Donald Trump was right. Daylight Saving Time needs to go
Every spring about 1.6bn people have to change their clocks as they move into Daylight Saving Time. For many, including Europ...
Why the IMF should bail out a serial deadbeat
By the end of the month, according to Kristalina Georgieva, the imf’s managing director, Argentina will have been bailed out ...
How America could end up making China great again
Editor’s note (April 5th 2025): On April 4th China retaliated against Donald Trump’s tariffs, announcing a 34% duty on Americ...
President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc
IF YOU failed to spot America being “looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far” or it being cruelly denie...
Lift sanctions to give Syria a chance of rebuilding
Syrians could be forgiven for disillusionment. Four months after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in December, following five deca...
Why Marine Le Pen should be allowed to run for president
BETWEEN 2004 and 2016, Marine Le Pen diverted European Union funds to pay her party’s political staff, falsely claiming that ...
First, jab more babies
Foreign aid is shrinking. Rich countries are cutting their budgets for helping the world’s poor, partly because they need to ...
Israel’s expansionism is a danger to others—and itself
IT IS HARD to believe today, but 18 months ago Israel was in grave peril. Surrounded by enemies, bickering with its main ally...
Is Elon Musk remaking government or breaking it?
NEXT TO SPACE travel, remaking the government sounds easy. Elon Musk conceives of himself as the saviour of humanity, who wil...
The unpredictability of Trump’s tariffs will increase the pain
DONALD TRUMP has already raised the average tariff on America’s imports by about twice as much as he did in his entire first ...