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American bosses are desperately trying to de-MAGAfy

Ahead of the midterms, corporations want to win back favour with the Democrats

The town that Disney built

Can a nostalgic throwback be a bold urban planning experiment?

Israel’s election overseer on how to stop AI distorting votes

Chatbots can help inform citizens but should not be allowed to make choices for them, says Dean Livne

Memory lane

In the age of AI, what is the point of remembering?

Financial astrology is a serious business in India

That is bad news for investors’ returns

Research on grasping bureaucrats startles Singapore

It is more revealing about its academic culture than its civil service

Governments want to hold America’s shares more than its debts

When countries switch towards riskier assets, the global economy feels the consequences

Why Dolly Parton mattered to America

She was brave, decent and unapologetically herself

While Ukraine is under fire, corruption and political chaos abounds

Is a reckoning close at hand?

Checks and Balance newsletter: Donald Trump’s losing bet on oil

Charlotte Howard, our US editor, on why the president’s energy strategy has backfired

Donald Trump further undermines trust in American alliances

America’s president derails military exercises with South Korea

The yuan is more than a symptom of global imbalances

Treating it as a mere by-product of deeper distortions lets China off too easily, argue Anantha Nageswaran and P.S.…

Attention, please! 

The movement trying to reclaim our attention

How to design paper money that represents Europe

Brazil has the world’s strictest laws against racist speech

Cockroaches 1, Modi 0: India’s remarkable protests

Elon Musk’s vision for AI

How high will oil prices go this time?

How big is America’s “obesity penalty”?

Donald Trump’s food-stamp overhaul is beginning to bite

Britain is struggling to build data centres

Checks and Balance newsletter: AI has become the ultimate dread risk

John Prideaux, our executive editor, on the psychology behind our anxiety over the technology

Narendra Modi caves to India’s Gen Z

Protesters oust the education minister and promise to go home

What to watch this week

Cover Story newsletter: Should you be afraid of Elon Musk?

Is it useful to measure “biological” v “chronological” age?

The War Room newsletter: Ukraine’s Game of Drones

Oliver Carroll, our Ukraine correspondent, assesses the performance of the country’s defence minister

Plot Twist newsletter: What will the new generation of zillionaires collect?

Alexandra Suich Bass, our culture editor, examines whether the uber-rich pursue Old Master paintings

El Boletín newsletter: An earthquake shakes Venezuela’s political reset

Our correspondent in Caracas reports on how disaster is testing an already fragile country

Does Donald Trump make Latin America a good bet?

Companies are scrambling to curtail soaring AI costs

The US in Brief: “I love the inflation”

Our daily political update, featuring the stories that matter

Entertainment is being deglobalised

Why monoculture events like the World Cup are becoming the exception

The Knicks represent New York—and capitalism—at its best

That is why New Yorkers love them

An interview with South Korea’s president

Lee Jae Myung has put his country on track again, but challenges loom

A murder exploited: Britain’s George Floyd moment that wasn’t

Why France is uneasy about German rearmament

Germany could become the benchmark military power in Europe

Rocket goes boom; so do moon plans

The phenomenal explosion could blow a hole in Amazon’s plans and NASA’s too

Meet the jailscraper

With no room for prisons, New York City is building up

American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn

Millenarian thinking permeates business and markets

Was this Britain’s George Floyd moment?

No, but Nigel Farage would have you think so

Influencers vs evidence-based medicine (part two)

Focused group: Ukraine is now Europe’s war

If it’s true, go

The US in Brief: Iowa gives Trump a surprise

Abelardo de la Espriella is now the front-runner in Colombia

The right-wing populist outperformed in the first round of a deeply polarised election

Imagining a world without a safe asset 

No corner of finance would be left untouched

Pete Hegseth pulls his punches on China

Plot Twist newsletter: “Yesteryear” and the truth about tradwives