Leaders
Trump’s foreign policy
America’s bullied allies need to toughen up
To avoid being crushed, they need a better plan than flattery and concessions
Nativism
The new economics of immigration
A fresh critique of migration is gaining ground. Liberals must take it seriously
Greenback feedback
Trump’s erratic policy is harming the reputation of American assets
Like the stockmarket, the dollar is also suffering from falling confidence and rising confusion
Ukraine and Russia
Will Vladimir Putin really agree to stop his killing machine?
The offer of a ceasefire creates a dilemma for the Kremlin
Get used to it
With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open
The old ways of ensuring safety are becoming increasingly irrelevant
Letters
On smartphones, aid spending, poverty in India, baseball, football, erotic writing
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
The transatlantic crisis
François Hollande says Europe, abandoned by its former ally, must rearm fast
Less trust in antitrust
An ex-head of the FTC and his co-author lament the politicisation of antitrust enforcement
Briefing
A dangerous divorcée
If it comes to a stand-off, Europe has leverage over America
But pulling some of those levers would be so damaging as to make them unusable
Asia
Spokes without a hub
How dangerous would Asian security be without America?
Strongman in the dock
The global importance of Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest
Infrastructure and aesthetics
Are these the world’s most beautiful airports?
China
Fork in the road
China’s super-smart Tesla-killers
Fast and furious
Hong Kong’s taxi drivers are told to smile more
Mao Zedongald Trump
American politics prompt some Chinese to explore historical taboos
United States
Divided by two
The education department is halved overnight
The tariff lobby
America’s trade hawks fear the gaps in Trump’s tariff wall
The Americas
The end of trust
Canada’s security complex has woken up to Trump’s menace
From banker to brawler
Mark Carney must keep an expansionist America at bay
Donald Trump’s canal
Panama’s giveaway game
Middle East & Africa
Syria’s sectarian bloodbath
After the bloodshed, can Syria’s president unite his country?
Betrayed by the deep state
Binyamin Netanyahu likens himself to Donald Trump
Grain of untruth
Abiy Ahmed’s agricultural revolution is too good to be true
Trouble in Upper Nile
Another civil war looms in South Sudan
Fateful finances
South Africa’s government is looking fragile
Europe
Rearm fast!
Europe’s other front: peaceniks vs hawks
Falling short
Spain’s terrible record on defence spending
Talking and fighting
Is Putin ready to accept a truce with Ukraine?
A rating Trump would die for
Is Zelensky a disliked dictator or a popular hero?
Digital warfare
The struggle to defeat Russian censorship and propaganda
Britain
The missing million
Britain’s worklessness disaster
Leaning back out
British women thrived under remote working
Punch-up in a phone box
Discord erupts in Nigel Farage’s Reform UK
Peril on the sea
Ships crash in the North Sea
Eating habits
Dessert cafés are a symbol of modern Britain
Radical surgery
DOGE comes to England’s health service
International
Satellite warfare
Could Europe replace Starlink if America pulls the plug?
Fighting tech
NATO’s race against Russia to rearm
Business
Seeking highs
China’s AI boom is reaching astonishing proportions
Scouring the depths
Western companies are experimenting with DeepSeek
Steeled for hardship
Trump’s metals tariffs will cost American industry dearly
Inconvenient truths
7-Eleven is still struggling to fend off its Canadian suitor
Runners and riders
The race to elect the next head of the Olympics is heating up
Finance & economics
Insular politics
Your guide to the new anti-immigration argument
The ides of March
How Trump provoked a stockmarket sell-off
The morning after
Can Europe cope with a free-spending Germany?
Buttonwood
What sparks an investing revolution?
Free exchange
Why “labour shortages” don’t really exist
Science & technology
Full speed ahead
Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator
Engines of war
Ukraine’s embrace of drone warfare has paid off
Well informed
Is butter bad for you?
Culture
Living the dream?
A new novel is published amid a boom in dystopian fiction
Reading between the spines
Jane Austen’s forgotten inspirations
Be careful what you wish for
The best- or worst-timed book in history
The young and the restless
Meet Generation Alpha
How to shame a dictator
The best way to curb the cruelty of the world’s worst regimes
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
The burning words