The origins of American paranoia
It isn’t economic hardship driving voters towards Trump, it’s an anxiety about status, fed by the rootlessness and heterogeneity of…
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JD Vance’s posture problem
The vice-president talks tough, but never looks it
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Silicon Valley is coming for our democracy
Jill Lepore’s new book paints a vision of American government corrupted by the forces of automation, surveillance and control
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America’s summer of socialism
Populist radicals are storming the Democratic Party. Is this the US left’s Maga moment?
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The closing of the Anglophile mind
William F Buckley worshipped British conservatism. But now, the movement he created in America looks on the UK with contempt
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Andy Burnham’s shtick won’t work on Donald Trump
Maga officials view the “special relationship” as insulting
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Americans love queuing even more than we do
Donald Trump’s 4 July parade was an assault on the senses
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Ben Rhodes’ empty words
This new history of America, told through political speeches, can’t see that progress truly comes through division
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Everyone wants to be Eve Babitz
At Moth Club in Hackney, a horde of bookish Babitz fans try to recreate a lost world
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Donald Trump’s war on Iran was an incoherent failure
A peace deal is welcome – but why was it not agreed months ago?
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Donald Trump’s definition of “beauty”
From the “Arc de Trump” to the White House ballroom, the president is imposing a quasi-fascist aesthetic on Washington
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Why is America still talking about Kamala Harris?
The Democrats need a fresh face
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Can Andy Burnham discover why Britain is failing?
Failure to accept even that something has gone wrong left Starmer’s premiership empty
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Democrats need Hasan Piker
The party can’t afford to ignore the alternative media
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Good luck King Charles, and thanks for the bell
The monarch’s state visit was little more than a brief entertainment for Donald Trump
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A tale of two kings
In their speeches, Charles and Trump spoke of different Americas
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Bernie Sanders, America’s unlikely AI oracle
Rarely among progressives, Sanders is grappling with how AI will irrevocably change our societies
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How JD Vance lost the mandate of heaven
The vice-president is no longer the favourite to replace Donald Trump
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After Iran, America may turn against Israel
The real special relationship is unravelling
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“War is peace” in Donald Trump’s America
The president spent his Easter weekend preparing for his showdown with democracy
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