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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JANUARY 10, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Donroe delusion‘…

In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can

That will be bad for America—and everyone else

Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success

Protectionism is failing to revive manufacturing

Does Japan have a “foreigner problem”?

Yes—but it is not what populist politicians say it is

AI is transforming the pharma industry for the better

It is changing the way drugs are discovered and tested

France is paralysed, and everyone is to blame

The budgetary impasse is just one symptom of collective political uselessness

Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JANUARY 9, 2025

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What Trump wants

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘What Trump wants‘…

The age of invasion

How Trump’s new global strategy will assert Washington’s hemispheric ambitions By John Bew

Why Starmer won’t condemn Trump on Venezuela

Jeremy Corbyn, Clare Short, Robert D Kaplan and others reflect on the consequences of the Caracas attack By Ailbhe Rea

The world after Trump’s Venezuela gambit

By New Statesman

Fiona Hill: “The UK needs to think of its own sovereignty”

By Megan Gibson

Foreign Affairs, History, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – WINTER 2026 PREVIEW

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FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The World Minus One’ – The emergence of a post-American order.

The World-Minus-One Moment

Managing the global order with an antagonistic Washington. By Amitav Acharya

The Pillars of the Global Nuclear Order Are Cracking

U.S. allies and partners are taking steps toward a post-American nuclear order.Rebecca Lissner,  Erin D. Dumbacher

Can China Replace an Absent America in the Climate Fight?

Beijing never bought the argument that reducing emissions would cause economic harm. Kelly Sims Gallagher

Cyberdefense Enters a Dangerous New Phase

Allies fear that Washington is retreating from leadership at the worst possible time. Rishi Iyengar

Business, Finance, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JANUARY 3, 2026 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features The angst over affordability

The truth about affordability

Voters in rich countries are angry about prices. Politicians could make things worse

OpenAI’s cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026

There is a dark side to the model-maker’s stunning growth

Cruise-ship catering

How to spend $1.5m on ingredients

Jane Austen, economist

It depends how you count their wealth

The sultans of slang

What street talk reveals about Anglophone civilisation

The origin of dogs

The strange symbiosis between two hyper-predators: humans and hounds

Business, Finance, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 20, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Holiday double issue’

China proved its strengths in 2025—and Donald Trump helped

It was a good year for Xi Jinping

Two months in, the Gaza ceasefire is floundering

The consequences will ripple beyond the Middle East

The Economist’s country of the year for 2025

Which country improved the most this year?

What Novo Nordisk, OpenAI and Pop Mart have in common

All three have suffered the curse of overnight success

Analysis, Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2026

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How Strong Are The Strongmen?’

The Weakness of the Strongmen

What Really Threatens Authoritarians? Stephen Kotkin

The Price of American Authoritarianism

What Can Reverse Democratic Decline? By Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way, and Daniel Ziblatt

The Illiberal International

Authoritarian Cooperation Is Reshaping the Global Order by Nic Cheeseman, Matías Bianchi, and Jennifer Cyr

How China Wins the Future

Beijing’s Strategy to Seize the New Frontiers of Power by Elizabeth Economy

Business, Finance, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 13, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Europe’s populist right’

Can anyone stop Europe’s populist right?

Apocalyptic warnings by mainstream politicians are doomed to fail

More reasons for America’s friends to plan for the worst

A strategy that scorns Europe, bullies Latin America and is vague on Asia

Don’t fear China’s trillion-dollar trade surplus

It is a problem not for the rest of the world, but for China

America’s Supreme Court should strike down Donald Trump’s tariffs

The judges’ credibility is at stake

The battle for Warner Bros is a prelude to the real streaming war

Professionally made shows face tough competition from independent makers

Essays, Foreign Affairs, Government, Magazines, Politics

PREVIEW: THE EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE – WINTER ’25

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THE EUROPEAN CONSERVATIVE: The latest issue features a section on the life and work of Spanish political thinker, Dalmacio Negro Pavón; – an interview with Curtis Yarvin; – a defense of The Camp of the Saints; – a review of The Golden Thread; – a tribute to Iryna Zarutska; – and much, much more.


Big Europe Has Lost the War Over Ukraine

The EU’s claim to be a global power player stands exposed as the fantasies of an ageing pretender.

Virtue and Defiance Can Stir Even the Darkest Ideologues

The martyred young risked and ultimately accepted death to defend a culture that they believed was worth the sacrifice.

The Anti-Israel Tantrum Threatening To Break Eurovision

Four nations have declared they will boycott next year’s song contest over the inclusion of the Jewish State. Good riddance.

Business, Finance, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – DECEMBER 6, 2025 PREVIEW

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THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How AI is rewiring childhood‘

How AI is rewiring childhood

The technology presents dazzling opportunities—and ominous risks

Enough dithering. Europe must pay to save Ukraine

America will not. Europe’s security depends on agreeing how to

Syria’s transition has gone better than expected

The president has been a deft diplomat, but must do more reassure Syrians

Chris Waller, not Kevin Hassett, should lead the Federal Reserve

President Trump should choose the technocrat over the partisan

Foreign Affairs, Magazines, Opinion, Politics, Reviews

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – DEC. 5, 2025

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THE NEW STATESMAN (June 18, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Books of the Year’…

The book is dead? Long live the book!

We announce the New Statesman’s fiction and non-fiction books of the year By Tanjil Rashid

What we read when politics has no narrative

There is still much to discover from the great show of life

In the autumn of Salman Rushdie

The author’s late style in The Eleventh Hour, his new collection of fiction, reveals a venerable writer displaced by timeBy Tanjil Rashid

Donald Trump is making peace in Ukraine harder

America’s chaotic negotiations risk prolonging the chaos not ending it By Lawrence Freedman