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2. America’s welfare state is more European than you think

3. Investors should demand more transparency from private-markets firms

4. Luxury goods are Europe’s global tax on vanity

5. Anthropic says China’s AI tigers are copycats

6. Americans have no idea what Donald Trump wants from Iran

7. One-stop blood tests for multiple types of cancer are increasingly popular

8. AI models are being prepared for the physical world

9. Marks left by Stone Age humans were surprisingly complex

10. Science is winning the war on cancer

11. Our language analysis of Donald Trump’s state-of-the-union address

12. America’s allies are flocking to China

13. LinkedIn and the art of self-promotion

14. Why readers and viewers hunger for Hannibal Lecter

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16. Chapo, Mayo, Mencho: another Mexican kingpin falls

17. Donald Trump’s unworthy state of the union

18. Have foreign tourists really avoided America this year?

19. Pete Hegseth goes to battle with Anthropic

20. A stay-calm plan to save the world

21. Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation

22. Brazil’s high court is caught up in a vast scandal

23. Analysing Africa newsletter: An interview with Zambia’s president

24. It’s California’s 250th birthday, too

25. Blighty newsletter: The prince and the lord are a long way from jail

26. For AI labs, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon brings opportunities—and risks

27. How to get rich in modern China

28. Why China is causing alarm in the Arctic

29. Heathrow’s expansion is on track to be eye-wateringly expensive

30. Bosses should not hold their breath for a Trump tariff refund

31. The war against PDFs is heating up

32. The US in Brief: Cracks in the ICE Latest US politics news from The Economist

33. A world-changing war: four years in Ukraine

34. Ukraine is a trap for Vladimir Putin

35. How Lululemon fell out of fashion

36. Interview: Sarah Guo, AI investor

37. Interview: Bret Taylor of Sierra and OpenAI

38. How Russia’s fatalities compare with Ukraine’s

39. The War Room newsletter: What is Donald Trump’s aim for Iran?

40. Where the DHS shutdown could start to hurt

41. France’s far left reckons with the murder of a far-right activist

42. The River Thames has changed shape

43. The rotten tail of China’s property bust

44. Rejoice! Private equity is taking over America’s small businesses

45. The killing of Mexico’s most powerful narco will please Donald Trump

46. When the levy brakes: Trump’s tariffs struck down

47. The flawed logic of taxing the rich

48. What are Donald Trump’s strike options in Iran?

49. Markets are churning furiously beneath a calm surface

50. The AI productivity boom is not here (yet)

51. Why one corner of Europe’s car industry is still booming

52. The latest viral choreography craze? Line dancing

53. India’s VIP culture is out of control

54. The Midwest’s remarkable turnaround

55. Checks and Balance newsletter: Jesse Jackson and the great racial backlash

56. The Indian Removal Act: unchecked expansionism and disregard for the rule of law

57. Inside Nepal’s Gen Z Revolution

58. Should you be fibremaxxing?

59. Donald Trump answers a Supreme Court rebuke with new tariff threats

60. The Supreme Court strikes down Donald Trump’s tariffs

61. Why Congress just isn’t any fun

62. The Supreme Court tariffs ruling reins in Donald Trump

63. Brain-like computers could be built out of perovskites

64. The arrest is history: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor

65. Latest US politics news from The Economist

66. The moment of reckoning between America and Iran

67. What Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest means for Britain’s monarchy

68. As “How to Make a Killing” shows, the inheritance plot is back

69. Was Vladimir Putin’s tyranny inevitable?

70. A love letter to private equity

71. Libya has no good options for leaders

72. The global triumph of Nigerian fashion

73. Donald Trump’s policies are reshaping American health care

74. Saudi Arabia and the Emirates must resolve their own differences

75. A psychedelic medicine performs well against depression

76. A book fair in Damascus is a window on the new Syria

77. A nasty spate of shark attacks in the Sydney area

78. Plaid Cymru is on the cusp of power

79. Could One Nation soon become Australia’s most popular party?

80. How to improve American legislators’ lot

81. Britain is the closest the world has to an AI safety inspector

82. China now fills the world’s luxury hampers

83. Could the next big gambling destination be in the Gulf?

84. The case for workplace inefficiency

85. Serbia’s protesters learn it’s hard to topple a president

86. How Germany fell out of love with China

87. Peru ousts a president under the shadow of Chinese meddling

88. North London is suffering a measles outbreak

89. It’s lonely at the top Latest US politics news from The Economist

90. Different ideas about faith are dividing Republicans over Israel

91. The Scottish government’s new bonds will waste taxpayers’ money

92. The Trump administration wants to put antifa on trial

93. The splitting image: Yoon verdict will deepen divisions

94. Poles have split and soured on America

95. He was a Texan dad who had never left America. Then he got deported to Laos

96. Don’t go after the rich to fix broken budgets

97. Did America’s war on poverty fail?

98. India is in the midst of a data-centre investment boom

99. How four years of war have changed Russia

100. The EU is thrashing out a more muscular set of economic policies

101. Vladimir Putin is caught in a vice of his own making

102. Prediction markets are rife with insider betting

103. Why the IMF’s newest report finds that the yuan is undervalued

104. Reinvented hydrofoils could revolutionise transport

105. That irritating feeling that France was right

106. Welcome to the era of anarchic antitrust

107. How to think like a chess pro

108. That irritable feeling that France was right

109. Why insider trading isn’t always bad

110. The front line in America’s child-vaccine battle

111. South Korea is still haunted by its disgraced ex-president

112. Plot Twist newsletter: The battle of the Brontës is back

113. China’s humanoids are dazzling the world. Who will buy them?

114. Activists are pushing to loosen childhood-vaccine requirements

115. How ICE’s new software tools could speed up deportations

116. The Human Exposome Project will map how environmental factors shape health

117. 6. The human defence

118. Jesse Jackson made a black president possible

119. How a four-year onslaught has changed Ukraine

120. A clash between comedy and the FCC Latest US politics news from The Economist

121. Can high-intensity interval training get you fit in a hurry?

122. The Robin Hood state: taxes are getting more progressive

123. Will investing in Russia really bring America a 12trn bonanza?

124. Donald Trump’s envoys failed to reassure Europe

125. The flaws in India’s AI plans

126. How big is the prize of reopening Russia?

127. Why the Gulf’s most powerful countries are at odds

128. The financialisation of AI is just beginning

129. Off the Charts newsletter: Coping with outliers

130. Beware China’s shrinking car market

131. China’s DeepSeek year

132. It’s a good time to be a British football prodigy

133. Gisèle Pelicot’s horrifying rape case changed the law—and minds

134. The War Room newsletter: Is a peace deal possible?

135. Ice, ice, maybe: should the Arctic be refrozen?

136. Keir Starmer’s crisis is bad for Britain

137. Check in the mail: analysis of Epstein’s correspondence

138. How governments are increasingly soaking the rich

139. The crummiest job in Washington—congressman—is getting worse

140. Nicaragua has so far dodged the fate of Cuba and Venezuela

141. Americans are unleashing their anger on food-delivery robots

142. Why American allies are flocking to see Xi Jinping in Beijing

143. The world’s most common vegetable is enjoying a great year

144. MAHA’s first annual checkup

145. Who had the most contact with Jeffrey Epstein?

146. Russia’s economy has entered the death zone

147. Japan’s prime minister wins a historic landslide

148. Donald Trump’s schemes to juice the economy

149. Dubai’s crazy rich Chinese

150. Britain’s “Hillsborough law”, pledging candour, is avoiding it

151. Checks and Balance: The death of the “endangerment finding”

152. Dizzyingly high CEO pay is fine. It just needs to be earned

153. Why MAGA brands have been a flop

154. Addicted to your phone? Try “bricking” it

155. India’s pollution is becoming an economic roadblock

156. The battle to save South America’s skull-crushing big cat

157. America offers Europe warmer words, but a deep chill remains

158. How to oust a prime minister

159. Six books to understand the civil war and slavery in America

160. 5. Closed problem spaces

161. To protect itself, Europe needs the systems that make warfare work

162. Why China’s central bank won’t save the country from deflation

163. Asia’s capitalists will need to fight for their revolution

164. The world is in a new age of variable geometry, says Mark Carney

165. How dangerous is Donald Trump’s “endangerment” decision?

166. Can the shingles vaccine slow ageing?

167. The excruciating quest for a meeting room

168. How to solve the tenor shortage

169. Sir Keir Starmer’s dreadful week

170. Can Bangladesh’s old guard build a new democracy?

171. Stock options: how to hedge an AI bubble

172. Why Gen X is the real loser generation

173. The plastic city that feeds half a billion

174. An interview with a king of chipmaking

175. ICE’s operation in Minneapolis is about to wind down

176. Red and white: the wine world’s newest fad

177. Arm wants a bigger slice of the chip business

178. Alpha offers a starter course in salvation

179. A deadly attack shows Nigeria’s security crisis is worsening

180. America’s hottest grocery store is also its priciest

181. Africa needs to follow Asia’s path to grow

182. Need a bit of dating help? The caveman’s guide to romance

183. Britain’s shifting GDP numbers

184. Alabama offers three tricks to fix poor urban schools

185. RFK’s idea of making America healthy starts with making it politically sicker

186. Don’t welcome Africa’s newest despot

187. What’s the point of AI in acupuncture?

188. Central America’s biggest city is eternally snarled with traffic

189. How Africa’s hottest new museum unravelled

190. Cuba’s fate may be in Marco Rubio’s hands

191. Can “world models” fix AI’s blind spots?

192. The European Onion is a joke whose time has come

193. Can Germany rearm its way to growth?

194. Checks and Balance newsletter: Why 1873 still matters for America

195. Why China’s concert scene has boomed since the pandemic

196. What China is really up to in the Arctic

197. The world lacks tenor singers. Or does it?

198. Tin mining is making a surprise return to Cornwall

199. Real-life “Succession”: Media’s most dysfunctional family

200. Virginia Oliver worked Maine’s waters for nearly a century

201. Why Syria and Iraq cannot reconcile

202. Private-equity barons have a giant AI problem

203. The decline of single-earner housebuyers in America

204. Check in Kyiv: prospects for peace?

205. Interview: Tom Blomfield

206. Bondi battles Democrats Latest US politics news from The Economist

207. Why the beauty industry is booming

208. Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s network

209. The Epstein files tell a story of justice denied

210. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh are weaponising cricket

211. More and more countries are banning kids from social media

212. The rich world should beware Brazilification

213. Asia is turning stablecoins into banking infrastructure

214. How to put a price on a human life

215. The world’s most powerful woman

216. Don’t ban teenagers from social media

217. Chinese homebuyers are enraged by shoddy building standards

218. Ethnic minorities are driving America’s startup boom

219. Can peptides give you superpowers?

220. The most useful indicator of your overall health

221. Britain’s predicament will get worse before it gets better

222. Robots with human-inspired eyes have better vision

223. Falling wine sales reflect a lonelier and more atomised world

224. A European fighter-jet partnership is verging on a break-up

225. The alternatives to Sir Keir

226. Dhaka matters: an election for Bangladesh

227. Should you rent or buy?

228. Humans are not the only animals that treat each other’s injuries

229. Entrenched interests are throttling Brazil’s economy

230. Design an Economist cover

231. How Democrats aim to curb ICE without losing votes

232. Job apocalypse? Humbug! AI is creating brand new occupations

233. What drives the wage gap between men and women?

234. Republicans rebel over tariffs Latest US politics news from The Economist

235. Sex, sex and more sex: Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering Heights”

236. The earthling’s guide to building a Moon base

237. Essential India Newsletter

238. The Epstein files are sullying Norway’s squeaky-clean image

239. Pandora’s box: the new equation of nuclear proliferation

240. Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford?

241. Why this is the coldest crypto winter yet

242. Why Saudis feel squeezed even as the economy booms

243. Who wrangled the best trade deal from Donald Trump?

244. King Charles tries to limit the fallout from Andrew’s Epstein mess

245. Why China is promoting skills over degrees

246. Blighty newsletter: The Starmer drama overshadows the Labour left’s wins

247. The rise of the 9-to-5 influencer

248. Led by a Marxist, battered by a storm, Sri Lanka is doing better

249. A Keir-death experience: Britain’s PM clings on

250. Well Informed newsletter

251. DHS may muzzle a watchdog Latest US politics news from The Economist

252. Off the record: the global assault on press freedom

253. Emmanuel Macron declares a European state of emergency

254. Why Sir Keir Starmer remains on the brink

255. How unpopular is Britain’s Labour government?

256. Thank God for Melania Trump

257. Boss Class from Economist Podcasts

258. The culture of Latin America will continue its global rise

259. China once stole foreign ideas. Now it wants to protect its own

260. Tycoon troublemaker: the rise and fall of Jimmy Lai

261. The War Room newsletter: Putin’s generals keep being hunted

262. “Flying” electric boats could remake urban transport

263. Russia’s sabotage campaign is becoming bolder

264. How to conduct a job interview

265. The world is suffering from a shortage of tenors

266. Thailand’s conservatives win a shock big victory

267. Can Congress agree on DHS? Latest US politics news from The Economist

268. Snap judgement: Japan PM’s electoral landslide

269. Japan’s election: why investors are worried

270. Selling AI to the left

271. 4. GenAI v Gen Z

272. Why overdose deaths are falling in America

273. Why child prodigies rarely become elite performers

274. Age gaps in relationships are not as bad as you think

275. Europe’s generals are warning people to prepare for war

276. Is it better to rent or buy?

277. At the last open crossing, Ukrainians flee Russia’s annexation

278. How Japan’s prime minister will use her massive new mandate

279. Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are cracking down on dissent

280. How to hedge a bubble, AI edition

281. Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump’s Fed nominee

282. A booming gig economy is formalising India’s labour force

283. China’s graduates face a whole new set of gruelling tests

284. A social network for AI agents is full of introspection—and threats

285. America at 250

286. Should globalists give up?

287. All in: America bets on prediction markets

288. An Israeli visit to the site of the Bondi attack tests Australia

289. Demography puts the brake on classic-car values in Britain

290. In America science-sceptics are now in charge

291. A long-awaited trade truce between America and India

292. Disney’s new boss faces a tricky balancing act

293. NASA’s Artemis: humans are returning to the Moon

294. Want to know what’s wrong with you?

295. 3. The easy button

296. The Economist is hiring Audience fellows for 2026

297. The world is more equal than you think

298. The age of a volatile, falling dollar has dawned

299. Anger is deadly to moderate politicians

300. Checks and Balance newsletter: The danger of prediction markets