International
Putin’s sickening statistic: 1m Russian casualties in Ukraine
His regime uses payouts to salve Russian families’ grief
Business
Even as the Murdochs bitterly feud, their empire thrives
Why are investors so keen on their legacy media companies?
Europe
What Poland’s new hard-right president means for Europe
Karol Nawrocki is the liberals’ nightmare
The world in brief
Israeli troops killed at least 27 people near an aid-distribution centre in Rafah, according to Palestinian officials...
The OECD, a club of mostly rich countries, warned that global growth is slowing...
Exit polls predict that Lee Jae-myung, the candidate for the liberal Democratic Party, won South Korea’s presidential election with 51.7% of the vote...
Geert Wilders, a far-right politician, withdrew his Party for Freedom from the Netherlands’ ruling coalition...
Elon Musk’s failure in government
His legacy will be to make reform even harder
Britain’s ambitious plan to rearm looks underfunded
Many of the new capabilities will not show up for years
Banyan: Narendra Modi has kept his vow to make India like Gujarat
Better infrastructure and higher incomes, but also greater segregation and discrimination
Pop songs are getting shorter
The trend is not as bad as it sounds
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Tracking the presidency
How popular is Donald Trump?
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Edition: May 31st 2025
New, untested and dangerous
Can Labour fix the NHS?
To save itself, the party that founded Britain’s health service must rescue it
Why a cleaner India is a hotter India
The country needs to turn the air-con on
Bukele: from cool to cruel
El Salvador’s president is young, MAGA-friendly and ruthless
MAGA v foreign students
The Trump administration hobbles a great American export
Special reports: May 31st 2025
A new financial order
Innovative financial giants have supplanted banks atop Wall Street. Thomas Bennett hails their dynamism, but warns against hubris
- Financial giants are transforming Wall Street
- Clash of the titans
- What it means to be illiquid
- The debt barons who are taking on the banks
- The latest investment fad is made for gamblers
- Can anything stop America’s superstar hedge funds?
- How the next financial crisis might happen
