Everyone but the Saudis
Briefing: The Houthis at the mouth of the Red Sea. Free passage promised, with one exception. & What’s in the ruins of Gaza?
Yet to be uncovered
The weekend despatch: Parsing 68 million tonnes of rubble in Gaza. When rigging an election isn’t enough. + Who’s Wesley Stace?
Stop lights on empty tracks
Briefing: Rail sabotage on Budget Day. Burning parcels and cut cables across Europe. & What’s getting American teenagers off their phones?
‘Engagement, engagement, engagement’
Feature: What’s getting American teenagers off their phones? Ioakim Boutakidis on the strategies parents are using to help kids unplug.
Those aren’t stars
Briefing: Canada’s bid for Europe. America’s weapons in orbit. + Is September 11 still an open case?
Pass this to Gilberto, would you
Briefing: A curious note, handed across a defense conference in Seoul. South Korea’s record exports, after a 26th month of factory-job losses. & Is September 11 still an open case?
‘Tell the Saudis to stop lying’
The weekend despatch: The evidence the 9/11 Commission never saw. The American dollar, out of control. + What’s Mew?
Apologies for absence
Briefing: How the hard-right Alternative for Germany could take over a federal state without a majority. The return of the U.K.’s assisted-dying bill. & Is the world moving off the dollar?
‘They’re going to need it in spades’
Feature: Is the world moving off the dollar? Nicholas Mulder on where it’s slipping—and why the U.S. financial industry has so much riding on it.
Party balloons over El Paso
Briefing: The tariff over Canadian cars that doesn’t tax cars. Local police in the U.S., now licensed to shoot down aircraft. & What happens when the American government hires private firms to hack foreign criminal networks?