The Economist (UK) - 15 Nov 2025
HOW MARKETS COULD TOPPLE THE ECONOMY
The hidden risks in Taiwan’s boom
Can AI chatbots be therapists?
Spain: 50 years after Franco
How to fix the BBC
If the AI bubble bursts, an unusual recession could follow:
Our 92-page predictive guide to help you navigate the coming year,
Security in Mexico
How to rebuild Gaza?
The BBC in turmoil
On landmines in Syria, Silicon Valley, victimhood, aid to Africa, the elderly and smartphones, political power
Half a century after the death of Franco, Spain is a far better place. But it faces new problems that risk undermining its success,
Shifts in politics and in the media business are making the broadcaster more crisis-prone. It is now under fire not just at home but from the White House,
Laura Murphy on China’s threat to academic freedom
Millions of people are turning to AI for mental health. Is it ready for them?
Old folk are fuelling America’s stockmarket. What would that mean in a crash?
A weak-currency policy is punishing consumers and raising financial risk:
Taiwan’s amazing economic achievements are yielding alarming strains:
The exasperating, indispensable BBC must change:
Downturns have become ultra-rare. That is storing up trouble,
Formosan flu
What if it bursts?
Fifty years after Franco
Russian visas
The seven sins of corporate exuberance,
Do adjust your sets
A summary of political and business news
Syria’s ex-jihadi v the jihadists
Crime and credibility
How to stop a war
The hidden risks
Georgia’s doomed democracy
Gaza’s unexploded bombs
The fictionalised gangster
Homeschooling in Florida
The government open-up
Intelligence non-sharing
Sir Keir’s crisis
Chile’s turn to the right
Lexington Partied out
The next war in Africa
The mafia goes online
Norway in the desert
Business confidence
Tax and the budget
Beauty in Ukraine
A slimy tax dodge
E-bike parenting
Trumpforce
America Inc’s seven deadly sins
India’s stand-ups
China’s regime-security exports
The fentanyl fight
The recession recession
Stellar Indian states
Chatbots as therapists
James Watson, co-discoverer of the double helix
In defence of personal finance
China’s golden opportunity
Is modern culture dull?
Flighty superstars
India’s lefty paradise
Tree murders
The “Wolverine stack”
TSMC’s cautious expansion
A memoir of death and life
Statistics on 42 economies
The worst TV drama ever?
Boosting births
South Korean diplomacy
How whales use vowels
The 10-4 rule
Uyghur pronunciation
The best films of 2025
Global views of China
Shutdown economics
HR rises up the ranks
Franco’s dictatorship
Sumo’s glass ceiling
A bombing in Delhi
Superforecasting AI
AI and cover letters
Libellous chatbots?
Old folk investing
Dating your boss
The world this week
The world this week
How markets could topple the global economy
The hidden risks in Taiwan’s boom
Do adjust your sets
Crime and credibility
How to stop Africa’s next war
Keep your distance
America and Africa
Don’t blame the victim
The remnants of war
Left to their own devices
Projecting power
Letters
Laura Murphy
Formosan flu
Inform, educate, enrage
Businesses’ confidence trick
Bagehot: Sir Keir’s crisis
Intelligence non-sharing
Tax and the budget
A slimy tax dodge
Time to come clean
Confidence trick
For four eyes only
Of molluscs and men
When rigmarole becomes reality
A country transformed
Georgia’s doomed democracy
Charlemagne: Russian visas
The mafia goes online
Beauty in Ukraine
Dousing democracy
A new glow
The mafia goes online
Touristas non grata
Trumpforce
Homeschooling in Florida
The government open-up
Lexington: Partied out
Norway in the desert
E-bike parenting
The government open-up
Norway in the desert
Zippy-de-doo-Dad
The unbundling
Partied out
The Harfuch way
The fictionalised gangster
Chile’s turn to the right
The rose-tinted gangster
Chile First
THE WORLD AHEAD 2026
Mark Carney on the age of variable geometry
Kaja Kallas on Europe’s need to adapt
A global opportunity
After the war in Gaza
A new world emerges
Trust us, says China
Ten themes to watch
Nandan Nilekani on India and AI
America at 250
Conflicts to watch in 2026
India’s contentious census
Democrats and midterms
Japanese families
The Arctic opens up
Middle East outlook
Global challenges
Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer on election integrity
Richard White on lessons from the Gilded Age
Forecasts for key events
The evolution of Brexit
Latin America’s booming cultural exports
Football and free trade
Students and soft power
Foreign-policy upheaval
El Salvador’s strongman
Lessons from Odysseus
Commonwealth Games
Carbon budget-busting
Boom, bust or backlash?
Defence boosts growth
Political fragmentation
The next five-year-plan
Economic experiments
Palestinians’ prospects
Supreme Court rulings
Bangladesh’s elections
Brands and soft power
France’s political mess
Trump 2’s second year
Germany’s hard right
Nuclear arms control
The Hungary games
Argentina’s reforms
The world economy
Immigration policy
How we did in 2025
Reform in Vietnam
World Cup politics
Russia’s next move
Economic outlook
Russia’s reckoning
Elections in Brazil
Grey-zone tactics
Stand-up comedy
Aid cuts in Africa
African elections
Climate refugees
Conflict in space
Africa looks east
Economic woes
Chinese power
Chaos in Haiti
Israeli politics
Syria rebuilds
War in Sudan
Deploying AI
Party leaders
The luxury industry
The American penny
Avoiding hangovers
Tariffs and free trade
Eight maps that explain the world in 2026
Slimming drugs: the next generation
Kristalina Georgieva on the world economy
AI and employment
The most popular music genres
Weight-loss drugs go global
Public finances
Heidi Larson on vaccines
Peak wine
Video-gaming struggles
Rare earths and the West
Chinese manufacturing
Podcasting goes large
European rearmament
Battle over stablecoins
The Enhanced Games
What next for tariffs?
Supercars go electric
Cinematic remakes
Geothermal energy
Commodity prices
A declining dollar?
Back to the Moon?
Soccer in America
Humanoid robots
New museums
Chips in China
India’s poverty
The World Ahead 2026
A new world starts to emerge
KAL
An optimistic scenario for America
China’s year of hubris
Russia’s reckoning
After Gaza
Rolling with the punches
Boom, bust or backlash?
Lessons for a storm-tossed world
Masters of prediction
HOW THE SUPERFORECASTERS DID
Not the final word
Also in this section Political fragmentation
Commonwealth Games
Leadership battles
Economic outlook
The fringes rampant
Regicides all round
Not grasping the nettle
1.5m
Games over
Guns, growth and greenery
WHAT IF?
Kaja Kallas on Europe’s need to adapt
The Hungary games
Germany’s hard right
Russia’s next move
Boosting growth
French politics
Breaching the firewall
Beyond Ukraine
The Hungary games
Not all bad
On the brink
Rules, tools and values
SCOTUS rulings
Foreign policy
Soft power
Fight club
Jack Goldsmith and Bob Bauer on election integrity
Richard White on lessons from the Gilded Age
Economic experiments
Immigration policy
World-Cup politics
Midterms outlook
With friends like these
Reviving the Democrats
Experimental outcomes
Overreach
How Donald Trump might challenge the 2026 election results
Self-defeating
Deep bench
Own goal
Lessons from the Gilded Age
Football and free trade
WHAT IF?
Mark Carney on the age of variable geometry
Latin America’s cultural exports
El Salvador’s strongman
Argentina’s reforms
Elections in Brazil
Chaos in Haiti
Will Argentina turn normal?
The centre can hold
Pity the nation
Strong man
Global soundtrack
The age of variable geometry
You can trust us, says China
WHAT IF?
Nandan Nilekani on India and AI
Bangladesh’s elections
Reform in Vietnam
Japanese families
Climate refugees
India’s census
New direction?
Head count
Blood but no soil
Family planning
Barrelling ahead
What AI means for India—and India means for AI
China’s global opportunity
WHAT IF?
The five-year plan
Stand-up comedy
Grey-zone tactics
Economic woes
Soft-toy power
Deploying AI
Green, fertile and high-tech?
The slowdown continues
Not just Labubu
Funny ha-ha
Running a different race
Anaconda strategy
Stasis and change
Palestinians’ prospects
Aid cuts in Africa
African elections
Africa looks east
Israeli politics
Syria rebuilds
War in Sudan
What now for Palestinians?
Israel looks inwards
A time to build
Crying out for peace
Going through the motions
92
Africa alone
Eastward ho
$141bn
Ice-breaker
Conflicts to watch in 2026
How we did in 2025
Carbon budgets
Arms control
War in space
Say goodbye to 1.5
Enterprise AI in action
Stop-START talks
The race to dominate space
40%
How did we do in 2025?
Mapping 2026
The dangerous allure of the Moon’s south pole
How redistricting could affect America’s midterm elections
China’s infrastructural insurance policies
Why Taiwan’s terrain makes it vulnerable
How the 2026 solar eclipses compare with previous ones
How gold is fuelling the war in Sudan
Why it’s a good year to go to Mars
Barriers to entry
WHAT IF?
Chinese chips
Chinese manufacturing
European rearmament
Geothermal energy
What next for tariffs?
Electric supercars
Soccer in America
Luxury goods
Rare earths
The chips are up
All over the shop
Elements of strategy
Whatever next?
Gas and electricity
Kaboom times
Free kicks
Bouncing back
Hot water
Prepare for market discipline
WHAT IF?
Kristalina Georgieva on the world economy
Tariffs and free trade
India’s challenges
Declining dollar?
Commodities
Stablecoins
Rock bottom
Carry on trading
Stablecoins: are they really?
Green with envy
Elephant in the room
Navigating in the fog
Second helpings
Weight-loss drugs go global
The Enhanced Games
Heidi Larson on vaccines
Back to the Moon?
Avoiding hangovers
Humanoid robots
Slimming all over the world
Injecting some controversy
Back to the Moon?
The shape of you
How to avoid a hangover
$90,000
The outlook for vaccination is stormy
Glass half-empty
WHAT IF?
Most popular music genres
Cinematic remakes
New museums
Video-gaming
Podcasting
Quite a collection
Playing on hard mode
A new episode for podcasting
Seen it all before?
Listen up
The penny drops
Where to begin?
Syria’s ex-jihadi v the jihadists
Unexploded ordnance in Gaza
Preventing Africa’s next war
The remnants of war
Stars and stripes v black flags
Back on the brink
Sigma Octantis
Banyan: India’s lefty paradise
South Korean diplomacy
Sumo’s glass ceiling
A bombing in Delhi
One and done?
Air-traffic control
A bout time
A fine balance
Addicted to the drama
Chaguan: Boosting births
Global views of China
Uyghur slang
A growing global fan club
We’re only joking
Babies made in China
China’s creepiest export surge
The Telegram: China’s opportunity
China’s golden opportunity
Seven deadly sins
Schumpeter: Flighty superstars
TSMC’s cautious expansion
Can chatbots be libellous?
Bartleby: The 10-4 rule
HR rises up the ranks
Dating your boss
Rise of the people people
Semi-slow
Virtual malice
The 10-4 rule for customer interactions
Dangerous liaisons
The superstar dilemma
The recession recession
The difficulty of shutdown economics
How AI is breaking cover letters
Buttonwood: Personal finance
Old folk fuel the stockmarket
Free exchange: Tree murders
Boomers and busts
All fogged up
Signal failure
The joy of spreadsheets
Dead-tree press
Machines of loving grace
Superforecasting AI
Well informed: The “Wolverine stack”
How whales use vowels
Casting the runes
Thanks for all the fish!
Can peptides give you superpowers?
Stand-up and fight
The worst TV drama ever?
Back Story: Is modern culture dull?
Francisco Franco’s dictatorship
A memoir of death and life
The best films of 2025
A law unto itself
Cruel intentions
Rest in prose
The old ones are the best
The reel deal
Economic & financial indicators
James Watson
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