Patricia Cohen

Europe, you’re next. That’s the latest message from President Trump, who has repeatedly said in recent days that he would slap punitive tariffs on the 27 members of the European Union. Tariffs “will definitely happen with the European Union,” Trump told the BBC Sunday evening, and they are coming…

The attacks on crucial shipping traffic in the Red Sea straits by a determined band of militants in Yemen — a spillover from the Israeli-Hamas war in Gaza — are injecting a new dose of instability into a world economy already struggling with mounting geopolitical tensions. The risk of escalating…