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

2. Beware the scorching gold rally

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

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

5. 2025-11-14 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How markets could topple the economy

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

7. Do women need testosterone supplements?

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

9. The way Uyghurs speak Mandarin is now a joke

10. China’s growing global fan club

11. The dangers beneath Gaza’s rubble

12. Ethiopia is perilously close to another war

13. Chile heads for a sharp right turn

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

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

16. Why the Democrats may lose again to Donald Trump

17. Florida is running a radical experiment in education

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

19. How to avoid Africa’s next war

20. Mexico’s surprising record on murder

21. 2025-11-13 The World this Week - Politics

22. 2025-11-13 The World this Week - Business

23. 2025-11-13 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

24. China’s creepiest export surge

25. Asia’s most treacherous sailing season

26. Japanese women are wrestling with sumo’s boundaries

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

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

29. Europe is cracking down on Russian tourists

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

31. British businesses say they are furious with the government

32. A slimy scheme to avoid property tax

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

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

35. The 10-4 rule for interacting with customers

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

37. Tree murders and the economics of crime

38. How markets could topple the global economy

39. How AI is breaking cover letters

40. The hidden risks in Taiwan’s boom

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

42. Which is India’s superstar state?

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

44. A bombing in Delhi raises tensions in the region

45. Gaza’s zombie ceasefire

46. The seven deadly sins of corporate exuberance

47. In defence of personal finance

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

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

50. America and China share a dangerous addiction

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

52. Sperm whales communicate with vowels

53. Babies made in China

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

55. How the exasperating, indispensable BBC must change

56. The costs of dating your boss

57. Democrats collapsed in the shutdown fight

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

59. Old folk are seized by stockmarket mania

60. Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump

61. Blighty newsletter: Labour retreats to its comfort zone

62. Despite claims, foreign students have not yet been put off America

63. Syria joins the American-led fight against Islamic State

64. The War Room newsletter: Nuremberg 80 years on, a reckoning

65. Mexico has become a less deadly place under Claudia Sheinbaum

66. Recessions have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble

67. How HR took over the world

68. The BBC’s boss quits over a “doctored” Trump speech

69. Acknowledgements

70. A new project aims to predict how quickly AI will progress

71. Four charts explain why Donald Trump is in trouble

72. Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy

73. The mystery of America’s shutdown economy

74. South Korea’s new president is fixing relations with America, Japan and China

75. Checks and Balance newsletter: How Donald Trump became Joe Biden

76. 2025-11-07 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The great relationship recession

77. Elon Musk’s 1trn pay deal is a troubling display of corporate capture

78. Can peptides give you superpowers?

79. Zohran Mamdani lost in parts of NYC that look most like America

80. Hemedti: warlord, power-broker and the new sultan of Darfur

81. Climate Issue newsletter: China, the climate superpower

82. Sources and acknowledgments

83. America’s plans for a Golden Dome are dangerously obscure

84. What a leaked transcript reveals about China’s muscular statecraft

85. Hong Kongers support gay marriage. Their leaders, not so much

86. America and China circle each other in the South China Sea

87. Indonesia raids its rainy-day pot

88. The death of Thailand’s queen mother reveals changing attitudes to the monarchy

89. A Czech shift to the right is worrying news for Ukraine

90. Ukraine’s valiant defence of Pokrovsk is nearing its end

91. Why moderates are reclaiming Europe’s national flags

92. Pope Leo XIV is infuriating MAGA Catholics

93. Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?

94. America’s furniture-makers exemplify the folly of tariffs

95. China’s life-sciences industry is turning American

96. 2025-11-06 The World this Week - Politics

97. 2025-11-06 The World this Week - Business

98. 2025-11-06 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

99. Will anything—or anyone—stop the slaughter in Sudan?

100. Tanzania has its Tiananmen moment

101. Donald Trump says he may strike Nigeria to save Christians. Really?

102. Iraq’s election may ensure stability but leave militias in control

103. War looms in Venezuela as Trump tests an “Americas First” doctrine

104. The rise and fall of America’s model mobile crisis service

105. America’s health-care costs are shooting up

106. Brand Britain has bounced back

107. A British legal ruling about AI delights nobody

108. Boom times in a British manufacturing town

109. Nigel Farage’s newfound fiscal prudence is welcome, if unproven

110. India’s women win the cricket World Cup

111. South Asia’s water wars

112. What explains India’s peculiar stability?

113. Don’t blame AI for your job woes

114. America should not push other countries to adopt the dollar

115. A night of big wins for the Democrats

116. China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics

117. The rise of singlehood is reshaping the world

118. A new industry of AI companions is emerging

119. All over the rich world, fewer people are hooking up and shacking up

120. Dick Cheney divided Americans

121. Donald Trump’s tariffs could soon be toast

122. Why Palantir’s success will outlast the AI exuberance

123. Golden Dome is one of the most ambitious military projects ever

124. Universal child care can hurt children

125. Investors are telling Britain to cheer up a bit

126. If Labour cranks up income taxes, the left will boo loudest

127. Was the Pacific Palisades blaze a “zombie fire”?

128. Democrats risk drawing the wrong lessons from one good day

129. Jordan Bardella starts to lay out his plans

130. Tracking American drug-boat strikes off Venezuela’s coast

131. Israel’s politicians are taking on its lawyers once again

132. How much wealth would be destroyed by an AI stockmarket crash?

133. Gerrymandering is now the wind beneath Gavin Newsom’s wings

134. Democrats win big in New York, New Jersey and Virginia

135. For the first time, climate models show the 1.5C goal is dead

136. China places a Hong Kong-sized bet on Western decline

137. First, Labubu’s grinning dolls. Now, a TV show and theme parks

138. How the sheriff of St Louis ended up in jail

139. Blighty newsletter: Is Farage more like Trump, Wilders or Meloni?

140. Analysing Africa newsletter: Donald Trump is focusing on the wrong atrocities

141. Nigel Farage bows to the bond market

142. How Donald Trump can dodge a Supreme Court tariff block

143. An EU-Mercosur trade deal looks close to ratification

144. The mystery of China’s slumping investment

145. Will AI make dating apps better—or even worse?

146. War is blasting Ukraine’s border city of Kharkiv but boosting Lviv

147. The rise and fall of Stacey Abrams’s political machine

148. China’s air-quality improvements have hastened global warming

149. How to clean up the world’s biggest polluter

150. The boom boon

151. The world’s renewable-energy superpower

152. How China sparked a rooftop solar revolution in Pakistan

153. Why climate change now threatens China’s future

154. How a little Chinese island rose to global chemical dominance

155. The War Room newsletter: Did a Russian weapon spook Trump?

156. Woke football stickers are going viral in Britain

157. Introducing our free newsletter on health and wellness

158. Is Donald Trump as unpopular as he seems?

159. How to beat the hard right, Netherlands edition

160. China’s Belt and Road Initiative is booming

161. Has Airbnb reached its peak?

162. Why Wall Street won’t see the next crash coming

163. 2025-11-01 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: The battle for New York

164. Donald Trump’s alarming muddle about nuclear-weapons testing

165. Checks and Balance newsletter: Tear gas and Halloween in Chicago

166. The War Room newsletter: The most successful amphibious invasion

167. Curtis Sliwa’s tough-guy mien evokes an older New York

168. Giorgia Meloni and Nigel Farage compared

169. Can a dopamine detox reset your brain?

170. How many people are already being killed by climate change?

171. What a popular murderer reveals about Japan

172. At long last, Timor-Leste joins ASEAN

173. How East Asian pop culture is inspiring Gen Z protests

174. Aid cuts are devastating health services in Africa

175. The limits of Turkey’s influence in Syria are showing

176. Darfur’s besieged capital falls to the Rapid Support Forces

177. The next stage of the Trump peace plan for Gaza is stalling

178. An Egyptian comedian makes a (virtual) comeback

179. Jamaica’s nightmare comes true

180. The Colombian left has chosen a successor to Gustavo Petro

181. The data-centre backlash is brewing in America

182. A basketball scandal highlights vulnerabilities in sports betting

183. Crunching the numbers on every NYC marathon finisher since 2021

184. Led by Nvidia, the AI industry has plans to reindustrialise America

185. Trump 2028

186. Sweden’s leading business dynasty prepares for succession

187. LinkedIn and the art of self-promotion

188. Porsche’s warning lights are flashing

189. Google v Microsoft: the battle of AI business models

190. The Trump administration’s approach to global health is flawed but fixable

191. Against all odds, Peter Gurney loved his work

192. Europe’s need for green electricity is blowing fuses

193. France’s finance minister on how to pass a budget

194. Turkey’s president is moving to eviscerate democracy

195. The Finnish lifestyle philosophy that could save Europe

196. A fresh approach to helping children with special educational needs

197. A Welsh startup wants to make semiconductors in space

198. 2025-10-30 The World this Week - Politics

199. 2025-10-30 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

200. 2025-10-30 The World this Week - Business

201. Investors will help Jamaica recover from Hurricane Melissa

202. The new globalisation paradox

203. In their first meeting in six years, Trump and Xi agree a trade truce

204. What will it cost to make Putin stop?

205. Why funding Ukraine is a giant opportunity for Europe

206. Asia adapts to Donald Trump’s transactional diplomacy

207. A fractious but working relationship

208. The battle for New York

209. As new jobs in finance dry up, New York City’s fiscal model is wilting

210. Zohran Mamdani wants to make New York great again

211. The Dutch choose optimism over anti-immigrant populism

212. India’s IPO boom is good news for its economy

213. A letter to investors from the White House Opportunities Fund

214. Europe’s defence firms are flying. Now for the hard part

215. A bloody police raid in Rio was the deadliest in Brazil’s history

216. Scientists may have found a panacea for snake bites

217. America is upgrading GPS to catch up with rivals

218. Javier Milei’s chance to transform Argentina and teach the world

219. The idolatry of victimhood

220. Tear gas and Halloween costumes in America’s third largest city

221. Britain’s overstretched prisons are releasing inmates by mistake

222. Blighty newsletter: Boys and their toys

223. The Economist is hiring a Britain political correspondent

224. Hurricane Melissa is one of the strongest storms ever recorded

225. Donald Trump’s trade power is vast, but self-defeating

226. How pig organs may soon save lives

227. What the Trump-Xi meeting can and can’t solve

228. Weight-loss drugs are spreading across the world

229. A political drama for the ages, opening soon in New York City

230. China is backing Russia’s war to keep America distracted, says Kaja Kallas

231. El Boletín newsletter: The fallout from Javier Milei’s big win

232. Why big oil is missing out on the AI energy bonanza

233. England’s broken system for meeting special educational needs

234. Xi Jinping’s latest purge: paranoid or purposeful?

235. The end of the rip-off economy

236. The meaning of America’s vast military build-up off Venezuela

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

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

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

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

241. The counterintuitive economics of smoking

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

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

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

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

246. 2025-10-24 The World this Week - Cover Story newsletter: How we chose the cover image

247. The world has become surprisingly less grumpy

248. Can you eat your way to lower cholesterol?

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

250. Meet the real screen addicts: the elderly

251. What is Taiwan’s plan B?

252. How to win prizes and lose influence

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

254. Colombia has finally drawn Donald Trump’s ire

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

256. The obvious economics of preserving the Amazon

257. Labour is treating London shabbily

258. Britain’s welfare system has grown sicker

259. Parliament turns on Prince Andrew

260. American big business faces a 1trn capex question

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

262. Why Hong Kong is going for gold

263. China has a grave problem

264. A Supreme Court case could help entrench Republican power

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

266. America’s gerrymander war is heating up

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

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

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

270. Western drones are underwhelming on the Ukrainian battlefield

271. Poland refuses to extradite a Nord Stream suspect

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

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

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

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

276. Sports leagues find that streaming pirates have their purposes

277. Beware the “romance of leadership”

278. 2025-10-23 The World this Week - The weekly cartoon

279. 2025-10-23 The World this Week - Politics

280. 2025-10-23 The World this Week - Business

281. Kanchha Sherpa had mixed emotions about Everest

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

283. Qatar is a crossroads at a crossroads

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

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

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

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

288. China is being fuelled by inspiration, not perspiration

289. Can AI make the poor world richer?

290. Trumponomics is warping the world’s copper markets

291. The migration schemes even populists love

292. Why China is winning the trade war

293. China is winning Donald Trump’s trade war

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

295. Why investors still don’t believe in Argentina

296. How the persecution of sparrows killed 2m people

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

298. America’s government shutdown is its weirdest yet

299. Buckaroo! The British government’s favourite game

300. How to make immigration palatable in a populist age