1. Donald Trump’s Greenland tariffs are no great blow to Europe

2. The meaning of “America First” is in flux

3. After Iran’s massacres, tensions grow inside the regime

4. Xi Jinping is carrying Deng Xiaoping’s authoritarian torch in China

5. Treatment of a teenager with an ultra-rare condition is a medical milestone

6. China hits its GDP target—in a weird way

7. Japan’s popular new prime minister gambles on a snap election

8. The War Room newsletter: Trump’s recklessness imperils Europe—and the West

9. Popular music is getting sadder and angstier

10. As divisions over Greenland grow, Europe examines its options

11. African trade has been vastly underestimated

12. Why America’s bond market just keeps winning

13. America’s hunger for Greenland is tearing NATO apart

14. The most useful indicator of your overall health

15. 2026-01-16 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The return of gunboat capitalism

16. Where Kemi Badenoch’s sacking of Robert Jenrick leaves the Tories

17. Falling wine sales reflect a lonelier and more atomised world

18. The battle for blue skies over Beijing leaves farmers cold

19. The best way to see Hong Kong is on its trams

20. Aldrich Ames built a career on betraying trust

21. Will the army hold up Vietnam’s big reforms?

22. China is testing South Korea in the Yellow Sea

23. Why Go is going nowhere

24. Home-grown firms are helping Nigeria’s oil industry to rebound

25. What the Donroe doctrine means for Brazil

26. Mark Carney is on a mission to trade with the world

27. Why America’s corporate landlords are not villains

28. Should America’s police ever be criminally liable for failing to stop crimes?

29. Pro-science Republicans are fending-off cuts to funding

30. A strategy that needs rethinking

31. The ICE officer who killed Renee Good may yet be charged

32. Like Donald Trump, Zohran Mamdani promises “a new approach to power”

33. Germany’s economy is so bad even sausage factories are closing

34. Who might succeed Recep Tayyip Erdogan?

35. Europe’s farmers no longer rule the roost unchallenged

36. Britain’s high-tech hunt for Russian subs in the North Atlantic

37. Nigel Farage would bring uncertainty to Britain’s policy on Putin

38. The trouble with West Midlands Police

39. Another U-turn from Britain’s government

40. The case for banning vehicles from Oxford Street in London is weak

41. The race for copper has brought a wave of mining mega-mergers

42. Innovations in energy and finance are further inflating the AI bubble

43. The parable of the supermarket self-checkout

44. Lessons from history for the next three years

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47. 2026-01-15 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

48. What the collapse of Iran’s regime would mean

49. Reza Pahlavi says Iran is undergoing a revolution

50. Bereft of legitimacy, the reeling regime in Iran massacres its own people

51. Geopolitics is warping multinationals’ commercial decisions

52. America’s gunboat capitalism will make the world poorer

53. MAGA wants a moratorium on legal migration, too

54. The economics of regime change

55. Europe has three options for defending Greenland

56. Jerome Powell punches back

57. Donald Trump’s crusade against usury reaches Wall Street

58. How Saks Fifth Avenue’s owner went bust

59. Is passive investment inflating a stockmarket bubble?

60. A private memo from central banks to governments

61. The British government’s railway plans are exceedingly sensible

62. Same-sex sexual behaviour in primates is a survival strategy

63. Hotter still, and hotter

64. Why child prodigies rarely become elite performers

65. Reform UK risks blowing a once-in-a-century moment

66. It’s not just the Fed. Politics looms over central banks everywhere

67. To power up growth, India must be rewired

68. Spain’s judiciary is caught up in a bitter political war

69. Cuba’s regime is in dire straits

70. The Supreme Court seems friendly towards trans bans in women’s sports

71. Donald Trump used to be risk-averse. Is that changing?

72. Elon Musk’s chatbot, Grok, comes under fire for nude deepfakes

73. Russia’s slow advance now threatens Zaporizhia

74. Why Arab states are silent about Iran’s unrest

75. Exclusive polling reveals surging optimism inside Venezuela

76. Middle East Dispatch newsletter: Iran’s bloody crackdown

77. A new generation of Chinese companies is expanding around the world

78. Six months after a big review, British defence is still in trouble

79. Without democracy, Donald Trump’s Venezuelan oil quest will fail

80. Who will cash in on Venezuelan oil?

81. Which countries are adopting AI the fastest?

82. Job applicants are winning the AI arms race against recruiters

83. How Iran’s regime has hidden its brutal crackdown

84. The War Room newsletter: Is Iran’s regime about to fall?

85. China obsesses over America’s “kill line”

86. Jerome Powell says Donald Trump has launched a criminal investigation against the Fed

87. The options America faces in Iran

88. Israel hopes for regime change in Iran

89. Pessimism is the world’s main economic problem

90. Europe and South America seal a trade pact for the Trump era

91. The big ambitions of China’s private space industry

92. Donald Trump’s Venezuela oil deal is already up and running

93. A weapon that could help red squirrels in their Battle of Britain

94. Checks and Balance: A chilling week in Minnesota

95. As protests surge, the Iranian regime’s options are narrowing

96. Do RFK junior’s new dietary guidelines make sense?

97. Binyamin Netanyahu’s plan to win Israeli—and global—hearts and minds

98. Millennials spend more time than past generations with their children

99. 2026-01-09 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The Donroe Delusion

100. Venezuela’s new dictator is a regime loyalist—and America’s hostage

101. Why overdose deaths are falling in America

102. America chases down the shadow fleet serving Venezuela

103. Nuno Loureiro hoped to replicate the energy of the Sun

104. China and Taiwan both see lessons in America’s raid on Venezuela

105. It’s not just China’s total population that’s falling

106. The teenage girl who may rule North Korea

107. Can Thailand rein in its “mafia monks”?

108. Saudi Arabia has its first boozy new year—sort of

109. The Museveni era is nearing its end

110. America’s most novel train project is too deadly

111. What John Thune is for

112. State capacity is the issue of the age

113. Hope springs eternal for Sir Keir Starmer

114. Thatcher-on-Thames

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117. 2026-01-08 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

118. Social media are making it easier for cults to recruit and control members

119. A Russian drone has revived a Ukrainian nuclear nightmare

120. Kosovo’s election shows its democracy is solid

121. Energetic abroad, Emmanuel Macron faces a mess at home

122. Latvia is needlessly alienating its Russian-speakers

123. Why Europe is rediscovering the virtues of cash

124. Germany’s industrial conglomerates are breaking up to stay alive

125. Welcome to the age of the vodcast

126. The AI frenzy is creating a big problem for consumer electronics

127. The problem with promotions

128. Does Japan have a “foreigner problem”?

129. AI is transforming the pharma industry for the better

130. France is paralysed, and everyone is to blame

131. Ethnic conflict festers on India’s eastern frontier

132. What “Pluribus” reveals about economics

133. Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

134. In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can

135. Donald Trump asserts control over Venezuela—and all the Americas

136. Vietnam’s growth is fast—but fragile

137. Why Europe’s biggest pension funds are dumping government bonds

138. ICE’s deportation campaign turns deadly

139. America at 250

140. Venezuela’s astoundingly messy debts are about to get messier

141. Canada’s armed forces are now planning for threats from America

142. The “ChatGPT moment” has arrived for manufacturing

143. Where should predators hang out if there are no watering holes?

144. Real flying saucers

145. A way to expand Earth’s arable land

146. Donald Trump chases down Venezuela’s shadow fleet

147. Why Britain’s Stop the War movement is so resilient

148. Nicolás Maduro is unlikely to beat his rap

149. Ukraine now has the fortress belt it wishes it had in 2022

150. Our polling with YouGov shows what MAGA-land thinks about Venezuela

151. Is it better to rent or buy?

152. The radical honesty of Donald Trump

153. Venezuela presents a big headache for big oil

154. A rash of Baltic cable-cutting raises fears of sabotage

155. Analysing Africa newsletter: Life and death in an illegal gold mine

156. Donald Trump still has no clear plan for Venezuela

157. The collapse of Britain’s oil-and-gas industry

158. America’s missing manufacturing renaissance

159. The Venezuelan regime is rapidly consolidating its grip on power

160. Latin America fears what comes next after the Venezuela raid

161. The War Room newsletter: Inside the mission that snatched Maduro

162. After Venezuela, Donald Trump points a finger at Greenland

163. Why is Japan souring on foreign workers and tourists?

164. Venezuelan immigrants in America are trapped in policy purgatory

165. An AI revolution in drugmaking is under way

166. America’s raid on Venezuela reveals the limits of China’s reach

167. Cuba’s regime is now in Donald Trump’s sights

168. Burundi is running out of space

169. Ukraine’s power grid is struggling under Russia’s blitz

170. Happy birthday to the contributory old-age pension!

171. Donald Trump’s great Venezuelan oil gamble

172. There are many risks to Donald Trump’s plans to run Venezuela

173. How the Pentagon snatched Nicolás Maduro

174. Donald Trump wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere

175. The United States has captured Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro

176. How will the mass protests that are convulsing Iran unfold?

177. Can high-intensity interval training get you fit in a hurry?

178. 2025-12-31 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The angst over affordability

179. The New Year health-insurance shock facing millions of Americans

180. Australia’s prime minister gets booed in Bondi

181. Cults of personality pervade all levels of Indian politics

182. The nautical theory of African development

183. Ghana tries to regulate online prophecies

184. OpenAI’s cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026

185. Brazil’s President Lula should not run again

186. The future of space exploration depends on better biology

187. Britain and the EU should be bolder in getting closer

188. A half-planet-size gap in global governance is about to get plugged

189. Patriotism tests loom for big business

190. People of dubious character are more likely to enter public service

191. How China’s property crisis helped crash its art market

192. America’s most successful mayor stands down

193. Los Angeles after the flames

194. It’s time to rethink Britain’s relationship with the EU

195. How the “take back control” crowd boosted immigration to Britain

196. Brexit has deepened the British economy’s flaws and dulled its strengths

197. The spiders on the icecaps of Mars

198. How to export life to Mars

199. Despite a record year, airlines are grappling with big challenges

200. A new-year message from the CEO

201. China’s wind giants are coming for Europe

202. What flying cars, quantum computing and fusion have in common

203. A Swedish startup wants to reignite Europe’s explosives industry

204. America’s economy looks set to accelerate

205. RedBird, a small firm doing big media deals

206. China’s property woes could last until 2030

207. Investors head into 2026 remarkably optimistic

208. Peru’s not-so-happy new year

209. Bulgarians join the euro and eject their government

210. Europe’s generals are warning people to prepare for war

211. Why America still needs Europe

212. 2025-12-30 The World this Week - The world this week

213. 2025-12-30 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

214. Israel recognises Somaliland

215. Netanyahu wins bigly from his meeting with Trump

216. A lightning advance by separatists has reshaped Yemen’s civil war

217. America’s affordability crisis is (mostly) a mirage

218. The truth about affordability

219. Forget affordability. Europe has an availability crisis

220. The Supreme Court has taken the National Guard away from Donald Trump

221. OpenAI faces a make-or-break year in 2026

222. A fragile thaw at the top of the world

223. Wanted: a new business writer

224. The War Room newsletter: Mega edition—you ask, I answer

225. Nigel Farage is Britain’s most European politician

226. 2025-12-25 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

227. China’s museum boom, take two

228. Brigitte Bardot became, but refused to remain, the image of desire

229. As Warren Buffett retires, uncertainty looms for Berkshire Hathaway

230. Brazil’s general election will be all about Lula—again

231. Russia is blasting Odessa to throttle Ukraine’s economy

232. The economics of megachurches

233. What is the best way to train for a marathon?

234. Pub games have been getting a lucrative makeover

235. A sham poll in Myanmar opens a new phase of military rule

236. Donald Trump has it in for Brutalism

237. The Baltic is becoming a battleground between NATO and Russia

238. Does anyone still want to help the Uyghurs?

239. MAGA is eating itself

240. Why fewer Americans are giving than before

241. Who was the best CEO of 2025?

242. The quest to chart the sea

243. Christmas in Caracas with Donald Trump on the doorstep

244. Our obituaries editor selects 12 farewells from the past year

245. How rational is Britons’ soft spot for Premium Bonds?

246. Why China’s spat with Japan could still get worse

247. Canada’s first Christmas without the Hudson’s Bay Company

248. The five biggest market developments of 2025

249. What pain at the edge of America’s labour market signals

250. Checks and Balance newsletter: How Donald Trump has maximised his power

251. 2025-12-19 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: Illustrating our Christmas issue

252. Europe finds 90bn for Ukraine—but not from Russia

253. How Chinese cars are beating European tariffs

254. Seen from above, el-Fasher is a ghost town

255. How the young can make sense of the news

256. The Christmas-industrial complex centres on Yiwu

257. Can Australia defend itself against jihadist murderers?

258. The botched response to a devastating storm infuriates Indonesians

259. Just 74 intensive-care beds remain in Gaza

260. China proved its strengths in 2025—and Donald Trump helped

261. Two months in, the Gaza ceasefire is floundering

262. What Novo Nordisk, OpenAI and Pop Mart have in common

263. The Economist’s country of the year for 2025

264. Your Well Informed guide to surviving Christmas

265. Iain Douglas-Hamilton fought to save the beasts he loved

266. Ditch textbooks and learn how to use a wrench to AI-proof your job?

267. Toll roads are spreading in America

268. More schools in America are adopting a four-day week

269. A vote against gerrymandering shows why political courage is rare

270. Why German cities feel like war zones on New Year’s Eve

271. Italy is using the Winter Olympics to appeal to the ultra-wealthy

272. European nationalism is dead. Long live European gastronationalism

273. A portrait of Britain’s aristocrats

274. Luxury handbags may be shoddier than you think

275. How to conduct a job interview

276. 2025-12-18 The World this Week - The world this year 2025

277. 2025-12-18 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

278. Trust in Britain’s judicial system and police has plunged

279. Watch who you’re calling childless

280. Meet the American investors rushing into Congo

281. This Christmas, raise a glass to concentrated market returns

282. Retreating from EVs could be hazardous for Western carmakers

283. All sides have learned a lot from Extinction Rebellion’s co-founder

284. Saudi Arabia wants to host the world’s cheapest data centres

285. A debate is raging over the origins of an elusive cousin to modern humans

286. Donald Trump’s peace plan is faltering in the chaos of Gaza

287. How dogs make teens feel less anxious

288. Ukraine scrabbles for handholds against Russia’s massive assault

289. El Boletín newsletter: A new era in Chile?

290. Javier Milei loosens his grip on the peso

291. How to survive abandonment by America

292. SpaceX, OpenAI, Anthropic and their giga-IPO dreams

293. Ethiopia wants to build Africa’s biggest airport

294. Where America’s most prominent short-sellers are placing their bets

295. Blighty newsletter: Reasons for Britain to be cheerful

296. The race for an AI Jesus is on

297. America gives Ukraine reason to hope, just

298. The plan to rescue Denmark’s weight-loss pioneer

299. The War Room newsletter: What the Bondi Beach attack tells us

300. Crypto’s real threat to banks