1. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s great survivor

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

3. Trump v Iran: a negotiation made in hell

4. Do longevity drugs work?

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

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

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

9. Victoria’s Secret is struggling to reinvent itself

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

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

12. Brian Wilson attracted a fame he could hardly endure

13. Can men and women be just friends?

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

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

16. Rich Chinese cities are suffocating poor ones

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

18. Could Trump can AUKUS?

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

20. The war in Sudan is spilling over its borders

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

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

23. Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

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

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

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

27. Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic is rattled

28. Ukraine looks abroad to boost its manpower

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

30. A revival for the classic Renault 5

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

32. The English Midlands is unjustly overlooked

33. Biotech is coming to Wales

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

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

36. Drone warfare is hitting Haiti

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

38. Police allege that Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned a spy ring

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

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

44. Why India has so many snakebites

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

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

47. Where will the Iran-Israel war end?

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

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

50. Who are the world’s best investors?

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

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

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

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

55. Will the Iran war trigger a refugee crisis?

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

57. AI is turning the ad business upside down

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

59. Investors ignore world-changing news. Rightly

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

61. The attacks in Minnesota reflect a worrying trend

62. How to find the smartest AI

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

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

65. The rise of Nigel McFarage

66. Trump draws ever closer to strikes on Iran

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

68. Why China is giving away its tech for free

69. Blighty newsletter: The migration theory of everything

70. The Arab world thinks differently about this Iran war

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

72. In Trumpworld, toppling rulers is taboo

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

74. Will Iran’s hated regime implode?

75. The world’s most liveable cities in 2025

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

77. Why today’s graduates are screwed

78. What employees think of their companies’ values

79. How to build the right corporate culture

80. Trump’s three excruciating choices on Iran

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

82. Can China reclaim its IPO crown?

83. Protests against a regal presidency have been notably peaceful

84. This time Hizbullah isn’t helping Iran

85. Correction: Canada minerals story

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

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

88. Six charts show ICE’s expanding immigration crackdown

89. Tracking the Israel-Iran war

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

91. Britain’s newest way of demoralising doctors

92. The world needs to understand the deep oceans better

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

94. Gavin Newsom is ready for his close-up

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96. Is the “manopause” real?

97. Israel has taken an audacious but terrifying gamble

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

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

100. Was Iran really racing for nukes?

101. Israel launches an attack on Iran—without America

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

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

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

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

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

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

108. Bride prices are surging in China

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

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

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

112. Globalisation is nuts

113. How a Christian group is changing education in America

114. The true meaning of Trump Derangement Syndrome

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

116. Five opposition-backed referendums fail in Italy

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

118. Picasso’s home town is thriving

119. How to curb organised crime without shredding civil rights

120. Why the West has stopped losing its religion

121. A Harvard man turned narco-gang-buster

122. Political violence has returned to Colombia

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

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

125. Make America French Again

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

130. Inverted commas are falling out of fashion

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

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

133. How to invest your enormous inheritance

134. Dominant languages can spread even without coercion

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

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

137. The world must escape the manufacturing delusion

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

139. The meaning of the protests in Los Angeles

140. In the age of AI, Apple needs to open up

141. Fading Modi-momentum

142. Can India be an AI winner?

143. Can India really innovate?

144. For once, London is short-changed by the government

145. Rachel Reeves has decided where Britain’s cash will go

146. Shining light on America’s missing man in Syria

147. European stocks are buoyant. Firms still refuse to list there

148. Rachel Reeves’s big-government rhetoric is a worrying sign for Britain

149. The gangster Israel is arming to fight Hamas

150. Carney’s colossal Canada-US pact

151. A new sort of unrest rattles Northern Ireland

152. Why are girls still falling behind in maths?

153. Donald Trump can call in the troops

154. A routine test for fetal abnormalities could improve a mother’s health

155. Microwave blasters can down even jam-proof drones

156. China’s booze business looks smashed

157. Welcome to Bonnie Blue’s Britain

158. Can robotaxis put Tesla on the right road?

159. Luxury property’s final frontier

160. Taiwan thinks the unthinkable: resisting China without America

161. The cities winning from war

162. Is there a “woke right” in America?

163. Factory work is overrated. Here are the jobs of the future

164. Blighty newsletter: Fiscal choices, big and small

165. Might the Royal Air Force go nuclear again?

166. How America and China spooked each other

167. What’s happening in LA could be a template for the Trump administration

168. A surprising power shift inside Hamas

169. The rise of the loner consumer

170. The War Room newsletter: Britain’s defence goals are admirably absurd

171. A checklist for decision-making

172. Donald Trump’s new travel ban is coming into effect

173. Putin unleashes a summer offensive to break Ukraine

174. Sending the National Guard to LA is not about stopping rioting

175. Can Tim Cook stop Apple going the same way as Nokia?

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177. Donald Trump has many ways to hurt Elon Musk

178. The 11-year-old Ukrainian YouTuber snapping at MrBeast’s heels

179. Who is ahead in the global tech race?

180. How much protein do you really need?

181. Muslim “modest-wear” is a hit with fashionistas of all faiths

182. The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist

183. Sources and acknowledgments

184. China is benefiting from the hell in Myanmar

185. Amanda Feilding fought to rescue the reputation of psychedelics

186. Africa’s cynical master of power politics

187. Kurdish armed groups are laying down their weapons

188. Police are cracking down on cyclists in New York City

189. Pete Hegseth once scared America’s allies. Now he reassures them

190. California’s carbon market reaches an inflection point

191. What a New Jersey election says about MAGA America

192. Can Britain untangle the mess in its water industry?

193. A ruling in Britain stokes fears of backdoor blasphemy laws

194. Britain’s AI-care revolution isn’t flashy—but it is the future

195. The renovation of Manchester Town Hall will be late, costly, and worth it

196. How old are the Dead Sea Scrolls? An AI model can help

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200. Chinese students want an American education less than they used to

201. A savage EV price war terrifies China’s government

202. The mystery of China’s missing military

203. Mexico’s ruling party, Morena, has captured the judiciary

204. Swimming-pool economics haunt Latin America

205. Suriname’s chaotic democracy just chose its first woman president

206. Ukraine smashes Russia’s air force and a key bridge

207. The constitution that never was still haunts Europe 20 years on

208. What Bicester Village says about the luxury industry

209. How managing energy demand got glamorous

210. Germany thinks about cancelling a public holiday

211. AI agents are turning Salesforce and SAP into rivals

212. Africa’s most admired dictator rolls the dice

213. The real reason Indians are lost

214. Trump’s tariffs have so far caused little inflation

215. Can India create its own Ivy League?

216. Stanley Fischer mixed rigour and realism, compassion and cool-headedness

217. The stunning decline of the preference for having boys

218. America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs

219. Trump thinks Americans consume too much. He has a point

220. More and more parents around the world prefer girls to boys

221. A short history of Greenland, in six maps

222. Asia’s forgotten hellscape

223. A new London attraction hopes to revive interest in Elvis

224. Israel “won’t commit suicide” says the government’s ideologue

225. Who would pay America’s “revenge tax” on foreigners?

226. Why investors lack a theory of everything

227. Meet SCOTUSbot, our AI tool to predict Supreme Court rulings

228. All pain, no gain

229. A leaderless NASA faces its biggest-ever cuts

230. Germany is building a big scary army

231. The Economist’s digital journalist internship

232. Which universities will be hit hardest by Trump’s war on foreign students?

233. To earn American help, allies are told to elect nationalists

234. The West is rethinking how to fight wars

235. Blighty newsletter: Shoreditch’s festival of creativity—and AI anxiety

236. The hard-right’s champion blows up the Dutch government

237. Wanted: a producer/editor for our Video Department

238. The Alzheimer’s drug pipeline is healthier than you might think

239. Lee Jae-myung is South Korea’s likely next president

240. Elon Musk’s failure in government

241. Putin’s sickening statistic: 1m Russian casualties in Ukraine

242. The fantastical world of Republican economic thinking

243. Even as the Murdochs bitterly feud, their empire thrives

244. The War Room newsletter: How Ukraine humbled Putin (again)

245. A short guide to salary negotiations

246. Britain’s ambitious plan to rearm looks underfunded

247. What Poland’s new hard-right president means for Europe

248. Poland’s presidential election goes down to the wire

249. An astonishing raid deep inside Russia rewrites the rules of war

250. China is waking up from its property nightmare

251. Will the UAE break OPEC?

252. Why stricter voting laws no longer help Republicans

253. There is an “imminent” threat to Taiwan, America warns

254. Why the president must not be lexicographer-in-chief

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256. Can AI be trusted in schools?

257. How much coffee is too much?

258. Karol Nawrocki, a possible Polish president with a shadowy past

259. China calls the shots in Myanmar’s civil war

260. The chilling impact of Gerry Adams’s court win against the BBC

261. The Uber of the underworld

262. Australia’s conservatives bicker in the political wilderness

263. Myanmar’s scam empire gets worse, not better

264. Nayib Bukele is devolving from tech-savvy reformer to autocrat

265. Simon Mann was the go-to guy for military coups and bespoke warfare

266. China’s carbon emissions may have peaked

267. China’s crazy reverse-credit cards

268. The losers of the new Middle East

269. What a massacre reveals about Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia

270. Africans are building Putin’s suicide drones

271. Afrobeats’ new groove

272. Why Latin American Surrealism is surging in a down art market

273. Venezuela’s sound of silence

274. Where next for Britain’s broken National Health Service?

275. What on earth is what3words?

276. Harley Street resists a facelift

277. Sir Keir Starmer’s Scottish reset is under strain

278. How Labour should save the NHS

279. First he busted gangs. Now Nayib Bukele busts critics

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283. America has found a new lever to squeeze foreigners for cash

284. Why would Texas Republicans object to conservative, pro-family developers?

285. Demand for American degrees is sinking

286. America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity

287. Europe’s tricky trade threesome

288. A new threat to Erdogan: Gen Z

289. Europe fantasises about an “Airbus of everything!” Can it fly?

290. Will European business turn away from America?

291. Europe’s attempted bonfire of red tape is impressing no one

292. Can Korea Inc step up?

293. American finance, always unique, is now uniquely dangerous

294. Trump’s financial watchdogs promise a revolution

295. India needs to turn the air-con on

296. Can India be cool?

297. Narendra Modi has kept his vow to make India like Gujarat

298. India has a chance to cure its investment malaise

299. How might China win the future? Ask Google’s AI

300. The Economist’s business internship