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 ...

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

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

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

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