The Economist (EU) - 13 Sep 2025
PEAK HUMAN
Sabres rattle in Poland and Qatar
Dan Brown: sects maniac
Britain’s broken politics
The $3trn bet on AI
A world with fewer people would not be all bad:
Israel’s latest target
Britain’s voting blocs
The Trump doctrine
Russia’s drone strike on Poland
The murder of Charlie Kirk
Can you make it to the end of this column?
On farming in Britain, assembling chips, meritocracy, China’s military parade, John Proctor, Gen Z, spies
Sabres rattle in Poland and Qatar
Once elections were fought between blocs of left and right. Now the fight lies within them,
Dan Brown: sects maniac
Britain’s broken politics
Israel’s extra-territorial campaign against terrorists has to have limits:
The $3trn bet on AI
Faith in God-like large language models is waning,
America no longer looks able to protect its partners in the Gulf,
AI stocks are soaring. How bad would a crash be?
Poland’s prime minister warns of “open conflict” with Russia,
A summary of political and business news
The privilege of opposition and the misery of power:
Coping with fewer people
A contracting population does not have to be poorer,
The drug war’s new front
The centre is leaking
AIs and privacy:
Meredith Whittaker on AI’s threat to privacy
The $3trn bet
NATO’s credibility test
The misery of power
What’s a socialist?
France’s new prime minister
The urgency deficit
How low will it go?
Qatarstrophic error
Don’t panic
San Francisco’s recall fever
Lights, camera, truncheon
Medical help for Gazans
Convicting Bolsonaro
Ethiopia’s mega-dam
Planned Parenthood
Voters’ demography
Hyundai in Georgia
Bosnia on the brink
Milei’s first defeat
Shutdown season
Wallaby invaders
Ebola in Congo
Italy and Russia
Long-term care
African ferries
The numbers,
Dan Brown returns
The race to run Japan
The yuan goes global
Nitazenes are spreading
Peak LLM?
War in the air and sea
The AI stockmarket
Sexy-boring France
Europe’s anti-Trump resistance
The economics of attention
Inflation jitters
The lord of “Downton Abbey"
Performance reviews
Fixing hangovers
China’s unlikely comedians
Giorgio Armani, maestro of elegance
Statistics on 42 economies
A knife fight in the Pacific
Unpronounceable brands
Songs about sub-par men
Another new Nestlé boss
Low-income consumers
William Morris's appeal
China’s trade resilience
The RSS at 100
America's constitution
Rupert Murdoch’s heir
Martian biosignatures
Gout Gout, track star
Sea Ltd makes waves
Revolution in Nepal
Europe’s economy
Table-top fusion
American aid
Niche sports
Cheap grain
The world this week
The world this week
Peak human
The $3trn bet on AI
Qatarstrophic error
Credibility on the line
The futility of drug wars
Is British politics broken?
Down on the farm
The meritocratic class
Parading power
A wronged man
Making chips
Miserable teenagers
The spy who loved me
Letters
Meredith Whittaker
The era of contraction
An optimistic view
Shrinking without sinking
Dangerous drones
Charlemagne: The urgency deficit
France’s new prime minister
Bosnia on the brink
Long-term care
Italy and Russia
Last-chance saloon
Alarm bells
Old money
Mixed messages
Europe’s urgency deficit
The new battle for Britain
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Bagehot: The misery of power
Voters’ demography
Wallabies
Champagne socialists
Mob rule
What happens when nothing matters?
All tactics, no strategy
Ethiopia opens a big new dam
An Ebola outbreak in Congo
Medical help for Gazans
Fixing African ferries
A long wait for help
Riparian rancour
Return of a deadly virus
Fixing ferries
Beyond debate
Lexington: What’s a socialist?
San Francisco’s recall fever
Lights, camera, truncheon
Planned Parenthood
Hyundai in Georgia
Shutdown season
Bye-undai
Swab tests
Silly season
Lights, camera, truncheon
Schumer’s dilemma
Left ahead
Making the Americas grate again
Convicting Bolsonaro
Milei’s first defeat
The cost of losing
A process of conviction
On your marks
A knife fight in the Pacific
Banyan: The RSS at 100
Revolution in Nepal
Clearing the decks
Fire and water
We are recruiting
RSS 100
The yuan’s big moment
Dalifornia dreaming
A new stand-up star
Welcoming you to Dalifornia
Laughing all the way to the bank
Top Gun—without Maverick
The Telegram: Leading the resistance
Europe’s anti-Trump resistance leader
Peak LLM?
Sea Ltd makes waves
Lachlan Murdoch outfoxes his siblings
Schumpeter: Sexy-boring France
China’s unpronounceable brands
Niche sports steal the spotlight
Bartleby: Performance reviews
Another new Nestlé boss
Making waves
Chasing returns
From sweet to bitter
Lost in translation
The son wot won it
Reviewing the annual performance review
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When boring beats sexy
Donald Trump’s aid agency
China’s thriving trade
Glitch in the matrix
Free exchange: Attention economics
Grain goes from feast to famine
Buttonwood: Inflation nerves
Glimmers of hope for Europe
Futile fortress
A sovereign-wealth fund in disguise
Long time coming
We’re hiring:
From famine to feast
Conflict of interest
The economics of attention
The dangers of nitazenes
Well informed: Fixing hangovers
Miniature fusion reactors
Life on Mars?
Bring it home!
Table-top power stations
Do hangover supplements work?
Sects sells
The real lord of “Downton Abbey”
Why William Morris endures
America’s rigid constitution
Songs about mediocre men
Gout Gout, track star
The fastest kid on Earth
The notion of a nation
Lad-loathing lyrics
Strawberry thieves forever
Lord of the manners
Economic & financial indicators
Giorgio Armani
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