In contrast, Ms Meloni is the leader of a nationalist party with protectionist instincts. ■ For more expert analysis of the ...

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But he really does have the chance to lead America into the golden age he proclaimed in his second inaugural address.

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Chinese AI is now so close in quality to its American rivals that the boss of OpenAI, Sam Altman, felt obliged to explain the narrowness of the gap. Shortly after DeepSeek released v3, he tweeted ...

On every count he is wrong. Chart: The Economist Mr Trump’s dalliance with tariffs in his first term already shows that they did nothing to narrow America’s trade deficit. One reason is that ...

WEST AFRICA has long been a source of booze. In Yoruba mythology Obatala, a deity sent to create humans, stumbled on palm wine and fell into a drunken slumber before completing the task. Some of ...

The project covered much of China’s industrial base. Chart: The Economist The goals were sometimes vague, but the plan also laid out dozens of statistical benchmarks. China appears to have ...

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THE TRADITIONAL point of an inaugural address is to transcend the politics of the campaign and draw the country together. Donald Trump’s second inaugural was not that. But it stuck with ...

Sandra Demontigny watched early-onset Alzheimer’s transform her athletic father from a robust patriarch into a battered shell of a man. Once the disease took hold, his untethered energy ...