North America

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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Populist radicals are storming the Democratic Party. Is this the US left’s Maga moment?

By Freddie Hayward

The response from Pyongyang to the US president’s overtures has been silence

By Katie Stallard

Whatever AOC now claims, the psychic distortions we call “woke” are the currency of American politics

By Lee Siegel

How an Italian polymath’s theories about domination became the currency of the modern right

By Nick Burns

This is not the end – but it might be the beginning of the end

By Freddie Hayward

The US President is more interested in bombs than ballrooms these days

By Freddie Hayward

William F Buckley worshipped British conservatism. But now, the movement he created in America looks on the UK with contempt

By Arvin Alaigh