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• Ingenious medicine
• Who are the main contenders to be Iran's next president?
• The shale revolution helped make America's economy great
• What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?
• A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel
• Cuba's private-sector experiment is faltering
• Why China's companies are recruiting their own militias
• Mexico's gangs could be the country's fifth-biggest employer
• Boaz v BlackRock: Whoever wins, closed-end funds lose
• Politics
• This week's covers
• This Man Eats So Much Butter, Cheese, and Beef That Cholesterol Oozes From His Skin
• The economics of American lotteries
• Dana White, martial-arts magnate and Trump cheerleader
• OpenAI's new fundraising is shaking up Silicon Valley
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Atheism is still a taboo for American politicians
• Bad ideas are back on the menu in the Middle East
• India's civil society is under attack
• Sweeping lawns, geopolitics and guns
• How much do Palestinians pay to get out of Gaza?
• Meet one of Britain's most influential, least understood people
• Biden's Middle East Legacy
• Rose Dugdale went from debutante to IRA bombmaker
• Politics
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Reviving ancient viruses can help fight modern ones
• Democrats are still processing their defeat
• Former Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is already using DeepSeek instead of OpenAI at his startup, Gloo
• India has proved to be a popular—and clever—investor in poor countries
• China is the West's corporate R&D lab. Can it remain so?
• Obituary: Huang Yong Ping died on October 20th
• The mind-bending new rules for doing business in China
• Did spies from China, India and Russia meddle in Canada's elections?
• The Netherlands' new hard-right government is a mess
• America's banks are more exposed to a downturn than they appear
• Jair Bolsonaro's challenge to Brazil's election was rejected
• The Lush Bath Bot Is a Vegan, Recyclable Floating Speaker That's Out to Make a Point
• Man City v Inter Milan is the most lopsided final in Champions League history
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• John Hare devoted his life to saving the Gobi's wild camels
• Trump's Day One Executive Orders Will Worsen Climate Crisis
• Immigration is surging, with big economic consequences
• Auto & Transport Roundup: Market Talk
• China's government is surprisingly redistributive
• People are splurging like never before on their pets
• Generative AI is a marvel. Is it also built on theft?
• An assassination attempt against Slovakia's prime minister, Robert Fico
• Russia's bloody summer offensive is hurting Ukraine
• Frans de Waal taught the world that animals had emotions
• Sanctions are sinking Russia's flagship gas project
• Japan has a chequered record on climate change
• A pager-bomb attack causes disarray for Hizbullah
• The SNP feels the heat in Scotland's election campaign
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• States are becoming more brazen about killing foes abroad
• What a Japanese gold mine says about its approach to history
• China approves the world's most expensive infrastructure project
• On stupid rules and quick wins
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• America recreates a warfighting command in Japan
• Too many people want to be social-media influencers
• Angela who? Merkel's legacy looks increasingly terrible
• The Big Mac index: where to buy a cheap hamburger
• Ethiopia and Somalia claim to have settled a dangerous feud
• Battles over streaming break out for video games
• One big thing Donald Trump and Elon Musk have in common
• A hidden refuge in Sudan that the internet, banks—and war—can't reach
• Faced by Trump's Interest in Greenland, Denmark Will Increase Military Spending in Arctic
• Is the American-built pier in Gaza useful or a fiasco?
• How should Britain handle £200bn in quantitative-easing losses?
• Where is it actually cheaper to drive an electric car?
• Military and financial support to Ukraine hits a record high
• This week's cover
• Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency?
• Homeland Economics
• Hudson Valley Weekend Trips: Where to Find the Region's Best New Restaurants, Hotels and Kombucha Sorbet
• Los Angeles Needs to Fireproof Communities, Not Just Houses
• Dictators and utopians are fond of fiddling with constitutions
• Finland's shrinking high schools are importing pupils from abroad
• Europe's lefties bash migrants (nearly) as well as the hard right
• Following Trump's pardons, the Proud Boys are back in the game
• Beyond France, the European elections will deliver more of the same
• Can the IMF solve the poor world's debt crisis?
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Why judges were wrong to block the Kroger-Albertsons merger
• KAL's cartoon
• Democratic control of the Senate depends on a seven-fingered farmer
• After a dramatic week in Gaza, where does the war stand?
• Charles III gets his own paper currency
• Eric Adams's friends keep having their phones taken away
• Singapore's foreign admirers see only the stuff they like
• The Creators of 'Palworld' Are Back—This Time With a Horror Game
• Britain's big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage
• Iran's leader must choose how to fight his war with Israel
• A French-sponsored Ukrainian army brigade has been badly botched
• Emmanuel Macron has yet another stab at finding a prime minister
• Obituary: Stephen Cleobury died on November 22nd
• A Chinese reality-TV show about farming doubles as propaganda
• Is America's last big industrial conglomerate about to break up?
• How the hard right both reflects and creates prejudice
• The Turkish opposition faces big obstacles to winning the election
• Hard times for China's micro-industrialists
• What Scott Bessent's appointment means for the Trump administration
• One way to turbocharge the Chinese economy
• A climber's story evokes classic mountaineering literature
• U.N. and Congolese Troops Struggle to Halt Lightning Rebel Attack
• Kim Jong Un Is Doing Everything He Can to Keep North Korea's Youth in Line
• Politics
• Woman at heart of birthright citizenship lawsuit reacts to Trump's order: 'This is a right'
• This week's covers
• Douglas Lenat trained computers to think the old-fashioned way
• How did pollsters do in predicting the British election?
• The threat of Hizbullah can be seen from space
• Brandon Johnson is giving Chicago's teachers' union everything
• Traute Lafrenz showed that resistance to the Nazis was possible
• Humans have altered other species as well as the environment
• What is Crispr Gene Editing? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Is coal the new gold?
• The US tax code will change next year; the presidential election will determine how
• Bobbi Althoff on Exactly How She Got Rich—and How Rich, Exactly
• F.W. de Klerk had to abandon what his ancestors had believed in
• Ko Jimmy was determined to make Myanmar free
• The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It
• François Hollande hopes to make the French left electable again
• If You Need to Escape a Wildfire in an EV, Here Is What to Know
• How to manage politics in the workplace
• Congestion pricing in New York gets the go-ahead after all. Maybe
• Gaza is on the brink of a man-made famine
• BRICS isn't exactly picky, but has just rejected Venezuela
• The Federal Reserve takes on Trump—and stubborn inflation
• Gazans are rapidly losing access to the internet
• Chinese fast-food insurgents are beating McDonald's and KFC
• Cannabis: The Complete WIRED Guide
• Trump ends DEI in US military and reinstates troops who refused Covid vaccines
• Saving Children's Eyesight and Their Future in Mozambique
• The EU hits China's carmakers with hefty new tariffs
• Jill Biden; Defender-in-chief
• Business
• Who is Ryan Routh, Donald Trump's would-be assassin?
• Ukraine's counter-offensive is speeding up
• America may soon be spending more on debt service than defence
• The Xi-Putin partnership is not a marriage of convenience
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Apple Sports adds the FA Cup and other UK soccer tournies
• How to fix palliative care in Britain
• The sudden demise of Indian vultures killed thousands of people
• Frontline Formosa
• Javier Milei finally lugs key reforms through Argentina's Senate
• Pervez Musharraf was one of Pakistan's better dictators
• KAL's cartoon
• Business
• Politics
• Electing top judges has been a disaster in Bolivia
• Is Kamala Harris "brat"?
• Our new forecast for America's presidential election
• Cricket Livestream: How to Watch India vs. England 3rd T20 From Anywhere
• Business
• What to watch for on election night, and beyond
• Hedge funds make billions as India's options market goes ballistic
• Zvi Zamir oversaw a programme of Israeli assassinations
• How will India's new coalition government work?
• Enthusiasm for regulation, often in areas like the climate, shows no sign of flagging
• Chinese loans and investment in infrastructure have been huge
• Business
• Can you breathe stress away?
• The rebuilding of Berlin's Pergamon Museum is 40 years behind schedule
• The Sycamore Gap tree held a particularly deep place in people's hearts
• Alexei Navalny didn't just defy Putin—he showed up his depravity
• Fathers are doing more child care in East Asia
• Marissa Mayer: I Am Not a Feminist. I Am Not Neurodivergent. I Am a Software Girl
• Norway's Atlantic salmon risks going the way of the panda
• Business
• Narendra Modi is remaking India's 1.4m strong military
• New batteries are stretchable enough to wear against the skin
• Why the Federal Reserve has gambled on a big interest-rate cut
• Politics
• The Capitol riot is a godsend for America's critics
• The perils of appeasing a warlike Russia
• KAL's cartoon
• The Complete History And Future of Robots
• Elon Musk is causing problems for the Royal Society
• America is less dominant in defence spending than you might think
• Violent crime in America
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Who will rule Syria now the Assad regime has been toppled?
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Ugandan judges uphold a draconian anti-gay law
• Common sense is not actually very common
• Canon Promo Codes and Coupons: Up to $500 Off
• From Apple to Starbucks, Western firms' China dreams are dying
• LaDonna Brave Bull Allard died on April 10th
• Candy Crush, Tinder, MyFitnessPal: See the Thousands of Apps Hijacked to Spy on Your Location
• India's YouTubers take on Narendra Modi
• Donald Trump is targeting Mexico like no other country
• Julian Bream died on August 14th
• How two teams plan to smash the world sailing-speed record
• Young collectors are fuelling a boom in Basquiat-backed loans
• Ice Age antelopes surge back from the brink of extinction
• Iran scores a pyrrhic victory in its cold war with Saudi Arabia
• Can Israel's economy survive an all-out war with Hizbullah?
• The mafia's latest bonanza: salmon heists
• Expensive energy may have killed more Europeans than covid-19 last winter
• McDonald's v Burger King: what a price war means for inflation
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• What's New This Tax Season That Can Save You Money
• The British government fudges its employment-rights bill
• How to write the perfect CV
• Lester Piggott had only one aim in view
• Some good news about America's fertility problem
• Reid Hoffman Raises $24.6 Million for AI Cancer-Research Startup
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• "Mad Mike" Hoare died on February 2nd
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Britain's last imperialists
• China's Communist Party has co-opted ancient music
• The forgotten importance of the War of Jenkins' Ear
• Barry Lopez died on December 25th
• How much is Russia spending on its invasion of Ukraine?
• Kentucky's Mountaintop Mines Get Turned Into Neighborhoods
• King's Cross, a miracle in London
• A maverick judge tosses out Donald Trump's classified-documents case
• Vivian Silver knew no good could ever come of war
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• After a year of war, Sudan is a failing state
• Oil traders are flocking to sanctions-free Venezuela
• Hong Kong gets a second draconian security law
• Donald Trump survives an assassination attempt
• A Prague-Berlin train loses its old-world dining cars
• Massive farmers' protests are a headache for Narendra Modi
• Matt Gaetz v the ethics committee
• From Coachella to Burning Man, festivals are having a bad year
• What to Know About China's DeepSeek AI
• 'They fear for their lives': Bishop confronts Trump on immigration and gay rights – video
• Obituary: Steve Sawyer died on July 31st
• Usha Vance, wife of Donald Trump's VP pick, was once a Democrat
• DockerSpy - DockerSpy Searches For Images On Docker Hub And Extracts Sensitive Information Such As Authentication Secrets, Private Keys, And More
• Can biotech startups upstage Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk?
• On screen, Father Christmas cuts a mercurial figure
• Emmanuel Macron faces heavy losses after a short campaign
• Government by social media in Somalia
• The evolution of Britain's extreme right
• What if South Korea got a nuclear bomb?
• Strangely, America's companies will soon face higher interest rates
• Fethullah Gulen tried to transform Turkey in the subtlest ways
• Joe Brown died on April 15th
• Muhammad Yunus, a microcredit pioneer, is Bangladesh's interim leader
• Donald Trump would leave Asia with only bad options
• Will the next president follow Israel into war with Iran?
• The IMF has a protest problem
• MAGA types have a point on debanking
• Mexico and Canada brace for Donald Trump's tariff thrashing
• The rich country with the worst mobile-phone service
• What a 472-year-old corpse reveals about India
• Book Review: The Secret to Why Stories Endure through Generations
• After pushing its economy to the brink, Egypt gets a bail-out
• Will Donald Trump unleash Wall Street?
• Cities used to sprawl. Now they're growing taller
• Online daters are less open-minded than their filters suggest
• Challenging the stigma associated with single mothers in China
• Does America have enough weapons to support its allies?
• Vladimir Putin fires a new missile to amplify his nuclear threats
• Turkey's President Erdogan faces a new challenge from Islamists
• How the South Korean president's martial law declaration unfolded – video
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• New industrial policies will make the world more unequal
• The School Shootings Were Fake. The Terror Was Real
• The People's Liberation Army is not yet as formidable as the West fears
• Best Weightlifting Shoes for 2025
• However justified, more government intervention risks being counterproductive
• Carbon-dioxide-removal options are multiplying
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, markets and commodities
• Should you buy expensive stocks?
• It's not just Paris. Bedbugs are resurgent everywhere
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's probe returns from the far side of the moon
• Building-Products Distributor QXO Launches Hostile Bid for Beacon
• Lebanon tries yet again to elect a new president
• The Trump shooting has made a mockery of the Secret Service
• Police brutality is not stopping Georgia's protests
• Brazil's gangsters have been getting into politics
• This week's cover
• American women go to Mexico for abortions
• Kansas Is Battling the Largest Tuberculosis Outbreak Ever Recorded in the U.S.
• Who wields the power in the world's supply chains?
• Is America's weed habit dangerous?
• Why robots should take more inspiration from plants
• Rare, Record Florida Snow Explained
• Xi Jinping's revealing response to floods and heatwaves
• America's border crisis in ten charts
• European millionaires seek a safe harbour from populism
• Ukraine uses souped-up Soviet-era weapons to defend a vital river from Russia
• Why the global cocoa market is melting down
• Yuan Longping died on May 22nd
• How XL Bullies became such dangerous dogs
• Revisiting the work of Donald Harris, father of Kamala
• Beware the Weepy Influencers
• Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities
• Astrologers are predicting the result of America's election
• As Chinese citizens head overseas, the party does likewise
• The historic heart of Addis Ababa is being demolished
• Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life
• Sources and acknowledgments
• The CEO's alternative summer reading list
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A major earthquake in Japan highlights the country's resilience
• Israel is more popular than social-media posts suggest
• GiveDirectly does what it says on the tin
• Checks and Balance newsletter: The post-post-Watergate era
• Why are British beach huts so expensive?
• The "effective altruism" movement is louder than it is large
• Who is responsible for feeding Gaza?
• China's DeepSeek AI assistant becomes top free iPhone app as US tech stocks take a hit
• Simine Vazire hopes to fix psychology's credibility crisis
• Politics
• Checks and Balance: Fires, Greenland and the systematic organisation of hatreds
• Bangladesh's new ruler is in a race against time
• A narrow corridor in Gaza has become an obstacle to a ceasefire
• The saviour complex
• War is not the only reason some Muslims are ditching the Democrats
• America has a huge deficit. Which candidate would make it worse?
• Why is Thai health care so good?
• Jimmy Carter reshaped his home town
• Endless Legend 2 is real and there's a mysterious trailer to prove it
• Singapore's government is determined to keep hawker centres alive
• If the world loves forests, it should put a price on their carbon
• Why India should create dozens of new states
• What can Olympians teach executives?
• How to stream video on Fire TV with a VPN
• Are adults forgetting how to read?
• How to charge more
• KAL's cartoon
• England may soon become the world's best cricket team
• The Conservatives' world has disappeared. Don't tell Rishi Sunak
• CloudBrute - Awesome Cloud Enumerator
• The WIRED Guide to Commercial Human Space Flight
• Mexico's next president can reset relations with the United States
• Latin America is in a mess. But it still has strengths
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Trade unions have their eye on Britain's tech sector
• In South-East Asia, the war in Gaza is roiling emotions
• After an unsuccessful boycott, women's tennis is back in China
• Can an App Replace a Personal Trainer? I Tested Nearly a Dozen to Find Out
• Senegal proves the doomsayers wrong
• Serbia's prime minister resigns after weeks of mass protests
• Thaksin Shinawatra joins Thailand's establishment
• This week's cover
• A toast to the possible end of Chinese tariffs on Australian wine
• Pious pupils in America perform better
• Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister
• The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It
• To help schoolchildren in poor countries, reduce lead poisoning
• Shalom Nagar was picked by lottery to kill Adolf Eichmann
• A shift towards green investment is under way in Africa
• The effects on Turkey of Syria's civil war
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• A different way to measure the climate impact of food
• Middle East crisis live: Rafah mayor warns areas of city still too dangerous for Palestinians to return
• How to reduce the risk of developing dementia
• White House orders pause of federal grants while evaluating compliance with Trump's agenda – live
• The world's richest countries in 2024
• Mauritania is a beacon of stability in the coup-prone Sahel
• Has the Quad lost its way?
• What Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders get wrong about credit cards
• Introducing Middle East Dispatch, our latest newsletter
• Investors are increasingly optimistic about Brazil's economy
• GitHub's Deepfake Porn Crackdown Still Isn't Working
• What the Chevron ruling means for the next US president
• BYOSI - Evade EDR's The Simple Way, By Not Touching Any Of The API's They Hook
• Another attack on a Japanese local points to a big problem in China
• India's unprecedented love-in with the Middle East
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• We need to talk about Europe's Kevins
• Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them
• What was the motive of Trump's would-be assassin?
• How Iran covered up the damage from Israel's strikes
• Hollywood enters a frugal new era
• Finland seizes a tanker, getting tough on hybrid warfare
• Nectar Coupon Code: Extra 40% Off
• How Yahya Sinwar's death will change the Middle East
• Why France's president called a snap election
• Intel's troubles deepen, as its boss makes an abrupt exit
• Business
• How Ukraine uses cheap AI-guided drones to deadly effect against Russia
• The rich world revolts against sky-high immigration
• Why prosthetic limbs need not look like real ones
• Canada has finally decided where to store its nuclear waste
• Tina Turner turned a tough life into splendour
• Checks and Balance newsletter: Partisan positions have changed drastically over the past 50 years
• Donald Trump's legal fees are draining his campaign funds
• The stockmarket rout may not be over
• Google wants a piece of Microsoft's cyber-security business
• Peru's political chaos looks likely to persist
• A new way to predict ship-killing rogue waves
• India's difficult business environment is improving
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Nike and Adidas are losing their lead in running shoes
• The world is bracing for Donald Trump's possible return
• The death of Pope Benedict removes a problem for liberal Catholics
• Why have markets grown more captivated by data releases?
• Diego Maradona died on November 25th
• Lawrence MacEwen made a tiny island prosper
• China's better economic growth hides reasons to worry
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The party is eager to expand its influence within business
• KAL's cartoon
• Microbiome treatments are taking off
• A crisis in prisons gives Britain's new government its first test
• The fate of America's for-profit colleges hinges on the election
• Nell Gifford died on December 8th
• Business
• BookTok has passion—and enormous marketing power
• Can shooting some elephants save many others?
• Sources and acknowledgments
• André Watts took both Liszt and Schubert to his heart
• Why have Russia's armed forces been so ineffective in Ukraine?
• Andrés Manuel López Obrador's mañaneras boost his presidency
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Peter Magyar is reinvigorating Hungary's struggling opposition
• 'African art is not a fleeting trend': Moroccan museum to celebrate rich creativity of continent's artists
• Turkish tourists can now easily visit nearby Greek islands
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Boeing reports second-biggest annual loss after tough 2024
• KAL's cartoon
• We're hiring a Science and Technology Correspondent
• Does Donald Trump have unlimited authority to impose tariffs?
• The future could be brighter
• Why Kamala Harris picked Tim Walz as her running-mate
• Upper legislative houses tend to be biased and malapportioned
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• China's banks have a bad-debt problem
• Vladimir Putin blames an Islamist attack on Ukraine and America
• Examining the fluff that frustrates northern China
• America's glorious economy should help Kamala Harris
• The Olympics are teaching the French to cheer again
• Why does the West back the wrong Asian leaders?
• Iran's electronic confrontation with Israel
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Stocks are on an astonishing run. Yet threats lurk
• China says it has achieved a miraculously low-crime society
• The Fed Is About to Hit Pause on Rate Cuts. Here's Why.
• America's bet on industrial policy starts to pay off for semiconductors
• Lai Ching-te aims to strengthen Taiwan but maintain the status quo
• Bowel cancer is rising among young people
• How plundered Gaulish silver ended up in Roman coins
• The Hollywood Foreign Press Association does penance for its sins
• Natural-Gas Firm Diversified Energy Strikes Deal for Permian Basin Player
• Politics
• The UAE is using a wealth fund to gain diplomatic sway
• Why are Arab armed forces so ineffective?
• Shyam Saran Negi never failed in his democratic duty
• Best 75-Inch TV in 2025
• How to build a global business empire in the 21st century
• An obscure communist newspaper is shaping Japan's politics
• KAL's cartoon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Disinformation is on the rise. How does it work?
• Sources and acknowledgments
• How King Charles III counts his swans
• Lessons in risk-taking from buccaneering BBVA
• Harold Evans died on September 23rd
• Issey Miyake saw clothes in a completely new way
• Donald Trump's America will not become a tech oligarchy
• Why everyone should think like a lawyer
• Want to win an argument? Use a chatbot
• America's giant armsmakers are being outgunned
• Germany needs a reforming government
• Takashima Ryosuke is Japan's youngest ever mayor
• South Africa's future is in the hands of a divided ANC
• Business
• DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: Hands On With DeepSeek's R1 Chatbot
• Justin Trudeau is beset by a divided party and an angry electorate
• Time for China to get serious about its methane emissions
• National days offer a study into the inner psyche of Europeans
• How deep is Britain's fiscal "black hole"?
• The curse of being too competent
• Why a drone war in Asia would look different from the one in Ukraine
• The energy transition will be expensive
• The great cover-up: Europe is losing its penchant for public nudity
• Oe Kenzaburo was made a writer by a family crisis
• America's election and Israel's wars reach a crescendo—together
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Are heatwaves evidence that climate change is speeding up?
• Step inside The Economist's summer issue
• Labour's victory is good for Britain's union of four countries
• Gina Lollobrigida's ambition was her strength and her weakness
• Brazil's hinterland now resembles Texas
• Imagining a Future Where Chicagoans Get Around in Free Driverless Cars
• Ukraine's convicts take the fight inside Russia
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The alarming foreign policies of France's hard right and hard left
• Keir Starmer wants to reset relations between Britain and Europe
• Wasps stole genes from viruses
• Share your experience of working and paying into a pension
• This year's El Niño will hit Peru especially hard
• Europe is bidding a steady farewell to passport-free travel
• The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness
• Ukrainians are settling down in Britain. That creates a problem
• The future of the Chinese consumer—in three glasses
• Generative AI has a clean-energy problem
• Michel Roux died on March 11th
• The genocide case Israel faces is more about politics than the law
• Politics
• Curvy sides, flat edges: The Galaxy S25 and the arbitrary shape of smartphones
• Money and moderately good governance make climate-change adaptation easier
• Naval drills in the Indian Ocean give bite to the anti-China "Quad"
• New technologies can spot pesky leaks in water pipelines
• The unsteady comeback of the California condor
• Sources and acknowledgments
• Germany's Economic Model Is Broken, and No One Has a Plan B
• 'I watched every video to see my father's face': the woman who became the voice of Syria's missing on why she isn't giving up hope
• Meta Spending to Soar on AI, Massive Data Center
• A new archive preserves the creative legacy of the East Village
• The siesta is still a serious business in Europe's south
• NATO defence spending is rising, but not fast enough
• A crushing blow for the Justin Trudeau show
• Award: Natasha Loder and Simon Akam
• Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve
• How to train your large language model
• These charts show how Britain's Tory party lost its way
• Obituary: Sir Roger Scruton died on January 12th
• "Making Nice" is a gratifying satire of the internet age
• Bill Gates calls Elon Musk's embrace of far-right politicians abroad 'insane shit'
• The Telegram: our new guide to a dangerous world
• Data on air bases suggest a Chinese invasion of Taiwan may not be imminent
• Taylor Swift Triggered a Tsunami of Sports Bets. Then She Stopped Turning Up
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Hong Kong smothers dissent ahead of the Tiananmen anniversary
• William Dement died on June 17th
• The global financial system is in danger of fragmenting
• Argentina is wasting the vast opportunities China offers it
• Elon Musk could earn more at Tesla than other company bosses
• How Vladimir Putin hopes to transform Russian trade
• Why the world needs negative emissions
• Volodymyr Zelensky's five-year term ends on May 20th
• Google's DeepMind researchers among recipients of Nobel prize for chemistry
• Sources and acknowledgments
• When it comes to a war with Taiwan, many Chinese urge caution
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Election lawsuits are flooding America's courts
• Can Haiti's police hold on?
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• The great-man theory of Wall Street
• Is higher inequality the price America pays for faster growth?
• An interview with Hsiao Bi-khim, candidate for Taiwan's vice-president
• Which Kamala Harris is now at the top of the Democratic ticket?
• Bernardo Arévalo is still battling to become Guatemala's president
• Is it better to be an early bird or a night owl?
• Why the war on childhood obesity is failing
• We tried out DeepSeek. It worked well, until we asked it about Tiananmen Square and Taiwan
• Politics
• Paris's stunning vision for the Olympics wins a gold medal
• Dominant languages can spread even without coercion
• America's marijuana industry is wilting
• Why Brazil's currency is plunging
• China tells bankers to be more patriotic
• How to Use Stolen Device Protection on Apple's iPhone
• Personal Data Collection: The Complete WIRED Guide
• What's an Influencer? The Complete WIRED Guide
• Politicians are sending mixed signals about private car ownership
• What a buzzy startup reveals about Britain's biotech sector
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Sources and acknowledgments
• What Texas's oldest motel reveals about the rural South
• The world continues to garble the name and title of Xi Jinping
• Working from home and the US-Europe divide
• The broken business model of British universities
• The cost of Britain's cast of ex-prime ministers is mounting
• The bunkers on Beirut's golf course are in the crosshairs
• June Mendoza captured both the famous and the unknown
• What does the OpenAI exodus say about Sam Altman?
• Reassessing Obama's biggest mistake
• Can Ecuador free itself from the grasp of the drug lords?
• Inflation is down and a recession is unlikely. What went right?
• A health-care CEO is murdered in Manhattan
• Suicide rates for girls are rising. Are smartphones to blame?
• Israel and Hizbullah play with fire
• Xi Jinping reaches into China's ancient history for a new claim to rule
• Why big oil is wading into lithium
• America, China and the race to the Moon
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• Messaging services are providing a more private internet
• Economic data, commodities and markets
• This week's cover
• Confusion reigns in Pakistan's rigged election
• Turmoil awaits Michel Barnier, France's new prime minister
• What Indian business expects from Modi 3.0
• A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow
• A Nobel prize for electron-watchers
• Australia's enthusiasm for immigration is being tested
• Obituary: Li Peng died on July 22nd
• How Europe's fear of migrants came to dominate its foreign policy
• Human diets are becoming less diverse, a new book warns
• The Great American Microchip Mobilization
• China's greatest dumpling run
• A weakened Narendra Modi subsidises jobs and doles out pork
• India wields cricket as a geopolitical tool against Pakistan
• A history-lover's guide to the market panic over AI
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