Since the Second World War, advances in science and technology have driven 85 percent of American economic growth.

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Mr Trump’s tit-for-tat approach to global trade will fuel inflation in the US, even as it inflicts pain on the economies that ...

It has also always been one face of American empire. Established during the Cold War to counter Soviet influence, the agency ...

But they could not have predicted President Donald Trump’s astonishing plan to end their misery: the eviction of all Palestinians and a full American takeover to turn Gaza into the “riviera of the ...

President Donald Trump is taking a blowtorch to the rules that have governed world trade for decades. The “reciprocal’’ tariffs that he announced Thursday are likely to create chaos for global ...

Chief Economist Beata Caranci and Senior Economist James Orlando expect a “sharp negative reaction” in North American ... war within what was — until a few hours ago — one of the world ...

The “cult of Bismarck” in Germany is instructive on the cultural basis of Trump’s tariffs and, relatedly, cultural nationalism devoid of an economic rationale.

The levies are the last-gasp tools of American leverage used only after bipartisan diplomacy, summits, entreaties, and empty ...

There can be little doubt that the world, prompted mostly by the United States President Donald Trump, is heading towards creating a new world order. This will be different from the one the United ...

YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND THE SECOND ... WORLD WAR. AND THERE ARE MANY COMMON THREADS BETWEEN THEM. SO YOU HAVE TWO DIFFERENT CITIES THAT ARE BASICALLY BOOKENDING THESE TWO SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN ...

President Donald Trump’s ambitions for a reordering of world commerce are broader. The opposition — at home and abroad — is weaker. And the economic risks he seems prepared to run may be greater.