Weekly edition of The Economist for Jul 12th 2025. You've seen the news, now discover the story.

Even before the latest bonanza, Silicon Valley’s financiers had begun to experiment with changes to their investing model to ...

Bettors can still deduct losses from wins within a single session of play. But the Internal Revenue Service ( irs) is ...

America’s inability to build is a problem for Donald Trump. Although he has again delayed levying “reciprocal” tariffs until ...

In an effort to sustain that trajectory, CoreWeave announced on July 7th that it planned to acquire Core Scientific, a ...

MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysia’s prime minister from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020, resembles other statesmen he ...

Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and ...

Across the rich world, politicians of the left and the right decry the dysfunction of the global asylum system. Friedrich ...

P OOR MENTAL health is a scourge. Prescriptions for anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medicines have soared in rich countries ...

Yet corruption is far from the only reason voters have turned on the government. “The Hungarian economy is going nowhere,” ...

Most of the federal agents cover their faces with masks or balaclavas. They are in plain clothes, with most wearing a vest in ...

In truth, local officials are motivated more by desperation than greed. Across provinces, counties and cities, they are ...