Finance & economics
Buy now, pay later is taking over the world. Good
Buy that burrito, and don’t let anyone judge you
Europe
On Ukraine’s front lines the kill zone is getting deeper
Medium-range drones could make the no-go area dozens of kilometres deep
Business
American businesses are running out of ways to avoid tariff pain
A big squeeze on profits may be coming
The world in brief
India called Donald Trump’s threat of higher tariffs over its purchase of Russian oil “unjustified and unreasonable”...
Palantir’s sales rose to $1bn for the first time in the second quarter, up by 48% year on year—the eighth consecutive quarter of blistering growth...
Australia awarded an order worth A$10bn ($6.5bn) to Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries to build new navy frigates...
Brazil’s top court ordered the house arrest of Jair Bolsonaro, a hard-right former president and ally of Mr Trump, after he breached a social-media ban...
Donald Trump escalates his war on numbers
Another shocking assault on a non-partisan institution
How NATO’s European members can help Ukraine and help themselves, write Kurt Volker and Nico Lange
Ukraine can be the forward operating laboratory for Europe’s own future air security
America’s tariff avalanche catches Switzerland unawares
The soaring rate is based on exports of Trump’s favourite metal
Back Story: Swimming pools are cauldrons of envy, danger and lust
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Tracking the presidency
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Greenlash
The climate needs a politics of the possible
To win voters’ consent, policymakers must offer pragmatism and hope
Donald Trump’s war on renewables
A not-quite-total eclipse of the solar
The humbling of green Europe
Europe’s hard right is pushing the continent’s climate consensus hard. The response so far is tepid
Donald Trump’s war on climate science has staggering implications
Even a policy of “drill, baby, drill” would imply more climate research, not its evisceration, says Ralph Keeling
Edition: August 2nd 2025
Greenlash
In recognising Palestine, Britain and France won’t advance peace
They could even set it back
The secret food trade that corrupts Iran’s neighbours
Oil and terrorism are not the country’s only exports
What Donald Trump is teaching Harvard
Under pressure, America’s oldest university may make a deal
Who was Cecil Rhodes?
A new biography describes the businessman and imperialist behind the global protest movement
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
- Sources and acknowledgments
