The Economist
February 2026
Donald Trump goes nuclear on Anthropic
Donald Trump lashes out at Anthropic
What a Warner Bros-Paramount colossus would look like
Hollywood’s new giant will be indebted and unwieldy
Ukraine is scaling up interceptor drones
Giorgia Meloni is taking on the courts in Italy
Italy’s referendum will do nothing to speed up its sluggish judiciary
For AI labs, Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon brings opportunities—and risks
Pete Hegseth wages war on Anthropic
Bosses should not hold their breath for a Trump tariff refund
France’s far left reckons with the murder of a far-right activist
Quentin Deranque’s death forces the left to confront its extremists
Rejoice! Private equity is taking over America’s small businesses
That irritable feeling that France was right
That irritating feeling that France was right
China’s humanoids are dazzling the world. Who will buy them?
Donald Trump’s envoys failed to reassure Europe
Beware China’s shrinking car market
The resulting flood of exports will be good news for consumers
America offers Europe warmer words, but a deep chill remains
Private-equity barons have a giant AI problem
Their leveraged bets on the software industry may soon cause big trouble
Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s network
A European fighter-jet partnership is verging on a break-up
The Epstein files are sullying Norway’s squeaky-clean image
Are liberal values a luxury the West cannot afford?
That is no reason for the West to adopt iron-fisted rule
Emmanuel Macron declares a European state of emergency
He urges the EU to move fast or be swept aside
China is waging war on stolen ideas
China once stole foreign ideas. Now it wants to protect its own
How “remigration” is penetrating Europe’s political mainstream
A meme from the far-right fringe could spell legal trouble for Germany’s AfD