The Trumpification of American policy
The world this week
Leaders
An echo and a choice
The Trumpification of American policy
No matter who wins in November, Donald Trump has redefined both parties’ agendas
Paradise lashed
How Florida should respond to Hurricane Milton
Storms like it raise uncomfortable questions about the state’s future
Shock horror
How high could the oil price go?
Geopolitical risk is rising. But so is the supply of oil
A sting in the tail
The front line of the tech war is in Asia
The two superpowers are vying for influence. China will not necessarily win
A bad deal
Britain should not hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius
Once again, the Chagossians have been denied a say
Letters
On Ukraine, policing, food chains, Azerbaijan, European reforms, kindness, the Labour government, martinis
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
The Israel-Hizbullah war
Lebanon needs a new army in the south, says Yair Lapid
The Israel-Hizbullah war
The framework that ended Lebanon’s war in 2006 could help end this one too, says Tarek Mitri
Briefing
Shrinking coattails
Who will control the next Congress?
The new president is much less likely than usual to see allies take charge on Capitol Hill
Europe
The French budget
France stares into a “colossal” budgetary abyss
Struggling back
Turkey’s long hard struggle with inflation
A tale of a nail
Delays on Italy’s spruced-up trains have got worse
Alive or dead?
The search for Ukraine’s missing soldiers and sailors
Britain
Scalpel, please
The story of one NHS operation
Grayday! Grayday!
The Sue Gray saga casts doubt on Keir Starmer’s managerial chops
Modern life is rubbish
The biography of a British recycling bag
Property and technology
Can software help ease Britain’s housing crisis?
The pulses quicken
Britain’s obsession with baked beans
Bagehot
Britain’s last imperialists
Middle East & Africa
War in the Middle East
Israel has these four options for attacking Iran
Tehran’s calculus
Iran’s leader must choose how to fight his war with Israel
Hizbullah’s role in Lebanon
Israel’s invasion of Lebanon may bolster support for Hizbullah
Family matters
How to send a cake from New Jersey to Accra
Off to a good start
South Africa’s coalition government has improved the vibes
United States
Policy brief
The next American president will be a China hawk
Lexington
Shirley Chisholm is still winning
The Americas
Stubborn brutality
The beating of Argentina’s former first lady fits a shameful pattern
Not the end of it
American women go to Mexico for abortions
Conservation in Latin America
The drug lords’ side-hustle: smuggling macaws, jaguars and frogs
Asia
Digital domination
America v China: who controls Asia’s internet?
A glitch in the matrix
Asia is weighing data-centre ambitions against sustainability
A quieter tiger?
Is India’s economy slowing down?
Doing the locomotion
New railways could transform South-East Asia
China
Immigration
How to escape from China to America
International
Elections everywhere
Over a billion have voted in 2024: has democracy won?
Business
Power couple
Big tech is bringing nuclear power back to life
A digital makeover
Can Mytheresa make luxury e-commerce a success?
The standards war
China is writing the world’s technology rules
Bartleby
When workplace bonuses backfire
Finance & economics
The other wall
How America learned to love tariffs
Worst-keg scenario
Could war in the Gulf push oil to $100 a barrel?
When the smoke clears
Can markets reduce pollution in India?
Keeping up with the neighbours
How bond investors soured on France
Science & technology
Culture
From witchcraft to woke
How humans invented good and evil, and may reinvent both
Missives from a neurosurgeon
How complicated is brain surgery actually?
Song of myself
Why you should read Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
“Unleashed” and mildly unhinged
Boris Johnson shows how not to write a political memoir
Johnson on language
Americans are chuffed as chips at British English
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Two towers of white spray