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2. Leung Kwok-hung, Hong Kong’s shaggy agitator for democracy

3. RFK junior wants to ban an ingredient in vaccines. Is he right?

4. Macron will beat Trump to London

5. John Robbins had serious doubts about the family business

6. Conservatives circle around the movement founded by her father

7. Goodbye, Lenin, hello Putin

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11. China’s growth targets cause headaches—even when met

12. Hong Kong’s last functioning pro-democracy party disbands

13. Beware tomes of Chinese political gossip!

14. The Supreme Court keeps helping Donald Trump

15. Support for gay marriage is declining in America

16. Why Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave

17. America needs an honest reckoning over its spy agencies

18. Kim Kardashian, Ryan Reynolds and the age of the celebrity brand

19. Would you pay 19 for a strawberry?

20. Jeff Bezos 2.0: new wife, newish job, old vision

21. Putin’s radioactive chokehold on the world

22. China’s bid to influence the Philippines heats up

23. North Korea’s Benidorm

24. Israel’s weird war clock: 12 days for Iran, 21 months in Gaza

25. Iran’s “axis of resistance” was meant to be the Shias’ NATO

26. Kenya’s president is bad news for Kenya and Africa

27. The Israel-Iran war has not yet transformed the Middle East

28. Canada’s first concession

29. Cuba’s leaders fiddle the figures

30. A pragmatic amnesty for separatists benefits Catalonia

31. The sleeping policeman at the heart of Europe

32. An infestation of ticks menaces Istanbul

33. Germany’s Bundestag bars AfD MPs from its football team

34. Turkey’s strongman is becoming Donald Trump’s point man

35. Britain’s draconian approach to pro-Gaza activism is likely to backfire

36. Britain’s least controversial national treasure

37. A quiet education revolution in England’s secondary cities

38. Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it

39. The obscure Senate functionary whose word is law

40. China is building an entire empire on data

41. William Ruto is taking Kenya to a dangerous place

42. How A-listers are shaking up the consumer-goods business

43. Brazil’s president is losing clout abroad and unpopular at home

44. Why all Indians are rule-breakers

45. Inside Iran’s war economy

46. Vanguard will soon crush fees for even more investors

47. Trumponomics 2.0 will erode the foundations of America’s prosperity

48. How to strike a deal with Donald Trump

49. Measuring Sir Keir Starmer by what people actually care about

50. Labour is bungling its growth “mission”

51. Starmer’s wasted first year

52. Will bowing to Trump win Paramount its merger?

53. Sir Keir Starmer is rapidly losing his authority

54. America’s ominous new halt on weapons to Ukraine

55. India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons

56. The big beautiful bill reveals the hollowness of Trumponomics

57. Synthetic proteins are being built with the help of AI models

58. A new project aims to synthesise a human chromosome

59. How sea slugs give themselves superpowers

60. A Wall Street wheeze makes a surprising comeback

61. Ferrari is looking less like a carmaker and more like Hermès

62. How South Africa could harness Donald Trump’s wrath

63. Ten charts to explain Trump’s big, beautiful bill

64. Blighty newsletter: Do Britons trust Keir Starmer?

65. Can Trump end America’s 1.8trn student-debt nightmare?

66. Superstar coders are raking it in. Others, not so much

67. China’s giant new gamble with digital IDs

68. In Putin’s Moscow a summer of death and distraction

69. Should cities run their own supermarkets?

70. The War Room newsletter: The daddy of all summits

71. Xi Jinping’s futile war on price wars

72. Are startup founders different?

73. Brazil’s president is losing clout abroad and unpopular at home

74. Big, beautiful budgets: not just an American problem

75. America’s economic data are becoming murkier

76. A peace agreement that will probably not bring peace

77. The Supreme Court delivers a blow to judicial power and a win for Trump

78. Zohran Mamdani, Trump’s “worst nightmare”, may in fact be a gift to him

79. Is being bilingual good for your brain?

80. On its tenth birthday, gay marriage in America is under attack

81. Iran has come back online—for now

82. Asia’s disgraced saint

83. Japan’s civil war over surnames

84. As all eyes are on Iran, the horror in Gaza persists

85. Farmers in central Nigeria are being killed with impunity

86. Even for 10bn, the Los Angeles Lakers may look like a bargain

87. Why America’s hospitals don’t want their taxes cut

88. Will the biggest foreign-policy gamble of his presidency pay off?

89. Peace in his time

90. Oklahoma City has been reborn, 30 years after the bombing

91. Britain has bungled its taxes on the super-rich

92. The “motorsport mindset” behind Britain’s success in Formula One

93. The culture wars are coming for cousin marriage in Britain

94. How Wimbledon gets its grass so green

95. The war in Ukraine shows the West can re-arm without re-industrialising

96. How to tell the West’s car industry really is in trouble

97. Who needs Accenture in the age of AI?

98. Behind the world’s fragrances sits a shadowy oligopoly

99. Wendell Weeks, the small-town boss at the big-tech table

100. Sex work in the gig economy

101. China’s new army of engineers

102. Chinese cops are cuffing erotica

103. The gold bull-market has a dirty secret

104. Colombia’s dire president gets desperate

105. Dutch football has a secret team

106. How strongmen mastered the art of dividing Europe

107. A defence splurge will slow Europe’s deindustrialisation

108. Germany is embarking on an almighty borrowing binge

109. Ukraine is inching towards robot-on-robot fighting

110. A bitcoin scandal is good news for the Czech Donald Trump

111. Distrust in public-health institutions is not just an American problem

112. How the defence bonanza will reshape the global economy

113. Chinese brands are sweeping the world. Good

114. Violeta Chamorro was a mother first, a ruler second

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118. The Dalai Lama faces a horrible dilemma

119. Banning the opposition is no way to revive Bangladesh’s democracy

120. Israel’s war with Iran is over

121. How much did America’s bombs damage Iran’s nuclear programme?

122. How to win peace in the Middle East

123. India gets no favours from Trump

124. A big mistake by Bangladesh

125. A surprise East Asian love-in

126. Call centres could be a gold mine for Africa

127. Why commodities are on a rollercoaster ride

128. Jane Street’s sneaky retention tactic

129. How to escape taxes on your stocks

130. Mapping Iran’s nuclear programme

131. RFK’s loopy approach to vaccines endangers Americans

132. How to make prediction markets more useful

133. Feral Labour: why Sir Keir Starmer’s MPs have had enough

134. AI valuations are verging on the unhinged

135. At a tricky NATO summit, a Trumpian meltdown is averted

136. The meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York

137. Trump loves quick wins. He’ll struggle to get one in Iran

138. Paid internship on The Economist’s Britain desk

139. Israel’s dazzling, daunting, dangerous victory

140. Robert F. Kennedy looks set to mess with vaccines

141. How OnlyFans transformed porn

142. How often do ceasefires in the Middle East work?

143. Feckless Europe accepts Trump’s Lone Ranger diplomacy

144. Blighty newsletter: Britannia waves the rules

145. Scientists have created healthy, fertile mice with two fathers

146. Britain’s industrial strategy is unlikely to boost its economy

147. Trump says the war is over. How 14 bombs may change the Middle East

148. After Iran’s knife-edge missile strike Trump says “no more hate”

149. Killer whales appear to craft their own tools

150. Hardliners hellbent on retaliation grab power in Iran

151. It’s not just Labubu dolls. Chinese brands are booming

152. The War Room newsletter: The aftermath of America’s strike

153. A new telescope will find billions of asteroids, galaxies and stars

154. The three rules of conference panels

155. The Economist is hiring a Senior Editorial Analyst

156. Do Americans really want war with Iran?

157. Trump must offer Iran more than bombs, rage and humiliation

158. Trump’s Iran attack was ferocious. But has it worked?

159. Politicians slashed migration. Now they face the consequences

160. Mission accomplished for Netanyahu?

161. Trump smashes Iran—and gambles the regime will now capitulate

162. An explosive moment of truth for Iran and Israel

163. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s great survivor

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

165. Trump v Iran: a negotiation made in hell

166. Do longevity drugs work?

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

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

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

171. Victoria’s Secret is struggling to reinvent itself

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

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

174. Brian Wilson attracted a fame he could hardly endure

175. Can men and women be just friends?

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

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

178. Rich Chinese cities are suffocating poor ones

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

180. Could Trump can AUKUS?

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

182. The war in Sudan is spilling over its borders

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

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

185. Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

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

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

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

189. Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic is rattled

190. Ukraine looks abroad to boost its manpower

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

192. A revival for the classic Renault 5

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

194. The English Midlands is unjustly overlooked

195. Biotech is coming to Wales

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

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

198. Drone warfare is hitting Haiti

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

200. Police allege that Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned a spy ring

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

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

206. Why India has so many snakebites

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

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

209. Where will the Iran-Israel war end?

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

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

212. Who are the world’s best investors?

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

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

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

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

217. Will the Iran war trigger a refugee crisis?

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

219. AI is turning the ad business upside down

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

221. Investors ignore world-changing news. Rightly

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

223. The attacks in Minnesota reflect a worrying trend

224. How to find the smartest AI

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

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

227. The rise of Nigel McFarage

228. Trump draws ever closer to strikes on Iran

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

230. Why China is giving away its tech for free

231. Blighty newsletter: The migration theory of everything

232. The Arab world thinks differently about this Iran war

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

234. In Trumpworld, toppling rulers is taboo

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

236. Will Iran’s hated regime implode?

237. The world’s most liveable cities in 2025

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

239. Why today’s graduates are screwed

240. What employees think of their companies’ values

241. How to build the right corporate culture

242. Trump’s three excruciating choices on Iran

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

244. Can China reclaim its IPO crown?

245. Protests against a regal presidency have been notably peaceful

246. This time Hizbullah isn’t helping Iran

247. Correction: Canada minerals story

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

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

250. Six charts show ICE’s expanding immigration crackdown

251. Tracking the Israel-Iran war

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

253. Britain’s newest way of demoralising doctors

254. The world needs to understand the deep oceans better

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

256. Gavin Newsom is ready for his close-up

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258. Is the “manopause” real?

259. Israel has taken an audacious but terrifying gamble

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

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

262. Was Iran really racing for nukes?

263. Israel launches an attack on Iran—without America

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

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

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

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

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

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

270. Bride prices are surging in China

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

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

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

274. Globalisation is nuts

275. How a Christian group is changing education in America

276. The true meaning of Trump Derangement Syndrome

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

278. Five opposition-backed referendums fail in Italy

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

280. Picasso’s home town is thriving

281. How to curb organised crime without shredding civil rights

282. Why the West has stopped losing its religion

283. A Harvard man turned narco-gang-buster

284. Political violence has returned to Colombia

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

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

287. Make America French Again

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

292. Inverted commas are falling out of fashion

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

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

295. How to invest your enormous inheritance

296. Dominant languages can spread even without coercion

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

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

299. The world must escape the manufacturing delusion

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