One is that America’s stockmarket outperformance had been based on strong economic growth: between 2009 and 2023, American ...

Mr Trump’s obsession with tariffs has long been known, but he offered a kaleidoscope of ever-changing rationales for them.

Mr Vance, whose career in elected office was half as long as Mr Trump’s, didn’t bring the Washington know-how of Dick Cheney ...

In response to Donald Trump’s first term as president, Xi Jinping, China’s leader, initiated a campaign to reduce China’s ...

The world’s financial markets took a different view. Investors were shocked by the height and breadth of the new tariffs.

The Houthis are unlikely to announce a unilateral halt to their attacks, even under heavy bombardment. They have fought for ...

Occasionally a reversal of state capture is sudden and revolutionary. In Estonia, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, a ...

America or China? Speculation is at fever pitch. The world’s most famous artificial-intelligence company, OpenAI, is American ...

S ince March 28th, when a powerful earthquake shook Myanmar’s central heartlands, the country’s brutal junta has tried to ...

F or the better part of a decade Marine Le Pen has worked methodically to transform an extremist, xenophobic fringe movement ...

Since 2010 Britain has resettled some 65,000 refugees, not including Hong Kongers or Ukrainians. Such people were deemed ...

And indeed when Mr Trump was in the White House before, the modal voter became a bit more Democratic. Then when Joe Biden was ...