Sign up here to receive “The US in brief” as a newsletter, each weekday, in your inbox.

The idea, which Mr Trump also floated in his first term, is unusual in that it appeals to both his deregulatory instincts and ...

New research by European economists indicates that unsung reforms to the labour market might help. These have been mostly ...

Its members do not have formal contracts, and yet they have become a crucial part of China’s labour supply, accounting for a ...

That ought to be obvious from a quick look around. The number of underlings that bosses have varies widely, including within ...

T he biggest workforce in the world has undergone an extraordinary transformation. China’s farm labourers and industrial ...

Trade is mutually beneficial; taxes that stand in its way are self-harming. America’s tariff resurgence reflects the will of one man, not a popular uprising. Just six months in, allies are already ...

Enter AI. In just a few years the world has gone from AIs that can barely write sentences to those that are writing a quarter ...

In fact, lumping together Europe’s hard-right forces is misleading. They all share a hostility to immigration and all things ...

India is already Open AI ’s second-largest market by number of users and could soon be its biggest. In August Open AI ...

S ince Russia invaded, Ukraine has each year named a price. After setting the budget, the government publishes the sum by ...

Polling commissioned by The Economist (also conducted by YouGov) shows that 20% of liberals think political violence can be ...