1. America’s economy defies gloomy expectations

2. The crisis of South Africa’s missing dads

3. America calls Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction a “witch hunt”

4. A scary struggle with the Kremlin over Europe’s skies

5. America’s choice after the assassination of Charlie Kirk

6. Is “radical-left” violence really on the rise in America?

7. What nicotine does to your brain

8. A high-risk mega-dam in Ethiopia

9. Giorgio Armani freed the forms of both men and women

10. Director Fang is laughing all the way to the bank

11. Making the Americas grate again

12. What Javier Milei’s first defeat means for his future

13. Brazil’s Supreme Court nears conviction for Jair Bolsonaro

14. The pitfalls of being a non-profit that is beholden to government

15. San Francisco’s recall fever

16. Who’s afraid of the Democratic Socialists?

17. Sea Ltd, Singapore’s e-commerce king, prepares to battle TikTok

18. How do you pronounce Biemlfdlkk? The brands lost in translation

19. Can Nestlé’s third boss in little over a year turn things round?

20. In French business, boring beats sexy

21. Reviewing the annual performance review

22. Top Gun—without Maverick

23. What it takes to evacuate an injured child from Gaza

24. Africa’s deadly ferries

25. Ebola returns to Congo

26. France gets a new prime minister

27. A crisis in long-term care of Europe’s elderly

28. Might Bosnia be about to break up?

29. Italy’s coalition sends mixed messages on Ukraine and Russia

30. Europe has an urgency deficit

31. Labour has become the party of Britain’s rich

32. The new battle for Britain

33. The BBC’s best programme loses its star

34. Rebellious tube drivers have less bargaining power than before

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37. Humanity will shrink, far sooner than you think

38. The world’s most powerful volunteers

39. A contracting population need not be a catastrophe

40. Can you make it to the end of this column?

41. How grain has gone from famine to feast

42. Meet Donald Trump’s aid agency

43. Don’t panic about the global fertility crash

44. What if the 3trn AI investment boom goes wrong?

45. Is British politics broken? Its centre is cracking

46. Israel’s Qatarstrophic error

47. Charlie Kirk challenged liberals until the day he was murdered

48. NASA has found a Martian rock with what may be signs of life

49. America can’t or won’t protect its friends in the Gulf

50. The ICE raid at Hyundai was a massive own goal

51. Why American bondholders are jumpy about inflation

52. The Kremlin’s plot to kill NATO’s credibility

53. China is ditching the dollar at pace

54. Nitazenes: another failure of drug prohibition

55. Europe’s economy at last shows signs of a recovery

56. How to build table-top fusion reactors

57. Putin’s dangerous drone probe is a moment of truth for NATO

58. A world map of childhood obesity

59. Lachlan Murdoch, media’s newest mogul

60. Huge demonstrations bring down Nepal’s government

61. Meet the leader of Europe’s anti-Trump resistance

62. Israel gambles on decapitating Hamas in Qatar, shocking the Gulf

63. Fixing Britain’s broken property-tax system will take courage

64. A dangerous new class of synthetic opioid is spreading

65. Blighty newsletter: Can businesses trust Nigel Farage?

66. Chinese trade is thriving despite America’s attacks

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68. From volleyball to tag, investors are piling into niche sports

69. China wants a military base in the heart of the Pacific

70. The invasion of Chicago has been postponed

71. A reshuffle and a raucous conference show the misery of power

72. A budget battle offers Democrats a chance to show some backbone

73. The promise and peril of Ethiopia’s new mega-dam

74. Faith in God-like large language models is waning

75. A budget fiasco takes France to the brink

76. What if the AI stockmarket blows up?

77. “Dalifornication” grips China

78. Japan’s new leadership struggle is far from business as usual

79. The sinister brilliance of Donald Trump’s security theatre

80. J.B. Pritzker wants to lead the Democratic Party into battle

81. A British island infested with wallaby invaders

82. Do hangover supplements work?

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84. After a tax scandal, Britain’s government gets a shake-up

85. Steve Shirley countered sexism by founding her own company

86. The world’s surprise boomtown: Baghdad

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88. How Israel’s arms exports have made it sanctions-proof

89. The weird and wacky life hacks of China’s youth

90. China’s urban planners could determine the future of city life

91. A lesson in Trump-charming

92. The rules for defending democracy under Donald Trump

93. Five Republican factions jostle for the president’s favour

94. Vladimir Putin is building a super-app

95. Bayrou on the brink

96. Fires, earthquakes and inflation are putting tourists off Turkey

97. Robotaxis will be the Sputnik Moment for a declining Europe

98. Why nuclear is now a booming industry

99. How Lululemon fell out of fashion

100. Morocco is now a trade and manufacturing powerhouse

101. Broken workflows—and how to fix them

102. What the splinternet means for big tech

103. Indonesia could be on the brink of something nasty

104. A terrifying synthetic-drug surge in Africa

105. A new frontier for skyscrapers

106. Luring partners and yet more debt: Mexico’s energy plan

107. What is missing from a plan to tackle Haiti’s gangs

108. Will British shipbuilders rule the waves again?

109. How the M&S strawberries-and-cream sandwich went viral

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112. Iran’s imminent nuclear dilemma

113. How America’s Democrats might win back power

114. The Farage power project

115. All eyes on China’s massive military parade

116. Chinese migrants risked their lives to reach America. For what?

117. Banning smartphones in classrooms helps students

118. Mexico fears the United States will stop the flow of natural gas

119. Sri Lanka is still reeling from its economic collapse

120. Donald Trump is unpopular. Why is it so hard to stand up to him?

121. What if artificial intelligence is just a “normal” technology?

122. How Europe’s hard right threatens the economy

123. India is retiring its most celebrated warplane

124. Bond vigilantes take aim at France

125. The hard right’s plans for Europe’s economy

126. Rampant and relentless: Israel’s settlers make their move

127. Schools should banish smartphones from the classroom

128. Our Fed tracker: how much will its independence be compromised?

129. Why supply shocks are a trap for commodity investors

130. The dubious legality of killing drug suspects at sea

131. Burying nuclear reactors might make them cleaner and cheaper

132. How to study people who are very drunk

133. How to take over a government via PDFs

134. Putin’s petrostate faces a kamikaze petrol crisis

135. Blighty newsletter: It’s immigration, stupid!

136. Google and Apple dodge an antitrust bullet

137. In Chicago violent crime is down

138. Who is winning in AI—China or America?

139. China turns crypto-curious

140. Scientists are discovering a powerful new way to prevent cancer

141. The Economist is hiring a science and technology correspondent

142. Xi Jinping’s anti-American party

143. Protests test Indonesia’s democracy

144. America is escaping its office crisis

145. The threat of deflation stalks Asia’s economies

146. What Finland could teach Ukraine about war and peace

147. Britain’s jobs market has a slow puncture

148. How can a middle power compete in artificial intelligence?

149. Donald Trump comes for America’s public universities

150. Meet the world’s hottest upstart weapons dealers

151. How Trump’s migrant crackdown threatens America Inc

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153. Trump’s tariffs suffer a legal setback

154. The truth about seed oils

155. A cyber-attack isn’t enough to halt Marks & Spencer’s turnaround

156. Lisa Cook, the Fed governor Donald Trump is trying to fire

157. The factions jostling for Donald Trump’s favour

158. Sen Genshitsu spread peace through sipping

159. Donald Trump is waging war on woke AI

160. On parade in China: Putin, the PLA and purges

161. Something is amiss in China’s foreign-affairs leadership

162. Israel’s prevaricator-in-chief

163. The indecorous fight over a dead president’s body

164. No one is satisfied with Egypt’s role in Gaza

165. A haunting new view of Assad’s brutality in Syria

166. A 19bn industry is about to pay its workforce for the first time

167. Have foreign tourists really avoided America this year?

168. New York is turning 400 and no one cares

169. Hansard shows what it takes to put democracy on the record

170. France’s government is on the brink of collapse, again

171. Don’t forget the downsides of China’s innovation push

172. Peru’s cartoonish presidential front-runner

173. Time for some Merz-Macron magic

174. Why Poland is becoming less central European and more Baltic

175. After a year of chaos, the Dutch hope to return to real issues

176. Ten years later, “Wir schaffen das” has proved a pyrrhic victory

177. Service stations are receiving a glow-up

178. How much trouble is the world’s biggest offshore-wind developer in?

179. Feuds, grudges and revenge

180. How a power shortage could short-circuit Nvidia’s rise

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184. The market for startup shares is getting even weirder

185. A defining test looms for India

186. Will a harsher world accelerate India’s reforms?

187. Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: the Indian consumer

188. Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating

189. Gambling or investing? In America, the line is increasingly blurred

190. How Trump’s war on the Federal Reserve could do serious damage

191. Brazil offers America a lesson in democratic maturity

192. Jair Bolsonaro’s trial offers Brazil a way out from polarisation and stagnation

193. Assessing the case against Lisa Cook

194. Why you should buy your employer’s shares

195. The rise of beer made by AI

196. The middle-aged are no longer the most miserable

197. Humiliation, vindication—and a giant test for India

198. How much danger is America’s central bank in?

199. The polycrisis theory of Brexit

200. A successful test flight puts Musk’s Starship back on track

201. Quietly, Britain is moving closer to EU rules

202. The Economist’s finance and economics internship

203. Putin’s botched African adventure

204. Even as China’s economy suffers, stocks soar. What’s going on?

205. Ukraine shows off a deadly new cruise missile

206. Donald Trump, friend of the EV?

207. The wrong way to end a war

208. A surprise US Navy surge in the Caribbean

209. Have foreign tourists really avoided America this year?

210. The Democrat who calls Trump a child of God

211. A Chinese lab starts to tackle a giant mystery in particle physics

212. Blighty newsletter: Beware the mob

213. France is in big trouble, again

214. The War Room newsletter: Archive 1945 comes to a close

215. Trump “fires” Lisa Cook, escalating his war on the Federal Reserve

216. Trump’s interest-rate crusade will be self-defeating

217. Chinese courts can bar even those not accused of crimes from leaving the country

218. How China became an innovation powerhouse

219. How Ukraine’s naval drones hold Russia’s warships at bay

220. India’s government bans fantasy sports games

221. Zohran Mamdani is promising lots of things he can’t actually do

222. The world’s oldest daily radio serial on England’s new rural life

223. In some ways, rural Britain is changing faster than its cities

224. Fear the deficit-populism doom loop

225. The choices facing Britain’s next MI6 chief

226. The evolution of famine in Gaza, in maps and charts

227. Are saunas actually good for you?

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229. Donald Trump has purged one of the CIA’s most senior Russia analysts

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233. A burning threat to pregnant women

234. Does it make sense for America to keep subsidising a sinking city?

235. How Washington became Donald Trump’s chew toy

236. Friedrich Merz cuts a good figure abroad but is struggling at home

237. Why Turkey’s football clubs can pay more cash for talent

238. Europe is ablaze

239. Trump wants a Nobel prize. Europe can exploit that to help Ukraine

240. Big chocolate has a growing taste for lab-grown cocoa

241. China is quietly upstaging America with its open models

242. China’s hottest new look: the facekini

243. The last days of brainstorming

244. Who will America’s president listen to next on Ukraine?

245. Pregnant women need protecting from heatwaves

246. Britain leads the world in a new global business—a criminal one

247. Terence Stamp preferred philosophy to celebrity

248. Hong Kong’s courtroom dramas

249. A new twist in Syria: a political opposition

250. What’s in a name in the Middle East?

251. Gaza’s Gen-Z influencers

252. Are east African governments colluding to stifle dissent?

253. How Sierra Leone beat back mpox

254. After 20 years in power, Bolivia’s socialists crash out of it

255. The new fears of Cubans in Florida

256. Climate change threatens an Andean ski boom

257. Why Mexicans love Japan and Korea

258. England’s white working class falls further behind at exams

259. China’s mid-year economic wobble

260. American tech’s split personalities

261. Economists disagree about everything. Don’t they?

262. The green transition has a surprising new home

263. Can China cope with a deindustrialised future?

264. To survive, Intel must break itself apart

265. The world is learning to live with the Taliban

266. Pakistan is critical in the fight against Islamic State terrorism

267. How fair are India’s elections?

268. TSMC could revolutionise rural Japan

269. Japan storms back into the chip wars

270. The world’s biggest chipmaker needs to move beyond Taiwan

271. Donald Trump’s fantasy of home-grown chipmaking

272. The McWages index: which countries earn the most Big Macs?

273. A court ruling threatens to disrupt Britain’s asylum policy

274. A new opposition could be a healthy sign for Syria

275. The discovery of a gene for chronic pain could herald new treatments

276. Old fossil-fuel plants are becoming green-energy hubs

277. AI-powered robots can take your phone apart

278. RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA technology endangers the world

279. Marjorie Taylor Greene wants to stop them from making it rain

280. What it means when Britain talks about “Bosh”

281. Security “guarantees” for Ukraine are not clear enough

282. Trump’s trade victims are shrugging off his attacks

283. The Democrats who find abundance liberalism threatening

284. Was globalisation ever a meritocracy?

285. How AI-enhanced hackers are stealing billions

286. The young American female soldiers of TikTok

287. Putin’s desire to destroy Western unity rages on

288. Blighty newsletter: How Britain became a theft capital

289. Putin’s “land swap” is really a grab for Ukraine’s fortress belt

290. Zelensky survives another episode of the Trump show

291. In praise of complicated investing strategies

292. How America’s AI boom is squeezing the rest of the economy

293. The War Room newsletter: Why Putin’s peace plan is more like poison

294. Gangs are using increasingly sophisticated kit to steal cars

295. Why America can’t shake off inflation

296. Life after death for Canada’s crushed Conservatives

297. Welcome to the YIMBYest neighbourhood in America

298. The new geography of stolen goods

299. Fear and dread of a new Oval Office fiasco over Ukraine

300. The nightmare of a Trump-Putin pact isn’t over