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The Weekend Essay

  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
    Life & Arts
    The coming battle between social media and the state

    Behind the alignment of X and Meta with Trump is a cold business logic — and a position of weakness rather than strength

  • Saturday, 4 January, 2025
    Life & Arts
    ‘That is Maganomics’: where Trump is taking America on trade

    Maverick economist turned presidential adviser Peter Navarro has helped bring back a world in which power takes precedence over economic exchange. Will he prove his critics wrong?

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  • Saturday, 28 December, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The age of de-extinction: should we bring back the woolly mammoth?

    Species resurrection is nearing reality — it may also be distracting us from saving animals on the brink

    A colour illustration shows a woolly mammoth surrounded by images of a microscope, a petri dish and a DNA spiral
  • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Jaguar’s rebrand has divided opinion. Is ‘Project Roar’ the road to success?

    Kana Inagaki and Henry Mance tell the inside story of an extraordinary corporate decision

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  • Saturday, 7 December, 2024
    Life & Arts
    ‘The feeling of freedom’: Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe on her liberation from Iran

    Held in the country for six years, the former prisoner shares her insights into how repressive states work — and finding escape through books

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  • Saturday, 30 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Can Europe build its first trillion-dollar start-up?

    The continent has yet to create a tech company to rival Alphabet, Amazon or Apple. Ian Hogarth explains why this matters — and how to set it right

    Tall chess pieces representing the big tech groups face a tiny bright pawn on a chessboard map of the world
  • Saturday, 23 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The myths that made Elon Musk

    The tech billionaire’s backing of Donald Trump is part of a worldview that draws on Silicon Valley’s wildest frontiers

    A group of people stand behind a red curtain
  • Saturday, 16 November, 2024
    Geopolitics
    Trump’s victory will change America. But Europe can have a different future

    Democratic norms look unusually fragile in the US. Historian Mark Mazower argues that it is an outlier, not a precursor

    An illustration featuring Trump and two women with writing in the background
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Francis Fukuyama: what Trump unleashed means for America

    The Republican president-elect is inaugurating a new era in US politics and perhaps for the world as a whole

    A bulky figure in a suit, seen from behind, walks through dark curtains on to a stage, a dazzle of lights partly obscuring his head
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Election anxiety and the problem with polarisation

    In the US presidential campaign and beyond, politics is taking a heavy psychological toll. Can we raise the tone?

    A close-up shot of a young woman, chin resting on her hands, rapt with attention, surrounded by other faces all turned in the same direction
  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    Life & Arts
    What the polls can’t tell us about America’s election

    A torrent of data on the presidential race seems to get us no closer to predicting the result. Is addiction to polling distracting people from the issues at stake?

  • Saturday, 19 October, 2024
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Israel, Lebanon and the mirage of a new Middle East

    Lebanese academic and diplomat Ghassan Salamé on how conflict engulfed his country — and why it is folly to try to reshape the region by force

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  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    UK society
    How the English courts reached breaking point

    A record backlog of criminal trials has left lawyers ‘drowning in cases’. Henry Mance goes in search of the answers

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  • Saturday, 5 October, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The search for Japan’s ‘lost’ art

    A museum closure has shone a light on the vast collections acquired during the bubble years — and warned companies that change is coming

    A female tourist wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a backpack takes a photo on her smartphone of an abstract sculpture outside the wall of a museum
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Life & Arts
    New towns are back. But can we still build them?

    To solve its housing crisis, Britain needs to start planning again — and rekindle the urban idealism of the postwar decades 

    An illustration showing people walking in the countryside, but with a new town rising in the background
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The mystery of Masayoshi Son, SoftBank’s great disrupter

    He has won and lost fortunes with his bets on technology. So is the investor a visionary — or a gambler who got lucky?

    A man in his early sixties looks thoughtfully into the distance. Behind him are white clouds and patches of blue sky
  • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The six types of people you meet at Lunch with the FT

    For 30 years, the FT’s flagship interview has featured a who’s who of our times. Henry Mance explains its magic

    A montage of headshots, all colour illustrations, of multiple people, including Liz Truss, Greta Thunberg, Zadie Smith, Janet Yellen, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, Prince Andrew, David Attenborough and many more
  • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The kleptocrats aren’t just stealing money. They’re stealing democracy

    A shadow world of secret wealth now threatens us all. We need to shut it down, argues Anne Applebaum

  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Where have all the insects gone?

    The tiny creatures on which the world depends seem to be in decline. But what does the data really say — and what is to be done?

    Dragonflies flying against a night sky
  • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
    Life & Arts
    ‘I am speaking’: on Kamala Harris and women’s voices

    As the US contemplates electing its first female president, Erica Wagner explores what the long fight for equality tells us about that choice

    A woman, seen in silhouette as the sun sets, stands on a podium, one hand raised. Behind her is a crowd and a United States of America airplane on the tarmac
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    UK riots
    How to read a riot

    Violence on British streets has reopened an age-old debate about what drives disorder — and what can be done about it

    A group of men are gathered on a grassy area, holding planks and sticks. Some are draped in England flags, one waves a union jack and many are filming with phones
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The worst place I’ve ever stayed

    Bats, giant airborne insects, lethally sharp decor: FT journalists share their hotel nightmares

    A cartoon illustration of a man, woman and two children, one of them bawling, at the door of a room with cracked plaster, mice, spiders and the outline of a fatality victim on the floor
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The reset: how Britain can restore its global reputation

    Diplomatic overtures and treaty revisions are not enough, argues Philippe Sands — the country needs a fundamental rethink of its role in the world

    A back view of Starmer and Macron in dark suits. Macron has a hand on Starmer’s shoulder
  • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
    Life & Arts
    What happened to Russia’s seized superyachts?

    Swift action to impound palatial boats became a symbol of western resolve after the invasion of Ukraine. Now the costs are mounting for owners and governments alike

    The prow of a gleaming yacht moored in London’s Canary Wharf with skyscrapers towering over the water
  • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Paris, the Olympics and the reinvention of a city

    After a divisive election, this summer’s Games will fire the starting gun on a vast project to transform the French capital

    Stands being erected in a square with a  statue of a woman on a winged horse and also at the base of the Eiffel Tower, which bears the symbol of the Olympic rings
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