Javier Milei?

221. Europe seeks to end its Trumpian trade nightmare

222. How US Space Command is preparing for satellite-on-satellite combat

223. Who is paying for Donald Trump’s tariffs?

224. Can Bernard Arnault steer LVMH out of crisis?

225. Pedro Sánchez is fighting for his political life

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227. Why Emmanuel Macron has decided to recognise a Palestinian state

228. Can you overcome an allergy?

229. Vladimir Medinsky, Putin’s negotiator with a warped worldview

230. Catholics are more liberal than you might think

231. Why Thai fighter jets have attacked Cambodia

232. The world court joins the fight over climate change

233. The looming deadline for the Panama Canal ports deal

234. “Comrade” is making a comeback in China

235. Conservationists have rescued the world’s last truly wild horse

236. “Gated communities” are flourishing in India

237. A bloody week in Syria may have ripple effects in Lebanon

238. Somalia’s state-building project is in tatters

239. Ugandan intervention in Congo risks stoking ethnic violence

240. As Gaza starves, Israel fights on

241. The year of the women’s-sports bar

242. A little poetic justice for Donald Trump

243. Cuts to food stamps are about to hit in America

244. A year after Britain’s riots, things have deteriorated

245. Seven in ten Britons expect more riots

246. Why Britain’s police hardly solve any crimes

247. Peace in Turkey must not become a smokescreen for repression

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249. Rethinking the war on AIDS

250. Trump’s astonishing battering of Brazil

251. A new paradise for crypto

252. Macron was right about strategic autonomy

253. Kurds and Turks are closer than ever to peace

254. Cigarettes, booze and petrol bankroll Europe’s welfare empire

255. Could Europe be the next big coffee producer?

256. Trump’s tariff mayhem has been a blessing for shippers

257. The Gulf’s oil giants risk becoming sprawling conglomerates

258. The rail mega-merger that could transform American supply chains

259. Can Grab and GoTo forge a South-East Asian tech champion?

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262. The continuation of the war in Gaza disgraces Israel

263. “Bangla Teslas” give Musk a run for his money

264. The new private jet pecking order

265. Fauja Singh took up running somewhat late in life

266. What economics can teach foreign-policy types

267. Where will be the Detroit of electric vehicles?

268. The world should follow Trump’s lead on stablecoins

269. The economics of superintelligence

270. What if AI made the world’s economic growth explode?

271. AI labs’ all-or-nothing race leaves no time to fuss about safety

272. The dark horse of AI labs

273. Vindication for two bankers. Questions for Britain’s legal system

274. Inside the top-secret labs that build America’s nuclear weapons

275. Crypto’s big bang will revolutionise finance

276. Fragmentary Latin inscriptions can be completed with AI

277. Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea

278. Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelensky, should junk a very bad bill

279. What does it take to make a nuclear weapon?

280. The peril of trying to please people

281. The surprising lessons of a secret cold-war nuclear programme

282. Outrage in Ukraine as the government attacks anti-corruption watchdogs

283. Epstein’s ghost haunts the Trump-Murdoch alliance

284. Blighty newsletter: Can electoral reform fix Britain’s growth?

285. Russian sabotage attacks surged across Europe in 2024

286. Why are British doctors so radical?

287. Airlines’ favourite new pricing trick

288. Want higher pay? Stay in your job

289. Underground with America’s nuclear-missile crews

290. China’s smartphone champion has triumphed where Apple failed

291. The War Room newsletter: Three new books on espionage

292. Britain’s water watchdog is to be put down

293. Populism and polarisation come to Japan

294. The Houthis shatter European pretensions to naval power

295. Is Xi Jinping in trouble?

296. How far off is dollar doom?

297. Tamaki Yuichiro, Japan’s populist upstart who wants to be prime minister

298. Too many British universities are obsessed with being world-class

299. The Epstein files and Donald Trump

300. What is the richest country in the world in 2025?