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Recall of duty? Trump’s tariffs in court
Just as soon as President Donald Trump started applying sweeping tariffs on trading partners, legal challenges to them started piling up. We listen i…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Into the blue: Democrats win big
In the first electoral test of Donald Trump’s second term, Democrat supporters voted in a socialist mayor of New York and governors to New York and V…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Getting their ships together: America in the Caribbean
As America sends its biggest naval hardware to the Caribbean, we ask whether the intent is more than mere sabre-rattling—and why the Trump administra…
5 months, 4 weeks ago
Capital gained: a grim turn in Darfur
The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces have at last taken El Fasher, the capital of Darfur. Reported atrocities are sharply rising, in a chilling echo…
6 months ago
Truce story: (a sketch of) a Trump-Xi trade deal
Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping agreed to holster their trade weapons for now. But even if the deal holds, it does not address the deeper prob…
6 months ago
Manhattan transfer: New York’s finance folk flee
Taxes upon taxes are just one of the reasons that both financial-industry hotshots and businesses are moving out of the Big Apple. We look at what th…
6 months ago
War-chest X-ray: how to finance Ukraine
Europe is edging closer to using seized Russian assets to finance Ukraine. The country badly needs that 140bn-euro windfall—and much, much more. A mu…
6 months ago
Bust a vessel: NATO v dark fleets
Ships of unknown origin or intent are flummoxing NATO forces on the high seas. Our correspondent visits the Latvian navy on the Virsaitis as it inter…
6 months ago
Let Milei this out: Argentina’s midterms surprise
Voters overwhelmingly backed the party of President Javier Milei, handing him a lifeline he was not expected to get. We ask how he can finish his vas…
6 months ago
The great brawl: China is winning the trade war
This weekend American and Chinese officials are meeting to try and ease tensions over trade after China’s recent decision to restrict rare-earth expo…
6 months, 1 week ago