The world this week

The weekly cartoon

March 26, 2025

3 panel cartoon of a couple watching TV. In frame one they've turned on the TV to footage from Ukraine, the man says "Too depressing. Change the channel". In frame 2 they've switched to footage from the Middle East, he says "Even Worse! Switch it over...".

Dig deeper into the subject of this week’s cartoon:

Russia continues to advance in eastern Ukraine
Does Israel’s new plan for Gaza include withholding food?
“Hell on earth”: satellite images document the siege of a Sudanese city

The editorial cartoon appears weekly in The Economist. You can see last week’s here