America’s impotent elite
Gone are the days when Hollywood could decide elections.
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The political annexation of America’s swing state media
Plus: Jason Cowley’s New Statesman legacy, and how crypto bought the US election.
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This Christmas, spare a thought for the world’s richest man
For disruptors like Elon Musk, the statement of intent is all. What happens next – such as running a new…
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The counter-elite gambled on Trump and won
The energy in politics is with the populist right – and the left doesn’t know how to respond.
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The dawn of the anti-woke era
Having rejected the Democrats’ progressivist dogma, the American electorate is undergoing a social and demographic revolution.
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As a new America First era begins, Europe must unite
Donald Trump’s return to office ought to be a deafening wake-up call for EU leaders. But will it?
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Donald Trump’s industrial revolution
Can this cabinet of oligarchs bring an end to the neoliberal era?
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Could Trump secure a peace deal with Iran?
In the wake of the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, is there reason to hope for lasting peace?
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The contradictions of Team Trump
How Donald Trump will keep his coalition of support together amid his cabinet’s competing ideologies.
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Musa al-Gharbi’s dire diagnosis for the woke elite
The sociologist on Ivy League hypocrisy, the four “great awokenings”, and what Kamala Harris got wrong.
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The downfall of Matt Gaetz
The controversial Maga loyalist has withdrawn from consideration for serving as Donald Trump’s attorney general.
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The Onion has bought InfoWars – but the left can’t win by trolling the right
The giddy excitement surrounding this buyout misunderstands how the right operates.
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Why the Rust Belt spurned Bidenomics
Can the American left win a cynical working class back from Donald Trump?
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The new special relationship
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump may together upend what remains of the current global order.
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The Democrats’ working-class problem
Figures in the party who speak on behalf of America’s workers – like Senator Chris Murphy – are few. In…
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Twilight of the American elite
The revival of liberalism cannot be conducted on Trumpian terms.
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Kevin Roberts’s fire-breathing American right
In his book Dawn’s Early Light, the architect of Project 2025 preaches the necessity of burning Washington’s “elite” institutions to…
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Trump’s blowtorch cabinet
This Maga wish-list of a team is intent on burning down America’s institutions.
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Apocalypse now in New York
I told myself I wouldn’t be as shocked and disappointed as I was in 2016. But I was. Also this…
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Postliberalism redux
From their reaction to Trump’s victory, it’s clear that liberals have still failed to learn the lessons of 2016.
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