The Economist (North America) - 10 Mai 2025
ALL GROWN UP
India and Pakistan flirt with war—again
Chip smuggling out of control
Gen X: the loser generation
What Putin wants
MAY 10TH–16TH 2025
Muhammad bin Salman is transforming Saudi Arabia:
To American bosses, the tariff shock looks a lot like covid-19. It is worse,
Who will feed Gaza?
India strikes Pakistan
China’s southern ties
The gig economy
Criminalising street homelessness
Letters
America looks as if it is about to abandon byzantine new export rules. Good: leader, page 10. Chinese chip makers are catching up fast,
Gen X: the loser generation
Mobile signals plot the Kremlin’s relentless build-up, page 16. New drones on Ukraine’s front lines,
India and Pakistan flirt with war—again
Donald Trump and the Saudis get along famously in person, but not on policy,
What Putin wants
How long does Russia need to prepare for another war?
The Saudi transformation...
Kenneth Rogoff on the dollar
Chip smuggling out of control
A summary of political and business news
Society has changed drastically. Can the economy change, too?
Russia’s next war
Antisemitism on campus
Tongue-tied in India
Artificial intelligence
Putin’s arms empire
Hong Kong’s exiled dissidents
A flight to safety in Singapore
What Putin wants
India v Pakistan
Israel and Gaza
Birthrights and SCOTUS
A deal with the Houthis
Albo the Dutton-slayer
The Mexican chemist
Pete Hegseth’s purge
Winning at snooker
MAGA meets MBS
Sudan’s drone war
Youthful cynicism
Powerless Nigeria
Lizards in Taiwan
Disparate impact
Gaza’s death toll
Despair in Haiti
Trans medicine
Social history
Tinseltown’s troubles
Magnets without rare earths
The C of E’s decline
Semiconductor smuggling
Reinventing Saudi Arabia
Gen X struggles
Germany’s new chancellor
Alice Tan Ridley, busker turned star
Statistics on 42 economies
The interesting Kemi Badenoch
Pandemic parallels
The morals of “Sinners”
When a hegemon falls
The parable of the owl
Walter Rauff and Augusto Pinochet
The battle over weight-loss drugs
Agatha Christie’s writing tips
Young men and Catholicism
Chinese chip breakthroughs
Saudi Arabia and OPEC
Hay fever
German culture funding
Kawasaki’s robot horse
IT horrors
Proto-Indo-European
The rise of webtoons
Portugal votes, again
MAGA in Romania
Compressed music
Fibre-optic drones
Drama at OpenAI
Dogs and owners
Taiwan’s ructions
Currency trading
Palantir’s ascent
Buffett exits
Buy the dip
The world this week
The world this week
Saudi Arabia grows up
What Putin wants
On the brink
The war in Gaza must end
Illusion of control
USA? Must you be born in the
Updating economics
The problem with plastics
It’s time for lunch
The need for tweed
Top of the protest pops
Letters:
Kenneth Rogoff
Would Vladimir Putin attack NATO?
Putin’s arms empire
Putin’s secret arms empire
More online
After Grants Pass
Lexington: Antisemitism on campus
Birthrights and SCOTUS
Pete Hegseth’s purge
Disparate impact
Trans medicine
Social history
Pete’s purge
Replacement rate
Born in the USA
Science-ology
Mr Equal Protection
Illiberal arts
China rising
Mexico’s marvellous chemist
Despair in Haiti
Prescription for success
Breaking point
Punishment time
A flight to safety in Singapore
Banyan: Tongue-tied in India
A thumping win in Australia
Taiwan’s green invasion
Not so lucky
The devils you know
A different kind of invasion
It’s only words
Deliverance
Hong Kong’s exiled dissidents
Storming the snooker halls
Cynicism among the young
Toil and struggle
The very long arm
Right on cue
Who will feed the strip?
Why Nigerians live in the dark
Calculating Gaza’s death toll
A new front in Sudan’s war
A deal with the Houthis
MAGA meets MBS
How many have died?
MAGA meets MBS
America deals with the Houthis
The new fight for the skies
A nation in the dark
The ides of Merz
Charlemagne: The parable of the owl
German culture funding
Portugal votes, again
Fibre-optic drones
MAGA in Romania
Frugal times ahead
MAGA man
When enough is not enough
The tethered threat
The parable of the golden owl
Churchgoing, going… gone?
Bagehot: The unusual Kemi Badenoch
Growing Catholicism
The cost of Reform
Trade policy
VE Day
Altered minds
The interesting Kemi Badenoch
Nvidious
The battle over weight-loss drugs
Schumpeter: Pandemic parallels
Chinese chip breakthroughs
Palantir’s staggering ascent
Bartleby: IT horrors
Drama at OpenAI
Silicon surprise
Board games
Battle of the bulge
Us against the world
Why so many IT projects go so horribly wrong
Cold comfort
Not your father’s kingdom
Reality bites
Free exchange: The hegemon spiral
Saudi Arabia punishes OPEC
How to stop stocks crashing
Warren Buffett’s departure
A boom in currency trading
Taiwan’s financial ructions
— Buttonwood is away
Over a barrel
Taiwan straits
Dollar drama
Buy the dip
Oracle required
Caught in a spiral
State of flux
Well informed: Is hay fever worsening?
Dogs look—and act—like their owners
The harms of compressed music
Robot horses giddy up
Uneasy listening
Mustang uncanny valley
Friends like these
Is your hay fever getting worse?
Lights, camera, tariffs?
Walter Rauff and Augusto Pinochet
Back Story: The morals of “Sinners”
Agatha Christie’s writing tips
Proto-Indo-European
The rise of webtoons
Proto type
Forged in blood
Bringing back the Queen of Crime
The morals of “Sinners”
Making a splash
Economic & financial indicators
Markets
Commodities
Alice Tan Ridley
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