Catch up:Trump sets new tariffs; Hamas suspends hostage release
Donald Trump signed executive orders imposing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports into America, granting no exempt...
Germany’s “business model is gone”, warns Friedrich Merz
IT IS A calm and confident Friedrich Merz who greets The Economist on February 7th at a luxury golf resort in Stromberg, a sm...
Avian flu in America is a political problem and a health threat
WAFFLE HOUSE is typically a port in a storm. The breakfast restaurants are so unshakeable that the federal emergency-response...
German business is being suffocated by high costs and red tape
Editor’s note (February 10th): This article has been updated with comments from Germany’s interim finance minister. ON A DRIV...
Catch up:Israel withdraws from Gaza buffer zone; Trump praises Musk
Israel withdrew its forces from the Netzarim corridor, a passage across the Gaza Strip that it had occupied. Their departure ...
Catch up:Trump’s new tariffs; and his Gaza ceasefire doubts
Donald Trump said he would impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports into America. The new levies would take effe...
Catch up:Hamas suspends next hostage release; Trump’s comments on Gaza and tariffs
Hamas delayed the release of Israeli hostages as part of its ceasefire deal with Israel. The militant group, which was due to...
China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
FOR THOSE anxious about Chinese aggression towards the self-ruled island of Taiwan, there was a welcome signal at the end of ...
What is Elon Musk getting up to with America’s payment system?
ON THE MORNING of January 28th April Mullins-Datko, the director of ADVOCAP, a social-services provider in Fond Du Lac, a cit...
Catch up:judge limits DOGE’s access to payments data; Israel withdraws from Gaza buffer zone
A federal judge temporarily blocked Elon Musk and some of his team at the Department of Government Efficiency from access to ...