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The world this week
Leaders
The loyalty test
Matt Gaetz’s nomination to be attorney-general is an ill omen
It shows how far Donald Trump is willing to go to dominate the machinery of government
The long haul
Everything about climate change may seem grim. It isn’t
The fight for a stable climate will be fought using technology
Caretaker, take care
After the revolution, Bangladesh is stable. For the moment
Muhammad Yunus, the interim leader, needs to set a date for elections
America’s lame-duck period
How to avoid global chaos in the next ten weeks
Risks abound in the limbo between now and Donald Trump’s swearing-in
Letters
On Donald Trump, obesity drugs, Ethiopia, grief, our Telegram column
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Ending it in one day?
War in Ukraine may only intensify under Trump, says Dmytro Kuleba
Briefing
Carbon bargain
The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think
Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances
Europe
Kanzlerdämmerung
The sun begins to set on Olaf Scholz’s chancellorship
Russian ruins
Kremlin-occupied Ukraine is now a totalitarian hell
Dividing dodgy spoils
The war in Ukraine has rattled both sides of Cyprus
An imploding star
Italy’s oddest political party is splitting
Britain
We are the turbine-builders
How to frame the argument over clean power
Sins and forgiveness
The archbishop and the abuser
Lost connection
The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service
The stressed is Vistry
Britain’s star builder hits trouble
Brideshead, borrowed
Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
Middle East & Africa
Flying blind
To get more capital, Africa needs more data
The anxiety of hope
The world’s next country?
Itinerant Islamists
Quitting Qatar is the least of Hamas’s problems
Iraq, Iran and Israel
Iraq could be the Middle East’s next battleground
Deepening divides
The world’s most unlikely safe haven
United States
Thune’s tune
Senate Republicans flex their independence
Crusader in the Pentagon
The man picked as defence secretary wants to purge the Pentagon
National security
Mike Waltz wants America to focus on the threat from China
The brown revolution
Climate change and the next administration
Give him your tired, your poor
The demographic detail of Donald Trump’s victory
The Americas
Canada’s military
Justin Trudeau’s dodgy defence promise
From underworld to white collar
Brazil’s gangsters have been getting into politics
Instability in Haiti
Haiti has lost its prime minister. Gangs aren’t going anywhere
Asia
A shot in the dark
Can the Philippines keep Donald Trump on its side?
Wheels and fortune
India is turning into an SUV country
China
The COP29 conference
Mega-polluter China believes it is a climate saviour
Loss and control
A spate of horrific car-rammings shakes China
Hidden debts, crouching rulers
China’s stimulus falls short, as a showdown with Trump looms
Going for grub
China’s greatest dumpling run
International
From Biden-world to Trump-world
The danger zone between two presidents
Dethroning fossil fuels
King coal is dirty, dangerous—and far from dead
The Telegram
How to avoid Oval Office humiliation
Business
Return of the Wundertüte
Donald Trump is bad news for German business
Semiconductors
TSMC walks a geopolitical tightrope
A postcard from Baku
Big oil may be softening its stance on climate-change regulation
A sticky situation
Is America’s last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
Finance & economics
America v the world
The biggest losers from Trumponomics
Money mantras
What does America’s next treasury secretary believe?
Buttonwood
Why financial markets are so oddly calm
Bitcoin flip
Why crypto mania is reaching new heights
Reality cheque
How to pay for the poor world to go green
Free exchange
Economists need new indicators of economic misery
Science & technology
Future imperfect
Artificial intelligence is helping improve climate models
Goldbugs at work
There’s lots of gold in urban waste dumps
Yesterday’s fish
Norway’s Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
Culture
Ancient Rome on screen
What does “Gladiator II” get wrong?
The night that nearly broke Paris
The long shadow of the Paris terrorist attacks of 2015
You burn something new every day
“Energy transition” has been profoundly misunderstood
Not the same old stories
The best films of 2024, as chosen by The Economist
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Three donkey-loads of ice