This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our writers turn their gaze to ...

This is the introduction to Checks and Balance, a weekly, subscriber-only newsletter in which our writers turn their gaze to ...

O NE OF THE year’s surprises has been how few countries chose to retaliate against Donald Trump’s tariffs with levies of ...

Britain’s success in this field is partly down to climate. One key to growing giant veg is the avoidance of stress. That ...

That peace has now broken. On October 9th China laid out a new set of export controls on rare earths, minerals needed to ...

The president has targeted Ms James after she sued him successfully for fraud at his real-estate business. Last year a judge ...

Sleepless souls across the Middle East spent the next hour refreshing Truth Social, Mr Trump’s social-media site. His missive ...

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

Her candidacy for Venezuela’s presidential election last year unified a normally fragmented opposition and inspired hope of ...

Once operational, the mine is estimated to generate about $150bn in revenue over four decades. Since 1993 various ...

The tentative agreement between Israel and Hamas to stop the shooting and release the hostages opens up a new vision for the ...

All told, our estimates suggest that tariffs are adding around 0.3 percentage points to inflation. Employment has weakened, ...