Nov 9th 2024

Welcome to Trump’s world

The world this week

Leaders

The presidential election

Welcome to Trump’s world

His sweeping victory will shake up everything

Adapting to Trump’s world

Europe needs to wake up and look after itself

The biggest obstacle is Germany, which now urgently needs elections

Bombay bulls

How to protect India’s shareholder capitalism from itself

A surge in equity investment is threatened by risky derivatives trading

Out in the open

Why open-source AI models are good for the world

Their critics dwell on the dangers and underestimate the benefits

New diets, old problems

A scourge that damages babies’ brains is coming back

Yet iodine deficiency is startlingly easy to prevent

Letters

On compulsory voting, Angela Merkel, terrorism, maths, British citizenship, S&M

Letters to the editor

Briefing

Comeback king

Donald Trump’s victory was resounding. His second term will be, too

Congress is not likely to be much of a constraint on him

United States

Law and peace

What a Republican trifecta will mean for governing

MAHA man

What role might Trump give Robert F. Kennedy junior?

State of the states

Ballot-measure results reveal the power of state policy

Governors and state legislatures

Democrats suffer in statehouse races, too

Campaign calculus: fool me thrice

Opinion polls underestimated Donald Trump again

Presidential immunity

Donald Trump also won a reprieve from justice

MAGA justice

Donald Trump’s potential SCOTUS picks

Lexington

Democrats need to understand: Americans think they’re worse

The Americas

The first call

Donald Trump is poised to smash Mexico with tariffs

Mexican politics

Mexico is edging closer and closer to one-party rule

Losing friends and alienating people

BRICS isn’t exactly picky, but has just rejected Venezuela

Asia

Indonesia’s foreign policy

Will Prabowo Subianto cosy up to Donald Trump or to China?

Pariah politics

Myanmar’s junta chief finally goes to China

A burning issue

South-East Asian Muslims are incensed by the war in Gaza

Crime and punishment

Why suspects in Japan are almost never acquitted

Banyan

What Narendra Modi’s third term may look like

China

Challenges and opportunities

Is the return of Donald Trump China’s dream or nightmare?

Eagle v Dragon

In some areas of military strength, China has surpassed America

China’s economy

Chinese netizens wonder if their economy is in “garbage time”

Middle East & Africa

Direction unknown

Will Donald Trump “stop the wars” in the Middle East?

Israeli politics

Binyamin Netanyahu fires his defence minister

The war in Lebanon

Israel’s war aims in Lebanon are expanding

Democratic norms

What the world can learn from Botswana

One country, two kinds of family

Why the fertility gap between north and south Nigeria matters

Missing millions

Congo-Brazzaville has lost a big chunk of its oil revenue

Europe

Betrayal or bargain?

Why Volodymyr Zelensky may welcome Donald Trump’s victory

Combat and casualties

Hell, horror and heroism in Ukraine’s battlefield hospitals

The exploding traffic light

Germany’s fractious coalition falls apart—and how!

After the waters fell

Spain’s flood poses far-reaching political questions

Charlemagne

A flailing economy has left the EU exposed to Trumpian outbursts

Britain

Becoming more European

Two groups are least happy about Labour’s budget

Gilt vigilantes

Labour’s budget has given the bond market indigestion

The Conservatives

Kemi Badenoch, the Tories’ new leader, plans war on the “blob”

Valuable lessons

Higher fees won’t help Britain’s beleaguered universities much

Poor law

The Labour government picks up a bad Tory habit

Past tense

What does it mean to wear a poppy today?

Bagehot

Farmer fight: Jeremy Clarkson versus Roald Dahl

International

Global disorder

America’s allies brace for brinkmanship, deals—and betrayal

The Telegram

The world faces its worst trade wars since the 1930s

Business

CEOs in Trumpland (the sequel)

How will business deal with Donald Trump this time?

A nasty case of pilotitis

Why your company is struggling to scale up generative AI

Pipe dreams

Oil bosses have big hopes for the AI boom

Harmony and enmity

Huawei’s new made-in-China software takes on Apple and Android

Back on the bike

India’s startup scene is picking up speed again

Bartleby

Why being wrong is good for you

Schumpeter

What would Elon Musk do in government?

Finance & economics

Taxes down, walls up

The return of Trumponomics excites markets but frightens the world

The wisdom of the crowd

What betting markets got right and wrong about Trump’s victory

Mutual benefit

India is undergoing an astonishing stockmarket revolution

The ships are down

Sanctions are sinking Russia’s flagship gas project

Buttonwood

Barbarians on the porch

Free exchange

Big Macs, strawberry jam and the wealth of nations

Science & technology

Open-minded

A battle is raging over the definition of open-source AI

Crash course

China plans to crash a spacecraft into a distant asteroid

Out for blood

How blood-sucking vampire bats get their energy

Worth its salt

As wellness trends take off, iodine deficiency makes a quiet comeback

Culture

Crowning achievements

The Economist’s selection of the best TV of 2024

The riled west

Montanans are ready for “Yellowstone” to end

The other Iran hostage crisis

The six-day siege that put terror on television

Earth father

Can a biography capture the complexity of a long life?

Sisterly abuse

Exposing the horrors of Ireland’s Magdalene laundries

Nation chief

Fiction captures the forces that led to Brexit

Economic & financial indicators

Indicators

Economic data, commodities and markets

Obituary

The Prince of Bel-Air