International
Cable ties
How China and Russia could hobble the internet
The undersea cables that connect the world are becoming military targets
Fickle friends
Trump and other populists will haunt NATO’s 75th birthday party
Threats to Western alliances lie both within and without the club
Extreme temperatures
The rise of the truly cruel summer
Deadly heat is increasingly the norm, not an exception to it
Attending university abroad
Brainy Indians are piling into Western universities
Will rich countries welcome them the way they did Chinese students?
Ghosts in the machines
The new front in China’s cyber campaign against America
Big powers are preparing for wartime sabotage
Control yourself!
Is your rent ever going to fall?
Too often politicians tout awful solutions for helping tenants
An interview with Rafael Grossi
Iran’s new leaders stand at a nuclear precipice
The world’s atomic watchdog fears a terrifying regional arms race
From grey zone to red zone
Taiwan’s new president faces an upsurge in Chinese coercion
But China’s bullying of Japan, Taiwan and the Philippines risks an explosion
International law and disorder
The world’s rules-based order is cracking
Human-rights lawyers are trying to save laws meant to tame violent rulers
Killing at all costs
Beware, global jihadists are back on the march
They are using the war in Gaza to radicalise a new generation
Autarky rules OK
The tech wars are about to enter a fiery new phase
America, China and the battle for supremacy
War and recruitment
Would you really die for your country?
Military conscription is on the agenda in the rich world