Business
The trouble with MAGA’s manufacturing dream
Donald Trump underestimates the difficulty of producing in America—and how his own policies will make it harder
Europe
Europeans’ anti-Yank tantrums
Donald Trump’s insults have soured the continent on their cousins
The world in brief
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, said that Russia’s three-day unilateral ceasefire was “another attempt at manipulation”, and called for an immediate truce. Vladimir Putin, Russia’s president, announced a ceasefire in Ukraine from May 8th to coincide with the anniversary of the end of the second world war in Europe...
Millions of people in Spain and Portugal were without electricity after a huge power cut...
Voting began in Canada’s election...
The Houthis said that an American air strike killed at least 68 African migrants at a detention centre in north-west Yemen...
Who will stop Donald Trump’s drive for unchecked power?
Congress is inert, but a deft Supreme Court might contain him
Banyan: How the global south forgot its own birthday
A damp squib Bandung anniversary shows a lack of solidarity
Which stockmarkets have benefited from the chaos on Wall Street?
Investors are chasing resilience, not dazzling returns
Mumbai wants to extinguish the charcoal tandoor
The ovens contribute to smog, officials say
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Tracking the presidency
How is America’s economy faring under Donald Trump?
Canada
How a tetchy central banker became “Captain Canada”
MAGA bombast has upended Canada’s political universe and given Mark Carney’s Liberals an edge
The strange revival of Liberal Canada
Mark Carney hopes a strong stance against Donald Trump will give his party electoral victory
To see off the Trump challenge, Canada must fix its productivity problem, says Michael Ignatieff
The former Liberal leader on the threats that come not from Washington but from within
Edition: April 26th 2025
Trump’s first 100 days, and beyond
Trump: only 1,361 days to go
Donald Trump’s second term is a revolutionary project. Will it succeed?
Don’t mess with the Fed
Jerome Powell wins a reprieve. But expect more showdowns between the White House and the Fed
Africa’s unstoppable diaspora
Emigration from Africa will change the world
When AIs break the rules
AI models can learn to conceal information from their users
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
