The Economist July 4th–10th 2026

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Weekly issue of The Economist dated July 4th–10th 2026, featuring a wide-ranging table of contents across leaders, letters, essays, and multiple regional sections. Coverage includes America at 250, AI regulation, US foreign policy, European defense, and debates on power, markets, and governance. Business and finance sections address oil trading, AI rules, IPOs, sovereign-debt restructuring, stablecoins, and FX. Science, technology, and culture topics span synthetic biology, genomes, black holes, and cultural features.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages88

Reading Time3 h 42 min

AccessFree to download

Leaders

Letters

By Invitation

Essay

United States

America at 250

The Americas

Asia

China

Middle East & Africa

Europe

Britain

International

Business

Finance & economics

Science & technology

Culture

Economic & financial indicators

Obituary

JULY 4TH–10TH 2026 C002 C002 The Economist July 4th 2026 3 Contents On the cover This birthday comes at an anxious moment in America’s history: leader, page 7. The nation that created the postwar order is tearing it down. What will rise from the rubble? Essay, page 13. An empirical look reveals a country that is mighty—but becoming less dominant, page 19. Donald Trump’s reﬂecting-pool debacle is a ﬁtting birthday gift to America: Lexington, page 24. America at 250: the ﬁnal chapter of our series, page 25 . Happy birthday America, the ally Europe admires—questioningly: Charlemagne, page 52 Venezuela: aftershocks If Donald Trump “runs” Venezuela, he has a responsibility to help its people: leader, page 9. The catastrophe sparks fury at the American-backed regime, page 32. Unpacking a peculiar sovereign-debt restructuring, page 73 AI regulation Fable is free. But AI desperately needs better regulations: leader, page 8. The Trump administration now controls who gets access to the best AI, page 64 The future of European defence Europe ponders how to protect its eastern ﬂank as America pulls back, page 57 How much sleep should you get? Is too much as bad as too little? Well Informed, page 79 → Download The Economist’sapp for articles, podcasts, videos and more, published throughout the week. | The world this week
5 A summary of political and business news | | --- | | Leaders
7 America at 250
Fireworks
8 The government and AI
Rules for supermodels
9 Turkey and Israel
Pipe down and pipe oil
9 Shaken Venezuela
Awoeful response
10 An admission
We woz wrong about oil | | Letters
11 On shutting off Anthropic’s models, startups in Honduras, sharing companies’wealth, cricket in India, reading | | By Invitation
12 Carson Block on what AI could do to markets | | Essay
13 American foreign policy
Wrecking-ball revolution

Bartleby You could read Homer. You could see the ﬁlm. Or you could just goto the office, page 66 | | | | United States
19 American power
22 Trump and the court
23 Montgomery transformed
24 Lexington Redesigning
Washington | | | --- | --- | | America at 250
25 Hope, backlash and the
battle for America
30 By Invitation Michael
Beschloss on faith in
America's founding
principles | | | The Americas
31 Is Cuba opening up?
32 Aftershocks in Venezuela
33 Poisons in the Caribbean
34 Chinese brands in Brazil | | | Asia
35 Subsea data cables
36 Imran Khan vAsim Munir
37 Rural workfare in India
38 Ashoka Why are Indian
websites so bad? | | | China
39 China’s green-tech ﬁrms
are leaving America
40 Cover-up of a plane crash
42 Chaguan Hong Kong is
reviving | | | Middle East & Africa
43 African suburbia
45 Starlink in Africa
45 Press freedom in Uganda
46 Middle Eastern rivals
47 Hope v reality after the war | | ⏩ Contents continues overleaf 4 The Economist July 4th 2026 Contents | Europe
48 Meeting Jordan Bardella
49 American gas pressure
50 Zelensky’s drone surge
50 A German reform deal
51 Borderline incompetence
52 Charlemagne Regarding America | | | --- | --- | | Britain
53 The two Cambridges
56 Bagehot Rise ofthe
chippy southerner | | | International
57 Europe v Russia
60 The Telegram Blackmail
diplomacy | | Business 61 Big oil’s trading arms 63 Vibe lawyering 64 America’s erratic AI rules 65 Italy’s tech star IPOs 65 Indonesia jails a tech boss 66 Bartleby The Toddyssey 67 Schumpeter Lime v liberalism | Finance & economics
68 The summer BBQ index
70 Buttonwood FX of a new Plaza Accord
71 Is The Economist always wrong?
72 Chinese capital controls
73 Venezuela’s odd debt deal
74 Turkey’s war-adjacent economy
75 Free Exchange Are stablecoins money? | | | --- | --- | | Science & technology
76 Synthetic biology
77 Sequencing babies’
genomes
78 Probing black holes

FAQs

本期《经济学人》主要聚焦哪些议题？

本期内容覆盖领导人专栏、政治与商业新闻综述、美国“250”主题分析、AI监管、美国外交政策、欧洲国防等，并延伸到商业与金融、科技、文化与经济指标。

“America at 250”在目录中具体包括哪些模块？

目录中包含“America at 250”相关的文章，以及与美国权力、建制与回响、希望与反弹等主题相连的章节安排。

本期的商业与经济栏目涵盖哪些类型的内容？

商业与经济部分包含金融与经济分析、市场与交易相关议题（如油品交易与稳定币等）、以及宏观指标汇总等内容。

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