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Of course, I know it’s wrong. The Trump tariffs will end in tears…retaliatory tariffs from disgruntled Europeans, higher costs for US car manufacturers who’ll pay more for steel and parts from Canada, a diplomatic standoff with longstanding allies like Japan and crucially, a whopping great increase in the cost of…

The country’s so-called political centre has licensed a new era of authoritarianism – to the AfD’s delight, says Hanno Hauenstein, a Berlin-based journalist

Almost seven months after the regime change in Bangladesh, the imprints of the shift in Dhaka’s foreign policy outlook aren’t exactly unexpected. However, some aspects of this shift could raise diplomatic eyebrows. A clear instance of this can be seen in the ripples caused by recent remarks made by Bangladesh’s…

Leftwing policies have mass appeal – what’s needed is a figurehead who can bring back alienated voters and dodge culture wars, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissent, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I’ve become addicted to the show. But as a scientist I wonder: how many couples actually stay together?

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Decades of painstaking work to establish rules for international trade are being undone by the stroke of a presidential Sharpie. To restore order, something akin to a peace process will be needed

While the president has identified the need to do things differently, his strategy risks a slump, hitting the very Americans he claims to champion, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

Editorial: The White House and tech oligarchs are using free speech arguments as cover to suffocate any European attempt to regulate digital space