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.

The firms that used more nationalistic language tended, unsurprisingly, to be state-owned. They were more likely to be consumer-facing than to sell to other businesses. And they were more likely 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 ...

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

Under the lock, any foreign intervention must be approved by the government, the Dáil (the Irish parliament’s lower house) ...

T HIS WEEK we published two covers. In most of the world we considered Donald Trump’s mindless tariffs. They will cause ...

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

I s the assisted-dying bill dead? Scouring the British headlines over the past week, you could be forgiven for thinking as ...

But the looser purse strings of Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting have emboldened the parties in his expected coalition to ...

Liberal thought, he cautioned, was “essential to a balanced viewpoint”; conservatives should just insist on the same chances ...

By 2024 (see chart) it had become Brazil’s most popular payment technology, displacing both cash and cards. The number of ...