Leaders
Exit, pursued by an elephant
MAGA’s assault on science is an act of grievous self-harm
America will pay the price most of all
Vietnam
The man with a plan for Vietnam
A Communist Party hard man has to rescue Asia’s great success story
A big baleful bill
The Senate should vote down Donald Trump’s reckless tax cuts
If it does not, a collision with the bond markets awaits
Ever closer negotiation
The best part of the UK-EU deal is a system for doing more deals
Sir Keir Starmer’s “reset” is still a hard Brexit. It will need softening
Donald Trump’s Golden Dome
The plan to protect America by shooting down missiles mid-air
It’s not as outlandish as it sounds
Don’t throw it away
How Poland can keep its place at the heart of Europe
If it turns inward, the country and continent will lose out
Letters
A selection of correspondence
Poland and the threat from Russia
By Invitation
Briefing
Dawn or dusk?
Vietnam’s economy is booming, but its new leader is worried
Export-led growth may soon run out of steam
Wooing the world
Vietnam, squeezed between America and China, looks for new friends
It might even try to invigorate ASEAN
United States
Reduction Redux
What happens if the Inflation Reduction Act goes away?
Of volts and jolts
California has got really good at building giant batteries
Rash decisions
How much worse could America’s measles outbreak get?
More than a feeling
The MAGA revolution threatens America’s most innovative place
Lexington
Joe Biden did not decline alone
The Americas
Mexico’s resilient gangs
Mexico battles the MAGA movement over organised crime
A losing battle
Wildfires devastated the Amazon basin in 2024
Argentina economic reform
An election win boosts Javier Milei’s reform project
Asia
Do it with conviction
How to fix India’s sclerotic justice system
Deterring China
America’s new ship-killer missiles come to the Philippines
Meet the Viet Kieu
Vietnam’s diaspora is shaping the country their parents fled
China
Middle East & Africa
Culture wars
Meet Africa’s ascendant right
A bank that divides Africa
A bitter race to elect the head of Africa’s pivotal bank
Putting the white in White House
Cyril Ramaphosa keeps his cool with Donald Trump
Gaza on the brink again
Israel says it is unleashing an “unprecedented attack”
Things fall apart, again
The world’s worst conference
Donald Trump’s sanctions gift to Syria
One happy Damascus
We’re out of there
Many of Syria’s diaspora are not yet ready to go home
Europe
Populists at the gates
Poland’s election will cement or ruin its standing in Europe
European elections
MAGA misses the mark in Romania
Independence on pause
American threats push Greenland closer to Denmark
Britain
Keir Starmer’s EU reset
The UK-EU deal is just a start
Fishing rights
Britain has sacrificed its fishermen again
Queen’s gambit, plus a punch
The improbable rise of chessboxing
Taking back control
Does Britain need migrant workers?
Two wheels good
London has become a cycling city
Bagehot
Bring back Boris
International
Astropolitics
Star wars returns
Lost signals
Can China jam your GPS?
The Telegram
How to fight the next pandemic, without America
Business
An uphill struggle
Welcome to the AI trough of disillusionment
Supercharger
China’s battery giant eyes world domination
Rollercoaster rivals
Universal wants to steal Disney’s theme-park magic
Bartleby
The secrets of public speaking
Finance & economics
American titan
Will Jamie Dimon build the first trillion-dollar bank?
How to gauge fear
Wall Street and Main Street are split on Trump’s chaos
Science & technology
Death by a thousand cuts
Trump’s attack on science is growing fiercer and more indiscriminate
Disaster pending
How cuts to science funding will hurt ordinary Americans
Culture
Prometheus unbound
Sam Altman is a visionary with a trustworthiness problem
No rest from the wicked
In Germany, the Nazis invaded people’s dreams
Musing on Mammon
The story of capitalism, told by its detractors
World in a dish
The hottest gadget of the summer? A portable pizza oven
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Thanks, duct tape!