Business
Elon Musk’s antics are not the only problem for Tesla
The carmaker’s sales are sinking for other reasons too
Leaders
Trump’s erratic policy is harming the reputation of American assets
Like the stockmarket, the dollar is also suffering from falling confidence and rising confusion
Leaders
Will Vladimir Putin really agree to stop his killing machine?
The offer of a ceasefire creates a dilemma for the Kremlin
The world in brief
Vladimir Putin visited Russian troops in Kursk, a border region partly held by Ukraine...
Mr Trump said he would “of course” respond to the European Union’s decision to introduce $28bn in tariffs on American imports, without detailing his plans...
Intel appointed Tan Lip-Bu as its chief executive, months after the struggling chipmaker ousted Pat Gelsinger...
Pakistan’s army said it had freed around 300 hostages from a train hijacked by the Baloch Liberation Army, a separatist militant group, in the country’s Balochistan province...
Europe thinks the unthinkable on a nuclear bomb
Poland wants co-operation with France on a nuclear deterrent. That could take many forms
Buttonwood: What sparks an investing revolution?
Ideas that emerged from the University of Chicago in the 1960s changed the world. But as a new film shows, they almost didn’t
America’s trade hawks fear the gaps in Trump’s tariff wall
Even as markets reel, some firms want the president to get tough on enforcing duties
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: novelist or polemicist?
The celebrated thinker and writer is at her best not in the realm of fiction, but of fact
Discover more
The Intelligence
What is in the Ukraine-ceasefire proposal—and what is not?
Tracking the presidency
How popular is Donald Trump?
Canadian poll tracker
Ahead of elections later this year, the Liberals are surging
Trump’s economic fallout
Will America’s stockmarket convulsions spread?
Investors are hurrying to find alternatives—but all face difficulties of their own
How Trump provoked a sell-off
Will the president win back investors? Does he even want to?
Trump’s metals tariffs will cost American industry dearly
Not least because the president keeps threatening to ratchet up duties
Does Trump really want a weaker dollar?
Overturning three decades of American policy will not be painless
Games
Dateline history quiz
Guess when these extracts were published in The Economist
Mini crossword
A weekly puzzle based on the week’s news
Pint-sized news quiz
Have you been following the headlines?
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 8th 2025
The revised economic outlook
Can Winston Starmer pull it off?
Britain’s leader has found purpose abroad
Germany rearms
The incoming chancellor signals massive increases in defence and infrastructure spending
Time to lift Syria’s sanctions
Without a reprieve, the country will become a failed state
RIP foreign aid
Donors should focus on what works. Much aid currently does not
