O NE OF THE year’s surprises has been how few countries chose to retaliate against Donald Trump’s tariffs with levies of ...

That peace has now broken. On October 9th China laid out a new set of export controls on rare earths, minerals needed to ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

Her candidacy for Venezuela’s presidential election last year unified a normally fragmented opposition and inspired hope of ...

Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, is keen to bask in the goodwill: in her conference speech last month, she highlighted the cap ...

The idea that running barefoot might be good for you took off in 2009 when Christopher McDougall, a journalist, published a ...

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The president has targeted Ms James after she sued him successfully for fraud at his real-estate business. Last year a judge ...

Britain’s success in this field is partly down to climate. One key to growing giant veg is the avoidance of stress. That means ensuring things are never too hot, too cold or too dry. The British ...

How do those who voted for the president feel about all this? Polling by YouGov for The Economist shows that most Republicans ...

To understand why, look to the part of the world where strongman rule is most common: Africa. For a time in the 1990s the ...

Although employment has stagnated as migration flows have stopped, America’s economy will probably grow by 1.5-2% in 2025.