Leaders
Adapting to Trump’s world
Europe needs to wake up and look after itself
The biggest obstacle is Germany, which now urgently needs elections
Bombay bulls
How to protect India’s shareholder capitalism from itself
A surge in equity investment is threatened by risky derivatives trading
Out in the open
Why open-source AI models are good for the world
Their critics dwell on the dangers and underestimate the benefits
New diets, old problems
A scourge that damages babies’ brains is coming back
Yet iodine deficiency is startlingly easy to prevent
Letters
On compulsory voting, Angela Merkel, terrorism, maths, British citizenship, S&M
Letters to the editor
Briefing
Comeback king
Donald Trump’s victory was resounding. His second term will be, too
Congress is not likely to be much of a constraint on him
Europe
Betrayal or bargain?
Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump’s victory
Combat and casualties
Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine’s battlefield hospitals
The exploding traffic light
Germany’s fractious coalition falls apart—and how!
After the waters fell
Spain’s flood poses far-reaching political questions
Britain
Becoming more European
Two groups are least happy about Labour’s budget
Gilt vigilantes
Labour’s budget has given the bond market indigestion
The Conservatives
Kemi Badenoch, the Tories’ new leader, plans war on the “blob”
Valuable lessons
Higher fees won’t help Britain’s beleaguered universities much
Past tense
What does it mean to wear a poppy today?
Middle East & Africa
Direction unknown
Will Donald Trump “stop the wars” in the Middle East?
Israeli politics
Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister
The war in Lebanon
Israel’s war aims in Lebanon are expanding
Democratic norms
What the world can learn from Botswana
One country, two kinds of family
Why the fertility gap between north and south Nigeria matters
Missing millions
Congo-Brazzaville has lost a big chunk of its oil revenue
United States
Law and peace
What a Republican trifecta will mean for governing
State of the states
Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policy
Governors and state legislatures
Democrats suffer in statehouse races, too
Campaign calculus: fool me thrice
Opinion polls underestimated Donald Trump again
Presidential immunity
Donald Trump also won a reprieve from justice
MAGA justice
Donald Trump’s potential SCOTUS picks
The Americas
The first call
Donald Trump is poised to smash Mexico with tariffs
Mexican politics
Mexico is edging closer and closer to one-party rule
Losing friends and alienating people
BRICS isn’t exactly picky, but has just rejected Venezuela
Asia
Indonesia’s foreign policy
Will Prabowo Subianto cosy up to Donald Trump or to China?
Pariah politics
Myanmar’s junta chief finally goes to China
A burning issue
South-East Asian Muslims are incensed by the war in Gaza
Crime and punishment
Why suspects in Japan are almost never acquitted
China
Challenges and opportunities
Is the return of Donald Trump China’s dream or nightmare?
International
Global disorder
America’s allies brace for brinkmanship, deals—and betrayal
Business
CEOs in Trumpland (the sequel)
How will business deal with Donald Trump this time?
A nasty case of pilotitis
Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI
Pipe dreams
Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom
Harmony and enmity
Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android
Back on the bike
India’s startup scene is picking up speed again
Bartleby
Why being wrong is good for you
Schumpeter
What would Elon Musk do in government?
Finance & economics
Taxes down, walls up
The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world
The wisdom of the crowd
What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory
The ships are down
Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project
Buttonwood
Barbarians on the porch
Free exchange
Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations
Science & technology
Culture
Crowning achievements
The Economist’s selection of the best TV of 2024
The riled west
Montanans are ready for “Yellowstone” to end
The other Iran hostage crisis
The six-day siege that put terror on television
Sisterly abuse
Exposing the horrors of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries
Nation chief
Fiction captures the forces that led to Brexit
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
The Prince of Bel-Air