Europe has forgotten how to nurture free expression. To stop things getting worse, it should start by returning to some old liberal ideas econ.st/4jVPJl5

For the past three decades, Poland has shown how much a country can achieve with good economic policy and European integration. But if it elects a hard-right president, it risks throwing it away econ.st/43pW5lH

This is Vietnam’s last best chance to become rich before it gets old. The country’s destiny rests with Asia’s least likely, but most consequential, reformer econ.st/3ZxkIf9

Donald Trump’s attacks on science are unfocused and disingenuous. Far from unshackling scientific endeavour, the administration is doing it serious damage. The consequences will be bad for everyone econ.st/3H8aM5x

Over the past decade American finance has been transformed. Now, the financial revolution is encountering the MAGA revolution. Everyone should worry about the fragility of the new system econ.st/4kzmCUI Cover image: Ricardo Rey

The noxious practice of aborting girls simply for being girls has become dramatically less common. The preference for having boys is declining. But what comes next may not be simple or trouble-free econ.st/4jCZgwD Cover image: Lisa Sheehan

Donald Trump is betting that a cycle of protest, violence and repression benefits him and makes his opponents look extreme. But what serves the president is dangerous for a divided country econ.st/4429j8M

Governments’ obsession with making things is self-defeating. The global push towards manufacturing is likely to do more harm than good econ.st/4dZZb4L

The Middle East will be in a worse place if America rushes to attack Iran. Donald Trump should wait—for now econ.st/3I2xqwt

Donald Trump has managed to bomb Iran’s nuclear programme and immediately impose a ceasefire, without a single American casualty. Has his gamble paid off? econ.st/3ZNyFGe

The panic about tariffs has given way to cautious optimism. But Trumponomics 2.0 will erode the foundations of America’s prosperity econ.st/4lwVB4F

The first birthday of Britain’s Labour government will be a miserable, cakeless affair. Sir Keir Starmer is rapidly losing his authority and his hope of achieving much in office econ.st/4lFeaE8

Britain is cheap, and should learn to love it. After a decade of sorry growth, the country has no shame—and lots to gain—from being a bargain econ.st/44Fvr96

The asylum system is not working. It cannot cope with a world of proliferating conflict, cheap travel and huge wage disparities. A more pragmatic approach starts by helping refugees find shelter closer to home econ.st/3TzdTGJ

Good news often goes unreported, especially if it happens gradually. That is the story of the war on cancer. Death rates are down substantially—and are likely to fall further. Future gains will come from three main sources econ.st/459V9Ec

Model-builders claim AI will be better than the average human at all cognitive tasks in a few years. The consequences could be as great as anything in the history of the world economy econ.st/46XbZra

A strategic rethink is needed in the fight against climate change. Today the problem looks particularly hard. Those who favour tackling it need to offer more than abstract targets econ.st/3H2DtkO

Israel’s war no longer has a strategy and fighting on is no longer just. If it is to remain a liberal democracy, it must hold itself to account for the crimes committed in Gaza econ.st/41qOYJx

The summit with Vladimir Putin is the biggest test yet of Donald Trump’s uniquely personal style of diplomacy. It is also a reminder of how unpredictable American foreign policy has become econ.st/4mL2gJm

More than ever, semiconductors hold the key to the 21st century. Yet Donald Trump’s approach to chipmaking is self-defeating. To remain the world’s foremost technological power, America needs its friends econ.st/4mOcyYZ