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

2. Can you overcome an allergy?

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

4. Catholics are more liberal than you might think

5. Why Thai fighter jets have attacked Cambodia

6. The world court joins the fight over climate change

7. The looming deadline for the Panama Canal ports deal

8. “Comrade” is making a comeback in China

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

10. “Gated communities” are flourishing in India

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

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

13. Ugandan intervention in Congo risks stoking ethnic violence

14. As Gaza starves, Israel fights on

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

16. A little poetic justice for Donald Trump

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

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

19. Seven in ten Britons expect more riots

20. Why Britain’s police hardly solve any crimes

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

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23. Rethinking the war on AIDS

24. Trump’s astonishing battering of Brazil

25. A new paradise for crypto

26. Macron was right about strategic autonomy

27. Kurds and Turks are closer than ever to peace

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

29. Could Europe be the next big coffee producer?

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

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

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

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

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36. The continuation of the war in Gaza disgraces Israel

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

38. The new private jet pecking order

39. Fauja Singh took up running somewhat late in life

40. What economics can teach foreign-policy types

41. Where will be the Detroit of electric vehicles?

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

43. The economics of superintelligence

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

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

46. The dark horse of AI labs

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

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

49. Crypto’s big bang will revolutionise finance

50. Fragmentary Latin inscriptions can be completed with AI

51. Why 24/7 trading is a bad idea

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

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

54. The peril of trying to please people

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

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

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

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

59. Russian sabotage attacks surged across Europe in 2024

60. Why are British doctors so radical?

61. Airlines’ favourite new pricing trick

62. Want higher pay? Stay in your job

63. Underground with America’s nuclear-missile crews

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

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

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

67. Populism and polarisation come to Japan

68. The Houthis shatter European pretensions to naval power

69. Is Xi Jinping in trouble?

70. How far off is dollar doom?

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

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

73. The Epstein files and Donald Trump

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

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76. Charlie Kirk, pied piper of the American right

77. Do probiotics work?

78. Looking to stash a few million away? Try a British military base

79. America might soon relax its drinking guidelines

80. Britain’s bankrupt universities are hunting for cheaper models

81. Britain and Germany sign a historic treaty

82. How to solve the backlog in England’s courts

83. Simon Groot scattered better plant seeds across the world

84. The rise and rise of women’s sport

85. Mexico’s handouts do a bit for the poor and lots for Morena

86. Sand, sun and stench

87. Justice for Haiti’s murdered president is messy

88. The spectacular folly of Donald Trump’s copper tariffs

89. America throws big money at a small rare-earths mine

90. Kraft Heinz is not the only food giant in trouble

91. Move over, Tim Cook. Jensen Huang is America Inc’s new China envoy

92. Are superstars as good when they move jobs?

93. Why a fling with a foreigner insults China’s “national dignity”

94. China’s exporters shrug off the trade war—for now

95. Meet the most important voice in Australian foreign policy

96. Welcome to Asia’s secret Silicon island

97. A first-hand look at Gaza’s controversial food-distribution sites

98. As the Houthis sink two ships in one week, the world shrugs

99. The dark side of Ethiopia’s liberalisation

100. Quantifying Trumpcare

101. Why Superman is the least relevant superhero

102. Ukrainian drones are killing ever more soldiers

103. Germany’s “memory culture” prevents it from coping with Gaza

104. Albania’s tourism boom is a boon for Jared Kushner

105. Switzerland is ticking towards a tighter deal with the EU

106. To survive the AI age, the web needs a new business model

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110. The British people have been kept in the dark for two years

111. Bit by bit, the world economy’s resilience is being worn away

112. The hottest new travel destination for hotel brands: India

113. The world is making impressive progress averting cancer

114. The world is winning the war on cancer

115. Why is AI so slow to spread? Economics can explain

116. Despite enormous challenges, the EU sticks with its puny budget

117. Trump’s real threat: industry-specific tariffs

118. Americans can still get a 2% mortgage

119. Why did Israel strike Damascus?

120. Operation Rubific, the portrait of failure

121. Stablecoins should cut America’s debt payments. But at what cost?

122. How did Pakistan shoot down India’s fighter jets?

123. Why do people sleep? A new study points to the brain

124. The meaning of Trumpcare

125. Trump’s U-turn on Russia is utterly cynical—and welcome

126. Does AI make you more stupid?

127. Our Big Mac index will sadden America’s burger-lovers

128. Cynical realism won’t save India from Donald Trump

129. Five charts explain Trump’s cuts to foreign aid

130. China and Europe’s savage squabble

131. Blighty newsletter: Rachel Reeves’s big night out

132. Britain has a rare opportunity to lure American talent

133. How the economy evades every crisis

134. Americans are catching on to the joys of British food. Yes, really

135. Fed up with Putin, Trump offers Ukraine arms and tariffs

136. Muhammadu Buhari failed to build a better Nigeria, twice

137. AI is killing the web. Can anything save it?

138. What if America’s red states are about to lose their cheap-housing advantage?

139. Japan’s politics is entering a messy new era

140. The Economist is hiring journalists to work in Washington

141. Meet Nvidia’s big new customers: governments

142. Ukraine’s front-line farms battle Russians and weather

143. Iran is losing its stranglehold over Iraq

144. British bats are a conservation success story

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146. Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s strongman-loving boss

147. Wyoming gets a MAGA makeover

148. Should you take creatine?

149. Putin’s war in Ukraine may cost him control of the south Caucasus

150. China’s local governments are approaching a fiscal black hole

151. America is coming after Chinese it accuses of hacking

152. Hamas looks close to defeat

153. What goes on in America’s immigration courts

154. The Big Beautiful Bill will kill one profession

155. Epstein conspiracies

156. What Donald Trump owes William F. Buckley

157. The global asylum system is falling apart

158. Sex hormones could be mental-health drugs too

159. After another leader is brought low, Thailand’s voters need a real choice

160. Jimmy Swaggart tripped up on his progress to Heaven

161. Osaka’s World Expo is winning over grumpy Japanese

162. Mahathir Mohamad, the leader who transformed Malaysia, turns 100

163. Got an enemy? Hire a killer

164. Congo’s football diplomacy

165. Viktor Orban’s economic luck runs out

166. Austria’s leader is striving to fend off the hard right

167. More European countries want to send their prisoners to other countries

168. Iceland has no armed forces, but that could change

169. Denmark’s left defied the consensus on migration. Has it worked?

170. Britain’s public finances are bad. Their future looks worse

171. British stocks and bonds look like a bargain

172. British labour is a bargain

173. David Lipsey, former Bagehot columnist, died on July 1st

174. Ancient proteins could transform palaeontology

175. Could hormones help treat some forms anxiety and depression?

176. Silicon Valley is racing to build the first 1trn unicorn

177. Can a 9bn deal sustain CoreWeave’s stunning growth?

178. America’s broken construction industry is a big problem for Trump

179. A CEO’s summer guide to protecting profits

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183. Pity France’s cognac-makers

184. How to ease pollution, gridlock and honking on India’s roads

185. Scrap the asylum system—and build something better

186. Britain is cheap, and should learn to love it

187. Want to be a good explorer? Study economics

188. Jane Street is chucked out of India. Other firms should be nervous

189. Japan has been hit by investing fever

190. Jeffrey Epstein is still causing trouble for Donald Trump

191. Linda Yaccarino goes from X CEO to ex-CEO

192. What went wrong in the Texas floods?

193. Don’t invest through the rearview mirror

194. America cannot dodge the consequences of rising tariffs forever

195. An interstellar object is cruising through the solar system

196. Where are all the briefcase wankers?

197. Is Thailand heading for another coup?

198. Russia’s summer Ukraine offensive looks like its deadliest yet

199. The court that could thwart Wimbledon’s ambitions to grow

200. Brazil is bashing its patron saint of the environment

201. The 19th century is a terrible guide to modern statecraft

202. How Trump’s trade deals take aim at China

203. Blighty newsletter: Sir Keir goes back to the future

204. Donald Trump’s approach to Africa is very, well, African

205. American men are hungry for injectable testosterone

206. Trump embarrasses the Pentagon with a U-turn on Ukraine

207. The great dealmaker is conspicuously short of trade deals

208. ICE’s big payday makes mass deportation possible

209. Does working from home kill company culture?

210. Why so many Chinese are drowning in debt

211. Australia’s mushroom murderess is found guilty

212. The Economist is hiring a Seoul-based researcher/reporter

213. Why was the flooding in Texas so deadly?

214. The War Room newsletter: Why America is denying Ukraine weapons

215. On Lego, love and friendship

216. Can Donald Trump force a ceasefire in Gaza?

217. What becomes of Republicans who cross King Donald?

218. Struggling with the trade war? Amateur football might help

219. How America’s economy is dodging disaster

220. Ukraine’s political infighting gets nasty

221. Inside the secret military dialogue between Britain and Argentina

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223. Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong’s shaggy agitator for democracy

224. RFK junior wants to ban an ingredient in vaccines. Is he right?

225. Macron will beat Trump to London

226. John Robbins had serious doubts about the family business

227. Conservatives circle around the movement founded by her father

228. Goodbye, Lenin, hello Putin

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232. China’s growth targets cause headaches—even when met

233. Hong Kong’s last functioning pro-democracy party disbands

234. Beware tomes of Chinese political gossip!

235. The Supreme Court keeps helping Donald Trump

236. Support for gay marriage is declining in America

237. Why Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave

238. America needs an honest reckoning over its spy agencies

239. Kim Kardashian, Ryan Reynolds and the age of the celebrity brand

240. Would you pay 19 for a strawberry?

241. Jeff Bezos 2.0: new wife, newish job, old vision

242. Putin’s radioactive chokehold on the world

243. China’s bid to influence the Philippines heats up

244. North Korea’s Benidorm

245. Israel’s weird war clock: 12 days for Iran, 21 months in Gaza

246. Iran’s “axis of resistance” was meant to be the Shias’ NATO

247. Kenya’s president is bad news for Kenya and Africa

248. The Israel-Iran war has not yet transformed the Middle East

249. Canada’s first concession

250. Cuba’s leaders fiddle the figures

251. A pragmatic amnesty for separatists benefits Catalonia

252. The sleeping policeman at the heart of Europe

253. An infestation of ticks menaces Istanbul

254. Germany’s Bundestag bars AfD MPs from its football team

255. Turkey’s strongman is becoming Donald Trump’s point man

256. Britain’s draconian approach to pro-Gaza activism is likely to backfire

257. Britain’s least controversial national treasure

258. A quiet education revolution in England’s secondary cities

259. Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it

260. The obscure Senate functionary whose word is law

261. China is building an entire empire on data

262. William Ruto is taking Kenya to a dangerous place

263. How A-listers are shaking up the consumer-goods business

264. Brazil’s president is losing clout abroad and unpopular at home

265. Why all Indians are rule-breakers

266. Inside Iran’s war economy

267. Vanguard will soon crush fees for even more investors

268. Trumponomics 2.0 will erode the foundations of America’s prosperity

269. How to strike a deal with Donald Trump

270. Measuring Sir Keir Starmer by what people actually care about

271. Labour is bungling its growth “mission”

272. Starmer’s wasted first year

273. Will bowing to Trump win Paramount its merger?

274. Sir Keir Starmer is rapidly losing his authority

275. America’s ominous new halt on weapons to Ukraine

276. India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons

277. The big beautiful bill reveals the hollowness of Trumponomics

278. Synthetic proteins are being built with the help of AI models

279. A new project aims to synthesise a human chromosome

280. How sea slugs give themselves superpowers

281. A Wall Street wheeze makes a surprising comeback

282. Ferrari is looking less like a carmaker and more like Hermès

283. How South Africa could harness Donald Trump’s wrath

284. Ten charts to explain Trump’s big, beautiful bill

285. Blighty newsletter: Do Britons trust Keir Starmer?

286. Can Trump end America’s 1.8trn student-debt nightmare?

287. Superstar coders are raking it in. Others, not so much

288. China’s giant new gamble with digital IDs

289. In Putin’s Moscow a summer of death and distraction

290. Should cities run their own supermarkets?

291. The War Room newsletter: The daddy of all summits

292. Xi Jinping’s futile war on price wars

293. Are startup founders different?

294. Brazil’s president is losing clout abroad and unpopular at home

295. Big, beautiful budgets: not just an American problem

296. America’s economic data are becoming murkier

297. A peace agreement that will probably not bring peace

298. The Supreme Court delivers a blow to judicial power and a win for Trump

299. Zohran Mamdani, Trump’s “worst nightmare”, may in fact be a gift to him

300. Is being bilingual good for your brain?