Welcome to our press review of events in the United States. Every Wednesday I look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. It doesn’t happen often, but this week Swiss newspapers congratulated US President Donald Trump on making a half-decent decision: his nomination of Kevin Warsh as the next chair of the Federal Reserve. But “even a good Fed chair can do little to stop the dollar’s decline”, pointed out the Neue Zürcher Zeitung. “The Epstein case, the American abyss” – Swiss newspapers didn’t hold back in venting their disappointment following the latest revelations in the Jeffrey Epstein scandal. “One begins to wonder: who was actually not acquainted with Epstein?” the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ) wrote on Monday, three days after the US Department of Justice released a final cache of millions of documents related to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein – who died in prison in 2019 – and his ...
