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February 7, 2026
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The world this week
Leaders
Greenback danger
The age of a treacherous, falling dollar
Nothing to see here
As global press freedom dwindles, corrupt politicians rejoice
Opening Pandora’s box
How to think about new risks of nuclear proliferation
The evolution of invertebrates
Congress defended American science. Its work is not over
Revolution in Asia
The new Bangladesh is only half built
Letters
By Invitation
Briefing
Britain
Ready, steady, unionise!
Britain’s new union law will reshape its workplace
The red heat of technology
Selling AI to the left
Populist economics
Nigel Farage’s dangerous proposal on central-bank reserves
Bangers and crash
Demography puts the brake on classic-car values in Britain
A British FBI
Britain’s police reforms are a step in the right direction
Local democracy
Why lots of English towns are creating puny local governments
Bagehot
Britain’s worst political scandal of this century
Europe
Self-help
Can Europe do nuclear deterrence without America?
Cold comfort
Peace negotiations give freezing Kyiv a hint of hope
Don’t mention it
How neighbouring populists fall out
Look rightward, angel
How an art restorer sneaked Giorgia Meloni into a church fresco
The return of the nativists
How “remigration” is penetrating Europe’s political mainstream
Charlemagne
Europe proposes a magical fix for its half-finished single market
United States
Death’s door
The right to die is spreading in America
Deplete the rich
A 5% wealth tax would drive billionaires out of California
Justice, or just ICE?
Federal prosecutors in Minnesota are cracking down on dissent
Politicians picking voters
Voting rights and wrongs in America
Claremonsters, Inc
Meet the brains who explain Trumpism
Lexington
Thank God for Melania Trump
Middle East & Africa
The old men of Iran and America
Donald Trump wants to end America’s half-century conflict with Iran
Fear and opportunism
Two countries have changed their position about war with Iran
After the killings
The violence in Iran could lead to civil war
Still stuck
The reopened Rafah crossing in Gaza brings pitiful gains
On a knife edge
Ethiopia inches ever closer to war
Transactional trap
American aid to Africa comes with more strings attached
A predictable disaster
Hundreds die in a mine collapse in Congo
The Americas
Asia
After the Gen-Z revolution
An election will decide whether democracy returns to Bangladesh
Going crossways
Newborn parties are scrambling Japanese politics
Crime scene
An Israeli visit to the site of the Bondi attack tests Australia
Rights issue
A booming gig economy is formalising India’s labour force
Banyan
The outsize influence of America’s admiral in Asia
China
International
Business
Reaching for the stars
Elon Musk is betting his business empire on AI
Bit by the bots
Why software stocks are getting pummelled
Prague’s prince of dealmaking
The elusive Czech at the centre of European business
Kidults
Adults are propping up the toy industry
Keys to the kingdom
Disney’s new boss must rekindle its creative magic
Chatting bots
A social network for AI agents is full of introspection—and threats
Bartleby
When management mantras help—and when they hurt
Schumpeter
Jeffrey Epstein’s ghost is haunting the grand old men of capitalism
Finance & economics
Greenback to the wall
Why the dollar may have much further to fall
Sweet and sour
Hong Kong is getting its financial mojo back
Fall of duty
Has America hit “peak tariff”?
Silicon Valley’s $700bn question
AI is not the only threat menacing big tech
The levies give way
America and India strike a long-awaited trade truce
Buttonwood
Can emerging markets’ stellar run continue?
Free exchange
Untangling the ideas of Donald Trump’s Fed nominee
Science & technology
Culture
Going viral
Want to know what’s wrong with you?
Château Portmanteau
Why a new, playful style of wine is delighting drinkers
Back Story
Fifty years on, the anti-hero of “Taxi Driver” is eerily familiar
The pen and the sword
A rockstar-turned-fighter offers a lens on fame in Ukraine
Body check
The hit TV show that no one saw coming
Of doom and gloom
Should globalists give up?
Economic & financial indicators
Obituary
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