Look inside The Economist’s summer issue for 2025
A guide to four special articles from our home for narrative journalism
We have published our fourth summer issue. As well as the usual news and analysis, you’ll find a special 48-page supplement from 1843, The Economist’s home for narrative journalism. We won’t produce a print edition of the newspaper on August 2nd but a digital version will be available as usual on The Economist’s app and website.
The world court joins the fight over climate change
Its ruling that burning fossil fuels can be “internationally wrongful” risks provoking a backlash
Rethinking the war on AIDS
American funding cuts are a catalyst for fresh thinking
The surprising lessons of a secret cold-war nuclear programme
America is sick of policing the world. More nuclear-armed states will not help
The War Room newsletter: Three new books on espionage
Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, examines the blind spots of the intelligence services
The rise and rise of women’s sport
Why female athletes need to leave the men behind
Cynical realism won’t save India from Donald Trump
India has done brilliantly by balancing America, China and Russia. Can that last?