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Plus: Santos sentenced to seven years
Cockburn
World Economic Forum
For an outfit as notoriously woke as the WEF, it’s difficult to underplay how damaging the allegations have been to its reputation
Samuel Gregg
A $5,000 bonus per kid is nowhere near enough. Try $500,000
Andy Palmer
International
The IMF has allowed Milei to lift the cepo, but only by relying on debt
Sam Meadows
Peace deal
The US special envoy arrived in Russia this morning to meet with Vladimir Putin
Lisa Haseldine
Universities
What’s different is that the Trump administration is finally taking a strong stand
Charles Lipson
Economics
The Bretton Woods institutions should serve their stakeholders – not the other way around
Scott Bessent
Shootings
We owe them their God-given right to self-defense
Daniel Foganholi
Eat, Gay, Love
Plus: Inside Trump’s White House Easter Egg Roll
Markets
It’s not Jerome Powell’s fault that the markets are tanking
Matthew Lynn
The President thinks the lawless Somalian pirate state would be perfect for the Palestinians
Colin Freeman
Jo Harkin fills the gap in the record with enormous brio
Andrew Taylor
Long before the Cat donned his Hat and the Grinch stole Christmas, Theodor Seuss Geisel – was a political cartoonist
Nick Newman
Could this new exploration of the author convert a reluctant listener?
Jenny McCartney
A promising start to the only good show in a galaxy, far, far away
Alexander Larman
The fur is a hollow fiber, meaning that it can trap and store your body warmth
Justin Marozzi
Eight years on from Hurricane Maria, the island is enjoying a renaissance
Lara Prendergast
I can’t wait to hear about what my grandchildren had for le déjeuner
Calla Jones Corner
Earthquakes are usually more a Burmese or a Javan thing
Lawrence Osborne
The MAGA set share the predilections and tax brackets of the people they criticize
On the money
Biden’s crackdown led to a predictable embrace by Republicans
Omid Malekan
The Trump agenda
Trump has redirected the mighty regulatory powers of the civil-rights system against his political adversaries
Christopher Caldwell
Cracking the Kremlin
Moscow yearns to carve up the world. But it will be a world where everybody’s knives come out
Peter Pomerantsev
Court circular
In contrast to her predecessors, the Press Secretary refuses to carry a binder of notes
Kara Kennedy
Lunch