1. Checks and Balance newsletter: Which past is MAGA promising to revive?

2. Six charts show the impact of Obamacare

3. Armin Papperger: the German arms boss Russia wants dead

4. How harmful are electronic cigarettes?

5. Why don’t seals drown?

6. Richard Fortey remade the world with fossils

7. The right way to fight nativists

8. China is developing some startling new kit in its quest to reclaim Taiwan

9. Ageism is rampant in Chinese companies

10. Why China hates the Panama Canal deal, but still may not block it

11. China’s cynicism offensive in Asia

12. Taiwan’s president takes on alleged Chinese infiltration

13. North Korea is remarkably entrenched in global supply chains

14. The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret

15. Nigerian politics is a nasty place for women

16. A coup attempt in Tigray raises tensions in the Horn

17. America’s strikes on the Houthis could whip up a regional tempest

18. How Cuba competes with Uncle Sam in the Caribbean islands

19. Donald Trump has reshaped one of the world’s most important migration routes

20. Will Donald Trump shape the Mexican president’s domestic agenda?

21. Donald Trump is testing more than America’s Constitution

22. What a Christian theatre town can teach Trump’s Kennedy Centre

23. Why America has not passed a law to treat addiction better

24. Cambridge yimbies

25. The American and Russian right are aligning

26. Europe needs to spend more on defence, not just pretend to

27. The Bundestag approves the biggest fiscal expansion in post-war history

28. Europe’s arms makers have ramped up capacity

29. Why apprenticeships are so rare in Britain

30. A Northern Irish factory has a deal to make missiles for Ukraine

31. Comparing apples and oranges. And also small caged mammals

32. ZOE, a British personal-nutrition app, is growing fast

33. The thinking behind Labour’s benefits cuts

34. Should BHP, Rio Tinto and Vale learn from Chinese rivals?

35. The horrors of shared docs

36. The luxury industry is poised for a deal wave

37. How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill

38. East Asia’s arms-makers are on the rise

39. The judges Trump scorns should stand their ground

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44. Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science fiction

45. How to enhance humans

46. Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering

47. India is obsessed with giving its people “unique IDs”

48. Why the Indian diaspora has not yet embraced Donald Trump

49. If you can’t find a place to rent, blame the government

50. Lessons from the happiest countries in the world

51. Erdogan arrests the candidate who could beat him

52. Donald Trump shoots his own global mouthpiece

53. Beneath investors’ feet, the ground is shifting

54. The British state has a bad case of long covid

55. The trap Vladimir Putin set for Donald Trump

56. The Economist is seeking three Audience fellows

57. The Economist is hiring an Audience Editor

58. Rumours on social media could cause sick people to feel worse

59. Why are North Korean hackers such good crypto-thieves?

60. Can people be persuaded not to believe disinformation?

61. The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game

62. Why British spooks are reaching out to the private sector

63. Putin woos Trump with a partial ceasefire and big geopolitical deal

64. Britain at last takes aim at worklessness

65. America’s Democrats would be wise to embrace “abundance liberalism”

66. Blighty newsletter: Why are so many Britons not working?

67. Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?

68. Israel’s strikes may be only the start of a new offensive in Gaza

69. Did Donald Trump willfully defy a court order?

70. The pandemic hit pupils hardest in America’s Democrat-leaning states

71. Binyamin Netanyahu is leading Israel into (another) crisis

72. Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?

73. Will Trump’s tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America?

74. The War Room newsletter: The fraying nuclear umbrella

75. Ukraine’s army escapes from Kursk by the skin of its teeth

76. Could antivirals treat Alzheimer’s?

77. Trump v the spies of Five Eyes

78. America is facing a beef deficit

79. Why rents are out of control

80. Checks and Balance newsletter: Elon Musk’s low opinion of the Democrats—and America

81. Ten indicators explain what’s going on with America’s economy

82. What is the best way to keep your teeth healthy?

83. Time is running out for Syria’s president

84. Athol Fugard spoke truth to apartheid South Africa

85. Trump’s whims are overriding the national interest

86. Could Europe replace Starlink if America pulls the plug?

87. American politics prompt some Chinese to explore historical taboos

88. Hong Kong’s taxi drivers are told to smile more

89. China’s super-smart Tesla-killers

90. How dangerous would Asian security be without America?

91. Another civil war looms in South Sudan

92. Abiy Ahmed’s agricultural revolution is too good to be true

93. Binyamin Netanyahu likens himself to Donald Trump

94. After the bloodshed, can Syria’s president unite his country?

95. Panama’s giveaway game

96. Donald Trump is setting new boundaries for political speech

97. Jared Isaacman, the high-school dropout who will lead NASA

98. The education department is halved overnight

99. Donald Trump has pushed Europe back into “whatever it takes” mode

100. The struggle to defeat Russian censorship and propaganda

101. Spain’s terrible record on defence spending

102. Europe’s other front: peaceniks vs hawks

103. Dessert cafés are a symbol of modern Britain

104. Ships crash in the North Sea

105. British women thrived under remote working

106. Britain’s worklessness disaster

107. America First may be a boon for Walmart’s Mexican business

108. The race to elect the next head of the Olympics is heating up

109. 7-Eleven is still struggling to fend off its Canadian suitor

110. The importance of repetition in the workplace

111. Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek

112. With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open

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117. A selection of emails received by employees of the CDC

118. Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?

119. More testosterone means higher pay—for some men

120. Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist

121. The new economics of immigration

122. Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument

123. America’s bullied allies need to toughen up

124. If it comes to a stand-off, Europe has leverage over America

125. India is benefiting from Trump 2.0

126. Are these the world’s most beautiful airports?

127. Europe thinks the unthinkable on a nuclear bomb

128. Is Zelensky a disliked dictator or a popular hero?

129. What sparks an investing revolution?

130. America’s trade hawks fear the gaps in Trump’s tariff wall

131. Canada’s security complex has woken up to Trump’s menace

132. How Labour learned to love rearmament

133. Ukraine’s embrace of drone warfare has paid off

134. The race is on to build the world’s most complex machine

135. Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator

136. DOGE comes to England’s health service

137. Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla

138. Will Vladimir Putin really agree to stop his killing machine?

139. Trump’s erratic policy is harming the reputation of American assets

140. NATO’s race against Russia to re-arm

141. Ukraine hopes its ceasefire offer will turn the tables on Russia

142. Young Americans are getting happier

143. Which countries are most vulnerable to Donald Trump’s aid cuts?

144. Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?

145. Discord erupts in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK

146. The global importance of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest

147. Trump’s metals tariffs will cost American industry dearly

148. The budget that will determine South Africa’s future

149. China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions

150. How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off

151. How DOGE is driving America’s public-health guardians mad

152. A horrific killing-spree shakes Syria

153. Why Britons pay so much for electricity

154. The War Room newsletter: “Be quiet, small man”—diplomacy, Musk style

155. Mark Carney must keep an expansionist America at bay

156. America and Ukraine prepare for brutal negotiations

157. Does Trump really want a weaker dollar?

158. Investors think the Russia-Ukraine war will end soon

159. Checks and Balance newsletter: Depending on America is a vulnerability

160. Mark Carney, the Liberal who may lead Canada

161. Is butter bad for you?

162. Two private companies reach the Moon within four days

163. How do Ukrainian soldier fatalities compare with Russia’s?

164. Donald Trump’s tariffs are a throwback to the 1930s

165. Stitch by stitch, Rose Girone kept her family going

166. America First is a contagious condition

167. The tech bros selling drugs by drone

168. A new film is breaking box-office records in China

169. Chinese warships circumnavigate another island: Australia

170. Why New Zealanders are emigrating in record numbers

171. Indonesia’s shakedown of Apple comes to an end

172. Lebanon’s new government must do three big things immediately

173. Why some Africans see opportunity in foreign-aid cuts

174. A new kind of Brazilian music is poised for a global boom

175. Mexico claims US gunmakers sold weapons to cartels

176. Canada’s Trumpian nightmare is the Liberal Party’s dream

177. The women vying to make conservatism fashionable online

178. Donald Trump deploys new tactics to manage the media

179. DOGE shutters the government’s in-house tech consultancy

180. Three principles are at play in the cases concerning DOGE

181. Democrats are struggling to respond to Trump

182. Romania is caught between Putin, Trump and Europe

183. Kurdish rebels in Turkey declare a ceasefire

184. Europe sounds increasingly French

185. How Mumsnet changed Britain

186. Jack Vettriano was a fantastic painter

187. A thorny debate in Britain around the definition of “Islamophobia”

188. Syria has got rid of Bashar al-Assad, but not sectarian tensions

189. The world’s trustbusters hint that they want more deals

190. The behaviour that annoys colleagues more than any other

191. Mistral, Europe’s biggest AI startup, is blowing hot

192. The pay gap between men and women won’t go away

193. Catering to protein-rich diets is a tasty business

194. As Germany’s defence stocks go ballistic, armsmakers are tooling up

195. Lifting sanctions on Syria seems mad, until you consider the alternative

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200. Syria’s economy, still strangled by sanctions, is on its knees

201. Sir Keir Starmer finds a role

202. Asian allies fear being dumped by Trump

203. Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID will hurt Asia, too

204. A new law targets India’s third-biggest landowner: Allah

205. Aid cannot make poor countries rich

206. It is not the economic impact of tariffs that is most worrying

207. Britain’s leader has found purpose abroad. He needs it at home too

208. The demise of foreign aid offers an opportunity

209. Donald Trump’s economic delusions are already hurting America

210. Trump’s tariffs are worse than anyone imagined

211. The dangerous tension in Europe’s response to Trump

212. China’s leaders reveal their plan to cope with 2025

213. Why silver is the new gold

214. A fantastic start for Friedrich Merz

215. Can Friedrich Merz get Europe out of its funk?

216. Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron are forging a tight link

217. Satellites are polluting the stratosphere

218. AI models are dreaming up the materials of the future

219. The best, and worst, places to be a working woman in 2025

220. Donald Trump’s Washington reaches a new partisan peak

221. How Trump’s tariffs will crush American carmakers

222. Britain’s government may be about to waste its best chance of success

223. Canada’s Liberals are surging

224. Can Europe keep Ukraine in the fight if America really has bailed?

225. Blighty newsletter: Is Britain going cold on America?

226. Mice have been genetically engineered to look like mammoths

227. The lesson from Trump’s Ukrainian weapons embargo

228. Trump’s new tariffs are set to be his most extreme ever

229. Andrew Cuomo plots a comeback in New York City

230. The War Room newsletter: After the White House debacle, what next?

231. The brutal chokeholds Donald Trump could inflict on Ukraine

232. Israel’s army adopts a high-stakes new strategy: more terrain

233. Trump’s armed forces won’t look like Biden’s

234. Europe vows to defend Ukraine, but prays for Trump’s support

235. This week is a moment of truth for Xi Jinping on deflation

236. El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure

237. America faces a Trumpian economic slowdown

238. Western leaders must seize the moment to make Europe safe

239. Ukraine confronts a future without America, and perhaps Zelensky

240. Is posh moisturiser worth the money?

241. A disaster in the White House for Volodymyr Zelensky—and for Ukraine

242. Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s savvy dealmaker

243. Hard-right parties are now Europe’s most popular

244. One of the world’s longest conflicts may be ending

245. Muhsin Hendricks fought homophobia with the Koran

246. The AfD’s unusual China connection

247. The election in Tajikistan is unlikely to be democratic

248. Prabowo Subianto is drastically cutting Indonesia’s budget

249. The sea is swallowing an African island

250. In a dictator’s palace, Syrians debate a new constitution

251. Could political upheaval hit Jordan next?

252. Israel and Hamas have something in common

253. The matadors’ last stand in Colombia

254. The bravest woman in Latin America?

255. America has never had state media like it does today

256. America’s Gen Z has got religion

257. Critics of Medicaid point to a rigorous study conducted 15 years ago

258. To make their numbers work, Republicans must slash health spending

259. Swedish businesses are being bombed

260. Europe will need to pull all the levers to up its defence spending

261. John Parker, one of The Economist’s finest correspondents, was a polymath journalist

262. Anybody in Britain can call themselves a therapist

263. Britain’s capital markets are waging a war on paper

264. Paying teenagers to go to school was a bad idea

265. Britain halves its foreign-aid budget

266. The smiling new face of German big business

267. The Economist’s office agony uncle is back

268. The business of secondhand clothing is booming

269. Airbus has not taken full advantage of Boeing’s weakness

270. Prabowo Subianto takes a chainsaw to Indonesia’s budget

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274. The global democracy index: how did countries perform in 2024?

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276. Zyn is giving investors a buzz—for now

277. Who works where doing what in China

278. How India escaped extreme poverty without an industrial miracle

279. How to get rich in 2025

280. Inheriting is becoming nearly as important as working

281. How overt religiosity became cool in India

282. The trouble with ancient Indians

283. The transactional world Donald Trump seeks would harm not help America

284. Donald Trump has begun a mafia-like struggle for global power

285. Does Britain’s nuclear deterrent have a Trump-shaped problem?

286. The trouble with MAGA’s chipmaking dreams

287. He has battled race-conscious policy for decades. Now his time has come

288. CRISPR technologies hold enormous promise for farming and medicine

289. Could there be Chinese troops in Europe?

290. How cheap can investing get?

291. America’s self-isolating president

292. Running the Liberal Democrats is the easiest job in British politics

293. How artificial intelligence can make board games better

294. The skyrocketing demand for minerals will require new technologies

295. Ukraine hopes its minerals deal will dig it out of a hole with Trump

296. Ukraine is scrambling to find fresh fighters

297. Meet Trump’s fiercest opponent: the bond market

298. Nvidia is fighting off two threats

299. The spread of mariachi tells a very American story

300. Which European should face off against Trump and Putin?