Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon This week’s cover It’s not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world Elon’s $1m voter The blistering rally in gold augurs ill for the power of the dollar Decarceration is the key to better prisons Time to shake up Asia’s sleepy monopolies Letters to the editor GLP-1s like Ozempic are among the most important drug breakthroughs ever How to read America’s early-voting numbers Will Hurricane Helene tip the vote in North Carolina? Donald Trump’s terrifying closing message Gay voters are smitten with Kamala Harris A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona’s elections Kamala Harris’s closing argument Millions in the West want mandatory voting. Are they right? Blackouts in Cuba highlight the island’s extreme energy fragility The flesh-eating worms devouring cows Indonesia’s macho new leader is no “cuddly grandpa” Making nickel is a nightmare. Unless you are Indonesian Suck up to your fake CEO Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping meet and resolve a border row Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it Ambiguity or madness? Where Harris and Trump stand on China How China is trying to win back foreign tourists A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms Do Israel’s assassinations work? Yahya Sinwar made Hamas his own fief Israel’s leaders are watching America’s election closely Mozambique’s ruling party wins a dodgy election Gold is booming. So is the dirty business of digging it up How African churches are keeping the faith alive abroad Germany’s populist superstar demands peace with Russia North Korea is sending thousands of soldiers to help Vladimir Putin Giorgia Meloni would make Machiavelli proud The world’s most improbable smash-hit cooking show Angela who? Merkel’s legacy looks increasingly terrible Britain’s prison service is caught in a doom loop How to hold armed police to account in Britain Why “The Rest Is Politics”, a British podcast, is a hit Britain is a world leader in pet health care Scotland’s failure to build homes is mainly due to its government The shortfall in British adoptions King’s Cross, a miracle in London Putin’s plan to dethrone the dollar America’s growing profits are under threat Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office? South-East Asia’s stodgy conglomerates are holding it back Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI How to manage politics in the workplace Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple’s march towards $4trn? What the surging price of gold says about a dangerous world The West faces new inflation fears The economics of thinness (Ozempic edition) Investors should not fear a stockmarket crash Hizbullah’s sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerable How bad are video games for your grades? The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes Why Oriental hornets can’t get drunk Winemakers are building grape-picking robots Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power In a posthumous memoir, Alexei Navalny chronicles his martyrdom Is the idea of sexual identity relatively new? TikTok is changing how Gen Z speaks Can there ever be another great le Carré novel? Softbank’s gambling founder, Masayoshi Son, is catnip for authors What the row over Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book reveals about free speech Economic data, commodities and markets Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways The everything drugs
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Articles in this issue: Politics Business KAL’s cartoon This week’s cover It’s not just obesity. Drugs like Ozempic will change the world Elon’s $1m voter The blistering rally in gold augurs ill for the power of the dollar Decarceration is the key to better prisons Time to shake up Asia’s sleepy monopolies Letters to the editor GLP-1s like Ozempic are among the most important drug breakthroughs ever How to read America’s early-voting numbers Will Hurricane Helene tip the vote in North Carolina? Donald Trump’s terrifying closing message Gay voters are smitten with Kamala Harris A culture of conspiracy haunts Arizona’s elections Kamala Harris’s closing argument Millions in the West want mandatory voting. Are they right? Blackouts in Cuba highlight the island’s extreme energy fragility The flesh-eating worms devouring cows Indonesia’s macho new leader is no “cuddly grandpa” Making nickel is a nightmare. Unless you are Indonesian Suck up to your fake CEO Narendra Modi and Xi Jinping meet and resolve a border row Japan is remarkably open to AI, but slow to make use of it Ambiguity or madness? Where Harris and Trump stand on China How China is trying to win back foreign tourists A female comedian has Chinese men up in arms Do Israel’s assassinations work? Yahya Sinwar made Hamas his own fief Israel’s leaders are watching America’s election closely Mozambique’s ruling party wins a dodgy election Gold is booming. So is the dirty business of digging it up How African churches are keeping the faith alive abroad Germany’s populist superstar demands peace with Russia North Korea is sending thousands of soldiers to help Vladimir Putin Giorgia Meloni would make Machiavelli proud The world’s most improbable smash-hit cooking show Angela who? Merkel’s legacy looks increasingly terrible Britain’s prison service is caught in a doom loop How to hold armed police to account in Britain Why “The Rest Is Politics”, a British podcast, is a hit Britain is a world leader in pet health care Scotland’s failure to build homes is mainly due to its government The shortfall in British adoptions King’s Cross, a miracle in London Putin’s plan to dethrone the dollar America’s growing profits are under threat Are bosses right to insist that workers return to the office? South-East Asia’s stodgy conglomerates are holding it back Competition will make weight-loss drugs better, cheaper and bigger Memory chips could be the next bottleneck for AI How to manage politics in the workplace Can Google or Huawei stymie Apple’s march towards $4trn? What the surging price of gold says about a dangerous world The West faces new inflation fears The economics of thinness (Ozempic edition) Investors should not fear a stockmarket crash Hizbullah’s sprawling financial empire looks newly vulnerable How bad are video games for your grades? The study of ancient DNA is helping to solve modern crimes Why Oriental hornets can’t get drunk Winemakers are building grape-picking robots Perovskite crystals may represent the future of solar power In a posthumous memoir, Alexei Navalny chronicles his martyrdom Is the idea of sexual identity relatively new? TikTok is changing how Gen Z speaks Can there ever be another great le Carré novel? Softbank’s gambling founder, Masayoshi Son, is catnip for authors What the row over Ta-Nehisi Coates’s book reveals about free speech Economic data, commodities and markets Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways The everything drugs