Donald Trump is junking the transatlantic alliance

BUILDING THE transatlantic partnership centred on NATO took decades of troop deployments, joint exercises and steadfast signa...

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Bean there, done that

THERE were rules at Pableaux Johnson’s Monday dinners. No phones: pay attention to the people around you. Don’t sit next to s...

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China’s alarming sex imbalance

“Of course I want to get married,” says Fu, a lorry driver in Yiyang, a far-flung county in Jiangxi province. Once a migrant ...

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China’s leaders look to have blinked in their property face-off

If you are going to buy a flat in China, common advice goes, you should buy it from a “model student”. That is, a developer w...

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Chinese authorities try to stop parents gaming the exam system (again)

An ancient Chinese saying states that meng mu san qian: the mother of Mencius, a sage, “moved three times” to find him the ri...

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DOGE attacks a bastion of Republican internationalism

A mix of MAGA purists and internationalist Republicans staffed Donald Trump’s first administration, with the old establishmen...

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Donald Trump is a reckless president, but not yet a lawless one

All american presidents eventually arrive at the realisation that they ought to have more power. But most do at least accept ...

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#Briefing

Donald Trump’s foreign-aid cuts threaten his rural voters

THE TALLEST structures in Pawnee County, Kansas are the grain elevators. They loom over the cows, the low-slung buildings and...

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Donald Trump is taking presidential power to alarming places, writes Jack Goldsmith

“THEY HIT me and I hit them back harder and they disappear,” Donald Trump said in 2016, during his first presidential campaig...

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Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariffs are absurd

“He started it,” is playground justice. It may soon be America’s trade policy. On February 13th Donald Trump announced he had...

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