Leaders
Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth
Donald Trump’s pursuit of tariffs will make the world poorer—and America, too
Business
No one gains from American tariffs on cars from Mexico and Canada
Donald Trump’s levy will hit his country’s carmakers hardest
Asia
Is Cambodia slipping out of China’s orbit?
A new generation of leaders could be more receptive to the West
The world in brief
Donald Trump repeated his threat to impose tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China from Saturday, and added that he would also tax goods from the European Union...
Hamas released three more Israeli hostages as the fragile ceasefire signed on January 15th continued to hold...
Germany’s Bundestag voted against a draft law to curb irregular immigration proposed by the opposition Christian Democrats (CDU)...
Eighteen Pakistani soldiers were killed during fighting with rebels in Balochistan, a province in the south-west...
Many governments talk about cutting regulation but few manage to
Yet radical deregulation is often a big boost to growth
Free exchange: Tech tycoons have got the economics of AI wrong
Following DeepSeek’s breakthrough, the Jevons paradox provides less comfort than they imagine
What Israel and Hamas can learn from past ceasefires
Evidence from more than 2,000 truces reveals their effectiveness
Performing in a cinema near you: Bob Dylan and Maria Callas
Back Story looks behind the boom in musical biopics
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Donald Trump’s first 100 days
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German election prediction model
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The second Trump presidency
Lexington: Donald Trump’s defining decade
Will America’s president overcome the 1970s, or just refight its battles?
Donald Trump goes to war with his employees
The president wants to shrink and remake the civil service
Kash Patel is a crackpot
Is he also a menace?
1843 magazine | How Tulsi Gabbard became a crusader against the Deep State
Her strange journey from a yoga commune to Trump’s intelligence chief
DeepSeek and Chinese AI
The real meaning of the DeepSeek drama
The Chinese model-maker has panicked investors. But it is good for the users of AI
DeepSeek poses a challenge to Beijing as much as to Silicon Valley
The story of Liang Wenfeng, the model-maker’s mysterious founder
DeepSeek sends a shockwave through markets
A cheap Chinese language model has investors in Silicon Valley asking questions
Nvidia is in danger of losing its monopoly-like margins
But don’t count it out yet
World news
By cutting off assistance to foreigners, America hurts itself
Donald Trump’s chaotic aid freeze makes his country weaker
Donald Trump turns an angry gaze south
Relations with Central America are likely to worsen
A day of drama in the Bundestag
Friedrich Merz, Germany’s probable next chancellor, takes a huge bet and triggers uproar
Backing Heathrow expansion suggests Labour is serious about boosting growth
It is the surest sign yet that the government is up for the fight
Business, finance and economics
Will America’s crypto frenzy end in disaster?
Donald Trump’s team is about to bring digital finance into the mainstream
Bartleby: Knowing what your colleagues earn
The pros and cons of greater pay transparency
China’s financial system is under brutal pressure
When will something break?
The Arctic: climate change’s great economic opportunity
An enormous prize is on offer. When might it be grasped?
Russia and Ukraine
Amid talk of a ceasefire, Ukraine’s front line is crumbling
An ominous defeat in the eastern town of Velyka Novosilka
How will mines dropped by drones change warfare?
They make attacks on tanks more precise and troops easier to trap
Russian pilots appear to be hunting Ukrainian civilians
Residents of Kherson are dodging murderous drones
Ukrainian scientists are studying downed Russian missiles
And learning a lot about sanctions-busting
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A sophisticated civilisation once flourished in the Amazon basin
How the Casarabe died out remains a mystery
Tofu: never judge a food by its political reputation
Think outside the white plastic box. Here is a carnivore’s guide to tofu
1843 magazine | The warlord, the oligarch and the unravelling of Russia’s Amazon.com
Before the Ukraine war, Wildberries was a giant of e-commerce. Now it’s caught up in a medieval blood feud
Edition: February 1st 2025
The revolt against regulation
Why the AI crash is good news
The Chinese model-maker has panicked investors. But it is good for the users of AI
Welcome to Heathrow’s long haul
It is the surest sign yet that the government is up for the fight
Could Trump and Xi divide up the world?
Washington hawks puzzle over calls for China to help in Ukraine, and hints of a possible TikTok reprieve
How covid boosted America’s murder rate
Explaining the 2020 murder spike
Special reports: January 11th 2025
The Africa gap
The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is getting wider, says John McDermott
- The economic gap between Africa and the rest of the world is growing
- Africa is undergoing social change without economic transformation
- Africa has too many businesses, too little business
- African elites should align themselves with their countries’ needs
- The African investment environment is at its worst in years
- To catch up economically, Africa must think big