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Triple trouble for Israel as its furious allies bail 

Netanyahu has a lethal addiction to crises 

The Economist 28 May 2025
In this file image, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and French President Emmanuel Macron (L) arrive to hold a joint press conference in Jerusalem on October 24, 2023. CHRISTOPHE ENA / AFP
Activists from Jewish Voice for Peace surround the Statue of Liberty Plaza, on November 6, 2023. AFP

The liberal international order is slowly coming apart

Its collapse could be sudden and irreversible

The Economist 19 May 2024
Fallout on Xbox

How Hollywood fell in love with video games

"Fallout" is the latest in a successful run of adaptations

The Economist 17 May 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping meet in Beijing, China May 16, 2024. Reuters

Vladimir Putin meets his big brother in Beijing

Russia's leader wants to strengthen his "no-limits" partnership with Xi Jinping

The Economist 15 May 2024
U.S. President Joe Biden is applauded by union members after signing orders that increase tariffs on China to promote American investments and jobs in the Rose Garden of the White House on May 14, 2024, in Washington, DC. Win McNamee/Getty Images/AFP

Biden outdoes Trump with ultra-high China tariffs

The move, which hits electric vehicles, carries an environmental cost

The Economist 15 May 2024
Tourists enter the Swakopmund Museum on June 23, 2017, Namibia. GIANLUIGI GUERCIA / AFP

One of the smallest museums in Africa might be its most important

A curator's battle to commemorate Germany's forgotten genocide in Namibia

The Economist 08 May 2024
French President Emmanuel Macron welcomes China's President Xi Jinping as he arrives for a meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris as part of the Chinese president's two-day state visit to France on May 6, 2024. Reuters

Emmanuel Macron’s urgent message for Europe

The French president issues a dark and prophetic warning in an interview with the Economist as Chinese President Xi Jinping arrives in France with Ukraine and EU trade row at the top of agenda

The Economist 06 May 2024
Two books examine atomic weaponry and the global annihilation it could bring about Al Majalla

What would nuclear war look like in the 21st century?

Two books examine atomic weaponry and the global annihilation it could bring about

The Economist 27 April 2024
Student demonstrators occupy the pro-Palestinian "Gaza Solidarity Encampment" on the West Lawn of Columbia University on April 24, 2024 in New York City. Michael M. Santiago/AFP

The campus is coming for Joe Biden

As in 1968, the Democrat risks being the candidate of chaos and war

The Economist 26 April 2024
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America’s economy has escaped a hard landing

But there are still pitfalls ahead

The Economist 23 April 2024
A woman walks past a banner depicting launching missiles bearing the emblem of the Islamic Republic of Iran in central Tehran on April 15, 2024. ATTA KENARE/AFP

Iranians fear their brittle regime will drag them into war

Ultra-religious hardliners are gaining power and yearn for confrontation

The Economist 18 April 2024
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A wounded girl lies on a hospital bed after an Israeli strike in the Syrian village of Beit Jin on 28 November 2025 killed 10 people, the deadliest Israeli attack since al-Assad's ouster in December 2024. LOUAI BESHARA / AFP
Politics

Israeli actions in southern Syria give Iran an opening

04 December 2025

Israeli raids and bombs have served as a powerful recruiting tool for those wishing to resist Israel

Subhi Franjieh
Al Majalla
Business & Economy

Saudi Arabia's 2026 budget carefully boosts spending

04 December 2025

Balanced fiscal management, targeted deficit reduction, and strategic growth initiatives underpin this year's budget, with a strong emphasis on citizen partnership

Omar Harkous
Jay Torres
Politics

The evolution of Latin America’s drug cartels

04 December 2025

What began as a locally rooted trade in coca leaves and opium evolved into a transnational system of cartels that challenged governments, corrupted institutions, and destabilised countries

Stefanie Butendieck Hijerra
Opinion

Ukraine peace talks: one step forward, two steps back

04 December 2025

The prospects of a breakthrough remain bleak as Putin blames Europe for sabotaging a 28-point peace plan agreed on with the US

Con Coughlin
A visitor stands next to a photograph of German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt at the German Historical Museum in Berlin on 6 May 2020. John MACDOUGALL / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

50 years on, Hannah Arendt's works resonate more than ever

01 December 2025

The renowned German-American philosopher's analyses showed how governments deploy deceit for political gain and blur the lines between truth and lies

Abdel Salam Ben Abdelali

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