Leaders
Humanity 2.0
How to enhance humans
Finding ways to live much longer—and better—shouldn’t be left to the cranks
Russia and America talk
The trap Vladimir Putin has set for Donald Trump
The Russian president wants to suggest that Ukraine is just a detail in a wider relationship
Rent, killed
If you can’t find a place to rent, blame the government
Foolish crusades against landlords have made housing shortages worse
Working it out
Britain at last takes aim at worklessness
But Labour’s other economic policies risk undermining its efforts
Letters
A selection of correspondence
Cuts to foreign aid will harm Africa’s future
By Invitation
Briefing
Cyborgs, superhumans and cranks
Dreams of improving the human race are no longer science fiction
But the “enhancement” industry is still hobbled by out-of-date regulation
Asia
Hermit hackers
Why are North Korean hackers such good crypto-thieves?
Bait and switch
North Korea is remarkably entrenched in global supply chains
Beyond the bromance
Why the Indian diaspora has not yet embraced Donald Trump
Reams of red tape
India is obsessed with giving its people “unique IDs”
The enemy within
Taiwan’s president takes on alleged Chinese infiltration
China
United States
To Russia with love
The American and Russian right are aligning
In the zone
Cambridge yimbies
Not so bullish
America is facing a beef deficit
The Americas
Go north, if you can
Donald Trump has reshaped one of the world’s most important migration routes
The disputed definition of a doctor
How Cuba competes with Uncle Sam in the Caribbean islands
Middle East & Africa
The Houthis’ resilience
America’s strikes on the Houthis could whip up a regional tempest
Playing with fire
A coup attempt in Tigray raises tensions in the Horn
Hostile environment
Nigerian politics is a nasty place for women
A quiet renaissance
The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret
Europe
Discarding democracy
Erdogan arrests the candidate who could beat him
Raising the boom
Europe’s armsmakers have ramped up capacity
Goodbye debt brake
The Bundestag approves the biggest fiscal expansion in post-war history
Britain
Tinker tailor investor spy
Why British spooks are reaching out to the private sector
Work to welfare—and back again?
The thinking behind Labour’s benefits cuts
Training and skills
Why apprenticeships are so rare in Britain
International
MAGA and espionage
Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes
Voicelessness of America
Donald Trump shoots his own global mouthpiece
The Telegram
The right way to fight nativists
Business
Burning the boats
Will Trump’s tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America?
For all they care
How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill
Couture consolidation
The luxury industry is poised for a deal wave
Bartleby
The horrors of shared docs
Finance & economics
Prickly situation
The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game
Everyone’s a loser
Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering
Hammer and sickie
Can anything get China’s shoppers to spend?
Charging ahead
Where will be the next electric-vehicle superpower?
Housing problems
Why rents are rising too fast
Science & technology
Going viral
Do viruses trigger Alzheimer’s?
Deep dives
Why don’t seals drown?
Well informed
What is the best way to keep your teeth healthy?
Culture
The importance of being Ernest
What baby names reveal about American and British society
World in a dish
Why everyone is harping on about Guinness
Down in the dumps
What really happens to everything you recycle
The Economist reads
The best novels of the year so far
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
A gaze across millennia