1. What it means to have an American on the throne of St Peter

2. Trump’s trade deal with Britain will worry allies and rivals alike

3. Xi Jinping glorifies hard work, but the young are not so sure

4. China intensifies its campaign against exiled Hong Kong dissidents

5. The men’s and women’s world snooker champions are now both Chinese

6. Xi Jinping tries to press China’s advantage in South America

7. A Mexican pharmacy chain revolutionised health care at home

8. A glimpse inside Putin’s secret arms empire

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12. Alice Tan Ridley knew how to make New York’s subways ring

13. Taiwan’s other war

14. Australia is no longer lucky

15. Trade tensions help Singapore’s prime minister to a big win

16. How many people have died in Gaza?

17. MAGA meets MBS

18. Nigeria has more people without electricity than any other country

19. A Faustian pact with the Houthis

20. The fight for Sudan’s skies

21. A social history of America in a warehouse

22. One of the most controversial executive orders will shortly land at SCOTUS

23. Harvard has more problems than Donald Trump

24. Berlin’s culture bosses must become more commercial

25. Portugal heads to the polls for the third time in barely three years

26. To grasp Europe’s fragmentations, look to a 31-year treasure hunt

27. Nigel Farage’s economic plans are a disaster

28. Young British men are turning to Catholicism in surprising numbers

29. The Church of England is dying out and selling up

30. Aberdeen shows why the UK’s clean-energy transition will be messy

31. Britain’s veterans are dying out

32. The war in Gaza must end

33. Huawei and other Chinese chip firms are catching up fast

34. What is behind the staggering ascent of Palantir?

35. Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong

36. How should India promote Hindi? By doing nothing

37. The president has deleted a key tenet of American civil-rights law

38. Why Gen X is the real loser generation

39. Saudi society has changed drastically. Can the economy change, too?

40. Saudi Arabia is pulling off an astonishing transformation

41. What Putin wants—and how Europe should thwart him

42. Global turmoil has at least one beneficiary: currency traders

43. Trouble at home threatens Friedrich Merz’s global ambitions

44. Would Vladimir Putin attack NATO?

45. How Saudi Arabia is cranking up the pressure on its OPEC allies

46. Trump is a threat to Asia’s giant insurers

47. What happens when a hegemon falls?

48. Donald Trump is right to ditch Joe Biden’s chip-export rules

49. Russia’s military parades have become a sign of weakness

50. Eli Lilly looks set to steal Novo Nordisk’s weight-loss crown

51. Luck stands between de-escalation and disaster for India and Pakistan

52. Companies have plans to build robotic horses

53. Compressed music might be harmful to the ears

54. How to build strong magnets without rare-earth metals

55. Killer gangs are inches from ruling all of Haiti

56. America and China prepare for an Alpine trade clash

57. Bosses beware: the tariff shock is not like covid-19

58. American cities are criminalising homelessness. Will that help?

59. The Britain-India trade deal is a sign of things to come

60. Dogs really do look and act just like their owners

61. India strikes Pakistan to avenge a terrorist attack

62. Pete Hegseth is purging both weapons and generals

63. Buy the dip: the trend that keeps stocks from crashing

64. Kemi Badenoch is simply too interesting for Downing Street

65. OpenAI’s flip-flop will not get Elon Musk off its back

66. Blighty newsletter: Italians are not so hot on Britain

67. Friedrich Merz becomes Germany’s chancellor—after a painful defeat

68. Which countries have the best, and worst, living standards?

69. Intrigue and attacks as the papal conclave begins

70. Israel’s radical new course in Gaza

71. Where the Trump administration has science on its side

72. How new drones are sneaking past jammers on Ukraine’s front lines

73. The War Room newsletter: Six must-read books on the second world war

74. Inside the shadowy business of AI-chip smuggling

75. Our papal tracker: would you bet money on the next pope?

76. A pro-MAGA Romanian leads in round one of presidential elections

77. China’s secret weapon in the trade war

78. Warren Buffett has created a 348bn question for his successor

79. Australia’s voters reject right-wing politics

80. Checks and Balance newsletter: Why do people join the Trump administration?

81. The judge losing his patience with the Trump administration

82. Is your hay fever getting worse?

83. Video producer/editor (podcasts)

84. The fallout from Reform UK’s big win in local elections

85. Our Carrie Bradshaw index shows Australia’s housing is in crisis

86. Mike Waltz’s demotion is a loss for defence hawks

87. Martin Graham was determined to see his dream come true

88. The UN could run out of cash within months

89. Is China justified in still calling itself a developing country?

90. Edible rats are China’s latest live-streaming stars

91. Aussies are doing a political pivot

92. Iran’s leader hopes America can save his faltering regime

93. Donald Trump’s Syria policy is still a work in progress

94. Africa’s charcoal economy

95. What a wrecked ferry reveals about war in South Sudan

96. Ivory Coast is gearing up for an unfair election

97. Mark Carney’s plan for Canada

98. Donald Trump is creating chaos at the IRS

99. How has one Ivy League university avoided the president’s wrath?

100. How Donald Trump could rescue John Roberts

101. Why does America have birthright citizenship?

102. Germany’s staid-seeming new chancellor has a mercurial streak

103. The unbearable self-indulgence of Europe

104. Broken windows and pockmarked roads

105. Britain’s Poles now earn more than the natives

106. Why building anything in London is so hard

107. Scotland’s outdated land laws threaten the future of rural towns

108. Women win legal clarity—but Britain’s gender wars intensify

109. Chinese military exercises foreshadow a blockade of Taiwan

110. Can China sap a divided and isolated Taiwan of its will to resist?

111. Any Chinese curbs on Taiwan’s trade would carry big economic costs

112. When can AI book my summer holiday?

113. For media companies, news is becoming a toxic asset

114. Your AI meeting notes are ready

115. Will the trade war capsize shipbuilders?

116. Britain’s social contract is fraying

117. Donald Trump is right to go after metals in the deep sea

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121. A superpower crunch over Taiwan is coming

122. Don’t blame imports for the fall in America’s GDP

123. A mineral deal with America points to a path ahead for Ukraine

124. Why economists should like booze

125. India’s new chip fab rises from the dust

126. India and Pakistan are bracing for a military clash

127. The risky world of private assets opens up to retail investors

128. A takeover bid promises consolidation in Italian finance

129. Why China has the upper hand in its trade war with America

130. How a judge’s arrest explains Donald Trump’s deportation drive

131. Can Starbucks be turned around?

132. How a mortgage transforms your investment portfolio

133. The strange success of snooker

134. Can Shein and Temu survive Trump’s trade war?

135. Are American stock investors right to shrug off the trade war?

136. Canada’s new Conservative coalition resembles Donald Trump’s

137. A landmark study of gender medicine is caught in an ethics row

138. Rates of bowel cancer are rising among young people

139. The great Iberian power cut need not spell disaster for renewables

140. Donald Trump picks the wrong trade fight with China

141. Donald Trump is proving disastrous for big tech

142. America is just weeks away from a mighty economic shock

143. Trump’s tariffs are starting to hammer Chinese exporters

144. Blighty newsletter: Farage and the emigration nation

145. Might the power of St Peter’s help close a deal for Ukraine?

146. India must prove Pakistan’s guilt in the attack in Kashmir

147. Mark Carney leads Canada’s Liberals to a remarkable victory

148. The War Room: Is an India-Pakistan war coming?

149. Which stockmarkets have benefited from the chaos on Wall Street?

150. Europeans’ anti-Yank tantrums

151. The trouble with MAGA’s manufacturing dream

152. Wanted: a senior producer/editor for our Drum Tower podcast

153. Water sommeliers say the simplest drink is the future of luxury

154. Tensions soar as India weighs how to hit Pakistan

155. Vladimir Putin’s money machine is sputtering

156. Trump, trade and troops: South Korea’s nightmare

157. Checks and Balance newsletter: Predictions for the Democrats’ future

158. The Pope’s last coded message

159. Lip-Bu Tan, the man trying to save Intel

160. Ukraine’s fighters fear Russian attacks and Trump’s ceasefire

161. Did international trade really kill American manufacturing?

162. Why the Trump-shock is now going subsea

163. With American credibility in doubt, minds go back to Saigon in 1975

164. Can at-home brain stimulators make you feel better?

165. What’s wrong with democracy in Europe?

166. America’s poster-in-chief is very, very online

167. Learning to love the cluster bomb

168. China’s fine diners switch from American to Aussie beef

169. China’s 38,000 baby formula

170. What’s at stake as Singapore goes to the polls

171. Taiwan flogs America drones “not made in China”

172. Why Ukraine is losing the war for African opinion

173. The Mauritius miracle is losing its sheen

174. The pope phoned a priest in Gaza every day

175. The Druze’s influence outweighs their numbers

176. Is Donald Trump about to bomb Iran or rebuild it?

177. How Donald Trump caused a political earthquake in Canada

178. Bolivia’s wild politics are dragging it into the abyss

179. Who will stop Donald Trump’s drive for unchecked power?

180. How courts might stop Donald Trump’s attack on civil society

181. How Donald Trump plans to ramp up deportations

182. Donald Trump hopes to become a one-man deregulator

183. Expect more chaos in Donald Trump’s tariff policies

184. France is a far healthier country than America

185. Why Italy’s defence spending lags far behind

186. Europe wants Sweden’s minerals. That’s more bad news for the Sami

187. Europe’s reluctant reset with Turkey

188. Can a six-year-old startup revive the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper?

189. Ice cream and immigration at the Farage show

190. Donald Trump’s antics mean new boldness is needed in UK-EU links

191. Why Britain’s police forces have taken to cultivating cannabis

192. For Volkswagen, things go from bad to wurst

193. How Donald Trump might steal Christmas

194. Shopping malls are making a comeback in America

195. The early lives of bosses

196. Watch out, Elon Musk. Chinese robots are coming

197. How Canada went from preachy to pragmatic

198. Africans need jobs. The rest of the world needs workers

199. How to keep AI models on the straight and narrow

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203. Emigration from Africa will change the world

204. Economists don’t know what’s going on

205. Nigel Farage leads a movement that is hungrier and better organised

206. The man Britain cannot ignore

207. Not just Trump: Asia has a trade problem of its own making

208. Trump’s sovereign-wealth fund won’t make America richer

209. What price cool? 31 a month, according to students

210. How the global south forgot its own birthday

211. Will China’s shoppers cushion the Trumpian blow?

212. Trump is a revolutionary. Will he succeed?

213. America is selling a Ukraine peace plan. No one is buying it yet

214. President Trump’s attacks on the Fed are not over

215. Britain’s 20-20-20-20 vision

216. Should investors spend the trade war in India?

217. Even Republicans are falling out of love with Tesla

218. Australia’s dingoes are becoming a distinct species

219. Lethal fungi are becoming drug-resistant—and spreading

220. AI models can learn to conceal information from their users

221. The Carthaginians weren’t who you think they were

222. Why American tech stocks remain vulnerable

223. “Captain Canada” Carney gains in the Maple Leaf v MAGA election

224. We’re hiring a Technical Lead for our AI Lab

225. Marco Rubio, MAGA and the State Department’s new look

226. America won’t be able to bully the world into buying more gas

227. India and Pakistan could come to blows over Kashmir

228. Amid a trade war, Xi Jinping may be purging China’s military

229. Blighty newsletter: A tale of bins, bankruptcy and Birmingham

230. The ugly task of Putin-proofing your border

231. Trump’s red-hot war on terror

232. Trump fires at the Fed. America’s economy is collateral damage

233. J.D. Vance flies into a giant trade storm in India

234. Why Americans, Canadians and Britons love working from home

235. The coming struggle to choose the next pope

236. Pope Francis changed the Catholic church, but not as much as he hoped

237. Putin’s Easter ceasefire gimmick bodes ill for Trump’s peace deal

238. Donald Trump wants a certain kind of immigrant: the uber-rich

239. Peter Thiel doubles down on patriotism in the Trump era

240. Checks and Balance newsletter: The Democrats’ future is up for grabs

241. Searching for the Catholic Church’s centre of gravity

242. How to form good habits, and break bad ones: trick your brain

243. Donald Trump’s approval rating is dropping

244. Brazil’s Supreme Court is on trial

245. Plastics are greener than they seem

246. Microplastics have not yet earned their bad reputation

247. Scientists are getting to grips with ice

248. AI models could help negotiators secure peace deals

249. Chinese officials are encouraging office workers not to work so hard

250. China’s propagandists preach defiance in the trade war with America

251. Nayib Bukele provides Donald Trump with a legal black hole

252. The judge who would rule the internet

253. Daniel Noboa wins another term as Ecuador’s murder rate soars

254. America’s progressives should love standardised tests

255. Tracking Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown

256. Can Progressives learn to make progress again?

257. Young men in Spain love the hardline Vox

258. Europe’s streets are alive with the sound of protests

259. The threat to free speech in Germany

260. A new way to recycle plastic is here

261. How to swerve Donald Trump’s tariffs

262. Spanish business thrives while bigger European economies stall

263. LinkedIn’s unlikely role in the AI race

264. The trade war may reverse Hong Kong’s commercial decline

265. Reclaiming the office lunch

266. The lesson of Birmingham’s striking binmen

267. Don’t overlook the many benefits of plastics

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272. Why Christianity is taking an Asian turn

273. The UAE preaches unity at home but pursues division abroad

274. Populism meets reality in Senegal

275. A new smash and grab for Red Sea ports

276. When does opposition become treason in east Africa?

277. Britain’s government has entered the steel industry with no plan

278. Birmingham’s bin strikes reveal local problems—and a national one

279. The splintering of British politics

280. Are hits like “Adolescence” good or bad for Britain?

281. How Britain decides which drugs to buy

282. In praise of flag-shagging

283. America is turning away China’s goods. Where will they go instead?

284. Stockmarkets do not reward firms for investing in Trump’s America

285. What is a woman? Britain’s Supreme Court gives its answer

286. Can the euro go global?

287. Poor countries would miss King Dollar

288. Hell is other people’s currencies

289. How Trump might topple the dollar

290. Power is being monopolised in Ukraine

291. Indians are losing big on the stockmarket

292. Why Narendra Modi has embraced an anti-caste icon

293. How a dollar crisis would unfold

294. Guatemala’s indigenous people grow impatient with their champion

295. Zuckerberg on trial: why Meta deserves to win

296. In its pursuit of a policy, Donald Trump’s government is content to destroy a man

297. Pity American firms in China. Xi Jinping is hitting back

298. Tracking Donald Trump’s immigration policy in charts

299. Binyamin Netanyahu’s other war

300. China hawks are losing influence in Trumpworld, despite the trade war