Even as Mr Musk was speaking, workers at USAID ’s headquarters in Washington were being told not to come in the next day. Some 600 of the agency’s staff seem to have been locked out of their emails.

Mr Trump’s mood had been both euphoric and combative, even by his standards, after announcing tariffs on America’s three ...

Listen closely in the corridors of power and you will hear the usual worries: that Britain’s finest hour is over; that the ...

Based on assembly voting patterns from 2005 to 2022, the McKinsey Global Institute, a think-tank, has mapped countries on a ...

Sharaa, Syria’s president, spoke to The Economist on January 31st in Damascus. The conversation has been translated and ...

But if Mr Trump hits Europe with hefty tariffs, as he has just done on Canada, Mexico and China, the EU will aim to find ...

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Mexico will refrain from a tariff on corn, fearing that livestock would starve on its farms. And while it could seek to ...

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But Mr Trump’s most incendiary claims are reserved for China. The Communist Party, he says, “has subsidised and otherwise ...

“I am a woman of colour. I am a mom. I am a cis-gender millennial who has been diagnosed with generalised anxiety disorder. I ...

Mr Trump’s announcement of the new duties ought to erase any doubts about his resolve to take a hard line on trade, heedless ...