Susan Hall: “I’m not what you think I am”
The Tory London mayoral candidate on how she will beat Sadiq Khan, the “disgraceful” treatment of the police, and her…
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Bronze Age Pervert will not save the American right
The author of Bronze Age Mindset has galvanised US conservatives – but his adolescent philosophy will soon be forgotten.
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Letter of the week: Thatcher’s brief exile
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Congressman Don Bacon: “Joe Biden does only enough to ensure the Ukrainians can keep a gridlock”
The Republican representative on waning support in the US Congress for aiding Ukraine.
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Donald Trump: American vampire
He strengthens himself by weakening supporters, rivals and the United States.
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Elon Musk owns Donald Trump now
The former president has returned to a platform that is little more than a circus.
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The Republicans don’t deserve Chris Christie
Ahead of a Fox News debate, he’s the only candidate willing to denounce Donald Trump’s election lies.
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Freddie deBoer: elite identity politics is destroying the left
The Marxist essayist and author on the real reason Black Lives Matter and other protest movements failed.
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Democrats are losing the country music culture war
America’s white working class anthems tell stories the left want to forget.
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George Kennan, loser
The American foreign policy sage was driven as much by pessimism about the US as antipathy to the Soviet Union.
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The chaos and confusion of Donald Trump on trial
The criminal charges against Donald Trump could send him to prison — or help propel him back into the White…
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The president’s Hunter Biden-shaped blind spot
Joe Biden’s treatment of his scandal-plagued son is an insult to voters – and a liability for Democrats.
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The end of globalisation
With war in Ukraine and China’s Belt and Road project faltering, the era of open commerce is over. Who will…
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Everything is wrestling
American public life is an extension of the nation’s most sordid sport.
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The left must embrace law and order
In France and elsewhere, everyday insecurity hurts the poor much more than the rich.
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Is Robert Kennedy Jr a genuine threat to Joe Biden?
Support for JFK’s nephew as a presidential candidate reveals the demand among Democrats for an alternative.
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Trapped in the generation gap
Jean Twenge’s new study suggests that the young are the losers in a society transformed by technology.
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Pathologies of a president
A new book revisits Freud’s analysis of Woodrow Wilson to ask: how much do leaders’ psychologies shape our politics?
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Is another American revolution inevitable?
An interview with Peter Turchin.
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Donald Trump puts US justice on trial with him
Even the former president’s Republican rivals have boosted his claim that his arrest is politically motivated.
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