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2025-10-24

Steve Bannon says the MAGA movement has to “seize the institutions, seize them and then purge them”.

He spoke to Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, and Ed Carr, our deputy editor, in Washington, DC earlier this week.

2025-10-20

For decades the path to a nice life was clear: go to university, find a job, then watch the money come in. But today graduates are struggling. Is a degree still worth it?

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2025-10-17

Despite stark warnings from The Economist when Donald Trump unveiled his tariff regime on ‘Liberation Day’, America’s economy continues to grow.
Will that continue? Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, Edward Carr, deputy editor and a panel of our journalists discuss whether they were wrong about the President’s trade policy–or if a reckoning awaits.

Subscribers can watch the full interview as part of our new video series “The Economist Insider”.

Watch the full interview: https://econ.st/3LgNkF9
Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America: https://econ.st/47bYe6n
Why Donald Trump’s tariffs are failing to break global trade: https://econ.st/42MRryS
The stock market is fuelling America’s economy: https://econ.st/4hm1dOC
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2025-08-22

Israel has begun its offensive on Gaza City, the largest remaining civilian centre in the strip. Gaza is now almost entirely uninhabitable—but the damage isn’t solely from Israeli airstrikes.

2025-08-21

Silicon Valley optimists are betting that an era of AI-powered superintelligence will bring about explosive worldwide economic growth. Henry Curr, our economics editor, joins Jason Palmer, co-host of The Intelligence podcast, to discuss if their gamble will pay off.

00:00 – Can AI supercharge global economic growth?
01:15 – What are the predictions for how AI will impact the economy?
02:01 – What will cause explosive economic growth?
03:39 – Will jobs be at risk from AI?
05:22 – Should people buy into AI companies?
07:09 – What is important to look at in the real world?
08:37 – Is the AI boom similar to the internet boom?

Listen to the full episode: https://econ.st/41Shtjz
The economics of superintelligence: https://econ.st/4mUX7hW
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2025-07-03

America has deployed its NMESIS ship-killing missile system to islands near Taiwan for the first time. Hosted on the Philippines’ northern island of Basco, NMESIS is small, easy to move and hard to find. America hopes its deployment will help deter a Chinese invasion of Taiwan

2025-06-25

Donald Trump claims to have “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear programme, but early defence reports suggest the damage has cased a delay of only a few months. As our deputy editor, Edward Carr, argues, the American president has gambled, but not yet won.

2025-06-24

The director-general of the Royal United Services Institute, Rachel Ellehuus, examines the strengths and weaknesses of European military capabilities, in an interview with our defence editor, Shashank Joshi