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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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An ex-head of the FTC and his co-author lament the politicisation of antitrust enforcement
Undermining regulatory independence in America and Britain will deter investment, write William Kovacic and John Vickers

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Alexis Dudden on the firebombing of Tokyo and on post-war struggles to keep it remembered
Over 100,000 civilians died in an American attack that was the beginning of the end for Japan

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François Hollande says Europe, abandoned by its former ally, must rearm fast
Donald Trump has shattered the principles on which the Western alliance rested, argues the former French president

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Camille Grand on why Ukraine’s future turns on security guarantees
A 20,000-strong European force would be a lot more potent with an American backstop, says the former NATO official

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Alex Wang on why China can’t be allowed to dominate AI-based warfare
As the “agentic” age begins, democracies can take inspiration from the past, writes the tech boss