International

Star wars: a new hope

Can Donald Trump’s Iron Dome plan keep America safe?

In a dangerous world, cutting-edge missile defence is all the rage

Tipping the balance

Why the war on childhood obesity is failing

Sugar taxes and obesity drugs will not be enough

A golden opportunity

Paris could change how cities host the Olympics for good

The games will test the success of new solutions to old bugbears

The Geneva Conventions at 75

Could America fight its enemies without breaking the law?

The speed and intensity of prospective conflicts could test the laws of war

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