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What to do about Germany’s populist right
A handpicked article read aloud from the latest issue of The Economist
What would it take to make India’s cities better – and safer?
After a five-storey building collapsed in Delhi, focus is on how urban areas can adapt to growing populations. Plus, Ahmedabad’s ace newspaper delivery driver goes viral• Don’t get This is...
Ukraine's postal workers deliver lifeline under Russian fire
The state post service delivers pensions, medicine and letters to people just miles from the front.
‘I believed the hype’: the white South Africans denied refugee status in the US
Drive to save thousands of Afrikaners from false claims of ‘white genocide’ appears to show signs of slowingWhen Donald Trump announced in February 2025 that the US would accept Afrikaners...
Panama canal traffic facing further cuts as drought from El Niño worsens
Planned daily reductions will further choke one of the world’s most important shipping lanesThe Panama canal plans to again cut maritime traffic due to worsening drought caused by the El...
AI-linked stocks slide after tech bosses call for slowdown in ‘reckless’ development
Donald Trump dismisses attempts to increase controls on artificial intelligence as ‘sick conspiracy’ AI-linked stocks tumbled on Monday after the bosses of Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX called for a slowdown...
France’s centre has one question: who can beat Marine Le Pen?
Seven months out, presidential candidates are lacklustre and there are too many of them
A new device helps severely paralysed patients communicate
Eventually they might be able to control robots or exoskeletons
Bond markets aren’t just running a temperature
Scott Bessent’s misdiagnosis is dangerous, writes Mohamed El-Erian
South Africa is at risk of becoming a mafia state
An extraordinary public inquiry is confirming the country’s worst fears about organised crime
The War Room newsletter: Russia is hunting Ukraine’s trains
Russia’s drones and missiles are battering the railway system, writes Adam Roberts, our foreign editor
China’s tutoring crackdown has created a black market
The academic system has become more unfair but just as pressure-filled