Shein and Temu are in Donald Trump’s cross-hairs
For American consumers, online shopping has just got dearer. On February 1st Donald Trump did away with a decades-old provisi...
The added dangers of fighting in Ukraine when everything is visible
For centuries the “fog of war”, the inability to see through the confusion of combat, has been a given. No longer. The front ...
New York City commits to involuntary commitment
Walk down the passage connecting the subway on 34th Street-Herald Square to a commuter line bound for New Jersey and you will...
The meaning of Donald Trump’s war on woke workers
IT AMOUNTS TO a bonfire of rainbow tape. Donald Trump has declared war on DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion. He is alre...
Why Islamists in the Arab world speak the language of free markets
A POLITICIAN promised to open his poor country for foreign investment and wean it off aid, while Tony Blair nodded sagely. St...
Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare
The ink had barely dried on Donald Trump’s order to impose a 10% tariff on imports from China before its leader, Xi Jinping, ...
Turkey is building a spaceport in Somalia
Alper Gezeravci’s first message from space was a patriotic one. “The future is in the skies,” he said from a Falcon 9 rocket ...
Worries about Britain’s construction crunch are overdone
Sir Keir Starmer has promised to run a government for the builders, not the blockers. Certainly, the prime minister and his c...
Why auction houses are turning to private sales
On February 8th, after The Economist went to press, Sotheby’s was scheduled to hold the first international auction in Saudi ...
Why Donald Trump’s protectionist zeal has only grown
Donald Trump’s supporters celebrate him as a man who says what he means and means what he says. The trade crisis he ignited o...