Weekly edition of The Economist for Jul 12th 2025. You've seen the news, now discover the story.

Mr Trump wrote that Republicans were wrong to fear that Democrats would gain from accusing them of breaking a promise not to ...

Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and ...

Even before the latest bonanza, Silicon Valley’s financiers had begun to experiment with changes to their investing model to ...

Bettors can still deduct losses from wins within a single session of play. But the Internal Revenue Service ( irs) is ...

America’s inability to build is a problem for Donald Trump. Although he has again delayed levying “reciprocal” tariffs until ...

In an effort to sustain that trajectory, CoreWeave announced on July 7th that it planned to acquire Core Scientific, a ...

Across the rich world, politicians of the left and the right decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. Friedrich ...

Bad Bunny’s record-breaking is all the more notable because he raps and sings almost exclusively in his mother tongue. In the ...

Yet corruption is far from the only reason voters have turned on the government. “The Hungarian economy is going nowhere,” ...

MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysia’s prime minister from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020, resembles other statesmen he ...

In truth, local officials are motivated more by desperation than greed. Across provinces, counties and cities, they are ...