Asia
India strikes Pakistan to avenge a terrorist attack
Can the two bitter enemies control a new cycle of escalation?
Finance & economics
Buy the dip: the trend that keeps stocks from crashing
Retail investors now play a useful role at times of panic
United States
Pete Hegseth is purging both weapons and generals
The US Army is keen on getting rid of obsolete kit. But there are risks
The world in brief
India said it struck nine sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-controlled Kashmir...
During a visit to the White House Mark Carney, Canada’s newly-elected prime minister, rebuffed Donald Trump’s desire to turn the country into America’s 51st state, telling him that Canada is “not for sale”...
Friedrich Merz won enough support in the Bundestag to become Germany’s chancellor in a second round of voting...
Mr Trump said that America would stop bombing Houthis in Yemen, after the Iran-backed rebels agreed to stop targeting ships in the Red Sea...
Friedrich Merz becomes Germany’s chancellor—after a painful defeat
He needed an embarrassing second round of parliamentary voting to clinch it
Bagehot: Kemi Badenoch is simply too interesting for Downing Street
The Tory leader is fascinating but irrelevant
Which countries have the best, and worst, living standards?
A ranking of 193 countries shows that human development is stalling almost everywhere
OpenAI’s flip-flop will not get Elon Musk off its back
Sam Altman is in a bind over his company’s non-profit status
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The Intelligence
Germany reels as Friedrich Merz fails to win chancellery
Our papal tracker
Would you bet money on the next pope?
Tracking the presidency
How is America’s economy faring under Donald Trump?
On the cover
A superpower crunch over Taiwan is coming
China has a new chance to call America’s bluff
Chinese military exercises foreshadow a blockade of Taiwan
The Trump administration’s fickleness is adding to the island’s anxieties
Can China sap a divided and isolated Taiwan of its will to resist?
Taiwanese are growing more doubtful that they can fend off their hostile neighbour
Any Chinese curbs on Taiwan’s trade would carry big economic costs
But China could calibrate a trade “quarantine” to limit unintended consequences
VE Day
Archive 1945: The Allies liberate Europe from the Nazis
How The Economist reported on VE day
Adolf Hitler’s ignominious death proves the self-defeating, destructive nature of dictatorship, writes Richard Evans
The historian says attempts to restrain tyrants are often futile: for them it’s all or nothing
The liberation of Dachau was not a moment of celebration, says Dan Stone
The historian on commemorating the shock and horror of concentration camps, 80 years on
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Edition: May 3rd 2025
The Taiwan test
Broken-windows Britain
The country has become shabbier and more disorderly. Voters have noticed
Carney’s plan for Canada
A political novice cannot govern by econometrics alone
Trump is right on deep-sea mining
Environmentalists should push the UN body that governs deep-sea mining to pass regulations to allow it
Bowel cancer and young people
Childhood exposure to a common gut bacterium could be responsible
Technology Quarterly: March 1st 2025
The age of CRISPR
Ida Emilie Steinmark explores whether it can deliver on its promise
- Can gene editing deliver on its promise?
- CRISPR could yet save millions of lives. Here’s how
- Epigenetic editors are a gentler form of gene editing
- Gene editing is already revolutionising research in the laboratory
- Eat your GE-greens
- Editing pigs, mice and mosquitoes may save lives
- Designing babies
- Gene editing can still change the world
- Acknowledgments
