The Economist (EU) - 10 Mai 2025
WHAT PUTIN WANTS
India and Pakistan flirt with war—again
Chip smuggling out of control
Gen X: the loser generation
Saudi Arabia grows up
To American bosses, the tariff shock looks a lot like covid-19. It is worse,
What Putin wants and what Europe should do to thwart him:
The C of E’s decline
China’s southern ties
Who will feed Gaza?
Criminalising street homelessness
Germany’s new chancellor
On plastics, birthright citizenship, company lunches, protest songs, Donald Trump's economics, tweed
Gen X: the loser generation
Saudi Arabia grows up
India and Pakistan flirt with war—again
How long does Russia need to prepare for another war?
America looks as if it is about to abandon byzantine new export rules. Good:
Donald Trump and the Saudis get along famously in person, but not on policy,
Mobile signals plot the Kremlin’s relentless build-up,
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?
How to thwart him
Is NATO next?
...and its limits
Antisemitism on campus
Chinese chip makers are catching up fast,
The interesting Kemi Badenoch
New drones on Ukraine’s front lines,
Out of control
Feverish activity
The parable of the owl
Young men and Catholicism
Riskier than ever
Stop the war
Birthrights and SCOTUS
German culture funding
A deal with the Houthis
The Mexican chemist
Pete Hegseth’s purge
MAGA in Romania
Portugal votes, again
MAGA meets MBS
Fibre-optic drones
Sudan’s drone war
Powerless Nigeria
Disparate impact
Gaza’s death toll
Despair in Haiti
Trans medicine
Social history
The gig economy
India strikes Pakistan
Tinseltown’s troubles
Reinventing Saudi Arabia
Magnets without rare earths
Semiconductor smuggling
Gen X struggles
Alice Tan Ridley, busker turned star
Statistics on 42 economies
The morals of “Sinners”
Tongue-tied in India
Pandemic parallels
When a hegemon falls
Hong Kong’s exiled dissidents
A flight to safety in Singapore
Walter Rauff and Augusto Pinochet
The battle over weight-loss drugs
Agatha Christie’s writing tips
Chinese chip breakthroughs
Hay fever
Saudi Arabia and OPEC
Kawasaki’s robot horse
Albo the Dutton-slayer
Proto-Indo-European
The rise of webtoons
Winning at snooker
IT horrors
Compressed music
Youthful cynicism
Drama at OpenAI
Lizards in Taiwan
Dogs and owners
Currency trading
Taiwan’s ructions
Palantir’s ascent
Buffett exits
Buy the dip
The world this week
The world this week
What Putin wants
Saudi Arabia grows up
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
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?
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Bagehot: The unusual Kemi Badenoch
Growing Catholicism
Altered minds
The interesting Kemi Badenoch
Calculating Gaza’s death toll
A new front in Sudan’s war
A deal with the Houthis
MAGA meets MBS
Who will feed the strip?
Why Nigerians live in the dark
How many have died?
MAGA meets MBS
America deals with the Houthis
The new fight for the skies
A nation in the dark
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 thumping win in Australia
A flight to safety in Singapore
Banyan: Tongue-tied in India
Taiwan’s green invasion
Not so lucky
The devils you know
A different kind of invasion
It’s only words
Deliverance
Cynicism among the young
Hong Kong’s exiled dissidents
Storming the snooker halls
Toil and struggle
The very long arm
Right on cue
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
A boom in currency trading
Warren Buffett’s departure
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?
Back Story: The morals of “Sinners”
Walter Rauff and Augusto Pinochet
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
Alice Tan Ridley
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