8320, 8323 The lesson of the Berlin Wall is that all systems are fragile, but some more than others Liberal democracy contains the seeds of its own destruction - but also of its own salvation. By Jeremy Cliffe
8268 The end of the age of imitation The influential Bulgarian intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 and on the crisis of the liberal West. By Gavin Jacobson
8277, 8279 Benjamin Myers’s The Offing: a sensual pleasure The prose in The Offing is baroque and proudly old-fashioned, the antithesis of Sally Rooney-style sparseness. By Alice O'Keeffe
8268, 8323 Germany seems strong, but it is still grappling with the forces unleashed when the wall fell The country brought back together 30 years ago was a nation not just divided but stunted: its past not fully processed. By Jeremy Cliffe
8268, 8445, 8275 Britain's floods show how unprepared it is for the climate crisis As severe floods from a month’s worth of rain in one day claim a life, there is only one way to find a flood strategy that works. By Anoosh Chakelian
8320, 8323 Spanish voters must treat Sunday's election as an emergency The Spanish people must get out and vote to defeat the extreme right. By Yanis Varoufakis and Luis Martin
8277, 8279 Misunderstanding Mrs Thatcher How Margaret Thatcher consolidated her power – not thanks to the Falklands War, but because of an opposition that underestimated her. By John Gray
8268, 8275 Reselection triumphs, a shocking letter and why women get more anti-Semitic abuse than men I could have walked away, but it’s not in my nature to run from a political battle and I want control of my own destiny. By Margaret Hodge
8320, 8323 A tale of two cities Thirty years ago this month the Berlin Wall came down and with it a stand-off between East and West that had defined the era of the Cold War. By David Reynolds
8320, 8323 Dancing on the Berlin Wall A return to the scene of the 20th century’s greatest accidental revolution. By John Simpson
8320, 8321, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8417 Trump hopes killing al-Baghdadi will boost his popularity. He’s likely to be disappointed The leader of Isis is dead. But Trump is clearly fishing for the kind of political boost received by Obama following bin Laden’s death, and he is unlikely to get it. By Nicky Woolf
8320, 8321, 8324 Trump wants to end America’s “forever wars” but Putin has greater control in Syria Donald Trump's actions on Syria expose his catastrophic impulsiveness, but America's strategic incoherence and weakness goes well beyond the president. By Helen Thompson
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8418 Swipes from rivals during the Democratic debate only prove Warren is now the frontrunner Even a revived Bernie Sanders and former vice president Joe Biden look to be playing catchup. By Nicky Woolf
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8418 Tulsi Gabbard is one of the more compelling subplots of the 2020 election The Hawaii congresswoman is running a maverick campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. By Chris Robinson
8277, 8279 Permanent Record: Edward Snowden spies on the spies The whistle-blower’s memoir is insightful, with a nice line in tech-inflected imagery. By Steven Poole
8320, 8324, 8415, 8416, 8418 Is Elizabeth Warren now the Democratic primary frontrunner? Trump’s attempted attack on Biden in Ukraine may have backfired, but Warren’s surefooted campaign has kept her steadily moving up through the pack. By Nicky Woolf
8277, 8279 Benjamin Myers’s The Offing: a sensual pleasure The prose in The Offing is baroque and proudly old-fashioned, the antithesis of Sally Rooney-style sparseness. By Alice O'Keeffe
8277, 8279 Elton John’s Me: a bracingly open and spectacularly funny autobiography Dignity is thrillingly cast aside in this riotously entertaining book full of premium celebrity tittle-tattle. By Giles Smith
8277, 8279 Why poetry matters The story of 20th-century poetry teaches us that language is not a luxury: we need the right words in order to survive. By Rowan Williams
8277, 8282 Why banning rappers from using certain words won't work Rico Racks has been banned from rapping “booj”, but that doesn’t make heroin non-existent in his life, or in the lives of his listeners. By Ellen Peirson-Hagger
8277, 8278 What lies beneath How George Stubbs got under the skin of his subjects, animal and human, before he started painting. By Michael Prodger
8300, 8362 Why Facebook won’t ban political advertising Though the company could take the financial hit, the damage it would do to its relationship with the US government is a price it is not prepared to pay. By Oscar Williams
8268, 8272, 8300, 8362 What is shitposting? And why does it matter that the BBC got it wrong? The implications of misunderstanding internet terminology go far beyond a minor misread. By Sarah Manavis
8300, 8303, 8302 Self-reflection apps: the explosive new trend helping us optimise our lives For some the ability to self-reflect is a fun bit of exploration. But for others it's an opportunity for unrelenting self-improvement. By Sarah Manavis
8300, 8302 Revealed: the malicious WiFi networks that can exploit MPs’ phones A survey of central London appears to show clusters of attacks around parliament and Whitehall. By Oscar Williams
8268, 8275, 8270, 8274, 8387, 8300, 8362 Damian Collins on electoral law, disinformation and Dominic Cummings By George Grylls
8268, 8323 Germany seems strong, but it is still grappling with the forces unleashed when the wall fell The country brought back together 30 years ago was a nation not just divided but stunted: its past not fully processed. By Jeremy Cliffe
8268, 8445, 8275 Britain's floods show how unprepared it is for the climate crisis As severe floods from a month’s worth of rain in one day claim a life, there is only one way to find a flood strategy that works. By Anoosh Chakelian
8320, 8323 Spanish voters must treat Sunday's election as an emergency The Spanish people must get out and vote to defeat the extreme right. By Yanis Varoufakis and Luis Martin
8320, 8323 Dancing on the Berlin Wall A return to the scene of the 20th century’s greatest accidental revolution. By John Simpson
8268, 8270 What do the polls tell us so far about the 2019 election? The election is only just begun, and we have very little to go on – yet. By Stephen Bush
8268, 8275 Corbyn defied the odds in the 2017 election, but can he pull off the same trick twice? He faces a Conservative campaign with greater unity of purpose, message discipline and policy cohesion. By Stephen Bush
