The Economist

January 27, 2025

DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets

A cheap Chinese language model has investors in Silicon Valley asking questions

The Economist

January 27, 2025

Syria’s new rulers say they are keen to integrate foreign fighters

Outsiders continue to see them as a threat

The Economist

January 27, 2025

The White House has been fluid on gender for a decade

Trump’s order “restoring biological truth” will not be the last word

The Economist

January 27, 2025

Why Britain has fallen behind on road safety

More than 1,600 people still die each year in road collisions

The Economist

January 27, 2025

Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling

An ominous defeat in the eastern town of Velyka Novosilka

The Economist

January 26, 2025

A controversial idea to hand even more power to the president

Impoundment is about to come a step closer

The Economist

January 26, 2025

Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster?

Donald Trump’s team is about to bring digital finance into the mainstream

The Economist

January 26, 2025

François Hollande hopes to make the French left electable again

The former president moves away from the radicals

The Economist

January 24, 2025

Tom Homan, unleashed

America’s new border czar spent decades waiting for a president like Donald Trump

The Economist

January 24, 2025

The warlord, the oligarch and the unravelling of Russia’s Amazon.com

Before the Ukraine war, Wildberries was a giant of e-commerce. Now it’s caught up in a medieval blood feud

The Economist

January 24, 2025

Should you worry about microplastics?

Little is known about the effects on humans—but limiting exposure to them seems prudent

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Knowing what your colleagues earn

The pros and cons of greater pay transparency

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Britain’s government lacks a clear Europe policy

It should be more ambitious over getting closer to the EU

The Economist

January 23, 2025

How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party?

As the economy falters and the social compact frays, Xi Jinping wants to know

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Europe faces a new age of gunboat digital diplomacy

Can the EU regulate Donald Trump’s big tech bros?

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Why don’t more countries import their electricity?

The economics make sense, but the geopolitics are nerve-racking

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Ross Ulbricht, pardoned by Donald Trump, was a pioneer of crypto-crime

His dark website, the Silk Road, was to crime what Napster was to music

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Sex, drugs or chastity?

Pope Francis has written the first memoir by a sitting pope. God help us

The Economist

January 23, 2025

China’s AI industry has almost caught up with America’s

And it is more open and more efficient, too

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Can Brazil’s left survive without Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva?

Brazil’s current president, a titan of the Latin American left, has no apparent heirs

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Germans are world champions of calling in sick

It’s easy and it pays well

The Economist

January 23, 2025

To end birthright citizenship, Donald Trump misreads the constitution

A change would also create huge practical problems

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Donald Trump is targeting Mexico like no other country

The United States’ southern neighbour is bracing for a wave of deportees and trapped migrants

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Ukrainian scientists are studying downed Russian missiles

And learning a lot about sanctions-busting

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th

By pardoning violent offenders, he ignored his own team’s advice

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Politics | Jan 25th 2025 Edition

The world this week

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Business | Jan 25th 2025 Edition

The world this week

The Economist

January 23, 2025

The weekly cartoon | Jan 25th 2025 Edition

The world this week

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Letters to the editor | Jan 25th 2025 Edition

A selection of correspondence

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Sir Keir Starmer should aim higher in his reset with the EU

And he needs to be clearer about what Britain wants

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump

The success of cheap Chinese models threatens America’s technological lead

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Do tariffs raise inflation?

Usually. But the bigger problem is that they harm economic growth and innovation

The Economist

January 23, 2025

Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?

Its central bankers are increasingly hopeful

The Economist

January 23, 2025

The Rachel Reeves theory of growth

The chancellor says it’s her number-one priority. We ask her what that means

The Economist

January 23, 2025

China’s financial system is under brutal pressure

When will something break?

The Economist

January 23, 2025

The Arctic: climate change’s great economic opportunity

An enormous prize is on offer. When might it be grasped?

The Economist

January 23, 2025

America has an imperial presidency

And in Donald Trump, an imperialist president for the first time in over a century

The Economist

January 22, 2025

The Gaza ceasefire is stoking violence in the West Bank

Hamas and the Israeli far right both want to destabilise the West Bank

The Economist

January 22, 2025

A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump’s AI priorities

It’s build, baby, build

The Economist

January 22, 2025

Donald Trump has again rewritten the history of January 6th

By pardoning violent offenders, he ignored his own team’s advice

The Economist

January 22, 2025

David Lynch mesmerised filmgoers with mystery, beauty and horror

America’s strangest and most surreal film-maker died on January 16th, aged 78

The Economist

January 22, 2025

America’s departure from the WHO would harm everyone

Whether it is a negotiating ploy remains to be seen

The Economist

January 22, 2025

How Poland emerged as a leading defence power

Will others follow?

The Economist

January 21, 2025

America really could enter a golden age

Donald Trump would need to build on its strengths, and subdue his own weaknesses

The Economist

January 21, 2025

To end birthright citizenship, Trump misreads the constitution

It would also create huge practical problems

The Economist

January 21, 2025

Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth

Donald Trump’s pursuit of tariffs will make the world poorer—and America, too

The Economist

January 21, 2025

Tariffs will spark retaliation, not a manufacturing renaissance

Donald Trump’s pursuit of tariffs will make the world poorer—and America, too

The Economist

January 21, 2025

Trump unmasks American selfishness, say cynics

But sceptics are wrong to call America First business as usual

The Economist

January 21, 2025

Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy

Reasons not to panic about the tech-industrial complex

The Economist

January 21, 2025

The race to lead Canada’s Liberal Party hinges on handling Trump

Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland are the front-runners