Could anyone have doubted that Donald Trump would go out like this? Having lost the election decisively — by 74 votes in the Electoral College, and by 6 million and counting overall — he has availed himself of every imaginable scheme to undermine the vote’s legitimacy and obscure what was plainly a fair and square victory for his opponent, President-elect ...

In the first half of 2020, Europe mounted a bold and swift economic response to the Covid recession. As the second wave of the pandemic triggers a new slowdown, policy makers appear to have lost some of their mojo. Governments are struggling to deal effectively with the health crisis, as they dither between keeping economies open and imposing new restrictions. ...

As Britain draws close to its exit from the European Union, a diminished role for the City of London looks ever more likely. This may be a gradual change, and its potential scale may be debated, but parts of the financial infrastructure built up over decades are ready to hop across the Channel. News that Goldman Sachs Group Inc is ...