The World Today

October & November 2017: Making sense of President Trump

Nations are trying to connect with more globally minded elements in the US. Leslie Vinjamuri asks if this will save the Atlantic alliance

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping during talks at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida

A volatile America offers Beijing both riches and risks, writes Kerry Brown

A Nigerian government official in his office in the town of Bosso on Lake Chad

Devolving power will strengthen the whole, argues Eromo Egbejule

London's Old Street digital hub, known as Silicon Roundabout

Brexit must preserve free movement of data, warns Bhaskar Chakravorti

Moscow puts the champagne away as relations with US cool, writes Andrei Soldatov

An image of Donald Trump defaced by shoes is burnt in protest in the West Bank

Trump promised to change everything but what has that meant for the region, asks Jane Kinninmont

After eight months of Donald Trump, the world has got used to spotting the differences between what the president says and what his administration does.

Articles

Delhi wants closer ties with US but more autonomy, says Frédéric Grare

Celebrations to mark China’s 60th National Day are held outside Sydney Opera House

Cleo Paskal outlines the West’s fears as a key ally develops closer links with China

ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, developed at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946

Martin Erwig introduces the algorithm, the sets of instructions that decide how we live

Caroline Crampton on the gentleman detective who launched a genre

A Syrian refugee crosses the Greek-Macedonian border having fled the fighting in his home country

Diana Darke on three accounts of Syria’s anguish

A British soldier photographs heroin poppies in Helmand Province

Robert Fox on an attempt to make sense of Britain’s Taliban misadventure

Also in this issue

Catherine Fieschi asks if we are comfortable embracing statues

General Zhukov, light relief from the conqueror of Berlin

Agnes Frimston admires a satirical take on the death of a despot

The Foreign Office minister on internet terrorism and hurricanes

Silvio Berlusconi watches AC Milan play in a UEFA Champions league match. He sold the club in early 2017

Just as the European Union is getting a fresh injection of energy from the French president, Emmanuel Macron, one of the continent’s old guard is preparing for an improbable political comeback.

Britain’s impending departure from the European Union continues to spawn words and phrases that are bad enough when new but worse when over-used.

When the Myanmar army began driving Rohingya Muslims from their villages, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights hit the headlines by accusing the authorities of ethnic cleansing.