Donald Trump has pushed Europe back into “whatever it takes” mode
Charlemagne, Jean Monnet, Konrad Adenauer, Donald Trump: the pantheon of figures who have helped forge European unity has tak...
How Labour learned to love rearmament
WHICH MP wouldn’t want a defence factory in their constituency? The median full-time pay for making weapons and ammunition in...
Time is running out for Syria’s president
Syria has just seen the worst sectarian violence since the toppling of Bashar al-Assad three months ago, and perhaps since th...
With Manus, AI experimentation has burst into the open
Watching the automatic hand of the Manus AI agent scroll through a dozen browser windows is unsettling. Give it a task that c...
Will Vladimir Putin really agree to stop his killing machine?
THE BALL, so America’s secretary of state said on March 11th, is back in Vladimir Putin’s court. Ukraine had just agreed at t...
Trump’s erratic policy is harming the reputation of American assets
PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s bullying of America’s allies and neighbours may appeal to the maga base. Unfortunately, investors fe...
The new economics of immigration
IN ONE RICH country after another, immigrants are blamed for society’s problems. On March 10th J.D. Vance, America’s vice-pre...
China Backs Iran in Nuclear Talks, Slams ‘Threat of Force’ From the West
China and Russia joined Iran on Friday in urging an end to Western sanctions after President Trump called this week for nucle...
Kremlin Says Putin Met With Trump’s Envoy, Steve Witkoff
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy, in Moscow late Thursday and now expects...
America’s bullied allies need to toughen up
For decades America has stood by its friends and deterred its enemies. That steadfastness is being thrown upside down, as Don...