Articles in this issue: Politics Business The weekly cartoon This week’s cover America’s economy is bigger and better than ever How the Biden administration botched America’s sanctions against Iran Canada’s Trudeau trap Britain’s budget risks being a huge missed opportunity Starship will change what is possible beyond Earth Letters to the editor Europe must play to win—not just play nice—in a new space race, argues ESA’s boss Europe should not see a potential Trump return as a threat, says Nadia Schadlow The rockets are nifty, but it is satellites that make SpaceX valuable Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia Republicans ramp up efforts to court Amish voters in Pennsylvania Polarisation by education is remaking American politics Voters won’t thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy Vital election races in Wisconsin are awfully close Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago’s teachers’ union everything One big thing Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in common Justin Trudeau is killing Canada’s liberal dream Bolivia’s slow-motion economic crisis is accelerating The Mounties take on Modi. Who will win? New Zealand’s biggest pivot since the 1980s Bhutan prays it can be India’s Hong Kong Pakistan rolls out the red carpet for China’s prime minister Myanmar’s military junta has conjured up a crazy currency system Does China welcome—or dread—an Iran-Israel war? China makes love and war with Taiwan Do amateurs regret jumping into China’s frenzied stockmarkets? In China, fib online and find out Bad ideas are back on the menu in the Middle East Does Israel’s new plan for Gaza include withholding food? Lebanon’s army is less useless than its reputation suggests How Wagner survived Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death Africa’s EV revolution has two wheels not four Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia’s dirty tricks Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine The limits of Turkey’s strategic autonomy Poland’s new modern-art museum wants to give the capital a fresh look Hopes for religious harmony come to life in the Muslim Vatican Sir Keir Starmer’s elevator pitch for investment Is Britain’s government at war with the wealthy? Trade unions have their eye on Britain’s tech sector Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back again Could you pass the British citizenship test? An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to Westminster The war on prices: British edition Vladimir Putin’s spies are plotting global chaos The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust American productivity still leads the world Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth? The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback What can stop the American economy now? Sources and acknowledgments The envy of the world The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream Pity the superstar fashion designer Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions Why Microsoft Excel won’t die Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service? The horrors of the reply-all email thread What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics? Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks Germany’s economy goes from bad to worse Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons? Why the world is so animated about anime Is the deep ocean more magnificent than outer space? Food lovers the world over are tickled by pickles In the second world war, some diplomacy was done between the sheets How to analyse chance, ignorance and risk What don’t you know about your partner? What to read about grief and bereavement Economic data, commodities and markets Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease The envy of the world
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Articles in this issue: Politics Business The weekly cartoon This week’s cover America’s economy is bigger and better than ever How the Biden administration botched America’s sanctions against Iran Canada’s Trudeau trap Britain’s budget risks being a huge missed opportunity Starship will change what is possible beyond Earth Letters to the editor Europe must play to win—not just play nice—in a new space race, argues ESA’s boss Europe should not see a potential Trump return as a threat, says Nadia Schadlow The rockets are nifty, but it is satellites that make SpaceX valuable Democrats struggle to limit the loss of black voters in Georgia Republicans ramp up efforts to court Amish voters in Pennsylvania Polarisation by education is remaking American politics Voters won’t thank Kamala Harris for the state of the economy Vital election races in Wisconsin are awfully close Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago’s teachers’ union everything One big thing Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in common Justin Trudeau is killing Canada’s liberal dream Bolivia’s slow-motion economic crisis is accelerating The Mounties take on Modi. Who will win? New Zealand’s biggest pivot since the 1980s Bhutan prays it can be India’s Hong Kong Pakistan rolls out the red carpet for China’s prime minister Myanmar’s military junta has conjured up a crazy currency system Does China welcome—or dread—an Iran-Israel war? China makes love and war with Taiwan Do amateurs regret jumping into China’s frenzied stockmarkets? In China, fib online and find out Bad ideas are back on the menu in the Middle East Does Israel’s new plan for Gaza include withholding food? Lebanon’s army is less useless than its reputation suggests How Wagner survived Yevgeny Prigozhin’s death Africa’s EV revolution has two wheels not four Italy starts outsourcing its migrant crisis to Albania This tiny country is a laboratory for Russia’s dirty tricks Why Russia is trying to seize a vital Ukrainian coal mine The limits of Turkey’s strategic autonomy Poland’s new modern-art museum wants to give the capital a fresh look Hopes for religious harmony come to life in the Muslim Vatican Sir Keir Starmer’s elevator pitch for investment Is Britain’s government at war with the wealthy? Trade unions have their eye on Britain’s tech sector Alex Salmond went from the fringes to the mainstream and back again Could you pass the British citizenship test? An assisted-dying bill is again introduced to Westminster The war on prices: British edition Vladimir Putin’s spies are plotting global chaos The American economy has left other rich countries in the dust American productivity still leads the world Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth? The shale revolution helped make America’s economy great Why the American stockmarket reigns supreme China’s yuan is nowhere close to displacing the greenback What can stop the American economy now? Sources and acknowledgments The envy of the world The trouble with Elon Musk’s robotaxi dream Pity the superstar fashion designer Poland’s stockmarket has a hot new entrant BHP and Rio Tinto are heading in different directions Why Microsoft Excel won’t die Can artificial intelligence rescue customer service? The horrors of the reply-all email thread What if carmaking went the way of consumer electronics? Inside the secret oil trade that funds Iran’s wars Why investors should still avoid Chinese stocks Germany’s economy goes from bad to worse Trump’s trillion-dollar tax cuts are spiralling out of control An economics Nobel for work on why nations succeed and fail SpaceX is NASA’s biggest lunar rival Tubeworms live beneath the planetary crust around deep-sea vents Could life exist on one of Jupiter’s moons? Why the world is so animated about anime Is the deep ocean more magnificent than outer space? Food lovers the world over are tickled by pickles In the second world war, some diplomacy was done between the sheets How to analyse chance, ignorance and risk What don’t you know about your partner? What to read about grief and bereavement Economic data, commodities and markets Sammy Basso led research into his own rare disease The envy of the world