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Would you really die for your country?
Military conscription is on the agenda in the rich world
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5 days ago
Who’s the big boss of the global south?
In a dog-eat-dog world, competition is fierce
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5 days ago
Thirty years after Rwanda, genocide is still a problem from hell
Mass killings are at their highest level in two decades
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5 days ago
Narendra Modi’s secret weapon: India’s diaspora
Migrants help campaign for the prime minister at home and lobby for the country abroad
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5 days ago
Why young men and women are drifting apart
Diverging worldviews could affect politics, families and more
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5 days ago
We’re hiring a global correspondent
An opportunity to join our editorial staff in London
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5 days ago
America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent and illiberal
To keep its competitive edge the Ivy League will have to change
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5 days ago
Africa is juggling rival powers like no other continent
African leaders need to balance vast opportunities against dire risks
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5 days ago
Russian spies are back—and more dangerous than ever
The Kremlin’s intelligence agencies have learned from their mistakes in recent years
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5 days ago
2024 is a giant test of nerves for democracy
A warning from election results so far—and what follows in America, Europe and India
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5 days ago
War in space is no longer science fiction
Inside America’s celestial struggle against China and Russia
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5 days ago
The world is bracing for Donald Trump’s possible return
He could split countries into users, bruisers and losers
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5 days ago
Israel’s judge in The Hague is its government’s bogeyman
Aharon Barak led the controversial “constitutional revolution”
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5 days ago
The genocide case Israel faces is more about politics than the law
But there are still grave doubts over its adherence to the laws of war
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5 days ago
Welcome to the new era of global sea power
Naval might is back at the heart of competition—and conflict
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5 days ago
How ransomware could cripple countries, not just companies
Experts think 2023 was a record year for digital attacks
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5 days ago
A new Suez crisis threatens the world economy
Global shipping firms are suspending voyages in the Red Sea
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5 days ago
Climate talks at last lead to a deal on cutting fossil-fuel use
The historic agreement emerged only through bitter compromise
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5 days ago
The pandemic’s toll on schooling emerges in awful new exam results
Grades in rich countries were sliding even before covid-19 spread
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5 days ago
A religious revolution is under way in the Middle East
Can it survive the Gaza war?
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5 days ago
Many small islands have no room for manoeuvre at COP28
Simply put, their goal is staving off annihilation
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5 days ago
From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up
How diplomats and generals are running out of bandwidth
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5 days ago
Why migration is in such a mess once more
Violence and poverty are pushing the desperate towards jobs and safety
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5 days ago
Israel is more popular than social-media posts suggest
In properly weighted opinion polls, support for the Palestinians is much less marked
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5 days ago
The culture war over the Gaza war
The conflict is raging on streets and screens in the West
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5 days ago
The three steps on America’s ladder of military escalation
Could America be dragged back into another Middle East war?
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5 days ago
Israel needs to resist irrational retaliation
The lessons from past wars on terror
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5 days ago
The global backlash against climate policies has begun
Cost, convenience and conspiracy-mongering undercut support for greenery
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5 days ago
Africa’s coups are part of a far bigger crisis
Democracy is under threat from graft, stagnation and violence
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5 days ago
States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
Some countries are finding new justifications for political murders
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5 days ago
Meet the world’s new arms dealers
Where to buy drones, fighters and tanks on the cheap
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5 days ago
Are Ukraine’s tactics working?
Slow progress on the battlefield prompts quarrels over strategy
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5 days ago
The growing global movement to restrain house prices
From America to New Zealand YIMBYs push market-led solutions
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5 days ago
A new nuclear arms race looms
It will be harder to stop than the contest of the cold war
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5 days ago
Reassessing Obama’s biggest mistake
How much was his red line in Syria to blame for America’s lost credibility?
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Trump unmasks American selfishness, say cynics
But sceptics are wrong to call America First business as usual
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5 days ago
Inside the Houthis’ moneymaking machine
After a ceasefire in Gaza, they may continue their Red Sea racket
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5 days ago
Marco Rubio will find China is hard to beat in Latin America
China buys lithium, copper and bull semen, and doesn’t export its ideology
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5 days ago
Donald Trump has a strong foreign-policy hand, but could blow it
Bullying foreigners can be sadly effective, but also a dangerous distraction
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5 days ago
Women warriors and the war on woke
Trump’s Pentagon pick wants women off the battlefield
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5 days ago
Young people are having less fun
Youthful excess continues to decline
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5 days ago
Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation
Baby-boomers are keeping their bad habits into retirement
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5 days ago
The A to Z of international relations
Geopolitics terms, from “Abraham accords” to “zero-sum game”, explained in plain English
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5 days ago
The A to Z of military terms
Modern warfare, from “ambush” to “zapad”, explained to you in plain English
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5 days ago
Why warriors should welcome laws of war
Lessons from a 17th-century thinker on preventing crimes against humanity
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5 days ago
Is the age of American air superiority coming to an end?
The growing effectiveness of air-defence systems could blunt the West’s most powerful weapons
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5 days ago
What has four stomachs and could change the world?
Technology is transforming cattle farming, but not fast enough
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5 days ago
The Art of the Deal: global edition
Donald Trump will have vast leverage over American allies, but ruthless despots may resist his dealmaking
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5 days ago
Could the next pope come from Africa or Asia?
Those are the regions where the Catholic church is growing fastest
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5 days ago
Will the West betray or save anti-Putin protesters in Georgia?
Democratic activists in Russia’s near-abroad pin their hopes on admission by the EU and NATO
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5 days ago
“Tariffers” v “traders”: the new contest for Donald Trump’s ear
Eye-witnesses to the drama of the first Trump presidency brace for the sequel
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5 days ago
The world is losing the fight against international gangs
Globalisation and technological progress are leading to a boom in organised crime
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5 days ago
Half a loaf, at best, from the climate talks
This year’s negotiations made very modest progress
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5 days ago
Is your master’s degree useless?
New data show a shockingly high proportion of courses are a waste of money
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5 days ago
The perils of appeasing a warlike Russia
Finland’s cold-war past offers urgent lessons for Ukraine’s future
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5 days ago
The danger zone between two presidents
The world’s bad actors will relish any power vacuum
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5 days ago
How to avoid Oval Office humiliation
A dozen officials offer tips on the dangerous art of Trump-flattery
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5 days ago
King coal is dirty, dangerous—and far from dead
Rumours of its rapid demise have been greatly exaggerated
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The world faces its worst trade wars since the 1930s
Donald Trump’s re-election accelerates a crisis for globalisation
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5 days ago
America’s allies brace for brinkmanship, deals—and betrayal
From Ukraine to Israel there is a frantic scramble to flatter and sway Donald Trump
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5 days ago
What the world thinks of Trump, Ukraine and Chinese supremacy
A new poll of 30,000 people worldwide has some surprising results
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5 days ago
A surprise new twist in Putin’s currency wars
The BIS ditches a new payments platform the Kremlin wants to mimic
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5 days ago
The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world
The old order is dying. Our geopolitics columnist will tell you what’s coming next
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5 days ago
Intrigue, greed and hostility burn in the Antarctic
If you thought its freezing icescapes would escape a world on fire, think again
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5 days ago
Putin’s plan to dethrone the dollar
He hopes this week’s BRICS summit will spark a sanctions-busting big bang
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5 days ago
Vladimir Putin’s spies are plotting global chaos
Russia is enacting a revolutionary plan of sabotage, arson and assassination
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5 days ago
Over a billion have voted in 2024: has democracy won?
Half the world has had elections so far this year
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5 days ago
A new “quartet of chaos” threatens America
The rulers of China, Iran, North Korea and Russia are growing worryingly close
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5 days ago
A UN vote on Palestine underlines America’s weakening clout
Russia and China are riding a surge of support for the Palestinians since the Gaza war started
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5 days ago
Sport is getting hotter, harder and deadlier
As players vomit and boil, even John McEnroe reckons “it is not humane”
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5 days ago
How encrypted messaging apps conquered the world
And why governments want to wrest back control
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5 days ago
The poisonous global politics of water
Polarisation makes it harder to adapt to climate change
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5 days ago
Indian tourists are conquering the world
A booming middle class, budget flights and Bollywood
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5 days ago
Can Donald Trump’s Iron Dome plan keep America safe?
In a dangerous world, cutting-edge missile defence is all the rage
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5 days ago
Why the war on childhood obesity is failing
Sugar taxes and obesity drugs will not be enough
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5 days ago
Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good
The games will test the success of new solutions to old bugbears
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5 days ago
Could America fight its enemies without breaking the law?
The speed and intensity of prospective conflicts could test the laws of war
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5 days ago
How China and Russia could hobble the internet
The undersea cables that connect the world are becoming military targets
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5 days ago
Trump and other populists will haunt NATO’s 75th birthday party
Threats to Western alliances lie both within and without the club
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5 days ago
The rise of the truly cruel summer
Deadly heat is increasingly the norm, not an exception to it
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5 days ago
Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
Will rich countries welcome them the way they did Chinese students?
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5 days ago
The new front in China’s cyber campaign against America
Big powers are preparing for wartime sabotage
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5 days ago
Is your rent ever going to fall?
Too often politicians tout awful solutions for helping tenants
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5 days ago
Iran’s new leaders stand at a nuclear precipice
The world’s atomic watchdog fears a terrifying regional arms race
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5 days ago
Taiwan’s new president faces an upsurge in Chinese coercion
But China’s bullying of Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines risks an explosion
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5 days ago
The world’s rules-based order is cracking
Human-rights lawyers are trying to save laws meant to tame violent rulers
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5 days ago
Beware, global jihadists are back on the march
They are using the war in Gaza to radicalise a new generation
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5 days ago
The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
America, China and the battle for supremacy
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5 days ago
Donald Trump steals Xi Jinping’s favourite foreign policy
China blames US interventions for Middle East turmoil. “Snap!” says Mr Trump
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5 days ago
Can China jam your GPS?
Its huge investment in the rival BeiDou system may give it an edge
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5 days ago
Star wars returns
Donald Trump’s quest for orbital dominance
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5 days ago
How to fight the next pandemic, without America
The world scrambles to save global health policy from Donald Trump
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Shadow games in the Baltic
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5 days ago
Fact-checkers forecast which dodgy claims will do most damage
How to distinguish between weapons-grade disinformation and everyday codswallop
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5 days ago
China and Russia are deploying powerful new weapons: ideas
The West is retreating from the battle of the narrative
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5 days ago
Why Donald Trump is a globalist
The mystery of an America First president fascinated by foreigners’ disputes
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Six must-read books on the second world war
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The UN could run out of cash within months
America and China are pushing it to the brink of financial collapse
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5 days ago
Donald Trump picks the wrong trade fight with China
America will lose an economic-pain war
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5 days ago
A Trump executive order will unleash a global deep-sea mining boom
It will galvanise international co-operation over writing rules for the ocean bed
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5 days ago
Why some countries are once again embracing cluster bombs
The once-banned weapons are making a comeback to deter Russia
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5 days ago
The ugly task of Putin-proofing your border
Russia’s European neighbours hate landmines. They are installing them anyway
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5 days ago
Trump’s red-hot war on terror
The number of strikes against jihadists is rising. Is it 2001 all over again?
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5 days ago
The coming struggle to choose the next pope
A conclave of 135 cardinals may pick someone very different from Francis
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5 days ago
Plastics are greener than they seem
Even if the world needs to become much better at managing their waste
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5 days ago
Xi Jinping’s Trump-sized puzzle
For all its strength and swagger, China is struggling to handle an impulsive America
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Is American diplomacy all bark, no bite?
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5 days ago
There is a vast hidden workforce behind AI
Will they become redundant as the technology develops?
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5 days ago
The dangers of Donald Trump’s instinct for dealmaking
Trade wars are alarming, but so are might-makes-right deals
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Why B-2 bombers are gathering on a tiny island
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5 days ago
State capture is a growing threat. Reversing it is hard
The 15-70-15 rule and other ways to prise powerful fingers from the public coffers
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5 days ago
China debates whether Trump is a revolutionary, or just rude
Its experts cannot decide whether the second Trump presidency is a threat or an opportunity
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5 days ago
Donald Trump is affecting politics everywhere
The effects are often unexpected
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5 days ago
Europe will have to zip its lip over China’s abuses
In a fracturing world, trade and co-operation will come first
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5 days ago
Trump is a problem for Europe’s most important hard-right leaders
His antics are causing headaches for Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen
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5 days ago
The right way to fight nativists
A revealing new history of the cold-war crisis that inspired modern refugee law
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5 days ago
Donald Trump shoots his own global mouthpiece
The shutdown of VOA, RFE/RL and other broadcasters weakens America and supporters of democracy
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5 days ago
Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes
Will America’s president damage the world’s most powerful intelligence pact?
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5 days ago
Could Europe replace Starlink if America pulls the plug?
Only with something inferior to Elon Musk’s offering
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5 days ago
Trump’s whims are overriding the national interest
Foreign-policy realists will struggle to explain America’s sharp turn
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5 days ago
Europe thinks the unthinkable on a nuclear bomb
Poland wants co-operation with France on a nuclear deterrent. That could take many forms
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5 days ago
NATO’s race against Russia to rearm
The alliance has three to four years to adopt AI and new tech
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: “Be quiet, small man”—diplomacy, Musk style
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5 days ago
The tech bros selling drugs by drone
How criminal innovators are mastering synthetic drugs, AI, the dark web and drones
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5 days ago
America First is a contagious condition
Donald Trump’s resentful, show-me-the-money approach to statecraft is catching on
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5 days ago
America’s self-isolating president
No, Donald Trump’s Putin-wooing is not like Nixon going to China
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5 days ago
Can Europe confront Vladimir Putin’s Russia on its own?
An independent army, air force and nuclear bomb would come at a high price
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5 days ago
Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world
The country has long relied on America for security and China for its prosperity. Those two pillars are wobbling
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Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?
How Donald Trump’s about-turn in Europe will affect Asia
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5 days ago
Donald Trump is junking the transatlantic alliance
Europe has been left scrambling after an attack on the partnership that kept the peace for nearly 80 years
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5 days ago
China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
Seventy countries have recently backed “all Chinese efforts” to take the island
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5 days ago
Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare
China is weaponising its supply chains, but risks blowback if it goes too far
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5 days ago
Allies will not appease Donald Trump for ever
If Trump convinces partners that the post-1945 order really is dead, things will get ugly
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5 days ago
As adoptions collapse, demand for international surrogacy is soaring
Yet it is facing a growing backlash from religious conservatives and some feminists
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5 days ago
A big, beautiful Trump deal with China?
Washington hawks puzzle over calls for China to help in Ukraine, and hints of a possible TikTok reprieve
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5 days ago
Why don’t more countries import their electricity?
The economics make sense, but the geopolitics are nerve-racking
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Why Trump wants a Taliban air base back
The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor
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The UN’s grim future
Going rogue, decay or Trumpification
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5 days ago
Cold war deterrence doesn’t work any more
Why the West is finding it so hard to deter China and Russia
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5 days ago
Top Gun—without Maverick
Drones ride into the danger zone
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5 days ago
Meet the leader of Europe’s anti-Trump resistance
For Spain’s leader, Pedro Sánchez, opposing Trump is a lonely endeavour
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5 days ago
How Israel’s arms exports have made it sanctions-proof
Israel gains diplomatic insurance by supplying weapons crucial to Europe’s defence
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5 days ago
Who is winning in AI—China or America?
China offers the world a values-free, results-based vision of AI governance
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5 days ago
Meet the world’s hottest upstart weapons dealers
A ferocious global arms race is big business
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5 days ago
Donald Trump is waging war on woke AI
“Marxist lunacy” is out. But unbiased chatbots may be impossible
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The wrong way to end a war
Dark lessons from history that explain Vladimir Putin’s “peacemaking”
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A burning threat to pregnant women
Alarming new research on the link between heat and dangerous pregnancies
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5 days ago
Was globalisation ever a meritocracy?
The Trumpian assault on globalism, as seen from Singapore
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5 days ago
The end of the second world war
How The Economist reported on the war, week by week
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5 days ago
America’s new plan to fight a war with China
Readying for a rumble in the jungle
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5 days ago
How to write laws of war for a wicked world
The post-1945 order is crumbling. History offers a glimpse of alternatives that might work
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5 days ago
Why the laws of war are widely ignored
Global courts struggle to cope with power politics
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: How receiving aid became fatal in Gaza
Oliver Jones, our news editor, on the perils of seeking aid in Gaza
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5 days ago
Could AI tilt the outcome of elections?
New research shows it is being used for good and ill
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5 days ago
How spy agencies are experimenting with the newest AI models
America has better technology. But will China adopt it more quickly?
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5 days ago
Can China save South Africa from Donald Trump?
South African leftists dream of telling the West to get lost
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5 days ago
Look inside The Economist’s summer issue for 2025
A guide to four special articles from our home for narrative journalism
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The world court joins the fight over climate change
Its ruling that burning fossil fuels can be “internationally wrongful” risks provoking a backlash
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5 days ago
Rethinking the war on AIDS
American funding cuts are a catalyst for fresh thinking
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5 days ago
The surprising lessons of a secret cold-war nuclear programme
America is sick of policing the world. More nuclear-armed states will not help
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Three new books on espionage
Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, examines the blind spots of the intelligence services
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5 days ago
The rise and rise of women’s sport
Why female athletes need to leave the men behind
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5 days ago
Cynical realism won’t save India from Donald Trump
India has done brilliantly by balancing America, China and Russia. Can that last?
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5 days ago
Gianni Infantino, FIFA’s strongman-loving boss
The president of football’s governing body is close to Donald Trump
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5 days ago
Putin’s war in Ukraine may cost him control of the south Caucasus
The prospects of peace between Azerbaijan and Armenia are weakening Russia’s influence
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5 days ago
The 19th century is a terrible guide to modern statecraft
A world carved up between Presidents Trump, Xi and Putin would be unstable and unsafe
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Putin’s radioactive chokehold on the world
The Kremlin dominates the cross-border business of nuclear fuel and technology
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5 days ago
How South Africa could harness Donald Trump’s wrath
Talk of “white genocide” is baseless. But some American pressure could be helpful
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The War Room newsletter: The daddy of all summits
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Feckless Europe accepts Trump’s Lone Ranger diplomacy
It is meekly welcoming the new sheriff’s vigilante justice
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5 days ago
Can men and women be just friends?
The answer matters more than you think
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5 days ago
In Trumpworld, toppling rulers is taboo
Donald Trump prefers deals to regime change
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Why Israel attacked Iran—and what comes next
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The West has stopped losing its religion
After decades of rising secularism, Christianity is holding its ground—and gaining among the young
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5 days ago
Taiwan thinks the unthinkable: resisting China without America
Its plan was to hold off a Chinese attack until America turned up. What now?
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Britain’s defence goals are admirably absurd
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To earn American help, allies are told to elect nationalists
MAGA-world flirts with forces that once tore Europe apart
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5 days ago
Vladimir Putin’s sickening statistic: 1m Russian casualties in Ukraine
His regime uses payouts to salve Russian families’ grief
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: How Ukraine humbled Putin (again)
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The Uber of the underworld
Amateur crooks are using plug-and-play hacking kits
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Explore our “Archive 1945” project
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5 days ago
Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford?
Yes, China has impressive high-speed trains. That is no reason for the West to adopt iron-fisted rule
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5 days ago
Anger is deadly to moderate politicians
AI-driven disruption is about to make the world a more resentful place
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5 days ago
America risks a nuclear-arms race with China
Blame an expired treaty with Russia
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5 days ago
Lots of world leaders are attacking Europe. Why?
Often, Europe-bashing is best explained by domestic politics in America, China and beyond
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5 days ago
Falling wine sales reflect a lonelier and more atomised world
It’s not just health-conscious youngsters who are saying no to Bordeaux
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5 days ago
Donald Trump used to be risk-averse. Is that changing?
America’s president suddenly seems like a man in a hurry
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5 days ago
Social media are helping cults to recruit and control members
The internet has replaced door-to-door evangelists with online influencers
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Inside the mission that snatched Maduro
Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, digs into the details
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5 days ago
Patriotism tests loom for big business
Economic nationalism makes it harder for multinationals to navigate the world
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5 days ago
A half-planet-size gap in global governance is about to get plugged
A new treaty offers hope of curbing the destruction of the oceans
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5 days ago
The War Room newsletter: Mega edition—you ask, I answer
Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, answers your questions in the final edition of 2025
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The quest to chart the sea
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