Efficiency drive
Is Elon Musk remaking government or breaking it?
So far, there is more destruction than creation
United States
Lexington: The cover-up is worse than the group chat
A wiser president would admit a lapse and be grateful for the chance to prevent a more devastating blunder
Leaders
The unpredictability of Trump’s tariffs will increase the pain
Businesses are struggling to adjust
The world in brief
Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president, met European leaders in Paris...
Vladimir Putin said it was “wrong” not to take Donald Trump’s ambitions to annex Greenland seriously...
Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, said the country would hold its next federal election on May 3rd...
Turkey dismissed international condemnation of the jailing of Ekrem Imamoglu, the mayor of Istanbul and a rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan...
Mark Carney calls a snap election in Canada
He hopes his strong stand against Donald Trump will win the day
Can foreign investors learn to love China again?
Wall Street still needs more to coax it back. But non-American firms may be ready to return
Lobbyists hope that Trump will produce a bonanza
They have their work cut out
Estate agents in China are trying everything to sell flats
You can place your deposit in bushels of wheat or strings of garlic
Discover more
The Intelligence
Trumpism puts Europe’s hard-right leaders in a tricky spot
Tracking the presidency
How popular is Donald Trump?
Canadian poll tracker
Ahead of elections later this year, the Liberals are surging
This week
This week’s most important political stories
Ekrem Imamoglu is arrested in Turkey, White House suffers security-breach embarrassment—and more
This week’s most important business stories
Rachel Reeves lays out her Spring Statement, Trump announces 25% tariffs on vehicle imports—and more
A selection of correspondence
On defining “labour shortage”, women in the boardroom, Syria’s prospects, Voltaire’s last words
The weekly cartoon
A lighter look at this week’s events
Games
Dateline history quiz
Guess when these extracts were published in The Economist
Mini crossword
Our wordplay puzzle
Pint-sized news quiz
Have you been following the headlines?
The consequences of Trumponomics
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
Even the Trumpiest stocks are suffering
Investors may have misjudged which firms would thrive under the new administration
Will Trump’s tariffs turbocharge foreign investment in America?
Companies from Asahi to TSMC are expanding production in the country—for now
Trump and the world
Trump is a problem for Europe’s most important hard-right leaders
His antics are causing headaches for Giorgia Meloni and Marine Le Pen
The American and Russian right are aligning
MAGA men are warming to anti-liberal ideas emanating from Moscow
Donald Trump v the spies of Five Eyes
Will America’s president damage the world’s most powerful intelligence pact?
Donald Trump shoots his own global mouthpiece
The shutdown of VOA, RFE/RL and other broadcasters weakens America and supporters of democracy
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
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
