Ruination day: How to limit global damage
The world this week
Leaders
Ruination Day
President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc
But the rest of the world can limit the damage
A shattered nation
Lift sanctions to give Syria a chance of rebuilding
Our poll shows Syrians trust their new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. So should the West
Ill-suited sentence
Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president
Punish the offender without also punishing French democracy
Chainsaw reaction
Why the IMF should bail out a serial deadbeat
Under President Javier Milei, Argentina has changed
Stop changing all the clocks
Donald Trump was right. Daylight Saving Time needs to go
Evidence on the health costs is piling up
Letters
A selection of correspondence
Training young workers in Britain, and more
By Invitation
You call this liberation?
Even Americans don’t want Trump’s barmy tariffs, writes Douglas Irwin
Briefing
Arise, consumers!
As Donald Trump’s trade war heats up, China is surprisingly confident
Should it be?
Europe
‘Twere well it were done quickly
The prospect of early elections in Ukraine has everyone in a spin
Unifying factor
Irish willingness to join NATO could ease unification
Goodies for grannies
Germany’s Mütterrente is a poor way to pay parents
Britain
The small-boat business
How to run a smuggling business
The fortunate few
Every year, a few thousand people win Britain’s refugee lottery
Death by committee?
The assisted-dying bill isn’t dead. It is in limbo
Fiscal frictions
Britain’s budget watchdog has ruffled feathers in Westminster
You’d better release me
What happens when Britain frees thousands of prisoners at once?
Middle East & Africa
Sunny Sunnis
Syrians are still surprisingly upbeat
Many bombs, little thought
America steps up bombing the Houthis but lacks a clear strategy
Capitalising on success
Khartoum changes hands, marking a new phase in Sudan’s civil war
United States
Great exhortations
How (and why) J.D. Vance does it
Madison as hell
The Trump train slows
The zip ties that bind
Is it ever right to pay disabled workers pennies per hour?
Losing count
DOGE comes for the data wonks
The Americas
A turnaround, eh?
The Liberal Party’s polling surge is Canada’s largest ever
An iron fist, please
Peruvians long for a Bukele-like strongman to beat crime
The rise before the fall
Latin American migrants transfer money like never before
Asia
Tariff king v tariff man
India sees opportunity, as well as risk, in Trump’s trade war
South-East Asia’s tremor
Myanmar’s junta takes advantage of a devastating earthquake
Unwanted influence
As Chinese drills begin, Taiwan expels mainland influencers
Stans with a plan
Ending Central Asia’s endless squabbles over eccentric borders
China
International
Business
Faster, higher…richer?
Athletics pays less than other sports. Michael Johnson wants to change that
Shock and ore
Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining
Bear in a China shop
One of the world’s biggest mega-malls is worryingly empty
Finance & economics
The battle to come
Can the world’s free-traders withstand Trump’s attack?
After the chainsaw
How Milei made Argentina deserving of an IMF bail-out
Free exchange
What a refugee camp reveals about economics
Science & technology
Repairing body cells
Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives
Wheels within wheels
Motors in the wheels take EVs further
Out of this world
What does space miso taste like?
AI think, therefore AI am
Researchers lift the lid on how reasoning models actually “think”
Well informed
How Daylight Saving Time affects your sleep and diet
Culture
Reading the entrails
Hungry for more “Hunger Games”? There is plenty in store
From invisible hand to fist
An insider’s guide to economic warfare
On the back foot
Sneakernomics and the surprising future of sneakers
Hare today, still hare tomorrow
Why memoirs involving animals are so successful
The spies that bind
A forgotten CIA programme that changed minds
Song of myselves
Is there anything left to learn about The Beatles?
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
The punch of fate