THIS WEEK’S ceasefire in Lebanon is to be welcomed. But its resilience is to be questioned, because it changes nothing of the ...

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Like a cop with a new Taser, Mr Trump seems to see tariffs as a way to inflict non-lethal but instructive pain. Early ...

Another check on the administration could be the fear of tariff-induced inflation. Americans’ experience of the highest price ...

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The leaders of Mexico and Canada responded quickly, and in different ways. Justin Trudeau, Canada’s prime minister, jumped on ...

In 1897 most of Benin City, then the capital of an extensive kingdom, was razed by the British. Their trove of looted plaques ...

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Across East Asia a quiet revolution is reshaping fatherhood. Rigid and conservative gender roles, which involve a male ...

Such incidents are known in China as “revenge on society” attacks. They have become grimly familiar in a country used to low ...