Industrial blight
Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy
A rush of new tariffs will hurt growth, raise prices and worsen inequality
Leaders
Lift sanctions to give Syria a chance of rebuilding
Our poll shows Syrians trust their new leader, Ahmed al-Sharaa. So should the West
Asia
As Chinese drills begin, Taiwan expels mainland influencers
The government is drawing new lines around acceptable speech
The world in brief
Donald Trump is finalising what look set to be America’s most expansive tariffs in a century...
Myanmar’s junta announced an immediate temporary ceasefire in its civil war against rebel groups to support the relief effort after last week’s earthquake...
Tesla delivered fewer than 337,000 cars in the first quarter of 2025, far below the nearly 387,000 it delivered during the same period last year. BYD, a Chinese firm, recently overtook Elon Musk’s carmaker as the world’s biggest electric-vehicle firm by sales...
South Africa’s parliament passed a budget framework without the support of the second-biggest party...
1843 magazine | Myanmar in ruins
Scenes from the earthquake’s aftermath
Bagehot: The tyranny of TikTokkers who turn up
What happens when people are savvier than the state thinks?
The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi
The Oxford professor says it shouldn’t matter whether the verdict emboldens the hard right or not
Is there anything left to learn about The Beatles?
The famous band has been amply covered. But analysing one friendship offers new insights
Discover more
The Intelligence
Could Ukraine hold an election in wartime?
Tracking the presidency
How popular is Donald Trump?
Canadian poll tracker
Ahead of elections later this month, the Liberals are surging
Games
Dateline history quiz
Guess when these extracts were published in The Economist
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Elon Musk’s efficiency drive
Is Elon Musk remaking government or breaking it?
So far, there is more destruction than creation
DOGE comes for the data wonks
America may soon be unable to measure itself properly
Elon Musk is powersliding through the federal government
But to what end?
Musk Inc is under serious threat
SpaceX has new competition, Tesla is in trouble and the world’s richest man is distracted
Other highlights
How Shonda Rhimes became a billion-dollar asset for streamers
Her career offers lessons for any writer who wants to make it big on the small screen
1843 magazine | The secret life of the first millennial saint
The Vatican wants him to be the next Mother Teresa. But what did Carlo Acutis really believe?
A fight over a cloister in tourist-filled Florence
Augustinian friars are protesting against a redevelopment plan
Oleg Gordievsky worked for both sides in the cold war
The KGB officer who spied for Britain died on March 4th, aged 86
The consequences of Trumponomics
Donald Trump’s plan for American carmaking is full of potholes
Taxing imported motors may not create many new jobs at home
Donald Trump digs deep to revive American mining
Reducing dependency on imports will be hard
Trump’s tariff pain: the growing evidence
As “liberation day” nears, American businesses suffer
The Trump administration is playing a dangerous stockmarket game
American investors are extremely exposed to a sell-off—and so is the economy
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Edition: March 29th 2025
Elon Musk’s efficiency drive
The Spring in Reeves’s step
Labour can still rescue Britain’s growth prospects
China’s stockmarket rally
Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
Netanyahu’s hubris
Israel’s expansionism is a danger to others—and itself
Signals intelligence Trumpstyle
The cover-up is worse than the group chat
Technology Quarterly: March 1st 2025
The age of CRISPR
Ida Emilie Steinmark explores whether it can deliver on its promise
- Can gene editing deliver on its promise?
- CRISPR could yet save millions of lives. Here’s how
- Epigenetic editors are a gentler form of gene editing
- Gene editing is already revolutionising research in the laboratory
- Eat your GE-greens
- Editing pigs, mice and mosquitoes may save lives
- Designing babies
- Gene editing can still change the world
- Acknowledgments
