1. Checks and Balance newsletter: Don’t count on Congress to restrain Donald Trump

2. Why Britain’s police forces are taking to AI

3. 2025-12-06 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How AI is rewiring childhood

4. Why hangovers get worse as you get older

5. Donald Trump’s bleak vision of America’s foreign-policy priorities

6. Transcript: An interview with Keir Starmer

7. America’s peace initiative has stalled in Moscow

8. Italy’s populist right stalls a sexual-consent law

9. The Hague is coping with the decline of international courts

10. Greece is teaching Germany how to get government online

11. Why a small corruption scandal is a big problem for the EU

12. Western armed forces have struggled to fill their ranks to deter Russia

13. Syria uneasily celebrates a year of liberation

14. China built a swanky cricket pitch to win over tiny Grenada

15. Republicans still don’t know with Obamacare

16. A special election puts Democrats on track to flip the House

17. Some cocaine-smuggling presidents are more innocent than others

18. What will your child’s Trump Account be worth?

19. Are Brits really leaving the country in droves?

20. Polls predicting the next British election are not to be trusted

21. China’s unlikely new entertainment capital

22. Even Europe’s penmakers are under threat

23. To halt their decline, VW and others are turning Chinese

24. How many hours should employees work?

25. Will the mega-merger wave destroy value for shareholders?

26. Syria’s transition has gone better than expected

27. 2025-12-04 The World this Week - Business

28. 2025-12-04 The World this Week - Politics

29. 2025-12-04 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

30. Britain’s slot-machine politics

31. Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system

32. The general who refused to crush Tiananmen’s protesters

33. After a terrible fire in Hong Kong, public fury smoulders

34. South-East Asia and Sri Lanka are reeling from storms and flooding

35. Lessons from Japan’s efforts to wean itself off Chinese rare earths

36. Kyrgyzstan is losing its status as Central Asia’s only democracy

37. An insurgency may be brewing against Syria’s new leaders

38. Russia’s dodgy plan for a pipeline in Congo

39. Binyamin Netanyahu has asked for a presidential pardon

40. Africa needs to generate more electricity

41. Britain’s plan to curb jury trials is a sharp break with tradition

42. Patrick Drahi has bested his lenders yet again

43. How AI is rewiring childhood

44. At home and at school, artificial intelligence is transforming childhood

45. Donald Trump looms over Vladimir Putin’s visit to India

46. AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences

47. Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?

48. Bitcoin has plunged. Strategy Inc is an early victim

49. American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure

50. Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer

51. A Chinese firm attempts to bring a rocket stage back to Earth

52. Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital

53. Enough dithering. Europe must pay to save Ukraine

54. Which Kevin Hassett would lead the Federal Reserve?

55. Pity the AVOCADOs

56. Why autism should not be treated as a single condition

57. Surging satellite numbers threaten to dazzle even space telescopes

58. Tom Stoppard was an inexhaustible fountain of ideas

59. From micro-dramas to video games, Chinese entertainment is booming

60. India’s defence-tech startups are thriving

61. Why does Donald Trump care about Honduras’s election?

62. Will Congress rein in Pete Hegseth and his boat-bombing campaign?

63. Trumpworld thinks Europe has betrayed the West

64. AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish

65. Chris Waller, not Kevin Hassett, should lead the Federal Reserve

66. Blighty newsletter: Hurrah for the OBR

67. Ahead of peace talks, Russia’s battlefield advances remain slow

68. America is foolishly waving goodbye to thousands of Chinese boffins

69. How to spot a bubble bursting

70. Leaf blowers are the latest thing dividing Americans

71. Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption

72. The War Room newsletter: Sleepwalking into Africa’s next war

73. Europe is going on a huge military spending spree

74. Mormonism’s surprising boom in Africa

75. European pensions are in dire need of reform

76. The US in brief: Donald Trump says he has picked next Fed chair

77. Switzerland votes decisively against inheritance tax

78. Is America’s jobs market nearing a cliff?

79. Trafficking humans is the drug-gangs’ grimmest business

80. Checks and Balance newsletter: Giving thanks in Moscow

81. A corruption scandal costs Volodymyr Zelensky his top aide

82. 2025-11-28 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: What China will dominate next

83. Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits?

84. America’s work-from-home capitals are in a sorry state

85. AI is upending the porn industry

86. A terrible inferno kills dozens in Hong Kong

87. Dr Chatbot is popping up all over China

88. America’s oldest ally in Asia is drawing closer to China

89. When is a Malaysian footballer not a Malaysian footballer?

90. Armed men take power in Guinea-Bissau, again

91. Mired in financial crisis, the Houthis resume threats to Saudi Arabia

92. The changing shape of Chinese aid to Africa

93. How Pepsi trounced Coca Cola in the Middle East

94. Observed in the wild: office snackers and foragers

95. Europe is struggling to compete in the second space race

96. American consumers are miserable. But they keep spending

97. From Nvidia to Nike, American firms face a margin squeeze

98. 2025-11-27 The World this Week - Politics

99. 2025-11-27 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

100. 2025-11-27 The World this Week - Business

101. Canada’s indigenous-style prisons are designed to right historical wrongs

102. MAGA is divided over the promise and perils of AI

103. The federal government will now pay for Native American healing

104. Chicago is facing a giant budget crisis

105. “I love the smell of deportations in the morning”

106. Denmark has become a red-tape-free wedding destination

107. Turkey’s refs are caught up in a huge sports gambling scandal

108. Denmark gets ready to cancel Christmas cards

109. Macron, Merz and Starmer are forming a new trilateral leadership

110. If the fighting ends in Ukraine, the infighting in Europe will begin

111. Britain will tax electric cars more heavily. Good

112. A landmark trial of puberty blockers could end up in court

113. Who should control British newspapers?

114. Which country is most similar to Britain?

115. Why Iran is making surprising overtures to America

116. Many Israelis believe another war with Iran is coming

117. Iran’s reformists extend a hand

118. What China will dominate next

119. Self-driving cars will transform urban economies

120. China’s property market is (somehow) worsening

121. Japan’s big-spending Takaichinomics is ten years out of date

122. Narendra Modi plans to free up India’s giant labour force

123. Nepal’s youth toppled the government. Now they want to remake it

124. Meet the road-building, Muslim-baiting monk who could rule India

125. A shooting in Washington prefigures tougher immigration policies

126. One weird trick to solve the affordability crisis

127. He Yanxin was the steward of a women-only language

128. Ukraine may be a step closer to peace, or to destruction

129. This bodge-it budget does not give Britain what it needs

130. How to avoid an unjust peace in Ukraine

131. Britain’s left-wing government is left-wing

132. How to short the bubbliest firms

133. Britain’s budget prioritised Labour''s political survival

134. Donald Trump’s revenge agenda is not going well

135. Why China is pulling ahead in the robotaxi race

136. When LLMs learn to take shortcuts, they become evil

137. A new way to generate electricity from water

138. The writings of John Parker

139. Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening

140. Jair Bolsonaro is jailed, leaving the Brazilian right fractured

141. The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war

142. Google has pierced Nvidia’s aura of invulnerability

143. Middle East Dispatch newsletter: A tale from Tehran

144. A high gold price is luring prospectors to California’s mountains

145. Colombia’s armed groups are experimenting with deadly drones

146. Blighty newsletter: What the covid inquiry gets wrong

147. John Bolton thinks America is past “peak Trump”

148. The killing of a Hizbullah commander shows how fragile truces are

149. There’s more to cholesterol than simply “good” or “bad”

150. Labour’s budget will probably focus on short-term survival

151. Words to watch out for in Rachel Reeves’s budget

152. Who will win the trillion-dollar robotaxi race?

153. The War Room newsletter: Altitude sickness, struggling jets and cold batteries

154. More Americans are being put to death

155. Brazil is embracing its African roots

156. China’s Communist Party wants positive energy only, please

157. 2025-11-24 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: Welcome to Anything Goes America

158. Ukraine survives another crisis with Donald Trump

159. AI tokens are surging, but are profits?

160. Chinese pharma is on the cusp of going global

161. Why investors are increasingly fatalistic

162. COP30 ends with a whimper

163. Donald Trump’s peace plan would be bad for Ukraine, bad for Europe and bad for America

164. Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump, Jamie Dimon and the aesthetics of power

165. America has dumped a messy, sordid “peace plan” on Ukraine

166. River boats are returning Thames transport to Tudor times

167. Erik Prince, America’s most notorious mercenary, spies opportunity in chaos

168. Should adults take colostrum supplements?

169. Transcript: An interview with Abbas Araghchi

170. An interview with Iran’s foreign minister

171. The politicians protecting huge criminal networks

172. How will Japan’s defences evolve under its hawkish new leader?

173. Where being antediluvian pays

174. To glimpse Indonesia’s future, look to its president’s view of the past

175. Israel may not be popular, but its weapons are

176. A fuel blockade shows the frightening power of Mali’s jihadists

177. Russian bombing leaves no time to search for keepsakes

178. Vineyards are disappearing in France

179. Young MPs are fed up with Germany’s pension burdens

180. Private equity is reshaping American child care

181. When companies lose their way

182. How do you replace a CEO like Tim Cook or Warren Buffett?

183. 2025-11-20 The World this Week - Politics

184. 2025-11-20 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

185. 2025-11-20 The World this Week - Business

186. Gillian Tindall revelled in the past of ordinary lives

187. How Chinese underground banks became the world’s biggest money-launderers

188. How to save the Galápagos from its visitors

189. How to lower America’s soaring healthcare costs

190. How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden

191. Release the Epstein files!

192. AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms

193. Will Britain copy asylum policy from a place with poor integration?

194. Britain’s new effort to balancing human rights and deportations

195. Britons are becoming less spendthrift

196. Britain struggles to distinguish between protest and terrorism

197. Africa’s other debt crisis

198. That charts that show how much money China lends to the rich world

199. Mortgage lending in America is seizing up. How to revive it

200. Indians are getting more fashionable

201. Why governments should stop raising the minimum wage

202. Donald Trump and the rise of “insider capitalism”

203. Visa restrictions are bad for Indians—but maybe not for India

204. Economists get cold feet about high minimum wages

205. Can the Chinese economy match Aruba’s?

206. Chinese regulations and competition are panicking European manufacturers

207. In Washington, everything appears to be for sale

208. Can Europe’s deregulation drive actually deregulate anything?

209. To avoid crushing change, Europe must take control of its destiny

210. Welcome to Anything Goes America

211. Texas Republicans have gerrymandered their way into a corner

212. A terrible American-Russian proposal to end the war in Ukraine

213. Cracks are appearing in OpenAI’s dominant facade

214. How Chinese-linked hackers co-opted Anthropic’s Claude

215. Don’t let a scandal undermine the defence of Ukraine

216. The panic over a male crisis in Britain is overblown

217. America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying

218. A better way to look for signs of ancient biology

219. Geothermal kit can help make the power grid flexible

220. Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies

221. The use of a rare wood pits violinists against environmentalists

222. China has too many university graduates and too few jobs for them

223. Is Donald Trump preparing to strike Venezuela or lining up a deal?

224. The loneliness of America’s model ally

225. Why crypto’s spectacular market success is going sour

226. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s big MAGA break up

227. Blighty newsletter: What Nigel Farage and ASOS have in common

228. China and Japan are in a vicious game of chicken over Taiwan

229. Geothermal’s time has finally come

230. Britain’s controversial experiment in regulating the internet

231. Cuba is heading for disaster, unless its regime changes drastically

232. Four charts show how much money China lends to the rich world

233. Saudi Arabia is in no hurry to join the Abraham accords

234. A huge corruption scandal threatens Ukraine’s government

235. Don’t cheer the end of America’s obesity crisis just yet

236. Russia’s militant bloggers are clashing with their own regime

237. The War Room newsletter: Ukraine’s war needs more than drones

238. Shut up, or suck up? How CEOs are dealing with Donald Trump

239. Europe sees China as a rival. China sees Europe as a has-been

240. For Israel a psychological reckoning is the price of bloody victory

241. Beware the scorching gold rally

242. Can Donald Trump deploy the National Guard whenever he likes?

243. Checks and Balance newsletter: A positive scenario for America in 2026

244. 2025-11-14 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How markets could topple the economy

245. Quantum computing is getting real—and Britain wants to lead

246. Do women need testosterone supplements?

247. James Watson was stunned by the beauty of the double helix

248. The way Uyghurs speak Mandarin is now a joke

249. China’s growing global fan club

250. The dangers beneath Gaza’s rubble

251. Ethiopia is perilously close to another war

252. Chile heads for a sharp right turn

253. Racy fictional depictions of gangs irk people in Latin America

254. One of the poorest states in America introduces free child care

255. Why the Democrats may lose again to Donald Trump

256. Florida is running a radical experiment in education

257. Parents on e-bikes are transforming the school run

258. How to avoid Africa’s next war

259. Mexico’s surprising record on murder

260. 2025-11-13 The World this Week - Politics

261. 2025-11-13 The World this Week - Business

262. 2025-11-13 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

263. China’s creepiest export surge

264. Asia’s most treacherous sailing season

265. Japanese women are wrestling with sumo’s boundaries

266. Half a century after the death of Franco, Spain is a far better place

267. How Italy’s mafia uses social media to recruit new blood

268. Europe is cracking down on Russian tourists

269. Labour’s tax-and-spend policy has been dominated by wild gambling

270. British businesses say they are furious with the government

271. A slimy scheme to avoid property tax

272. Libellous chatbots could be AI’s next big legal headache

273. TSMC’s cautious expansion is frustrating the AI industry

274. The 10-4 rule for interacting with customers

275. Elon Musk’s 1trn pay deal highlights companies’ superstar dilemma

276. Tree murders and the economics of crime

277. How markets could topple the global economy

278. How AI is breaking cover letters

279. The hidden risks in Taiwan’s boom

280. Taiwan’s amazing economic achievements are yielding alarming strains

281. Which is India’s superstar state?

282. Kerala can teach India a thing or two about social welfare

283. A bombing in Delhi raises tensions in the region

284. Gaza’s zombie ceasefire

285. The seven deadly sins of corporate exuberance

286. In defence of personal finance

287. Sir Keir Starmer is a prisoner of the politics he pledged to end

288. Why Britain may have stopped sharing some intelligence with America

289. America and China share a dangerous addiction

290. See how Donald Trump is creating his own police force

291. Sperm whales communicate with vowels

292. Babies made in China

293. Even on Ukraine’s front line there is time, and a need, for beauty

294. How the exasperating, indispensable BBC must change

295. The costs of dating your boss

296. Democrats collapsed in the shutdown fight

297. The promise and the perils of using AI for therapy

298. Old folk are seized by stockmarket mania

299. Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump

300. Blighty newsletter: Labour retreats to its comfort zone