1. Javier Milei has won a fresh mandate to remake Argentina

2. The Kremlin’s blitz to make Ukraine “go dark”

3. Xi Jinping is at his boldest and brashest. How will Donald Trump fare this week?

4. China’s secret stockpiles have been a great success—so far

5. The counterintuitive economics of smoking

6. Checks and Balance newsletter: Rural America reckons with Donald Trump

7. The East Wing demolition is a parable of the Trump presidency

8. Parkrun has become an unwitting British public-health success

9. Karina Milei, Argentina’s most powerful woman, faces a storm of criticism

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11. The world has become surprisingly less grumpy

12. Can you eat your way to lower cholesterol?

13. Will America’s new sanctions on Russian oil force a peace deal?

14. Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

15. What is Taiwan’s plan B?

16. How to win prizes and lose influence

17. America and Britain target Asia’s sprawling scam industry

18. Colombia has finally drawn Donald Trump’s ire

19. Javier Milei’s fate turns on an upcoming election. Can he win?

20. The obvious economics of preserving the Amazon

21. Labour is treating London shabbily

22. Britain’s welfare system has grown sicker

23. Parliament turns on Prince Andrew

24. American big business faces a 1trn capex question

25. To save the world’s tropical forests, learn from Brazil

26. Why Hong Kong is going for gold

27. China has a grave problem

28. A Supreme Court case could help entrench Republican power

29. How the Trump administration could make sensible rules for drones

30. America’s gerrymander war is heating up

31. In the race for Virginia governor, Democrats see boring as a plus

32. Donald Trump has turned the war on drugs into a real war

33. Turkey’s fabled textile industry is coming apart at the seams

34. Western drones are underwhelming on the Ukrainian battlefield

35. Poland refuses to extradite a Nord Stream suspect

36. Germany’s much-ballyhooed “autumn of reforms” is a damp squib

37. Can Ukraine get past the bouncer on the EU door?

38. In South Korea a corporate-governance revolution is under way

39. OpenAI and Anthropic v app developers: tech’s Cronos syndrome

40. Sports leagues find that streaming pirates have their purposes

41. Beware the “romance of leadership”

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45. Kanchha Sherpa had mixed emotions about Everest

46. How to preserve Africa’s natural riches for everyone

47. Qatar is a crossroads at a crossroads

48. Two flawed elections show the dangers of one-party rule

49. Never mind your children’s screen time. Worry about your parents’

50. India’s poorest and youngest electorate prepares for polls

51. The US in brief: The war on drugs hits the Pacific

52. China is being fuelled by inspiration, not perspiration

53. Can AI make the poor world richer?

54. Trumponomics is warping the world’s copper markets

55. The migration schemes even populists love

56. Why China is winning the trade war

57. China is winning Donald Trump’s trade war

58. What locals think of Birmingham’s ban on Israeli football fans

59. Why investors still don’t believe in Argentina

60. How the persecution of sparrows killed 2m people

61. AI models ace their predictions of India’s monsoon rains

62. America’s government shutdown is its weirdest yet

63. Buckaroo! The British government’s favourite game

64. How to make immigration palatable in a populist age

65. After Gaza, Israeli politics are even less predictable

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

67. Wanted: a new finance writer

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

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

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

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

72. Javier Milei faces his most dangerous moment yet

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

74. Why are American women leaving the labour force?

75. How sumo wrestling became a hit in Britain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

83. The toxic tragedy of US-China trade talks

84. Savage drone warfare engulfs Ukraine’s front line

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

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

87. Question 1: why are questionnaires in trouble?

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

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

90. Can bright light banish winter depression?

91. 2025-10-17 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: Governments are going broke

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

93. The criminal case against John Bolton looks serious

94. How powerful is your passport?

95. Saul Zabar was king of the Upper West Side

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

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

98. China is rounding up Christian leaders

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

100. Utahns are fighting for fair maps

101. The Department of Revenge

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

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

104. The high costs of Spain’s renewables revolution

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

106. The traffickers are winning the war on drugs

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

108. The remarkable rise of AppLovin

109. TED gets new bosses and changes direction

110. Why bosses need to wake up to dark patterns

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

112. Australia’s ambitious new push to counter China

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

114. Japan’s wartime history causes contemporary problems

115. Why Ghana is safe from jihadists, for now

116. The new players who could run Gaza

117. Sudan’s remarkable mutual-aid groups

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

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

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

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124. Donald Trump doubles down on Javier Milei

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

126. The icy cold war America is busy losing

127. Border clashes erupt between Pakistan and Afghanistan—again

128. India bankruptcy’s laws are hobbling the country

129. The rich world faces a painful bout of inflation

130. Indian microfinance is in trouble

131. The new economics of babymaking

132. Venezuelans wonder if America will bring down Nicolás Maduro

133. A billionaire has rebuilt downtown Detroit

134. The America v China spat reveals a dangerous dynamic

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

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

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

138. What Donald Trump gets right in the Middle East

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

140. Global warming may have volcanic consequences

141. How to save Madagascar’s dwindling forests

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

143. Gen Z revolution or military coup in Madagascar?

144. The Economist is hiring a Senior Producer

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

146. California tries to fix its housing mess

147. Has Britain gone soft on China?

148. El Boletín newsletter: Political chaos in Peru

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

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

151. The new war on drugs

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

153. Why Joel Mokyr deserves his Nobel prize

154. Can AI replace junior workers?

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

156. The World Conker Championships fosters a quirky English tradition

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

158. The case against holding bonds

159. How do some countries avoid debt?

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

161. Economic growth is unlikely to prevent fiscal crisis

162. Across the rich world, fiscal crises loom

163. How much public debt is too much?

164. Fixing the welfare state looks electorally impossible

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

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

167. Donald Trump scrambles to seal the deal in Gaza

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

169. America and China remain prone to conflict and miscalculation

170. Why is Britain so good at growing giant veg

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172. Labour is reluctant to get off the bus

173. Are barefoot shoes good for runners?

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

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

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

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

178. Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport

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

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

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

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

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

184. The forgotten horror of Western Tigray

185. Blame, strategising and America’s government shutdown

186. Rats and charts

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

188. Russia is torturing its Ukrainian captives

189. The comeback of Andrej Babis

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

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

192. The stricken Tories reach for the chainsaw

193. A dangerous post-Brexit world

194. Businesses are grappling with a wave of cybercrime

195. Bottled water is going upmarket

196. A short guide to white-collar warfare

197. What if OpenAI went belly-up?

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

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

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

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

205. The stockmarket is fuelling America’s economy

206. Frontline economics: lessons from Russia’s neighbours

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

208. What rich Indians fear

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

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

211. A new beginning for the Middle East

212. The new age of the African Big Man

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

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

215. The most dangerous corner of a balance-sheet

216. This years Nobel laureates have now been announced

217. Hoverflies are long-distance travellers

218. What American voters really think of the revenge agenda

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

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

221. Meet the real opposition

222. The sinister disppearances of China’s bosses

223. A chemistry Nobel for crystals that absorb other chemicals

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

225. Britain mourns its bonkbuster queen

226. Who do Americans blame for the government shutdown?

227. Europe struggles to put homeland defence first

228. Welcome to Zero Migration America

229. Agriculture faces a MAGA reckoning

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

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

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

233. Japanese politics enters its heavy-metal phase

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

235. A Gordian knot threatens the Gaza peace talks

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

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

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

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

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

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

242. What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism

243. A Nobel prize in physiology for immune tolerance

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

245. France is gripped by turmoil as another government collapses

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

247. Bonfire of the middle managers

248. Donald Trump is victorious at the southern border

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

250. The Czech Trump wins an election, again

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

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

253. Many Democrats think Chuck Schumer is a problem

254. What J D Wetherspoon understands about the British pub

255. 2025-10-03 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How we chose the cover image

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

257. Why Jews feel increasingly unsafe in Britain

258. Is dark chocolate actually healthy?

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

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

261. Republicans in the West want more wolves killed

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

263. Bitcoin and a Chinese fraudster in London

264. China is the GOAT of engineering. Right?

265. Xi Jinping wants a spot in your inbox

266. Violent hatred flares between Kurdish cousins

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

268. The deal shielding Mexico and Canada from trade oblivion

269. Jair Bolsonaro is running out of options

270. Europe’s biggest military project could collapse

271. The loneliness at the centre of Europe

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

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

274. The chilling exception to Trumpian protectionism

275. Armin Papperger’s vaulting ambitions for Rheinmetall

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

277. ByteDance will be better off without TikTok US

278. How bosses unwittingly exert power

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

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

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284. Claudia Cardinale added depth to voluptuousness

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

286. Japanese politics heats up

287. Australia’s post-China hangover

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

289. Does big pharma gouge Americans?

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

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

292. Don’t tax wealth

293. Credit markets look increasingly dangerous

294. How the Trump administration learned to love foreign aid

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

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

297. Women’s cricket in India is taking off

298. Unleash the robotaxi revolution

299. The Trump plan for Gaza deserves praise

300. The eccentric investment strategy that beats the rest