Europe
Barring Marine Le Pen is a political thunderbolt for France
Her sentence for improper use of EU funds could strengthen the hard right
Business
Donald Trump’s plan for American carmaking is full of potholes
Taxing imported motors may not create many new jobs at home
United States
Will Elon Musk’s cash splash pay off in Wisconsin?
A judicial race has become a referendum on the billionaire’s behaviour
The world in brief
TheS&P 500 and theNASDAQ, American stock indices, recorded their worst quarters since 2022...
Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s hard-right National Rally, was found guilty of misusing European Parliament funds...
Myanmar’sjunta continued air strikes on rebel groups across the country, even as theUN and neighbouring countries called for a ceasefire to allow the delivery of aid to victims of Friday’s 7.7-magnitude earthquake...
Rocket, one of America’s biggestmortgage lenders, will buy Mr Cooper, which services housing loans, for $9.4bn...
China can greatly reduce its reliance on coal, but probably won’t
Even though solar and wind power are growing at a blistering pace
Banyan: How a year of tremor and terror transformed Japan
Two disasters in 1995 captured the spirit of the country’s lost decades
Schooled by Trump, Americans are learning to dislike their allies
Our polling shows that Americans’ and Europeans’ attitudes towards each other are changing quickly
Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives
A technique that may create a new field of medicine
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The Intelligence
Myanmar’s junta is exploiting the devastating earthquake
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Ahead of elections later this year, the Liberals are surging
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Elon Musk’s efficiency drive
Is Elon Musk remaking government or breaking it?
So far, there is more destruction than creation
DOGE comes for the data wonks
America may soon be unable to measure itself properly
Elon Musk is powersliding through the federal government
But to what end?
Musk Inc is under serious threat
SpaceX has new competition, Tesla is in trouble and the world’s richest man is distracted
Other highlights
How Shonda Rhimes became a billion-dollar asset for streamers
Her career offers lessons for any writer who wants to make it big on the small screen
1843 magazine | The secret life of the first millennial saint
The Vatican wants him to be the next Mother Teresa. But what did Carlo Acutis really believe?
A fight over a cloister in tourist-filled Florence
Augustinian friars are protesting against a redevelopment plan
Oleg Gordievsky worked for both sides in the cold war
The KGB officer who spied for Britain died on March 4th, aged 86
The consequences of Trumponomics
Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy
A rush of new tariffs will hurt growth, raise prices and worsen inequality
Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence
As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer
The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game
American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy
Will Trump’s tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America?
Companies from Asahi to TSMC are expanding production in the country—for now
Technology Quarterly: March 1st 2025
The age of CRISPR
Ida Emilie Steinmark explores whether it can deliver on its promise
- →Can gene editing deliver on its promise?
- →CRISPR could yet save millions of lives. Here’s how
- →Epigenetic editors are a gentler form of gene editing
- →Gene editing is already revolutionising research in the laboratory
- →Eat your GE-greens
- →Editing pigs, mice and mosquitoes may save lives
- →Designing babies
- →Gene editing can still change the world
- →Acknowledgments
Edition: March 29th 2025
Elon Musk’s efficiency drive
The Spring in Reeves’s step
Labour can still rescue Britain’s growth prospects
China’s stockmarket rally
Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
Netanyahu’s hubris
Israel’s expansionism is a danger to others—and itself
Signals intelligence Trumpstyle
The cover-up is worse than the group chat
