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Catch up: Tulsi Gabbard resigns; Iran says “deep” differences remain with America

Leaders

America’s economy is soaring—even with the MAGA tax

The country’s world-beating performance comes with a handicap

5 min read

Tulsi Gabbard

United States

Tulsi Gabbard’s exit weakens MAGA’s anti-war faction

Her resignation shows how little influence such voices wield around Donald Trump

3 min read

1843 | Dope and glory: inside the Enhanced Games

Athletes want to break records. The founders hope to take performance-boosting drugs mainstream

25 min read

A journalist is pictured during the opening of a Google AI-Centre in Berlin.

Europe

How Europe is fighting for digital sovereignty

5 min read

Collage of Burnham holding a placard of Starmer crossed out.

Bagehot on Britain

Hate Labour? Vote Labour!

5 min read

A glass cup containing a graphic lighting bolt

Well Informed on health

You probably don’t need extra electrolytes

3 min read

Dr Edith Eger when young, by the sea with a little girl

Obituary

Edith Eger danced for Josef Mengele

6 min read

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Business, finance and economics

Leaders

SpaceX is capitalism on rocket fuel

5 min read

Attendees walk past an I/O sign displayed at Google I/O.

Business

Google is dethroning OpenAI as the king of consumer AI

4 min read

An Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Virginia, US

Business

A new mega-deal shows how AI has turned utilities into hot property

3 min read

A man stands holding a smartphone in front of the Dubai skyline, with the Burj Khalifa, the world's tallest building, seen from Creek Harbour, UAE.

Finance & economics

Where expat escapees from Dubai end up

6 min read

World news

Mark Rutte

Leaders

Why NATO needs a Plan B

3 min read

Asia

Why Japan and China will struggle to end their feud

5 min read

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Ozgur Ozel speaks during a protest marking one year since the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu at Sarachane Square in Istanbul.

Europe

A Turkish court ousts the opposition leader from his job

3 min read

A woman washes her hands at the Rwandan border following confirmation of an Ebola outbreak in Congo

Leaders

How to stop the Ebola outbreak

3 min read

A mini cooper with the UK being welcomed through a gate marked as EU

Charlemagne on Europe

Bre-entry may be the next drama to grip the European Union

5 min read

cartoon of Graham Platner marching with signs criticizing a political figure and highlighting hospital issues, followed by a small group of supporters

Lexington on America

Leftist populism’s next big test

5 min read

A person listens anxiously as a huge pile of documents looms overhead

Buttonwood on markets

Investors fear another surge in inflation

4 min read

A hand places a ballot into an Israeli voting box while fires burn in the background

Telegram on geopolitics

Israel the lonely

5 min read

Weekend culture

illustration of two wine-bottle cannons on wooden carts, one with a French flag and the other with an American flag, facing each other on a yellow background.

Culture

A blind tasting revolutionised the wine world 50 years ago

6 min read

Typesetter at work at British printers

Culture

Beware the typo—and other lessons of literary history

2 min read

Seth Numrich as Blaine Shaw, Alice Kremelberg as Anneliese Shaw in "The Boroughs"

Culture

What to watch this week

2 min read

A scence from Rivals. Bella Maclean as Taggie O'Hara, Alex Hassell as Rupert Campbell-Black

Back Story

Why the sex in “Rivals” is more than mere titillation

4 min read

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America at 250

1950s-1970s

Chapter five in our review of American history

The cold war, Vietnam and a fractured America

By Invitation

The architects of the Vietnam War knew it was doomed

Kennedy, Johnson and McNamara were private realists but chose the path of least resistance, writes Fredrik Logevall

5 min read

Culture

Six books to understand the Vietnam war 

Through the eyes of policymakers, spies, soldiers and civilians

5 min read

From the archive

Our report on Richard Nixon’s resignation

By Invitation

The civil-rights activists planned to change the world, not just the country

5 min read

Cartoon with three figures: one speaking passionately, another in their shadow, and a curious donkey watching.

Looking back with Lexington

What Democrats can learn from Bobby Kennedy

5 min read

Other highlights

A large image of U.S. President Donald Trump hangs from the the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building.

United States

Even by Trumpian standards, a $1.8bn fund for friends is bad

4 min read

A COVID-19 vaccination centre at Centro Cultural da Caixa, one of the main art and culture centres in Brasilia.

The Americas

Why Brazil’s government is obsessed with vaccines

5 min read

Illustration of a young girl sat on a pile of books shaped like a house, writing in a notebook

International

Home-schooling is taking off

8 min read

Idaho Basque Dancers.

United States

Europe’s first known language is alive in America’s West

2 min read

Featured story

Illustration of three glowing cylindrical batteries against a black background, each releasing blue electrical discharges from the top terminals. The center battery features a circular cutaway revealing a colorful microscopic pattern inside

Charging ahead

Breakthroughs for batteries could soon make them much better

Solid-state cells would be faster and safer than today’s lithium-ion equivalents

6 min read

Illustration of three glowing cylindrical batteries against a black background, each releasing blue electrical discharges from the top terminals. The center battery features a circular cutaway revealing a colorful microscopic pattern inside

Telling stories with data

Graphic detail

FIFA’s exorbitant World Cup tickets could backfire

3 min read

Graphic detail

Russia is starting to lose ground in Ukraine

2 min read

Graphic detail

Mapping the Iran war’s trade disruption

Graphic detail

By one measure, America’s allies now outspend it on defence

2 min read

Our primers on liberalism

Schools brief

Liberalism: A brief history

Schools brief

Against the tyranny of the majority

Schools brief

De Tocqueville and the French exception

Schools brief

The prophets of illiberal progress

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