The carnage reflects growing nervousness over the future of the software industry in the age of artificial intelligence. The value of listed American enterprise-software companies is down by 10% over ...

Even if America does not intervene against the regime, how can Iran hold together as a country in the aftermath of such ...

When China’s leader, Xi Jinping, first announced the free-trade plan for Hainan in 2018, some observers wondered whether he intended to build a new Hong Kong—a free-trade hub that plays a vital role ...

Towns like Margate are rushing to create councils, hinting at flaws in one of the Labour government’s most ambitious policies. Labour has embarked on the biggest reform of local government in England ...

The approach favoured by Mr Trump is for firms to start making things in America. Even if this happened at scale, which will ...

If you have your own encouraging examples of what democracy in America looks like, I would love to hear them. You can write ...

Each attack has left Kyiv more vulnerable, as reserves and balancing capacities disappear. Yet the city may have been granted a brief reprieve. On January 29th Donald Trump said that he had secured an ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Edward Carr, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

Bold predictions about imminent AI breakthroughs have given way to doubt. Many in the field now think progress demands more ...

Welcome to the first bonus War Room of 2026. January has been so packed with geopolitical ructions—did we just narrowly avoid the break-up of NATO ?—that one of the most dramatic special operations in ...

What would Mr Warsh’s Fed look like? Quantitative easing ( QE) is out the window. Mr Warsh has never wavered in his hatred of the vast balance-sheet that the Fed accumulated through bond-buying.

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