Leaders
Your money or your life
Houthi Inc: the pirates who weaponised globalisation
Their Red Sea protection racket is a disturbing glimpse into an anarchic world
Moving the needle
How to improve clinical trials
Involving more participants can lead to new medical insights
American foreign policy
Donald Trump will upend 80 years of American foreign policy
A superpower’s approach to the world is about to be turned on its head
Outrun the vigilantes
Rising bond yields should spur governments to go for growth
The bond sell-off may partly reflect America’s productivity boom
City of ashes
Much of the damage from the LA fires could have been averted
The lesson of the tragedy is that better incentives will keep people safe
Thinking about the demon drink
Health warnings about alcohol give only half the story
Enjoyment matters as well as risk
Women and the armed forces
Pete Hegseth’s culture war will weaken America’s armed forces
Donald Trump’s nominee for defence risks driving away talent
Free markets
The capitalist revolution Africa needs
The world’s poorest continent should embrace its least fashionable idea
From nickel to pickle
Just because Indonesia has nickel doesn’t mean it should make EVs
Economic nationalists are making a reckless bet
Immigration
Donald the Deporter
Could a man who makes ugly promises of mass expulsion actually fix America’s immigration system?
Meta’s makeover
Mark Zuckerberg’s U-turn on fact-checking is craven—but correct
Social-media platforms should not be in the business of defining truth
Herbert Kickl and the hard right
The Putinisation of central Europe
Austria could soon get its most extreme chancellor since the 1940s