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Manufacturing remains a core driver of economic growth

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Politics

Business

The weekly cartoon

Big, beautiful…bonkers

Trumponomics 2.0 will erode the foundations of America’s prosperity

Leaders

The tragedy of Labour 

Sir Keir Starmer is rapidly losing his authority 

Surveillance state

China is building an entire empire on data

Wrong direction 

William Ruto is taking Kenya to a dangerous place

The new star power 

How A-listers are shaking up the consumer-goods business 

Central-bank independence

The best check on Fed politicisation is fear of being judged a failure, says Richard Clarida

By Invitation

The future of warfare

This is Europe’s Manhattan Project moment, argues a tech boss

The inglorious Fourth

The big beautiful bill reveals the hollowness of Trumponomics

Briefing

Fiat lex

The obscure Senate functionary whose word is law

Mapped, monitored and manipulated

China’s bid to influence the Philippines heats up

Asia

Missiles and waterslides

Welcome to North Korea’s Benidorm

Tied down

Thailand’s prime minister has been suspended

Statues in the Stans

Central Asia still has a complex relationship with Russia

Banyan

Why all Indians are rule-breakers

Big data will see you now

China’s giant new gamble with digital IDs

China

The 5%

China’s growth targets cause headaches—even when met

Peruse at your peril

Beware tomes of Chinese political gossip!

Closing time

Hong Kong’s last functioning pro-democracy party disbands

Speedy justices

The Supreme Court keeps helping Donald Trump 

United States

Shari’s gambit

Will bowing to Trump win Paramount its merger?

Welcome to Trader Zoh’s

Should cities run their own supermarkets?

Inside job

Why Thomas Jefferson is rolling in his grave

Unhappy birthday

On its tenth birthday, gay marriage in America is under attack

Lexington

America needs an honest reckoning over its spy agencies

Faded dreams

Brazil’s president is losing clout abroad and unpopular at home

The Americas

Don’t believe the numbers

Cuba’s leaders fiddle the figures

Elbows down

Canada makes a first concession to Donald Trump

The future of political Shiism

Iran’s “axis of resistance” was meant to be the Shias’ NATO

Middle East & Africa

A never-ending conflict

Israel’s weird war clock: 12 days for Iran, 21 months in Gaza

A stubborn status quo

The Israel-Iran war has not yet transformed the Middle East

A downward spiral

Kenya’s president is bad news for Kenya and Africa

Nice deal, on paper

A peace agreement in Africa that will probably not bring peace

Inside Russia 

In Putin’s Moscow, a summer of death and distraction

Europe

Catalan calm

A pragmatic amnesty for separatists benefits Catalonia

Trump’s turn to Tayyip

Turkey’s strongman is becoming Donald Trump’s point man 

Turkey

An infestation of ticks menaces Istanbul

Gap on the right wing

Germany’s Bundestag bars AfD MPs from its football team

Charlemagne

The sleeping policeman at the heart of Europe

One year of Labour

Starmer’s wasted first year

Britain

The British economy

Labour is bungling its growth “mission”

Our Starmer tracker 

Measuring Sir Keir Starmer by what people actually care about

Hot protest summer

Britain’s draconian approach to pro-Gaza activism is likely to backfire

Schools in cities

A quiet education revolution in England’s secondary cities

The Shipping Forecast at 100

Britain’s least controversial national treasure

Bagehot

Britain is already a hot country. It should act like it 

Nuclear power for civilian use

Putin’s radioactive chokehold on the world 

International

The Telegram

How South Africa could harness Donald Trump’s wrath

Fame and fortune

Kim Kardashian, Ryan Reynolds and the age of the celebrity brand

Tragedy, then farce

A Wall Street wheeze makes a surprising comeback 

A fruity business

Would you pay $19 for a strawberry?

A developing divide

Superstar coders are raking it in. Others, not so much

Horse power

Ferrari is looking less like a carmaker and more like Hermès

Bartleby

Are startup founders different?

Schumpeter

Jeff Bezos 2.0: new wife, newish job, old vision

Involutionary road

Xi Jinping wages war on price wars

Finance & economics

The tariff show 

How to strike a trade deal with Donald Trump

Fiscal foie gras 

Big, beautiful budgets: not just an American problem

First-class mess  

Can Trump end America’s $1.8trn student-debt nightmare? 

Copper-bottomed

Vanguard will soon crush fees for even more investors

The bomb squad

Inside Iran’s war economy

Free exchange

India’s Licence Raj offers America important lessons

The new nanotech

AI is helping to design proteins from scratch

Science & technology

Life drawing

A new project aims to synthesise a human chromosome

Kleptoplasty

How sea slugs give themselves superpowers

Well informed

Is being bilingual good for your brain?

Fatal attraction

The TV shows people risk death to watch

Culture

Fair use on the internet

A YouTuber kicks up a stink over a flatulent “reaction” video

Dastardly, deadly and digital

Hollywood’s new favourite villain

Take their word for it

Before there was Oprah’s Book Club, there was the Book Society

Brothers in arms

Inside the uneasy, incongruous coalition of the Big Three

Please, brother, take a chance

Stop crying your heart out—for Oasis have returned to the stage

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

Ice cream: good or bad?

John Robbins had serious doubts about the family business 

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