Donald Trump’s unwillingness to heed allies’ advice is foreign-policy folly, writes Gary Bass
From Korea to Cuba, America has been at its best diplomatically when it has encouraged its friends to be candid
VISITING THE Oval Office on March 12th, Micheal Martin, Ireland’s prime minister, was not about to risk the kind of mauling inflicted there a couple of weeks earlier by Donald Trump and his vice-president, J. D. Vance, on Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s president. Rather than publicly challenging Mr Trump’s broadsides against the European Union or questioning his plan to seize Gaza and expel its Palestinian inhabitants, Mr Martin ducked or fawned. There couldn’t have been much more substance in their private meeting, which lasted just ten minutes.
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Even Americans don’t want Trump’s barmy tariffs, writes Douglas Irwin
The trade historian predicts that the damage will be geopolitical as well as economic
The Le Pen ruling is good for liberal democracy, writes Tarik Abou-Chadi
The Oxford professor says it shouldn’t matter whether the verdict emboldens the hard right or not
The boss of Siemens on how to re-energise the German economy
More must be done to nurture innovators while driving the completion of the European project, writes Roland Busch
Dan Hendrycks warns America against launching a Manhattan Project for AI
The conditions in which the atomic bomb was produced can’t be replicated in the race for superintelligence, writes the AI-safety expert
Ekrem Imamoglu’s wife on how his arrest has turned a mayor into a movement
Recep Tayyip Erdogan can’t defeat democracy, says Dilek Imamoglu
The global trading system needs new rules, not tariffs, say Wally Adeyemo and Joshua Zoffer
A former deputy treasury secretary and a presidential economic adviser on the need to draw a sharper line between open economies and the rest