Americas

The Degradation of Independence

The United States’ founding ideals have been replaced by delirium and absurdity

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Where is the vital, creative, courageous opposition to Donald Trump?

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The vice president addresses Britain like a troublesome American colony

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There is a civil war on the Maga right – and anti-Semitism is its faultline

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At Stanford, students are under extraordinary pressure – not to learn but to launch start-ups

By Stefan Collini

US conservatives can’t fathom that women don’t conform to a virgin-whore binary

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A resistance is building to his egoism and his warmongering

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