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Poland and the threat from Russia

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Politics

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The weekly cartoon

Vietnam

The man with a plan for Vietnam

Leaders

Exit, pursued by an elephant 

MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm  

A big baleful bill

The Senate should vote down Donald Trump’s reckless tax cuts

Ever closer negotiation

The best part of the UK-EU deal is a system for doing more deals 

Donald Trump’s Golden Dome

The plan to protect America by shooting down missiles mid-air

Don’t throw it away

How Poland can keep its place at the heart of Europe

Die, DEI

An influential voice from the right laments Trump’s attack on universities

By Invitation

Empires of the mind

Europe can’t defend itself properly without projecting soft power, argues Jerzy Pomianowski

Dawn or dusk? 

Vietnam’s economy is booming, but its new leader is worried

Briefing

Wooing the world

Vietnam, squeezed between America and China, looks for new friends

Do it with conviction

How to fix India’s sclerotic justice system

Asia

Deterring China

America’s new ship-killer missiles come to the Philippines

Meet the Viet Kieu

Vietnam’s diaspora is shaping the country their parents fled

Banyan

On its own terms, ASEAN is surprisingly effective

Soft power

How China became cool

China

Medical affairs

A sex scandal in China sparks a nationwide debate

Brain drain

China’s universities are wooing Western scientists

Reduction Redux 

What happens if the Inflation Reduction Act goes away?

United States

Of volts and jolts

California has got really good at building giant batteries

Rash decisions

How much worse could America’s measles outbreak get?

DeDOGEd

A court resurrects the United States Institute of Peace

More than a feeling

The MAGA revolution threatens America’s most innovative place

Lexington

Joe Biden did not decline alone

Mexico’s resilient gangs

Mexico battles the MAGA movement over organised crime

The Americas

A losing battle

Wildfires devastated the Amazon basin in 2024

Argentina economic reform

An election win boosts Javier Milei’s reform project

Culture wars

Meet Africa’s ascendant right

Middle East & Africa

A bank that divides Africa

A bitter race to elect the head of Africa’s pivotal bank

Putting the white in White House

Cyril Ramaphosa keeps his cool with Donald Trump

Gaza on the brink again

Israel says it is unleashing an “unprecedented attack”

Things fall apart, again

The world’s worst conference

Donald Trump’s sanctions gift to Syria

One happy Damascus

We’re out of there

Many of Syria’s diaspora are not yet ready to go home

Populists at the gates

Poland’s election will cement or ruin its standing in Europe 

Europe

European elections 

MAGA misses the mark in Romania

After the call

Donald Trump dashes any hope that he will get tough with Russia

Independence on pause

American threats push Greenland closer to Denmark

Charlemagne

Europe’s mayors are islands of liberalism in a sea of populists

Keir Starmer’s EU reset

The UK-EU deal is just a start 

Britain

Fishing rights

Britain has sacrificed its fishermen again

Queen’s gambit, plus a punch

The improbable rise of chessboxing

Taking back control

Does Britain need migrant workers?

Deflated hopes

An eccentric set of one-offs has knocked inflation up in Britain

Two wheels good

London has become a cycling city

Bagehot 

Bring back Boris 

Astropolitics 

Star wars returns 

International

Lost signals

Can China jam your GPS?

The Telegram

How to fight the next pandemic, without America

An uphill struggle

Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment 

Supercharger

China’s battery giant eyes world domination

Rollercoaster rivals

Universal wants to steal Disney’s theme-park magic

Tarnished

American companies have a new image problem 

Bartleby

The secrets of public speaking

Schumpeter

Big box v brands: the battle for consumers’ dollars

American titan

Will Jamie Dimon build the first trillion-dollar bank?

Finance & economics

How to gauge fear

Wall Street and Main Street are split on Trump’s chaos

Bonanza denied

Trump will be unpleasantly surprised by America’s tariff revenues

Sine laude

What the failure of a superstar student reveals about economics

Buttonwood

Hong Kong says goodbye to a capitalist crusader

Free exchange

America’s scientific prowess is a huge global subsidy

Death by a thousand cuts

Trump’s attack on science is growing fiercer and more indiscriminate

Science & technology

Disaster pending

How cuts to science funding will hurt ordinary Americans

Your loss

America is in danger of experiencing an academic brain drain 

Prometheus unbound 

Sam Altman is a visionary with a trustworthiness problem

Culture

No rest from the wicked

In Germany, the Nazis invaded people’s dreams

Goodbye Gilead

“The Handmaid’s Tale” reveals the limits of dystopian television

Musing on Mammon

The story of capitalism, told by its detractors

Up in arms

How FDR shaped the doctrine of national security in America

World in a dish

The hottest gadget of the summer? A portable pizza oven

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

Thanks, duct tape!

Ed Smylie knew this stick-fast wonder could fix anything

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