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The Economist
January 23, 2025
Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th
By pardoning violent offenders, he ignored his own team’s advice
The Economist
January 23, 2025
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January 23, 2025
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January 23, 2025
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The Economist
January 23, 2025
Letters to the editor | Jan 25th 2025 Edition
A selection of correspondence
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Sir Keir Starmer should aim higher in his reset with the EU
And he needs to be clearer about what Britain wants
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump
The success of cheap Chinese models threatens America’s technological lead
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Do tariffs raise inflation?
Usually. But the bigger problem is that they harm economic growth and innovation
The Economist
January 23, 2025
Has Japan truly escaped low inflation?
Its central bankers are increasingly hopeful
The Economist
January 23, 2025
The Rachel Reeves theory of growth
The chancellor says it’s her number-one priority. We ask her what that means
The Economist
January 23, 2025
China’s financial system is under brutal pressure
When will something break?
The Economist
January 23, 2025
The Arctic: climate change’s great economic opportunity
An enormous prize is on offer. When might it be grasped?
The Economist
January 23, 2025
America has an imperial presidency
And in Donald Trump, an imperialist president for the first time in over a century
The Economist
January 22, 2025
The Gaza ceasefire is stoking violence in the West Bank
Hamas and the Israeli far right both want to destabilise the West Bank
The Economist
January 22, 2025
A $500bn investment plan says a lot about Trump’s AI priorities
It’s build, baby, build
The Economist
January 22, 2025
Donald Trump has again rewritten the history of January 6th
By pardoning violent offenders, he ignored his own team’s advice
The Economist
January 22, 2025
David Lynch mesmerised filmgoers with mystery, beauty and horror
America’s strangest and most surreal film-maker died on January 16th, aged 78
The Economist
January 22, 2025
America’s departure from the WHO would harm everyone
Whether it is a negotiating ploy remains to be seen
The Economist
January 22, 2025
How Poland emerged as a leading defence power
Will others follow?
The Economist
January 21, 2025
America really could enter a golden age
Donald Trump would need to build on its strengths, and subdue his own weaknesses
The Economist
January 21, 2025
To end birthright citizenship, Trump misreads the constitution
It would also create huge practical problems
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth
Donald Trump’s pursuit of tariffs will make the world poorer—and America, too
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Tariffs will spark retaliation, not a manufacturing renaissance
Donald Trump’s pursuit of tariffs will make the world poorer—and America, too
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Trump unmasks American selfishness, say cynics
But sceptics are wrong to call America First business as usual
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Donald Trump’s America will not become a tech oligarchy
Reasons not to panic about the tech-industrial complex
The Economist
January 21, 2025
The race to lead Canada’s Liberal Party hinges on handling Trump
Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland are the front-runners
The Economist
January 21, 2025
In the race to lead Canada, handling Trump is the biggest issue
Mark Carney and Chrystia Freeland are the front-runners
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Witty and wise, “A Real Pain” is a masterpiece in a minor key
Jesse Eisenberg’s deceptively slight film asks big moral questions
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Donald Trump cries “invasion” to justify an immigration crackdown
His first immigration executive orders range from benign to belligerent
The Economist
January 21, 2025
The new American imperialism
Donald Trump is the first president in more than 100 years to call for new American territory—including Mars
The Economist
January 21, 2025
Turkey is determined to expand its influence in the new Syria
That could cause tensions with the Arab world—and Israel
The Economist
January 20, 2025
Donald Trump issues fresh tariff threats
But it may be a while before he unleashes a universal levy
The Economist
January 20, 2025
Why has Donald Trump held fire on tariffs?
The president had promised hefty levies immediately
The Economist
January 20, 2025
OpenAI’s latest model will change the economics of software
The more reasoning it does, the more computer power it uses
The Economist
January 20, 2025
Britain’s family courts are opening up to reporters
Transparency and privacy can work together
The Economist
January 19, 2025
The start of a fragile truce in Gaza offers relief and joy
But the ceasefire is not yet the end of the war
The Economist
January 19, 2025
The beginning of the end of the Trump era
The new president is more confident, and radical, than ever—and also more accepted
The Economist
January 17, 2025
TikTok’s time is up. Can Donald Trump save it?
The imperilled app hopes for help from an old foe
The Economist
January 17, 2025
China meets its official growth target. Not everyone is convinced
For one thing, 2024 saw the second-weakest rise in nominal GDP since the 1970s
The Economist
January 16, 2025
One of the biggest energy IPOs in a decade could be around the corner
Venture Global, a large American gas exporter, is going public
The Economist
January 16, 2025
A French-sponsored Ukrainian army brigade has been badly botched
The scandal reveals serious weaknesses in Ukraine’s military command
The Economist
January 16, 2025
How the AfD got its swagger back
Germany’s hard-right party is gaining support even as it radicalises
The Economist
January 16, 2025
First, the ceasefire. Next the Trump effect could upend the Middle East
Will Israel and Donald Trump use the threat of annexation to secure a new grand bargain?
The Economist
January 16, 2025
Rising bond yields should spur governments to go for growth
The bond sell-off may partly reflect America’s productivity boom
The Economist
January 15, 2025
After 15 months of hell, Israel and Hamas sign a ceasefire deal
Donald Trump provided the X factor by putting heat on Binyamin Netanyahu, who insists the war isn’t over yet
The Economist
January 15, 2025
Tulsi Gabbard, Sean Penn and the hunt for an American hostage
A controversial trip to Syria in 2017 produced a possible sighting of Austin Tice, an imprisoned journalist
The Economist
January 15, 2025
Volunteers with Down’s syndrome could help find Alzheimer’s drugs
Those with the syndrome have more of a protein implicated in dementia
The Economist
January 15, 2025
Will Donald Trump unleash Wall Street?
Bankers have plenty of reason to be hopeful
The Economist
January 15, 2025
After the president’s arrest, what next for South Korea?
Some 3,000 police breached his compound. The country is dangerously divided
The Economist
January 14, 2025