Ruination Day
President Trump’s mindless tariffs will cause economic havoc
But the rest of the world can limit the damage
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
United States
The Trump train slows
Results from Florida and Wisconsin suggest a familiar pattern in American politics
Finance & economics
Buttonwood: America’s accidental private-credit subsidy
How a Depression-era lending scheme became a trillion-dollar wheeze
The world in brief
American markets cratered on opening after Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs announcement on Wednesday...
America’s trading partners responded angrily...
Binyamin Netanyahu called Hungary’s decision to leave the International Criminal Court “bold and principled”...
Russia will provide weapons and training to the Alliance of Sahel States, a grouping of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger...
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
Trump’s tariffs will make America poorer again
Tracking the presidency
How popular is Donald Trump?
Canadian poll tracker
Ahead of elections later this month, the Liberals are surging
This week
This week’s most important political stories
Marine Le Pen is barred from running for president, an earthquake in Myanmar kills at least 3,000 people—and more
This week’s most important business stories
Trump reveals his much-dreaded new list of tariffs, SoftBank and others inject $40bn into OpenAI—and more
A selection of correspondence
On training British workers, the Soviet Union, shared documents
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 worldplay puzzle, now published twice a week
Pint-sized news quiz
Have you been following the headlines?
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
Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives
A technique that may create a new field of medicine
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?
Oleg Gordievsky worked for both sides in the cold war
The KGB officer who spied for Britain died on March 4th, aged 86
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Edition: April 5th 2025
Ruination day: How to limit global damage
How MAGA could help China
A big beautiful opportunity
Penalising Le Pen
Punish the offender without also punishing French democracy
Refugee-camp economics
In Dzaleka, Malawi, everyone receives $9 a month
George Foreman: boxer, preacher and griller
The two-time heavyweight champion of the world died on March 21st
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
