
Leaders
Germany’s election victor must ditch its debt rules—fast
Friedrich Merz has weeks to shore up his country’s defences

United States
DOGE is encountering opposition from Donald Trump’s appointees
The people the president has chosen to run departments are not wild about Elon Musk firing their underlings
Business
A guide to dodging Trump’s tariffs
How companies can lessen the blow from the American president’s assault on trade
The world in brief
America voted against a United Nations resolution condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine...
During a press conference at the White House, Emmanuel Macron, France’s president, said that Europe had “provided real money”—not just loans, as Mr Trump asserted—to Ukraine, and clarified that Russia was the “aggressor”...
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky, said he hoped the war can finish “this year” as he hosted around a dozen foreign leaders in Kyiv to mark the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion...
The winner of Germany’s election, Friedrich Merz, suggested he could work with mainstream parties to loosen the country’s “debt brake”, which strictly limits the federal government’s deficit, before the new parliament convenes...

CRISPR cures face cost and safety concerns
Gene-editing medicines have had a rocky start. But there is cause for optimism

Banyan: Can Indonesia make its Top Gun dreams a reality
An aircraft-carrier is the last thing its navy needs

The transatlantic relationship is crumbling, says an ex-head of NATO
Anders Fogh Rasmussen argues that Europe must accept it may be alone—and spend accordingly

Another win for geology’s Theory of Everything
Plate tectonics could explain continental plateaus and mini mass extinctions
Discover more
The Intelligence
Germany’s next government: it could have been messier
Donald Trump’s first 100 days
Keep tabs on his executive orders, cabinet picks and popularity
King Trump

Donald Trump: the would-be king
America is fated to wage a titanic struggle over the power of the president

Donald Trump, a reckless president
But not yet a lawless one

Donald Trump is taking presidential power to alarming places, writes Jack Goldsmith
Congress won’t check his Napoleonic instincts. Will a solidly conservative Supreme Court?
For Donald Trump, the resignations are the point
The more government lawyers who quit over their own scruples, the better for him
Europe’s worst nightmare

Donald Trump makes Ukraine an offer it can’t refuse
A proposed economic deal would be punitive. Saying “no” could be worse

How Europe must respond as Trump and Putin smash the post-war order
The region has had its bleakest week since the fall of the Iron Curtain. The implications have yet to sink in

How Vladimir Putin plans to play Donald Trump
The Russian president thinks he is the better poker player
Team Trump wants to get rid of Volodymyr Zelensky
America’s president calls Ukraine’s president “a dictator”
The second Trump presidency

Donald Trump sacks America’s top military brass
The navy chief, the air force second-in-command and military lawyers have all been fired, too

Elon Musk spells danger for Accenture, McKinsey and their rivals
Why the American government could turn against consultants

How the Trump administration wants to reshape American science
The consequences will be felt around the world
Is Elon Musk’s war on fraud just cover for a power grab?
America’s government has a big problem, but DOGE’s approach is unlikely to fix it
World news

Merz wins a messy election then calls for independence from America
First he must build a coalition in Germany

How to make cash in Africa’s coup belt
Mining multinationals are learning to do business with juntas

Mexico deploys 10,000 troops to the US border
They have been sent to tackle the drugs trade—and placate Donald Trump
In Texas, vaccine-choice activists are ascendant
Amid a measles outbreak they are lobbying for more “medical freedom”
Business, finance and economics

Stablecoins: the real crypto craze
Policymakers are racing to catch up with their rapid rise

Bartleby: Leaving the seat of power
The doctrine of management by walking around matters more than ever

Why Britain has so far dodged Donald Trump’s tariffs
And why it may continue to do so
Investors fear inflation is coming back. They may be right
Is the world about to repeat the mistakes of the 1970s?
Other highlights

What explains the enduring appeal of Bridget Jones?
From spawning “chick lit” to becoming a Gen Z icon

Escapism and fear made “The White Lotus” a pandemic-era hit
Now the show about obnoxious American tourists has become a drag

1843 magazine | Why are so many Israeli Jews spying for Iran?
Unprecedented numbers are risking everything to help their country’s bitterest enemy
Does more education lead to less sex?
Trying to make sense of the sexual “degree divide” in America
Edition: February 22nd 2025
The would-be king
America’s would-be king
America is fated to wage a titanic struggle over the power of the president
Can Britain avoid tariffs?
It may continue to do so
Meet Generation Hustle
How to help young Africans thrive
China’s Silicon Valley
Behind DeepSeek lies a dazzling Chinese university
Technology Quarterly: March 1st 2025
The age of CRISPR
Ida Emilie Steinmark explores whether it can deliver on its promise
- Gene editing has arrived
- CRISPR cures face cost and safety concerns
- Epigenetic editors are a gentler form of gene editing
- Gene editing has put biological research on a new trajectory
- Eat your GE-greens
- Editing pigs, mice and mosquitoes may save lives
- Designing babies
- Gene editing can still change the world