The Economist

In March last year, China’s leader, Xi Jinping, paused at the door of the Kremlin. Before bidding farewell to Vladimir Putin, he offered him a final…

Just over six years ago, when Donald Trump first announced tariffs on Chinese goods, it was as if a bomb had gone off. American stocks fell sharply…

There are plenty of reminders of the colonial past in Swakopmund, a town on Namibia’s coast if you know where to look. Mechanics work beneath…

In 1940, after France had been defeated by the Nazi blitzkrieg, the historian Marc Bloch condemned his country’s inter-war elites for having failed…

In 1960, America had around 18,000 nuclear weapons. It also had detailed plans for how to use them.Had it implemented them, 275 million people in the…

A connoisseur of radical chic can find plenty to catalogue these days while observing pro-Palestine protests on Ivy League campuses: the black or red…

Which cartoon character does the American economy most resemble?The consensus view in recent years, as propounded by a former Treasury secretary, a…

Despite its 45-year-old hostility towards the “Little Satan”, Iran had never fired a shot at Israel from its own territory. Instead, the road to…

Better diagnoses. Personalised support for patients. Faster drug discovery. Greater efficiency. Artificial intelligence (AI) is generating excitement…

Facebook may be turning 20 on 4 February, but it is just as much of a magnet for controversy and cash today as when it was a brash, break-everything…