The moonshot delusion
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ByA new poem by Sarah Lasoye.
ByHow the maverick US academic took on Silicon Valley.
ByDoes Joe Biden’s climate plan go far enough?
ByBaerbock embodies the once-fringe party's emergence as a force capable of conquering the German political centre.
ByFifty years after his death, the Russian iconoclast remains indefinable – a stylistic chameleon who continues to confound his audiences.
ByHow Atkins’s striking cyanotypes found wonders in the minutiae of the natural world.
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ByFrances McDormand plays a flinty, 60-something widow, but is surrounded by real figures from the non-fiction book, playing themselves.
ByEmail emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's Subscriber of the Week.
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
ByA year ago, Covid was considered a binary disease: recovery or death. But for 10 per cent of those…
ByTo put it brutally, the only way I have managed to remain financially afloat this year is because my local…
ByAs I try Italian wines that blend the familiar and the unknown, I reflect on how many unexpected encounters with…
ByLast summer I didn’t take advantage of the loosening of rules and I regretted it; but this time I am allowing…
ByThe author discusses the writings of WEB Du Bois, watching Lovecraft Country and his admiration for Malcolm X.
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ByOne cutting example is that children are still being locked away in jail-like facilities at the US-Mexico border.
ByThe US reveres its past presidents, while we banish our leaders into a purgatory of forced retirement.
ByFlashy stunts are not the answer to the climate crisis stalemate.
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ByThis is how power operates in its most unaccountable form: a hand grenade tossed into the heart of European…
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ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByThe US president’s economic radicalism shows how conservative orthodoxies are crumbling.
By“Following the science” shouldn’t just be for lockdown – ministers have a moral duty to take note of research into…
ByAt 29, Mohammed is the youngest secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain – and the first woman in the…
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByThe joke currency is able to exploit the group psychology of the internet in ways that other investments cannot.
ByWhat is the link between neoliberalism and working out?
ByThe Wild Track by Reynolds, The God Equation by Kaku, The Manningtree Witches by Blakemore and Why Rebel by Griffiths.
ByA new poem by Sarah Lasoye.
ByConfessional voicemails recorded by strangers in Eighties New York are at the centre of this strange story.
BySome people will doubtless watch this series for her alone. But there are other reasons why you might want…
ByFrances McDormand plays a flinty, 60-something widow, but is surrounded by real figures from the non-fiction book, playing themselves.
By“Following the science” shouldn’t just be for lockdown – ministers have a moral duty to take note of research into…
ByAt 29, Mohammed is the youngest secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain – and the first woman in the…
ByYour weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
ByAs I try Italian wines that blend the familiar and the unknown, I reflect on how many unexpected encounters with…
ByTo put it brutally, the only way I have managed to remain financially afloat this year is because my local…
ByLast summer I didn’t take advantage of the loosening of rules and I regretted it; but this time I am allowing…
ByThis column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s Richard II, refers to the whole of Britain…
ByFlashy stunts are not the answer to the climate crisis stalemate.
ByThe US reveres its past presidents, while we banish our leaders into a purgatory of forced retirement.
ByA year ago, Covid was considered a binary disease: recovery or death. But for 10 per cent of those…
ByFor everyone suffering with compromised immune systems, lockdown easing remains a source of great anxiety.
ByEmail emily.bootle@newstatesman.co.uk if you would like to be the New Statesman's Subscriber of the Week.
ByThe author discusses the writings of WEB Du Bois, watching Lovecraft Country and his admiration for Malcolm X.
ByBy revealing and fighting kleptocracy, even with next to no resources, Navalny shows a way to expose the corruption…
ByA selection of the best letters received from our readers this week. Email letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced…
ByOne cutting example is that children are still being locked away in jail-like facilities at the US-Mexico border.
ByThe US president’s economic radicalism shows how conservative orthodoxies are crumbling.
ByThis is how power operates in its most unaccountable form: a hand grenade tossed into the heart of European…
ByThe owners of these clubs betrayed football’s meaning by rendering the players’ effort and the fans’ passion void.
ByThe joke currency is able to exploit the group psychology of the internet in ways that other investments cannot.
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