5515 Interesting News

• Gulf countries are becoming major players in Africa
• Jessamine Chan's gripping debut novel sends up modern parenting
• Mega-polluter China believes it is a climate saviour
• Which way will swing voters lean in America's election?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The India express
• The self-help book began in the land of the stiff upper lip
• Peru's political chaos looks likely to persist
• Ofir Libstein had extraordinary dreams for his small patch
• This week China could rethink its economic policy
• EU Closes Amazon, Starbucks and Fiat Probes on Tax Rulings
• Black baseball players of yore get their due, at last
• Politics
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's left-wing president, is floundering
• Airborne taxi ranks are coming to a sky near you
• China's Communist Party is tightening its grip in businesses
• What will humans do if technology solves everything?
• China is talking to Taiwan's next leader, just not directly
• Scrapyards adopt new high-tech ways to dismantle cars
• Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas's tunnels
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• KAL's cartoon
• Lula's gaffes are dulling Brazil's G20 shine
• Why the Communist Party fears gay rights
• BYOSI - Evade EDR's The Simple Way, By Not Touching Any Of The API's They Hook
• Swansea mother 'traumatised' by arrest under Terrorism Act
• The Pressure Is on for Big Tech to Regulate the Broken Digital Advertising Industry
• Mexico's president gives power and money to the armed forces
• The semiconductor choke-point
• Economic and financial indicators
• Hal Willner died on April 7th
• The Ryzen 7 5700X Hits a Record Low This Cyber Monday, Amazon Needs To Clear Its Stock ASAP
• Xi Jinping and China face another tough year
• Higher fees won't help Britain's beleaguered universities much
• The future of the Chinese consumer—in three glasses
• How Amos Vogel changed American film culture
• Rossana Banti fought to free Italy with laughter as well as weapons
• Fluoride in Drinking Water Is Safe. Here's the Evidence
• Do tips make for better service?
• Politics
• Covid-19 has pushed governments to find new ways to help the poor
• Taiwanese politics faces a crucial election in early 2024
• The lessons of woke Scrabble
• The Economist's glass-ceiling index
• Michel Barnier's burden
• The dark side of growing old
• Suffering from the Bhopal disaster in India continues, 40 years on
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An economist's guide to the luxury-handbag market
• The obesity capitals of the world
• Russia's missile attacks on Ukraine have been ineffective
• Can women-only factories help more Indian women into work?
• Joe Biden's pardon for son Hunter condemned as 'bad precedent' – US politics live
• Global shipping costs are returning to pre-pandemic levels
• Fiorentina player Edoardo Bove in intensive care after collapsing on pitch
• This week's cover
• North Korea's hackers are after intel, not just crypto
• Colombia's first avowedly left-wing president is mired in scandal
• The rise of the hard right alarms German business leaders
• Why you should lose your temper at work
• A landslip in Hong Kong fuels resentment of the rich
• When Did Human Ancestors Start Using Tools?
• KAL's cartoon
• Is Ukraine's offensive stalling?
• Bernard Madoff died in prison on April 14th
• Can scientists save your morning cup of coffee?
• Generative AI has a clean-energy problem
• Why is Canada's economy falling behind America's?
• Autonomous vehicles are coming, but slowly
• A famous brand of Chinese sweets reinvents itself again
• The ticking bomb under Canada's constitution
• Bitcoin ETFs are off to a bad start. Will things improve?
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador puts his stamp on Mexico's schools
• The Kindle E-Reader Is at a Record Low Price, Amazon Has Added More Stock For Cyber Monday
• What is 5G? The Complete Guide to When, Why, and How
• Business
• Worries of a Soviet-style collapse keep Xi Jinping up at night
• Can China's consumers save its economy?
• Could a mechanic in Nebraska determine control of the Senate?
• Samsung Frame TVs are still up to 40 percent off and down to Black Friday prices
• This week's covers
• Brazil's new president is visiting Joe Biden to boost relations
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America's allies brace for brinkmanship, deals—and betrayal
• China is overhauling its company law
• Japan lands on the Moon
• Lula's foreign-policy ambitions will be tempered by circumstances
• How Europe's fear of migrants came to dominate its foreign policy
• Social media are turbocharging the export of America's political culture
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Does the vice-president matter in an election?
• Politics
• Crypto bros v cat ladies: gender and the 2024 election
• Brain-boosting substances are all the rage
• Brother Andrew secretly carried Bibles behind the Iron Curtain
• Israel's prime minister does not know where to go
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why China banned international adoptions
• Argentina's presidential election delivers a surprise result
• Sinéad O'Connor hated the very idea of being a pop star
• The strong dollar is hurting exports from Latin America
• Politics
• Business
• Thousands of American pensioners are retiring on college campuses
• The narcissism of minor differences, Labour Party edition
• There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine
• Russia's latest crime in Mariupol: stealing property
• Syria's Assad trapped by rebel advance and refusal to compromise
• Why is it so hard for Indians to get a visa?
• Can Japan's toilet technology crack global markets?
• Assessing the theory that covid-19 leaked from a Chinese lab
• Why is Thai health care so good?
• Eurozone manufacturing recession deepens; Stellantis shares fall after CEO's resignation – business live
• What makes Australia so liveable?
• As seas rise, the relocation of Caribbean islanders has begun
• In New York, the Democratic establishment strikes back
• The scourge of stolen bikes in Britain
• Ukraine's defenders anxiously dig in for a looming Russian assault
• The new geography of Paris
• Climate Change: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Can lorries go green faster?
• George Floyd was killed on May 25th
• The race to prevent satellite Armageddon
• What the cases of Robert Menendez and Henry Cuellar have in common
• What is screen time doing to children?
• Data from satellites suggest violence has surged in much of Sudan
• China's robotaxis are racing ahead of Tesla's
• Javier Milei finally lugs key reforms through Argentina's Senate
• We Found the 72 Best Cyber Monday Deals at Best Buy
• After a dramatic week in Gaza, where does the war stand?
• Business
• Workouts for the face are a growing business
• Archaeologists identify the birthplace of the mysterious Yamnaya
• Only connect
• The world's most studied rainforest is still yielding new insights
• Move fast and mend things
• Europe's new-look winter: floods, high sea levels and melting glaciers
• Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell
• Meet the maharajas of the world's biggest democracy
• Is Saudi Aramco cooling on crude oil?
• How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Much Cheaper Than on Black Friday, The Ninja Air Fryer Is at a New All-Time Low This Cyber Monday
• Chinese authorities are now addicted to traffic fines
• Has the spectre of terrorism finally been excised from Spain?
• Pssst! Want to read something about rumour and innuendo?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The West struggles to respond forcefully to Russia's war in Ukraine
• Ukraine's shock raid deep inside Russia rages on
• Ditch Your Screens to End the Global Friendship Recession
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump and Harris's duel over EVs
• The British election is becoming an episode of mob justice
• Homero Gómez was apparently murdered on January 13th
• PolyDrop - A BYOSI (Bring-Your-Own-Script-Interpreter) Rapid Payload Deployment Toolkit
• What to make of a surprise shake-up in China's nuclear force
• How bad could things get in France?
• Is Julius Malema the most dangerous man in South Africa?
• Milan Kundera believed that truth lay in endless questioning
• Nigeria's currency crisis is decades in the making
• The perils of appeasing a warlike Russia
• Plunging fertility rates are creating problems for Latin America
• One way to turbocharge the Chinese economy
• Is Britain's economy finally moving?
• YouTube in Africa offers a new kind of news
• Pål Enger never quite knew why he had to steal "The Scream"
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hong Kong is struggling to restore its image as a global city
• The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever
• Both candidates pledge to fortify America. How big will they go?
• The clues in Kamala Harris's championing of reproductive rights
• Mexico has become a testing ground for psychedelic therapies
• This week's cover
• The captain and his country
• KAL's cartoon
• What campus protesters get wrong about divestment
• China's leaders are flailing as markets drop
• How Best to Use ChatGPT, Gemini, and Other AI Tools? Our AI Expert Answers Your Questions
• June Mendoza captured both the famous and the unknown
• Entrevista con Javier Milei, presidente de Argentina
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why is football in Latin America so complex?
• Lavender extract makes excellent mosquito-repellent
• Europe must beware the temptations of technocracy
• Baby formulas now share some ingredients with breast milk
• Output, prices and jobs
• Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?
• Can Chipotle's boss turn Starbucks around?
• Checks and Balance newsletter: The enduring game of political ads in America
• Thailand legalises same-sex marriage
• Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
• Turkey's long hard struggle with inflation
• A country that is on the front line
• China is trying to boost domestic tourism
• Israel is more popular than social-media posts suggest
• Cyber Monday Apple deals bring a four-pack of AirTags down to $73
• How hotels became targets for British rioters
• Nvidia's boss dismisses fears that AI has hit a wall
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vladimir Putin says the world's energy infrastructure is "at risk"
• TikTok CEO Seeks Musk's Counsel on Incoming Trump Administration
• KAL's cartoon
• What Indian business expects from Modi 3.0
• Turkey wants the EU to regulate the döner kebab
• Inside the Booming 'AI Pimping' Industry
• Why is Mark Zuckerberg giving away Meta's crown jewels?
• Obituary: George Holliday fortuitously filmed the beating of Rodney King
• What does it mean to wear a poppy today?
• Millions of Chinese have embraced skiing
• What Breaking Up Google's Search Monopoly Could Do to AI
• The Maldives is cosying up to China
• Can anything stop Nvidia's Jensen Huang?
• Remembering the Normandy landings
• 2024 Space Telescope Advent Calendar
• The death penalty is disappearing in America
• Will TikTok still exist in America?
• A scientific discovery could lead to leak-free period products
• The world's most unlikely safe haven
• The military draft is making a comeback
• America is unusually bad at clearing up homicides
• Some Taiwanese worry that their lawmakers may sell them out to China
• Rosemary Smith set out to prove that women drivers could do as well as men
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Colonies of bacteria could save the Pentagon billions
• China is backing opposing sides in Myanmar's civil war
• The Score: GM, Macy's, Novo Nordisk and More Stocks That Defined the Week
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Southern Gaza could become more densely populated than Delhi
• Meta Finally Breaks Its Silence on Pig Butchering
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Elmore Nickleberry pinned his hopes to Martin Luther King
• Why is Xi Jinping building secret commodity stockpiles?
• Volunteering has big benefits for the elderly
• North Korea is arming Russia and threatening war with South Korea
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Squeaky-clean Europe is more corrupt than you think
• The new front in China's cyber campaign against America
• Swami Agnivesh died on September 11th
• China develops a divorced dating scene
• Working from home and the US-Europe divide
• Turkey sits at the crossroads of tectonic plates as well as civilisations
• The US Army's chief of staff has ideas on the force of the future
• The best, and worst, places to live in the Americas
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The 35 Best Cyber Monday Deals From Best Buy (2024)
• Almost one billion doses of covid-19 vaccines have been produced
• Why MAGA is the future, not just present, of the GOP
• The covid-19 pandemic will be over by the end of 2021, says Bill Gates
• What is Britain's Labour government for?
• A short history of Russia and Ukraine
• AI offers an intriguing new way to diagnose mental-health conditions
• Digital twins are speeding up manufacturing
• Ingenious medicine
• VulnNodeApp - A Vulnerable Node.Js Application
• Africa's surprising new age of rail
• Wind turbines are friendlier to birds than oil-and-gas drilling
• An upset in Sri Lanka propels an outsider into power
• What happened at COP26?
• What the world wants from Joe Biden
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China is exerting greater power across Asia—and beyond
• Cambodia's genocide is still hurting its people
• Who owns your genes?
• The world divided
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's presence in Latin America has expanded dramatically
• The Christian Case for Happy Holidays
• In the Philippines a decades-long conflict nears its endgame
• An "electoral reform" in Mexico will make elections less safe
• Business
• This week's covers
• Self-Driving Cars: The Complete Guide
• Sources and acknowledgments
• What would a rout do to the Tories?
• Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated
• Italy's protected sectors need exposure to more competition
• Business
• Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
• Desmond Tutu believed that truth was the best weapon
• Business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The best Amazon Black Friday deals include up to 56 percent off Kindles, Echo speakers, Ring doorbells, Blink cameras and more
• The new order of trade
• Why financial markets are so oddly calm
• Lebanon faces its worst crisis since the end of the civil war
• Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's dictator, thumbs his nose at Joe Biden
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A startup called Anduril has unveiled a reusable missile
• Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping meet and resolve a border row
• Max Cyber Monday streaming deal will get you six months of access for only $18
• Madrid is booming. Growing while keeping its cool will be the tricky part
• The Ukrainian army commits new forces in a big southward push
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Azerbaijan is racing to rebuild in recaptured Nagorno-Karabakh
• The irrelevance of Mercosur
• BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The saviour complex
• The age of the grandparent has arrived
• Ukraine can, at last, use its Western missiles inside Russia
• Why on earth would anyone go to a British party conference?
• Obituary: Robert Morgenthau died on July 21st
• The world's slowest bullet train trundles ahead in California
• Despite its sympathies, Egypt is unlikely to help Palestinian refugees
• Britain's oil and gas industry faces an uncertain future
• Covid-19 has posed new challenges to the world's waste-pickers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Politics
• What separates Tony Blair's Labour from the party today?
• Guatemala's elite may try to scupper the presidential election
• Lawrence Wong will be only the fourth PM in Singapore's history
• Why We Probably Won't Find Aliens Anytime Soon
• South Africa's future is in the hands of a divided ANC
• Business
• Central-bank digital currencies are talked about more than coming to fruition
• Illegal gold is booming in South America
• The world court says Israel's occupation is illegal
• Sucking a carbon-neutral fuel out of thin air
• South Korea's writers and directors play Squid Game
• Benny Gantz and Gadi Eisenkot leave Israel's war cabinet
• Nairobi's reputation for crime is outdated
• Why Drug Overdose Deaths Are Dropping for Some, Rising for Others
• The Beginning of the End of Big Tech
• Willie Mays's philosophy was simple: They throw the ball, I hit the ball
• Retail investors are losing billions buying stock options
• Tiny hitchhikers on viruses could promote resistance to antibiotics
• South Australia tries to ban political donations
• The Supreme Court begins another contentious term
• China's Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle
• The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment
• She's the New Face of Climate Activism—and She's Carrying a Pickax
• Brexit is the only big legacy of the 2019-24 parliament
• The world is losing the fight against international gangs
• Bangladesh's dictator flees—leaving behind a dangerous vacuum
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Conservatives dominate Chile's constitutional assembly this time around
• Germany's party system is coming under unprecedented strain
• How many Ukrainian soldiers have died?
• Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
• Cyber Monday Deals Tracked Live From Cyberspace 2024
• Politics
• In Xi Jinping's China, central planners rule
• Exit polls point to a crushing victory for Narendra Modi
• Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power
• The rape and murder of a doctor in India is fuelling outrage
• Who's winning at the Trump trial?
• What Defines Artificial Intelligence? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India bridles at China's growing presence in South Asia
• The idea of "holobionts" represents a paradigm shift in biology
• Politics
• The scary new map of the South China Sea
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• KAL's cartoon
• Jeremy Clarkson, patron saint of the Great British bore
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Our footloose index: the most attractive countries for graduates
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Xiongan is Xi Jinping's pet project
• 'Why would Prince Andrew defend Epstein?' ex-Newsnight editor Esme Wren on scoops, the queen and Brexit
• Asia is weighing data-centre ambitions against sustainability
• These Startups Are Finally Bringing EV Chargers to America's Cities
• Fernando Botero became famous for his over-size people and animals
• Should women's football have different rules from men's?
• Hurricane Helene was America's deadliest storm in nearly two decades
• It's Time to Make the Internet Safer for Kids
• Missionary creep
• Economic data, markets and data
• Sir Keir Starmer's elevator pitch for investment
• Police are killing more Americans than ever. Where's the outrage?
• After 100 brutal days, Javier Milei has markets believing
• Obituary: Franco Zeffirelli died on June 15th
• The pandemic may be leading to fewer babies in rich countries
• Nice ideas, Mr Draghi—now who will pay for them?
• Allen Sunshine review – deft character study bathed in a sense of goodness
• Li Qiang and China look to make up with Australia
• Loons and the Tory leadership battle in Britain
• John le Carré died on December 12th
• A common food dye can make skin transparent
• Obituary: Robert McClelland died on September 10th
• How British-Nigerians quietly made their way to the top
• Boom times are back for container shipping
• European countries are banding together on missile defence
• Jeremy Corbyn wants more nice things, fewer nasty ones
• Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
• SunRay Kelley wanted to build in rhythm with nature, his teacher
• Business
• Japan and South Korea are struggling with old-age poverty
• UK politics live: calls for tighter donation laws amid reports Musk could give Reform UK $100m
• A trial in New York exposes US-Mexican counter-narcotics tensions
• Erotic statues in Peru are challenging taboos
• Trees alone will not save the world
• This week's cover
• Every location has got worse for getting actual work done
• Joe Biden and Xi Jinping rediscover the joy of talking. Good
• Sergei Shoigu's sacking points to yet more attrition in Ukraine
• The best podcasts of 2021
• To get more capital, Africa needs more data
• How a tide of tech money is transforming charity
• Xi Jinping wants China to have better toilets
• Why fear is sweeping markets everywhere
• The siesta is still a serious business in Europe's south
• On shame, Liz Truss and the turnip Taliban
• Black Friday phone deals include the Google Pixel 8a for $100 off
• What is The Economist's word of the year for 2021?
• For Congo's next president, winning may be the easy part
• Britain's black-mass problem
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Measures to prevent the spread of covid-19 have also fended off flu
• A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain's party manifestos lack detail but leave clues
• How shallow was Labour's victory in the British election?
• New yeast strains can produce untapped flavours of lager
• The disease that most afflicts England's National Health Service
• Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than covid-19 last winter
• India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution
• Why east Germany is such fertile ground for extremists
• Israel's ground assault hits Gaza's communication network
• The Chinese are working more hours than ever
• The agenda for the COP 26 summit
• China's "demographic dividend" appears to be a myth
• Mexico's gangs could be the country's fifth-biggest employer
• Why India's elite loves Narendra Modi
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Michelle Obama spotlights reproductive rights and women's role in America
• San Francisco Democrats are embracing "law and order" politics
• Katherine Johnson died on February 24th
• Why suspects in Japan are almost never acquitted
• Sunshine in a Capsule: Vitamin D Supplements Explained and Who Should Take Them
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Must try harder
• Israel has yet to destroy even half of Gaza's tunnels
• Vienna's social housing, lauded by progressives, pushes out the poor
• A theatre in Jenin offers a different kind of Palestinian resistance
• Climate change is slowing Earth's rotation
• Bees, like humans, can preserve cultural traditions
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Film advent calendar: 24 festive movies chosen by leading film figures
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Warren Buffett has built a mighty cash mountain
• How Vladimir Putin created a housing bubble
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China is educating engineers around the world
• U.S. Natural Gas Futures Post Weekly, Monthly Gains
• Why global GDP might be $7trn bigger than everyone thought
• As Iran scares the Middle East, at home its regime rots
• The old bank/card model is still entrenched in the rich world
• An inspiring, if frustrating, portrayal of the Williams sisters' coach and dad
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Comex Gold, Silver Settle Higher
• We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence
• Muhammad Amir Muhammad Khan fought India's government for five decades
• Philanthropy in Asia is becoming more professional
• KAL's cartoon
• Myanmar's junta chief finally goes to China
• Vast satellite constellations are alarming astronomers
• The envy of the world
• Blighty newsletter: Why phone signal in Britain is awful
• Europe prepares for a mighty trade war
• Bolivia's left wing is at war with itself
• The all-powerful judge taking on Elon Musk
• Politics
• A marketing victory for Nike is a business win for Adidas
• China approves the world's first flying taxi
• The systemic bias Kamala Harris must overcome in order to win
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Kamala Harris's journey to define herself
• Can hope beat hatred in Bangladesh?
• MTU Aero Engines Raises Dividend, Forecasts Higher 2025 Earnings
• Common sense is not actually very common
• What the war in Ukraine means for Asia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Video games, power and diplomacy
• Iran needs a new national-security strategy
• How the Return of Salmon to the Klamath River Shows Us What's Possible in Wildlife Conservation
• Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• President Joe Biden starts to lift sanctions on Venezuela
• A crushing blow for Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance
• What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump's victory
• Best of How To: Rest
• Fathers are doing more child care in East Asia
• Life story
• China rounds up Batman, Donald Trump and the Buddha
• Where is Kamala Harris's convention bounce?
• Business
• Worlds apart
• "You will always be 0% prepared": Ukraine's refugees on life far from home
• Antarctic sea ice has shrunk by an area nine times the size of Britain
• The southern border is Kamala Harris's biggest political liability
• Israel's use of AI in Gaza is coming under closer scrutiny
• The tricky politics of choosing Oxford's next chancellor
• Imran Khan is convicted. Pakistan's generals are content
• Steven Weinberg died on July 23rd
• The inflation problem will get better before it gets worse
• Elton John reveals he is unable to watch his own musical after losing eyesight
• Which country has the most Olympic medals?
• Plants don't have ears. But they can still detect sound
• The Great Grocery Squeeze
• Half a loaf, at best, from the climate talks
• Lessons from the pandemic
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How to beat jet lag
• America is not ready for a major war, says a bipartisan commission
• Has Sequoia Capital outgrown its business model?
• Australia's best photos of the month – November 2024
• Anwar Ibrahim, Malaysia's prime minister, is wasting his opportunity
• Politics
• Can shooting some elephants save many others?
• Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?
• Obituary: Huang Yong Ping died on October 20th
• Jan Morris died on November 20th
• Britain's Conservatives are losing as they governed. Meekly
• Software is now as important as hardware in cars
• America's trustbusters wage war on Apple
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• How to nobble a political rival in Africa and get away with it
• Rumours of the trade deal's death are greatly exaggerated
• Hilary Mantel saw things that others couldn't
• India is seeing a massive aviation boom
• A peace conference over Ukraine is unlikely to silence the guns
• Lula wants to purge Brazil of Jair Bolsonaro's influence
• Politics
• China's aggression brings Japan and the Philippines closer
• Finding a driving test in Britain is painful, slow and expensive
• 'Brain rot': Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects 'trivial' use of social media
• Glenda Jackson left acting for politics—and then returned
• A pager-bomb attack causes disarray for Hizbullah
• The push to decriminalise abortion in Britain heats up
• Masayoshi Son is back in Silicon Valley—and late to the AI race
• How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy
• Kamala Harris leads Donald Trump in our nationwide poll tracker
• How ransomware could cripple countries, not just companies
• Private tutoring is booming across poorer parts of Asia
• Baby-boomers are loaded. Why are they so stingy?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador's mañaneras boost his presidency
• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
• The property firm that could break China's back
• Anti-lockdown protests have been hijacked by conspiracy theorists
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Generation K: Keir Starmer's cohort of Labour candidates
• China's property crisis claims more victims: companies
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing
• Which city is the cheapest in the world?
• America's border crisis in ten charts
• The future of philanthropy will involve a mix of different approaches
• Volkswagen's woes illustrate Germany's creeping deindustrialisation
• What Trump Doesn't Understand About the Military
• Is it important for kids to learn about winning and losing?
• A controversial general is likely to be Indonesia's next leader
• A missile test by China marks its growing nuclear ambitions
• In Crimea, Ukraine is beating Russia
• KAL's cartoon
• Can anyone save the world's most important diamond company?
• America may soon be spending more on debt service than defence
• China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid
• Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald's and KFC
• How Hindu is India's foreign policy?
• Business
• Mexico is edging closer and closer to one-party rule
• Why are Arab armed forces so ineffective?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Streaming services are helping Arab producers liven up television
• As the death penalty becomes less common, life imprisonment becomes more so
• Russia's explosion of a huge Ukrainian dam had surprising effects
• Most children in poor countries are being failed by their schools
• A difficult new world
• Britain's new government may cut the number of Channel crossings
• The Browser Company teases Dia, its new AI browser
• Why are Remainers so weak in post-Brexit Britain?
• The 70 best Black Friday tech deals you can still get under $50
• Can Haiti's police hold on?
• Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on
• The EV trade war between China and the West heats up
• Blighty newsletter: The return of the Good Chaps?
• Los Angeles decides it is sick of scandal
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vera Lynn died on June 18th
• Barbarians on the porch
• After 50 years, Wole Soyinka has returned to fiction
• This Website Shows How Much Google's AI Can Glean From Your Photos
• The 51 best Black Friday tech deals you can still get from Amazon, Walmart, Target, Apple and more are up to 50 percent off
• A lot can be done to adapt farming to near-term climate change
• The energy transition could make India even more unequal
• The world needs a proper investigation into how covid-19 started
• Will a new "pact" of ten laws help Europe ease its migrant woes?
• Talk of war between Israel and Lebanon is growing
• US Senate elections: live results
• An economic calm before the storm?
• Politics
• The man picked as defence secretary wants to purge the Pentagon
• Cyber Monday subscription deals for 2024: The best sales on Disney+, Peacock, Hulu, MasterClass and others
• King coal is dirty, dangerous—and far from dead
• The great global baby bust is under way
• Is it time for "ecocide" to become an international crime?
• The genocide case Israel faces is more about politics than the law
• Can tech tackle the global crisis of depression and anxiety?
• A new nuclear arms race looms
• The world's deadliest war last year wasn't in Ukraine
• Nayib Bukele shows how to dismantle a democracy and stay popular
• J.D. Vance, an honorary Frenchman, sends Europe into panic mode
• Five charts that show why the BJP expects to win India's election
• For China, Taiwan's elections are a looming crisis
• Vladivostok is a window into wartime Russia
• India's civil society is under attack
• Gustavo Petro, Colombia's president, wants to smother the gig economy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Cold comfort: watercolours of Paris in winter – in pictures
• Pokémon Cards Are Back—No Binders Needed
• The End of Democratic Delusions
• After a dreadful year for tech firms, who will thrive in 2023?
• Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back again
• China's latest attempt to rally the world against Western values
• 30 Best Cyber Monday Headphone Deals (2024)
• NativeDump - Dump Lsass Using Only Native APIs By Hand-Crafting Minidump Files (Without MinidumpWriteDump!)
• Bobbi Althoff on Exactly How She Got Rich—and How Rich, Exactly
• KAL's cartoon
• The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives
• Marijuana is already legal for a majority of Americans
• Step inside The Economist's summer issue
• Business
• The World's Biggest EV Maker Has the Industry's Worst Human Rights Appraisal
• A new intellectual hub for Chinese émigrés in Washington
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Eleanor Coppola recorded how a cinematic triumph almost came unstuck
• New technologies can spot pesky leaks in water pipelines
• Egypt is again under military rule, but Sisi lacks Nasser's appeal
• Why the AI revolution is leaving Africa behind
• China and Bhutan aim to resolve a long-running border dispute
• Ukrainian refugees remain in limbo
• Ex-NBA athlete Omri Casspi launches $60M fund targeting cybersecurity, cloud infra and AI
• A Disgraceful Pardon
• Private firms are driving a revolution in solar power in Africa
• The drug lords' side-hustle: smuggling macaws, jaguars and frogs
• How to pay for the poor world to go green
• Could AI transform science itself?
• Opinion polls underestimated Donald Trump again
• Is there a genetic link between endometriosis and the brain?
• How much trouble is Boeing in?
• Britain has agreed to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
• Could AI help find valuable mineral deposits?
• Obituary: Charles Van Doren died on April 9th
• European regulators are about to become more political
• One Canadian province has decriminalised drugs
• KAL's cartoon
• How China stifles dissent without a KGB or Stasi of its own
• A new exhibition shows the visual debt Disney owes to European art
• Guatemala's new president promises a better sort of government
• Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom
• How America learned to love tariffs
• The 44 Best Shows on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (December 2024)
• Congo's M23 rebellion risks sparking a regional war
• After protests over a stolen election, the goons crack heads
• The next threat to commodity supplies will be El Niño
• Phyllida Barlow had a lifetime of adventure making art
• China is struggling to recruit enough highly skilled troops
• Open-source intelligence is piercing the fog of war in Ukraine
• How much cash should be removed from the financial system?
• AI helps scour video archives for evidence of human-rights abuses
• How Ukrainian farmers are using the cover of war to escape taxes
• Surrogacy reform is spreading in the rich world
• Immune therapy shows promise for asthma, heart disease—and even ageing
• A shock election result in France puts the left in the lead
• Can Samsung get its mojo back?
• Richard Simpson strove to balance buyers against manufacturers
• Violence spirals as Iran's proxies kill American soldiers
• Policymakers are likely to jettison their 2% inflation targets
• Changes to China's gaokao exam are about politics, not fairness
• The Capitol riot is a godsend for America's critics
• Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly?
• An interview with Lawrence Wong, Singapore's next PM
• Britain's Labour government has declared war on NIMBYs
• Kamala Harris's closing argument
• Genetic Genealogy Can Stop Violent Criminals and Free the Wrongly Convicted
• Will artificial intelligence transform school?
• A new book explains the tragic failure of Boeing's 737 MAX
• Ceci n'est pas un divorce: why surging separatism won't break Belgium
• What the world thinks of Trump, Ukraine and Chinese supremacy
• Who is supplying Russia's arms industry?
• Democratic control of the Senate depends on a seven-fingered farmer
• Branch Cyber Monday Sale (2024): Deals on Office Chairs
• Phone Maker Xiaomi Made the Car That Apple Couldn't
• Politics
• The Whole Story of How Humans Evolved From Great Apes
• Narendra Modi faces a new threat: his Hindu-nationalist patrons
• Why Xi Jinping sounds friendlier to America
• Politics
• For Cyber Monday, Amazon Is Selling The Surface Pro Much Cheaper Than on Black Friday
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How American politics has infected investing
• The cost of Britain's cast of ex-prime ministers is mounting
• How India can compete in labour-intensive manufacturing
• At least 10% of research may already be co-authored by AI
• The ECtHR's Swiss climate ruling: overreach or appropriate?
• The prospect of a Trump presidency looms over Mexico's elections
• This week's covers
• The Kamala Harris effect on the polls has been dramatic
• Can the stain of forced and child labour be removed from cotton?
• A Chinese opera star's ode to Russia—from a Ukrainian bomb site
• Europe could become Trump's geopolitical roadkill
• America's Asian allies are trying to Trump-proof their policies
• Is Conor McGregor verdict a watershed moment for the manosphere?
• Highlights of a year when art mattered as much as ever
• Cubans rage against the dying of the light
• Jaguar's Controversial EV Relaunch Has Leaked Online
• China's banks have a bad-debt problem
• A year on from the white-paper protests, China looks much different
• Javier Milei has turned Argentina into a libertarian laboratory
• A shock election result in India humbles Narendra Modi
• Sources and acknowledgments
• How China's public views Taiwan's elections
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Sources and acknowledgments
• A death, an illness, and an uncertain Middle East
• Vladimir Shklyarov: a look back at the career of the acclaimed Russian ballet dancer – video
• China's high-stakes struggle to defy demographic disaster
• Xi Jinping plays social engineer
• Common sense prevails as Chileans reject a new constitution
• Donald Trump tries to be both unifier and pugilist in his convention speech
• Why America can't escape inflation worries
• Politics
• Politics
• Samuel Paty was killed on October 16th
• Israel has these four options for attacking Iran
• Why is Italy's public-debt burden so big?
• Only 5% of therapies tested on animals are approved for human use
• A reformer wanting a nuclear deal with America wins Iran's election
• In 2021 our writers considered technology, meritocracy and the trans debate
• Joe Biden, master oil trader
• Wally Amos built, and lost, a delicious empire
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Xi Jinping take Hong Kong "from stability to prosperity"?
• How worried should Amazon be about Shein and Temu?
• The Ukraine war offers energy arbitrage opportunities
• This week's cover
• Business
• The Israeli army is caught in a doom loop in Gaza
• Alexei Navalny didn't just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity
• Even as it humiliates Russia, Ukraine's line is crumbling in the Donbas
• Turmoil awaits Michel Barnier, France's new prime minister
• Economic and financial indicators
• Austria's xenophobic right edges towards victory
• Sean Connery died on October 31st
• D.C. Police Officer to Go on Trial Over Messages to Proud Boys Leader
• Canada's Conservatives pick a brainy brawler as leader
• Politics
• Patriotism is replacing purpose in American business
• The former president of Honduras is tried for drug trafficking
• Stephen Sondheim wanted to explore a new world every time
• What Narendra Modi's third term may look like
• Without fanfare, the Philippines is getting richer
• Are NYCB's troubles the start of another banking panic?
• Is Europe's stubby skyline a sign of low ambition?
• The rise and rise of e-sports
• Hispanic men helped propel Donald Trump back to the White House
• Towns in eastern Ukraine fear they will be Russia's next target
• A posthumous novel from John le Carré
• Ukraine is digging in as the Kremlin steps up its offensive
• A riot in Southport shows how the British far right is changing
• How Broadcom quietly became a $700bn powerhouse
• Why do conservatives in America love Zyn?
• An old health insurance scheme in China may have saved millions
• Y Combinator's Demo Day is back in person
• Can the IMF solve the poor world's debt crisis?
• How the Guardian ranked the 100 best female footballers in the world 2024
• Land degradation expanding by 1m sq km a year, study shows
• 25 Best Cyber Monday Coffee and Espresso Deals (2024)
• Ukraine's desperate struggle to defend Kharkiv
• Inside the world of crazy rich Indians
• The National Basketball Association is making a big bet on Africa
• Why so many Britons have taken to stand-up paddleboarding
• Is the era of the mega-deal over?
• Britain has many levers for controlling migration. Which ones should it pull?
• Songs, pandas and praise for Xi: how China courts young Taiwanese
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India is souping up its nuclear missiles
• China wants to change, or break, a world order set by others
• A growing number of Britons live on canal boats
• Volana - Shell Command Obfuscation To Avoid Detection Systems
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Colombia's new president cosies up to Venezuela's despot
• The ICJ orders restraint from Israel in Rafah
• The $60 Billion Potential Hiding in Your Discarded Gadgets
• Helping America's hawks get inside the head of Xi Jinping
• Afghans are suffering. Don't expect any tears from the Taliban
• Ukrainians are settling down in Britain. That creates a problem
• Which will grow faster: India or Indonesia?
• Covid-19 is spurring the digitisation of government
• Is your master's degree useless?
• Kazakhstan's referendum on nuclear energy could benefit Russia
• Obituary: Qassem Suleimani was assassinated on January 3rd
• New Zealand's biggest pivot since the 1980s
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Parts of Germany are desperate for more people
• The rise of the truly cruel summer
• Politics
• Can Kamala Harris beat Donald Trump? Here's what the polls say
• Cuba's Communist government taps the diaspora for cash
• Investors rely more and more on higher returns from private markets
• France stares into a "colossal" budgetary abyss
• Satellite data show Ukraine's forces are testing Russia's defences
• KAL's cartoon
• Female soldiers are changing how armed forces work
• The mysterious middlemen helping Russia's war machine
• Anonymous tipsters, angry at Russia, help detect sanctions-busters
• Katharine Whitehorn and Mahinder Watsa died on January 8th and December 28th
• Why China may be saving its bazooka for Donald Trump
• A new study finds that 47,000 Russian combatants have died in Ukraine
• During the pandemic a digital crimewave has flooded the internet
• Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the Nobel prize in literature for 2021
• French PM Barnier at risk of being toppled by hostile parliament
• France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe
• Could there be a US-Mexico trade war?
• We used to joke about Hong Kong's terror laws, but now my friends and family have gone silent | Alan Lau
• Scientists are building a catalogue of every type of cell in our bodies
• Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing
• Le Shutdown: a budget rejection would hit France's credibility with investors
• Can the Philippines keep Donald Trump on its side?
• Somaliland's camel herders are milking it
• Obituary: Colin Powell thought America should tread carefully in the world
• A Finnish firm thinks it can cut industrial carbon emissions by a third
• In today's China, to get rich is perilous
• Blackouts in Cuba highlight the island's extreme energy fragility
• In the West, assisted dying is rapidly becoming legal and accepted
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• Black Friday Apple deals drop the Series 10 smartwatch down to a record-low price
• The first week of COP26 was less substantive than it seemed
• Some Labradors have a predisposition to obesity
• Matthew Perry changed the way America spoke
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Falafel died on February 14th
• In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America
• Do women make better doctors than men?
• An Australian spy chief triggers a debate about China
• KAL's cartoon
• What is the effect of the Supreme Court's affirmative-action ban?
• Combining AI and Crispr Will Be Transformational
• From Taylor Swift to Star Trek, niche cruises are on the rise
• Are American children's books getting more "woke"?
• How African churches are keeping the faith alive abroad
• Germany's debt brake and the art of fantasy budgeting
• Hollywood is losing the battle for China
• The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
• Birubala Rabha fought to end the stigmatisation of women
• The curse of being too competent
• Why are so many of the victims in Gaza children?
• 'If I'm sent to Japan, I'm not coming home': jailed anti-whaler defiant in face of extradition threat
• Is the world sleepwalking into another gas crisis?
• Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles
• Around the world, bans do not make abortion much rarer
• How to make Elon Musk's budget-slashing dreams come true
• Computers unleashed economic growth. Will artificial intelligence?
• China is stoking a controversy in order to influence Taiwan's election
• The 19 best Black Friday deals on camera gear from Nikon, DJI, Canon and others
• Why Britain's membership of the ECHR has become a political issue
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• What's an Influencer? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Once dominant, Germany is now desperate
• Anger abounds as China raises its strikingly low retirement age
• KAL's cartoon
• English local government is in a dire state
• US to Introduce New Restrictions on China's Access to Cutting-Edge Chips
• Nicaragua shows how poor countries can reduce domestic violence
• What identity politics will Kamala Harris practise?
• Obituary: Li Rui died on February 16th
• Taiwan wants to prove that it is serious about defence
• Behind the surge in migrants crossing America's northern border
• Moon landing apart, Indian science punches far below its weight
• Why does landlocked Eswatini have a ship registry?
• Love them or hate them, virtual meetings are here to stay
• One big thing Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in common
• Renovation required
• China views America's presidential nightmare with mirth—and disquiet
• Analysis: In Pardoning Hunter, Biden Sounds a Lot Like Trump
• Young Latin Americans are unusually open to autocrats
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Could America fight its enemies without breaking the law?
• Some would-be American immigrants are paying to get robbed
• Damn-Vulnerable-Drone - An Intentionally Vulnerable Drone Hacking Simulator Based On The Popular ArduPilot/MAVLink Architecture, Providing A Realistic Environment For Hands-On Drone Hacking
• This week's covers
• Citigroup, Wall Street's biggest loser, is at last on the up
• Russia's Economy Is Slowing, Opening Fissures Over Policy
• Why have Britain's new towns become fashionable again?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The EU's best-laid plans for expansion are clashing with reality
• South American governments are trying to curb illegal fishing
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's ruling party sets out its vision of economic reform
• Brain injuries are startlingly common among those who have committed crimes
• An assassination attempt against Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Time to go
• Wind turbines keep getting bigger
• An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail
• America is losing South-East Asia to China
• Israel and Hizbullah creep closer to all-out war
• Parenting can be bad for the kids
• This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia's dirty tricks
• Britain's government pulls the plug on a superfast computer
• If the world loves forests, it should put a price on their carbon
• China's slowing economy, seen from ground level
• Latin America remains a playground for Russian intelligence
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Political turmoil is tearing Peru apart
• Buyers of Russian crude are exporting refined oil to the West
• Two cities show the problems faced by Britain's renters
• Many of the world's new mpox cases are in China
• Who is Ryan Routh, Donald Trump's would-be assassin?
• Antidepressant use is surging in Britain
• After decades of decline, Poland's population seems to be increasing
• Javier Milei, an Argentine libertarian, is rising in the polls
• Why southern Europeans will soon be the longest-lived people in the world
• How Rachel Reeves, Britain's probable next chancellor, wants to change the country
• The cracks in America's ultra-strong labour market
• British voters care less about tax rises than politicians think
• The wrecking of Gaza's health system goes beyond its hospitals
• Indian food is great. Perhaps too great
• Zvi Zamir oversaw a programme of Israeli assassinations
• Many Americans can decide their own policies. What will they choose?
• Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi
• What was the motive of Trump's would-be assassin?
• A copycat insurrection in Brazil, and its troubling aftermath
• Politics
• Returning the Amazon Rainforest to Its True Caretakers
• The scandal-hit market for passports and long-term visas is booming
• Fidelity reportedly marked up its X stake by 32 percent
• How wrong could America's pollsters be?
• Israel scorns America's unprecedented peace plan
• Belarus prepares for another fraudulent election
• China is churning out solar panels—and upsetting sand markets
• The weekly cartoon
• AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers' world
• To see the future of urban warfare, look at Gaza
• The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops
• Xi Jinping's chaos-loving friends
• Yang Huaiding died on June 13th
• KAL's cartoon
• ExxonMobil rediscovers its swagger
• A "Divine Comedy" ballet, 700 years after Dante's death
• Without realising it, Britain has become a nation of immigrants
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
• Massive farmers' protests are a headache for Narendra Modi
• Why Chinese women are denied legal land rights
• Under Lula, Brazil is walking on the financial wild side
• The United States says corruption in Paraguay starts at the top
• Dumb phones are making a comeback
• India's diaspora is bigger and more influential than any in history
• America is educating a nation of investors
• The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
• The energy transition will be expensive
• South Carolina wants to execute an inmate by firing squad
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• How Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva would govern Brazil
• What would get China's consumers spending?
• Russia's bloody summer offensive is hurting Ukraine
• A flower's female sex organs can speed up fertilisation
• Can Lula fix Brazil's fiscal mess?
• The rise of user-created video games
• America keeps Ukraine fighting with its hands tied
• Vladimir Putin fires a new missile to amplify his nuclear threats
• Farmer fight: Jeremy Clarkson versus Roald Dahl
• Foreign judges are fed up with Hong Kong's political environment
• Corruption is surging across Latin America
• Adding up the fiscal drag from ageing, energy and defence
• Can America's stockmarket rally last?
• Terry Anderson was held by Islamic militants for 2,454 days
• Will Labour be better at tackling dirty money than the Tories?
• Three countries hit by coups are leaving west Africa's main bloc
• Measure less, but better
• Donald Trump's legal fees are draining his campaign funds
• India's government implements a controversial citizenship law
• How can firms pass on tacit knowledge?
• Economic and financial indicators
• G42, an Emirati AI hopeful, has big plans
• Colin Huang, China's richest man
• Peng Ming-min fought for the idea of "one China and one Formosa"
• Diego Maradona offers central bankers enduring lessons
• Sticking together makes bacteria nearly invincible
• China takes a step to curb anti-Japanese rhetoric online
• KAL's cartoon
• This week's cover
• Quebec elects François Legault's fiercely nationalist party
• Jean-Jacques Savin wanted to defy old age
• A stealth attack came close to compromising the world's computers
• Share your experience of lightning strikes in Latin America and the Caribbean
• "A day of shame" for the British state
• Business
• The weekly cartoon
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Partisan positions have changed drastically over the past 50 years
• The colour purple
• Chile is still haunted by the coup in September 1973
• What Trump's picks suggest about how his presidency will go
• Where will the next coup be in Africa?
• Australia needs to rethink its approach to its Pacific island neighbours
• Women's (in)justice in India
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's covers
• Heart-cockle shells may work like fibre-optic cables
• Nicaragua's dictator goes after Miss Universe
• China has chilling plans for governing Taiwan
• Want to win an argument? Use a chatbot
• Cyber Monday Exclusive: Snag Top Web Hosting for $1.95/Month + Free Domain
• Vietnam's ruling communists rush to fill the country's top jobs
• Silvio Berlusconi duped Italians for years
• India has a unique opportunity to lead in AI
• Rohingya refugees return to the sea
• China goes from zero-covid to zero restrictions
• How should Britain handle £200bn in quantitative-easing losses?
• India's leaders must deal with three economic weaknesses
• America's rich never sell their assets. How should they be taxed?
• How segregated is London?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The pandemic may be encouraging people to live in larger groups
• Under Daniel Ortega, Nicaragua has become a one-party state
• Why chinstrap penguins sleep thousands of times a day
• Lee Jae-myung, South Korea's opposition leader, survives a stabbing
• Aland is lovely, weapon-free and too close to Russia
• Iran's damage-limitation efforts may not go to plan
• A new diplomatic struggle is unfolding over Taiwan
• Five reasons why Indonesia's election matters
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's covers
• The Big Interview Gets Even Bigger
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• As German industry declines, the Ruhr gives hope
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• After a year of war, Sudan is a failing state
• What Jeffrey Donaldson's arrest means for Northern Ireland
• America's growing row over policies for transgender prisoners
• If Venezuela's elections were fair, this would be the front-runner
• Democrats are still processing their defeat
• Climate change could reawaken harmful invasive plants
• China's influence in South-East Asia has grown. America's has waned
• How men with guns aggravate global hunger
• Donald Trump returns to New York for a bombastic closing pitch
• This week's cover
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Kamala Harris moves ahead—just—in our final election forecast
• Covid-19 has persuaded some parents that home-schooling is better
• Business
• Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
• OpenAI's new fundraising is shaking up Silicon Valley
• Can a new crew of European commissioners revive the continent?
• A Russia-linked network uses AI to rewrite real news stories
• The future could be brighter
• Japan's new prime minister is his own party's sternest critic
• Premier League: 10 talking points from the weekend's action
• Large language models are getting bigger and better
• Why are Latin American workers so strikingly unproductive?
• New battery designs could lead to gains in power and capacity
• Is China a winner from the Red Sea attacks?
• Unknown soldiers
• This week's cover
• China is using archaeology as a weapon
• The job of Iran's president is a study in humiliation
• Can Benetton be patched up?
• Israel's northern border is ablaze
• Europe, not America, is now Ukraine's largest backer
• A Science Breakthrough Too Good to Be True? It Probably Isn't
• Britain's birth rate has crashed. It is likely to recover
• Mauritania is a beacon of stability in the coup-prone Sahel
• We are hiring a new South Asia bureau chief
• Now it's Prince William's turn to shape British town planning
• General-election forecast: Labour beat the Conservatives
• True-crime fans are banding together online to try to solve cases
• Under Joe Biden, America struggles to reassert itself in Africa
• The fightback against Javier Milei's radical reforms has begun
• 12 Cyber Monday TV Deals to Grab Right Now (2024)
• AI can catalogue a forest's inhabitants simply by listening
• Dan Osborn shows some Democratic ideas can outperform the party
• How physics can improve image-generating AI
• Hudson Valley Weekend Trips: Where to Find the Region's Best New Restaurants, Hotels and Kombucha Sorbet
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Antony Sher pushed the boundaries of Shakespeare's plays
• Trump wastes no time in reigniting trade wars
• Geopolitics helps reignite New Caledonia's anti-colonial unrest
• What China's central bank and Costco shoppers have in common
• A historian brings to life a 17th-century witchcraft panic
• Kobe Bryant died on January 26th
• Our model suggests that global deaths remain 5% above pre-covid forecasts
• Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Qatar World Cup shows how football is changing
• Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania
• Deposing Israel's king
• Money trees
• Killer whales deploy brutal, co-ordinated attacks when hunting
• Hordes of cicadas are emerging simultaneously in America
• Microbiome treatments are taking off
• Russia's economy once again defies the doomsayers
• Volodymyr Zelensky faces a power struggle in 2025
• Private markets have grown exponentially
• Kamala Harris's post-debate bounce is now visible in the polls
• Pema Tseden was the founder and builder of Tibetan cinema
• Under Trump, the U.S. War Against Crypto Is Over
• Why investors have fallen in love with small American firms
• War, hunger and disease stalk Gaza's 2.2m people
• Is the revival of Paris in peril?
• CD APYs Stay High, but Could Drop Later This Month. Today's CD Rates, Dec. 2, 2024
• Dyson Black Friday deals are still live: Get the 360 Vis Nav robot vacuum for $200 off
• Gazans are rapidly losing access to the internet
• Who was behind the arson attacks on railways before the Olympics?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• India's biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking
• Politics
• This week's covers
• The pandemic has exacerbated existing political discontent
• A rare Brexit dividend for British farmers
• Paraguay and Taiwan strengthen their embrace, for now
• 15 Great Cyber Monday Soundbar Deals to Pump Up the Volume (2024)
• Antony Blinken Dragged US Diplomacy Into the 21st Century. Even He's Surprised by the Results
• The Middle East has a militia problem
• Argentina's slum policy is a rare bright spot in the country
• Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recycling old ones
• Obituary: Les Murray died on April 29th
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Blighty newsletter: Three takeaways from an interview with Sir Keir Starmer
• Building Apple Products Has Become a Side Hustle for China's Biggest EV Maker
• America's fentanyl epidemic, explained in six charts
• Business
• The Mexican Supreme Court does battle with AMLO
• KAL's cartoon
• Bob Dole believed in hard work, not words
• Charles McGee faced adversity at home as much as abroad
• Israel is pushing into southern Gaza as the clock ticks down
• Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination
• There's more than one way to spay a cat
• Ian Hamilton masterminded one of the most daring heists of the last century
• Social-media populists have arrived in Japan
• This week's covers
• Brazil's new president faces a fiscal crunch and a fickle Congress
• Drake May Soon Find Out If the Law Can Settle a Rap Beef
• A new study asks whether racehorses have hit their genetic peak
• Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination
• Japan needs more sperm donors
• Our Carrie Bradshaw index: Where Americans can afford to live solo
• Even China's own state media sometimes resent state control
• Cyber Monday Apple deals discount the AirPods Pro 2 to an all-time-low price
• The end of Western naivety about China
• The best Cyber Monday SSD deals for 2024: Save on storage gear from Samsung, WD, Crucial and others
• Ancient, damaged Roman scrolls have been deciphered using AI
• The West still needs Russian gas that comes through Ukraine
• Countries call for binding targets to cut plastic production after talks fail
• French election tracker: Marine Le Pen's hard-right falters
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How EU do-goodery risks harming Africa's small farmers
• Crash prevention technology shows 'huge potential,' but the roadmap is up for debate
• Stockmarkets are booming. But the good times are unlikely to last
• Tech bros love J.D. Vance. Many CEOs are scared stiff
• Many countries are seeing a revival of industrial policy
• Should investors just give up on stocks outside America?
• War replaces disease as the world's most newsworthy subject
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Elon Musk's SpaceX has achieved something extraordinary
• Why China takes young Tibetans from their families
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The deficiencies of the Latin American state loom large
• KAL's cartoon
• Are Brazil's pollsters right about the presidential election?
• Newegg Promo Code 10% off | December 2024
• How Taiwan is shaped by its history and identity
• Trump threat of 100% tariffs against Brics nations raises trade war fears
• YouTubers like MrBeast are coming for Hollywood
• Hopes for religious harmony come to life in the Muslim Vatican
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Violence mars Mexicans' biggest elections ever
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How investors get risk wrong
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Who is really in charge of Lebanon?
• The sweet story of Peru's blueberry boom
• Radio telescopes could spot asteroids with unprecedented detail
• A flooded temple and political fireworks: photos of the weekend
• Vera Putina claimed to be Vladimir Putin's real mother
• Does China welcome—or dread—an Iran-Israel war?
• Business
• China is writing the world's technology rules
• What next after Ukraine's shock invasion of Russia?
• Vladimir Putin is dragging the world back to a bloodier time
• You've got a great new product for dogs' bottoms? That's nice – but please don't call it a revolution | Nell Frizzell
• Death Clock app predicts the date of your death
• Latin America is under authoritarian threat
• It's a bird, it's a plane…it's a Chinese flying car
• European gangs are getting better at making their own illegal drugs
• OPEC heavyweights are cheating on their targets
• Researchers are questioning if ADHD should be seen as a disorder
• What happens in the days after America's election
• Ukraine needs the West's help. But our polling shows a worrying trend
• U.N. Suspends Aid Deliveries to Gaza via Kerem Shalom Crossing
• This week's covers
• This week's covers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What is Virtual Reality (VR)? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Is Britain's government at war with the wealthy?
• Saleemul Huq lobbied ceaselessly to make poor countries heard
• These are the most expensive cities in North America
• Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi wins another stage-managed election in Egypt
• Outrage at a strike in Rafah is unlikely to change policy
• Could newborn neurons reverse Alzheimer's?
• Who will become Japan's next prime minister?
• KAL's cartoon
• Why Agnes Chow fled Hong Kong and isn't likely to return
• China needs foreign workers. So why won't it embrace immigration?
• The attack on Donald Trump unleashes a flood of misinformation
• Why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running-mate
• The secret to good government? Actually trying
• Esther Bejarano died on July 10th
• How bad are video games for your grades?
• Blighty newsletter: The wonk verdict on British growth
• Chinese green technologies are pouring into Latin America
• Akebono was the first foreign-born grand champion of sumo
• Our guide to how Trump or Harris might win the election
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America's rural-urban divide nurtures wannabe state-splitters
• Meet the incels and anti-feminists of Asia
• Matt Gaetz withdraws from consideration as America's attorney-general
• The Future of Online Privacy Hinges on Thousands of New Jersey Cops
• Politics
• Why Germany's watchmakers are worried about the AfD
• A year of war in Ukraine, in maps
• What Donald Trump's 34 convictions mean for the presidential election
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• This week's covers
• Locust-busting is getting an upgrade
• How Marine Le Pen is preparing for power
• When will China's GDP overtake America's?
• Biden's Farewell to China's Tech Sector: A New Type of Forbidden Chip
• Chadwick Boseman died on August 28th
• Georgian opposition leader arrested after fourth night of protests
• Anker Cyber Monday deals: Save big on some of our favorite power banks, wireless chargers and other accessories
• A rise in antisemitism puts Europe's liberal values to the test
• KAL's cartoon
• Business
• Autherine Lucy was an unlikely pioneer
• The Kremlin is rewriting Wikipedia
• Hizbullah seems to have miscalculated in its fight with Israel
• Best Cyber Monday Soundbar Deals: Huge Discounts on Top Brands Like Samsung, Sonos and More
• How San Francisco staged a surprising comeback
• North Korea is getting new ships
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukrainian drone strikes are hurting Russia's oil industry
• China's new GDP figures may restore faith in its economy
• Business
• The long trend of falling corporate taxes is being reversed
• The world is bracing for Donald Trump's possible return
• Mike Waltz wants America to focus on the threat from China
• Babysitting duties are stressing China's grandparents
• This week's cover
• Did America thwart an Indian assassination plot?
• Indonesia's macho new leader is no "cuddly grandpa"
• America's elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal
• The Glasgow summit left a huge hole in the world's plans to curb climate change
• Can Home Depot's "amazing era" return?
• Syrian rebels sweep into Aleppo in an embarrassing rout for Bashar al-Assad
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Indians are going gooey over dogs
• Do rising methane levels herald a climate feedback loop?
• Letting more migrants in by stealth
• How the "Magnificent Seven" misleads
• Ready, player four billion: the rise of video games
• Donald Trump is losing ground to Ron DeSantis ahead of 2024
• Why 2024 could become the hottest year on record
• How a Right-Wing Schools Activist Started a Culture War in Manhattan
• China wants to be the leader of the global south
• Musk busts through the UK political china shop
• The weekly cartoon
• How the Gaza war affected the British election
• Turkey has a newly confrontational foreign policy
• Will war snuff out the Gulf's global business ambitions?
• Germany's new strategy for dealings with China
• Paul Crutzen died on January 28th
• Quitting Qatar is the least of Hamas's problems
• On Independence Day Israel is ripping itself apart
• Wanted: a new economics writer
• The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China
• What Can the World's Top Court Do About Climate Change?
• Japan's strength produces a weak yen
• Memorable images make time pass more slowly
• Xi Jinping is trying to love-bomb China's entrepreneurs
• Politics
• The business of businesses is climate-change adaptation
• Britain's dimmed love affair with motorways
• How bond investors soured on France
• How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine?
• Panic rooms and private bunkers are all the rage in Germany
• Asian "nepo babies" are dominating its politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Russia's opposition has lost a crucial leader but gained a martyr
• The Economist's finance and economics internship
• Climate change is making the monsoon more dangerous
• Japan's mind-bending bento-box economics
• Parents in Britain are getting more government-funded child care
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• Video: insights from the author
• Mexico and Canada brace for Donald Trump's tariff thrashing
• How to read America's early-voting numbers
• Cyber Monday AirPods Deals Are Here: Get $95 Off AirPods Pro While You Can
• China's youth are rebelling against long hours
• America's election and Israel's wars reach a crescendo—together
• The SNP feels the heat in Scotland's election campaign
• Politics overshadows a conference to raise money for Ukraine
• A comical effort by China's intelligence agency
• How genes work
• How to house the world's fastest-growing population
• Turkey's opposition hopes for a shake-up in local elections
• Racial tensions boil over in New Zealand
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Joe Biden must face the sad truth
• The war in Sudan, in maps and charts
• Donald Trump's terrifying closing message
• Las Vegas's power couple says goodbye to power
• James Lovelock changed the way human beings look at the Earth
• Don't blame "quiet quitting" on Gen-Z
• Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl
• Africa's EV revolution has two wheels not four
• Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
• Dengue fever is surging in Latin America
• How tactical voting might affect the British election
• How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
• Questions grow over the future of the London stockmarket
• A spate of horrific car-rammings shakes China
• Does Dallas offer a vision of America's future?
• Governments are finding new ways to squash free expression online
• Noise-dampening tech could make ships less disruptive to marine life
• Diplomacy has changed more than most professions during the pandemic
• Is China really a nation of slackers?
• Renault readies itself to take on Chinese rivals
• Will Sir Keir Starmer have a mandate to change Britain?
• Lego, the world's top toymaker, focuses on China
• Africa's tiger economy is shot
• The weekly cartoon
• Obituary: Robert Mugabe died on September 6th
• A court says Google is a monopolist. Now what?
• Once high-flying Boeing is now a corporate criminal
• Where democracy is most at risk
• Kiki Håkansson, the First Winner of the Miss World Beauty Pageant, Dies at 95
• Will US-Indian relations be hurt by India's assassination scheme?
• Qatar's World Cup has seen the biggest upsets in recent history
• How to behave in lifts: an office guide
• The British government fudges its employment-rights bill
• China is struggling with a surge of respiratory ailments
• A deadly new strain of mpox is raising alarm
• China and the EU risk a trade war
• Health Research Could Face Severe Cuts and Changes under Trump
• Russians have emigrated in huge numbers since the war in Ukraine
• The Onion's cutting edge: paper
• Why the global cocoa market is melting down
• Donald Trump has finally got it right about the January 6th insurrectionists
• Barry Humphries, creator and manager of Dame Edna Everage, died on April 22nd, aged 89
• How the last mammoths went extinct
• Legal immigration to America has rebounded
• The Whiz Kid Who Made Billions for Yale Is Rethinking His China Strategy
• Machines might not take your job. But they could make it worse
• Europe's green trade restrictions are infuriating poor countries
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Trump's Second Term Could Shape the Future of Health in America
• The unsteady comeback of the California condor
• Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service?
• The best Cyber Monday TV deals for 2024: Save on models from Samsung, LG, Sony, Hisense and more
• Shyam Saran Negi never failed in his democratic duty
• Scholz Pledges $680 Million in Aid From Germany to Ukraine During Visit
• Dealers are selling war trophies to buy weapons for Ukraine
• Pope Benedict XVI was an iron fist in a white glove
• Can Bayer recover from its chronic pain?
• Don't like your job? Quit for a rival firm
• When central banks become one-stop policy shops
• Paris's stunning vision for the Olympics wins a gold medal
• The AirFish is a fast ferry that will fly above the waves
• Hong Kong launches panda sculpture tour as the city hopes the bear craze boosts tourism
• Britain's unusual stance on Chinese electric vehicles
• Iran and Israel's shadow war explodes into the open
• New treatments are emerging for type-1 diabetes
• How Ukraine's enemy is also learning lessons, albeit slowly
• Sudan: the war the world forgot
• Best Movies of 2024
• A net-zero world needs new markets and institutions
• The Mexican president's latest boondoggle officially opens
• Scientists want to tackle multiple sclerosis by treating the kissing virus
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Meet Javier Milei, the front-runner to be Argentina's next president
• Australia's enthusiasm for immigration is being tested
• Black Friday Apple deals still available include the M3 MacBook Air with 16GB of RAM for over $250 off
• Taiwan, the world's chipmaker, faces an energy crunch
• Demand for chocolate causes more illegal deforestation than people realise
• Snuffing out the flame of freedom in Hong Kong
• What Is Quantum Computing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• How Trump Could Weaken the Affordable Care Act
• 'Intensely nostalgic': why A Knight's Tale is my feelgood movie
• Ángeles Flórez Peón, "Maricuela", made sure Spain did not forget its history
• The war in Ukraine is spurring transatlantic co-operation in tech
• Tensions mount between China and the Philippines
• Celeste Caeiro's small gesture named a revolution
• Indonesia's Prabowo is desperate to impress Trump and Xi
• Taiwan desperately needs support from the world
• Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet 'Monopoly' You've Never Heard Of
• Artificial intelligence is losing hype
• Why China and India are watching the Dalai Lama closely
• Geothermal energy could outperform nuclear power
• Rishi Sunak's snap election is odd and illogical—much like him
• Israel's settlers are winning unprecedented power from the war in Gaza
• Heathrow's third runway asks questions of the airport and Labour
• KAL's cartoon
• The CEO's alternative summer reading list
• The Islamic State's branch in Afghanistan is at war with the world
• Calls to boycott the Beijing winter Olympics are growing stronger
• El Salvador's bitcoin experiment is not paying off
• The party is eager to expand its influence within business
• How NIMBYs increase carbon emissions
• The states that will decide America's next president
• Georgia's government cosies up to Russia
• Investors should avoid a new generation of rip-off ETFs
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• Politics
• Two new books assess the geopolitical lessons of covid-19
• Obituary: Sir Roger Scruton died on January 12th
• Bar culture has arrived in Saudi Arabia, albeit without the booze
• Russia's friends are a motley—and shrinking—crew
• When is a non-alcoholic drink alcohol-free?
• Even as war rages in Gaza, Israel's Arabs are feeling more Israeli
• If it can be designed on a computer, it can be built by robots
• Election lawsuits are flooding America's courts
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Could you pass the British citizenship test?
• Anti-war parties are set to clean up in eastern German elections
• Scientific publishers are producing more papers than ever
• Worldwide covid-19 is causing a new form of collective trauma
• To understand Xi Jinping, it helps to be steeped in the classics
• How Trump and Biden have failed to cut ties with China
• Should you buy expensive stocks?
• China is sending escapers back to North Korea
• In need of reform
• Taiwan needs a new defence strategy to deal with China
• Bhutan prays it can be India's Hong Kong
• How Chinese networks clean dirty money on a vast scale
• The inheritance awaiting Britain's next government
• Jaguar's Controversial EV Relaunch Has Leaked Online
• Physicists are reimagining dark matter
• US to Introduce New Restrictions on China's Access to Cutting-Edge Chips
• Israel's ultra-Orthodox still won't fight, invoking scripture
• Why foreign dignitaries wear red when meeting Xi Jinping
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador splashes out as elections loom
• How strongmen abuse tools for fighting financial crime
• GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best
• Ebrahim Raisi was obsessed with the security of the people
• The economics of the tennis v pickleball contest
• Donald Trump is poised to smash Mexico with tariffs
• Portugal's hard right gets a big election boost
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Meet the victors in Africa's coup belt
• A new gonorrhoea drug was developed by a non-profit foundation
• Congo brings back the death penalty
• Ireland's government has an unusual problem: too much money
• Will India's new government turbocharge the fight against poverty?
• Sliding back
• America is in the midst of an extraordinary startup boom
• Japan's sleepy companies still need more reform
• Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?
• Why Chinese banks are now vanishing
• Should central bankers argue in public?
• The Supreme Court's term ends with a rash of divisive rulings
• Elon Musk is causing problems for the Royal Society
• Carbon-dioxide-removal options are multiplying
• Canada has a shortage of lifeguards
• File-Unpumper - Tool That Can Be Used To Trim Useless Things From A PE File Such As The Things A File Pumper Would Add
• Talks at the WTO to save the world's fish fail to reach agreement
• Brazil's new president may soon face another threat: his predecessor
• How Argentine businessmen size up Javier Milei
• AI researchers receive the Nobel prize for physics
• Xi Jinping's surprising new source of economic advice
• Donald Trump wants a weaker dollar. What are his options?
• US hits China's chip industry with new export controls
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Artificial Rain, Drones, or Satellites Clean Toxic Air?
• Why the Arab world has an identity crisis
• The Surprising Allure of Ignorance
• Why young men and women are drifting apart
• Buy Now Before Tariffs Hit, Retailers Are Telling Shoppers
• The proper study of mankind
• China has become a scientific superpower
• Tell us: do you share a name with a politician or celebrity?
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• The US Just Made It Way Harder for China to Build Its Own AI Chips
• Biden survives his "big boy" press conference
• SpaceX's Starship Soars in 6th Test Flight but Skips Booster Catch
• Julian Assange's plea deal: a suitable end to a grubby saga
• US to Introduce New Restrictions on China's Access to Cutting-Edge Chips
• Israel isn't sure what to do about the hostages in Gaza
• Do abortion-related benefits help American firms recruit?
• European banks are making heady profits in Russia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk
• Pakistan's generals look increasingly desperate
• South-East Asia's stodgy conglomerates are holding it back
• Obituary: Sutopo Purwo Nugroho died on July 7th
• Business
• Will China's ties with Israel survive the Gaza war?
• Science Crossword: Equine Emergence
• European AI infrastructure company Nebius nabs $700M from Nvidia, Accel, others
• The Physics of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloons
• Is the bull market about to turn into a bubble?
• The bid to make Florida's most famous city a tech hub
• Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?
• New research helps explain why China's low birth rates are stuck
• Booming cocaine production suggests the war on drugs has failed
• How China's delivery drivers quietly fight to improve their lot
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Might Wisconsin's redrawn state-legislative districts help Biden win?
• Israel responds to Iran's barrage with a symbolic strike
• Why Central Americans migrate to the United States when they do
• The scandal of food waste – and how we can stop it – podcast
• KAL's cartoon
• The two types of human laugh
• The pandemic is plunging millions back into extreme poverty
• How the internet is changing the experience of coming out
• Humiliated by Azerbaijan, Armenia tacks towards the West
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The race to be Latin America's next top development banker
• Blighty newsletter: The paradox of the House of Lords
• Justin Schmidt made a lifetime study of insects that attack us
• Antidepressants are over-prescribed, but genuinely help some patients
• Will Donald Trump's bros turn out?
• The pandemic shows the urgency of reforming care for the elderly
• Pemex is the world's most indebted oil company
• African governments return to international bond markets
• A new hate-crime law in Scotland causes widespread concern
• Peru's crazy drivers offer a data deluge for self-driving cars
• An apparent coup in Bolivia founders, but the country remains in trouble
• Why have markets grown more captivated by data releases?
• Joe Biden is failing to silence calls that he step aside
• Another comeback for China's street merchants
• How to entice Japanese couples to have babies
• America remains Asia's military-exercise partner of choice
• Vladimir Putin celebrates his fake election win
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Brexit was wrong, say 57% of British voters
• The "Venice of Africa" is sinking into the sea
• Carolyn Bryant's was the testimony that doomed Emmett Till
• The spat with India only adds to Justin Trudeau's woes
• China's stockmarket nightmare is nowhere near over
• Gisèle Pelicot is not my adversary, says defence lawyer treading a fine line in mass rape case
• Biden's Unpardonable Hypocrisy
• The 50 Best Albums Of 2024
• Jill Biden; Defender-in-chief
• Can academic joint ventures between China and the West survive?
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Mounties take on Modi. Who will win?
• Gucci, Prada and Tiffany's bet big on property
• Brazil, India and Mexico are taking on China's exports
• ChatGPT could replace telemarketers, teachers and traders
• Is a Nike lifer the best person to revive the swoosh?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Millions of African-Americans remain stuck
• Joe Biden's ABC interview will not quell doubts about his future
• A price war breaks out among China's AI-model builders
• On energy and climate, Trump and Harris are different by degrees
• Get the Best VPN for $2.99/Month: Cyber Monday Deal (85% OFF)
• Physics reveals the best design for a badminton arena
• The Middle East's bizarre waiting game: ceasefire or Armageddon?
• The age of the unicorn is over
• India's YouTubers take on Narendra Modi
• China is the West's corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?
• A by-election loss puts Justin Trudeau on the ropes
• Research into trans medicine has been manipulated
• The signal and the noise
• KAL's cartoon
• Three Ways to Handle an Awkward Thanksgiving
• Triple trouble awaits Mexico if Donald Trump wins
• South Africa's coalition government has improved the vibes
• A 40-year-old nuclear-fusion experiment bows out in style
• Your Friends Shape Your Microbiome—and So Do Their Friends
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Harris's and Trump's economic plans both promise utopia
• South Korean voters—and spring onions—rebuke the president
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Secator - The Pentester'S Swiss Knife
• A short history of Hollywood's poison-pen letters to itself
• The seats where Labour is concentrating its campaign firepower
• A promising non-invasive technique can help paralysed limbs move
• The shale revolution helped make America's economy great
• Obituary: Pierre Mambele died on June 8th
• A peninsula that makes waves in policy formation
• Sources and acknowledgments
• More women are getting onto corporate boards. Good
• This Website Shows How Much Google's AI Can Glean From Your Photos
• Western armies are learning a lot from the war in Ukraine
• How the best British employers find and promote their staff
• Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war
• China's shoppers are gloomy and picky
• 62 Best Cyber Monday Deals Under $50 (2024)
• Primary schools in Britain are beginning to close
• 32 Nintendo Switch Games for Every Kind of Player (December 2024)
• Politics
• Nostalgia for China's boom years drives a TV hit
• Parlacen, a bizarre parliament, is a refuge for bent politicians
• The Taliban is removing every shred of freedom from women
• Xi Jinping worries that China's troops are not ready to fight
• The real problem with the UN's agency for Palestinians
• Cyber Monday iPad Deals: We Found 17 Deals Worth Buying While They Last
• China's Communist Party has co-opted ancient music
• The 20 best easy Christmas party recipes – blinis, paté, punch and more
• Bose QuietComfort headphones are 43 percent off for Black Friday
• America v China: who controls Asia's internet?
• Tim Walz is the most popular candidate on either ticket
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Latest iPad Air Is Back In Stock, Now at a Record Low For Cyber Monday
• The Harris campaign hopes North Carolina will finally deliver
• Embrace the Shift to 'Prosocial Media'
• 'Prison didn't touch the sides': Tony Adams on addiction, losing the man who saved him and helping others
• Blighty newsletter: the choice facing Scotland's next first minister
• Antarctic sea ice is at a record low
• The taboos around sexual health are weakening
• A WHO report shows that pregnancy is killing 800 women a day
• How China thrives in a world of turmoil
• When party propaganda falls flat
• Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology's credibility crisis
• Attitudes towards experimenting on monkeys are diverging
• Business
• Why the Omicron variant is not a punishment for vaccine inequity
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• Humidifiers vs Dehumidifiers vs Purifiers: Which One Do I Actually Need?
• Foreign investors are rejecting Indian stocks
• When academics meet "The Archers"
• The false promise of Indonesia's economy
• America is becoming less racist but more divided by racism
• This week's covers
• The world's most improbable smash-hit cooking show
• Ace of bases
• The 16 best Black Friday vacuum deals on robot vacs from Shark, iRobot, Dyson and more
• Fighting disinformation gets harder, just when it matters most
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Kamala Harris win Michigan without Arab-American voters?
• China's cancel culture is nationalist, not woke
• Willie Levi died on April 23rd
• Ukraine is ignoring US warnings to end drone operations inside Russia
• LaDonna Brave Bull Allard died on April 10th
• Europe is giving more parental leave to its workers
• How the world changed
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Xi Jinping is struggling to stamp out graft in the PLA
• South-East Asia is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave
• Israel and the Houthis trade bombs and bluster
• After 50 years of mystery, siblings claim hijacker DB Cooper was their father
• The growing demand for more vigorous antitrust action
• China's parliament is being used to highlight Xi Jinping's power
• Years of growth forged prosaic politics. Now Panamanians are fed up
• This week's covers
• Does Hamas want to keep fighting Israel or start talking peace?
• Kamala Harris's cost-of-living plan will end in failure
• It Might Be Time to Toss Your Thanksgiving Leftovers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine's battlefield hospitals
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Four questions for every manager to ask themselves
• Israel is ratcheting up its shadow war with Iran
• Brazil's hinterland now resembles Texas
• Isolated communities are more at risk of rare genetic diseases
• The US tax code will change next year; the presidential election will determine how
• Google wants a piece of Microsoft's cyber-security business
• The surprising stagnation of Asia's middle classes
• How Robert F. Kennedy junior's effect on the election has shifted
• Obituary: Clive Sinclair foresaw the future too soon
• Canon Promo Codes and Coupons: Up to $700 Off
• When China hides disasters in a memory hole
• The WIRED Guide to Digital Security
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Choosing party candidates
• Cuba's private-sector experiment is faltering
• Schools in rich countries are making poor progress
• What is the point of the Lib Dems?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Internalising the externalities
• What could stop the Nvidia frenzy?
• Mikhail Gorbachev did not mean the Soviet Union to end that way
• This HP 14″ Laptop With Windows 11 Is Priced at $249, New Record Low For Cyber Monday
• Video: How we studied the lessons of Ukraine
• A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict
• Digital nomads are a force for good in Latin America
• China seeks a world order that defers to states and their rulers
• Auto & Transport Roundup: Market Talk
• Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, died on April 9th
• Italy is trying to deal with its demographic decline
• Politics
• Is the return of Donald Trump China's dream or nightmare?
• Five charts show how Trump won the election
• Will the next president follow Israel into war with Iran?
• Handful of countries responsible for climate crisis, top court told
• How the financial system would respond to a superpower war
• The best Cyber Monday laptop deals for 2024: Save on notebooks from Apple, Microsoft, Lenovo and more
• A surprise new twist in Putin's currency wars
• The case against "Russia's Mark Zuckerberg" will have lasting effects
• Scientists want to fix tooth decay with stem cells
• Refugee-friendly Canada tightens its border with the United States
• This week's cover
• Mimi Reinhard typed up Schindler's list
• Antonio Bolívar died on April 30th
• This week's covers
• Thomas Neff's idea rid the world of a third of its nuclear warheads
• Republicans finally win the coveted trifecta
• Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated
• The world's least liveable cities are starting to improve
• Santiago Peña, a former economist, is Paraguay's next president
• This week's covers
• Has Ukraine's shock raid successfully diverted Russian forces?
• The threat of Hizbullah can be seen from space
• Get ready for "Maximum Pressure 2.0" on Iran
• How motherhood hurts careers
• New ways to pay for research could boost scientific progress
• Pakistan rolls out the red carpet for China's prime minister
• The row over US Steel shows the new meaning of national security
• Was COP26 in Glasgow a success?
• Chinese weapons are taking over in Africa
• A spectacular new fossil shows a mammal making a meal of a dinosaur
• How much do Palestinians pay to get out of Gaza?
• What does Labour's win mean for British foreign policy?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What to do about pets in the office
• A changed world
• Even Xi Jinping is struggling to fix regional inequality
• Obituary: Richard Booth died on August 20th
• The world's richest countries in 2024
• Turkey is trying to deport Syrian refugees back to a war zone
• A powerful Irish film about the Great Famine reaches British cinemas
• Soaring food-price inflation is hurting Nigeria's poor
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Turkey and Central Asia are riding together again
• Most Black Friday shoppers bagged their deals online this year, with record spending
• How Boris Pistorius is transforming the German armed forces
• Peak Europe turns 25: why June 1999 marked the continent's zenith
• Jokowi is building a political dynasty
• South-East Asian Muslims are incensed by the war in Gaza
• The search for Ukraine's missing soldiers and sailors
• Ursula von der Leyen is the favourite to keep leading the EU—right?
• A strange snafu and a cross-ideological coalition at America's Supreme Court
• KAL's cartoon
• The coming years will be the hottest ever
• Donald Trump is preparing an assault on America's immigration system
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America's anti-price-gouging laws are too minor to be communist
• Why orange juice has never been more expensive
• France, Germany and Poland try to patch differences over Ukraine
• Peter Magyar is reinvigorating Hungary's struggling opposition
• Milkha Singh died on June 18th
• American office delinquencies are shooting up
• George Orwell's horticultural sensibilities
• China's foreign minister goes missing
• How far could America's stockmarket fall?
• Europe today is a case of lots of presidents yet nobody leading
• How Ukraine uses cheap AI-guided drones to deadly effect against Russia
• Getting into the vanguard of the Chinese elite
• Bangladesh's new ruler is in a race against time
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Why can't politicians just admit when they're wrong?
• Latin America's most powerful new gang built a human-trafficking empire
• How to predict the outcome of a coin toss
• The cyberwar in Ukraine is as crucial as the battle in the trenches
• Meet the French startup hoping to take on OpenAI
• Bolivia's slow-motion economic crisis is accelerating
• SpaceX is NASA's biggest lunar rival
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Cristina Fernández de Kirchner is found guilty of corruption
• We're hiring a Science and Technology Correspondent
• Using Chatbots and Ancient Writing to Simulate the Cultural Attitudes of Ancient Civilizations
• KAL's cartoon
• France is desperately searching for a government
• Much of Russia's intellectual elite has fled the country
• Are Britons losing the habit of voting?
• Lab-grown models of embryos increasingly resemble the real thing
• China's economic model retains a dangerous allure
• Half of Northern Irish patients wait over a year for treatment
• How a conservative conference morphed into a crisis of liberalism
• Max Verstappen accuses George Russell of 'trying to screw me over' at Qatar GP
• The weekly cartoon
• Environments can affect language—just not how you think
• Pious pupils in America perform better
• How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
• PIP-INTEL - OSINT and Cyber Intelligence Tool
• Eric Freeman hoped to save the Gloucestershire of old
• Could Kamikawa Yoko be Japan's next prime minister?
• Ukraine is in a race against time to fortify its front line
• The travails and bold aims of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
• This campaign is also demonstrating America's democratic vitality
• Somali pirates are staging a comeback
• Two elections will attract national interest
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Donald Trump is a convicted felon
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Could economic indicators give an early warning of a war over Taiwan?
• Travel chaos will last well beyond summer
• A genocidal militia's quest for legitimacy
• The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
• The world should study China's crushing of Hong Kong's freedoms
• Societies that treat women badly are poorer and less stable
• Five months out, Donald Trump has a clear lead
• Why GM crops aren't feeding Africa
• Would you really die for your country?
• America Inc is hoping for a tax bonanza. It may be disappointed
• The economics of the climate
• Press freedom is stifled in Guatemala ahead of an election
• Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister
• Six Stories on Love and Family
• Few countries are better placed than Vietnam to get rich
• Edna O'Brien's books scandalised Ireland
• Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences
• Republicans adjust their attacks for their new foe, Kamala Harris
• Latin America's left-wing presidents risk stoking inflation
• Obituary: Judith Krantz died on June 22nd
• 'Family ahead of the country': Biden's pardon of son triggers backlash
• China is itching to mine the ocean floor
• KAL's cartoon
• Technology is deepening civilian involvement in war
• KAL's cartoon
• "Our Europe can die": Macron's dire message to the continent
• Governments are bigger than ever. They are also more useless
• Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl?
• William Anders took the photo that kicked off the environmental movement
• China is quietly reducing its reliance on foreign chip technology
• Thich Nhat Hanh believed that Buddhism should be a force for change
• Li Wenliang died on February 7th
• What would Europe do if Trump won?
• The world's most violent region needs a new approach to crime
• Brazil's presidential election will go to a run-off
• Are British voters as clueless as Labour's intelligentsia thinks?
• The far right has captured Israel's police
• Protests have erupted against another Syrian dictator
• KAL's cartoon
• Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve
• Premium Indian whisky is booming
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' Life
• Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
• China, meet Fourth Estate
• After Shark Tank, Mark Cuban Just Wants to Break Shit—Especially the Prescription Drug Industry
• The speech police are coming for social media
• Australia Passes Landmark Social-Media Ban for Under-16s
• Indonesia's new capital is built on vanity
• The state of democracy in Africa and the Middle East
• New railways could transform South-East Asia
• How to get kicked out of China's Communist Party
• America is less dominant in defence spending than you might think
• Criminal gangs are showing their muscle as Mexico's elections loom
• What J.D. Vance is learning from Donald Trump
• Biden Pardons His Son Hunter in U-Turn, and Syrian Rebels' Surprise Advance
• AWS launches an incident response service to combat cybersecurity threats
• KAL's cartoon
• China doesn't want people flaunting their wealth
• China's stimulus falls short, as a showdown with Trump looms
• How Biden Made a Mess of Ukraine
• Charles III gets his own paper currency
• Europe's next inflation victim? Sugary treats
• Is Ukraine's counter-offensive over?
• Floods in Nigeria's north-east are aggravating a humanitarian crisis
• Why does BHP want Anglo American?
• If Israel invades, hell looms in Rafah
• Business
• 'I couldn't cry over my children like everyone else': the tragedy of Palestinian journalist Wael al-Dahdouh – podcast
• A new book explores the symbiosis of espionage and entertainment
• 'Marine Snow' Studies Show How the Ocean Eats Carbon
• Array Collective, a group from Belfast, wins the Turner prize
• Is artificial intelligence making big tech too big?
• 'We felt completely lost': fears over reprisals from Damascus and Islamist rule in Aleppo
• KAL's cartoon
• Israel has seen arms embargoes before
• Non-white American parents are embracing AI faster than white ones
• How China is trying to win back foreign tourists
• A weakened Narendra Modi subsidises jobs and doles out pork
• Productivity has grown faster in western Europe than in America
• Josh Johnson Has Become the Funniest Guy on the Internet. That Is Not a Joke
• Why Oriental hornets can't get drunk
• Inside a Secret Plan to Bring Uyghurs Trapped in China to the United States
• At last, Xi Jinping calls Volodymyr Zelensky
• Is Syria's drug-dealing dictator coming in from the cold?
• The women's Euros are selling out stadiums
• Japan ends the world's greatest monetary-policy experiment
• Transit vans are the key to Ford's future
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• What is the point of industry awards?
• Tell us your favourite music albums of 2024
• KAL's cartoon
• The weekly cartoon
• UK 'willing to consider' Saudi Arabia joining trilateral fighter jet programme
• Why Indonesia's horror films are booming
• Ibrahim Mahama and the art of resurrection
• Would building 1.5m homes bring down British house prices?
• Why logistics are too important to be left to the generals
• Ethiopia is in the midst of a kidnapping epidemic
• The success of "Succession" proves the virtue of hateful characters
• American productivity still leads the world
• You Too Can Hire an 'Etsy Witch' to Curse Elon Musk
• European firms are smaller and less profitable than American ones
• Poland's new modern-art museum wants to give the capital a fresh look
• Mario Terán was the man sent to kill Che Guevara
• Hong Kong is becoming less of an international city
• Business
• The covid-19 pandemic is hanging over Britain's election
• Fossil Footprints Suggest Two Early Human Species Crossed Paths within Hours
• The hard right takes Germany into dangerous territory
• Northvolt announces more cuts, worrying investors
• AI and other tricks are bringing power lines into the 21st century
• Nayib Bukele wants to abolish term limits in El Salvador
• Jair Bolsonaro is barred from office for eight years
• The story of Britain's "ginaissance"
• Le Pen's hard right looks set to crush Macron's centrists
• Universities are failing to boost economic growth
• The war in Gaza is exacerbating Egypt's economic collapse
• New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence
• School closures in poor countries could be devastating
• How Kristi Noem missed her shot to be vice-president
• A variety of new batteries are coming to power EVs
• Is Silicon Valley Actually Libertarian?
• Where have all America's workers gone?
• Germany's urgent need for greater public investment
• The World Food Programme's peace prize may actually do some good
• Biden Issues a 'Full and Unconditional Pardon' of His Son Hunter Biden
• A much-watched poll from Iowa points to a Harris landslide
• How South-East Asia can weather the Trump trade typhoon
• Elon Musk's Starship makes a test flight without exploding
• Mathematicians' Newest Assistants Are Artificially Intelligent
• Germany's Social Democrats narrowly escape disaster in Brandenburg
• To hold the Senate, Democrats have to do something extraordinary
• How Fans Saved Sexypedia From Being Erased From the Internet
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Obituary: Sydney Brenner died on April 5th
• UK general election: live results and analysis
• Against expectations, European banks are thriving
• Emmanuel Macron's centrists are facing a disastrous first-round vote
• Marvin Creamer died on August 12th
• Justin Trudeau's dodgy defence promise
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Gold is booming. So is the dirty business of digging it up
• Business
• Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary
• Another African war looms
• Barry Kemp spent his career digging up Akhenaten's abandoned city
• NATO's boss wants to free Ukraine to strike hard inside Russia
• Amid the bombs, Ukrainians rediscover the beach
• Two groups are least happy about Labour's budget
• Britain is a world leader in pet health care
• Can the WSL escape the shadow of the Premier League?
• Assault on Aleppo: who are the Syrian rebels HTS and why are they advancing?
• Georgia's ruling party crushes the country's European dream
• This week's cover
• What the Harris Team Thinks Went Wrong
• The death of the president changes the power dynamic in Iran
• Earthquake fears loom large in Istanbul's mayoral race
• Muhammad Yunus, a microcredit pioneer, is Bangladesh's interim leader
• What a Japanese gold mine says about its approach to history
• Abir Mukherjee adds a twist to his winning crime formula
• How the Trump campaign has become more professional
• Iran's leader must choose how to fight his war with Israel
• The best Cyber Monday kitchen deals will save you up to 44 percent on Ninja, Breville, KitchenAid, Fellow and more
• The science that built the AI revolution
• The deal that freed Evan Gershkovich was more than a prisoner swap
• Why young Russian women appear so eager to marry Chinese men
• Scientists can help fetuses by growing tiny replicas of their organs
• How Russia is trying to win over the global south
• America's recession signals are flashing red. Don't believe them
• Are Canadian cities better than America's?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What Is Cyberwar? The Complete WIRED Guide
• When brawn and technology ruin the spectacle of sports
• Blighty newsletter: Starmer's silence puts the assisted-dying bill at risk
• A pair of Indian and Russian probes approach the Moon
• What can Olympians teach executives?
• Taiwan's opposition parties are struggling to unite
• Mexico's president and his family are fighting claims of corruption
• How left-wing on economics is Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?
• Floating solar has a bright future
• Local British politics is a mix of the good, the bad and the mad
• Obituary: Jennie Litvack died on June 27th
• Yes, That Viral LinkedIn Post You Read Was Probably AI-Generated
• Does Perplexity's "answer engine" threaten Google?
• The wish to respond to climate change
• The ubiquitous J.B. Pritzker, the man behind the Democrats' party
• Russia is attacking Ukraine's agricultural exports
• Why do penguins struggle with modernist architecture?
• The think-tank shaping Britain's new government
• Thailand's new government is handing out cash
• Homeland Economics
• Governments across the world are discovering "homeland economics"
• Lily Lian died on May 24th
• Why caste still matters in Indian politics
• Obituary: Jan Ruff O'Herne died on August 19th
• The tiny republic of San Marino is alarmingly friendly to Russia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist
• How China's political clans might determine its future
• Why diplomacy over Sudan, Africa's enduring nightmare, is stuck
• Lupin III is Back in Thieving, Cinematic 2D Action
• Crunch time for Xi Jinping at China's annual political meeting
• Where are Europe's most expensive cities for renters?
• Alfonso Cuarón Subverted Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Now He's Coming for TV
• Donald Trump plays with fire in Atlanta
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• Hebe de Bonafini lived through the lives of her sons
• Mexico's mighty diaspora punches below its weight in elections
• Taiwan is trying to learn from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine
• The next terrifying war: Israel v Hizbullah
• Has private credit's golden age already ended?
• Alternative fund managers are increasingly mainstream
• The wisdom in calling Donald Trump weird
• Physical proximity has big effects in the workplace
• Do Britons even like the royal family?
• India-Pakistan relations are becoming more marginal and worse
• Meet the French oil major that balances growth and greenery
• Cicely Tyson died on January 28th
• Why everyone should think like a lawyer
• What now for Britain's right-wing parties?
• Introducing El Boletín, our new weekly newsletter on Latin America
• The best Cyber Monday speaker deals for 2024: Big savings on JBL, Sonos, Echo, Marshall and more
• Asia's commercial heft helps keep Russia's war economy going
• Rural white voters in Wisconsin could decide America's election
• Obituary: Mags Portman died on February 6th
• What to make of the US Supreme Court's latest abortion ruling
• Explore our prediction model for Britain's looming election
• The economics of American lotteries
• Nicolás Maduro claims implausible victory in Venezuela's election
• "Tariffers" v "traders": the new contest for Donald Trump's ear
• Film-makers are finding horror, not comfort, in the natural world
• An interview with Hsiao Bi-khim, candidate for Taiwan's vice-president
• 3 Simple Rules to Beat the Downsides of Aging
• A North Korean Voice That Kim Jong-un Would Like to Silence
• New technology can keep whales safe from speeding ships
• How one pandemic made another one worse
• Republicans are favoured to win the Senate. What would they do?
• How to handle populists: a CEO's survival guide
• The noose around the press in Hong Kong tightens
• Bluesky Says It Won't Screw Things Up
• South Africa's support for the Palestinian cause has deep roots
• The British election is not close. But the race in Bicester is
• Nell Gifford died on December 8th
• Why Oasis fans should welcome price-gouging
• Rich parts of Asia are on the hunt for immigrants
• England's school reforms are earning fans abroad
• Politics
• Ice Age antelopes surge back from the brink of extinction
• Best Cyber Monday VPN Deals: Which Ones Are the Cheapest and the Best? ($2/month)
• Nigeria's high-cost oil industry is in decline
• As Russia's attacks step up, Ukraine fears waning Western support
• Northern China has been hit by devastating floods
• A toast to the possible end of Chinese tariffs on Australian wine
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Walmart's latest product? Its customers
• China's AI firms are cleverly innovating around chip bans
• Bird Flu Has Infected Two Young People. Here's Why Experts Are Concerned
• The Big Mac index: where to buy a cheap hamburger
• KAL's cartoon
• S&P 500, Nasdaq Futures Fall
• Can Japan's zombie bond market be brought back to life?
• War-ravaged Somalia takes a big step towards normality
• What Camden reveals about Keir Starmer's mission for government
• Myanmar's junta is losing ever more ground
• Governing the atmosphere
• Keeping tabs on China's murky maritime manoeuvres
• The 40 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now (December 2024)
• A new psychological history of the cold war
• Paul Alexander lived longer than anyone in an iron lung
• The Lebanese-American businessman in Donald Trump's inner circle
• Confronting the Dangers of Silent Spread Is Necessary to Prevent Future Pandemics
• Yurii Kerpatenko refused to bow to Russian orders
• What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
• How the Killing of a Rabbi in Dubai Upended a Community That Thought It Was Safe
• Maggie Smith, the dowager countess of comic timing
• The Americas face a historic opportunity. Will the region grasp it?
• Watch out Beijing, China's second-tier cities are on the up
• The attitudes of Germany's young
• Taiwan's dominance of the chip industry makes it more important
• Could Ukraine's allies be sending it more weapons?
• Israel's Supreme Court strikes back
• Volkswagen Workers to Begin Striking Monday, Union Says
• Business
• The unfair trial of Jimmy Lai begins in Hong Kong
• Business
• China is obsessed with food security. Climate change will challenge it
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Some of the new king's realms may become republics
• Educational technology is coming of age during the pandemic
• Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
• Amazon Cyber Monday deals: The best sales on Kindles, Echo speakers, Ring doorbells and more
• ABBA return—and pretend no time has passed—with "Voyage"
• Emmanuel Macron on how to rescue Europe
• An electoral bruising for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey
• King's Cross, a miracle in London
• How the wolf went from folktale villain to culture-war scapegoat
• Politics
• Politics
• France and Germany are at loggerheads over military aid to Ukraine
• What Is the Internet of Things? A WIRED Guide
• Strangely, America's companies will soon face higher interest rates
• Indian state capitalism looks to be in trouble
• A new gravitational-wave detection has excited astronomers
• Hard times for China's micro-industrialists
• Erdogan's empire
• Young voters strongly favour Joe Biden, but will they turn out?
• How did pollsters do in predicting the British election?
• 371 Absolute Best Cyber Monday Deals (2024)
• How trading in war-torn Sudan survives—just
• How much of a difference will Ukraine's new F-16s make?
• AMLO's dangerous last blast threatens Mexico
• Obituary: Graham Vick believed glorious music belonged to everyone
• Thailand's prime minister is sacked. What next?
• The family feud that holds the Philippines back
• How China sees Yevgeny Prigozhin's mutiny
• Chinese nationalists have issues with "3 Body Problem"
• A Sudanese gathering outside the country proposes a third way
• Bindeshwar Pathak realised that India's future depended on toilets
• A promising technique could make blood types mutually compatible
• Israel and Hizbullah play with fire
• America's other great migration
• Takashima Ryosuke is Japan's youngest ever mayor
• Making trade greener
• Business
• Was an ancient bacterium awakened by an industrial accident?
• In South-East Asia, the war in Gaza is roiling emotions
• 'We Were Wrong': An Oral History of WIRED's Original Website
• What happens if Ukraine loses?
• Covid-19 spurs national plans to give citizens digital identities
• Gina Lollobrigida's ambition was her strength and her weakness
• Press freedom is under attack
• The Hindu right's pro-cow policies are terrible for India's cows
• Politics
• How vulnerable is Israel to sanctions?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• After 12 years of blood, Assad's Syria rejoins the Arab League
• Business
• Sri Lankans are squabbling over monuments
• Vast government debts are riskier than they appear
• China's leaders are less popular than they might think
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can America afford its debts?
• Why Xi Jinping is envious of his predecessor
• Latin American cities are struggling in the liveability ranking
• Sport is getting hotter, harder and deadlier
• Like people, elephants call each other by name
• App stores are hugely lucrative—and under attack
• The first endometriosis drug in four decades is on the horizon
• Israel's hardliners reckon Gaza's chaos shows they must control it
• Front Month Nymex Crude Fell 1.82% This Month to Settle at $68.00
• NATO is drafting new plans to defend Europe
• Is Kamala Harris "brat"?
• Russia is ramping up sabotage across Europe
• What is the least liveable city in the world?
• Has Narendra Modi lost his mojo?
• The Kash Patel Principle
• Why country music is booming in Britain
• America boosts Israel's missile shield. What did it get in return?
• Even doctors can struggle to diagnose concussions
• China's economy is suffering from long covid
• The world needs a more active Germany
• Can Nvidia be dethroned? Meet the startups vying for its crown
• China's ties with Russia are growing more solid
• Jair Bolsonaro's challenge to Brazil's election was rejected
• Squadron Leader Johnny Johnson longed to give Hitler a bloody nose
• Javier Milei implements shock therapy in Argentina
• The German chancellor's awkward meeting with China's boss
• How Russian casualties in Ukraine compare with other wars
• Which shares have done best from the Trump trade?
• Freeze-dried chromosomes can survive for thousands of years
• Hfinger - Fingerprinting HTTP Requests
• When workplace bonuses backfire
• Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector
• What would Elon Musk do in government?
• Brian Niccol, Starbucks's new CEO, has a "messianic halo"
• The dangerous rise of pension nationalism
• Politics
• The threat of an Israeli attack is reviving Iranian nationalism
• Are passive funds to blame for market mania?
• Why Kamala Harris's chances of victory just jumped
• With its latest assassination, Israel is testing Iran
• How can trans people manage their healthcare during an anti-trans Trump presidency?
• Trump's trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control
• The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending
• Environmental groups demand EPA to start monitoring microplastics in water
• Ron Galella, the original paparazzo, died on April 30th, aged 91
• Regime change
• Are cities in Asia becoming better places to live?
• China's probe returns from the far side of the moon
• The economy sees repeated boom and bust cycles
• NASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover
• Russia's ferocious glide-bomb campaign
• Violent crime in America
• What will Donald Trump do about legal immigration?
• Climate change is harder on less educated people
• The 65 Best Movies on Disney+ Right Now (November 2024)
• Could the war in Ukraine go nuclear?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Shark's excellent AI Ultra robot vacuum is half off for Cyber Monday
• Are America's leading presidential candidates up to it?
• The best Black Friday TV deals you can still shop from Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense and more
• Half Ukraine's power is knocked out; winter is coming
• Germany election 2025 tracker: who's ahead in the polls?
• Stopping the spiral of murder and violent crime
• How ants persuaded lions to eat buffalo
• Cyber Monday PlayStation deals discount the DualSense wireless controller to $54
• What does the Australian submarine deal mean for non-proliferation?
• Martin Amis was the lurid chronicler of a whole generation
• Business
• Facebook turned off the news in Canada. What happened next?
• America's jobs report is not as strong as it seems
• The fate of America's for-profit colleges hinges on the election
• The Apple AirPods Pro Are (Still) the Cheapest We've Ever Seen
• England may soon become the world's best cricket team
• New research exposes the role of women in America's slave trade
• KAL's cartoon
• Much keener on Trump, less sure about Charles III
• China's last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
• Which languages take the longest to learn?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
• Carl Bernstein's memoir traces his path to Watergate
• Sources and acknowledgments
• What drives people to vote the way they do?
• How Jim Simons revolutionised investing
• Is Japan's economy at a turning point?
• COP26 ends with a pact that is neither a triumph nor a trainwreck
• Meet Gabriel Attal, France's young prime minister
• Disney will cut 7,000 jobs as it restructures its business
• Britain's general election was its least representative ever
• Will Hurricane Helene tip the vote in North Carolina?
• The Federal Reserve's interest-rate cuts may disappoint investors
• How many people died after China lifted its zero-covid policy?
• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI
• Trying to heal the party's wounds
• Cyber Monday: Amazon Has Slashed Prices, Here Are Our Top 10 Best Deals for This Morning
• The World's Biggest EV Maker Has the Industry's Worst Human Rights Appraisal
• BRICS isn't exactly picky, but has just rejected Venezuela
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• Emergency Vehicle Lights Can Screw Up a Car's Automated Driving System
• Ishiba Shigeru will become Japan's next prime minister
• American long-range missiles are coming back to Europe
• Protest movements as deadly as Iran's often end in revolution or civil war
• How the hard right both reflects and creates prejudice
• 'You're freaking out inside': why Mondo Duplantis is my athlete of the year | Sean Ingle
• China's quest to become a robot superpower
• A Top Mission for Europe's Chief Is to Cool Trump's Ire Toward the EU
• The people of Hong Kong are growing more tolerant
• Oil Rises on Chinese Data, OPEC+ Expectations
• Charting Ukraine's soaring exports to the EU
• The hell of the sandwich lunch
• Ukraine's war has created millions of broken families
• Pelé went from poverty to football superstardom
• The Belt and Road, as seen from China
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
• The weekly cartoon
• Louisiana could soon start castrating child-rapists
• Britain's budget choices are not as bad as the government says
• Mexico could elect its first female president next year
• "The Harder They Fall" offers a new take on the Old West
• Why food is piling up on the edge of Gaza
• Why Olympic champion cyclist Sir Chris Hoy is backing Skarper to make any bike an e-bike
• An espionage case hurts Chinese relations with Australia
• A flurry of new studies identifies causes of the Industrial Revolution
• As Chinese citizens head overseas, the party does likewise
• China tells bankers to be more patriotic
• The fight to win the most unruly institution in Washington
• Vladimir Putin blames an Islamist attack on Ukraine and America
• Uruguay is losing its reputation as Latin America's success story
• Why the world needs negative emissions
• Donald Trump's gas war is about to begin
• This week's cover
• Lester Piggott had only one aim in view
• Parts of Colombia are now awash with cocaine
• Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents
• Gandhi v Modi: crunch time for Congress as India prepares to vote
• The Secret Pentagon War Game That ​Offers a Stark​ Warning for Our Times
• Checks and Balance newsletter: The alternate-reality Democratic National Convention
• How crises reshaped the world financial system
• Our new "mega-poll" gives Labour an expected majority of 280 seats
• Why South Africa's army is floundering in Congo
• Hungary is becoming more important to China
• Benjamin Zephaniah stayed angry all his life
• Invisible Nation review – insightful primer for Taiwan's complex history
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Xi Jinping repeats imperial China's mistakes
• David Bowie delved into his own past on "Toy"
• Can Inflatable Outdoor Furniture Ever Be Chic?
• This week's cover
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• The struggle to free Haiti from violence and impotent governance
• The ICJ delivers a stinging rebuke to Israel over the war in Gaza
• The UN renews its vows in a 75th-birthday general non-assembly
• Bowel cancer is rising among young people
• Can big food adapt to healthier diets?
• Can Ecuador free itself from the grasp of the drug lords?
• This week's cover
• Private markets are less rewarding than they used to be
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Israeli retaliation in Lebanon seems inevitable
• Javier Milei will be Argentina's first libertarian president
• Politics
• Will Prabowo Subianto cosy up to Donald Trump or to China?
• Making accounting sexy again
• Britain's justice system has responded forcefully to the riots
• This week in The Economist
• China's revealing struggle with childhood myopia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Poor countries struggling with debt fight to get help
• Do amateurs regret jumping into China's frenzied stockmarkets?
• Russia's bid to return to the Moon comes to an ignominious end
• Chinese netizens wonder if their economy is in "garbage time"
• How Russia targeted France and radicalised Emmanuel Macron
• How will business deal with Donald Trump this time?
• China's government launches a campaign against medical corruption
• A new treatment for Alzheimer's offers hope—but raises questions, too
• How to get hired by Donald Trump
• Cyber Monday Phone Deals You Can't Miss: Save Up to $600 on iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Pixel and More
• Iran rethinks its role as a regional troublemaker
• KAL's cartoon
• Moldova's pro-EU president has won re-election
• Gilberto Rodríguez Orejuela once ran 80% of the world cocaine market
• A Nobel prize for quantum dottiness
• What Is Blockchain? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Productivity gurus through time: a match-up
• Why Chinese mourn Li Keqiang, their former prime minister
• Two new books explore the impact of accelerating technology
• The 19 Best Thanksgiving TV Episodes, Ranked
• Reviving ancient viruses can help fight modern ones
• Are Ukraine's tactics working?
• "Spencer", Pablo Larraín's Princess Diana fable, is less than the sum of its parts
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• No Mercy for Samsung, Amazon Slashes the Price of the 990 PRO SSD for Cyber Monday
• How cheap drones are transforming warfare in Ukraine
• In China, fib online and find out
• Biden's border order: impractical policy, pragmatic politics
• How the pandemic has upended the lives of working parents
• How the unrest unfolded in Amsterdam – video timeline
• Britain and the EU find it easier to talk about guns than butter
• Lebanon's army is less useless than its reputation suggests
• Kharkiv is struggling under Russian rocket attacks
• Bluesky Says It Won't Screw Things Up
• After a bungled coup attempt, Peru's president falls
• The Virtual Villages Helping Digital Nomads Find Real-World Friends
• Will GE do better as three companies than as one?
• A live-streamed attempted coup in Congo shakes the region
• Some corals are better at handling the heat
• America hits Chinese biotech—and its own drugmakers
• Dr. Oz Invested in Businesses Regulated by Agency Trump Wants Him To Lead
• Why investors are unwise to bet on elections
• Inside Elon Musk's Quest to Beat OpenAI at Its Own Game
• 10 Best Places to Buy Plants Online for 2024
• The ever-expanding Middle East war
• Who was behind the massacre in Moscow?
• Jacqueline Gold freed women to shamelessly enjoy themselves
• Politics
• This week's covers
• Obituary: Raymond Poulidor died on November 13th
• The path ahead for China's Belt and Road Initiative
• The threat of war is empowering the Islamic republic's hardliners
• Mangosuthu Buthelezi had his own vision for a democratic South Africa
• Obituary: Claus von Bülow died on May 25th
• Want to stop a third world war? Pick up the phone
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• Some Germans think the hostage exchange with Russia was a dirty deal
• Covid-19 has shone a light on racial disparities in health
• America's growing profits are under threat
• The super-rich are trying new approaches to philanthropy
• Most Arab countries now focus on domestic concerns, not unity
• Izumi Kenta wants to shake up Japan's opposition
• An alternative use for The Economist's Big Mac index
• Nawal El-Saadawi died on March 21st
• Japanese businesses are trapped between America and China
• A new age of sail begins
• How to fix palliative care in Britain
• The bloodshed in Gaza is set to rage through Ramadan
• Will Hamas turn from war to politics?
• Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
• The Apple Watch SE is 40 percent off for Cyber Monday
• Daniel Ellsberg leaked the Pentagon Papers to try to stop the Vietnam war
• Police disperse crowds with force in third straight day of protests in Georgia – video
• The Turkish economy is in pressing need of reform and repair
• Bolsonaro's bid to regain Brazil's presidency may end in prison
• Thirty years after Rwanda, genocide is still a problem from hell
• Francisco Lopera's travels in the Andes began to solve a great mystery
• How lower American interest rates will boost Africa
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Xi Jinping bumps up the share prices of firms he visits
• A flexible patch could help people with voice disorders talk
• Peter Brook saw acting as an uncompromising search for truth
• CrowdStrike Raises Outlook, Post Higher Revenue Amid Swing to Loss
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new study of studies reignites controversy over mask mandates
• Even Under Trump, California (Yes, That Hellscape) Will Keep Moving the World Forward
• Anguish about Joe Biden's candidacy is rational, polls suggest
• China Is Studying Russia's Sanctions Evasion to Prepare for Taiwan Conflict
• Business
• Canada Sues Google, Alleging Anticompetitive Online-Ad Practices
• This Website Shows How Much Google's AI Can Glean From Your Photos
• How Europe's cities stack up in the cost-of-living index
• Can churches fix America's affordable-housing crunch?
• Should you send your children to private school?
• John Lewis died on July 17th
• America's endless summers are good for mosquitoes, too
• Xi Jinping wants to be loved by the global south
• 2024 is a giant test of nerves for democracy
• India's consumers are changing how they buy
• Why are so many Indians piling into stocks?
• Wanted: new business, finance and economics interns
• China unites America and Europe in alarm
• Mexico now receives more remittances than China
• Amazon Crushes the Price of the 2024 MacBook Air, Now at a Record Low for Cyber Monday
• The Red Elephant in the Room at AfroTech
• Fifteen notable lives lost in 2022
• The Liberal Democrats could become the main opposition in Britain
• Blighty newsletter: Why Labour has a soft spot for Stevenage
• Which countries get the best night's sleep?
• Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
• Will Donald Trump now pardon the January 6th rioters?
• America's college heads revise rules for handling campus protests
• Elizabeth Warren Calls for Crackdown on Internet 'Monopoly' You've Never Heard Of
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• Prosus expects 5 IPOs from its India portfolio in next 18 months
• Enthusiasm for regulation, often in areas like the climate, shows no sign of flagging
• Pity the superstar fashion designer
• Eight charts illustrate 2023's extreme weather
• An ancient rice bowl complicates the story of civilisation in India
• Canada's wildfires have burnt an area 16 times larger than normal
• India's largest airline is flying high
• Brazil's new president wants to reduce the number of hungry people
• Tim Walz's life story is appealing, but his record is complex
• How many Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine?
• This week's covers
• Sergio Massa is the only thing standing between Argentina and chaos
• Protests against a Russian-style law threaten Georgia's government
• Bitcoin Euphoria Threatens to Break These ETFs
• What the world can learn from Botswana
• Politics
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will be Brazil's next president
• LVMH is splurging on the Olympics
• An interview with Javier Milei, Argentina's president
• Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease
• Donald Trump is bad news for German business
• Ambiguity or madness? Where Harris and Trump stand on China
• What Is Net Neutrality? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Michel Roux died on March 11th
• Argentina's Javier Milei begins his radical experiment in libertarian rule
• Obituary: Steve Sawyer died on July 31st
• Bear snared after three day supermarket standoff with Japan police
• Can Colombia's mercurial president bring "total peace"?
• Cashless talk
• Reproduction without sex is more common than scientists thought
• What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?
• Is running a top university America's hardest job?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Israel's offensive against Hamas enters its crucial stage
• Sudan's spiralling war, in maps
• Americans are wrong to wish for an era of stable bipartisanship
• Journalism's What If Problem
• How Saudi Aramco plans to win the oil endgame
• Why the world's mining companies are so stingy
• Canada's miserly defence spending is increasingly embarrassing
• A spectre looms over Hong Kong's property market
• Congo's crucial election may be heading for disaster
• Prolonged Dollar Weakness Is Unlikely in 2025, Federated Hermes Says
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 2024's biggest revolution may yet devour its children
• Regulators have private markets in their sights
• Best Cyber Monday Phone Deals (2024), Including Cases Too
• Business
• Gay voters are smitten with Kamala Harris
• A new English version of "The Arabian Nights" is the first by a woman
• African voters increasingly want change
• The demise of an iconic American highway
• KAL's cartoon
• A grinding, difficult war on Ukraine's southern front
• From Trump and Musk to regurgitation: Edith Pritchett's week in Venn diagrams – cartoon
• Sanctions are sinking Russia's flagship gas project
• Covid-19 is helping wealthy countries talk about death
• KAL's cartoon
• China's rulers are surprised by Kamala Harris and Tim Walz
• China has freed an American pastor. Does it want anything in return?
• Covid-19 has led to a pandemic of plastic pollution
• Politics
• China's young people are rushing to buy gold
• The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world
• Roman Ratushny believed in a better, purer Ukraine
• Mikaela Shiffrin has deep puncture wound to abdomen after scary crash
• Could an "October surprise" upset America's election?
• The clock is ticking on an old deal between America and China
• Europe faces an unusual problem: ultra-cheap energy
• What ilish, a fish, says about India-Bangladesh relations
• Black Friday Kindle deals are still available: Get $30 off the 2024 Paperwhite
• Cheap Asian motorcycles are transforming African cities
• An enormous—and unexpected—lump of granite has been found on the Moon
• A dream deferred
• These charts show how Britain's Tory party lost its way
• Lula's ambitious plans to save the Amazon clash with reality
• The Conservative Party's Oppenheimer syndrome
• Centre-right Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael set to retain power in Ireland
• Israel's government is again trying to hobble its Supreme Court
• China's economic bright spots provide a warning
• These are the world's most expensive cities
• Elon Musk's xAI goes after OpenAI
• Live results of the US presidential election
• What Are Crepuscular Rays?
• Business
• Elon Musk threatens to widen the rift between Europe and America
• A Wall Street state of mind has captured America
• Politics
• Sandra Day O'Connor specialised in breaking into male bastions
• How Chinese goods dodge American tariffs
• Kazatomprom Profit Soars on Higher Volumes, Uranium Prices
• Google's DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry
• In preparing for disasters, museums face tough choices
• Syrian Opposition Demands Assad Commit to Transition of Power
• When covid-19 recedes, will global migration start again?
• Why Africa is crypto's next frontier
• Eavan Boland died on April 27th
• Hawa Abdi died on August 5th
• Ukraine's draft dodgers are living in fear
• The Economist's cost-of-loving index
• Kidnappers are wreaking havoc in Nigeria
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Helen Fisher found out the science behind romance
• Best Apple Watch apps for boosting your productivity
• Scientists have trained an AI through the eyes of a baby
• A new bionic leg can be controlled by the brain alone
• Donald Trump's promise of a golden age for oil is fanciful
• Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Gang violence is spreading across Latin America
• What a takeover offer for 7-Eleven says about business in Japan
• A short history of Taiwan and China, in maps
• The battle over the trillion-dollar weight-loss bonanza
• Vital election races in Wisconsin are awfully close
• Why fake research is rampant in China
• Can Israel's economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?
• In Response to Property Crisis, China Studies Fundamental Overhaul
• Xi Jinping's paranoia is making China isolated and insular
• China hopes Mazu, a sea goddess, can help it win over Taiwan
• A new wave of stadium-building is busting budgets in America
• Liberalism is far from dead in China
• Why Uruguayans rejected a government splurge
• In Congo, a desperate struggle to control the deadly mpox outbreak
• X-Recon - A Utility For Detecting Webpage Inputs And Conducting XSS Scans
• Meet Argentina's richest man
• Efforts to teach character bring promise and perils
• To understand the perils of AI, look to a Czech novel—from 1936
• Will China save the planet or destroy it?
• Argentina's populist political movement is at its lowest ebb
• Business
• New technology has enabled cyber-crime on an industrial scale
• The EU hits China's carmakers with hefty new tariffs
• Joe Biden's horrific debate performance casts his entire candidacy into doubt
• A Belgian company wants to create woolly-mammoth burgers
• László Bogdán died on July 14th
• A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
• Mexico's government has attacked the country's electoral watchdog
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• France is confronting its history in Algeria
• Elinor Otto did not realise what giant strides she was making for women
• As the French hard right triumphs in EU elections, Macron calls snap vote
• The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Saudi Arabia's investment fund has been set an impossible task
• American veterans now receive absurdly generous benefits
• A tussle for control of Interpol pits good cops against bad
• Sunday brunch is the new Friday night
• The Bay of Bengal should be an economic superpower
• An acrimonious debate about covid's origins will rumble on
• The Great American Microchip Mobilization
• Can Elon Musk's xAI take on OpenAI?
• What next for Amazon as it turns 30?
• A weekend with Gareth Southgate and friends
• The cost of the global arms race
• Obituary: Bob Hawke died on May 16th
• A supposed haven in Sudan falls to a genocidal militia
• Can the Palestinian Authority be beefed up?
• Donald Trump and Tulsi Gabbard are coming for the spooks
• Narendra Modi's secret weapon: India's diaspora
• The bungee-jumping, sandal-clad right-wingers of British politics
• After Russia's invasion the people of Bessarabia switched sides
• Sérgio Mendes sent Brazil's party spirit out into the world
• British boomers are losing out for the first time
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Suitors are wooing Paramount
• The slow death of a Labour buzzword
• China and America trade blame for a world on fire
• What China means when it says "peace"
• Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
• Brandon Johnson, Chicago's leftist mayor, is struggling
• An obscure communist newspaper is shaping Japan's politics
• Finding aliens means studying new sorts of planet
• The military dictatorship controls less than 50% of Myanmar
• Politics
• Joe Biden quits the race, at last. What's next?
• Fast Fashion Affects Climate, Exploits Workers and Creates Enormous Textile Waste
• The UN calls for a surge in aid to help 160m desperate people
• The Brothers of Italy take the fight to Florence
• The Germany-shaped void at Europe's heart
• The Trump shooting has made a mockery of the Secret Service
• Jensen Huang says Moore's law is dead. Not quite yet
• At last, China pulls the trigger on a bold stimulus package
• On Brief Stop in U.S., Taiwan President Sends Signal to Both China and Trump
• Why being wrong is good for you
• How a Strongman Made Himself Look Weak
• Pakistan's politicians seize control of the judiciary
• China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society
• Wildfire Smoke Linked to Increased Risk of Dementia
• This week's cover
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Two books assess the fight against global corruption
• Wegovy hits the People's Republic, at last
• Is America's economy heading for a consumer crunch?
• Who is up and who is down on China's economic team
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Carles Puigdemont aims to reignite Catalan separatism
• We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence
• What is behind China's perplexing bond-market intervention?
• What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?
• China's currency is not as influential as once imagined
• How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
• What's behind Britain's earthworm cataclysm?
• Kishida Fumio, Japan's prime minister, stands down
• Funding social care: an international comparison
• As a rich-world covid-vaccine glut looms, poor countries miss out
• Forget Black Friday, The Dyson Airwrap Hair Styler Is at a New Record Low For Cyber Monday
• Donald Tusk mulls which of the previous government's plans to axe
• China mulls a bold test of taxation without representation
• As usual, the medal tally at the Olympic games was lopsided
• American pupils have missed too much school since the pandemic
• I was terrified of being the last single woman left among my friends. Then I made peace with it | Édaein O' Connell
• Vladimir Putin is in a painful economic bind
• Why legal writing is so awful
• Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump's victory
• A Google AI has discovered 2.2m materials unknown to science
• Is America's weed habit dangerous?
• A ports strike shows the stranglehold one union has on trade
• How King Charles III counts his swans
• How Boston became the safest big city in America
• The demographic detail of Donald Trump's victory
• David Kirke believed safe sport repressed people's imaginations
• Iran scores a pyrrhic victory in its cold war with Saudi Arabia
• The Olympics are teaching the French to cheer again
• Africa is juggling rival powers like no other continent
• Why migration is in such a mess once more
• Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
• Politics
• An alternative look at the Trump-Harris debate, in five charts
• The EU's covid-19 recovery fund has worked, but not as intended
• The three steps on America's ladder of military escalation
• Why the stockmarket is disappearing
• Venezuela's autocrat, Nicolás Maduro, threatens to annex Guyana
• This week's cover
• The mafia's latest bonanza: salmon heists
• Iran attacks Israel, risking a full-blown regional war
• Youngsters are fleeing Japan's once-mighty civil service
• Lawrence MacEwen made a tiny island prosper
• How an amateur football league in China took off
• As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback
• P.J. O'Rourke hoped to make life hell for do-gooders everywhere
• A backlash against gender ideology is starting in universities
• Digital media fuel global protests but can be used against them
• The Republicans gain control of the Senate
• Britain's kings of sourdough
• National days offer a study into the inner psyche of Europeans
• The IEA warns much more ambition is needed to curb global warming
• Wildfires are getting more frequent and more devastating
• The arrest warrant is a diplomatic disaster for Netanyahu
• The King of Java inflames an Indonesian "democratic emergency"
• S&P 500, Dow Notch Records to Cap Best Month of the Year
• Why is Brazil a hotspot for financial crime?
• Joseph Lowery died on March 27th
• The ICC's threat to arrest Binyamin Netanyahu has shocked Israel
• Has social media broken the stockmarket?
• Maia Sandu, Moldova's president, dares to stand up to Russia
• Obituary: Lyra McKee died on April 18th
• Why are cities in Latin America getting more expensive?
• The damage done by Russia's hack of Germany's defence ministry
• The challenge of the age
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The world's population has reached 8bn. Don't panic
• China's ties with America are warming, a bit
• The pet I'll never forget: Chester, the cat who barged into our house and called it home
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An Ecuadorian presidential candidate is assassinated
• Carolyn Beatrice Parker's Work on the Manhattan Project Inspired Her Birthplace Generations Later
• Bangladesh's prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, wins a fifth term
• How Magnet Fishers Catch Underwater Garbage, Guns and Sometimes Treasure
• What to make of China's massive cyber-espionage campaign
• Jordan's Islamists have been boosted by the war in Gaza
• Propane-powered heat pumps are greener
• Which Olympic sports is China good at?
• Our new forecast for America's presidential election
• Beware, global jihadists are back on the march
• What are America's Libertarians for?
• More Spyware, Fewer Rules: What Trump's Return Means for US Cybersecurity
• Hamas's pick of Yahya Sinwar as leader makes a ceasefire less likely
• The best PS5 accessories for 2024
• Airbnb bookings for the solar eclipse reach astronomical levels
• The flesh-eating worms devouring cows
• BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions
• The death of Iran's president will spark a high-stakes power struggle
• Israel has bloodied Hizbullah but is stuck in a war of attrition
• Why did Mohamed Al Fayed escape scrutiny?
• China is struck by floods and drought—at the same time
• America's presidential election marks a fork in the road for Ukraine
• Latin America's left-wing experiment is a warning to the world
• A Russian missile hits a children's hospital in central Kyiv
• Small climate projects cannot take the place of all large ones
• Clashes in Pakistan as thousands march on capital demanding Imran Khan release – video
• Quincy Jones ruled popular music for half a century
• A mounting crisis of confidence confronts Olaf Scholz
• How scared is China of Donald Trump's return?
• Your conference-survival handbook
• How having babies became so political - video
• American parents want their children to have phones in schools
• Who is Angela Rayner?
• Is America approaching peak tip?
• Can anything spark Europe's economy back to life?
• Dictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions
• Vladimir Putin extends his crackdown in Russia
• Oil's endgame will be in the Gulf
• The excitement of 70,000 Swifties can shake the Earth
• Obituary: Okjökull was declared dead in 2014
• Sin taxes are suffering from a shortage of sinners
• Spain's flood poses far-reaching political questions
• The US Army's Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On
• Prescription rules for obesity drugs may unfairly exclude non-whites
• The potential listing of Shein is a test of London's allure
• Activist investing is no longer the preserve of hedge-fund sharks
• How to make India richer
• Cyber Monday deals include a $100 discount on the Dyson Airwrap
• Simon Verity believed in working the medieval way
• Investors should not fear a stockmarket crash
• Business
• The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting
• PwC needs to rethink its global governance
• America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse?
• Recent heatwaves are a harbinger of Africa's future
• Scientists have published an atlas of the brain
• Is China a climate saint or villain?
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• ICE Started Ramping Up Its Surveillance Arsenal Immediately After Donald Trump Won
• The bigger-is-better approach to AI is running out of road
• RFK, Jr., Is a Bad Prescription for U.S. Public Health
• Chile's crisis is not over yet
• How to decode Kamala Harris's foreign policy
• Can the rich world escape its baby crisis?
• Evangelicals may soon rival Catholics in Latin America
• Madeleine Albright saw herself as an ambassador for freedom
• China's fishing fleet is causing havoc off Africa's coasts
• The Green Economy Is Hungry for Copper—and People Are Stealing, Fighting, and Dying to Feed It
• The new geishas
• Labour's victory is good for Britain's union of four countries
• The pandemic has accelerated the growth of e-sports
• China's government is surprisingly redistributive
• Robert Badinter persuaded France to abolish the guillotine
• How geopolitical tensions could disrupt the global car industry
• Hard-right populists are pushing their way into the mainstream
• Emmanuel Macron in his own words (French)
• China's better economic growth hides reasons to worry
• Old tyres can become a climate-friendly fuel
• How plundered Gaulish silver ended up in Roman coins
• Blighty newsletter: Could the Labour Party fix lawmaking?
• Gradually, the besieged city of Bakhmut is being abandoned by everyone
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Ukraine will hold if it gets the arms it needs, says a top general
• What Europe's comeback politicians can teach American voters
• Colm Toibin's new novel brings Thomas Mann to life
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The power and limits of Emmanuel Macron's diplomatic charm
• Loretta Lynn gave all struggling women a voice
• Italy's oddest political party is splitting
• Bitcoin's price is surging. What happens next?
• Can anyone besides Nvidia make big bucks from chips?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Intel Arc Battlemage GPU specs leak as company teases 'big graphics news' this week
• By raising the retirement age, has China created a care crisis?
• This week's covers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• New cures for Africa's most gruesome diseases
• In English local elections Labour won where it needed to
• Israel's judge in The Hague is its government's bogeyman
• The mystery of the cover letter
• At last, Wall Street has something to cheer
• Israel's current large-scale operation is the last one in Gaza
• Phone Maker Xiaomi Made the Car That Apple Couldn't
• Kamalamania and the drive for abortion rights are a potent mix
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger
• Indonesia election tracker: Prabowo Subianto wins the presidency
• Javier Milei, free-market revolutionary
• The Great Barrier Reef is seeing unprecedented coral bleaching
• Corals are bleaching and dying earlier in the year than ever before
• James Randi died on October 20th
• Sources and acknowledgments
• America braces for Taiwan's election—and vice versa
• Exposure to the sun's UV radiation may be good for you
• Cheap vaccines could prevent millions of deaths from cervical cancer
• In Catholic Argentina, Javier Milei embraces Judaism
• An adult fruit fly brain has been mapped—human brains could follow
• Why vaccine passports are causing chaos
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Denver paid Russell Wilson $84m to go away. Now he could be heading for a title
• The Case for and Against Creating a Military Cyber Force
• Hey Siri! Help me get Apple out of an AI-shaped hole
• Fifty shades of brown: how splits in Europe's hard right sap its power
• Mexico's president wants to develop the poorer south
• Business
• Annual inflation of 114% is pushing Argentina to the right
• McDonald's v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
• South Africa election poll tracker, results and guide to the parties
• From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up
• Off the Cretan track: a skiing adventure on the Greek island
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Cybertruck's Many Recalls Make It Worse Than 91 Percent of All 2024 Vehicles
• Turkey could soon strike a historic peace deal with the Kurds
• Zany ideas to slow polar melting are gathering momentum
• Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine
• Naval drills in the Indian Ocean give bite to the anti-China "Quad"
• War in space is no longer science fiction
• Why Larry Hogan's long-odds bid for a Senate seat matters
• Just how rich are businesses getting in the AI gold rush?
• Hurricane Milton exposes the dangers of Florida's development boom
• Frank Auerbach aimed only at one memorable image
• Voters deliver a historic rebuke to Japan's ruling coalition
• The dereliction of American diplomacy
• To stay fit, future Moon-dwellers will need special workouts
• Is America Inc's war for talent over?
• What German business makes of France's leftward turn
• This week's covers
• The 2023 Nobel prizes honour work that touched millions of lives
• Vaccines could keep salmon safe from sea lice
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Philippines bans some genetically modified foods
• Apple can't do cars. Meet the Chinese tech giants that can
• Momentum against Joe Biden is mounting again
• Scientists Scramble to Save Climate Data from Trump—Again
• What are the odds of an upset in Texas or Florida?
• Fixing social care in England is a true test of Labour's ambition
• Can Donald Trump's Iron Dome plan keep America safe?
• Closing Arguments to Begin in Subway Chokehold Trial
• Elon Musk asks court to stop OpenAI from becoming a for-profit
• Jaguar's Controversial EV Relaunch Has Leaked Online
• How Taiwan still hangs on to property in bits of China
• Lessons in risk-taking from buccaneering BBVA
• The private sector won't save America's Indo-Pacific policy
• The pandemic will spur the worldwide growth of private tutoring
• A nationalist effort to rebrand the Chinese dragon
• How to provoke the fury of Xi Jinping
• Emmanuel Macron's vision of a more muscular Europe is coming true
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Obituary: Harold Bloom died on October 14th
• Pablo Milanés, a great musician and a critic of Cuba's regime, has died
• China's tolerance for public oversight is limited
• Japanese men have an identity crisis
• An advocate of sustainable capitalism explains how it's done
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's guarding of genetic data is a drag on scientific research
• First Rocks Returned from Moon's Far Side Reveal Ancient Volcanic Activity
• Long covid is not the only chronic condition triggered by infection
• How Africans can stay cool as the climate warms
• An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to Westminster
• Africa's coups are part of a far bigger crisis
• KAL's cartoon
• Did bitcoin leak from an American spy lab?
• Hong Kong gets a second draconian security law
• For its next phase of growth, India needs a new reform agenda
• Making love not war in the Middle East
• Should you put all your savings into stocks?
• Welcome to India, where the streets have four names
• China's new "Top Gun" normalises war with America
• Tracking ships in the Red Sea
• The world's next food superpower
• Moviemaking and gamemaking are converging
• Could Japan and South Korea finally become friends?
• Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it
• Are Britain's rioters representative of views on immigration?
• Introducing Middle East Dispatch, our latest newsletter
• The Biden administration is trying to walk a fine line in arming Israel
• Tune In to the Healing Powers of a Decent Playlist
• What Chipotle and McDonald's say about the consumer slowdown
• China's tin-eared approach to the world
• This week's covers
• Does the tank have a future?
• GiveDirectly does what it says on the tin
• A Canadian lake could mark the start of humanity's geological epoch
• Blighty newsletter: the Tories' 2015 playbook won't stop Keir Starmer
• Ukraine's warriors brace for a Kremlin surge in the south
• A gruesome murder sparks a debate about juvenile justice in China
• A mano-a-mano contest between Michael Cohen and Donald Trump
• The Conservatives' world has disappeared. Don't tell Rishi Sunak
• These are the most expensive cities in Europe
• This week's covers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• South Korea's ban on praising the North is ridiculous
• Obituary: Mary Warnock died on March 20th
• Everything about carmaking is changing at once
• The deadly journey to the Gulf
• Have Israel's far-right religious nationalists peaked?
• Obituary: Shuping Wang died on September 21st
• Xi Jinping wants to stifle thinking at a top Chinese think-tank
• Taiwan is a vital island that is under serious threat
• The favourite in Indonesia's presidential election has a sordid past
• The effects on Turkey of Syria's civil war
• Why fewer university students are studying Mandarin
• Questions surround a gun attack on Argentina's vice-president
• The silence of the bedpans
• Across the Arab world, Islamists' brief stints in power have failed
• Hong Kong puts a price on the heads of democracy activists
• How the war in Ukraine is changing Europe's demography
• Our Big Mac index can predict the future (sort of)
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Inflation and rising demands on governments are changing economic policy
• To save the Amazon, Lula must work out who owns it
• How Abercrombie & Fitch got hot again
• A growing industry is emerging to make philanthropy simpler
• Imperius - Make An Linux Kernel Rootkit Visible Again
• The year everything (and nothing) changed in the Middle East
• Why Hypochondria Can Be Deadly, and How Newer Treatments Help
• Grown up in the USA
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's leaders face miserable economic-growth figures
• 'Brain rot' wins as Oxford's word of the year
• Our constituency poll has awful news for Britain's Tories
• China has embraced pets, but animal welfare is still a problem
• The weekly cartoon
• The nationalism of ideas
• Trumponomics would not be as bad as most expect
• Europe hopes barbed wire will keep migrants out. It won't
• Antarctica, Earth's largest refrigerator, is defrosting
• The old have come to dominate American politics
• What a Republican trifecta will mean for governing
• Turkey is still just a democracy, but it is not certain to remain that way
• Commercial ties between the Gulf and Asia are deepening
• Finland's shrinking high schools are importing pupils from abroad
• Why did teenage suicides decline during America's first covid-19 lockdowns?
• The latest in the battle of jamming with electronic beams
• Usha Vance, wife of Donald Trump's VP pick, was once a Democrat
• Labour sweet-talks the public sector
• Visiting Europe, Xi Jinping brings up an old grievance
• Europe's Gas Prices Rise on Storage Fears
• A global recession is not in prospect
• Hsiao Bi-khim is Taiwan's cat warrior
• Latin America is in a mess. But it still has strengths
• How Ukraine is using AI to fight Russia
• Like America, the Sunshine State also rises
• The Chinese scientist who sequenced covid is barred from his lab
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Nikolai Antoshkin died on January 17th
• Politics
• North Korea is sending thousands of soldiers to help Vladimir Putin
• The global tourism boom is shifting to Asia
• Hurricane Milton inundates Florida
• At Israel's Northern Border, Caution and Fear Despite Hezbollah Truce
• How the Philippines is turning the water-cannon on China
• Rwandan soldiers may outnumber M23 rebels in Congo
• Did UN workers participate in the October 7th attacks?
• Mexico's gangs are becoming criminal conglomerates
• Readers reply: The Moon Under Water – from where did George Orwell get the name for his perfect pub?
• Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities
• Business
• The world's oldest cheese sheds light on ancient Chinese culture
• The story of one NHS operation
• Can bonds keep beating stocks?
• Thailand's top court tramples over the country's democracy
• The dominant model of the universe is creaking
• Shirley Conran wrote a bonkbuster to teach schoolgirls about sex
• Russian Spies Jumped From One Network to Another Via Wi-Fi in an Unprecedented Hack
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America's missing doctors
• Obituary: Gino Strada believed health care was a human right
• What gift would you give Narendra Modi?
• Elon Musk is not alone in having Delaware in his sights
• Financial markets are betting on a Trump victory
• Wines That Entertain as Well as Impress
• The price of friendship
• China's manufacturers are going broke
• When will Americans see those interest-rate cuts?
• Mexico's government is suing American gun manufacturers
• After a deadlocked election, can anyone govern France?
• 51 Best Cyber Monday Tech Deals (2024)
• SpaceX tests Starship, and prepares to face down Amazon
• It's not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
• How Ecuador became Latin America's deadliest country
• Clean Up This Holiday Season With One of the 20 Best Cyber Monday Vacuum Deals
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How, if at all, might Russia be punished for its war crimes in Ukraine?
• Why the 2024 Chicago convention is not the 1968 convention
• Youth clubs in Britain have been vanishing
• Challenging the stigma associated with single mothers in China
• Britain is moving towards assisted dying
• Scientists have found a new kind of magnetic material
• Is India's education system the root of its problems?
• Taiwan election poll tracker: Lai Ching-te wins the presidency
• Western values are steadily diverging from the rest of the world's
• Why an Offline Nuclear Reactor Led to Thousands of Hospital Appointments Being Canceled
• Republicans ramp up efforts to court Amish voters in Pennsylvania
• European airlines are on a shopping spree
• China is leading the challenge to incumbent carmakers
• UN peacekeeping is hamstrung by national rules for its troops
• The promise of crypto has not lived up to its initial excitement
• A new tragedy shows anarchy rules in Gaza
• The culture wars have come to Canada
• The Mystery of How Supermassive Black Holes Merge
• Obituary: Frenchy Cannoli, who treated hashish like fine wine
• The flight from southern Lebanon has been swift
• Britain's nuclear-test veterans want compensation
• Silvergate is the latest victim of the crypto meltdown
• Why AI needs to learn new languages
• Imran Khan comes under further pressure in Pakistan
• Crazy policies and climate change are hurting Latin American agriculture
• The pandemic has changed the shape of global happiness
• The "effective altruism" movement is louder than it is large
• How to make money on the Super Bowl
• The Cass Review damns England's youth-gender services
• How Humor Can Help You Get through Hard Times
• For those affected by dementia, the pandemic has been especially grim
• Luis Abinader is poised for a thumping re-election win
• 'People feel drained': anti-Trump Americans face temptation to tune out
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Senegal's judges stand up for the constitution
• Business
• How many Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine?
• Next, Britain's retail superstar
• A digital payments revolution in India
• Taiwan's Lai Signals Hope for Continued U.S. Support Under Trump
• Good evening, Ms Bond. We've been expecting you
• Bangladesh strikes a blow against lead poisoning
• Europe's biggest debt-collector has a debt problem
• A cautionary tale from the streets of San Francisco
• The G7 sketches a development-finance initiative to counter China's
• In defence of a financial instrument that fails to do its job
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Solar geoengineering is becoming a respectable idea
• Why America and Europe fret about China turning inwards
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hong Kongers are bracing for an even wider clampdown on dissent
• Elon Musk is feuding with Brazil's powerful Supreme Court
• It is dangerously easy to hack the world's phones
• How China trains its journalists to report "correctly"
• Blighty newsletter: Three (early) observations about Britain's new government
• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• How race and politics interact in modern South Africa
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Checks and Balance newsletter: virtue and vice in public private life
• A new class struggle is brewing in China
• The economics of thinness (Ozempic edition)
• China's cities compete for kids
• This week's covers
• Delays on Italy's spruced-up trains have got worse
• Which country will be last to escape inflation?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs
• Austria's accidental hard-right leader
• Science for True Well-Being
• A landmark climate change case will open at the top U.N. court
• Harold Evans died on September 23rd
• Joe Biden orders his spooks to investigate the origins of covid-19
• Antony Blinken swoops into a violent hotspot close to home
• The never-Trump movement has leaders. What about followers?
• Investors beware: summer madness is here
• Walking Pneumonia Is Surging in Young Kids. Here's What to Know
• America musters the world's biggest naval exercise
• A shadowy wartime economy has emerged in Gaza
• Ramadan could see respite for Gaza, or widening violence
• Retirement has become much longer across the rich world
• Sheikh Hasina's party is set to be re-elected in January
• Ratan Tata, a consequential and beloved figure in Indian business
• Car shows in the West are in terminal decline
• India's unprecedented love-in with the Middle East
• The woes of Hargreaves Lansdown, Britain's DIY-investing titan
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Europe's generosity to Ukrainian refugees is not so welcome—in Ukraine
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Immigration Police Can Already Sidestep US Sanctuary City Laws Using Data-Sharing Fusion Centers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
• Why this isn't Britain's TikTok election
• Demand is soaring for capitalism's emergency surgeons
• How remote islands underpin Japan's maritime power
• Ranajit Guha revolutionised the study of India's past
• Politics
• India's opposition bloc disintegrates
• Haiti has lost its prime minister. Gangs aren't going anywhere
• Mexico's next president can reset relations with the United States
• French bulldogs are taking over America
• Tracking the Ukraine war: where is the latest fighting?
• A future, but with Chinese characteristics
• Three decades after Rwanda's genocide, the past is ever-present
• Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's autocrat, is winning
• A bold plan to close the deadly Darién Gap unravels
• China is using an "anaconda strategy" to squeeze Taiwan
• Why America's tech giants have got bigger and stronger
• What Ukraine's bloody battlefield is teaching medics
• Oil traders are flocking to sanctions-free Venezuela
• A battle royal over deep-sea archaeology in the Caribbean
• Could war in the Gulf push oil to $100 a barrel?
• Why Black Friday sales grow more annoying every year
• Imperial borders still shape politics in Poland
• The rich world faces a brutal spending crunch
• Acknowledgments
• Meet a leading Trump vice-presidential contender
• Amid turmoil in China's property market, the public seethes
• American consumers are finally cheering up
• Why Hong Kong is sending its old people to Guangdong
• Blighty newsletter: Labour is demolishing the Tories' pet projects
• Business
• The danger of excessive distraction
• TSMC's American chipmaking plans grow $25bn more ambitious
• Basic Materials Roundup: Market Talk
• The attempt on Trump's life is shocking, but not surprising
• Laws to catch human-rights abusers are growing teeth
• US House of Representatives elections: live results
• This week's covers
• This week's covers
• Three reasons why Donald Trump might outperform the polls
• Small-town Chinese officials are making money with music festivals
• China will struggle to meet its new growth target
• Busybodies, backed by AI, are restoring the party's visibility
• Ennio Morricone died on July 6th
• The Labour Party's grand bargain with business
• Ugandan judges uphold a draconian anti-gay law
• This week's covers
• The Palestinian cause no longer binds the Arab world
• India's startups pray for a Hindu super-app
• How the election will shape the Supreme Court
• Lessons in capitalism from Whole Foods and Trader Joe's
• Northern Ethiopia is again sliding into starvation
• Paula Rego was a painter of rage, longing and loneliness
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new TB vaccine could save 8.5m lives over the next quarter of a century
• How to build a global business empire in the 21st century
• Can rich countries care for the old without going bust?
• Sung Tieu unpacks "Havana syndrome" in her latest work
• BokuLoader - A Proof-Of-Concept Cobalt Strike Reflective Loader Which Aims To Recreate, Integrate, And Enhance Cobalt Strike's Evasion Features!
• KAL's cartoon
• Ecuador's president dissolves Congress to avoid impeachment
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Venezuela's opposition is getting smashed
• China is unusually secretive about its space programme
• India's top court upholds the central government's grab at Kashmir
• A region that seems unable to reach its potential
• Freeman Dyson died on February 28th
• The pandemic has accelerated a global decline in the rule of law
• Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt
• KAL's cartoon
• The builder of the Titanic is struggling to stay afloat
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• An expert on civil war issues a warning about America
• A prime minister, a plotter and others say farewell as British MPs
• Germany is flunking the education test
• Dave Calhoun bows out as chief executive of Boeing
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How covid-19 spurred governments to snoop on sewage
• Are manufacturing jobs really that good?
• Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine
• The long goodbye
• Andrew Tate's 'Educational Platform' Was Hacked
• Can Alibaba get the magic back?
• Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs
• Britain's government is mapping underground cable and pipes
• A flying car that anyone can use will soon go on sale
• Business
• What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?
• How the right is taking culture war to culture itself
• Kamala Harris completes her reinvention
• Hamas talks up a truce, but Israel may still invade Rafah
• Romania's hard right looks strong in a year of four elections
• The vice-presidential debate was surprisingly cordial
• NASA's PACE satellite will tackle the largest uncertainty in climate science
• Politics hampers Delhi's fight against air pollution
• Latin America's single mothers are being left behind
• A narrow corridor in Gaza has become an obstacle to a ceasefire
• How to win Nevada
• The West's armies are getting more serious about climate change
• Unexpectedly, the cost of big cyber-attacks is falling
• How Trump, Starmer and Macron can avoid a debt crunch
• India's difficult business environment is improving
• Politics is the law in Texas
• Ukraine is now struggling to cling on, not to win
• Producing fake information is getting easier
• 'I'm used to people thinking I'm lying': are Scotland's sea eagles killing hundreds of lambs?
• Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurk
• After Northvolt's failure, who will make Europe's EV batteries?
• For EV Startups, Things Are Going From Bad to Worse
• How the Iraq war bent America's army out of shape
• Chick Corea died on February 9th
• Lily Ebert lived to share her story of Auschwitz
• The 18 best Cyber Monday deals on camera gear from Nikon, DJI, Canon and others
• Pep Guardiola left grasping at air as his once impregnable dynasty falls apart | Jonathan Liew
• Can whisky conquer Chinese palates?
• Larry McMurtry died on March 25th
• Maya Widmaier-Picasso helped to revive her father's creativity
• The truth behind Olena Zelenska's $1.1m Cartier haul
• After two years of war, Ukrainians are becoming pessimistic
• Is the world economy in a debt trap?
• Step inside The Economist's summer issue
• The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
• Henry Kissinger, a statesman beyond reproach, in China at least
• China's low-fertility trap
• How encrypted messaging apps conquered the world
• The world's richest countries in 2023
• The IMF has a protest problem
• Japan's economy is stronger than many realise
• From Beirut to Khartoum, the Arab world is changing beyond our recognition | Nesrine Malik
• Joe Biden is exasperated by Israel but will not stop its war
• Kenya's deadly Gen-Z protests could change the country
• Young collectors are fuelling a boom in Basquiat-backed loans
• Swiggy scales 10-minute food delivery to 400 cities in quick-commerce push
• The magic and the minefield of confidence
• As payments systems go digital, they are changing global finance
• New fronts are opening in the war against malaria
• Russia's vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out
• China's enormous surveillance state is still growing
• Was the Bank of England right to start lowering interest rates?
• The plight of Brazil's indigenous groups worsens
• At a UN review, China basks in the flattery of friendly countries
• Why some parts of England have so few graduates
• How Europe closed its borders and betrayed its values – video
• As markets soar, should investors look beyond America?
• China is now the world leader in coffee shops
• The war for AI talent is heating up
• External shocks have hit the Italian economy hard
• Business
• Gao Yaojie uncovered a scandal that shocked and shamed China
• More borrowers turn to private markets for credit
• Deep-sea mining may soon ease the world's battery-metal shortage
• Chinese firms are expanding in South-East Asia
• The World Cup's group stage bodes well for Morocco and England
• Why you have an accent in a foreign language
• India's surging food prices are a problem not just for India
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• How gaga is MAHA?
• KAL's cartoon
• Can satellite cities help solve Africa's urbanisation challenges?
• A broken system needs urgent repairs
• Reliable numbers on Trump v Harris are scarce for now
• Henry ("Hank") Aaron died on January 22nd
• Life under the Taliban has hit rock bottom
• Australia is trying to ruck China in Papua New Guinea
• Japan is a cuddlier friend to South-East Asia than America or China
• Why skipping ropes are so expensive in China
• Who's the big boss of the global south?
• Armies are re-learning how to fight in cities
• Some Australians are increasingly sceptical of AUKUS
• Trump Doubles Down on Defiance After the Collapse of the Matt Gaetz Selection
• By 2100 half the world's children will be born in sub-Saharan Africa
• This week's cover
• How the mad, bad Maduro regime clings to power
• Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes
• Elizabeth II never laid down the heavy weight of the crown
• India's Supreme Court delivers a rare setback for Narendra Modi
• Southern Italy needs private enterprise and infrastructure
• Taiwan is beefing up its military exercises to counter China
• Checks and Balance: Trump's guilty verdict and unprecedented presidenting
• Yahya Sinwar will hold sway over Hamas from beyond the grave
• The poisonous global politics of water
• The world's first nuclear clock is on the horizon
• America's political paralysis is complicating its support for Ukraine
• Police use of facial recognition in Britain is spreading
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why family empires dominate business in India
• Death and destruction in a Russian city
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Japan is still reeling 100 days after the Noto earthquake
• The great-man theory of Wall Street
• Making nickel is a nightmare. Unless you are Indonesian
• Voters won't thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy
• Regulators are forcing big tech to rethink its AI strategy
• The end of cricket's Indian monopoly
• Cheaper Than The 55″, The 65″ LG C3 OLED TV Is at a Record Low Price For Cyber Monday
• After Dobbs, Americans are turning to permanent contraception
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump's mass-deportation fantasy
• In occupied Mariupol, Russian invaders hold a sham election
• What four more years of Joe Biden would mean for America's economy
• How central banks are moving into e-money
• Britain is a home but not a haven for Hong Kongers
• Joseph Lowery died on March 27th
• Viktor Orban solidifies his credentials as the EU's pantomime villain
• Why most people regret Brexit
• The bunkers on Beirut's golf course are in the crosshairs
• How not to work on a plane
• China is building nuclear reactors faster than any other country
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
• Britain's ban on arms sales to Israel mixes politics and legalism
• Obituary: David Esterly died on June 15th
• The secret to career success may well be off to the side
• The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
• Breast milk's benefits are not limited to babies
• A palatial museum of Edvard Munch's art opens in Oslo
• The world's most, and least, affordable cities are in Asia
• A tardy, scathing report on the Grenfell Tower fire in London
• A Texas judge gives a nod to America's at-home distillers
• Mexico and Brazil dither as chip supply chains are reforged
• Ashok - A OSINT Recon Tool, A.K.A Swiss Army Knife
• Personal Data Collection: The Complete WIRED Guide
• How the World Can Cope Better With Extreme Rainfall and Flooding
• A new danger for Venezuela's autocrat
• Sterling Rises Against Euro on French Politics
• Obituary: Toni Morrison died on August 5th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The Chinese-African relationship is important to both sides, but also unbalanced
• What the remaking of Labour reveals about Sir Keir Starmer
• This week's cover
• Vancouver pioneered liberal drug policies. Fentanyl destroyed them
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• Donald Trump's trade hawk is plotting behind bars
• Business
• KAL's cartoon
• The Sycamore Gap tree held a particularly deep place in people's hearts
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Norway's Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
• The future lies with electric vehicles
• Government action to hold down energy bills will save lives in Europe
• Why most battery-makers struggle to make money
• How scientists went to an asteroid to sample the Sun
• How to take proper breaks from work
• Should every schoolchild eat free?
• Xi Jinping looks abroad for confidence
• India's electric-scooter champion goes public
• Blighty newsletter: Keir Starmer wants to fill the Boris Johnson-shaped void
• Why chocolate is becoming much more expensive
• Peruvians are debating how to protect isolated tribes
• Why the Federal Reserve is split on the future of interest rates
• America's shuttle diplomacy to wind down the war in Gaza
• To show that it can follow global rules, China built its own multilateral institution
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The secret to taking better penalties
• Turkish women should soon be allowed to keep their maiden names
• Why so many Chinese graduates cannot find work
• Are India's corruption police targeting Narendra Modi's critics?
• Democrats suffer in statehouse races, too
• AWS opens physical outlets that let customers upload their data
• Even before covid-19, nightclubs were struggling
• What is going wrong for Intel?
• Business
• The public wants to refund, not defund, the police
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Europe faces a painful adjustment to higher defence spending
• Business
• Who wields the power in the world's supply chains?
• A gruesome corpse scandal sparks outrage in China
• Israel is strangling the West Bank's economy
• Video: Busting globalisation myths
• What will Prabowo Subianto's foreign policy look like?
• Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
• Putin to reject Trump's opening peace offer, says Russian tycoon
• The pandemic's toll on schooling emerges in awful new exam results
• Big tech's great AI power grab
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukraine's European allies are either broke, small or irresolute
• Ethiopia's gambit for a port is unsettling a volatile region
• This Website of Old YouTube Clips Feels Like a Gut Punch
• Grumpy Voters Want Better Stories—Not Statistics
• Despite flaws, South Africa's democracy is stronger than its neighbours'
• Covid-19 has stymied governments' efforts to collect data
• How China is making the burger its own
• Germany needs a reforming government
• Obituary: Jean Vanier died on May 7th
• Europe is importing a solar boom. Good news for (nearly) everyone
• A UN vote on Palestine underlines America's weakening clout
• Get in, Loser—We're Chasing a Waymo Into the Future
• Has Warren Buffett lost his touch?
• The best Audible Black Friday deal is still available: Get 3 months of access for only $3
• The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
• English kids are back in school. What about the teachers?
• Obituary: Terry O'Neill died on November 16th
• Trump wants to whack Chinese firms. How badly could he hurt them?
• Donald Trump claims victory
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador has reduced poverty in Mexico
• Argentina could get its first libertarian president
• Bob Menendez is found guilty of corruption
• The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service
• China's missing foreign minister loses his job
• What do Joe Biden and the boss of Starbucks have in common?
• Beatriz v El Salvador: the abortion case that could set a precedent across Latin America
• Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty
• KAL's cartoon
• Social-media platforms are destroying evidence of war crimes
• What Javier Milei could learn from Peru's economic successes
• Business
• Blighty newsletter: Labour changes Britain's policy towards Israel, carefully
• Where is the "motherhood penalty" greatest?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The End Is Near for NASA's Voyager Probes
• Steven Spurrier died on March 9th
• Ultra-Orthodox Israelis' refusal to fight is a growing problem for Netanyahu
• An FBI sting operation catches Jackson's mayor taking big bribes
• Baltazar Ushca climbed Chimborazo twice a week
• Can Donald Trump win back suburban voters?
• Astrologers are predicting the result of America's election
• South-East Asia learns how to deal with China
• The biography of a British recycling bag
• Why "Freakonomics" failed to transform economics
• A dangerous dispute in the Horn of Africa
• Gulf governments are changing, but not how they talk to citizens
• U.K. Lawmakers Approve Medically Assisted Suicide
• Joe Biden is fooling only himself
• What the Paris agreement of 2015 meant
• Don't be fooled by America's "new" supply chains
• Bootlicking: a guide to pre-election British politics
• Comb-Over No More: Why Men's Hair Transplants Are Flourishing
• The best British companies to work for to get ahead
• The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habit
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Advisers to British government: don't mess with graduate visas
• Will chatbots eat India's IT industry?
• Business
• Germany's economy goes from bad to worse
• How bad are the current market jitters?
• How to benefit from the conversations you have at work
• How to hold armed police to account in Britain
• Brazil's gangsters have been getting into politics
• ESG investing
• Britons vote according to feelings of economic security
• The pandemic has eroded democracy and respect for human rights
• Latin America's farmers are cashing in on hot hot-cocoa prices
• The dividend is back. Are investors right to be pleased?
• Donors are already mulling a Marshall Plan for Ukraine
• Supply chains are back to normal. Why is inflation still so high?
• Want to avoid woke stockmarket rules? List in Texas
• A new book shows how the Greek revolution shaped Europe
• This week's covers
• Bernard Ingham and Betty Boothroyd ensured democracy worked as it should
• Why don't women use artificial intelligence?
• A language guide for judges is a window into modern Britain
• Can potholes fuel populism?
• Costly food and energy are fostering global unrest
• An animated documentary tells the story of Amin, an Afghan refugee
• Joss Naylor never let any mountain defeat him
• India will soon overtake China as the world's most populous country
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The end of oil, then and now
• The US Just Made It Way Harder for China to Build Its Own AI Chips
• Three charts assess England's chances of winning the Euros 2024
• Russian exiles are making a mark in the Caucasus and Central Asia
• Robots can learn new actions faster thanks to AI techniques
• What the surging price of gold says about a dangerous world
• Why the Federal Reserve has gambled on a big interest-rate cut
• China's new plan for tracking people online
• Atacms: what are the missiles Ukraine has fired into Russia for the first time?
• Xi Jinping reaches into China's ancient history for a new claim to rule
• XMGoat - Composed of XM Cyber terraform templates that help you learn about common Azure security issues
• Mike Sadler guided the first SAS raiders through the North African desert
• A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
• Lawsuits aimed at greenhouse-gas emissions are a growing trend
• The rebuilding of Berlin's Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
• Sources and acknowledgments
• It's Never Too Late to Learn an Instrument
• How Brazilian lawmakers won extra powers to waste money
• Startups are finding novel ways to recycle carbon
• CloudBrute - Awesome Cloud Enumerator
• George Shultz died on February 6th
• National payment systems are proliferating
• How Ukraine's new tech foils Russian aerial attacks
• What a Serbian cave tells you about the weather 2,500 years ago
• The private-equity industry has a cash problem
• The pandemic's indirect effects on small children could last a lifetime
• The dwindling of the Panama Canal boosts rival trade routes
• The relationship between Israel and Turkey is at breaking point
• Business
• Over a million Paraguayans disappear in the latest census
• Europe faces a new age of shrunken French influence
• The Crypto Industry Is Helping Donald Trump Pick SEC Chair
• This week's covers
• Married women in Japan are re-entering the labour market
• This week's covers
• AI scientists are producing new theories of how the brain learns
• How the Rosetta Stone was deciphered
• Clean energy's next trillion-dollar business
• Why have Russia's armed forces been so ineffective in Ukraine?
• Blighty newsletter: Labour's twin pivots
• The Future of the Executive Branch
• Business
• A new technique to work out a corpse's time of death
• FDA battles vaping industry at the Supreme Court
• Has Twitter (now X) become more right-wing?
• The Economist's glass-ceiling index
• Obituary: Andrew Marshall died on March 26th
• American women go to Mexico for abortions
• This week's covers
• Politics
• Blackrock marks down its investment in Automattic by 10%
• Mozambique's ruling party wins a dodgy election
• A flailing economy has left the EU exposed to Trumpian outbursts
• Why Costco is so loved
• Marks & Spencer's archive is a window on 20th-century Britain
• The biggest losers from Trumponomics
• The "Scream" franchise adds another self-referential sequel
• Can IKEA disrupt the furniture business again?
• John Conway died on April 11th
• Britain's railways go from one extreme to another
• China is tightening its grip on the world's minerals
• France's new coalition yanks the country a step to the right
• Pervez Musharraf was one of Pakistan's better dictators
• How Harry & David Gets 20,000 Tons of Pears to Doorsteps for the Holidays
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A region caught between stagnation and angry street protests
• The 16 best Cyber Monday robot vacuum deals from Shark, iRobot, Dyson and more
• University protests about Gaza spread to the Middle East
• A new biography explains the genius of John von Neumann
• Antisemitism is on the rise in Britain
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Indian tourists are conquering the world
• The mafiosi of Naples turn white-collar
• China's rulers play the law-and-order card, and lose
• Business
• South Africa's foreign minister wants better relations with the West
• Business
• Think Nvidia looks dear? American shares could get pricier still
• Aaron Beck turned the world of psychiatry upside down
• A growing number of Britons are on disability benefits
• Meet the digital David taking on the Google Goliath
• Best Cyber Monday E-Bike and Scooter Deals: Ride Into the Holiday Season With These Sweet Discounts
• Sweden wants to build an entire city from wood
• Castle Rose
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic and financial indicators
• Peru's president survives because she's not in charge
• Economically, covid-19 has hit hard-up urbanites hardest
• America's strengthening dollar will rattle the rest of the world
• Politics
• France is being thrown into uncharted territory
• China is stoking anger over Japan's release of nuclear wastewater
• Turkish tourists can now easily visit nearby Greek islands
• Spirit's woes reveal the dismal state of America's budget airlines
• The world is in the midst of a city-building boom
• Romania election: Social Democrats on course to win most seats despite far-right surge
• Narendra Modi has shifted India from the Palestinians to Israel
• 'I've awakened their spirit': can man behind the mask make a dent in Ghana elections?
• Why Is the Night Sky Dark? You Can Thank the Big Bang
• Frozen Russian assets will soon pay for Ukraine's war
• The one thing Israelis agree on: rescuing the hostages
• Is America giving Narendra Modi an easy ride?
• Will Joe Biden's new plan bring relief to Gaza?
• Michael Kovrig, former hostage of the Chinese state
• The challenges of steering a hypersonic plane
• Barry Lopez died on December 25th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The four women who shook up philosophy
• Dervla Murphy let nothing stand in the way of adventure
• Elections in Ecuador and Guatemala suggest an anti-incumbent surge
• Britain's Labour Party has forgotten how to be nice
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• As Donald Trump threatens NATO, the Baltic states stiffen their defences
• Yoshioka Masamitsu saw Pearl Harbor from the air
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Will Gisèle Pelicot's courage spell the end of rape victims being put on trial? | Yvonne Roberts
• Citizens' assemblies are increasingly popular
• This week's cover
• Think Tesla is in trouble? Pity even more its wannabe EV rivals
• Senate Republicans flex their independence
• Abuse by priests in Italy can no longer be tolerated by the Vatican
• Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk?
• Dizzy after one drink? Social drinkers on obesity drugs lose the taste for alcohol
• Microsoft at 50: An AI Giant. A Kinder Culture. And Still Hellbent on Domination
• NHS dentistry is decaying
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The rise of the hard right threatens Europe's political stability
• This week's covers
• What tennis reveals about AI's impact on human behaviour
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Elias Khoury encapsulated the confusions of the Middle East
• It is getting easier for new entrants to make cars
• The failing ANC is rejected by over half of South Africa
• Obituary: Ernst van de Wetering could spot a Rembrandt anywhere
• Why so much of the world won't stand up to Russia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How to frame the argument over clean power
• Why half of America will vote for Donald Trump
• Throughout the rich world, the young are falling out of love with cars
• Pennsylvania, the crucial battleground in America's election
• Sadiq Khan's London offers a taste of Starmer's Britain
• When to sell your stocks
• Meet the Swedish firm trying to shake up heat pumps
• European Parliament elections tracker: results and guide to the vote
• Lockdowns could have long-term effects on children's health
• How fast is India's economy really growing?
• Fewer migrants are crossing America's southern border
• America has had a Cuban agent in its midst for 42 years
• SafeLine - Serve As A Reverse Proxy To Protect Your Web Services From Attacks And Exploits
• Hamas Took More Than 200 Hostages From Israel. Here's What We Know.
• The war in Ukraine shows how technology is changing the battlefield
• Starry new productions show "Macbeth" is the tragedy for our times
• The world has to adapt to the climate change it will not avoid
• Russia's plunging currency spells trouble for its war effort
• The mystery of India's female labour-force participation rate
• Shirley Chisholm is still winning
• Blighty newsletter: How Labour plans to fix the Foreign Office
• Howard Lutnick, Donald Trump's pick for commerce secretary
• Pinduoduo, China's e-commerce star, suffers a blow
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Mark Robinson has hijacked his own campaign in North Carolina
• The firepower of Iran-backed militias, in maps
• Refi Rates Drop Over the Last Week: Mortgage Refinance Rates for Dec. 2, 2024
• How has the Bank of England dealt with four years of shocks?
• Billionaire space travel heads for a new frontier
• Greenland faces one of history's great resource rushes—and curses
• How to avoid Oval Office humiliation
• Geert Mak takes stock of the past 20 years of European history
• Macau, China's sin city, wants to be more like Las Vegas
• Delivery Hero's Talabat IPO Priced at Top of Range
• Latin America's prisons are overcrowded and violent
• Business
• Politics
• Binyamin Netanyahu is at the mercy of his hardline coalition partners
• Wrath and sorrow rule in Israel on the anniversary of October 7th
• The rise of the $40,000 gym membership
• Germany's fractious coalition falls apart—and how!
• Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest
• Public money must pave the way for private investment in climate-change adaptation
• Yuan Longping died on May 22nd
• Taiwan's presidential election will be a three-way race after all
• Russia continues to advance in eastern Ukraine
• New technology could cement Indonesia's dominance of vital nickel
• Australia and China patch things up
• Sir Brian Urquhart died on January 2nd
• How China uses Russia to chew up the UN
• An anatomy of hard times in the city
• Lego Cyber Monday deals: Save up to 32 percent on Star Wars, Super Mario sets
• Mortgage Rates Go Down Over the Last Week: Mortgage Rates on Dec. 2, 2024
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why are British beach huts so expensive?
• Why are there so many suicides in rich, stable Uruguay?
• Business
• TikTok wants Western consumers to shop like the Chinese
• Is South Africa ready for a change in government?
• Japan has a chequered record on climate change
• India's economic policy will not make it rich
• Footballer, broadcaster, podcast mogul: the career of Gary Lineker
• Poles and Ukrainians are at loggerheads. That's good news for Putin
• A crisis in prisons gives Britain's new government its first test
• Sorry If You Bought The Meta Quest 3S on Black Friday, It Just Dropped to a New Record Low on Cyber Monday
• Will the trouble ever end for Volkswagen and its rivals?
• Will China dominate the world of semiconductors?
• Inflation usually hits America's poor hardest. Not this time
• Vladimir Putin has been fighting not just Ukraine, but his own people
• Rassemblement National's Bardella threatens to bring down French government
• Cyber Monday streaming deals include the Hulu and Disney+ bundle for $36 for one year
• Three reasons why oil prices are remarkably stable
• Britain's budget is heavy on spending but light on reform
• Britain's Conservatives adopt the bad habits of the Labour left
• China unveils its new economic vision
• The 25 Best Tech Gifts of 2024, According to Our Gadget Gurus
• Why Japan Inc is no longer in thrall to America
• Can Israel afford to wage war?
• Israeli strikes on Beirut and Tehran could intensify a regional war
• Yahya Sinwar made Hamas his own fief
• Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways
• Trump and other populists will haunt NATO's 75th birthday party
• Latin America's armed forces have increasing clout
• A biographer explores Greta Garbo's glamour and vacuity
• Italian right-wingers have renamed Milan's airport after Silvio Berlusconi
• Turkey faces a crucial election this summer
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Intrigue, greed and hostility burn in the Antarctic
• How the world economy learned to love chaos
• Particles that damage satellites can be flushed out of orbit
• A Thousand Fires review – mesmerising study of Myanmar's homemade oil wells
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• AWS wants to make your call center interactions less painful
• The Gates Foundation's approach has both advantages and limits
• Protests are soaring, as China's workers demand their wages
• Have McKinsey and its consulting rivals got too big?
• The growing global movement to restrain house prices
• Trump, trade and feeding China's pigs
• Black Friday gaming deals still available for 2024: The best discounts from Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox, Meta and others
• Is this a new age of warrior Japan?
• Economists need new indicators of economic misery
• Lawrence Wong in his own words
• India's financial system has improved dramatically in the past decade
• Narendra Modi's party sweeps in north and central India
• The shortfall in British adoptions
• The man who caught his catfish; actor Kaya Scodelario on Skins, scares and sex scenes; and Philippa Perry on coping with the climate crisis – podcast
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Is Argentina's new president too divisive to fix a broken economy?
• TikTok is not the only Chinese app thriving in America
• Politics and technology are pushing oil firms to cut methane
• A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Progress on the science of menstruation—at last
• The IDF is accused of military and moral failures in Gaza
• What do you do with 191bn frozen euros owned by Russia?
• Russia is struggling to find its missing soldiers
• A shift towards green investment is under way in Africa
• The world's most liveable cities in 2024
• China's satellites are improving rapidly. Its army will benefit
• Lula cosies up to Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela's autocrat
• How common infections can spark psychiatric illnesses in children
• Obituary: Bernard Tapie, a colourful and controversial French businessman
• Vladimir Putin's spies are plotting global chaos
• What does China's reopening mean for Latin America?
• Even without war in the Gulf, pricier petrol is here to stay
• Communist rappers are luring young disgruntled Chinese
• Vast amounts of the world's shipping sails unseen
• A story of Scottish wildcats
• Democratic states are preparing for Donald Trump's return
• Why governments are paying people to go on holiday
• A museum in Rotterdam opens up its collection
• How science will be transformed by AI
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Chinese EV-makers are leaving Western rivals in the dust
• Congo-Brazzaville has lost a big chunk of its oil revenue
• An ambitious plan for "total peace" in Colombia is faltering
• How not to botch the upcoming EU leadership reshuffle
• 'I felt like a bystander in my own internal recovery': one woman's battle for health after a life-changing diagnosis
• China heaps pressure on Taiwan ahead of a big election
• Vladimir Putin has rallied the West
• Brazil's next president will face a big, tricky in-tray
• Politics
• The pandemic puts a strain on elite private schools
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Biden Visits Angola to Promote Lobito Corridor and Counter China
• The best memes of 2021
• How to send a cake from New Jersey to Accra
• Why the Trump campaign is spending heavily on ads on trans issues
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• Was your degree really worth it?
• Some forms of chronic pain are particularly mysterious
• This week's covers
• Business
• Xi Jinping is obsessed with political loyalty in the PLA
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. Maybe
• Latin America
• Hopes for a truce in Gaza give way to fears of a long stalemate
• This week's covers
• Checks and Balance newsletter: J.D. Vance and the politics of storytelling
• What Florida can teach America
• How deep is Britain's fiscal "black hole"?
• Thaksin Shinawatra joins Thailand's establishment
• Will bond vigilantes come for America's next president?
• For Western democracies, the price of avoiding a clash with China is rising
• Rachel Roddy's recipe for red cabbage, apple and chestnut pie with ricotta pastry | A kitchen in Rome
• How a Young Chinese Nationalist Turned Her Back on Beijing
• Israel's relations with America reach breaking point
• A Chinese reality-TV show about farming doubles as propaganda
• The expulsion of Donald Trump marks a watershed for Facebook and Twitter
• Kaja Kallas, the plain-talking Estonian tipped to be the EU's top diplomat
• Mosquitoes, wasps and parasitic worms could help make injections less painful
• Myanmar's junta suffers startling defeats
• Hong Kong convicts 14 pro-democracy activists
• Rushdi Sarraj loved to record what others did not or would not see
• At long last, Europe's economy is starting to grow
• Climate change casts a shadow over Britain's biggest food export
• The Extremely Large Telescope will transform astronomy
• After it ends, the war in Gaza will still continue to shape Israel
• Susie Wiles, the unassuming operative powering Donald Trump's campaign
• Why China needs to fill its empty homes
• DIY landmine-clearing is putting Ukrainian farmers in danger
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Syrian militants seize control of Aleppo – video
• The pandemic made the world realise the importance of human contact
• Embrace the Shift to 'Prosocial Media'
• Anne Saxelby was a champion of artisan farmers and their wares
• The children of Iran's revolution still want to go West
• Brazil and Colombia are curbing destruction of Amazon rainforest
• India must make much deeper changes if it is to sustain its growth
• Isabel Crook devoted her long life to making a new China
• KAL's cartoon
• Europe wants startups to do AI with supercomputers
• Paramount+ Cyber Monday deal: Get a two-month subscription with Showtime for $6
• Joan Didion's radical curiosity
• Which countries have the best, and worst, living standards?
• The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
• Blighty newsletter: Mind the budget gap
• Israel prepares for a long war in Gaza
• An Artist Who Finds the Life in Everything
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The 16 Best Holiday Movies to Stream This Season: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, Disney+
• Wild boar hybrids are raising hell on the Canadian prairies
• The world's next country?
• Who are the rebels who have seized control of Aleppo, Syria?
• We're hiring a senior India correspondent
• An American rocket has a fine debut; not so the Moon lander on board
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Europe's freakish winter heatwave breaks records
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Too many people want to be social-media influencers
• Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Business
• Jay Pasachoff travelled the world to catch the Moon eclipsing the Sun
• Cyber Monday deals discount the Kindle Scribe by 21 percent
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Of Bibles and ballots
• Two new books shed light on the plight of the Uyghurs
• Tesla is not the only winner under Donald Trump
• The weekly cartoon
• Sheikh Hasina faces her biggest crisis in years
• Closing factories will not be enough to save Volkswagen
• Turkey's president refuses to let sleeping dogs lie
• Googling Is for Old People. That's a Problem for Google.
• America's 117th Congress accomplished a lot. So did its recent predecessors
• The revolt against Binyamin Netanyahu
• 'Bomb Cyclone' and Atmospheric River Will Bring Extreme Weather to U.S. West Coast
• Can markets reduce pollution in India?
• Which countries would be most affected by a second Trump term?
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• Politics
• What is Crispr Gene Editing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18th
• Defying China, Taiwan elects William Lai Ching-te as president
• The alarming foreign policies of France's hard right and hard left
• The foreigners fighting and dying for Vladimir Putin
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Carmen Callil changed British reading habits for ever
• Nicolás Maduro digs in with the help of a pliant Supreme Court
• Politics
• Vadym Sukharevsky, the man in charge of Ukraine's drones
• BioNTech's boss, Ugur Sahin, remains sanguine about Omicron
• Taiwan's new president faces an upsurge in Chinese coercion
• A different way to measure the climate impact of food
• Israel is keeping open the nuclear option
• Why a new art gallery in Bangalore is important for Indian science
• Should rich countries pay for climate damage in poor ones?
• How digital gaming spreads far and wide
• The Republicans who still haven't endorsed Donald Trump
• Inside the chaos machine of British politics
• This week's cover
• The Morning After: Elon Musk wants the court to stop OpenAI becoming a for-profit
• The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust
• Why Iranian dissidents love Cyrus, an ancient Persian king
• The world is (still) failing to come close to its climate goals
• In China's "median city" people are surprisingly risk-averse
• KAL's cartoon
• Anti-opioid groups are 'optimistic' about Trump's tariffs. Will the move help tackle the fentanyl crisis?
• AMLO's austerity has hurt Mexico
• Climate change will alter where many crops are grown
• Cristina Calderón was the only full-blooded member of her people
• A chunk of asteroid is coming to Earth
• Josep Almudéver died on May 23rd
• Daniel Brush's drive to understand beauty led him to the life of a hermit
• What Is Genetic Testing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Julian Bream died on August 14th
• The army-backed establishment in Thailand goes after its enemies
• Obituary: Judith Kerr died on May 23rd
• The race to become leader of Britain's Conservatives
• How Iran covered up the damage from Israel's strikes
• What Scott Bessent's appointment means for the Trump administration
• Europe's economic growth is extremely fragile
• A tiny, ancient hominin may have been surprisingly clever
• Lego Black Friday deals you can still get: Up to 32 percent off Star Wars and Super Mario sets
• TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope
• America's pandemic savings are running out
• Space may be worse for humans than thought
• Why some whales can smell in stereo
• Political theorists have been worrying about mob rule for 2,000 years
• After Nayib Bukele's crushing, unconstitutional victory, what next?
• The trouble with reality in fiction
• War and climate change are overwhelming Somalia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Justin Trudeau is paying for solar panels in the cold, dark Arctic
• Iraq could be the Middle East's next battleground
• Israel targets the head of Hizbullah in a deadly strike on Beirut
• Covid-19 has imperilled the hammams of north Africa and the Levant
• Why the next Westminster scandal is already here
• 80 Amazing Cyber Monday Deals To Grab From Amazon, Best Buy, Walmart and More
• Why do the Japanese love CDs?
• Messaging services are providing a more private internet
• Why "The Rest Is Politics", a British podcast, is a hit
• Math and Physics Can't Prove All Truths
• The Senate blocked aid for Ukraine. Now what?
• Can the voluntary carbon market save the Amazon?
• Extrude - Analyse Binaries For Missing Security Features, Information Disclosure And More...
• The novel ways old people try to find love in China
• Israel's invasion of Lebanon may bolster support for Hizbullah
• Frans de Waal taught the world that animals had emotions
• "Trading Places" and the challenge of troubling art of the past
• The Economist's final prediction points to a Tory wipeout in Britain
• Winemakers are building grape-picking robots
• Vladimir Putin spends big—and sends Russia's economy soaring
• Visualising India's record-breaking rainfall
• Electing top judges has been a disaster in Bolivia
• Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
• Confused and dirty: Claudia Sheinbaum's energy plan
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• British MPs vote in favour of assisted dying
• Which Kamala Harris is now at the top of the Democratic ticket?
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• India throws another opposition leader in jail as elections loom
• Invest in Banking Like Warren Buffett: Own a 'Castle'
• Ginni Thomas, battle-hardened conservative and bugaboo of Democrats
• Texas's Republicans eat their own
• Why avocados are driving another sort of green economy in Kenya
• Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
• A second human case of bird flu in America is raising alarm
• Clashes at Soccer Match Kill Dozens in Guinea
• Indians have grown used to getting nice things from politicians
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• China's wealthy elite rigs its university arms race
• Millions are travelling across China for lunar new year
• What taxes might Labour raise?
• Radio Modi: How India's prime minister sweet-talks the nation
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Kung fu gives Africans their kicks
• Italy needs to learn from other countries on structural changes
• Alzheimer's disease may, rarely, be transmitted by medical treatment
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Politics
• How Britain's dirtiest region hopes to become a hub for clean energy
• The best, and worst, American cities for upward mobility
• Wayfair Coupons: 15% Off | December 2024
• Audiobooks are booming, thanks to streaming subscriptions
• However justified, more government intervention risks being counterproductive
• Suicide rates for girls are rising. Are smartphones to blame?
• Data Breaches: The Complete WIRED Guide
• A Nobel prize for the discovery of micro-RNA
• The world's most, and least, democratic countries in 2022
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• For Gen-Z job-seekers, TikTok is the new LinkedIn
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• People are splurging like never before on their pets
• My Favorite Super Mario Table Top Game Is Only $10 This Cyber Monday
• Daniel Ortega expels 222 political prisoners from Nicaragua
• China's state is eating the private property market
• Cities used to sprawl. Now they're growing taller
• How FIFA was outplayed by Electronic Arts
• Can the world's most influential business index be fixed?
• South Korea's suicide rate fell for years. Women are driving it up again
• Cheap fixes could help 450m people stand taller and think quicker
• The 24 Best Shows on Amazon Prime Right Now (December 2024)
• China tells its citizens to be on the lookout for spies
• Mexico's foreign policy is unambitious and erratic
• How the left is defending itself in the Democratic blame game – podcast
• 21 Cyber Monday Deals on Apple iPads, MacBooks, More Still Available
• China is going crazy for durians
• How countries rank by military spending
• Intel Gets Up to $7.9 Billion Award for U.S. Chip-Plant Construction
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• iOS 18: Your iPhone's Messages App Can Do Math Now
• Could China, Russia's "no-limits" friend, help rebuild Ukraine?
• The International Criminal Court is facing doubts as its member states meet
• Should the world fear China's chipmaking binge?
• Vladimir Zhirinovsky's highly methodical madness
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Baltimore became a sad harbinger of the future
• Drug-trafficking networks are expanding into new territories
• Foreign students are pouring back into Australia
• Investors panicked after Mexico's election. Were they right?
• Criminal networks are well ahead in the fight over Europe's ports
• What does the tightness of our clothes say about our emotions? You'd be surprised
• Britain's last coal-fired power station closes
• Costa Rica no longer seems a Latin American success story
• A clue to China's true covid-19 death toll
• Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will oversee a more divided Brazil
• Elderly populations mean more government spending
• The world needs a better World Health Organisation
• This week's covers
• How will Labour reform Britain's public services?
• Iran's new leaders stand at a nuclear precipice
• Azerbaijan's government turns on its critics at home
• Britain's Supreme Court considers what a woman is
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain's obsession with baked beans
• Joan Feynman died on July 22nd
• Has China reached peak emissions?
• China's message to the global south
• China suffers eruptions from its simmering discontents
• Uranium prices are soaring. Investors should be careful
• The weekly cartoon
• Romania is now a magnet for the world's medical students
• "Bonsoir l'Europe!" How languages affect Eurovision scores
• The European Union will badly miss Angela Merkel
• The making of a PowerPoint slide
• China's young want to work. For the government
• Chinese feminists are rebuilding their movement abroad
• Why people have fallen out of love with dating apps
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A new breed of protest has left Kenya's president tottering
• What Ramadan is like in Xinjiang
• Jerome Powell (almost) declares victory over inflation
• For 50 years the story of oil has been one of matching supply with increasing demand
• Could the Kamala Harris boost put Florida in play for Democrats?
• China's push to create a single national identity
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• Justin Trudeau is killing Canada's liberal dream
• Kemi Badenoch, the Tories' new leader, plans war on the "blob"
• Swimming's ruling on transgender women continues a trend
• Britain's last imperialists
• Tanzania's opposition, once flat on its back, is now on its knees
• A Northern Irish experiment in recycling
• Joe Biden leaked Israel's first plan to end the war in Gaza
• The global backlash against climate policies has begun
• "Mad Mike" Hoare died on February 2nd
• A Kenyan-led security mission finally starts to arrive in Haiti
• The danger zone between two presidents
• Recent special elections bode well for Democrats
• Why China fears Starlink
• India's Supreme Court refuses to recognise same-sex marriage
• TikTok is a key battleground in Indonesia's election
• The Arab League has done little for its members in nearly 70 years
• An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
• Mohammad Reza Shajarian died on October 8th
• Business
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump is embracing a shift in Republican priorities
• Will Americans be bowled over by cricket—again?
• Lata Mangeshkar was the soundtrack of newly independent India
• Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro mount an insurrection in Brazil
• This week's cover
• Evidence mounts that Ukrainian forces are in Sudan
• Volodymyr Zelensky's five-year term ends on May 20th
• Out of Stock on Black Friday, the Dyson Outsize Vacuum is Back at a Record Low Price This Cyber Monday
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's covers
• The evolution of forced labour in Xinjiang
• Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It's Not All Bad
• New batteries are stretchable enough to wear against the skin
• KAL's cartoon
• Robots are suddenly getting cleverer. What's changed?
• Apple is right not to rush headlong into generative AI
• Donald Rumsfeld died on June 29th
• Why Ecuador risked global condemnation to storm Mexico's embassy
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The Houthis have survived worse than America's and Britain's strikes
• Inna Solovyova studied both stagecraft and the Russian soul
• A remarkable new era begins in South Africa
• Myanmar's military junta is battered by Chinese-backed forces
• The No.1 reason for success in China? Connections
• On polling day, Kamala Harris moves into a narrow lead
• Madame Tussauds reflects the fragmentation of fame in Britain
• A Game Designer Hid a Gold Trophy in the Woods. Let the Treasure Hunt Begin
• Russia-Ukraine war live: Kyiv must use diplomacy to reclaim territory, Zelenskyy says; Germany urges China to help end war
• What Russia's budget reveals about the war in Ukraine
• The curse of the Michelin star
• Nepo babies are taking over the workplace
• KAL's cartoon
• Covid learning loss has been a global disaster
• The Omicron variant advances at an incredible rate
• Why Eurovision won't boot out Israel
• Another attack on a Japanese local points to a big problem in China
• A changing car industry should result in more choice and better motoring
• How do you solve a problem like Joe Biden?
• Hedge funds make billions as India's options market goes ballistic
• A typhoon hits Shanghai and the Chinese economy groans
• A harrowing rape trial in France has revived debate about consent
• Europe is bidding a steady farewell to passport-free travel
• Can António Costa make a success of the world's hardest political gig?
• Once a free-market pioneer, Sri Lanka takes a leap to the left
• 'Ground zero for climate change': the shoreline sculpture park coming to Miami
• Dr Ruth aimed to shake America out of its puritan ways
• North Korea's fanatical regime just got scarier
• The promise Donald Trump is sure to keep
• Europe drastically cut its energy consumption this winter
• Meet Japan's hitchhiking fish
• Why are Chinese nationalists turning on Chinese brands?
• Abe Shinzo believed that Japan should assert itself in the world
• Why Yemen's Houthis are attacking ships in the Red Sea
• ModTracer - ModTracer Finds Hidden Linux Kernel Rootkits And Then Make Visible Again
• Class, race and the chances of outgrowing poverty in America
• Therabody Promo Codes and Deals: 10% Off
• Taiwan's elections are about more than China
• Why Japan needs more forceful defence
• The new economy net zero needs
• Politics
• Bernard Haitink believed that genius should speak for itself
• The Caspian Sea is shrinking rapidly
• From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year
• Ukraine's desperate draft-dodgers drown in the river of death
• The Guy Behind the Most Nostalgic Sites on the Internet
• "Homeland economics" will make the world poorer
• Business
• Two women are vying to be Mexico's next president
• Wagner routinely targets civilians in Africa
• Will FTX's customers be repaid?
• For Hannah Pick-Goslar, paths crossed in an extraordinary way
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The mysteries of Melania: Mrs Trump's memoir
• Can India's garments industry benefit from Bangladesh's turmoil?
• When will Ukraine join NATO?
• AI will not fix Apple's sluggish iPhone sales any time soon
• India's election could be the world's most expensive
• The Most Hated Way of Firing Someone Is Now Used More Than Ever. It's the Age of the PIP.
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Deforestation is costing Brazilian farmers millions
• American restrictions on hitting Russia are hurting Ukraine
• This week's covers
• Why Microsoft Excel won't die
• Saotome Katsumoto insisted that Japan should not forget
• The Adani scandal takes the shine off Modi's electoral success
• Marine Le Pen spooks the bond markets
• Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How the NFL keeps fans transfixed even when there are no games
• The world this year 2023
• The weekly cartoon
• NASA insists that two astronauts are not "stranded" in space
• Britain's prison service is caught in a doom loop
• The best books of 2021
• Shrinking populations mean less growth and a more fractious world
• The notable obituaries of 2023
• Britons should brace for more travel chaos
• Disputes over pay are hobbling Britain's public sector
• Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia
• Blighty newsletter: Will Britain have more racist riots?
• Politics
• Asia's most expensive cities, ranked
• Business
• From Southwest to Spirit, budget airlines are in a tailspin
• Gluttony, lust and the other 'deadly sins' are seen as immoral, but are we hardwired to commit them? | Guy Leschziner
• Best Cyber Monday Amazon Deals Today: We've Already Spotted 42+ Can't-Miss Offers
• In Japan, festivals are boldly taking art into the countryside
• Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China
• This Old House? Home Buyers' Best Deals Are on Builders' Lots
• Bad Bunny, a superstar rapper, is good business
• Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor-in-waiting?
• It is time to divert Taiwan's trade and investment from China
• Arvind Kejriwal's imprisonment is a stain on India's democracy
• Israel Builds Bases in Central Gaza, a Sign It May Be There to Stay
• How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter
• How to charge more
• Trump allies begin attack on EPA and rules protecting US drinking water
• Politics
• Donald Triplett was autism's "Case 1"
• Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme
• Why the Republicans will convene in a forge of American socialism
• Why are so many bodies in Britain found in a decomposed state?
• A war correspondent's intimate portrait of an embattled minority
• How Yahya Sinwar's death will change the Middle East
• Gloria Allen ran a charm school for young trans women
• Germany's populist superstar demands peace with Russia
• Renewi Shares Hit Two-Year High on Macquarie Bid
• Today's AI models are impressive. Teams of them will be formidable
• Britain's star builder hits trouble
• 7 Sneaky Ways to Trick Yourself Into Exercising
• NATO defence spending is rising, but not fast enough
• Russian and Syrian Regime Forces Strike Rebel-Held Territory as Assad Faces Biggest Threat in Years
• The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes
• The weekly cartoon
• A threatened ports strike is already having an impact in America
• Boaz v BlackRock: Whoever wins, closed-end funds lose
• Is it true that … running destroys your knees?
• The Beginning of the End of Big Tech
• Can software help ease Britain's housing crisis?
• How Vladimir Putin provokes—and complicates—the struggle against autocracy
• Florida is the first state to reject an abortion-rights measure
• Obituary: André Previn died on February 28th
• Espionage scandals are hurting Germany's far right
• Franz Mohr was the man who made great concerts possible
• How popular is Joe Biden?
• Floods in Spain cause death and devastation
• The best Black Friday kitchen deals will save you up to 44 percent on Ninja, Breville, KitchenAid, Fellow and more
• Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions
• Democracy is under attack in Senegal
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Will unions sweep the American South?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Adele is taking a break from music. Can anybody replace her?
• The risk of election violence in America is real
• Quantifying the rise of America's far right
• CyberChef - The Cyber Swiss Army Knife - A Web App For Encryption, Encoding, Compression And Data Analysis
• Europe's economy is a cause for concern, not panic
• Climate change and the next administration
• Israel bombs the Hamas military mastermind behind the October 7th attack
• What makes Europe so liveable?
• Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?
• Near-shoring is turning eastern Europe into the new China
• Two journalists who have exposed human-rights abuses win the Nobel peace prize
• Eric Adams, New York's mayor, is indicted on bribery charges
• What makes a good manager?
• A D-Day commemoration that was not just about beating Hitler
• Meet the world's new arms dealers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Does Israel's new plan for Gaza include withholding food?
• The 23 Best Movies on Amazon Prime Right Now (December 2024)
• Avdiivka falls at last, as Russia presses along the front line
• A new generation of music-making algorithms is here
• Latin America's local governments too often fail their people
• Narendra Modi is remaking India's 1.4m strong military
• Trade unions have their eye on Britain's tech sector
• A tornado destroys a barn—an Economist favourite—in Wisconsin
• China is beating America in the nuclear-energy race
• Airships may finally prove useful for transporting cargo
• Obituary: I.M.Pei died on May 16th
• The EU should be the world's heat-pump pioneer
• KAL's cartoon
• Norway's weak currency presents a mystery
• How to manage politics in the workplace
• What can stop the American economy now?
• Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starmer fight for a poundshop presidency
• Demand for uranium is booming. Who is benefiting?
• The Americans who think Trump is anointed by God
• Iran's supreme leader is terrified of people power
• Why a stronger dollar is dangerous
• Is coal the new gold?
• The fight over meat-free meat pits Europe's traditionalists against foodie innovators
• Russia outsmarts Western sanctions—and China is paying attention
• Why China's rulers fear Genghis Khan
• Rose Dugdale went from debutante to IRA bombmaker
• More Americans than ever report a disability
• Gautam Adani faces bribery charges in America
• The perils of expanded balance-sheets
• How China uses UNESCO to rewrite history
• Donald Trump also won a reprieve from justice
• Working-class parents are becoming more like middle-class ones
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• How Italy's Mezzogiorno is benefiting from a flood of EU aid
• Venezuela's Supreme Court tests President Joe Biden
• Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good
• Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong
• Elon Musk's Starship reaches orbit on its third attempt
• Who is Bushra Bibi? Imran Khan's wife stands at the forefront of the Pakistan protests
• An English ruling on transgender teens could have global repercussions
• How China sees Gaza
• Turkey has given up promoting political Islam abroad
• Does America have enough weapons to support its allies?
• France heads to the polls in a critical parliamentary vote
• Winston Churchill's urinal shows Britain's hang-up with heritage
• Will interest-rate cuts turbocharge oil prices?
• KAL's cartoon
• Leon Fleisher died on August 2nd
• Has Australasia lurched right on race?
• From Congo to the Capitol, conspiracy theories are surging
• Why Japanese stocks are on a rollercoaster ride
• Places ravaged by opioids are giving Republicans the upper hand
• Bayer wants legislative help to fight its cancer lawsuits
• A row between Turkey and Greece over gas is raising tension in the eastern Mediterranean
• Can Narendra Modi complete India's state-building project?
• How to train your large language model
• Business
• Blighty newsletter: Can Labour fix the British state?
• Why do Australians live so long?
• China is distorting its stockmarket by trying to prop it up
• India tightens the screws on online dissent
• Retail outages drag into second week after Blue Yonder ransomware attack
• The sun begins to set on Olaf Scholz's chancellorship
• Ten years on from Scotland's independence referendum
• How not to run a water utility
• The Van Gogh Museum showcases a rejected early masterpiece
• Meet the Peruvian indigenous singer inspired by K-pop
• Suck up to your fake CEO
• Child poverty will be a test of Labour's fiscal prudence
• Biden's economic legacy tied to fate of his industrial policies
• Nigeria seeks to restore pride in its artefacts, ancient and modern
• Five charts compare Democrats and Republicans on job creation
• This week's cover
• Why Mexico's largest-ever election matters
• China's relationship with Africa is growing murkier
• TSMC is having more luck building in Japan than in America
• How many people have died in Gaza?
• The insidious campaign to demolish mosques in India
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Readers' hopes and fears for a Trump presidency
• As Lula takes over, Brazil's economic prospects are looking up
• Attacks on shipping threaten to upend peace talks in Yemen
• Business
• Why Can't the Weather Apps on Our Phones Get It Right?
• The Crypto Industry Is Helping Donald Trump Pick SEC Chair
• Why cooking causes 4m premature deaths a year
• How businesses are actually using generative AI
• Save Big on DeWalt Headphones and Speakers: Up to 34% Off This Cyber Monday
• Graphene, a wondrous material, starts to prove useful
• Catherine Hamlin died on March 18th
• Why a drone war in Asia would look different from the one in Ukraine
• The Trends Atlantic Writers Love and Hate
• Meituan's Profit Triples as Revenue Grows Despite Competition
• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished
• Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hizbullah
• Italy's new government needs to make deep economic reforms
• Mary Quant launched the clothes that made the Sixties swing
• Dobbs electrified supporters of abortion rights
• Does Britain need a National Wealth Fund?
• Edward de Bono died on June 9th
• The number of American students in China is going up again
• KAL's cartoon
• Xi Jinping builds a 21st-century police state
• Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
• In America, school test results are still lagging behind pre-covid levels
• The stockmarket rout may not be over
• Inside the unrest disfiguring English cities
• Why any estimate of the cost of climate change will be flawed
• The world this week
• America, Israel and Hamas are trapped in a dangerous impasse
• Israel has just a few weeks left to destroy Hamas
• Singapore's foreign admirers see only the stuff they like
• Life and death in a Christmas tree
• Where is it actually cheaper to drive an electric car?
• An Uncertain Future Requires Uncertain Prediction Skills
• How Gen Zs rebel against Asia's rigid corporate culture
• Moana 2 Continues Disney's Year of Box Office Wins
• Keir Starmer wants to reset relations between Britain and Europe
• At what age do you hit the peak of your career?
• Vladimir Putin begins Operation Blame Ukraine
• Could the Israel-Hamas war trigger unrest across the Arab world?
• Studio flats are now affordable in many more American cities
• As the Nikkei 225 hits record highs, Japan's young start investing
• Sir Jim Ratcliffe, chemicals magnate turned sports mogul
• Vietnam's head of state leaves under a cloud
• Can Big Oil run in reverse?
• Asfaw Yemiru died on May 8th
• Pelé, king of the beautiful game
• Comrade Duch died on September 2nd
• Why Donald Trump has moved ahead in our election forecast
• China and Russia have chilling plans for the Arctic
• Japan will struggle to rescue its plummeting currency
• Introducing Essential India, our latest newsletter
• Obituary: A.Q. Khan was the world's biggest nuclear proliferator
• Do children in England talk too little?
• Metal Prices Slide; Significant Volatility Expected on Trump, China Policies
• The secret behind the world's happiest country
• Politics
• How India's imports of Russian oil have lubricated global markets
• Politics
• Obituary: Agnès Varda died on March 29th
• Choosing Empathy Is Critical to Democracy
• Should Britons' health be considered a national asset?
• Hunter Biden Faced Prison Time for Tax and Gun Charges
• Mass-Assigner - Simple Tool Made To Probe For Mass Assignment Vulnerability Through JSON Field Modification In HTTP Requests
• In search of resilience
• Simone Biles is the most decorated gymnast in history
• Politics
• The Trump campaign fires a barrage of negative advertisements
• Ukraine's secret army in France
• Brazil courts China as its Musk feud erupts again
• KAL's cartoon
• India's electronics industry is surging
• Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market Talk
• Is Xi Jinping an AI doomer?
• Humans have altered other species as well as the environment
• Britain's government wants bigger pension funds
• India has proved to be a popular—and clever—investor in poor countries
• How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
• Fiscal nerds determine the fate of legislation in America
• KAL's cartoon
• What does the OpenAI exodus say about Sam Altman?
• Dana White, martial-arts magnate and Trump cheerleader
• Taiwan braces for America's election
• Are American rents rigged by algorithms?
• Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions
• Politics
• Democrats need to understand: Americans think they're worse
• These countries could lure manufacturing away from China
• Why everyone wants to lend to weak companies
• The mother of all bubbles
• When a Nation Embraces a False Reality
• Gretchen Whitmer would like to be America's first woman president
• Le Pen's hard right looks set to dominate the French parliament
• "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" show that blockbusters could save the cinema
• As stock prices fall, investors prepare for an autumn chill
• Canada's jade mines boomed on Chinese demand. Now that's over
• Is Ukraine losing the war against Russia?
• The maths of Europe's military black hole
• Economic and financial indicators
• Tunisia's strongman president looks set to win another term in office
• Short of cash, Brazil's government may end its gambling prohibition
• Africa Inc is ready to roar
• Obituary: Anwar Congo died on October 25th
• How Starbucks caffeinates local economies
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain's army chief fears war may come sooner than anyone thinks
• The best television shows of 2021
• Business
• Imagine a Drug That Feels Like Tylenol and Works Like OxyContin
• Why many young Asians are no longer studying history
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ukrainian advances on Donetsk and Zaporizhia can be seen from space
• Augmented reality offers a safer driving experience
• Why house prices are surging once again
• Jonathan Sacks died on November 7th
• For the perfect cup of tea, start with the right bacteria
• The economic recklessness of both France's hard left and hard right
• A Psychologist's Tips for Avoiding Overconsumption this Black Friday
• Israel and Hamas are not that far from a ceasefire agreement
• Singapore's biggest money-laundering case has links to Chinese gamblers
• Can Britain's economy grow as fast as it needs to?
• Why investors are not buying Europe's revival
• Which countries have the most-educated politicians?
• Stranger than Fiction: Lives of the Twentieth-Century Novel review – 100 years of magical thinking
• This week's cover
• UFOs are going mainstream
• Obituary: Mikis Theodorakis wrote the theme tune of "Zorba the Greek"
• China Tensions Prompt U.S. Navy Race to Reload Missiles at Sea
• Malicious Ads in Search Results Are Driving New Generations of Scams
• When a Telescope Is a National-Security Risk
• Anne Innis Dagg devoted her life to the world's tallest creature
• The rival influences of the United States and China
• Visible Promo Code: Get a Free Phone This December
• Online dating spells the end of Britain's lonely-hearts ads
• Bad ideas are back on the menu in the Middle East
• The Princess of Wales's cancer diagnosis is a very public ordeal
• The 70 best Cyber Monday tech deals under $50
• The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people
• The world needs codes quantum computers can't break
• The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping
• We Found the 40 Best Cyber Monday Deals Under $100 Available Right Now
• Germany's Free Democrats have become desperate spoilers
• Researchers are figuring out how large language models work
• Many Ukrainian drones have been disabled by Russian jamming
• The archbishop and the abuser
• Would America dare to bring down a Chinese bank?
• The BRICS bloc is riven with tensions
• The sorry story of children in care in England
• 42 Best Cyber Monday Camera Deals (2024)
• Ronald Blythe recorded the passing, and continuance, of rural life
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Iris Apfel became a fashion icon in her ninth decade
• Award: Natasha Loder and Simon Akam
• This week's cover
• This week's cover
• Javier Milei is splurging on the army
• Our Carrie Bradshaw index: where Americans can afford to live solo in 2024
• The Economist's science and technology internship
• American and Chinese scientists are decoupling, too
• After banning cinema for decades, Saudi Arabia is making movies
• Delivery robots will transform Christmas
• Four charts that highlight this summer's freakish temperatures
• Who will lead the LVMH luxury empire?
• A Nigerian's guide to weddings during the cozzie livs
• Glaciers on volcanoes could serve as early-warning systems
• Israel's leaders are watching America's election closely
• Business
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• One of the Middle East's oldest conflicts has entered a new era
• A wave of international rule-making threatens Caribbean tax havens
• Is a Palestinian state a fantasy?
• Every 2024 Atlantic Hurricane Had Faster Winds because of Climate Change
• Politics
• Israeli aircraft buzz Beirut as the drums of war bang loud
• Priyanka Gandhi: dynastic scion, and hope of India's opposition
• Psobf - PowerShell Obfuscator
• Does Donald Trump have unlimited authority to impose tariffs?
• Tracking Israel's war in Lebanon, in maps
• Sahra Wagenknecht is Germany's rising political star
• Global temperatures have broken records three times in a week
• Why the war on childhood obesity is failing
• The world faces its worst trade wars since the 1930s
• Why China is awash in unwanted milk
• Countries need to pull more carbon dioxide out of the air
• Scotland's failure to build homes is mainly due to its government
• Rural Colombia welcomes gangs that mete out vigilante justice
• Claudia Sheinbaum's landslide victory is a danger for Mexico
• Rumours swirl after China's defence minister, Li Shangfu, is sacked
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• Stain Removal Guide: How to Scrub Blood, Grease, Grass, Oil and More From Clothes
• Pasha Lee went from Ukrainian screen idol to volunteer
• Germany is thinking about bringing back conscription
• The world's most innovative country
• Trees Alone Can't Stop Climate Change
• Tracking a Year of Dangerous Tit for Tat on the Korean Border
• Going green could bring huge benefits for India's economy
• Why Latin America is the world's trade pipsqueak
• For a glimpse at Japan's future, look at its convenience stores
• Iran's attack has left Israel in a difficult position
• Anker Black Friday deals: Get up to 47 percent off power banks, wireless chargers and other accessories
• This week's covers
• Even as traditional globalisation has slowed, a new kind has sped up
• Why Japanese markets have plummeted
• Diego Maradona died on November 25th
• China's government is badgering women to have babies
• The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got Fired
• The 2023 crony-capitalism index
• Business
• These are the most expensive cities in North America
• Political instability in Italy has always affected reform
• She Signed a Living Will. Her Sister Didn't Honor It.
• Perilous migrant crossings of the Mediterranean are rising
• Why are Indians shunning the country's shiny new metro lines?
• Can computing clean up its act?
• Politics
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador will haunt his successor
• Kamala Harris makes Donald Trump look out of his depth
• Demand for high-end cameras is soaring
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• 2023 looks set to be a watershed year for the climate
• There is more than one way to make green steel
• The culture war over the Gaza war
• Is Britain levelling up?
• The big picture: a lost office world of endless paper and big cigars
• How Donald Trump could win the future
• Labour's landslide victory will turn politics on its head
• Business
• China has its eyes on Okinawa
• Turkey's President Erdogan faces a new challenge from Islamists
• French Bond Yield Spreads Could Widen Further
• What war mobilisation might look like in China
• John Hare devoted his life to saving the Gobi's wild camels
• DockerSpy - DockerSpy Searches For Images On Docker Hub And Extracts Sensitive Information Such As Authentication Secrets, Private Keys, And More
• Animals can be tracked by simply swabbing leaves
• A Tokyo district cracks down on Halloween
• How a Spanish province became the world's truffle leader
• Could Mark Carney lead Canada?
• How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid
• South Korean politics is one big row about history
• Hollywood enters a frugal new era
• Six charts help to explain 2024's freakish temperatures
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixed
• This week's cover
• Japan's ruling party is in crisis
• Kamala Harris lacks charisma and time
• Complexities of moderating and classifying video games
• A new technique could analyse tumours mid-surgery
• Joe Biden needs Mexico's co-operation on migration
• How to invest in chaotic markets
• A thumping win for Tshisekedi in Congo's election raises eyebrows
• Obituary: Alexei Leonov died on October 11th
• A lost opportunity to reform Tanzania
• Hamas and Israel are still far apart over a ceasefire deal
• How the Chinese state aims to calm the property market
• Hindenburg widens its attack on Adani
• Toriyama Akira was probably Japan's greatest manga master
• How older French women are redefining the aesthetics of ageing
• The Ugandan state unlawfully detains a novelist
• Firms are exploring sodium batteries as an alternative to lithium
• How the Mediterranean could become a green-energy powerhouse
• China's yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback
• Colombia's leftist president is flailing
• KAL's cartoon
• Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge
• As lockdowns lift, media firms brace for an "attention recession"
• F.W. de Klerk had to abandon what his ancestors had believed in
• Covid-19 is fuelling a Zoom-boom in cosmetic surgery
• Hassan Nasrallah's death will reshape Lebanon and the Middle East
• Shane Warne believed that cricket should always be fun
• The Fossil Fuels Conversation Needs a Hard Reset
• No wonder Macron's gambling: Europe is home to the high-roller
• Why America is a "flawed democracy"
• Should you be nice at work?
• Kim Beom-su, the billionaire founder of Kakao, faces trial
• China and Australia are beefing up their Pacific policing
• Why the hard-right Herbert Kickl is unlikely to be Austria's next chancellor
• Photos of the Week: Doo Dah, Horse Play, Cloud Falls
• Nigel Farage takes over as leader of Reform UK
• Business
• Russia's brutal mercenaries probably won't matter much in Ukraine
• NATO is agonising over whether to let Ukraine join
• Social-media influencers are battling to educate young Indians about sex
• Biden Targets China's Chip Industry With Wider Trade Bans
• What does Modi 3.0 look like?
• What does Xi Jinping want from Vladimir Putin?
• A new book celebrates Annie Leibovitz's fashion photography
• The side-effects of the TikTok tussle
• This week's cover
• The beating of Argentina's former first lady fits a shameful pattern
• Yes, You Can Still Find a 5% Savings Account. Today's Savings Rates, Dec. 2, 2024
• The Kremlin is close to crushing Pokrovsk, a vital Ukrainian town
• KAL's cartoon
• Hard-right parties are entering government across Europe
• American exceptionalism exists, but other countries also have problems
• In search of the white British voter
• Countering China in Africa
• Australia joins the industrial arms race
• Why is Israel using so many dumb bombs in Gaza?
• America prepares for a new nuclear-arms race
• Jovenel Moïse's widow is accused of being party to his murder
• Green protectionism comes with big risks
• The Dutch are getting a half-populist, half-pragmatist government
• Canada's Conservatives are crushing Justin Trudeau
• Victoria Amelina explored a land of atrocities and secrets
• Betting markets are useful when politics is chaotic
• A private Moon mission hopes to succeed where others have failed
• How an English miner's daughter rose to work in the White House
• Clues to a possible cure for AIDS
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
• Is Uruguay too stable for its own good?
• Banks, at least, are making money from a turbulent world
• Justin Trudeau promises Trump that Canada will increase border surveillance
• Atheism is still a taboo for American politicians
• Emmanuel Macron faces heavy losses after a short campaign
• The booze industry reveals a lot about Kenya
• Hong Kong's property slump may be terminal
• Jean-Jacques Sempé was an unparalleled observer of the human condition
• Samsung's boss avoids prison, again
• The plight of Christians in Bethlehem and Jerusalem predates the latest Gaza war
• Politics
• Upper legislative houses tend to be biased and malapportioned
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Rule by law, with Chinese characteristics
• Tryptophan Isn't What Puts You Under on Thanksgiving. It's the Carbs
• There's lots of gold in urban waste dumps
• Turkey's asset-price boom is good for some but terrible for most
• The world's poorest countries have experienced a brutal decade
• Across the world central governments face local covid-19 revolts
• What a second Trump presidency will bring
• Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple's march towards $4trn?
• Guatemala's election produces a pleasant surprise
• The temptations of deferred removals
• Weak commitments from the G20 cast a shadow over COP26's opening
• This week's covers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• American men are getting back to work
• Wang Fuchun died on March 13th
• Elon Musk files for injunction to halt OpenAI's transition to a for-profit
• Colombia prepares for a vanilla boom
• As Jack Smith exits, Donald Trump's allies hint at retribution
• Invading Taiwan would be a logistical minefield for China
• Severe drought is constraining the Panama Canal
• The Israel-Iran standoff in maps
• The high cost of schools closed by covid
• America's far right is increasingly protesting against LGBT people
• Florida faces a triple threat to its environment
• Latin American cities are becoming far nicer for poorer inhabitants
• Why it's so hard to tell which climate policies actually work
• America's crumbling trade initiative in Asia
• What police commissioners tell you about the British election
• Why Republicans have failed to scrap the Department of Education
• The drug-overdose capitals of Europe
• Sources and acknowledgments
• These Guys Hacked AirPods to Give Their Grandmas Hearing Aids
• Joe Biden's best chance to shake up the race
• 'People are very welcoming': asylum seekers find support in Irish town – photo essay
• Giving the poor a wodge of cash is better than dripping it out
• What if China and India became friends?
• Who shaved $250bn from Kweichow Moutai's market value?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Did sexism propel Donald Trump to power?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• New York City is covered in illegal scaffolding
• America recreates a warfighting command in Japan
• Europe decides it doesn't like lab-grown meat before it's tried it
• Why Israel has not yet lost Europe
• Agitu Gudeta was killed on December 29th
• Tom Cruise May Take His Cinematic Intensity Underwater
• Defying China, Taiwan elects William Lai Ching-te as president
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The urge to protect
• Snowy seats and a giant cat: photos of the day – Monday
• As wildfires continue to ravage America, floods are wreaking havoc elsewhere
• Venezuela's autocrat launches a massive corruption probe
• Investing in commodities has become nightmarishly difficult
• H5N1 avian flu could cause a human pandemic
• A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel
• Roxie, one of China's few lesbian bars, closes its doors
• Issey Miyake saw clothes in a completely new way
• No-strings philanthropy is giving charities more decision-making power
• How Yemen's dominant Houthis blackmail foreign aid agencies
• A fraying system
• Calling Donald Trump a threat to the rule of law has backfired
• A northern Italian town bans cricket
• Drug decriminalisation in Europe may be slowing down
• China makes love and war with Taiwan
• Assisted dying and the two concepts of liberty
• The soldiers of the silicon supply chain are worried
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Giorgia Meloni would make Machiavelli proud
• Germany's conservatives choose the country's probable next leader
• The war in Ukraine has rattled both sides of Cyprus
• The war on prices: British edition
• Can anyone save Macy's?
• Pakistan's voters tell the generals where to put it
• The Economist's agony uncle returns
• Obituary: Jonathan Miller died on November 27th
• Australia's energy transition is in trouble
• Can anything rouse Germany from its economic slumber?
• Poland's ruling coalition divides over women's rights
• Chuck Yeager died on December 7th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Mike Lynch was Britain's first software billionaire
• The best films of 2021
• Military and financial support to Ukraine hits a record high
• Ukraine's Roma have suffered worse than most in the war
• As his popularity fades Volodymyr Zelensky culls his cabinet
• Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
• Sea ice in Antarctica is at its lowest-ever level, again
• What Republicans make of Donald Trump's conviction
• Peacock Cyber Monday streaming deal grants you a one-year subscription for only $20
• The invasion of Ukraine is not the first social media war, but it is the most viral
• Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate
• The woman who will lead Chile's counter-revolution
• The lessons of Africa's tax revolts
• The urgent need to reform political systems
• What happens when it is too hot to work?
• The world's most, and least, expensive cities
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• As federal aid shrinks, communities try new ways to tackle child poverty on their own
• Governments' widespread new fondness for interventionism
• 2024 Christmas Cookies Are Here
• Przekrój, an iconic Polish magazine, relaunches in America
• Covid-19 is here to stay. The world is working out how to live with it
• What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics?
• Europe's economy is under attack from all sides
• Cuba is out of supplies and out of ideas
• A major earthquake in Japan highlights the country's resilience
• How oceans became new technological battlefields
• Recep Tayyip Erdogan's relatives are becoming increasingly powerful
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How Wagner survived Yevgeny Prigozhin's death
• Business
• KAL's cartoon
• The best albums of 2021
• Hope Can Be More Powerful Than Mindfulness
• Digital twins are making companies more efficient
• Has the Quad lost its way?
• America under Joe Biden plays the pragmatist in Africa
• The pandemic is boosting efforts to get the old out of prison
• Jacob Zuma's new party could swing South Africa's election
• Most Ukrainians now want an end to the war
• Fewer babies are born in the months following hot days
• What if South Korea got a nuclear bomb?
• Why India should create dozens of new states
• Americans are fretting over their body odour
• Cyber Monday gaming deals for 2024: The best sales for PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox and PC
• Teen Behind Hundreds of Swatting Attacks Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
• Data on air bases suggest a Chinese invasion of Taiwan may not be imminent
• Sttr - Cross-Platform, Cli App To Perform Various Operations On String
• China's alleged theft of a pineapple cultivar has Taiwan livid
• Blighty newsletter: Why Keir Starmer is underwhelming
• Why Joe Biden won't go
• American stocks are consuming global markets
• A risky cancer treatment can be modified to treat immune diseases
• Obituary: Atta Elayyan was killed on March 15th
• This week's cover
• Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation
• America is trying to peg Israel's settlers back
• The fall of Libya's central banker triggers a new struggle
• Lauren Boebert's primary is a window into everyday Trumpism
• Britain's NHS reels from a ransomware attack
• Beyond France, the European elections will deliver more of the same
• The most expensive cities in which to celebrate Valentine's Day
• Politics
• Kenya is belatedly granting citizenship to groups once deemed foreign
• Amazon Web Services Launches Quantum-Computing Advisory Program
• Digital twins are enabling scientific innovation
• The Climate-Driven Diaspora Is Here
• New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence
• What Is Causing Disparities in C-Section Rates between Black and White Pregnant People?
• America's giant armsmakers are being outgunned
• Singapore has achieved astounding economic success
• Narendra Modi's flagship growth scheme is off to a sluggish start
• At 70, the global convention on refugees is needed more than ever
• Why China's government is hushing up court rulings
• What is the world's loveliest language?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How pop culture went multipolar
• Putin's plan to dethrone the dollar
• How well does your country provide for its citizens?
• Britain's big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Britain's "mission-led" government defy gravity?
• Meta is accused of "bullying" the open-source community
• Amnon Weinstein turned grief into music again
• Joe Biden puts the Houthis back on America's baddies list
• A new "quartet of chaos" threatens America
• A hard-right 28-year-old could soon be France's prime minister
• How Chinese firms have changed Africa
• Two years of war have impoverished many Ukrainians
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• Insert coin
• Canadians are starting to sour on migration
• A battle against spies in China is spooking locals and foreigners
• What a $600m wedding says about India's attitude to wealth
• Myanmar's military junta has conjured up a crazy currency system
• What the history of money tells you about crypto's future
• How Russia has revived NATO
• The quest to build robots that look and behave like humans
• The best Cyber Monday PlayStation deals include $75 off PS5 Slim consoles
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• KAL's cartoon
• Spies, trade and tech: China's relationship with Britain
• Inside Narendra Modi's battle to win over the south
• Albert Woodfox found his true self in prison
• A new generation of Argentine musicians is topping the charts
• Welcome to the new era of global sea power
• How to fix Britain's barmy VAT regime
• Why do some people risk their lives for fun?
• The rich world is wrong to think that climate impacts in poor countries don't matter
• Climate VCs are cautiously optimistic about a second Trump term — here's why
• Somalia is on the brink of famine
• The house-price supercycle is just getting going
• Why Iran is hard to intimidate
• The strategic reverberations of the AUKUS deal will be big and lasting
• Republicans are turning against Ukraine
• Russia's gas business will never recover from the war in Ukraine
• Why does the West back the wrong Asian leaders?
• Chocolate Has a Sustainability Problem. Science Thinks It's Found the Answer
• Poland's stockmarket has a hot new entrant
• Senegal's democracy hangs by a thread
• The broken business model of British universities
• Blighty newsletter: Three takeaways from Starmer's first conference speech as prime minister
• Why France has made abortion a constitutional right
• The evolution of Britain's extreme right
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Europe's lefties bash migrants (nearly) as well as the hard right
• Obituary: Jean "Binta" Breeze spoke for all Jamaican women
• How to build a global currency
• Argentina could help the world by becoming a big lithium exporter
• Scientists are learning why ultra-processed foods are bad for you
• The trouble with Elon Musk's robotaxi dream
• Will Israel retaliate against Iran, or hold back?
• The obstacles faced by Turkey's winemakers
• A Chinese dispute with the Philippines is a test of America
• Why New York scrapped congestion charging
• Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?
• How to trade an election
• Our Big Mac index shows how burger prices differ across borders
• Smoke blackens the air in America's north-east
• The US Just Made It Way Harder for China to Build Its Own AI Chips
• Why Australia is not yet a critical minerals powerhouse
• What the Chevron ruling means for the next US president
• Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago's teachers' union everything
• How to escape from China to America
• US election forecast: who will win control of the Senate?
• Is inflation morally wrong?
• Economic and financial indicators
• The Middle East braces for wider war as Iran weighs its response
• Israel's war aims in Lebanon are expanding
• America could face its most active hurricane season ever
• Is India's economy slowing down?
• Superbatteries will transform the performance of EVs
• How India could become an Asian tiger
• How Chinese shoppers downgraded their ambition
• The world's first museum of homelessness
• Damage to undersea cables is disrupting internet access across Africa
• The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration
• Frank Drake believed that the universe had to contain other intelligent beings
• Why are VPNs getting slower in China?
• The six rules of fire drills
• Colombia's president had a bold peace plan. It is not working
• The People's Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
• An American-backed foreign force may be sent to Haiti
• Emmanuel Macron shows off the gloriously restored Notre Dame
• Obituary: Yuri Luzhkov died on December 10th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why America keeps building corrupt client states
• Checks and Balance newsletter: gender politics in the election
• Israel and Hizbullah strike a fragile deal to end their war
• Politics hamper China's efforts to stimulate the economy
• Iran bombards Israel as the war escalates further
• Europe finds €50bn for Ukraine, and a way around Viktor Orban
• The future of Drax, Britain's largest power plant
• Ernesto Cardenal died on March 1st
• Moving weapons around Europe fast is crucial for deterring Russia
• Maritime transport
• What does China want from Latin America and the Caribbean?
• KAL's cartoon
• As mass testing ends, how will covid waves be tracked?
• How scientists are using artificial intelligence
• Will IVF really be the next frontier in America's culture wars?
• 2023 was the hottest year ever
• The Putin Show
• China is suffering from a crisis of confidence
• This week's covers
• The meaning of Donald Trump's Supreme Court victory
• "Aftermath" is a piercing study of Germany after 1945
• Omer Neutra, Thought to Be Hostage in Gaza, Died on Oct. 7, IDF Says
• Is your rent ever going to fall?
• Ukraine's animals are also victims of the war
• Prabowo Subianto will be Indonesia's next president
• Britain's Reform UK party does not exist
• The world's biggest maker of spectacles wants to be a tech firm
• Australians are no longer united on Aboriginal rights
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The president of Somaliland is bargaining for recognition
• On stupid rules and quick wins
• Women's football is becoming bigger and better
• Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt take on AI
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Kamala Harris has the advantage in debating Donald Trump
• Accounting for flood risk would lower American house prices by $187bn
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI
• France seeks a new government
• Kenneth Kaunda died on June 17th
• The many prices of carbon dioxide
• China wants to export education, too
• The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway
• Globalisation may not have increased income inequality, after all
• AI could accelerate scientific fraud as well as progress
• After 50 years, the Residents are still on the road
• Wayve achieves Britain's largest-ever fundraising round
• Ten charts compare Joe Biden's record with Donald Trump's
• The American Who Waged a Tech War on China
• What next for Pakistan?
• How Humans Handle Housework
• America and China try to move past a new bump in relations
• Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
• Politics
• Heart attacks, strokes, dementia—can Biden and Trump beat the odds?
• The mystery surrounding China's missing defence minister
• Andriy Pilshchykov pleaded for F-16s to be sent to Ukraine
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's new age of swagger and paranoia
• How China's communists fell in love with privatisation
• The tiny statelet of Transnistria is squeezed on all sides
• Ann Shulgin pioneered the use of psychedelics in therapy
• Places claiming to be centenarian hotspots may just have bad data
• Humans shed genetic information everywhere they go
• A short-term work visa shows the benefits of immigration
• Generation Z is unprecedentedly rich
• Haiti's transitional government must take office amid gang warfare
• Brazil's biggest drug gang has gone global
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Iran's electronic confrontation with Israel
• Horse Domestication Story Gets a Surprising Rewrite
• Poland is trying to restore the rule of law without violating it
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Vivian Silver knew no good could ever come of war
• Claudia Sheinbaum will inherit a poisoned chalice in Mexico
• The cocaine trade is booming in Europe's Caribbean territories
• Thief Raccoon - Login Phishing Tool
• Max Martin knows how to create a number-one hit
• Inside Google's 7-Year Mission to Give AI a Robot Body
• Obituary: Jane Withers was the antidote to cuteness
• How to survive a superpower split
• A fresh Russian push will test Ukraine severely, says a senior general
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why Lula keeps meddling with Latin America's top oil company
• India's startup scene is picking up speed again
• The disappearance of China's defence minister raises big questions
• Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?
• How China became a car-exporting juggernaut
• The harmony between Labour and Britain's trade unions
• Latin America could become this century's commodity superpower
• Why the fertility gap between north and south Nigeria matters
• Watching "The Shawshank Redemption" on stage in China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Share your thoughts about the collapse of the German coalition government and the snap election
• Emmanuel Macron in his own words (English)
• First Steven Mnuchin bought into NYCB, now he wants TikTok
• Will El Mayo's arrest slow the spread of fentanyl?
• The return of a mask stolen by Belgium is stoking violence in Congo
• Biden's chances of re-election are better than they appear
• Sam Bankman-Fried is charged with defrauding investors
• The murder that aroused a nation
• What would Robert F. Kennedy junior mean for American health?
• Ukraine's latest weapons in its war with Russia: 3D-printed bombs
• Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates
• We Need a New Right to Repair for Artificial Intelligence
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Blighty newsletter: Labour's approach to levelling up
• History will judge Joe Biden by Kamala Harris
• World's Oldest Alphabet Discovered
• This week's covers
• Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?
• Ukraine's convicts take the fight inside Russia
• The WIRED Guide to Aliens
• Brazil reckons with the life and legacy of an abolitionist
• Energy & Utilities Roundup: Market Talk
• Millions of Chinese people play guandan. Is that good or bad?
• The Caribbean is awash with illegal American guns
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• AMLO is trying to bury the tragedy of Mexico's missing people
• RFK, Jr., Could Run the Agency That Oversees the CDC, FDA and NIH. Here's What That Means for Public Health
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's covers
• Richard Leakey established Kenya as a prime source of hominid fossils
• Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible
• Sir Keir Starmer meets the public. Sort of
• The plasma trade is becoming ever-more hypocritical
• Earth may once have had a planetary ring
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Can Argentina's next president fix the economy? Don't count on it
• A string of setbacks for the junta in Myanmar presents an opportunity
• Labour's growth ambitions demand more radicalism on planning
• After U.S.-China Prisoner Swap, Scores of Americans Are Still Trapped in China
• Inside the restored Notre Dame Cathedral – in pictures
• What Texas's oldest motel reveals about the rural South
• How Chinese is Shein?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why China is unlikely to restrain Iran
• Millions in the West want mandatory voting. Are they right?
• Donald Trump wins big and fast
• Plankton are much more interesting than you might think
• Gigafactories and dashed dreams: the parable of Blyth
• China's central bank tries to save the economy—and the stockmarket
• Death, debts and democratic doubts in Africa
• Actor Ian Smith, best known as Neighbours' Harold Bishop, reveals terminal cancer diagnosis
• A trove of photographs casts light on Bangladesh's liberation war
• Why Venetians are pondering raising their entire city
• Joe Biden lifts sanctions on Venezuela, but not without conditions
• KAL's cartoon
• Living outside China has become more like living inside China
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Will Spain's prime minister suddenly quit?
• The dangers of carrying a child for someone else in China
• What unites a Spice Girl, an opera star and champagne?
• Kamala Harris introduces "Coach" Tim Walz, her trusty running-mate
• Can Andrea Orcel, Europe's star banker, create a super-bank?
• Relations between Japan and South Korea are blossoming
• Kamala Harris carries the torch, and the burden, of Bidenomics
• After an unsuccessful boycott, women's tennis is back in China
• Narendra Modi needs to win over low-income Indians
• New industrial policies will not help economic stability
• Politics
• Bob Iger has defeated Nelson Peltz at Disney. Now what?
• After Merkel
• Car firms are trying out new ways to sell mobility
• How Asia is crucial in the battle against climate change
• How China will strike back at Trump
• Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
• A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona's elections
• Why the hype for hybrid cars will not last
• Can Israel's mighty tech industry withstand a wider war?
• Inside the shared studio of Thom Yorke and Stanley Donwood
• Why recorded music will never feel as good as the real thing
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Obituary: Stephen Cleobury died on November 22nd
• Jair Bolsonaro still shapes Brazil's political right
• Paris-anniversary climate pledges bring progress but fall short
• Will lab-grown meat ever make it onto supermarket shelves?
• Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk
• If a China and America war went nuclear, who would win?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What's next for Britain and the EU?
• How to write the perfect CV
• How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
• When China thought America might invade
• Will the economic and psychological costs of covid-19 increase suicides?
• China's giant solar industry is in turmoil
• Business
• Signal Is More Than Encrypted Messaging. Under Meredith Whittaker, It's Out to Prove Surveillance Capitalism Wrong
• Chimps Share Knowledge like Humans Do, Spurring Innovation
• Engineered dust could help make Mars habitable
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
• Health-care reform is upending the lives of China's doctors
• America and Iran step closer to the brink of war
• Green-lit or greenlighted? Gaslighted or gaslit?
• The most Tory place in Britain
• How wild horses sparked a culture war in Australia
• Could the Labour Party blow its big opportunity?
• Battlefield lessons
• Luxury hotels are having a glorious moment
• Politics
• Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations
• How far-right extremism is becoming a global threat
• What is weighing on CEOs' minds this earnings season?
• Britain's Conservatives rule the Thames Estuary. Not for long
• Meet the outspoken maverick who could lead India
• We Found the Best Cyber Monday Deals For Nintendo Switch You Don't Want to Miss
• The fight over one of Britain's last steel plants
• Bolivia is on the brink of an economic crisis
• Ursula von der Leyen has a new doctrine for handling the hard right
• J.D. Vance is now the heir apparent to the MAGA movement
• Huge floods in Brazil's south are a harbinger of disasters to come
• Britain's Conservative Party faces up to its own mortality
• Vietnam's new ruler: hardman, capitalist, hedonist
• The new front line of British politics is just lovely
• An election that could make the global internet safer for autocrats
• The Xi-Putin partnership is not a marriage of convenience
• Why Britain's Labour government enjoys hippy-punching
• The rapid loss of Antarctic sea ice brings grim scenarios into view
• Building an African multinational
• North Korea is shutting embassies
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Joe Brown died on April 15th
• LVMH Billionaire Bernard Arnault, the 'Shark' and a Den of Spies Laid Bare in Paris Courtroom
• Hunter Biden's criminal conviction is good for nobody politically
• Is it cheaper to rent or buy property?
• Douglas Lenat trained computers to think the old-fashioned way
• How China, Russia and Iran are forging closer ties
• South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead
• How successful is egg-freezing at preserving fertility?
• How China and Russia could hobble the internet
• How bush pigs saved Madagascar's baobabs
• China in Africa
• Singapore cracks down on Chinese influence
• British farms are luring the Instagram crowd
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Ancient artistic loot will finally make its way back to Cambodia
• AI models can improve corner-kick tactics
• Politics
• South Korean chipmakers get a reprieve
• The world's religions face a post-pandemic reckoning
• The world's most liveable cities in 2023
• Recent left-wing triumphs in Latin America may prove short-lived
• Places with high religious participation have fewer deaths of despair
• Latin America is set to become a major oil producer this decade
• China wants women to stay home and bear children
• Nicolás Maduro's sham election: the sequel
• Indian cities are utterly unprepared for what is about to hit them
• North Korea's aid to Russia raises difficult questions in China
• This week's covers
• Schumer Presses for F.B.I. Checks and Senate Consideration of Trump Nominees
• Rebel Forcesin Syria Take Most ofAleppo in Surprise Offensive
• Michael Collins died on April 28th
• A new lab and a new paper reignite an old AI debate
• Researchers in China create the first healthy, cloned rhesus monkey
• Nukes and King Charles—but no door key
• On screen, Father Christmas cuts a mercurial figure
• A short history of India in eight maps
• Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks
• Italy's government is trying to influence the state-owned broadcaster
• The return of the Farage ratchet
• What The Economist thought about solar power
• Where British MPs should look before the vote on assisted dying
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• In drought-stricken Europe, leaky pipes are worsening the problem
• Many mental-health conditions have bodily triggers
• Habitat loss and climate change increase the risk of new diseases
• This week's covers
• Germany's government is barely holding together
• Politics
• Eric Adams's friends keep having their phones taken away
• Neuralink Plans to Test Whether Its Brain Implant Can Control a Robotic Arm
• A history-lover's guide to the market panic over AI
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Donald Trump's potential SCOTUS picks
• Huawei's new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android
• Iran's frightening new playbook for war
• Broken promises, energy shortages and covid-19 will hamper COP26
• Argentina clinch the World Cup after beating France on penalties
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up
• Politics
• Meet one of Britain's most influential, least understood people
• What China's graduates really think about their job prospects
• AI can predict tipping points before they happen
• As covid-19 vaccines spread, so do underhand ways to get them
• Europeans lack visceral attachment to the EU. Does it matter?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The push to revamp the Chinese Communist Party for the next 100 years
• An ageing country shows others how to manage
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• The big city that is also pleasant to live in
• Meet Boris Nadezhdin, Vladimir Putin's brave challenger
• Sources and acknowledgments
• We're hiring a global correspondent
• Gordon Moore's law was the spur that drove the digital revolution
• How Do You Like That Filibuster Now?
• Polarisation by education is remaking American politics
• The first week after prison is the deadliest for ex-inmates
• How Gen Z Came to See Books as a Waste of Time
• Big tech is bringing nuclear power back to life
• China will become less populous, more productive—and more pricey
• A tonne of public debt is never made public
• The 40 Best Shows on Netflix Right Now (December 2024)
• Blighty newsletter: How Canada's Conservatives are shaping the Tories
• Do you have 'brain rot' from endless social media? Try our quiz
• Chinese overcapacity is crushing the global steel industry
• Are video games really addictive?
• Ten charts reveal Narendra Modi's actual record in office
• The limits of Turkey's strategic autonomy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Why China's companies are recruiting their own militias
• Violence against women is a scourge on poor countries
• Private-Equity Funds Are Taking Out Loans They Don't Really Need
• How independent is India's Supreme Court?
• China's new Great Wall
• Carbon emissions are dropping—fast—in Europe
• Bose QuietComfort Ultra earbuds are still $70 off and down to a record-low Black Friday price
• Obituary: Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi died on October 26th
• As the Euro-elections loom, Giorgia Meloni guards her right flank
• Hizbullah's sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerable
• Over a billion have voted in 2024: has democracy won?
• Enlightenment liberalism is losing ground in the debate about race
• 'World's most expensive banana' fetches $US5.2m at auction – video
• Could America and its allies club together to weaken the dollar?
• Donald Trump is now the oldest candidate to run for president
• Obituary: Paul Volcker died on December 8th
• Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policy
• International talks on curbing plastic pollution fail to reach agreement
• The Korean peninsula is as divided as ever
• El Salvador's authoritarian president is becoming a regional role model
• Vladimir Putin's dangerous bromance with Kim Jong Un
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Trump is playing high-stakes poker on tariffs
• Chinese art students scrawled Communist graffiti in London's Brick Lane
• India has quietly transformed its ports
• Jiang Zemin oversaw a wave of economic change, but not much political reform
• Latin America's new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
• KAL's cartoon
• Illegal fishing fleets plunder the oceans
• The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests
• European Defense Stocks Face Uncertainty From Trump's Efficiency Plans
• AI's Future and Nvidia's Fortunes Ride on the Race to Pack More Chips Into One Place
• OpenAI's legal battles are not putting off customers—yet
• KAL's cartoon
• How softer non-policing strategies might help
• Trae Stephens Has Built AI Weapons and Worked for Donald Trump. As He Sees It, Jesus Would Approve
• Biden Opens the Only Trip of His Presidency to Sub-Saharan Africa
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Confusion reigns in Pakistan's rigged election
• Business
• A film about Argentina's history sheds light on its politics today
• The world's rules-based order is cracking
• The New York Public Library mines its archive of 56m objects
• Mourid Barghouti died on February 14th
• These Stem Cell Treatments Cost the Rich Thousands. Donors Get Paid $200
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• How to be a good follower
• Temperatures of 50°C will become much more common around the Mediterranean
• After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out
• What to watch for on election night, and beyond
• What fiscal rules should Britain have?
• April Ashley campaigned for rights hardly considered before
• Acknowledgments
• Football clubs' revenues rebound from covid—especially in England
• How many books will you read before you die?
• Yes sir: a bizarre initiation ritual for Indonesia's cabinet
• Little Richard died on May 9th
• Meet the Japanese Kurds
• A Nobel prize in physiology for mRNA vaccines
• Europe can't decide how to unplug from China
• The future of fish farming is on land
• Adolfo Kaminsky saved thousands of Jews by changing their identities
• The immigrants Europe quietly wants more of
• The battle with China is psychological as much as physical
• Britain's boom in public inquiries into past disasters
• Checks and Balance newsletter: How to forecast an election in an unpredictable America
• Bibi Netanyahu offered spectacle over substance in America
• Some good news about America's fertility problem
• Obituary: Li Peng died on July 22nd
• Russia's double-punch back against Ukraine's shock raid
• China's greatest dumpling run
• Business
• The cautionary tale of Huy Fong's hot sauce
• Reopening Gaza's Rafah Crossing Is on the Table in Fresh Cease-Fire Push
• Politics
• Russia sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 years on bogus spying charges
• Bans on dog meat sweep across Asia
• Does motherhood hurt women's pay?
• For a second time Chileans reject a new constitution. Now what?
• Tesla faces an identity crisis: carmaker or tech firm?
• New crop-spraying technologies are more efficient than ever
• Japan's semiconductor toolmakers are booming
• How Do You Get to Artificial General Intelligence? Think Lighter
• Should euthanasia be allowed for those with mental illnesses?
• Vivienne Westwood sowed never-ending revolution all through the fashion world
• KAL's cartoon
• A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms
• Just inside Lebanon, Israeli soldiers debate how far to go
• Labour is the big beneficiary of Scottish political turmoil
• Many small islands have no room for manoeuvre at COP28
• Middle East crisis live: Iranian-backed militias reportedly enter Syria to support Assad's army
• Could seaweed replace plastic packaging?
• What ChatGPT's corporate victims have in common
• The extreme right after the riots in Britain
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Bankers have reason to hope Trump triumphs
• Li Zhensheng died on June 22nd
• This week's covers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• AI could help unearth a trove of lost classical texts
• Olivia de Havilland died on July 26th
• The warm glow
• A new leader offers little hope for Palestinians
• Elon Musk could earn more at Tesla than other company bosses
• The Sue Gray saga casts doubt on Keir Starmer's managerial chops
• America's rental-market mystery
• New York Times Says OpenAI Erased Potential Lawsuit Evidence
• Taiwan's President Begins Hawaii Stopover Despite China's Protests
• This week's covers
• The last scraps of the Haitian state are evaporating
• The noisome economics of dung beetles
• Combining AI and Crispr Will Be Transformational
• Xi Jinping's belated stimulus has reset the mood in Chinese markets
• What Israel's killing of aid workers means for Gaza
• Qatar's World Cup will emit more CO2 than any recent sporting event
• India is turning into an SUV country
• "Don't Look Up", Adam McKay's political farce, is bleakly realistic
• Brazil's foreign policy is hyperactive, ambitious and naive
• How to stop the killing
• Under a real peace deal, Gaza could be an intercontinental crossroads
• Politics
• What Xi Jinping gets wrong about China's economy
• China's deep-water fishing fleet is the world's most rapacious
• America's banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
• Peru has an incompetent president and a discredited Congress
• Labour's budget has given the bond market indigestion
• The rich world's teachers are increasingly morose
• Is America's last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
• The disorganisation of the Democratic rebels against Joe Biden
• Will Donald Trump "stop the wars" in the Middle East?
• Could the Greens become a force in British politics?
• As schools reopen, how can pupils make up for lost time?
• The Netherlands' new hard-right government is a mess
• Donald Trump may find it harder to dominate America's conversation
• When central banks face sanctions
• New industrial policies will make the world more unequal
• Ganga Stone died on June 2nd
• Two charts assess Donald Trump's distinctive debate style
• Narendra Modi ramps up the Muslim-baiting
• Treasure-hunting on England's Jurassic Coast
• The Republicans' policy platform previews the coming campaign
• China's Factory Activity Grows Narrowly in November
• Larry Kramer died on May 27th
• Could Aldi's supermarkets conquer America?
• There are risks but also big potential benefits from digital payments
• Far-right ideas are gaining a renewed respectability in France
• Crypto cowboys have found paradise in Paraguay
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Thousands of species of animals probably have consciousness
• America is concerned about social media. China is, too
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• KAL's cartoon
• Why China's confidence crisis goes unfixed
• Bluesky promises more verification and an 'aggressive' approach to impersonation
• Palmer Luckey and Anduril want to shake up armsmaking
• Why China is so keen to salvage shipwrecks in the South China Sea
• What Makes the Eastern U.S. Drought Different from the West's
• Attempts to make supply chains "resilient" are likely to fail
• Casinos are booming in South-East Asia
• Russia's Ballistic Missile Attack on Ukraine Is an Alarming First
• The deep sea is home to "dark oxygen"
• The next American president will be a China hawk
• An unusual museum in China is dedicated to Vinegar Joe
• After a season of Gaza protests, America's university graduates are polarised but resilient
• Business
• Obituary: Jacques Chirac died on September 26th
• America returns to containment to deal with Russia and China
• Hong Kong passes a security law that its masters scarcely need
• Frontline Formosa
• President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is militarising public security
• A Nobel prize for electron-watchers
• A sticking-plaster policy for Britain's strained courts
• Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk's Obesity Moat Just Got Stronger
• Business
• How will India's new coalition government work?
• Do Israel's assassinations work?
• Why companies get inflation wrong
• The West faces new inflation fears
• Iran's new hope: a cardiologist president
• Sean Baker's films bring sex work into the light
• A Constitutional Crisis Greater Than Watergate
• Politics
• Poor areas suffered 3.5 times more damage in Turkey's earthquake
• A banking raid in Europe kicks up an unseemly nationalist defence
• Bernardo Arévalo is still battling to become Guatemala's president
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Nvidia is now the world's most valuable company
• Why investors' "Trump trade" might be flawed
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Thailand was EIU's most improved democracy of 2022
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sacking Tucker Carlson has put a dent in Fox News's ratings
• Brazil's election is tight ahead of a run-off on October 30th
• What the war on tourism gets wrong
• What America's presidential election means for world trade
• The Federal Reserve cleans up its money-printing mess
• Pedro Sánchez clings to office at a cost to Spain's democracy
• If Nigeria cannot end fuel shortages, disaster beckons
• The pros and cons of corporate uniforms
• KAL's cartoon
• Donald Trump's dream of mass deportations is a fantasy
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sir Paul McCartney's memoir aims to affirm his status as a writer
• Western multinationals' Russian dilemmas
• China's persecution of Uyghurs extends to those it once favoured
• What does America's next treasury secretary believe?
• Man City v Inter Milan is the most lopsided final in Champions League history
• These are the most liveable cities in Europe
• Just how bad is it in Gaza?
• Peter Schickele and P.D.Q. Bach were sides of the same coin
• Russia's plan to seduce Christians in Africa
• Why oil supply shocks are not like the 1970s any more
• Study drugs make healthy people worse at problem-solving, not better
• Where are all the British robots?
• Narendra Modi and the art of claiming credit
• India cannot fix its problems if it pretends they do not exist
• Catholic reformers want big changes to a church marred by sex abuse
• Another attempt to kill Trump raises fears of political violence
• America's realtor racket is alive and kicking
• The world's most, and least, walkable cities
• Why economic warfare nearly always misses its target
• Can anyone pull Boeing out of its nosedive?
• Kamala Harris is outspending Donald Trump. Will it matter?
• Trump's Anti-Climate Agenda Could Help China Dominate Global Markets
• Why Texas Republicans are souring on crypto
• Business
• Never Use a Space Heater in These 9 Danger Zones
• Obituary: The Mars Rover was declared lost on February 12th
• There's Only a Few Hours Left to Save Up to 73% on NordVPN Protection This Cyber Monday
• Business
• How squid could help people get over their needle phobia
• Censorious governments are abusing "fake news" laws
• An ancient whale-like animal may be the biggest to have ever lived
• YIMBY cities show how to build homes and contain rents
• Time is running out to fix America's student-aid mess
• Which cities have the worst overtourism problem?
• When it comes to a war with Taiwan, many Chinese urge caution
• Could digital-payments systems help unseat the dollar?
• AI wins big at the Nobels
• The 30 Best Movies on Max (aka HBO Max) Right Now (December 2024)
• Danger in Donbas as Ukraine's front line falters
• Will America's government try to break up Google?
• Nawaz Sharif returns to Pakistan, again
• Rohingya are being forced to fight in Myanmar's civil war
• The world's insatiable appetite for Canada's maple syrup
• A troubled road lies ahead for German carmakers
• Could life exist on one of Jupiter's moons?
• Sabre-tooth tigers and dire wolves were in trouble before they vanished
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Carbon-dioxide removal needs more attention
• Angela who? Merkel's legacy looks increasingly terrible
• Is working from home about to spark a financial crisis?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The fight to dethrone the dollar
• China tries to figure out whom a hit song is mocking
• South-west England has become a three-way political battleground
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Trump, Biden and piratical shamelessness
• Narendra Modi cuddles up to Vladimir Putin in Moscow
• William Dement died on June 17th
• Global firms are tapping India's workers like never before
• Argentina's football clubs are resisting privatisation
• Shabana Mahmood, Britain's new Lord Chancellor
• Jack Jennings was one of the Allied POWs who built the Burma Railway
• Xi Jinping is trying to fuse the ideologies of Marx and Confucius
• Will North Korea's new spy satellite make the region safer?
• America's university graduates live much longer than non-graduates
• T.S. Shanbhag died of coronavirus on May 4th
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Norway forced to pause plans to mine deep sea in Arctic
• Why big oil is wading into lithium
• Ukraine surprises with a high-stakes raid into Russia
• Politics will move further to the left in 2023
• How bosses should play politics: the cautionary tale of Elon Musk
• How to harvest moisture from the atmosphere
• On the 50th anniversary of "Ways of Seeing" and "G."
• Blighty newsletter: Will Britain's Trump trauma repeat itself?
• A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow
• Where crashing cars is the point
• Introducing Analysing Africa, our latest newsletter
• The great cover-up: Europe is losing its penchant for public nudity
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office?
• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• Basic Materials Roundup: Market Talk
• What are the chances of an AI apocalypse?
• Taiwan's opposition parties unite
• Labour is on course for a huge victory in the British election
• Politics
• This week's cover
• How China views the popular uprising in Bangladesh
• Ukraine is a booming market for Balkan arms makers
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The pandemic has prompted questions about high-stakes exams
• Ukraine has a month to avoid default
• Here's Why Abortion Largely Won on Election Day—But Not on the Top of the Ticket
• America's glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
• The data hinted at racism among white doctors. Then scholars looked again
• The green revolution will stall without Latin America's lithium
• Forcing a Smile Using Electrical Stimulation Can Boost Your Mood
• Setbacks for Russia, Iran and Hezbollah Turn Into a Catastrophe for Syria's Assad
• Repressive regimes are tightening their grip on their citizens abroad
• How will Britain vote on July 4th?
• America, China and the race to the Moon
• AI models make stuff up. How can hallucinations be controlled?
• Britain's submarines are at sea for too long—or not at all
• Can playing cards help catch criminals?
• This Breville Smart Oven air fryer is 20 percent off for Black Friday
• The Kremlin wants to make Ukraine's second city unliveable
• The horrors of the reply-all email thread
• What will Great British Energy do?
• Who could replace Narendra Modi?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A maverick judge tosses out Donald Trump's classified-documents case
• Who are Russia's supporters?
• How the war split the mafia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Who are the main contenders to be Iran's next president?
• Politics
• US election forecast: who will control the House of Representatives?
• Donald Trump's victory has boosted shares in private-prison companies
• From hypersonic missiles to undersea drones, the PLA is making leaps
• Three charts show that America's imports are booming
• Why France's president called a snap election
• Politics
• War is not the only reason some Muslims are ditching the Democrats
• Another war could break out on the Israel-Lebanon border
• Latin American society is modernising, mostly for the better
• Checks and Balance: The 50-year plan
• KAL's cartoon
• A battle rages for a key city in Sudan's ravaged western region
• The trial of Lucy Letby has shocked British statisticians
• Congress tells China: sell TikTok or we'll ban it
• Will services make the world rich?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Canadians are taking dramatic steps to avoid more ruinous firestorms
• How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' Life
• How the seven-day week came to rule the world
• Africa's two most populous economies brave tough reforms
• Xi Jinping's revealing response to floods and heatwaves
• Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
• The downfall of a Philippine mayor may be linked to Chinese gangs
• How a CEO knows when to quit
• Politics
• How America built an AI tool to predict Taliban attacks
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• American politicians are the oldest in the rich world
• It was hard for any viewer to look away from Sidney Poitier
• What if Microsoft let OpenAI go free?
• The Palestinians' new prime minister faces a nightmare
• This week's cover
• To revive the economy, China wants consumers to buy better stuff
• Are heatwaves evidence that climate change is speeding up?
• Joe Biden pardons son Hunter over gun and tax charges
• Israel's limited missile strike on Iran may be the start of a wider assault
• New tech can make air-conditioning less harmful to the planet
• Why the French are drinking less wine
• The movement of capital globally is in decline
• To help schoolchildren in poor countries, reduce lead poisoning
• Sonos Black Friday deals are still going: Get up to $200 off soundbars and speakers
• How not to name a new car
• How a Russia-linked mine may keep the ANC in power
• How Asia's wild west shakes up the modern world
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Expressions of Pain May Have a Common Origin
• Lai Ching-te aims to strengthen Taiwan but maintain the status quo
• A Russian editor says he won the Nobel because his slain colleagues could not
• Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran's wars
• Shock and awe as America strikes Iran's proxies
• Can dealmaking save Intel?
• A new play stages excerpts from the Grenfell Tower fire inquiry