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The world this week

Politics

Business

The weekly cartoon

New and untested 

American finance, always unique, is now uniquely dangerous

Leaders

How to repel talent

Pausing foreign applications to American universities is a terrible idea

A dictator’s progress

First he busted gangs. Now Nayib Bukele busts critics

Intensive care

How Labour should save the NHS

The lesser of two evils

India needs to turn the air-con on

American business and trade

Want to destroy American business? Protect it, writes Carl Benedikt Frey

By Invitation

From cool to cruel

Nayib Bukele is devolving from tech-savvy reformer to autocrat

Briefing

Climate change

If India chokes less, it will fry more

Asia

Be more chill

Can India be cool?

Compounding misery

Myanmar’s scam empire gets worse, not better

The unwilling of the coalition

Australia’s conservatives bicker in the political wilderness

Banyan

Narendra Modi has kept his vow to make India like Gujarat

The superpower technology race

Xi Jinping’s plan to overtake America in AI 

China

All that hot air

China’s carbon emissions may have peaked

Chinese consumers

China’s crazy reverse-credit cards

A big, beautiful do-over

America’s Senate plans big changes for the House’s spending bill

United States

Unfair taxes

America has found a new lever to squeeze foreigners for cash

Ivy beleaguered

Demand for American degrees is sinking

Elbows up, library cards out

MAGA: protecting the homeland from Canadian bookworms

Lumpkin it

America’s immigration detention centres are at capacity

The Zillennial election

How young voters helped to put Trump in the White House

Lexington

Why would Texas Republicans object to conservative, pro-family developers?

Cowboys in Canada

The king “loves” Canada. Many Albertans want out

The Americas

Otherworldly success

Why Latin American Surrealism is surging in a down art market

The eloquently silent voice

Venezuela’s sound of silence

The war in Gaza

Israel fuels three emergencies as its furious allies bail out

Middle East & Africa

On the sidelines

The losers of the new Middle East

Murder in Birakat

What a massacre reveals about Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia

The Alabuga connection

Africans are building Putin’s suicide drones

Cultural globalisation

Afrobeats’ new groove

Here be dragons

Europe’s tricky trade threesome

Europe

Catholics in France

France’s improbable adult baptism boom

Young Turks

A new threat to Erdogan: Gen Z

The war in the air

Russia is raining hellfire on Ukraine

Charlemagne

Europe fantasises about an “Airbus of everything!” Can it fly?

Labour and the NHS

Where next for Britain’s broken National Health Service?

Britain

TikTok, fillers and fraud

Harley Street resists a facelift

Alternative navigation

What on earth is what3words?

Grate Britain

Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage?

Frenemies

Sir Keir Starmer’s Scottish reset is under strain

Bagehot

Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite! 

The gig economy of crime

The Uber of the underworld

International

The Telegram

Donald Trump steals Xi Jinping’s favourite foreign policy

The new masters of the universe

Financial giants are transforming Wall Street

Special report

Convergence

Clash of the titans

Trapped capital

What it means to be illiquid

Private lending

The debt barons who are taking on the banks

Speculation

The latest investment fad is made for gamblers

Titans of finance

Can anything stop America’s superstar hedge funds?

Future shock

How the next financial crisis might happen

The new economies of scale

Why it has never been better to be a big company

Eastward ho!  

Will European business turn away from America?

Slow burner

Europe’s attempted bonfire of red tape is impressing no one

BAT race

The contest to cash in on Chinese AI heats up 

Lifted up

Boeing enjoys a Trump bump 

Bartleby

A manager’s guide to handling crises

Schumpeter

Can Korea Inc step up?

Collision course

The courts block Trump’s tariffs. Can he circumvent their verdict?

Finance & economics

Back to the 1930s

Trump’s financial watchdogs promise a revolution

Tightening the screws

Soaring bond yields threaten trouble

Boy cries wolf

Why AI hasn’t taken your job

No capex please, we’re Indian

India has a chance to cure its investment malaise

Buttonwood

Shareholders face a big new problem: currency risk

Free exchange

How might China win the future? Ask Google’s AI

Digital archaeology

The decoding of ancient Roman scrolls is speeding up

Science & technology

Third time unlucky

Elon Musk’s plans to go to Mars next year are toast

Blemish treatment

Old oil paintings are suffering from chemical “acne” 

Pest control

Snakes may have once faced a vicious enemy: the humble ant

Well informed

Should men be screened for prostate cancer?

Party, piety, pity

How an agonising relationship with his dad shaped Xi Jinping

Culture

Death on the Danube

The second world war changed Budapest for ever

Out in the open

Museums should open up their storerooms

Back Story

“American Dirt”, and how commerce beats cancel culture

Feeling averse

Rhyme, once in its prime, is in decline

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

Green light flashing

Simon Mann was the go-to guy for military coups and bespoke warfare

Obituary

New, untested and dangerous

Current topics

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Opinion

In depth

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