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The Economist Mar 10

The War Room newsletter: “Be quiet, small man”—diplomacy, Musk style

The Economist Mar 6

The tech bros selling drugs by drone

How criminal innovators are mastering synthetic drugs, AI, the dark web and drones

The Economist Mar 6

America First is a contagious condition

Donald Trump’s resentful, show-me-the-money approach to statecraft is catching on

The Economist Feb 26

America’s self-isolating president

No, Donald Trump’s Putin-wooing is not like Nixon going to China

The Economist Feb 25

Can Europe confront Vladimir Putin’s Russia on its own?

An independent army, air force and nuclear bomb would come at a high price

The Economist Feb 18

Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world

The country has long relied on America for security and China for its prosperity. Those two pillars are wobbling

The Economist Feb 17

Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?

How Donald Trump’s about-turn in Europe will affect Asia

The Economist Feb 16

Donald Trump is junking the transatlantic alliance

Europe has been left scrambling after an attack on the partnership that kept the peace for nearly 80 years

The Economist Feb 9

China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan 

Seventy countries have recently backed “all Chinese efforts” to take the island

The Economist Feb 6

Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare

China is weaponising its supply chains, but risks blowback if it goes too far

The Economist Feb 4

Allies will not appease Donald Trump for ever

If Trump convinces partners that the post-1945 order really is dead, things will get ugly

BBC Science Feb 4

Why scientists are counting tiny marine creatures, from Space

Differences in seawater colour could reveal how tiny Antarctic creatures are faring in a warming world.

The Economist Jan 30

As adoptions collapse, demand for international surrogacy is soaring

Yet it is facing a growing backlash from religious conservatives and some feminists

The Millions Jan 30

Esther Kinsky’s Lyrical Elegy for the Movies

In Esther Kinsky’s fiction, landscapes write and speak. Across her novels we find “waters sighing,” “shadows of leaves scribbling notes,” the Oder drawing “countless watery...

BBC Science Jan 29

Asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

The Millions Jan 29

Madeleine Watts Doesn’t Want Closure

Elegy, Southwest, Madeleine Watts’s sophomore novel, follows a young married couple from New York City on a two-week road trip across the American Southwest in...

The Economist Jan 28

A big, beautiful Trump deal with China?

Washington hawks puzzle over calls for China to help in Ukraine, and hints of a possible TikTok reprieve

The Millions Jan 28

John and Yves Berger’s Letters on the Nature of Art—and the Art of Nature

Halfway through Over to You, the painter Yves Berger recounts a meeting with university students interested in his creative process. The meeting, he feels, was...

Wall Street Journal Jan 27

Stocks Sink in Broad AI Rout Sparked by China's DeepSeek

U.S. stocks were mostly lower, with the Nasdaq leading declines as makers of AI infrastructure suffered steep falls, many in the double digits. Nvidia was...

Wall Street Journal Jan 27

Comex Gold, Silver Settle Lower

Gold settled 1.4% lower, down two of the past three sessions, and silver fell 2.5%, down three of the past four sessions.

Wall Street Journal Jan 27

DeepSeek Won't Sink U.S. AI Titans

Panic fueling the selloff of Nvidia, Broadcom and other tech giants is overblown.

Wall Street Journal Jan 27

Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk

Gain insight on Experian, SoFi Technologies and more in the latest Market Talks covering Financial Services.

Wall Street Journal Jan 27

Arabica Coffee Prices Hit Record on U.S., Colombia Tariff Spat

Arabica coffee prices hit a record level, as traders digested the withdrawal of President Trump’s threats to impose tariffs and economic sanctions on Colombia.

Wall Street Journal Jan 27

Swiss franc, Japanese yen Rise as DeepSeek News Boosts Safe Havens

The Yen and Swiss Franc were stronger against the dollar as investors sought safe havens after Chinese start-up DeepSeek’s new AI model hit U.S. tech...