Leaders
America’s presidential election
Where would Donald Trump and J.D. Vance take America?
The anti-globalist MAGA enthusiast is more consequential than the average veep pick
The bull’s big blind spot
Euphoric markets are ignoring growing political risks
Investors’ exuberance in the face of political ructions is unlikely to pay off
The Middle East
Gaza could become “Mogadishu on the Med”
Even if there is a ceasefire, its prospects are grim
A profligate president
To halt Brazil’s decline, Lula needs to cut runaway public spending
Investors have started to worry
Avian influenza
Millions of birds have died. How to stop humans dying, too
As isolated human cases of H5N1 emerge, now is the time to prepare
Chokka chokey
How Labour should reform Britain’s overstuffed prisons
With no room for new prisoners, something has to change
Letters
On AI and war, peer review, renewable energy, salmon farms, drugs in Canada, football, legal advice
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Briefing
Glad-handing and grinding teeth
Will Binyamin Netanyahu’s visit to America repair or weaken ties?
He may damage relations with Israel’s indispensable protector
When the shooting stops
Optimistic plans for post-war Gaza have little basis in reality
Aid, policing, reconstruction—everything is even harder than it sounds
Europe
While stocks last
Russia’s vast stocks of Soviet-era weaponry are running out
Racing against time
Half Ukraine’s power is knocked out; winter is coming
Romanian doctor training
Romania is now a magnet for the world’s medical students
Fifty years on
The division of Cyprus looks indefinite
Britain
Penguins v modernism
Why do penguins struggle with modernist architecture?
Middle East & Africa
A railway boom
Africa’s surprising new age of rail
Creeping authoritarianism
The far right has captured Israel’s police
Students of destruction
To see the future of urban warfare, look at Gaza
United States
The emperor’s reign
Why MAGA is the future, not just present, of the GOP
Day of the jackals
What was the motive of Trump’s would-be assassin?
Courting chutzpah
A maverick judge tosses out Donald Trump’s classified-documents case
Dem dilemmas
Momentum against Joe Biden is mounting again
Politics for profit
Bob Menendez is found guilty of corruption
The Americas
The Brazilian economy
Under Lula, Brazil is walking on the financial wild side
An overmighty Congress
Peru’s president survives because she’s not in charge
Bitcoin mining
Crypto cowboys have found paradise in Paraguay
Asia
Indo-Chinese relations
The epic bust-up between China and India could be ending
Too much and not enough
Climate change is making the monsoon more dangerous
To ban or not to ban
Imran Khan comes under further pressure in Pakistan
Bay of dreams
The Bay of Bengal should be an economic superpower
China
The Chinese tech scene
Xi Jinping is trying to love-bomb China’s entrepreneurs
Fuelling outrage
Fury erupts in China over a food-safety scandal
Trickle-down economics
The No.1 reason for success in China? Connections
Chasing ghosts
A spectre looms over Hong Kong’s property market
International
The Geneva Conventions at 75
Could America fight its enemies without breaking the law?
Schools brief
Artificial intelligence
A short history of AI
Business
Research developments
China is the West’s corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?
Lower your aspirations
Can Burberry put its chequered past behind it?
Married, with chiding
What a $600m wedding says about India’s attitude to wealth
Shop lifting
Can anyone save Macy’s?
Bartleby
How a CEO knows when to quit
Finance & economics
Matadors gather
Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurk
Results season
At last, Wall Street has something to cheer
Tokyo drift
Japan’s strength produces a weak yen
Science & technology
Epidemiology
H5N1 avian flu could cause a human pandemic
Pied-à-lune
Astronomers have found a cave on the moon
Critical moment
AI can predict tipping points before they happen
Culture
Gangsters-in-chief
Taking on the global brotherhood of despots
Moving the goalposts
Why American sports teams switch cities so often
The telephone game
The largest sting operation you’ve never heard of
Can we have a word?
Plenty of words have no clear origin
The Economist reads
The Economist reads
Five books on the glories and flaws of the Olympics
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Let’s talk about sex