Leaders
China and the world economy
Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation
It will disappoint China’s people and anger the rest of the world
Fool me once
Central banks have spent down their credibility
That will make inflation trickier to handle in future
Nuclear deterrence
Beware a world without American power
Donald Trump’s threat to dump allies would risk a nuclear free-for-all
Beware malware
A chilling near-miss shows how today’s digital infrastructure is vulnerable
This is how to protect the internet from malicious attacks
Culp able
What Boeing, Disney and others can learn from General Electric
Lessons from the tenure of Larry Culp
Letters
On carbon pricing, handbags, museum collections, Starship, AI and music, British immigrants, how to describe X
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Nuclear weapons
America and its allies are entering a period of nuclear uncertainty
And it means the balancing act is getting harder
Britain
Private renting
Two cities show the problems faced by Britain’s renters
Unionism stunned
What Jeffrey Donaldson’s arrest means for Northern Ireland
Young people’s movements
Why some parts of England have so few graduates
Waxing and waning
Madame Tussauds reflects the fragmentation of fame in Britain
Europe
The Olympics and urban planning
The new geography of Paris
The trouncing of a strongman
An electoral bruising for Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey
A well-timed feud
Poles and Ukrainians are at loggerheads. That’s good news for Putin
Organised crime in Italy
The mafiosi of Naples turn white-collar
United States
Like a dream to me now
The Biden campaign in Michigan has a tremendous ground-game advantage
Marriage
The rise of the remote husband
Drug-dependent
Joe Biden’s assault on the $900 child-eczema cream
The struggling state
California is gripped by economic problems, with no easy fix
Middle East & Africa
Israel’s shadow war with Iran
Israel is ratcheting up its shadow war with Iran
World Central Kitchen
What Israel’s killing of aid workers means for Gaza
Jihadist blues
Protests have erupted against another Syrian dictator
The Americas
The Anti-communist International
Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro
Feeling the heat
South American vineyards brace for tricky summers ahead
Asia
The Modi paradox
Why India’s elite loves Narendra Modi
Building back stronger
Japan is still reeling 100 days after the Noto earthquake
In a different league
The end of cricket’s Indian monopoly
Damaging dynasties
Asian “nepo babies” are dominating its politics
China
The power of princelings
How China’s political clans might determine its future
International
Business
A new opening?
The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China
King of the castle
Bob Iger has defeated Nelson Peltz at Disney. Now what?
The world’s largest startup
India’s biggest conglomerate takes on chipmaking
Less general, more electric
Will GE do better as three companies than as one?
System engineering
Meet the French oil major that balances growth and greenery
Bartleby
The six rules of fire drills
Finance & economics
Hype and hyperopia
How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America
The $10.6bn question
Will FTX’s customers be repaid?
Buttonwood
How to build a global currency
Free exchange
Daniel Kahneman was a master of teasing questions
Science & technology
Pharmacology
Could weight-loss drugs eat the world?
Hacking the internet
A stealth attack came close to compromising the world’s computers
Culture
Under the mushroom cloud
What would nuclear war look like in the 21st century?
Selling scripture
How to make money from the Bible
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Fighting for breath
