1. Why do so many Chinese still smoke?

2. Hedging against Trump, Canada reconsiders ties with China

3. José Antonio Kast is Chile’s probable next president. How will he govern?

4. All hail “The President of Peace”

5. How much does America know about its boat-strike targets?

6. American doctors are rich and miserable

7. Britain’s pitiful Christmas bonuses

8. Pro-growth sports fans are getting organised in Britain

9. Vietnam’s EV champion is bleeding cash

10. A short guide to every business-hotel room

11. Frank Gehry shook up buildings as never before

12. Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy

13. Australia’s hard right is resurgent

14. Nigeria’s kidnapping crisis

15. Donald Trump has not ended conflict between Congo and Rwanda

16. A window of opportunity for reform in Lebanon is closing

17. Israel refuses to withdraw from Syria

18. Talks stall between Turkey’s government and the Kurds

19. Ukraine struggles to cope with America’s destructive peace plans

20. Albania is trying to charm its way into the EU

21. Ukraine’s trains, the country’s lifeline, have money problems

22. More reasons for America’s friends to plan for the worst

23. The battle for Warner Bros is a prelude to the real streaming war

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26. 2025-12-11 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

27. Oracle and the hard truths about software

28. America’s Supreme Court should strike down Donald Trump’s tariffs

29. Germany has a lawyer problem

30. What a stiff drink says about China’s economy

31. America’s bond market is quiet—almost too quiet

32. Wall Street is drooling over bank mergers

33. Can anyone stop Europe’s populist right?

34. The populists of Reform UK, already topping the polls, may climb higher

35. Once a pariah, the National Rally is now France’s most popular party

36. The Alternative for Germany is the leading party in some German polls

37. How did one airline bring Indian aviation to its knees?

38. Why many Asian megacities are miserable places

39. Don’t fear China’s trillion-dollar trade surplus

40. Russia is not as resilient as it wants you to think

41. From social media to porn, age checks are spreading across the web

42. The meaning of China’s record-high trade surplus

43. Asia’s inexpensive AI stocks should worry American investors

44. Britain’s troubled Ajax armoured-vehicle programme may be doomed

45. The next version of the web will be built for machines, not humans

46. Humans were lighting fires from scratch a lot earlier than previously thought

47. Nigel Farage’s Reform UK has moderated in office

48. How the “Donroe Doctrine” is changing Puerto Rico

49. The Supreme Court is handing Donald Trump more power

50. Blighty newsletter: Why the Conservatives could be kingmakers

51. Miami elects a new mayor at a pivotal moment

52. Iain Douglas-Hamilton, the scientist who saved the elephants

53. What’s worse for innovation: MAGA or Mao?

54. Donald Trump is tearing up America’s chip-control policy

55. MAGA’s man in LatAm

56. A new breed of quizzer is wresting control of an old hobby

57. Netflix and Paramount are battling for more than just Warner Bros

58. How AI is disrupting shopping

59. Fighting between Thailand and Cambodia breaks out again

60. What’s behind the revival in the price of British wool

61. College campuses have become a front line in America’s sports-betting boom

62. China knows how to punish countries that offend it

63. Europe bans Russia’s gas exports, but still buys its gas-based fertiliser

64. The War Room newsletter: A truly radical document

65. A crisis over using frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine

66. Which economy did best in 2025?

67. A giant iron-ore mine could bring Guinea riches or ruin

68. Checks and Balance newsletter: Don’t count on Congress to restrain Donald Trump

69. Why Britain’s police forces are taking to AI

70. 2025-12-06 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How AI is rewiring childhood

71. Why hangovers get worse as you get older

72. Donald Trump’s bleak vision of America’s foreign-policy priorities

73. Transcript: An interview with Keir Starmer

74. America’s peace initiative has stalled in Moscow

75. Italy’s populist right stalls a sexual-consent law

76. The Hague is coping with the decline of international courts

77. Greece is teaching Germany how to get government online

78. Why a small corruption scandal is a big problem for the EU

79. Western armed forces have struggled to fill their ranks to deter Russia

80. Syria uneasily celebrates a year of liberation

81. China built a swanky cricket pitch to win over tiny Grenada

82. Republicans still don’t know with Obamacare

83. A special election puts Democrats on track to flip the House

84. Some cocaine-smuggling presidents are more innocent than others

85. What will your child’s Trump Account be worth?

86. Are Brits really leaving the country in droves?

87. Polls predicting the next British election are not to be trusted

88. China’s unlikely new entertainment capital

89. Even Europe’s penmakers are under threat

90. To halt their decline, VW and others are turning Chinese

91. How many hours should employees work?

92. Will the mega-merger wave destroy value for shareholders?

93. Syria’s transition has gone better than expected

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96. 2025-12-04 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

97. Britain’s slot-machine politics

98. Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system

99. The general who refused to crush Tiananmen’s protesters

100. After a terrible fire in Hong Kong, public fury smoulders

101. South-East Asia and Sri Lanka are reeling from storms and flooding

102. Lessons from Japan’s efforts to wean itself off Chinese rare earths

103. Kyrgyzstan is losing its status as Central Asia’s only democracy

104. An insurgency may be brewing against Syria’s new leaders

105. Russia’s dodgy plan for a pipeline in Congo

106. Binyamin Netanyahu has asked for a presidential pardon

107. Africa needs to generate more electricity

108. Britain’s plan to curb jury trials is a sharp break with tradition

109. Patrick Drahi has bested his lenders yet again

110. How AI is rewiring childhood

111. At home and at school, artificial intelligence is transforming childhood

112. Donald Trump looms over Vladimir Putin’s visit to India

113. AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences

114. Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?

115. Bitcoin has plunged. Strategy Inc is an early victim

116. American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure

117. Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer

118. A Chinese firm attempts to bring a rocket stage back to Earth

119. Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital

120. Enough dithering. Europe must pay to save Ukraine

121. Which Kevin Hassett would lead the Federal Reserve?

122. Pity the AVOCADOs

123. Why autism should not be treated as a single condition

124. Surging satellite numbers threaten to dazzle even space telescopes

125. Tom Stoppard was an inexhaustible fountain of ideas

126. From micro-dramas to video games, Chinese entertainment is booming

127. India’s defence-tech startups are thriving

128. Why does Donald Trump care about Honduras’s election?

129. Will Congress rein in Pete Hegseth and his boat-bombing campaign?

130. Trumpworld thinks Europe has betrayed the West

131. AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish

132. Chris Waller, not Kevin Hassett, should lead the Federal Reserve

133. Blighty newsletter: Hurrah for the OBR

134. Ahead of peace talks, Russia’s battlefield advances remain slow

135. America is foolishly waving goodbye to thousands of Chinese boffins

136. How to spot a bubble bursting

137. Leaf blowers are the latest thing dividing Americans

138. Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption

139. The War Room newsletter: Sleepwalking into Africa’s next war

140. Europe is going on a huge military spending spree

141. Mormonism’s surprising boom in Africa

142. European pensions are in dire need of reform

143. The US in brief: Donald Trump says he has picked next Fed chair

144. Switzerland votes decisively against inheritance tax

145. Is America’s jobs market nearing a cliff?

146. Trafficking humans is the drug-gangs’ grimmest business

147. Checks and Balance newsletter: Giving thanks in Moscow

148. A corruption scandal costs Volodymyr Zelensky his top aide

149. 2025-11-28 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: What China will dominate next

150. Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits?

151. America’s work-from-home capitals are in a sorry state

152. AI is upending the porn industry

153. A terrible inferno kills dozens in Hong Kong

154. Dr Chatbot is popping up all over China

155. America’s oldest ally in Asia is drawing closer to China

156. When is a Malaysian footballer not a Malaysian footballer?

157. Armed men take power in Guinea-Bissau, again

158. Mired in financial crisis, the Houthis resume threats to Saudi Arabia

159. The changing shape of Chinese aid to Africa

160. How Pepsi trounced Coca Cola in the Middle East

161. Observed in the wild: office snackers and foragers

162. Europe is struggling to compete in the second space race

163. American consumers are miserable. But they keep spending

164. From Nvidia to Nike, American firms face a margin squeeze

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166. 2025-11-27 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

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168. Canada’s indigenous-style prisons are designed to right historical wrongs

169. MAGA is divided over the promise and perils of AI

170. The federal government will now pay for Native American healing

171. Chicago is facing a giant budget crisis

172. “I love the smell of deportations in the morning”

173. Denmark has become a red-tape-free wedding destination

174. Turkey’s refs are caught up in a huge sports gambling scandal

175. Denmark gets ready to cancel Christmas cards

176. Macron, Merz and Starmer are forming a new trilateral leadership

177. If the fighting ends in Ukraine, the infighting in Europe will begin

178. Britain will tax electric cars more heavily. Good

179. A landmark trial of puberty blockers could end up in court

180. Who should control British newspapers?

181. Which country is most similar to Britain?

182. Why Iran is making surprising overtures to America

183. Many Israelis believe another war with Iran is coming

184. Iran’s reformists extend a hand

185. What China will dominate next

186. Self-driving cars will transform urban economies

187. China’s property market is (somehow) worsening

188. Japan’s big-spending Takaichinomics is ten years out of date

189. Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force

190. Nepal’s youth toppled the government. Now they want to remake it

191. Meet the road-building, Muslim-baiting monk who could rule India

192. A shooting in Washington prefigures tougher immigration policies

193. One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis

194. He Yanxin was the steward of a women-only language

195. Ukraine may be a step closer to peace, or to destruction

196. This bodge-it budget does not give Britain what it needs

197. How to avoid an unjust peace in Ukraine

198. Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing

199. How to short the bubbliest firms

200. Britain’s budget prioritised Labour''s political survival

201. Donald Trump’s revenge agenda is not going well

202. Why China is pulling ahead in the robotaxi race

203. When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil

204. A new way to generate electricity from water

205. The writings of John Parker

206. Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening

207. Jair Bolsonaro is jailed, leaving the Brazilian right fractured

208. The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war

209. Google has pierced Nvidia’s aura of invulnerability

210. Middle East Dispatch newsletter: A tale from Tehran

211. A high gold price is luring prospectors to California’s mountains

212. Colombia’s armed groups are experimenting with deadly drones

213. Blighty newsletter: What the covid inquiry gets wrong

214. John Bolton thinks America is past “peak Trump”

215. The killing of a Hizbullah commander shows how fragile truces are

216. There’s more to cholesterol than simply “good” or “bad”

217. Labour’s budget will probably focus on short-term survival

218. Words to watch out for in Rachel Reeves’s budget

219. Who will win the trillion-dollar robotaxi race?

220. The War Room newsletter: Altitude sickness, struggling jets and cold batteries

221. More Americans are being put to death

222. Brazil is embracing its African roots

223. China’s Communist Party wants positive energy only, please

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225. Ukraine survives another crisis with Donald Trump

226. AI tokens are surging, but are profits?

227. Chinese pharma is on the cusp of going global

228. Why investors are increasingly fatalistic

229. COP30 ends with a whimper

230. Donald Trump’s peace plan would be bad for Ukraine, bad for Europe and bad for America

231. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump, Jamie Dimon and the aesthetics of power

232. America has dumped a messy, sordid “peace plan” on Ukraine

233. River boats are returning Thames transport to Tudor times

234. Erik Prince, America’s most notorious mercenary, spies opportunity in chaos

235. Should adults take colostrum supplements?

236. Transcript: An interview with Abbas Araghchi

237. An interview with Iran’s foreign minister

238. The politicians protecting huge criminal networks

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

240. Where being antediluvian pays

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

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

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

244. Russian bombing leaves no time to search for keepsakes

245. Vineyards are disappearing in France

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

247. Private equity is reshaping American child care

248. When companies lose their way

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

250. 2025-11-20 The World this Week - Politics

251. 2025-11-20 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

252. 2025-11-20 The World this Week - Business

253. Gillian Tindall revelled in the past of ordinary lives

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

255. How to save the Galápagos from its visitors

256. How to lower America’s soaring healthcare costs

257. How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden

258. Release the Epstein files!

259. AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms

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

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

262. Britons are becoming less spendthrift

263. Britain struggles to distinguish between protest and terrorism

264. Africa’s other debt crisis

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

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

267. Indians are getting more fashionable

268. Why governments should stop raising the minimum wage

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

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

271. Economists get cold feet about high minimum wages

272. Can the Chinese economy match Aruba’s?

273. Chinese regulations and competition are panicking European manufacturers

274. In Washington, everything appears to be for sale

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

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

277. Welcome to Anything Goes America

278. Texas Republicans have gerrymandered their way into a corner

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

280. Cracks are appearing in OpenAI’s dominant facade

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

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

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

284. America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying

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

286. Geothermal kit can help make the power grid flexible

287. Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies

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

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

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

291. The loneliness of America’s model ally

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

293. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s big MAGA break up

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

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

296. Geothermal’s time has finally come

297. Britain’s controversial experiment in regulating the internet

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

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

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