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Politics

Business

The weekly cartoon

Conflict in the Middle East

Where will the Iran-Israel war end?

Leaders

A new “Pug” test

To keep Russia out and America in, NATO must spend more

A fiscal fable 

Japan’s government bonds: this time it won’t end well

Baby brain

Why MAGA’s pro-natalist plans are ill-conceived 

Computers v creatives

What the “cockroaches” of the ad world teach about dealing with AI

War in the Middle East

For Trump, both action and inaction in Iran have consequences, says Karim Sadjadpour

By Invitation

Decisive attack, unknown result

Israel’s blitz on Iran is fraught with uncertainty

Briefing

Target acquired

Israel’s race to kill Iran’s nuclear dream 

Inside the Islamic Republic

Will Iran’s hated regime implode?  

From shrimp to dolphin

Can South Korea’s new president get his country back on track?

Asia

Submarine warfare

Could Trump can AUKUS?

Multiple choices

India’s and China’s civil-service exams are notoriously difficult

Fangs for your attention

Why India has so many snakebites

Banyan

A White House love-in for Pakistan’s big man outrages India

Clues in the wreckage

China has become the most important enabler of Russia’s war machine

China

Cash for clunkers

Chinese consumers are splurging—but probably not for long

Air pollution

Rich Chinese cities are suffocating poor ones

The other half

Democrats could do a lot better with the power they hold

United States

It tolls for thee

Congestion pricing in Manhattan is a predictable success

Voting and shooting

The attacks in Minnesota reflect a worrying trend

The Lumbee

The strange history of the tribe courted by Donald Trump

Presidential disapproval

Our model suggests President Trump is under water in every swing state

Lexington

The New York mayor’s race is a study in Democratic Party dysfunction 

Whacking the gangs from above

Drone warfare is hitting Haiti

The Americas

Wither Seleção’s swagger?

Brazilians love football. Their national team is past its prime

More dirt 

Police allege that Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned a spy ring

Topsy-turvy tariffs

China is trying to win over Africa in the global trade war

Middle East & Africa

Expanding misery

The war in Sudan is spilling over its borders

Cheap and deadly

Africa’s scary new age of high-tech warfare

Keeping the president happy

This week’s NATO summit will be all about placating Donald Trump

Europe

Foreign fighters welcome 

Ukraine looks abroad to boost its manpower 

Balkan bully on the ropes

Serbia’s Aleksandar Vucic is rattled 

Sea of troubles

Corruption at the heart of his party wounds Spain’s prime minister

Bread on wheels

A revival for the classic Renault 5

Charlemagne

Europe wants to show it’s ready for war. Would anyone show up to fight?

Regional identities

The English Midlands is unjustly overlooked

Britain

Enter the dragon

Biotech is coming to Wales

Doctors’ orders

Britain’s newest way of demoralising doctors

Front of the Q

MI6’s new “C” used to be “Q”. And she’s good with the gadgets

Child sexual exploitation

The grooming-gangs scandal is a stain on the British state 

Bagehot

The rise of Nigel McFarage

Harry, meet Sally

Can men and women be just friends?

International

The Telegram 

In Trumpworld, toppling rulers is taboo

Creative destruction

AI is turning the ad business upside down

Knickers in a twist

Victoria’s Secret is struggling to reinvent itself

Oh, Brother!

The family saga at Germany’s media colossus takes an unusual twist 

Zucked in 

Mark Zuckerberg is spending megabucks on an AI hiring spree

People’s code

Why China is giving away its tech for free

Bartleby

How to build the right corporate culture

Schumpeter

Can a car boss turn around Gucci’s owner?

Crammed and damned

Why today’s graduates are screwed

Finance & economics

Baramaki days

Japan’s debts are shrinking. Its troubles may be only starting

Paddy problems

Japan is obsessed with rice. And prices have gone ballistic

Offering little

Can China reclaim its IPO crown? 

Dire strait

What the Israel-Iran war means for oil prices

Buttonwood

Investors ignore world-changing news. Rightly

Free exchange

Who are the world’s best investors?

AI benchmarking

How to find the smartest AI

Science & technology

Grim reaping

Climate change will hurt the richest farmers—and the poorest 

Research rankings

Are China’s universities really the best in the world? 

Well informed

Is the “manopause” real?

Celestial navigation

Meet the moths that use the stars to find their way

Gender relations

How to think about the manosphere

Culture

You butter believe it

The year’s chicest shade is good enough to eat

American foreign policy

Was Zbigniew Brzezinski America’s most important foreign-policy guru?

Music mecca

The Laurel Canyon sound has reverberated down the decades

Mind your own business

The right to privacy has been hard-earned. It is imperilled again

Back Story

Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the age of the genius

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

The reluctant surfer

Brian Wilson attracted a fame he could hardly endure

Obituary

How will this end?

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