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Articles in this issue:
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
This week’s covers
Will Donald Trump and Elon Musk wreck or reform the Pentagon?
Can Friedrich Merz save Germany—and Europe?
After DeepSeek, America and the EU are getting AI wrong
Countering China’s diplomatic coup
The Lucy Letby case shows systemic failure and a national malaise
Letters to the editor
The neglect of Asia was the great failure of Yalta, writes Stephen Kotkin
America’s military supremacy is in jeopardy
Donald Trump wants states and cities to do as they are told
Donald Trump and the art of the quid pro quo
Inside the world’s most famous aeroplane boneyard
What happened next at USAID
Elon Musk has been pushed out of the Treasury
What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system?
How Bob Dylan broke free
Most Latin American migrants no longer go to the United States
Guatemala is grappling with a globetrotting Jewish “cult”
Javier Milei’s liberal reforms are hurting yerba mate growers
South-East Asian producers are being hammered by Chinese imports
Is MAGA great for India?
New Zealand and the Cook Islands fall out over China
Can Indonesia make its Top Gun dreams a reality?
Tensions with the West are fuelling China’s anxiety about food supplies
Hail China’s new “ice-and-snow economy”
Panama symbolises the Sino-American struggle for influence
For Donald Trump, South Africa is DEI in the form of a country
How to go from fish lover to fish farmer
Homs’s troubles show the challenges facing Syria’s leaders
Israel mounts an attack on Palestinian intellectual life
Hizbullah’s decline is a boon for Lebanon’s new government
Instead of luxury condos, Gaza faces a resumption of war
Germany’s “business model is gone”, warns Friedrich Merz
Ukraine’s fears are becoming reality, after Trump talks to Putin
Ukraine fears being cut out of talks between America and Russia
Robert Fico’s pleas for cheap Russian gas bring Slovaks onto the street
A new crackdown is gathering strength in Turkey
Le Chat, the cat-bot France has pinned its AI hopes on
How India became an unexpected role model for Europe
It increasingly looks as if Lucy Letby’s conviction was unsafe
Britain’s review body for criminal convictions is struggling
Parliament is advertising for a new Black Rod
A British incubator of businesses often bound for the Bay Area
Valentine’s Day may need to adjust to the times
London is ageing twice as quickly as the rest of England
Is Sir Keir Starmer a chump?
China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
Chinese cars are taking over the global south
German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape
BP is underperforming and under pressure
Elon Musk’s $97bn offer is a headache for Sam Altman’s OpenAI
Could a German startup disrupt Europe’s arms industry?
How to get people to resign
Defence tech is blowing up Silicon Valley’s beliefs
How AI will divide the best from the rest
Why you should repay your mortgage early
Elon Musk is failing to cut American spending
Donald Trump’s Super Bowl tariffs are an act of self-harm
Russian inflation is too high. Does that matter?
Cheap solar power is sending electrical grids into a death spiral
The danger of relying on OpenAI’s Deep Research
How artificial intelligence is changing baseball
AI is being used to model football matches
A neutrino telescope spots the signs of something cataclysmic
Forget DeepSeek. Large language models are getting cheaper still
Does intermittent fasting work?
The secret to the success of “Saturday Night Live”
Do societies need more, or less, discretion in enforcing rules?
What explains the enduring appeal of Bridget Jones?
Faceless influencers are becoming famous online
How did the Catholic church go so wrong?
Does more education lead to less sex?
Six of the best films about love
Economic data, commodities and markets
Donald Shoup knew how to get cities going
Battle for the Pentagon