1. China’s chipmakers are cleverly innovating around America’s limits

2. Wanted: a new finance writer

3. The US in brief: Putting the pay in payback

4. New “amenity buildings” are luring Americans back to the office

5. Outlandish as it sounds, Brussels feels like a city preparing for war

6. Is the mercenary business on the brink of another boom?

7. Javier Milei faces his most dangerous moment yet

8. Blighty newsletter: Labour, at last, goes for bold

9. Why are American women leaving the labour force?

10. How sumo wrestling became a hit in Britain

11. Takaichi Sanae becomes Japan’s first female prime minister

12. Despite abstemious Gen Zs, the booze industry is going strong

13. France puts a former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, behind bars

14. Why Gaza’s “eternal” ceasefire is holding—for now

15. The War Room newsletter: Three lessons from a spy scandal

16. Charles the Not-so-bad deals with Andrew the Ghastly

17. The world economy shrugs off both the trade war and AI fears

18. The toxic tragedy of US-China trade talks

19. Savage drone warfare engulfs Ukraine’s front line

20. Why Wall Street is fearful of more lending blow-ups

21. Drum Tower newsletter: The uncomfortable embrace between China and America

22. Question 1: why are questionnaires in trouble?

23. Checks and Balance newsletter: The Pentagon’s last reporters

24. Russia’s latest big Ukraine offensive gains next to nothing, again

25. Can bright light banish winter depression?

26. 2025-10-17 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: Governments are going broke

27. The leader of the cult-like Moonies is engulfed in scandal

28. The criminal case against John Bolton looks serious

29. How powerful is your passport?

30. Saul Zabar was king of the Upper West Side

31. The secret fuel powering China’s self-driving cars

32. How Xi Jinping’s war on corruption has driven more of it

33. China is rounding up Christian leaders

34. After 20 years of left-wing rule, Bolivia is about to swing right

35. Utahns are fighting for fair maps

36. The Department of Revenge

37. Donald Trump should love Ken Burns’s new documentary on the American revolution

38. Giorgia Meloni marks her third anniversary in great political shape

39. The high costs of Spain’s renewables revolution

40. Grid operators in the Baltics and Poland are preparing for Russian attacks

41. The traffickers are winning the war on drugs

42. The Dutch seize control of Nexperia from its Chinese owner

43. The remarkable rise of AppLovin

44. TED gets new bosses and changes direction

45. Why bosses need to wake up to dark patterns

46. Sloponomics: who wins and loses in the AI-content flood?

47. Australia’s ambitious new push to counter China

48. Takaichi Sanae’s path to power in Japan grows more complex

49. Japan’s wartime history causes contemporary problems

50. Why Ghana is safe from jihadists, for now

51. The new players who could run Gaza

52. Sudan’s remarkable mutual-aid groups

53. Brute force is no match for today’s high-tech drug-runners

54. First Brands is a painful but necessary warning for Wall Street

55. Why Trump is looking the wrong way in the Arctic

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57. 2025-10-16 The World this Week - Business

58. 2025-10-16 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

59. Donald Trump doubles down on Javier Milei

60. Charles de Gaulle’s constitution has failed to shield France from turmoil

61. The icy cold war America is busy losing

62. Border clashes erupt between Pakistan and Afghanistan—again

63. India bankruptcy’s laws are hobbling the country

64. The rich world faces a painful bout of inflation

65. Indian microfinance is in trouble

66. The new economics of babymaking

67. Venezuelans wonder if America will bring down Nicolás Maduro

68. A billionaire has rebuilt downtown Detroit

69. The America v China spat reveals a dangerous dynamic

70. America’s bankers are riding high. Why are they so worried?

71. Donald Trump and Xi Jinping: both weaker than they think

72. Would inflation-linked bonds survive an inflationary default?

73. What Donald Trump gets right in the Middle East

74. The strange role of lead poisoning in humanity’s success

75. Global warming may have volcanic consequences

76. How to save Madagascar’s dwindling forests

77. Britain’s Labour Party has no more safe seats

78. Gen Z revolution or military coup in Madagascar?

79. The Economist is hiring a Senior Producer

80. Ukraine’s most prestigious military units are run like businesses

81. California tries to fix its housing mess

82. Has Britain gone soft on China?

83. El Boletín newsletter: Political chaos in Peru

84. China is going after American firms to hit back at Donald Trump

85. Fighting flares in Gaza as Donald Trump says “The war is over”

86. The new war on drugs

87. Consequences be damned. China loves its own economic model

88. Why Joel Mokyr deserves his Nobel prize

89. Can AI replace junior workers?

90. Never mind America’s real economy. Its deal economy is booming

91. The World Conker Championships fosters a quirky English tradition

92. The War Room newsletter: The messy reality of Gaza’s truce

93. The case against holding bonds

94. How do some countries avoid debt?

95. Big, rich countries have rarely repaid debt with surpluses

96. Economic growth is unlikely to prevent fiscal crisis

97. Across the rich world, fiscal crises loom

98. How much public debt is too much?

99. Fixing the welfare state looks electorally impossible

100. China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump

101. Why the ultra-rich are giving up on luxury assets

102. Donald Trump scrambles to seal the deal in Gaza

103. Checks and Balance newsletter: The credit President Trump deserves

104. America and China remain prone to conflict and miscalculation

105. Why is Britain so good at growing giant veg

106. 2025-10-10 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How we chose this week’s image

107. Labour is reluctant to get off the bus

108. Are barefoot shoes good for runners?

109. María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s “Iron Lady”, gets the peace Nobel

110. Letitia James is the latest target of Donald Trump’s revenge agenda

111. Which countries breed Nobel laureates, and which import them?

112. Jane Goodall spent her life telling humans to honour animals

113. Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

114. Xi Jinping is personally involved in crafting China’s new five-year plan

115. China’s industrial largesse may cost it 370bn a year in lost output

116. China’s H-1B-visa alternative excites interest abroad—but fury at home

117. Meet Japan’s “Fireball”, Takaichi Sanae, its polarising new leader

118. Total Energies leads the dash for Africa’s new oil and gas

119. The forgotten horror of Western Tigray

120. Blame, strategising and America’s government shutdown

121. Rats and charts

122. Macron seeks to buy time with a new prime minister

123. Russia is torturing its Ukrainian captives

124. The comeback of Andrej Babis

125. “Brussels” is the phantom menace Europe loves to blame

126. Who might be Britain’s next prime minister?

127. The stricken Tories reach for the chainsaw

128. A dangerous post-Brexit world

129. Businesses are grappling with a wave of cybercrime

130. Bottled water is going upmarket

131. A short guide to white-collar warfare

132. What if OpenAI went belly-up?

133. Cybercrime is afflicting big business. How to lessen the pain

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135. 2025-10-09 The World this Week - Business

136. 2025-10-09 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

137. American soya farmers are miserable. Brazil’s are ebullient

138. Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America

139. Israel and Hamas agree to the first phase of Donald Trump’s peace plan

140. The stockmarket is fuelling America’s economy

141. Frontline economics: lessons from Russia’s neighbours

142. Narendra Modi’s paltry target for India’s growth

143. What rich Indians fear

144. Will this experiment fix India’s Silicon Valley?

145. The global gold boom’s 150bn final frontier: Pakistan

146. A new beginning for the Middle East

147. The new age of the African Big Man

148. Africa’s leaders-for-life offer a warning to the world

149. A euphoric Donald Trump wins a breakthrough in the Middle East

150. The most dangerous corner of a balance-sheet

151. This years Nobel laureates have now been announced

152. Hoverflies are long-distance travellers

153. What American voters really think of the revenge agenda

154. Hamas says there is “a spirit of optimism” over peace talks

155. Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade

156. Meet the real opposition

157. The sinister disppearances of China’s bosses

158. A chemistry Nobel for crystals that absorb other chemicals

159. The Argentine peso, and Javier Milei, are in trouble

160. Britain mourns its bonkbuster queen

161. Who do Americans blame for the government shutdown?

162. Europe struggles to put homeland defence first

163. Welcome to Zero Migration America

164. Agriculture faces a MAGA reckoning

165. Blighty newsletter: The Tories are stuck in the past—at their peril

166. A Nobel for the physics that ushered in quantum computing

167. British Jews and police work closely together to prevent attacks

168. Japanese politics enters its heavy-metal phase

169. Maps and data tell the story of two bloody years in Israel and Gaza

170. A Gordian knot threatens the Gaza peace talks

171. Chinese officials boast a god’s-eye view of towns from above

172. Mark Carney’s radical vision for handling Trumpian America

173. The War Room newsletter: Are America’s military standards slipping?

174. The next big thing in AI may be pictures, not words

175. Why can’t Britain’s leading aerospace lab raise more money?

176. Luxury goods are out, but luxury travel is in

177. What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism

178. A Nobel prize in physiology for immune tolerance

179. The Economist today newsletter: What happens when migrants stop coming?

180. France is gripped by turmoil as another government collapses

181. A make-or-break moment for Israel, Hamas—and Donald Trump

182. Bonfire of the middle managers

183. Donald Trump is victorious at the southern border

184. Ukraine’s hellfire is intensifying the Kremlin’s fuel crisis

185. The Czech Trump wins an election, again

186. Hamas says “yes, but” to the Trump Gaza plan. That may not be enough

187. Victory for Japan’s polarising Iron Lady, Takaichi Sanae

188. Many Democrats think Chuck Schumer is a problem

189. What J D Wetherspoon understands about the British pub

190. 2025-10-03 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How we chose the cover image

191. Andrej Babis, the Czech billionaire making a political comeback

192. Why Jews feel increasingly unsafe in Britain

193. Is dark chocolate actually healthy?

194. Essential India Newsletter: What Britain can learn from Aadhaar

195. The president’s agenda looks safe at the Supreme Court—with a few exceptions

196. Republicans in the West want more wolves killed

197. How a MAGA-aligned Republican has put a Democratic state in play

198. Bitcoin and a Chinese fraudster in London

199. China is the GOAT of engineering. Right?

200. Xi Jinping wants a spot in your inbox

201. Violent hatred flares between Kurdish cousins

202. Africa’s most secretive dictatorship faces an existential crisis

203. The deal shielding Mexico and Canada from trade oblivion

204. Jair Bolsonaro is running out of options

205. Europe’s biggest military project could collapse

206. The loneliness at the centre of Europe

207. Labour rules devised in the 20th century are hobbling Europe in the 21st

208. Italy’s regions are creating a right to die

209. The chilling exception to Trumpian protectionism

210. Armin Papperger’s vaulting ambitions for Rheinmetall

211. With Electronic Arts, Saudi Arabia scores a record buy-out

212. ByteDance will be better off without TikTok US

213. How bosses unwittingly exert power

214. Donald Trump’s cure for drug prices is worse than the disease

215. The new SCOTUS term will reshape America’s constitution

216. 2025-10-02 The World this Week - Politics

217. 2025-10-02 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

218. 2025-10-02 The World this Week - Business

219. Claudia Cardinale added depth to voluptuousness

220. South-East Asia is being swamped with Chinese goods

221. Japanese politics heats up

222. Australia’s post-China hangover

223. A 2bn AI unicorn tests London’s nerve

224. Does big pharma gouge Americans?

225. Why Russia’s micro-aggressions against Europe are proliferating

226. Vladimir Putin is testing the West—and its unity

227. Don’t tax wealth

228. Credit markets look increasingly dangerous

229. How the Trump administration learned to love foreign aid

230. Britain is trying to create a digital identity system, again

231. Can India strike a deal on Russian oil to appease America?

232. Women’s cricket in India is taking off

233. Unleash the robotaxi revolution

234. The Trump plan for Gaza deserves praise

235. The eccentric investment strategy that beats the rest

236. A portent of death may have helped create life

237. Restocking an African lake may ameliorate a debilitating plague

238. Labour has decided to stop punching its own voters

239. Media’s newest moguls: the Ellisons

240. A German newspaper for Bolivian blondes

241. Middle East Dispatch newsletter: Does Israel want “eternal peace”?

242. Sir Keir Starmer declares a battle for the soul of Britain

243. A big majority of Israelis support Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan

244. Can the West survive an age of brinkmanship?

245. Donald Trump tries to enlist the top brass for “the war from within”

246. The flashing red threat from Russia’s dark fleet

247. Why protests are sweeping Madagascar

248. A new technique can turn a woman’s skin cells into eggs

249. The gold of County Tyrone shows Britain’s barriers to development

250. The murky economics of the data-centre investment boom

251. Where can Americans afford to live solo in 2025?

252. What would a shutdown mean for America’s economy?

253. Donald Trump reaches for “eternal peace” in Gaza

254. China’s most optimistic critic

255. China’s stockmarket rally may hurt the economy

256. Britain’s strict new curbs on junk-food marketing

257. The War Room newsletter: Is Putin testing Europe’s mettle?

258. Moldova defies Russia by re-electing its pro-European government

259. Armed forces are turning to an 18th-century technology to snoop on enemies

260. Russia is violating Europe’s skies with impunity

261. The economics of self-driving taxis

262. Can Donald Trump bring down America’s sky-high drug prices?

263. British men are driving less, and a culture is vanishing

264. What are TikTok’s new owners buying?

265. The War Room newsletter: The best tanks of all time

266. 2025-09-26 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletters: How we chose the cover image

267. Are red-light face masks worth the hype?

268. Takaichi Sanae, the hardline nationalist who may soon lead Japan

269. Donald Trump escalates his retribution campaign

270. Democratic mayors and the president are converging on drugs policy

271. The president’s border czar was caught in a sting operation

272. Women’s pro-ballers want more cash

273. It is getting much harder to get evicted in New York City

274. Donald Trump is raising the stakes for holding power

275. Can’t anyone get Germany’s trains to run on time?

276. Why France is thinking of targeting the super-rich

277. Should Britain deploy the navy to prevent small-boat crossings?

278. Where should Britain hide its nuclear waste?

279. Donald Trump is trying to silence his critics. He will fail

280. The deadly allure of a bad deal with North Korea

281. How to stop AI’s “lethal trifecta”

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283. 2025-09-25 The World this Week - Business

284. 2025-09-25 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

285. Nvidia’s 100bn bet on OpenAI raises plenty of questions

286. Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

287. China is turning up its nose at American soyabeans

288. All eyes on the NBA as its players return to China

289. The world’s most persecuted people

290. Asian countries are nabbing a lot more foreign students

291. It will take more than speeches to change Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians

292. Could Tony Blair run Gaza?

293. Burkina Faso’s strongman has gone viral

294. Measuring mortality is getting even harder in Africa

295. North Korea is becoming even more repressive and threatening

296. Can Donald Trump muzzle America’s press?

297. A fast-growing German coffee chain causes a stir

298. How AI is changing the office

299. Novo Nordisk v Eli Lilly: return of the weight-loss wars

300. The desperate search for superstar talent