Will Trump’s war on Iran weaken his presidency?

2026-03-07

Internet blackouts are making it hard to know what is going on inside Iran. Nicolas Pelham, The Economist’s Middle East correspondent, reports from the Iranian border with Iraq on whether there could be a Kurdish uprising.

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2026-03-05

Donald Trump once promised no more wars. Now he’s launched one most Americans didn’t want. It’s a big gamble—if the war starts to feel like a bust, will Trump cut his losses or double down?

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2026-01-20

Donald Trump’s plan to take Greenland is dangerous nonsense. America has long retained a base on the territory and its firms are already free to apply to mine its resources. The Economist’s foreign editor, Adam Roberts, argues that Congress has the power to block annexation or a purchase, and that it should do so.

2026-01-14

Israel is bitterly divided ahead of this year’s elections. But one of prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s main political opponents, Naftali Bennett, says he can unite the country. Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist’s editor-in-chief, and Edward Carr, deputy editor, travelled to Tel Aviv to ask Mr Bennett how he would restore Israel’s reputation abroad and counter the threat of Hamas.

00:00 – What’s at stake in Israel’s election?
01:10 – How Bennett believes he differs from Netanyahu
01:40 – Can only Netanyahu guarantee Israel’s security?
02:42 – The decline of international support for Israel
03:36 – What Bennett would do to change Israel’s standing abroad
04:11 – Bennett on ending the war in Gaza
06:51 – Bennett’s view on Palestinian statehood

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2025-12-01

Plagued by corruption and weakened on the battlefield, Ukraine now risks being beaten at the negotiating table. If it does not show that it is willing to talk peace, it risks losing American support. Zanny Minton Beddoes, our editor-in-chief, and Edward Carr, deputy editor, and a panel of our experts dissect the latest peace plan and what it means for Ukraine. #ukraine #russia

2025-11-26

Donald Trump is trying to create his own police force.

The federal crackdown in Chicago was officially to arrest and deport dangerous foreign criminals. In practice it looks like a blueprint for a new force answerable to the president as Aryn Braun, our West Coast correspondent, explains.

2025-11-21

Nicolas Pelham, our Middle East correspondent, and Adam Roberts, our digital editor, are just back from a rare reporting trip to Tehran. They join our top editors to discuss the future of the Islamic Republic. After 46 years of theocracy and a brief but bruising 12-day-war, where does power now lie? And with the prospects of a succession crisis, has Iran been permanently weakened—or is it storing up trouble?