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Anything Goes America | The Economist Week of November 22, 2025
United States
The Black Friday presidency
In Washington, everything appears to be for sale
The revolution bites its children
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s big MAGA break-up
Guarded optimism
Can Donald Trump deploy the National Guard whenever he likes?
If wonks ruled
How to lower America’s soaring health-care costs
Transparency in government
Release the Epstein files!
Learning like the ancients
AI is accelerating a tech backlash in American classrooms
Briefing
From customer to killer
Chinese regulations and competition are panicking European manufacturers
Recent curbs on computer chips and rare earths are feeding broader fears about deindustrialisation
China
Practical learning
China has too many university grads and too few jobs for them
Middle East & Africa
MBS meets MAGA
Muhammad bin Salman takes a victory lap in Washington
Arms-in-arms
Israel may not be popular, but its weapons are
In the red
Africa’s other debt crisis
Europe
Atomic reaction
A huge corruption scandal threatens Ukraine’s government
Lost in the rubble
Russian bombing leaves no time to search for keepsakes
Wine and landscape
Vineyards are disappearing in France
The revolution nibbles its children
Russia’s militant bloggers are clashing with their own regime
Paying for Opa
Young MPs are fed up with Germany’s pension burdens
Britain
Taking back control
Britain’s new effort to balance human rights and deportations
A nation of Scrooges
Britons are becoming less spendthrift
Philistine action
Britain struggles to distinguish between protest and terrorism
The Online Safety Act
Britain’s controversial experiment in regulating the internet
International
Rinse, repeat, remit
How Chinese underground banks became the world’s biggest money-launderers
The Telegram
The loneliness of America’s model ally
Business
Refilling the swamp
Donald Trump and the unseemly rise of “insider capitalism”
New markets
Indians are getting more fashionable
Loop the loop
Cracks are appearing in OpenAI’s dominant façade
Bartleby
When companies lose their way
Finance & economics
How high is too high?
Economists get cold feet about high minimum wages
Bricks and mortal
America’s huge mortgage market is slowly dying
Free exchange
Can the Chinese economy match Aruba’s?
Science & technology
It’s gettin’ hot in here
Geothermal’s time has finally come
Energy storage
Geothermal kit can help make the power grid flexible
Conservation v concertising
The use of a rare wood pits violinists against environmentalists
Taboo? What taboo?
Tech billionaires want to make gene-edited babies
Well informed
Do women need testosterone supplements?
Culture
Bound to please
The best books of 2025
Words to the wise
Books published by The Economist’s journalists in 2025
Cartoon Carousel The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics | By POLITICO STAFF 11/21/2025 05:00 AM EST
Every week political cartoonists throughout the country and across the
political spectrum apply their ink-stained skills to capture the
foibles, memes, hypocrisies and other head-slapping events in the world
of politics. The fruits of these labors are hundreds of cartoons that
entertain and enrage readers of all political stripes. Here's an
offering of the best of this week's crop, picked fresh off the
Toonosphere. Edited by Matt Wuerker.
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