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A closer look at American finance

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The world this week

Politics

Business

The weekly cartoon

Trump has gambled

How to win peace in the Middle East

Leaders

Jabbers and nuts

RFK’s loopy approach to vaccines endangers Americans 

The economic consequences of war

How the defence bonanza will reshape the global economy 

The wrong proscription

Banning the opposition is no way to revive Bangladesh’s democracy  

The new ambassadors

Chinese brands are sweeping the world. Good 

Big powers and the United Nations

The UN’s dysfunction undermines global security, argue Ban Ki-moon and Helen Clark

By Invitation

Settling dust, swirling questions

Israel’s war with Iran is over 

Briefing

Obliterated or simply obscured? 

How much did America’s bombs damage Iran’s nuclear programme?

Complex post-industrial military

The war in Ukraine shows the West can re-arm without re-industrialising  

After the revolution

A big mistake by Bangladesh

Asia

The art of no deal

India gets no favours from Trump

A tarnished legacy

Asia’s disgraced saint

Love hurts

Japan’s civil war over surnames

Banyan

A surprise East Asian love-in 

Who will be chosen?

The Dalai Lama faces a horrible dilemma 

China

Write and wrong

Chinese cops are cuffing erotica 

The illiberal arts

China’s new army of engineers

I came, I bombed, Iran

The fallout from Trump’s Iran strikes is political, too

United States

Socialism for thee

The meaning of Zohran Mamdani’s win in New York

One Big Beautiful Bill

Why America’s hospitals don’t want their taxes cut

Showtime buttons up

Even for $10bn, the Los Angeles Lakers may look like a bargain

Hoop dreamers

Oklahoma City has been reborn, 30 years after the bombing

MAHA not funny

Robert F. Kennedy looks set to mess with vaccines

Lexington

Has Donald Trump solved Iran from the air?

All that glitters

The gold bull-market has a dirty secret

The Americas

Petro and the pueblo

Colombia’s dire president gets desperate

Pitch perfect

Dutch football has a secret team

The world’s new back office

Call centres could be a gold mine for Africa

Middle East & Africa

Deaths in the night

Farmers in central Nigeria are being killed with impunity

Charting the horror

As all eyes are on Iran, the horror in Gaza persists

Yes, daddy

At a tricky NATO summit, a Trumpian meltdown is averted

Europe

The jobs of war

A defence splurge will slow Europe’s deindustrialisation

Austerians no more

Germany is embarking on an almighty borrowing binge 

Rise of the robots

Ukraine is inching towards robot-on-robot fighting

Bitcoin, Babis and automobiles

A bitcoin scandal is good news for the Czech Donald Trump

Charlemagne

How strongmen mastered the art of dividing Europe

Sector selector

Britain’s industrial strategy is unlikely to boost its economy

Britain

In the driving seat

The “motorsport mindset” behind Britain’s success in Formula One

Non-doms

Britain has bungled its taxes on the super-rich

Relative values

The culture wars are coming for cousin marriage in Britain

Turf wars

Why many British gardens are giving up on lawns 

Bagehot

Feral Labour: why Sir Keir Starmer’s MPs have had enough

Red lights, green lights

Sex work in the gig economy

International

The Telegram

Feckless Europe accepts Trump’s Lone Ranger diplomacy

Soft-toy power

It’s not just Labubu dolls. Chinese brands are booming

Part company

How to tell the West’s car industry really is in trouble 

Vibe valuing

AI valuations are verging on the unhinged

Getting paid

How OnlyFans transformed porn

Big Smell

Behind the world’s fragrances sits a shadowy oligopoly

Profile

Wendell Weeks, the small-town boss at the big-tech table   

Bartleby

The three rules of conference panels

Schumpeter

Who needs Accenture in the age of AI?

Minimising, maximised

How to escape taxes on your stocks

Finance & economics

A large hump

Jane Street’s sneaky retention tactic

Can’t live with them…

Politicians slashed migration. Now they face the consequences

Buttonwood

The dream scenario for prediction markets

Free exchange

Why commodities are on a rollercoaster ride

Rising star

A new telescope will find billions of asteroids, galaxies and stars

Science & technology

Beyond doubt

Distrust in public-health institutions is not just an American problem

Well informed

Do longevity drugs work?

Standing athwart history, yelling stop

William F. Buckley, the man who put the charm into conservatism

Culture

Infectious storytelling

How zombies explain Brexit: the satire of “28 Years Later”

The Economist reads

The best novels published in the second quarter of 2025

Frame of mind

A new Dutch museum tackles migration through art

Back Story

How to hear a Hollywood star sing, for free

Pitt stop

“F1 The Movie” is a very expensive promotional film

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

The woman in white

Violeta Chamorro was a mother first, a ruler second 

Obituary

How to win the peace

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