1. MAGA devotees are split over going to war with Iran

2. Trump v Iran: a negotiation made in hell

3. Do longevity drugs work?

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5. Gaza is in a bloody limbo as the battle over Iran rages

6. Mark Zuckerberg is spending megabucks on an AI hiring spree

7. The family saga at Germany’s media colossus takes an unusual twist

8. Victoria’s Secret is struggling to reinvent itself

9. Can a car boss turn around Gucci’s owner?

10. On the 50th anniversary of “Ways of Seeing” and “G.”

11. Brian Wilson attracted a fame he could hardly endure

12. Can men and women be just friends?

13. Chinese consumers are splurging—but probably not for long

14. China has become the most important enabler of Russia’s war machine

15. Rich Chinese cities are suffocating poor ones

16. Can South Korea’s new president get his country back on track?

17. Could Trump can AUKUS?

18. China is trying to win over Africa in the global trade war

19. The war in Sudan is spilling over its borders

20. Africa’s scary new age of high-tech warfare

21. Democrats could do a lot better with the power they hold

22. Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

23. Our model suggests President Trump is under water in every swing state

24. The New York mayor’s race is a study in Democratic Party dysfunction

25. Next week’s NATO summit will be all about placating Donald Trump

26. Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic is rattled

27. Ukraine looks abroad to boost its manpower

28. Europe wants to show it is ready for war. But would anyone show up to fight one?

29. A revival for the classic Renault 5

30. Corruption at the heart of his party wounds Spain’s prime minister

31. The English Midlands is unjustly overlooked

32. Biotech is coming to Wales

33. To keep Russia out and America in, NATO must spend more

34. What the “cockroaches” of the ad world teach about dealing with AI

35. Drone warfare is hitting Haiti

36. Brazilians love football. Their national team is past its prime

37. Police allege that Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned a spy ring

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41. Israel’s blitz on Iran is fraught with uncertainty

42. India’s and China’s civil-service exams are notoriously difficult

43. Why India has so many snakebites

44. The “Scream” franchise adds another self-referential sequel

45. The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins

46. Where will the Iran-Israel war end?

47. Why MAGA’s pro-natalist plans are ill-conceived

48. Japan’s government bonds: this time it won’t end well

49. Who are the world’s best investors?

50. Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic

51. Japan’s debts are shrinking. Its troubles may only be starting

52. A White House love-in for Pakistan’s big man outrages India

53. Climate change will hurt the richest farmers—and the poorest

54. Will the Iran war trigger a refugee crisis?

55. Exclusive: inside the spy dossier that led Israel to war

56. AI is turning the ad business upside down

57. The grooming-gangs scandal is a stain on the British state

58. Investors ignore world-changing news. Rightly

59. America’s huge bunker-busting bomb is not sure to work in Iran

60. The attacks in Minnesota reflect a worrying trend

61. How to find the smartest AI

62. Are China’s universities really the best in the world?

63. Meet the moths that use the stars to find their way

64. The rise of Nigel McFarage

65. Trump draws ever closer to strikes on Iran

66. The strange history of the tribe courted by Donald Trump

67. Why China is giving away its tech for free

68. Blighty newsletter: The migration theory of everything

69. The Arab world thinks differently about this Iran war

70. MI6’s new “C” used to be “Q”. And she’s good with the gadgets

71. In Trumpworld, toppling rulers is taboo

72. Israel is racing to deliver a killer blow to Iran’s nuclear dream

73. Will Iran’s hated regime implode?

74. The world’s most liveable cities in 2025

75. Emmanuel Macron flies in to show his support for Greenland

76. Why today’s graduates are screwed

77. What employees think of their companies’ values

78. How to build the right corporate culture

79. Trump’s three excruciating choices on Iran

80. The Israel-Iran war is now a brutal test of staying power

81. Can China reclaim its IPO crown?

82. Protests against a regal presidency have been notably peaceful

83. This time Hizbullah isn’t helping Iran

84. Correction: Canada minerals story

85. Destroying Iran’s nukes is Netanyahu’s obsession

86. Trump is urged to go “all in” on crushing Iran

87. Six charts show ICE’s expanding immigration crackdown

88. Tracking the Israel-Iran war

89. What an Israel-Iran war means for oil prices

90. Britain’s newest way of demoralising doctors

91. The world needs to understand the deep oceans better

92. Can you pass the toughest tests in the world?

93. Gavin Newsom is ready for his close-up

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95. Is the “manopause” real?

96. Israel has taken an audacious but terrifying gamble

97. The War Room newsletter: Why Israel attacked Iran—and what comes next

98. Iran’s regime has a huge problem: how to retaliate

99. Was Iran really racing for nukes?

100. Israel launches an attack on Iran—without America

101. An interview with Daniel Noboa, Ecuador’s president

102. An Air India jet to London crashes minutes after take-off

103. Jessamine Chan’s gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting

104. It was hard for any viewer to look away from Sidney Poitier

105. In Japan, festivals are boldly taking art into the countryside

106. “Aftermath” is a piercing study of Germany after 1945

107. Bride prices are surging in China

108. Would you want to know if you were terminally ill?

109. If China invaded Taiwan, who would enter the war?

110. Conspiracy, cock-up or solution? The Gaza aid foundation

111. Globalisation is nuts

112. How a Christian group is changing education in America

113. The true meaning of Trump Derangement Syndrome

114. How Ireland became the Saudi Arabia of siphoned-off global profits

115. Five opposition-backed referendums fail in Italy

116. As the NATO summit approaches, more than cash is at stake

117. Picasso’s home town is thriving

118. How to curb organised crime without shredding civil rights

119. Why the West has stopped losing its religion

120. A Harvard man turned narco-gang-buster

121. Political violence has returned to Colombia

122. Bolivia wants the world to stop treating coca leaves like drugs

123. The world’s biggest food company plans to beef up in America

124. Make America French Again

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128. The English have become wine producers as well as wine consumers

129. Inverted commas are falling out of fashion

130. Valmik Thapar was in love with all the tigers of India

131. China’s “low-altitude economy” is taking off

132. How to invest your enormous inheritance

133. Dominant languages can spread even without coercion

134. An expert on civil war issues a warning about America

135. The economic lessons from Ukraine’s spectacular drone success

136. The world must escape the manufacturing delusion

137. When a radical performance artist has command of an army

138. The meaning of the protests in Los Angeles

139. In the age of AI, Apple needs to open up

140. Fading Modi-momentum

141. Can India be an AI winner?

142. Can India really innovate?

143. For once, London is short-changed by the government

144. Rachel Reeves has decided where Britain’s cash will go

145. Shining light on America’s missing man in Syria

146. European stocks are buoyant. Firms still refuse to list there

147. Rachel Reeves’s big-government rhetoric is a worrying sign for Britain

148. The gangster Israel is arming to fight Hamas

149. Carney’s colossal Canada-US pact

150. A new sort of unrest rattles Northern Ireland

151. Why are girls still falling behind in maths?

152. Donald Trump can call in the troops

153. A routine test for fetal abnormalities could improve a mother’s health

154. Microwave blasters can down even jam-proof drones

155. China’s booze business looks smashed

156. Welcome to Bonnie Blue’s Britain

157. Can robotaxis put Tesla on the right road?

158. Luxury property’s final frontier

159. Taiwan thinks the unthinkable: resisting China without America

160. The cities winning from war

161. Is there a “woke right” in America?

162. Factory work is overrated. Here are the jobs of the future

163. Blighty newsletter: Fiscal choices, big and small

164. Might the Royal Air Force go nuclear again?

165. How America and China spooked each other

166. What’s happening in LA could be a template for the Trump administration

167. A surprising power shift inside Hamas

168. The rise of the loner consumer

169. The War Room newsletter: Britain’s defence goals are admirably absurd

170. A checklist for decision-making

171. Donald Trump’s new travel ban is coming into effect

172. Putin unleashes a summer offensive to break Ukraine

173. Sending the National Guard to LA is not about stopping rioting

174. Can Tim Cook stop Apple going the same way as Nokia?

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176. Donald Trump has many ways to hurt Elon Musk

177. The 11-year-old Ukrainian YouTuber snapping at MrBeast’s heels

178. Who is ahead in the global tech race?

179. How much protein do you really need?

180. Muslim “modest-wear” is a hit with fashionistas of all faiths

181. The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist

182. Sources and acknowledgments

183. China is benefiting from the hell in Myanmar

184. Amanda Feilding fought to rescue the reputation of psychedelics

185. Africa’s cynical master of power politics

186. Kurdish armed groups are laying down their weapons

187. Police are cracking down on cyclists in New York City

188. Pete Hegseth once scared America’s allies. Now he reassures them

189. California’s carbon market reaches an inflection point

190. What a New Jersey election says about MAGA America

191. Can Britain untangle the mess in its water industry?

192. A ruling in Britain stokes fears of backdoor blasphemy laws

193. Britain’s AI-care revolution isn’t flashy—but it is the future

194. The renovation of Manchester Town Hall will be late, costly, and worth it

195. How old are the Dead Sea Scrolls? An AI model can help

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199. Chinese students want an American education less than they used to

200. A savage EV price war terrifies China’s government

201. The mystery of China’s missing military

202. Mexico’s ruling party, Morena, has captured the judiciary

203. Swimming-pool economics haunt Latin America

204. Suriname’s chaotic democracy just chose its first woman president

205. Ukraine smashes Russia’s air force and a key bridge

206. The constitution that never was still haunts Europe 20 years on

207. What Bicester Village says about the luxury industry

208. How managing energy demand got glamorous

209. Germany thinks about cancelling a public holiday

210. AI agents are turning Salesforce and SAP into rivals

211. Africa’s most admired dictator rolls the dice

212. The real reason Indians are lost

213. Trump’s tariffs have so far caused little inflation

214. Can India create its own Ivy League?

215. Stanley Fischer mixed rigour and realism, compassion and cool-headedness

216. The stunning decline of the preference for having boys

217. America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs

218. Trump thinks Americans consume too much. He has a point

219. More and more parents around the world prefer girls to boys

220. A short history of Greenland, in six maps

221. Asia’s forgotten hellscape

222. A new London attraction hopes to revive interest in Elvis

223. Israel “won’t commit suicide” says the government’s ideologue

224. Who would pay America’s “revenge tax” on foreigners?

225. Why investors lack a theory of everything

226. Meet SCOTUSbot, our AI tool to predict Supreme Court rulings

227. All pain, no gain

228. A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts

229. Germany is building a big scary army

230. The Economist’s digital journalist internship

231. Which universities will be hit hardest by Trump’s war on foreign students?

232. To earn American help, allies are told to elect nationalists

233. The West is rethinking how to fight wars

234. Blighty newsletter: Shoreditch’s festival of creativity—and AI anxiety

235. The hard-right’s champion blows up the Dutch government

236. Wanted: a producer/editor for our Video Department

237. The Alzheimer’s drug pipeline is healthier than you might think

238. Lee Jae-myung is South Korea’s likely next president

239. Elon Musk’s failure in government

240. Putin’s sickening statistic: 1m Russian casualties in Ukraine

241. The fantastical world of Republican economic thinking

242. Even as the Murdochs bitterly feud, their empire thrives

243. The War Room newsletter: How Ukraine humbled Putin (again)

244. A short guide to salary negotiations

245. Britain’s ambitious plan to rearm looks underfunded

246. What Poland’s new hard-right president means for Europe

247. Poland’s presidential election goes down to the wire

248. An astonishing raid deep inside Russia rewrites the rules of war

249. China is waking up from its property nightmare

250. Will the UAE break OPEC?

251. Why stricter voting laws no longer help Republicans

252. There is an “imminent” threat to Taiwan, America warns

253. Why the president must not be lexicographer-in-chief

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255. Can AI be trusted in schools?

256. How much coffee is too much?

257. Karol Nawrocki, a possible Polish president with a shadowy past

258. China calls the shots in Myanmar’s civil war

259. The chilling impact of Gerry Adams’s court win against the BBC

260. The Uber of the underworld

261. Australia’s conservatives bicker in the political wilderness

262. Myanmar’s scam empire gets worse, not better

263. Nayib Bukele is devolving from tech-savvy reformer to autocrat

264. Simon Mann was the go-to guy for military coups and bespoke warfare

265. China’s carbon emissions may have peaked

266. China’s crazy reverse-credit cards

267. The losers of the new Middle East

268. What a massacre reveals about Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia

269. Africans are building Putin’s suicide drones

270. Afrobeats’ new groove

271. Why Latin American Surrealism is surging in a down art market

272. Venezuela’s sound of silence

273. Where next for Britain’s broken National Health Service?

274. What on earth is what3words?

275. Harley Street resists a facelift

276. Sir Keir Starmer’s Scottish reset is under strain

277. How Labour should save the NHS

278. First he busted gangs. Now Nayib Bukele busts critics

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282. America has found a new lever to squeeze foreigners for cash

283. Why would Texas Republicans object to conservative, pro-family developers?

284. Demand for American degrees is sinking

285. America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity

286. Europe’s tricky trade threesome

287. A new threat to Erdogan: Gen Z

288. Europe fantasises about an “Airbus of everything!” Can it fly?

289. Will European business turn away from America?

290. Europe’s attempted bonfire of red tape is impressing no one

291. Can Korea Inc step up?

292. American finance, always unique, is now uniquely dangerous

293. Trump’s financial watchdogs promise a revolution

294. India needs to turn the air-con on

295. Can India be cool?

296. Narendra Modi has kept his vow to make India like Gujarat

297. India has a chance to cure its investment malaise

298. How might China win the future? Ask Google’s AI

299. The Economist’s business internship

300. The War Room newsletter: Explore our “Archive 1945” project