Leaders
International crime
The vast and sophisticated global enterprise that is Scam Inc
Online fraud leaves nobody safe
American business and politics
The meaning of Donald Trump’s war on woke workers
A worthwhile idea is straying into cruelty and, possibly, illegality
The end of the beginning
It’s not over: Donald Trump could still blow up global trade
Ideology, complacent markets and a need for revenue may still lead to big tariffs
Going up
How Labour can unshackle Britain’s most innovative region
It will have to confront the charge of elitism
Letters
On airport slots, oligarchies, Africa, rock climbing, dishonest societies, corporate hierarchies
Letters to the editor
By Invitation
Canada in Donald Trump’s tariff sights
Donald Trump poses a grave threat to others’ sovereignty and freedom, says Chrystia Freeland
Briefing
Asia
Subcontinental drift
Why India isn’t winning the contest with China
Big cats, big lessons
India’s attempt to save the tiger has been a remarkable success
A belated reckoning
Japan could finally face its own #MeToo crisis
Durand under duress
Pakistan is furious with the Afghan Taliban
China
Fentanyl and free trade
Donald Trump’s new trade war with China is also an opioid war
United States
The Twitter playbook
Elon Musk is shredding America’s government as he did Twitter
Hard reboot
Florida comes to Washington, DC
Confirmation bias
RFK junior and Tulsi Gabbard, set to sail through a cowed Senate
Crisis management
New York City commits to involuntary commitment
The Americas
A chink of light
The Trump tariff saga offers Canada’s Liberals a lifeline
A record of violence
Ecuador chooses a leader amid murder, blackouts and stagnation
Middle East & Africa
From MAGA to Gaza
Donald Trump’s eye-popping plan to make Gaza American
From rebel to ruler
Warlord, jihadi or nation-builder?
Of Mecca and Mammon
Why Islamists in the Arab world speak the language of free markets
The long au revoir
France’s bitter retreat from west Africa
An interview with a Congolese rebel
A leader of Congo’s rebels vows to fight on
Europe
Only halfway there
Germany’s election campaign is creating a security risk
The transparent battlefield
The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible
Protest and repression
Can Georgia’s shadowy despot survive?
Per Erdogan ad astra
Turkey is building a spaceport in Somalia
Britain
Build the Arc
Oxford and Cambridge are too small
Expanding cities
Milton Keynes shows the rest of Britain how to grow
Plan it and the builders will come
Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdone
Causing concern
Britain’s plan to shake up school inspections pleases no one
Rhetoric and reality
Speeches in Britain’s Parliament are getting shorter—and worse
Bagehot
Must Leeds always lose?
International
The Telegram
Allies will not appease Donald Trump for ever
Business
Splashing the cache
The data-centre investment spree shows no signs of stopping
Finance & economics
Worse to come
Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown
Mercantilist menace
Tariff uncertainty can be as ruinous as tariffs themselves
All good things
When will remote workers see their pay cut?
Onwards and sideways
Europe has no escape from stagnation
Seventh heaven
Narendra Modi is struggling to boost Indian growth
Buttonwood
How to invest like a MAGA bigwig
Free exchange
Don’t propose with a diamond
Science & technology
Fighting flight
Fighting the war in Ukraine on the electromagnetic spectrum
Make some noise
Fine-tuned acoustic waves can knock drones out of the sky
Crypto crime-hunters
Cryptocurrencies are spawning a new generation of private eyes
Well informed
Are ice baths good for you?
Culture
What the flock?
How TikTok became a religious pulpit
Let’s Thai the knot
Fans are going crazy for Thai television shows and music
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
“Virgin on a Pedestal”