Leaders
Going global
Chinese companies are winning the global south
Their expansion abroad holds important lessons for Western incumbents
Ever closer
The Middle East must step back from the brink
That still means starting with a ceasefire in Gaza
High and mighty
Genomic medicines can cost $3m a dose. How to make them affordable
The treatments are marvels of innovation. Their pricing must be inventive, too
Daylight robbery
Can Nicolás Maduro be stopped from stealing Venezuela’s election?
Peaceful protests and judicious diplomacy offer some hope
Labour’s growth plan
Is the big state back in Britain?
The risk is not too much interventionism, but too little audacity
Letters
On the Secret Service, Paraguay, Boeing, central banks and supply shocks, trust, data, business reading
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Artificial intelligence
Keep the code behind AI open, say two entrepreneurs
Artificial intelligence
Not all AI models should be freely available, argues a legal scholar
Briefing
United States
Death by a thousand slides
The demise of an iconic American highway
Campaign calculus
The Kamala Harris effect on the polls has been dramatic
Swing states
Can Donald Trump win back suburban voters?
POTUS and SCOTUS
How the election will shape the Supreme Court
The Americas
Venezuela’s regime digs in
After protests over a stolen election, the goons crack heads
Mexico’s drug gangs
Will El Mayo’s arrest slow the spread of fentanyl?
Asia
Less Nimitz, more MacArthur
America recreates a warfighting command in Japan
China
Sunken treasures
China is itching to mine the ocean floor
Flipping talented
Which Olympic sports is China good at?
Slowing down, trading up
To revive the economy, China wants consumers to buy better stuff
Middle East & Africa
Two knocks in the night
Israeli strikes on Beirut and Tehran could intensify a regional war
After Ismail Haniyeh
Will Hamas turn from war to politics?
Under the hump
Somaliland’s camel herders are milking it
Europe
Devil and the deep blue sea
Will a new “pact” of ten laws help Europe ease its migrant woes?
The water’s mostly demined
Amid the bombs, Ukrainians rediscover the beach
Allez les bleus
The Olympics are teaching the French to cheer again
Britain
Transition of power
What will Great British Energy do?
A tragedy, then a riot
A riot in Southport shows how the British far right is changing
Fiscal feuding
How deep is Britain’s fiscal “black hole”?
A fatter controller
Britain’s railways go from one extreme to another
Business
Feeding the machine
What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?
Semi-successful
Can Samsung get its mojo back?
Screened out
Dumb phones are making a comeback
Two wheels good
India’s electric-scooter champion goes public
Finance & economics
Hotting up
What the war on tourism gets wrong
Beat the crowds
Which cities have the worst overtourism problem?
Buttonwood
Investors beware: summer madness is here
Seeking security
Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
Modi’s missteps
India’s economic policy will not make it rich
Keeping the flame alive
China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
Schools brief
Artificial intelligence
The race is on to control the global supply chain for AI chips
Science & technology
A hop, snip and a jump
Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
I predict a riot
How America built an AI tool to predict Taliban attacks
Culture
The empire strikes back
A moving memoir probes the contradictions of modern China
World in a dish
Tinned fish is swimming against the tide
A mountainous legacy
Few writers have seen America more clearly than James Baldwin
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
The Country Girl