1. Demand for American degrees has already hit covid-era lows

2. If India chokes less, it will fry more

3. Shareholders face a big new problem: currency risk

4. Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite!

5. Pausing foreign applications to US universities is a terrible idea

6. Elon Musk’s plans to go to Mars next year are toast

7. The decoding of ancient Roman scrolls is speeding up

8. Boeing enjoys a Trump bump

9. Old oil paintings are suffering from chemical “acne”

10. Snakes may have once faced a vicious enemy: the humble ant

11. The king “loves” Canada. Many Albertans want out

12. How young voters helped to put Trump in the White House

13. Donald Trump steals Xi Jinping’s favourite foreign policy

14. Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage?

15. Triple trouble for Israel as its furious allies bail

16. The battle to cash in on Chinese AI heats up

17. Why it has never been better to be a big company

18. America’s Senate plans big changes for the House’s spending bill

19. France’s improbable adult baptism boom

20. A manager’s guide to handling crises

21. Why AI hasn’t taken your job

22. Xi Jinping’s plan to overtake America in AI

23. Russia is raining hellfire on Ukraine

24. MAGA: protecting the homeland from Canadian bookworms

25. Soaring bond yields threaten trouble

26. If America bans TikTok, lots of other companies will suffer

27. Trump threatens 50% tariffs. How might Europe strike back?

28. Aron D’Souza, the brash brain behind the “doping Olympics”

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30. Should men be screened for prostate cancer?

31. How the next financial crisis might happen

32. Can anything stop America’s superstar hedge funds?

33. The latest investment fad is made for gamblers

34. The debt barons who are taking on the banks

35. Financial giants are transforming Wall Street

36. What it means to be illiquid

37. Clash of the titans

38. Trump’s first term coincided with a MAGA baby boom. Will his second?

39. Can China jam your GPS?

40. On its own terms, ASEAN is surprisingly effective

41. America’s new ship-killer missiles come to the Philippines

42. Vietnam’s diaspora is shaping the country their parents fled

43. An election win boosts Javier Milei’s reform project

44. California has got really good at building giant batteries

45. How much worse could America’s measles outbreak get?

46. A court resurrects the United States Institute of Peace

47. Europe’s mayors are islands of liberalism in a sea of populists

48. Universal wants to steal Disney’s theme-park magic

49. The plan to protect America by shooting down missiles mid-air

50. Ed Smylie knew this stick-fast wonder could fix anything

51. A bitter race to elect the head of Africa’s pivotal bank

52. Meet Africa’s ascendant right

53. The world’s worst conference

54. One happy Damascus

55. Cyril Ramaphosa keeps his cool with Donald Trump

56. Many of Syria’s diaspora are not yet ready to go home

57. Britain has sacrificed its fishermen again

58. London has become a cycling city

59. An eccentric set of one-offs has knocked inflation up in Britain

60. Does Britain need migrant workers?

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64. A sex scandal in China sparks a nationwide debate

65. Hong Kong says goodbye to a capitalist crusader

66. What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics

67. Vietnam, squeezed between America and China, looks for new friends

68. Vietnam’s economy is booming, but its new leader is worried

69. Wall Street and Main Street are split on Trump’s chaos

70. The man with a plan for Vietnam

71. Will Jamie Dimon build the first trillion-dollar bank?

72. MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm

73. China’s universities are wooing Western scientists

74. America’s scientific prowess is a huge global subsidy

75. Poland’s election will cement or ruin its standing in Europe

76. How Poland can keep its place at the heart of Europe

77. How to fix India’s sclerotic justice system

78. A pro-doping sporting contest is coming to Las Vegas

79. Big box v brands: the battle for consumers’ dollars

80. How cuts to science funding will hurt ordinary Americans

81. America is on the precipice of an academic brain drain

82. Trump’s attack on science is growing fiercer and more indiscriminate

83. The best part of the UK-EU deal is a system for doing more deals

84. What happens if the Inflation Reduction Act goes away?

85. Star wars returns

86. Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment

87. Bring back Boris

88. Wildfires devastated the Amazon basin in 2024

89. How to fight the next pandemic, without America

90. Congress should vote down Donald Trump’s reckless tax cuts

91. Mexico battles the MAGA movement over organised crime

92. China’s battery giant eyes world domination

93. How China became cool

94. The improbable rise of chessboxing

95. Blighty newsletter: Keir Starmer, saviour of Brexit?

96. Donald Trump’s strange reluctance to get tough with Putin

97. Israel says it is unleashing an “unprecedented attack”

98. Joe Biden did not decline alone

99. American threats push Greenland closer to Denmark

100. American brands have a new image problem

101. The Britain-EU deal is welcome, but just a start

102. The War Room newsletter: Shadow games in the Baltic

103. The secrets of public speaking

104. The liberal favourite stumbles in Poland’s presidential election

105. Romania’s next president will not be a MAGA populist after all

106. Three paths the Supreme Court could take on birthright citizenship

107. The MAGA revolution threatens America’s most innovative place

108. Trump faces a trillion-dollar tariff disappointment

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110. Contact sports can cause brain injuries. Should kids still play?

111. How do countries rank by military spending?

112. For the first time, a CRISPR drug treats a child’s unique mutation

113. Young Chinese are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and love

114. Violent crime is falling rapidly across America

115. Why some tycoons are speeding up their charity

116. Embrace the woo woo

117. Why a vote dispute in North Carolina should worry Americans

118. Are American Catholics ready for an American pope?

119. Why so much is riding on Poland’s presidential elections

120. Germany’s border controls are annoying the neighbours

121. Leo XIV will pose some tricky problems for Giorgia Meloni

122. Mexico’s government is throttling the rule of law

123. Fact-checkers forecast which dodgy claims will do most damage

124. After the revolution, Bangladesh is hoping to reform

125. The chimera of private finance for development

126. Donald Trump bypasses Israel on the path to peace in Gaza

127. Africa’s oldest surviving Catholic church is under threat

128. Mexico will be the only country that elects all its judges

129. When levelling-up comes to town

130. How to prevent drunken punch-ups

131. Cheap petrol offers a small respite for squeezed households

132. How to build tram lines quickly and cheaply

133. How Walmart became a tech giant—and took over the world

134. Will OpenAI ever make real money?

135. Nvidia’s original customers are feeling unloved and grumpy

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139. Álvaro Mangino survived an plane crash by eating his companions

140. China and Russia are deploying powerful new weapons: ideas

141. Europe’s attempts to police speech test its liberal credentials

142. Britain’s police are restricting speech in worrying ways

143. Europe’s free-speech problem

144. Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset

145. Prabowo Subianto’s economic policy is weakening Indonesia

146. Economists are as confused as Trump about taxing the rich

147. Is the market up or down? Republicans and Democrats disagree

148. China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world?

149. The crypto industry is suddenly at the heart of American politics

150. Peace talks are starting in Istanbul, but who will be there?

151. How the Chinese Communist Party learnt to love villages

152. India’s broadcast media wages war on its audience

153. Kashmir’s uncertain future

154. Chinese weapons gave Pakistan a new edge against India

155. Poland: the ignored stockmarket superstar

156. Is Donald Trump a good dealmaker?

157. Stopgap deals do not mean Donald Trump’s trade war is over

158. A world without Nigel Farage

159. The race to build the fighter planes of the future

160. Britain is now the biggest funder of solar-geoengineering research

161. José Mujica became the antithesis of a caudillo

162. How much worse could America’s measles outbreak get?

163. Trump’s decision to lift sanctions is a triumph for Syria’s president

164. Brazilian supercows are taking over the world

165. Republicans have a plan to add trillions of dollars to the national debt

166. Why the MAGA economy is thriving

167. Why Donald Trump is a globalist

168. Big pharma’s jumbo profits are under threat in America

169. A great trade victory over America is being celebrated in China

170. How to handle the artificial manager. Advice from our new podcast

171. Blighty newsletter: Stamping on the Brexit butterfly

172. Who will be South Korea’s next president?

173. Why India is annoyed by its ceasefire with Pakistan

174. Britain has had it with mass immigration

175. The Medicaid calculus behind Donald Trump’s tax cuts

176. Xi Jinping has Vladimir Putin over a barrel

177. Trump strives for the ultimate deal—in the Middle East

178. The War Room newsletter: Three factors may decide the India-Pakistan conflict

179. America has given China a strangely good tariff deal

180. The myths of corporate innovation

181. Donald Trump is throttling America’s oil industry

182. Europe’s ceasefire ultimatum to Vladimir Putin falters at first test

183. A nerve-wracking ceasefire holds between India and Pakistan—for now

184. Ukraine’s European backers challenge Putin to commit to a 30-day ceasefire

185. Checks and Balance newsletter: The election of Pope Leo XIV goes beyond American politics

186. This India-Pakistan showdown is dangerously different

187. Introducing our Bartleby newsletter

188. Are juice shots worth the price?

189. Hong Kong’s richest man is caught between China and America

190. What it means to have an American on the throne of St Peter

191. Trump’s trade deal with Britain will worry allies and rivals alike

192. Xi Jinping glorifies hard work, but the young are not so sure

193. China intensifies its campaign against exiled Hong Kong dissidents

194. The men’s and women’s world snooker champions are now both Chinese

195. Xi Jinping tries to press China’s advantage in South America

196. A Mexican pharmacy chain revolutionised health care at home

197. A glimpse inside Putin’s secret arms empire

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201. Alice Tan Ridley knew how to make New York’s subways ring

202. Taiwan’s other war

203. Australia is no longer lucky

204. Trade tensions help Singapore’s prime minister to a big win

205. How many people have died in Gaza?

206. MAGA meets MBS

207. Nigeria has more people without electricity than any other country

208. A Faustian pact with the Houthis

209. The fight for Sudan’s skies

210. A social history of America in a warehouse

211. One of the most controversial executive orders will shortly land at SCOTUS

212. Harvard has more problems than Donald Trump

213. Berlin’s culture bosses must become more commercial

214. Portugal heads to the polls for the third time in barely three years

215. To grasp Europe’s fragmentations, look to a 31-year treasure hunt

216. Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disaster

217. Young British men are turning to Catholicism in surprising numbers

218. The Church of England is dying out and selling up

219. Aberdeen shows why the UK’s clean-energy transition will be messy

220. Britain’s veterans are dying out

221. The war in Gaza must end

222. Huawei and other Chinese chip firms are catching up fast

223. What is behind the staggering ascent of Palantir?

224. Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong

225. How should India promote Hindi? By doing nothing

226. The president has deleted a key tenet of American civil-rights law

227. Why Gen X is the real loser generation

228. Saudi society has changed drastically. Can the economy change, too?

229. Saudi Arabia is pulling off an astonishing transformation

230. What Putin wants—and how Europe should thwart him

231. Global turmoil has at least one beneficiary: currency traders

232. Trouble at home threatens Friedrich Merz’s global ambitions

233. Would Vladimir Putin attack NATO?

234. How Saudi Arabia is cranking up the pressure on its OPEC allies

235. Trump is a threat to Asia’s giant insurers

236. What happens when a hegemon falls?

237. Donald Trump is right to ditch Joe Biden’s chip-export rules

238. Russia’s military parades have become a sign of weakness

239. Eli Lilly looks set to steal Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss crown

240. Luck stands between de-escalation and disaster for India and Pakistan

241. Companies have plans to build robotic horses

242. Compressed music might be harmful to the ears

243. How to build strong magnets without rare-earth metals

244. Killer gangs are inches from ruling all of Haiti

245. America and China prepare for an Alpine trade clash

246. Bosses beware: the tariff shock is not like covid-19

247. American cities are criminalising homelessness. Will that help?

248. The Britain-India trade deal is a sign of things to come

249. Dogs really do look and act just like their owners

250. India strikes Pakistan to avenge a terrorist attack

251. Pete Hegseth is purging both weapons and generals

252. Buy the dip: the trend that keeps stocks from crashing

253. Kemi Badenoch is simply too interesting for Downing Street

254. OpenAI’s flip-flop will not get Elon Musk off its back

255. Blighty newsletter: Italians are not so hot on Britain

256. Friedrich Merz becomes Germany’s chancellor—after a painful defeat

257. Which countries have the best, and worst, living standards?

258. Intrigue and attacks as the papal conclave begins

259. Israel’s radical new course in Gaza

260. Where the Trump administration has science on its side

261. How new drones are sneaking past jammers on Ukraine’s front lines

262. The War Room newsletter: Six must-read books on the second world war

263. Inside the shadowy business of AI-chip smuggling

264. Our papal tracker: would you bet money on the next pope?

265. A pro-MAGA Romanian leads in round one of presidential elections

266. China’s secret weapon in the trade war

267. Warren Buffett has created a 348bn question for his successor

268. Australia’s voters reject right-wing politics

269. Checks and Balance newsletter: Why do people join the Trump administration?

270. The judge losing his patience with the Trump administration

271. Is your hay fever getting worse?

272. Video producer/editor (podcasts)

273. The fallout from Reform UK’s big win in local elections

274. Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows Australia’s housing is in crisis

275. Mike Waltz’s demotion is a loss for defence hawks

276. Martin Graham was determined to see his dream come true

277. The UN could run out of cash within months

278. Is China justified in still calling itself a developing country?

279. Edible rats are China’s latest live-streaming stars

280. Aussies are doing a political pivot

281. Iran’s leader hopes America can save his faltering regime

282. Donald Trump’s Syria policy is still a work in progress

283. Africa’s charcoal economy

284. What a wrecked ferry reveals about war in South Sudan

285. Ivory Coast is gearing up for an unfair election

286. Mark Carney’s plan for Canada

287. Donald Trump is creating chaos at the IRS

288. How has one Ivy League university avoided the president’s wrath?

289. How Donald Trump could rescue John Roberts

290. Why does America have birthright citizenship?

291. Germany’s staid-seeming new chancellor has a mercurial streak

292. The unbearable self-indulgence of Europe

293. Broken windows and pockmarked roads

294. Britain’s Poles now earn more than the natives

295. Why building anything in London is so hard

296. Scotland’s outdated land laws threaten the future of rural towns

297. Women win legal clarity—but Britain’s gender wars intensify

298. Chinese military exercises foreshadow a blockade of Taiwan

299. Can China sap a divided and isolated Taiwan of its will to resist?

300. Any Chinese curbs on Taiwan’s trade would carry big economic costs