Seven minutes in Paris
Briefing: Crown jewels vanish from the Louvre. NASA rethinks how to get back to the moon. + Is Trump really deconstructing American democracy?
‘This time, he has the cadres’
Feature: Is Donald Trump really deconstructing democracy in the United States? Steve Hanson on the American consolidation of patrimonial rule.
Look on my works, ye mighty
The weekend despatch: Power and risk in the new Washington. A vexing disturbance from the Antarctic seafloor. &c.
Inside the prison state
Feature: What’s it like to live in North Korea? Yumi Kim on heavy repression, secret phone calls, and virtual private networks.
The enemies list
Briefing: The U.S. confirms CIA operations in Venezuela. Europe builds a drone wall against Russia. + Turning America’s tax agency against the president’s enemies.
Graveyard in the desert
Briefing: A disarmament ultimatum for Hamas. Madagascar’s Gen Z protests topple a government. + A two-year operation to move tens of thousands of bodies—and hide the evidence.
No interior daylight
Briefing: The Israeli dead begin returning from Gaza. California goes it alone in regulating AI chatbots. + An unusual solidarity across the American press as they decamp from the Pentagon.
Seen in hiding
Briefing: Back to the economic brink for the U.S. and China. Israeli hostages return from Gaza after 738 days. + When a peace prize goes to someone still fighting.
What doesn’t kill them
Feature: Is anyone winning the U.S.-China trade war? Kyle Chan on the economic showdown between Washington and Beijing.
Can’t get started
Briefing: War halts in Gaza as Israel and Hamas begin prisoner exchanges. Peru removes its president in the middle of the night. + Out now—the weekend despatch.
