Jo Stevens MP Jo Stevens has been appointed Secretary of State for Wales @UKGovWales.

Joe Biden will not seek re-election in November, and endorsed Kamala Harris, his vice-president, as the Democratic Party’s candidate. But who else could replace Mr Biden? We put together a list of ten plausible candidates econ.st/4cR9WoG 👇

One for the girlies to read today! 🥥 🌴

All of us watching the Paris Games:

The number of people I’ve seen publicly admitting on social media that they don’t know what the word demure means is… worrying

Very exciting announcement today from The Economist! Our Espresso app is now free for students worldwide. Try it: econ.st/4e4oDVJ

And more exciting news! You can now watch our videos in four additional languages thanks to AI-powered translation👇

Bridget met Mark Darcy at the turkey curry buffet, read a book Boris.

Resisting the urge to tell the man sat next to me scrolling through The Economist app “you should read that one” 😈

Presidents do not have to be saints, and we hope that a second term for Donald Trump would avoid disaster. But he poses an unacceptable risk to America and the world. If The Economist had a vote, we would cast it for Kamala Harris econ.st/3NKsH2r

.The Economist is endorsing Kamala Harris for president. "We have editorials every week advising politicians around the world on what to do," says Editor in Chief Zanny Beddoes. "So it would be weird for us not to put that together and offer our assessment of a candidate."

In a year that promises an unusual degree of change and uncertainty, The World Ahead helps you see around the corner and work out what might be coming next econ.st/3CviZhM

No budget, no government. It is hard to see how France’s deep political crisis can be resolved econ.st/3B0uvla

Step into Christmas with our double issue—and see whether you can identify all of the stories on our cover. Here’s how we put it together: econ.st/3BFaRLI

Online scamming is a vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that compares in size and scope to the illegal drug industry. Except that in many ways it is worse. As our investigation finds, nobody is safe from Scam Inc econ.st/4hD0CHi

Our cover this week 👊🇺🇸🔥

We are delighted to announce The Economist Insider. From next month subscribers will get access to a weekly show from Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, plus shows exploring geopolitics, defence, economics and tech. They can also submit questions. Join us: economist.com/comingsoon

From the bookmakers’ battle to stop clever people betting to the challenge of feeding 10,000 people at sea, and much more. Our Christmas double issue reveals some of the world’s hidden stories econ.st/4qhiRpK