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After announcing Liberation Day – stiff “retaliatory” tariffs on every country and penguin-inhabited island in the world – US President Donald Trump rescinded the vast majority of tariffs eight days later when stock and bond markets crashed.

The day of Donald Trump’s second inauguration, his incoming administration abruptly paused the work of USAID, while also claiming that it would preserve USAID’s “lifesaving and strategic aid programming”. These dramatic, overnight cuts were an unprecedented – and deadly – experiment in relation to aid spending which will have a…

Eight years ago the comedian gave his verdict on Trump’s approach to international relations - and it is being shared again after the president declared economic war on the world

Beijing vows to ‘fight to the end’ as president claims ‘many’ countries are seeking a deal with US

The Nobel Prize-winning economist says the Iron Triangle of Politics must be defeated to cut down the government for good.

Beijing accuses US of blackmail and adding a ‘mistake on top of a mistake’ as Wednesday deadline for latest levies looms

Without a drastic reimagining of our systems, we face a poverty crisis

As the White House carries out an anti-worker agenda, labor leaders fear corporate America could also grow more hostile

THE READING LIST: As the world approaches the centenary of the celebrated novelist, television pundit and all-around man of letters, Martin Chilton recalls his greatest work, most withering putdowns, and chronicles a career that devolved into ‘crackpot’ conspiracy theories, illness and, perhaps most depressing of all, boredom

Trump's attacks on elite universities echo the right-wing playbook Ronald Reagan created nearly six decades ago

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The president of the United States has dismantled the world trade system, pushed the global economy towards another slump and turned economics on its head. He must end this madness