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How AI is rewiring childhood
The world this week
Politics
Business
The weekly cartoon
Leaders
Generation AI
How AI is rewiring childhood
The technology presents dazzling opportunities—and ominous risks
Crackpot or jackpot?
Britain’s slot-machine politics
Voting is becoming a high-stakes, wildly unpredictable gamble
A female soldier is about to launch a drone at a military position in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine on October 6th 2025
Squabbling while Ukraine burns
Enough dithering. Europe must pay to save Ukraine
America will not. Europe’s security depends on agreeing how to
A person holds up an image of Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa during a protest in support of Syrian territorial unity and against division, in Damascus, Syria, November 28th 2025
Two cheers for Ahmed al-Sharaa
Syria’s transition has gone better than expected
The president has been a deft diplomat, but must do more reassure Syrians
A diptych of Kevin Hassett and Chris Waller.
Choosing the chair
Chris Waller, not Kevin Hassett, should lead the Federal Reserve
President Trump should choose the technocrat over the partisan
Letters
A selection of correspondence
Do minimum wages kill jobs?
By Invitation
Blockchain boon
Larry Fink and Rob Goldstein on how tokenisation could transform finance
Briefing
An illustration of a girl happily studying in a classroom with a gentle, caring personalised AI robot teacher.
Generation AI
At home and at school, AI is transforming childhood
It brings many benefits, but also hidden dangers
Asia
A 3D illustration of the Indian flag. The Ashoka Chokra is a drone instead of the usual symbol.
Boom times
India’s defence-tech startups are thriving
Natural disasters
South-East Asia and Sri Lanka are reeling from storms and flooding
Third wheel
Donald Trump looms over Vladimir Putin’s visit to India
Regressing to the mean
Kyrgyzstan is losing its status as Central Asia’s only democracy
Banyan
Lessons from Japan’s efforts to wean itself off Chinese rare earths
China
An illustration of boxes in a empty room. A person in the background is leaving with one of the boxes.
Talent flows
America is foolishly waving goodbye to thousands of Chinese boffins
Elections approach
After a terrible fire in Hong Kong, public fury smoulders
Suppressing democracy in China
The general who refused to crush Tiananmen’s protesters
United States
Pete Hegseth.
Drifting with purpose
Will Congress rein in Pete Hegseth and his boat-bombing campaign?
Concepts of a plan
Republicans still don’t know what to do with Obamacare
After the fall
Leaf blowers are the latest thing dividing Americans
But no cigar
A special election puts Democrats on track to flip the House
Confirmation bias
AIs could turn opinion polls into gibberish
Dell gift
What will your child’s Trump Account be worth?
Lexington
Some cocaine-smuggling presidents are more innocent than others
The Americas
A few women are visible, seen through a small keyhole
The price of a person
Trafficking humans is the drug-gangs’ grimmest business
Xi’s first XI
China built a swanky cricket pitch to win over tiny Grenada
Elections in Honduras
Why does Donald Trump care about Honduras’s election?
Remember, remember the 20th of November
Brazil is embracing its African roots
Middle East & Africa
A person carries a bunch of balloons through destroyed streets in Aleppo, aerial view
A year After Assad
Syria uneasily celebrates a year of liberation
Trouble brewing
An insurgency may be brewing against Syria’s new leaders
Binyamin Netanyahu’s trial
Binyamin Netanyahu has asked for a presidential pardon
Purchasing power
Africa needs to generate more electricity
An oily deal
Russia’s dodgy plan for a pipeline in Congo
Latter-day Saints on the march
Mormonism’s surprising boom in Africa
Europe
French soldiers work on a Leclerc tank, at Mourmelon military camp in Northern France
Pumping iron
Europe is going on a huge military spending spree
Flame out
America’s peace initiative has stalled in Moscow
The last shall be average
Greece is teaching Germany how to get government online
Basta means basta
Italy’s populist right stalls a sexual-consent law
Not so judgy
The Hague is coping with the decline of international courts
Charlemagne
Why a small corruption scandal is a big problem for the EU
Britain
Sir Keir Starmer being interviewed by Zanny Minton-Beddoes
The man versus the moment
Our interview with Sir Keir Starmer
Slot-machine politics
Our new model captures the lottery of Britain’s electoral system
Pinch of salt
Polls predicting the next British election are not to be trusted
Fury over juries
Britain’s plan to curb jury trials is a sharp break with tradition
Flight of fancy
Are Brits really leaving the country in droves?
Bagehot
Pity the AVOCADOs
International
New US Marine recruits train in San Diego, California
Defence
Western armed forces have struggled to fill their ranks to deter Russia
The Telegram
Trumpworld thinks Europe has betrayed the West
Business
illustration of a bright red room set up like a film studio. A woman in a yellow dress sits on a bed holding a drink, while a man in a white shirt and gray pants stands nearby gesturing
Creative tension
From micro-dramas to video games, Chinese entertainment is booming
Showing up
China’s unlikely new entertainment capital
Jobs for the bots
Lessons from the frontiers of AI adoption
Animals, ink
Even Europe’s penmakers are under threat
Changing lanes
To halt their decline, VW and others are turning Chinese
High and Drahi
Patrick Drahi has bested his lenders yet again
Bartleby
How many hours should employees work?
Schumpeter
Will the mega-merger wave destroy value for shareholders?
Finance & economics
For people striving to break into the middle class, hard work is no longer enough
Labouring the point
Why worries about American job losses are overstated
Central banking
Which Kevin Hassett would lead the Federal Reserve?
Once you pop
How to spot a bubble bursting
Cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin has plunged. Strategy Inc is an early victim
Feeling flush
Can golden toilets fix China’s economy?
Refined attacks
American sanctions are putting Russia under pressure
Buttonwood
Stockholm is Europe’s new capital of capital
Free exchange
AI misinformation may have paradoxical consequences
Science & technology
Human head split in two, formed from layered, wavy paper that extends outward in shapes resembling a brain.
The new neurotribes
Why autism should not be treated as a single condition
My God, it’s full of Starlinks
Surging satellite numbers threaten to dazzle even space telescopes
Well informed
Does taping your mouth while you sleep have benefits?
Head to head
A Chinese firm attempts to bring a booster rocket back to Earth
Culture
Men ride a motorcycle by the Great Colonnade (Decumanus Maximus) at the ancient ruins of Palmyra in central Syria.
Dark tourism
Why do tourists visit sites of atrocities?
Language
And The Economist’s word of the year for 2025 is…
Show me the doors
Why there is an Advent calendar for absolutely everything
Hotshot
Tyler Mitchell: the photographer of the moment
Stuff of fiction
The 30-year-old dystopian novel that is the talk of TikTok
Right on cue
The best TV shows of 2025
Economic & financial indicators
Indicators
Economic data, commodities and markets
Obituary
Tom Stoppard in November 2023
A man of multitudes
Tom Stoppard was an inexhaustible fountain of ideas
