Briefing
Emigration from Africa will change the world
As other countries age, they will need African youth
Europe
Ukraine’s fighters fear Russian attacks and Trump’s ceasefire
On the front line they want peace but not at any price
The world in brief
Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky spoke in St Peter’s Basilica before the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome...
Russia claimed success on the battlefront, asserting that all Ukrainian troops had been forced out of Russia’s Kursk region...
A number of people were killed or wounded after a car drove into crowds at a street festival in Vancouver...
Officials from America and Iran held a third round of talks about Iran’s nuclear activities...
Learning to love the cluster bomb
The once-banned weapons are making a comeback to deter Russia
Back Story: An old, leisurely way to watch television drama is back in vogue
On binge-watching v stinge-watching
Lip-Bu Tan, the man trying to save Intel
The struggling American chip giant’s new boss is no stranger to comebacks
Why Britain’s police forces have taken to cultivating cannabis
An obscure legal argument has encouraged entrepreneurialism
Discover more
The Weekly Intelligence
Nigel Farage’s Big Night Out
Tracking the presidency
How is America’s economy faring under Donald Trump?
Canadian poll tracker
Ahead of elections later this month, the Liberals are surging
Canada
How a tetchy central banker became “Captain Canada”
MAGA bombast has upended Canada’s political universe and given Mark Carney’s Liberals an edge
How Canada went from preachy to pragmatic
On the eve of an election, its political transformation is stunning
Poll tracker
Canada’s Liberals are surging
Justin Trudeau’s resignation and Donald Trump’s tariffs gave them a boost
To see off the Trump challenge, Canada must fix its productivity problem, says Michael Ignatieff
The former Liberal leader on the threats that come not from Washington but from within
Donald Trump v America’s universities
Edition: April 26th 2025
Trump’s first 100 days, and beyond
Trump: only 1,361 days to go
Donald Trump’s second term is a revolutionary project. Will it succeed?
Don’t mess with the Fed
Jerome Powell wins a reprieve. But expect more showdowns between the White House and the Fed
Africa’s unstoppable diaspora
Emigration from Africa will change the world
When AIs break the rules
AI models can learn to conceal information from their users
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
