1. A protest against America’s TikTok ban is mired in contradiction

2. Can you breathe stress away?

3. TikTok’s time is up. Can Donald Trump save it?

4. China meets its official growth target. Not everyone is convinced

5. The Economist’s science and technology internship

6. A better understanding of Huntington’s disease brings hope

7. Peter Fenwick became the world expert on near-death experiences

8. Inside the Houthi’s moneymaking machine

9. An outrage that even China’s supine media has called out

10. Why foreign law firms are leaving China

11. An initiative so feared that China has stopped saying its name

12. Can Donald Trump maintain Joe Biden’s network of Asian alliances?

13. West African booze is becoming a luxury product

14. Canada has adopted assisted dying faster than anywhere on Earth

15. Tether’s move to El Salvador is a win for President Nayib Bukele

16. How Joe Biden wound up serving Donald Trump

17. How bad will the smoke be for Angelenos’ health?

18. Can the good ship Europe weather the Trumpnado?

19. Spain’s proposed house tax on foreigners will not fix its shortage

20. A French-sponsored Ukrainian army brigade has been badly botched

21. A TV dramatisation of Mussolini’s life inflames Italy

22. France’s new prime minister is trying to court the left

23. How the AfD got its swagger back

24. Has the Royal Navy become too timid?

25. A plan to reorganise local government in England runs into opposition

26. David Lammy’s plan to shake up Britain’s Foreign Office

27. Britain’s government has spooked markets and riled businesses

28. The right in Congress and the courts will reshape Donald Trump’s agenda

29. The UFC, Dana White and the rise of bloodsport entertainment

30. The year ahead: a message from the CEO

31. Germany is going nuts for Dubai chocolate

32. Will Elon Musk scrap his plan to invest in a gigafactory in Mexico?

33. One of the biggest energy IPOs in a decade could be around the corner

34. Can the Gulf states become tech superpowers?

35. How to improve clinical trials

36. Houthi Inc: the pirates who weaponised globalisation

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40. First, the ceasefire. Next the Trump effect could upend the Middle East

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42. Donald Trump will upend 80 years of American foreign policy

43. Ethiopia gets a stockmarket. Now it just needs some firms to list

44. Are big cities overrated?

45. Why catastrophe bonds are failing to cover disaster damage

46. Rising bond yields should spur governments to go for growth

47. “The Traitors”, a reality TV show, offers a useful economics lesson

48. Should you have to prove your age before watching porn?

49. After 15 months of hell, Israel and Hamas sign a ceasefire deal

50. Labour’s credibility trap

51. Tulsi Gabbard, Sean Penn and the hunt for an American hostage

52. Much of the damage from the LA fires could have been averted

53. Is obesity a disease?

54. Volunteers with Down’s syndrome could help find Alzheimer’s drugs

55. Will Donald Trump unleash Wall Street?

56. A short history of Syria, in maps

57. What North Korea gains by sending troops to fight for Russia

58. Is Arkadag the world’s greatest football team?

59. After the president’s arrest, what next for South Korea?

60. Is Javier Milei’s economic gamble working?

61. Marco Rubio will find China is hard to beat in Latin America

62. Why elite MBA graduates are struggling to find jobs

63. From Greenland to Panama and Mexico, leaders are in shock

64. A hidden refuge in Sudan that the internet, banks—and war—can’t reach

65. How flush Americans feel depends on their views of Donald Trump

66. Blighty newsletter: Britain’s advantage in the AI race

67. Britain is becoming a well-mannered but deceitful society

68. Violent Jihadists are getting frustrated by the new Syria

69. Iran is vulnerable to a Trumpian all-out economic assault

70. India’s Faustian pact with Russia is strengthening

71. Homelessness in England has risen by 26% in the past five years

72. How will calamity change Los Angeles?

73. Russia is being set aflame by hundreds of arson attacks

74. Why global bond markets are convulsing

75. How hard is it to run the Pentagon?

76. Checks and Balance: Fires, Greenland and the systematic organisation of hatreds

77. Time could be running out for TikTok

78. How to make sense of 2024’s wild temperatures

79. The Los Angeles fires will be extraordinarily expensive

80. Should you start lifting weights?

81. Herbert Kickl, Austria’s hard-right ideologue who played the long game

82. Why have Britain’s bond yields jumped sharply?

83. Chiung Yao taught the Chinese all about romantic love

84. A big earthquake causes destruction in Tibet

85. A pay rise for government workers sparks anger and envy in China

86. Militant Uyghurs in Syria threaten the Chinese government

87. Does China have the fiscal firepower to rescue its economy?

88. Joe Biden’s mixed legacy on Japan

89. AUKUS enters its fifth year. How is the pact faring?

90. Indonesia nearly has a monopoly on nickel. What next?

91. America concludes genocide has been committed in Sudan—again

92. The West is making a muddle of its Syria sanctions

93. Lebanon tries yet again to elect a new president

94. Canada and America have been fighting about timber for 40 years

95. Most Americans think moderate drinking is fine

96. When treating snakebites, American hospitals turn to zoos

97. Mike Johnson has his old job back, for now

98. America’s bet on industrial policy starts to pay off for semiconductors

99. A dispute over old war crimes strains Polish-Ukrainian relations

100. Spain’s government marks 50 years since Franco died

101. Europe has lots of lithium, but struggles to get it out of the ground

102. Olaf Scholz still thinks he can win re-election as chancellor

103. Austria could soon have a first far-right leader since 1945

104. The phenomenon of sexual strangulation in Britain

105. The decline in remote working hits Britain’s housing market

106. Britons are keener than ever to bring back lost and rare species

107. A much-praised British scheme to help disabled workers is failing them

108. Rolls-Royce cars pushes the pedal on customisation

109. What Elon Musk’s tweets about sex abuse reveal about British politics

110. Meet the ambitious wolf cubs of Wall Street

111. The signals of workplace submissiveness

112. What next for US Steel?

113. Foxconn and other gadget-makers are expanding their empires

114. Health warnings about alcohol give only half the story

115. Pete Hegseth’s culture war will weaken America’s armed forces

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120. Europe could be torn apart by new divisions

121. How corporate bonds fell out of fashion

122. America’s internet giants are being outplayed in the global south

123. The capitalist revolution Africa needs

124. What a 472-year-old corpse reveals about India

125. Pakistan’s army puts a former intelligence chief on trial

126. Just because Indonesia has nickel, doesn’t mean it should make EVs

127. Donald the Deporter

128. How far will Donald Trump go to get rid of illegal immigrants?

129. Alawites formed Syria’s elite. Now they are terrified

130. From inside an obliterated Gaza, gunfire not a ceasefire

131. Mark Zuckerberg’s U-turn on fact-checking is craven—but correct

132. An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century

133. Does melatonin work for jet lag?

134. Training AI models might not need enormous data centres

135. Will Mark Zuckerberg’s Trump gamble pay off?

136. How means conquered ends

137. Los Angeles is burning

138. Team Trump is getting handover hints from Team Biden

139. How the Gulf’s rulers want to harness the power of science

140. What New York’s congestion charge could teach the rest of America

141. Jean-Marie Le Pen revived extremist politics in France

142. Mozambique’s opposition leader flies home into chaos

143. The Putinisation of central Europe

144. Blighty newsletter: What Westminster gets wrong about Elon Musk

145. Chinese markets suffer a dismal start to the year

146. By resisting arrest, South Korea’s president challenges democracy

147. Can America’s economy cope with mass deportations?

148. Women warriors and the war on woke

149. Alcohol-free booze is becoming big business

150. Justin Trudeau steps down, leaving a wrecked party and divided Canada

151. The Africa gap

152. Africa is undergoing social change without economic transformation

153. Africa could reduce the economic gap between it and the rest of the world

154. African elites should align themselves with their countries’ needs

155. Africa has too many businesses, too little business

156. The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is getting wider

157. The African investment environment is less benign than for many years

158. A new electricity supercycle is under way

159. Does made in Mexico mean made by China?

160. The US Army needs less good, cheaper drones to compete

161. Trump has faced down Republican dissidents in Congress

162. Ten years after the Charlie Hebdo massacre, satire is under siege

163. Checks and Balance newsletter: Can the tech elite and MAGA come together?

164. Russ Vought: Donald Trump’s holy warrior

165. The secret to one of Europe’s best-performing stockmarkets

166. Young customers in developing countries propel a boom in plastic surgery

167. Young people are having less fun

168. Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation

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171. China approves the world’s most expensive infrastructure project

172. The fate of minorities in post-Assad Syria

173. Eastern Congo is as wretched as ever

174. The era of multilateral peacekeeping draws to an unhappy close

175. Failure to prepare for climate change is costing Honduras dear

176. Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro looks set to take the throne

177. Jimmy Carter reshaped his home town

178. Why Canada should join the EU

179. Serbia and its neighbours are still far from joining the EU

180. Elon Musk’s praise for the far right infuriates most of Germany

181. MAGA’s war on talent frightens CEOs—and angers Elon Musk

182. Beware the dangers of data

183. Meet Silicon Valley’s shrewdest talent spotters

184. Netflix has big ambitions for live sport

185. To see what European business could become, look to the Nordics

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187. Syria’s new rulers have inherited an economic disaster

188. Smarter incentives would help India adapt to climate change

189. How 1.4bn Indians are adapting to climate change

190. Why Spanish firms have cooled towards Latin America

191. Economic bright spots are getting harder to find in Thailand

192. Would an artificial-intelligence bubble be so bad?

193. Will Elon Musk dominate President Trump’s economic policy?

194. Tech is coming to Washington. Prepare for a clash of cultures

195. Is Islamic State on the rise again?

196. The Starmer government looks a poor guardian of England’s improving schools

197. Finland’s seizure of a tanker shows how to fight Russian sabotage

198. Duelling arguments take shape in the TikTok-ban case

199. The four worst words in British politics

200. Another accidental aircraft shootdown is a matter of when, not if

201. America’s marijuana industry is wilting

202. Cancer vaccines are showing promise at last

203. New firefighting tech is being trialled in Sardinia’s ancient forests

204. The other billionaire space company

205. What investors expect from President Trump

206. China is catching up with America in quantum technology

207. Homelessness rises to a record level in America

208. Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare

209. A Prague-Berlin train loses its old-world dining cars

210. Xi Jinping has much to worry about in 2025

211. RFK junior is half right about American health care

212. Why are Nordic companies so successful?

213. Inflation in Britain looks irritatingly persistent

214. Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents

215. China’s firms are taking flight, worrying its rulers

216. Labour lacks good ideas for improving Britain’s schools

217. Manmohan Singh was India’s economic freedom fighter

218. Why some doctors are reassessing hypnosis

219. What should companies do to keep bosses safe?

220. Why you’re not on holiday in India right now

221. Why fine wine and fancy art have slumped this year

222. Britons brace themselves for more floods

223. Who was the best CEO of 2024?

224. How China turns members of its diaspora into spies

225. Matt Gaetz vs the ethics committee

226. Inside Ukraine’s secret missile programme

227. At the state level, democracy in America is fracturing

228. A horrific Christmas attack in Germany is weirder than expected

229. Just how frothy is America’s stockmarket?

230. Why Congress is so dysfunctional

231. Drones spotted on America’s east coast highlight a bigger problem

232. A year of our visual journalism

233. Brother Harold Palmer lived alone in the wilds by choice

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236. Why warriors should welcome laws of war

237. Is the age of American air superiority coming to an end?

238. Singapore’s government is determined to keep hawker centres alive

239. South Sudan’s economic crisis threatens its fragile peace

240. Ethiopia and Somalia claim to have settled a dangerous feud

241. Israel and Hamas look close to some kind of deal

242. Everyone wants to meet Syria’s new rulers

243. How the Democrats wandered away from America’s workers

244. Donald Trump’s DEI assessment

245. The Biden administration pursued a mistaken policy on LNG exports

246. Why meal-replacement drinks are shaking up the British lunch

247. Meet the most ruthless CEO in the trillion-dollar tech club

248. The business of nicknames

249. Can Lego remain the world’s coolest toymaker?

250. The Economist’s country of the year for 2024

251. Global warming is speeding up. Another reason to think about geoengineering

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254. What to make of 2024

255. How to get a free meal in China

256. Don’t count on monetary policy to make housing affordable

257. Why Brazil’s currency is plunging

258. The search for the world’s most efficient charities

259. Conflict is remaking the Middle East’s economic order

260. Dommaraju Gukesh’s win will accelerate India’s chess ambitions

261. How to give money to good causes

262. We need to talk about Europe’s Kevins

263. Police brutality is not stopping Georgia’s protests

264. France’s new prime minister faces a looming mess

265. German politicians are talking tough, but offering little

266. Keep the Caucasus safe from Russia

267. A tie-up between Honda and Nissan will not fix their problems

268. Ukraine is winning the economic war against Russia

269. Latin Americans are worryingly comfortable with authoritarianism

270. Academic writing is getting harder to read—the humanities most of all

271. Giving children the wrong (or not enough) toys may doom a society

272. The eternal Bossman

273. Off the Charts newsletter: Why R is the best coding language for data journalism

274. Off the Charts newsletter: Why Python is the best coding language for data journalism

275. One of Assad’s mass graves is found, with as many as 100,000 bodies

276. How to get money from Ebenezer Scrooge

277. Workers love Donald Trump. Unions should fear him

278. Blighty newsletter: The great status shuffle

279. China’s economy is in for another rough year

280. The killing of a Russian general shows Ukraine’s spies remain lethal

281. Britain’s government plans drastic changes to local democracy

282. A crushing blow for the Justin Trudeau show

283. Why Louis Vuitton is struggling but Hermès is not

284. The secret talks between Syria’s new leaders and the Kremlin

285. Ukrainian troops celebrate a grim Christmas in Kursk

286. Earth is warming faster. Scientists are closing in on why

287. Britain’s Labour government is keen on deporting illegal migrants

288. Protests threaten Georgia’s Kremlin-friendly government

289. Britain prepares for its third defence review in four years

290. Is the opioid epidemic finally burning out?

291. Checks and Balance newsletter: America’s health-care paradox

292. South Korea’s president is impeached

293. What to expect after Germany’s confidence vote

294. Tulsi Gabbard delights in provocation

295. An interview with the military commander of Syria’s new masters

296. Emmanuel Macron has yet another stab at finding a prime minister

297. Humans and Neanderthals met often, but only one event matters

298. What has four stomachs and could change the world?

299. China cracks down on Karate-chopping cleaning ladies

300. Why China is losing interest in English