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The Economist

"Operation Blind Fury"

March 21-27, 2026 Edition

War in Iran is making Donald Trump weaker—and angrier

📊 Issue Statistics

72

Total Articles

18

Sections

5

Leaders

8

Business

🌍 The World This Week

1. Politics

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2. Business

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3. The weekly cartoon

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📝 Leaders

1. War in Iran is making Donald Trump weaker—and angrier

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2. Lebanon's leaders must take on Hizbullah

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3. Africa after aid is more resilient than you might think

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4. A dirty deal with Cuba would be better than the alternatives

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5. Gas will not be killed off by renewables any time soon

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✉️ Letters

1.Are data centres in space less crazy than we think?

🎤 By Invitation

1.America's friends must help extricate it from an unlawful war

📋 Briefing

1.There is plenty of scope for the Iran war to intensify

2.The Iran war could sap American military power for years

3.The assassination of senior leaders weakens Iran—but at a cost

🌏 Asia

1.Will America's Asian allies get dragged into the Iran war?

2.Panicked Indians are scrambling to buy gas

3.What Nitish Kumar did for Bihar, India's poorest state

4.Life in Myanmar's biggest city is increasingly grim

5.A deadly strike in Kabul could have big knock-on effects

🇨🇳 China

1.Is cheap energy the key to China gaining AI supremacy?

2.Public opinion in China is hardening on America and Taiwan

3.Why China's fight on air pollution has slowed

4.A Maoist survival guide to the Iranian energy crisis

🇺🇸 United States

1.How the Iran war is hurting Donald Trump

2.Tucker Carlson on whether Donald Trump has betrayed his base

3.A muddled war and rising prices are boosting Democrats' midterm hopes

4.American farmers are feeling the squeeze

5.Is an obsession with immigration leaving America exposed?

6.Does Donald Trump even care about the midterms?

🌎 The Americas

1.Cuba's broken economy leaves it at Donald Trump's mercy

🌍 Middle East & Africa

1.Africa's richest man has ambitious plans for the continent

2.The war in eastern Congo is escalating far from view

3.A shake-up at Africa's spikiest media group

4.Israel contemplates a ground invasion of Lebanon

🇪🇺 Europe

1.The Iran war is forcing Europe to confront its energy problem

2.Vladimir Putin enjoys a huge windfall from the Iran war

3.Viktor Orban's pro-natalist policies are not working

4.A spy scandal upends Slovenia's election campaign

5.The quiet recovery of Ireland's ancient tongue

6.How Ukraine and Europe got caught in a geopolitical lovers' tiff

🇬🇧 Britain

1.Britain's chancellor starts a tilt towards Europe

2.By our calculations, motoring in Britain has rarely been so cheap

3.Britain's youngsters are increasingly out of work

4.The Duke of Edinburgh's award is more popular than ever

5.The new Archbishop of Canterbury inherits a church in turmoil

6.Industrial-scale fly-tipping is spreading across Britain

7.CBeebies or barbarism

🌐 International

1.The future of Africa will be shaped by investment rather than aid

2.America's failing gunboat diplomacy

💼 Business

1.Nvidia is expanding its empire

2.Trouble is brewing among America's corporate borrowers

3.War may bring lasting change to the airline business

4.The Iran war casts a shadow over BASF's nascent revival

5.Why AI has not yet upset India's IT industry

6.How Zara fought off H&M and Shein

7.The secrets to a good employee survey

8.Elliott Management and the art of telling bosses they're wrong

💰 Finance & Economics

1.America may be a petrostate. But the energy shock still hurts

2.What if Donald Trump decided to ban oil exports?

3.China cannot escape the energy shock

4.Which country is the biggest loser from the energy shock?

5.The Iran war is roiling commodities far beyond oil

6.Will South Korea's epic bull market survive the energy shock?

7.The new economics of sex work

🔬 Science & Technology

1.China is a serious contender in the race for fusion energy

2.The next phase of artificial intelligence may require very different processors

3.Rapid-charging EV batteries are on the way

4.Should you take GLP-1 drugs for longevity?

🎭 Culture

1.War is only the starkest way that politics is disrupting tourism

2.Which is the best sparkling water?

3.Re-examining one of the world's most notorious assassinations

4.It's strictly business: the enduring allure of mafiosi in culture

5.Looking for a Paris hotel with a past?

📈 Economic & Financial Indicators

1.Economic data, commodities and markets

🕯️ Obituary

1.Jürgen Habermas hoped rational discussion could save the world

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