Leaders
Chaos—or opportunity?
Donald Trump is winning. Business, beware
What a second term would mean for American business and the economy
Hindu nationalism
Narendra Modi’s illiberalism may imperil India’s economic progress
Fulfilling his great-power dream requires restraint, not abandon
Bagehot weeps
How America accidentally made a free-money machine for banks
The Federal Reserve should switch it off
Show trial
Charging Israel with genocide makes a mockery of the ICJ
And it diverts attention from the real humanitarian crisis in Gaza
Pics and it didn’t happen
AI-generated content is raising the value of trust
Who did the posting will soon matter more than what was posted
Letters
On Joe Biden, migrants, green data, electrifying heat, wine, meeting rooms
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Pakistan’s election
A former ambassador argues that Pakistan needs a new political compact
Briefing
Invincible Indian
Ram and the strongman: Modi looks unstoppable in India’s election
But Indian democracy is stronger than it seems
Britain
Still troubled
Northern Ireland’s peace process is not over
Getting verse
Britain has seen an alarming rise in poetry sales
Human says no
Britain’s Post Office scandal is a typical IT disaster
Constituency cartography
The map for the next British election has been redrawn
Notes on a scandal
Britain tries to correct the treatment of gender-dysphoric kids
Europe
Shell-shocked
Can Europe arm Ukraine—or even itself?
Trip out of hell
A new therapy for Ukraine’s scarred soldiers: ketamine
Reining in the reindeer
Russia’s war is splitting the indigenous Sami in two
United States
The mood thing
Why are Americans so gloomy about their great economy?
Hope springs ephemeral
How did the Iowa result change the Republican primary?
Iowa’s hidden hints
Where Donald Trump still looks vulnerable
Crashing truths
Why car insurance in America is actually too cheap
Finding the votes
The election in Georgia could be as pivotal as it was four years ago
Lexington
It’s not the Trump Party quite yet
Middle East & Africa
How Israel has changed
After it ends, the war in Gaza will still continue to shape Israel
How Israel’s Arabs see themselves
Even as war rages in Gaza, Israel’s Arabs are feeling more Israeli
Insecurity in Nigeria
Kidnappers are wreaking havoc in Nigeria
The Americas
Milei vs the caste
The fightback against Javier Milei’s radical reforms has begun
Reaping what you sow
Wild boar hybrids are raising hell on the Canadian prairies
Accelerated ageing
Plunging fertility rates are creating problems for Latin America
Asia
Democracy island
Defying China, Taiwan elects William Lai Ching-te as president
Killing fields
Cambodia’s genocide is still hurting its people
Housewives and work
Married women in Japan are re-entering the labour market
North Korean belligerence
The Korean peninsula is as divided as ever
China
Crime and punishment
Why China’s government is hushing up court rulings
Step aside, Ronald
How China is making the burger its own
International
Israel in the dock
The genocide case Israel faces is more about politics than the law
Business
Hardly PAC-ed to the rafters
Donald Trump’s populism is turning off corporate donors
Fiscal Trumponomics
Donald Trump’s tax cuts would add to American growth—and debt
The Sam and Satya show
The bosses of OpenAI and Microsoft talk to The Economist
Cross-strait squeeze
China may be losing its sway over Taiwanese business
Amer’s American dream
Can Arc’teryx’s owner revive Chinese IPOs in America?
Big by design
A $35bn mega-merger strengthens a quiet chip duopoly
Finance & economics
Of money and Modi
How strong is India’s economy under Narendra Modi?
Global monetary policy
The countries which raised rates first are now cutting them
Follow that!
Ted Pick takes charge of Morgan Stanley
The turn of the screw
Australian houses are less affordable than they have been in decades
The fallout
The Middle East faces economic chaos
Science & technology
More bucks for bigger bangs
The Pentagon is hurrying to find new explosives
A slippery concept
Common sense is not actually very common
Fake-news news
Many AI researchers think fakes will become undetectable
Culture
Diary of a bad year
A tougher sentence for Hitler in 1923 could have changed history
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
From boys to men