The best-case scenario for Trump's second term
The recent election of Donald Trump to his second term as U.S. president heralds a reset of such issues on the world agenda. As a candidate, he stated that he would end the Ukraine war, that Hamas would not have attacked Israel Oct. 7, 2023, and that he would impose tariffs on goods coming into America. Whether he can stop the war in Europe,... See more
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Tom Standage’s ten trends to watch in 2026
A letter from the editor of The World Ahead
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Nov 10th 2025|4 min read
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By Tom Standage, Editor, The World Ahead 2026
This is Donald Trump’s world—we’re all just living in it. The disruptor-in-chief was the biggest factor shaping global affairs in 2025, and
... See moreTrump may have lied about the influence of the far right on his plans, but it is clear that his voters did not anticipate anything other than a return to the status quo before the pandemic. What they’re getting instead is a new crisis pushed on by a dangerous set of corrupt oligarchs and monomaniacal ideologues. As dangerous as the president and... See more
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a) the Trump administration’s domestic economic policies were and still are a levered bet on the power of capitalism to revitalize American manufacturing and enable American AI technology, which contributed to the market movements I described above,
b) its foreign policy has scared and turned off some foreign investors as fears of sanctions and... See more
b) its foreign policy has scared and turned off some foreign investors as fears of sanctions and... See more