1. Do hangover supplements work?

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3. After a tax scandal, Britain’s government gets a shake-up

4. Steve Shirley countered sexism by founding her own company

5. The world’s surprise boomtown: Baghdad

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7. How Israel’s arms exports have made it sanctions-proof

8. The weird and wacky life hacks of China’s youth

9. China’s urban planners could determine the future of city life

10. A lesson in Trump-charming

11. The rules for defending democracy under Donald Trump

12. Five Republican factions jostle for the president’s favour

13. Vladimir Putin is building a super-app

14. Bayrou on the brink

15. Fires, earthquakes and inflation are putting tourists off Turkey

16. Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe

17. Why nuclear is now a booming industry

18. How Lululemon fell out of fashion

19. Morocco is now a trade and manufacturing powerhouse

20. Broken workflows—and how to fix them

21. What the splinternet means for big tech

22. Indonesia could be on the brink of something nasty

23. A terrifying synthetic-drug surge in Africa

24. A new frontier for skyscrapers

25. Luring partners and yet more debt: Mexico’s energy plan

26. What is missing from a plan to tackle Haiti’s gangs

27. Will British shipbuilders rule the waves again?

28. How the M&S strawberries-and-cream sandwich went viral

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31. Iran’s imminent nuclear dilemma

32. How America’s Democrats might win back power

33. The Farage power project

34. All eyes on China’s massive military parade

35. Chinese migrants risked their lives to reach America. For what?

36. Banning smartphones in classrooms helps students

37. Mexico fears the United States will stop the flow of natural gas

38. Sri Lanka is still reeling from its economic collapse

39. Donald Trump is unpopular. Why is it so hard to stand up to him?

40. What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology?

41. How Europe’s hard right threatens the economy

42. India is retiring its most celebrated warplane

43. Bond vigilantes take aim at France

44. The hard right’s plans for Europe’s economy

45. Rampant and relentless: Israel’s settlers make their move

46. Schools should banish smartphones from the classroom

47. Our Fed tracker: how much will its independence be compromised?

48. Why supply shocks are a trap for commodity investors

49. The dubious legality of killing drug suspects at sea

50. Burying nuclear reactors might make them cleaner and cheaper

51. How to study people who are very drunk

52. How to take over a government via PDFs

53. Putin’s petrostate faces a kamikaze petrol crisis

54. Blighty newsletter: It’s immigration, stupid!

55. Google and Apple dodge an antitrust bullet

56. In Chicago violent crime is down

57. Who is winning in AI—China or America?

58. China turns crypto-curious

59. Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer

60. The Economist is hiring a science and technology correspondent

61. Xi Jinping’s anti-American party

62. Protests test Indonesia’s democracy

63. America is escaping its office crisis

64. The threat of deflation stalks Asia’s economies

65. What Finland could teach Ukraine about war and peace

66. Britain’s jobs market has a slow puncture

67. How can a middle power compete in artificial intelligence?

68. Donald Trump comes for America’s public universities

69. Meet the world’s hottest upstart weapons dealers

70. How Trump’s migrant crackdown threatens America Inc

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72. Trump’s tariffs suffer a legal setback

73. The truth about seed oils

74. A cyber-attack isn’t enough to halt Marks & Spencer’s turnaround

75. Lisa Cook, the Fed governor Donald Trump is trying to fire

76. The factions jostling for Donald Trump’s favour

77. Sen Genshitsu spread peace through sipping

78. Donald Trump is waging war on woke AI

79. On parade in China: Putin, the PLA and purges

80. Something is amiss in China’s foreign-affairs leadership

81. Israel’s prevaricator-in-chief

82. The indecorous fight over a dead president’s body

83. No one is satisfied with Egypt’s role in Gaza

84. A haunting new view of Assad’s brutality in Syria

85. A 19bn industry is about to pay its workforce for the first time

86. Have foreign tourists really avoided America this year?

87. New York is turning 400 and no one cares

88. Hansard shows what it takes to put democracy on the record

89. France’s government is on the brink of collapse, again

90. Don’t forget the downsides of China’s innovation push

91. Peru’s cartoonish presidential front-runner

92. Time for some Merz-Macron magic

93. Why Poland is becoming less central European and more Baltic

94. After a year of chaos, the Dutch hope to return to real issues

95. Ten years later, “Wir schaffen das” has proved a pyrrhic victory

96. Service stations are receiving a glow-up

97. How much trouble is the world’s biggest offshore-wind developer in?

98. Feuds, grudges and revenge

99. How a power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia’s rise

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103. The market for startup shares is getting even weirder

104. A defining test looms for India

105. Will a harsher world accelerate India’s reforms?

106. Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: the Indian consumer

107. Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating

108. Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred

109. How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage

110. Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity

111. Jair Bolsonaro’s trial offers Brazil a way out from polarisation and stagnation

112. Assessing the case against Lisa Cook

113. Why you should buy your employer’s shares

114. The rise of beer made by AI

115. The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable

116. Humiliation, vindication—and a giant test for India

117. How much danger is America’s central bank in?

118. The polycrisis theory of Brexit

119. A successful test flight puts Musk’s Starship back on track

120. Quietly, Britain is moving closer to EU rules

121. The Economist’s finance and economics internship

122. Putin’s botched African adventure

123. Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on?

124. Ukraine shows off a deadly new cruise missile

125. Donald Trump, friend of the EV?

126. The wrong way to end a war

127. A surprise US Navy surge in the Caribbean

128. Have foreign tourists really avoided America this year?

129. The Democrat who calls Trump a child of God

130. A Chinese lab starts to tackle a giant mystery in particle physics

131. Blighty newsletter: Beware the mob

132. France is in big trouble, again

133. The War Room newsletter: Archive 1945 comes to a close

134. Trump “fires” Lisa Cook, escalating his war on the Federal Reserve

135. Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating

136. Chinese courts can bar even those not accused of crimes from leaving the country

137. How China became an innovation powerhouse

138. How Ukraine’s naval drones hold Russia’s warships at bay

139. India’s government bans fantasy sports games

140. Zohran Mamdani is promising lots of things he can’t actually do

141. The world’s oldest daily radio serial on England’s new rural life

142. In some ways, rural Britain is changing faster than its cities

143. Fear the deficit-populism doom loop

144. The choices facing Britain’s next MI6 chief

145. The evolution of famine in Gaza, in maps and charts

146. Are saunas actually good for you?

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148. Donald Trump has purged one of the CIA’s most senior Russia analysts

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152. A burning threat to pregnant women

153. Does it make sense for America to keep subsidising a sinking city?

154. How Washington became Donald Trump’s chew toy

155. Friedrich Merz cuts a good figure abroad but is struggling at home

156. Why Turkey’s football clubs can pay more cash for talent

157. Europe is ablaze

158. Trump wants a Nobel prize. Europe can exploit that to help Ukraine

159. Big chocolate has a growing taste for lab-grown cocoa

160. China is quietly upstaging America with its open models

161. China’s hottest new look: the facekini

162. The last days of brainstorming

163. Who will America’s president listen to next on Ukraine?

164. Pregnant women need protecting from heatwaves

165. Britain leads the world in a new global business—a criminal one

166. Terence Stamp preferred philosophy to celebrity

167. Hong Kong’s courtroom dramas

168. A new twist in Syria: a political opposition

169. What’s in a name in the Middle East?

170. Gaza’s Gen-Z influencers

171. Are east African governments colluding to stifle dissent?

172. How Sierra Leone beat back mpox

173. After 20 years in power, Bolivia’s socialists crash out of it

174. The new fears of Cubans in Florida

175. Climate change threatens an Andean ski boom

176. Why Mexicans love Japan and Korea

177. England’s white working class falls further behind at exams

178. China’s mid-year economic wobble

179. American tech’s split personalities

180. Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?

181. The green transition has a surprising new home

182. Can China cope with a deindustrialised future?

183. To survive, Intel must break itself apart

184. The world is learning to live with the Taliban

185. Pakistan is critical in the fight against Islamic State terrorism

186. How fair are India’s elections?

187. TSMC could revolutionise rural Japan

188. Japan storms back into the chip wars

189. The world’s biggest chipmaker needs to move beyond Taiwan

190. Donald Trump’s fantasy of home-grown chipmaking

191. The McWages index: which countries earn the most Big Macs?

192. A court ruling threatens to disrupt Britain’s asylum policy

193. A new opposition could be a healthy sign for Syria

194. The discovery of a gene for chronic pain could herald new treatments

195. Old fossil-fuel plants are becoming green-energy hubs

196. AI-powered robots can take your phone apart

197. RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA technology endangers the world

198. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to stop them from making it rain

199. What it means when Britain talks about “Bosh”

200. Security “guarantees” for Ukraine are not clear enough

201. Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks

202. The Democrats who find abundance liberalism threatening

203. Was globalisation ever a meritocracy?

204. How AI-enhanced hackers are stealing billions

205. The young American female soldiers of TikTok

206. Putin’s desire to destroy Western unity rages on

207. Blighty newsletter: How Britain became a theft capital

208. Putin’s “land swap” is really a grab for Ukraine’s fortress belt

209. Zelensky survives another episode of the Trump show

210. In praise of complicated investing strategies

211. How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy

212. The War Room newsletter: Why Putin’s peace plan is more like poison

213. Gangs are using increasingly sophisticated kit to steal cars

214. Why America can’t shake off inflation

215. Life after death for Canada’s crushed Conservatives

216. Welcome to the YIMBYest neighbourhood in America

217. The new geography of stolen goods

218. Fear and dread of a new Oval Office fiasco over Ukraine

219. The nightmare of a Trump-Putin pact isn’t over

220. The moral of “The Salt Path”, an embellished bestseller

221. Donald Trump’s gift to Vladimir Putin

222. What might Trumpian meddling mean for Intel?

223. Should you use a standing desk?

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225. Which are the deadliest European cities in a heatwave?

226. How to make sense of Donald Trump’s bizarre tariff rates

227. Must Europe choose between “strategic autonomy” and August off?

228. Razia Jan insisted on educating Afghanistan’s girls

229. America’s new plan to fight a war with China

230. The end of the second world war

231. China’s planned Turkish EV factories have yet to power up

232. The colourful civic groups that hold Germany together

233. Africa is undergoing social change without economic transformation

234. Hong Kong is super superstitious

235. China claims to want women to have children and a career

236. Liberal Uruguay and the right to die

237. A martyr in the making?

238. Bolivia’s crazy kingdom of coca

239. Why the Trump administration excites some personal-injury lawyers

240. Texas’s renegade Democrats prepare for a glorious defeat

241. A 400-year-old Chinese cough syrup is winning over Westerners

242. Japan’s carmakers are trying to tinker their way out of tariff pain

243. Italian bosses want Giorgia Meloni to hurry up with reform

244. A new wave of clean-energy innovation is building

245. Should you trust that five-star rating on Airbnb?

246. America and its Asian allies need to spend more to deter China

247. The shutdown of ocean currents could freeze Europe

248. Why South Africa should scrap Black Economic Empowerment

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252. America’s biggest ask in Asia

253. Indonesia’s new president has daddy issues

254. What Sara Duterte’s comeback means for the Philippines

255. Ivory Coast’s president is overstaying his welcome

256. Lebanon’s government is taking on a weakened Hizbullah

257. The world’s hardest makeover: Hamas

258. The killing of journalists in Gaza

259. The Fantasy Premier League is changing Britain’s favourite sport

260. Asian tourists are returning to Britain. But they look different

261. The real collusion between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin

262. How to win at foreign policy

263. Growth-loving authoritarians are failing on their own terms

264. What 630,000 paintings say about the world economy

265. Where will win from Trump’s tariffs?

266. To sell Fannie and Freddie, Trump must answer a 7trn question

267. China’s power over rare earths is not as great as it seems

268. Trump wants to command bosses like Xi. He is failing

269. Trump 2 is pushing environmentalists to rethink their approach

270. Drones could soon become more intrusive than ever

271. Smoke from boreal wildfires could cool the Arctic

272. Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points

273. Ivy League universities are on a debt binge

274. What Putin wants from Trump in Alaska

275. Aux barricades, boomers!

276. Xi Jinping’s weaponisation of rare-earth elements will ultimately backfire

277. Vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer have plummeted in Britain

278. Nerves are on a knife-edge ahead of the Trump-Putin summit

279. How scared should you be of “the China squeeze”?

280. How many pythons could you catch in ten days?

281. Race, power and money in South Africa

282. The looming military threat in the Arctic

283. Blighty newsletter: The Tories go cold on the gig economy

284. Palantir might be the most over-valued firm of all time

285. Britain is a global gaming superpower

286. Trump v DC

287. Why Donald Trump is wrong to take over the DC police

288. How AI could create the first one-person unicorn

289. The Russian-run town squatting on NATO territory

290. Cow’s milk, as well as Russian oil, fuels the US-India trade war

291. The War Room newsletter: Seven of the best books on the Pacific war

292. America’s drug regulator is in turmoil

293. America’s housing market is shuddering

294. Instead of sanctions, Donald Trump announces a summit with Russia

295. Donald Trump brokers a peace plan in the Caucasus

296. Still want to be a London cabbie?

297. OpenAI’s latest step towards advanced artificial intelligence

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299. Are nightmares bad for your health?

300. Pascal Soriot, the pharma titan tiring of Britain