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Articles in this issue:
Politics
Business
KAL’s cartoon
This week’s cover
Chinese companies are winning the global south
The Middle East must step back from the brink
Genomic medicines can cost $3m a dose. How to make them affordable
Can Nicolás Maduro be stopped from stealing Venezuela’s election?
Is the big state back in Britain?
How to make tourism work for locals and visitors alike
Letters to the editor
Keep the code behind AI open, say two entrepreneurs
Not all AI models should be freely available, argues a legal scholar
Thailand’s thwarted election winner on the move to ban his party
Chinese firms are growing rapidly in the global south
The demise of an iconic American highway
The Kamala Harris effect on the polls has been dramatic
Can Donald Trump win back suburban voters?
America is not ready for a major war, says a bipartisan commission
How the election will shape the Supreme Court
After protests over a stolen election, the goons crack heads
The plight of Brazil’s indigenous groups worsens
Will El Mayo’s arrest slow the spread of fentanyl?
America recreates a warfighting command in Japan
America remains Asia’s military-exercise partner of choice
Indian cities are utterly unprepared for what is about to hit them
How Asia’s wild west shakes up the modern world
China is itching to mine the ocean floor
Which Olympic sports is China good at?
To revive the economy, China wants consumers to buy better stuff
When China hides disasters in a memory hole
Israeli strikes on Beirut and Tehran could intensify a regional war
Will Hamas turn from war to politics?
Ethiopia is in the midst of a kidnapping epidemic
Somaliland’s camel herders are milking it
Will a new “pact” of ten laws help Europe ease its migrant woes?
Vienna’s social housing, lauded by progressives, pushes out the poor
Amid the bombs, Ukrainians rediscover the beach
The Olympics are teaching the French to cheer again
Humiliated by Azerbaijan, Armenia tacks towards the West
What will Great British Energy do?
A riot in Southport shows how the British far right is changing
How deep is Britain’s fiscal “black hole”?
Britain’s railways go from one extreme to another
The disease that most afflicts England’s National Health Service
The race to become leader of Britain’s Conservatives
Was the Bank of England right to start lowering interest rates?
British voters care less about tax rises than politicians think
What could kill the $1trn artificial-intelligence boom?
Can Samsung get its mojo back?
Dumb phones are making a comeback
India’s electric-scooter champion goes public
What is the point of industry awards?
What Chipotle and McDonald’s say about the consumer slowdown
What the war on tourism gets wrong
Which cities have the worst overtourism problem?
Investors beware: summer madness is here
Gary Gensler is the most controversial man in American finance
India’s economic policy will not make it rich
China’s last boomtowns show rapid growth is still possible
EU handouts have long been wasteful. Now they must be fixed
The race is on to control the global supply chain for AI chips
Gene-editing drugs are moving from lab to clinic at lightning speed
How America built an AI tool to predict Taliban attacks
GPT, Claude, Llama? How to tell which AI model is best
How long would it take to read the greatest books of all time?
A moving memoir probes the contradictions of modern China
The Paris Olympics are breaking’s one shot to become a global sport
A primer on RNA, perhaps the most consequential molecule of all
Tinned fish is swimming against the tide
Few writers have seen America more clearly than James Baldwin
Economic data, commodities and markets
Edna O’Brien’s books scandalised Ireland
Chinese business goes global