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National front-runner: who can beat Le Pen?

The mob rule: criminality consumes South Africa

Centre punch: Germany’s state-election shocker

Drone truth: Russia has the upper hand

Rise and shine: Warsh’s Fed rate test

The end of the world is AI? An existential threat

Islamism in Britain: what is the threat?

Strait and narrowing: the Houthis’ striking advance

The Weekend Intelligence: Shire folk

Out-numbered: AI’s contentious maths milestone

Working through it: the AI jobs boom dawns

Chainsaw sputtering: Milei’s experiment falters

School of shock: teenagers get dimmer

All right on the night: AfD’s victory

Bargaining chips: Nvidia is the bank of AI

Ire and ICE: the toll of America’s deportations

Right in front: AfD could win German state

After the flood: Nepal’s ongoing rescue

Stars in their AIs: tech is changing Hollywood

Bots on the ground: China leads humanoid race

Big shot: does a cancer vaccine work?

Slip the surly bonds? Scott Bessent goes on a yield trip

Even-more-maximum pressure: sanctions on Iran

Elbows up, again: a US-Canada trade flare-up

I, robot? AI and consciousness

An interview with Yuval Noah Harari

Bombs and bombshells: Zelensky under pressure

Wake-up haul: an Ozempic moment for the brain

Settler bet: a West Bank flashpoint

It’s not easy being Green: Zack Polanski

Afghanistan, five years on: our correspondent visits

Caracas under pressure: democracy in Venezuela

Pump and circumstance: is China the new OPEC?

Spring, then fall: a weakened Muslim Brotherhood

Under strAIn: breaking the British state

Outsider chance: ending Sudan’s proxy war

Socialist mobility: a telling Michigan vote

Taking the shine off: albedo and global temperatures

In arms’ way: Gaza-deal sticking points

Taken littorally: Spain’s sudden crisis in Ceuta

Omission accomplished: why the Iran-war cycle spins on

Working memory: the surprising decline of dementia

Brave New whirl: Turkey’s opposition overhaul

Burning questions: a more fire-prone world

Cockroaches 1, Modi 0: India’s remarkable protests

The Elon game: Musk’s vision of the future

An interview with Elon Musk

For bucks’ sake: the rise of self-made billionaires

Kyiv brawl: Ukraine’s top general fired

Hard cedar: Lebanon seeks Trump’s help

A firm Andy: what are new British PM’s plans?

You’ve come a long way, Bibi: Israel’s crucial election

In it to bin it: Nigel Farage v Count Binface

Strait and narrowing: the Iran deal crumbles

The case of the missing totem: Aung San Suu Kyi

A hawk who flew on political winds: Lindsey Graham

Putin’s options: an oligarch speaks out

Peace fire: further US-Iran strikes

Marine warfare: Le Pen runs for president

Continental rift: NATO’s tense summit

The mourning show: the politics of Khamenei’s funeral

The 250-year experiment: America’s birthday

Roaring trades: oil majors’ secret success story

Fault lines: Venezuela’s paltry earthquake response

Gulf-co-operation counsel: what next for the region

Latin lessons: the Donroe-doctrine boost

Far Crimea: war comes to Russia’s door

Fear-jerker: America’s AI backlash

Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip

Missing peace: will Israel imperil Iran deal?

Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip

Keep qualms and carry on: a decade after Brexit

Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip

Starmergeddon: British PM resigns

Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip

Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip

Coming in Andy: Britain's prime minister-in-waiting

First rate: Kevin Warsh’s Fed debut

Trailer: Tocqueville Road Trip