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Will Trump Back Down From a Global Trade War?
The U.S. president still has plenty of outs from his extreme tariffs.
Tariffs Can Actually Work—if Only Trump Understood How
Smart trade policy could help restore jobs, but the president’s carpet-bomb approach portends disaster.
How U.S. Trade Policy With China Evolved
From Nixon’s overture to a full-blown trade war.
Asia & the Pacific
Russian Won’t Be Kyrgyzstan’s Lingua Franca for Long
China
China Looks to Neighbors as Trump Tariffs Loom
Middle East & Africa
Surprisingly, the Lebanon-Israel Cease-Fire Is Holding
Europe
Who Is Viktor Bout, Really?
Americas
Over and Out
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Is America a Kleptocracy?
Here’s how life could change for the rich, poor, and everyone in between.
Elon Musk’s First Principles
The world’s richest man wants to apply the rules of physics to politics. What could go wrong?
Updates: Trump’s Foreign-Policy Shifts
Reports and analysis from staff and contributors.
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Modi and Trump stand beside each other at podiums on a small stage in front of an ornate gold curtain and chandelier. Modi has one finger raised as he speaks into the microphone; Trump is turned to watch him and smiling. -
U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 4.
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U.S. President Donald Trump shakes hands with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts during Trump’s inauguration in Washington, D.C. -
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Five laborers are seen as they tend to lettuce sprouts planted in rows in a large, neatly tilled field. The rows stretch away from the camera to the flat horizon, where they eventually meet a hazy blue sky.
Canada’s Border Is There for a Reason
Trump’s claims that the division is “artificial” echo bad ideas about the Middle East.
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A man holds a sign reading "Hispanics For Trump" among a crowd at a rally.
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Is America a Kleptocracy?
Here’s how life could change for the rich, poor, and everyone in between.
America Is Listing in a Gathering Storm
Alarms are clanging at the U.S. geographic military commands around the globe.
The U.S. Judicial Crisis Is Uniquely Dangerous
But other democracies provide a roadmap for courts to prevail over attacks from the executive branch.
Elon Musk’s First Principles
The world’s richest man wants to apply the rules of physics to politics. What could go wrong?
The Novels We’re Reading in April
Two head-spinning rides through a globalized world.
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Hope: The Autobiography, Pope Francis, trans. Richard Dixon, Random House, 320 pp., $32, January 2025. -
The book cover for The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
In Case You Missed It
A selection of paywall-free articles
America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up
Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.
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An illustration shows Russian President Vladimir Putin on a television set with spinning lines behind him for a story about Russia's TV propaganda.
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An illustration shows half faces of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin for a story about a ChiRussia alliance. -
A photo illustration shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden posing on pedestals atop the bipolar world order, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Russian President Vladamir Putin standing below on a gridded floor. -
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greet each other at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.
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