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The world this week

Politics

Business

The weekly cartoon

$WAMP coins

Crypto has become the ultimate swamp asset

Leaders

Say it how it is

Europe’s free-speech problem 

A ceasefire, not peace

Stop-gap deals do not mean Donald Trump’s trade war is over

American diplomacy

Is Donald Trump a good dealmaker?

Claudia Sheinbaum’s folly

Mexico’s government is throttling the rule of law 

Beware the business bots

How to handle the AI manager. Advice from our new podcast 

Syria unshackled

Lifting sanctions will catalyse Syria’s recovery, says its central-bank governor

By Invitation

South Asian mutation

Tanvi Madan on the geopolitical shifts revealed by the India-Pakistan crisis

Cryptocracy

The crypto industry is suddenly at the heart of American politics

Briefing

Truce trouble

Why India is annoyed by its ceasefire with Pakistan

Asia

Top Gun

Chinese weapons gave Pakistan a new edge against India

The new normal

Kashmir’s uncertain future

A massive muddle

Prabowo Subianto’s economic policy is weakening Indonesia

Excel diplomacy

After the revolution, Bangladesh is hoping to reform

Banyan 

India’s broadcast media wage war on their audience

China-Russia relations

Xi Jinping has Vladimir Putin over a barrel 

China

Claiming a win

China is celebrating victory against American trade warriors 

Making friends, not babies

Young Chinese are turning to AI chatbots for friendship and love

The great murder mystery

Violent crime is falling rapidly across America

United States

Elephant dung

Republicans have a plan to add trillions to the national debt

Work-life balance

The Medicaid calculus behind Donald Trump’s tax cuts

Giving fast

Why some tycoons are speeding up their charity

Concession stand

Why a vote dispute in North Carolina should worry Americans

White sox and white smoke

Are American Catholics ready for an American pope?

Lexington

Embrace the woo woo

The end of independence

Mexico will be the only country that elects all its judges

The Americas

Cash cows

Brazilian supercows are taking over the world

Man of the Uruguayan people

José “El Pepe” Mujica became the antithesis of a caudillo

Trump on tour

Trump resets America’s Middle East policy in surprising ways

Middle East & Africa

Ignoring Bibi

Donald Trump bypasses Israel on the path to peace in Gaza

Helping Syria’s economy

Trump’s decision to lift sanctions is a triumph for Syria’s president

The trillion-dollar illusion

The chimera of private finance for development

End days

Africa’s oldest surviving Catholic church is under threat

A view to kill?

Europeans are becoming less free to say what they think

Europe

Will they, won‘t they?

Peace talks are starting in Istanbul, but who will be there?

Pushing back populists

Why so much is riding on Poland’s presidential elections

Outrage on the Oder

Germany’s border controls are annoying the neighbours

Charlemagne

Leo XIV will pose some tricky problems for Giorgia Meloni

Hate to say it

Britain’s police are restricting speech in worrying ways

Britain

Raising the drawbridge

Britain’s experiment with liberal immigration policies is over

Cost of living

Cheap petrol offers a small respite for squeezed households

Red herrings

When levelling-up comes to town

Better angels

How to prevent drunken punch-ups

Hello shallow

How to build tram lines quickly and cheaply 

Bagehot 

A world without Nigel Farage 

News wars

China and Russia are deploying powerful new weapons: ideas

International

The lie-detectors

Fact-checkers forecast which dodgy claims will do most damage

The Telegram

Why Donald Trump is a globalist

The other “everything store”

How Walmart became a tech giant—and took over the world 

Not so slick

Donald Trump is throttling America’s oil industry

A turn for the worse

Big pharma’s jumbo profits are under threat in America

Game over

Nvidia’s original customers are feeling unloved and grumpy

Bartleby

The myths of corporate innovation   

Schumpeter

Will OpenAI ever make real money?

America divided

Why the MAGA economy is thriving

Finance & economics

Seeing red or blue 

Is the market up or down? Republicans and Democrats disagree

Sofa so good

America has given China a strangely good tariff deal 

Everyone, everywhere, all at once

How the Chinese Communist Party learnt to love villages

Deal mania

China has got lucky with Trump. Can the rest of the world?

Buttonwood

Poland: the ignored stockmarket superstar

Free exchange

Economists are as confused as Trump about taxing the rich

Jumbo jets

The race to build the fighter planes of the future

Science & technology

Cool heads

Britain is now the biggest funder of solar-geoengineering research

One of a kind

For the first time, a CRISPR drug treats a child’s unique mutation

Well informed

Are juice shots worth the price? 

Child-rearing

Why the best time to be a dad is now

Culture

Holding court

The WNBA will soon be the most valuable league in women’s sport

Back Story

Anna Politkovskaya knew that tyranny respects no borders

You can go your own way

Travel buddies are out; solo trips are in

Electronics manufacturing

Can Apple extricate itself from China?

Old times on the Mississippi

Mark Twain was a literary celebrity with a moral compass

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Economic & financial indicators

The society of the snow 

Álvaro Mangino survived a plane crash by eating his companions

Obituary

Crypto meets the swamp: Why it won’t end well

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