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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The rise of Charlie Kirk
The online provocateur has gained extraordinary influence within Trump's team.
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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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Why Kamala Harris’s gambit failed
For millions of Americans, voting for Trump was democracy in action.
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Trump’s victory is a cataclysm
How should the left navigate the new era to come?
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Who scuppered Kamala Harris’s campaign?
Incoherence and inauthenticity paved Trump’s path to victory.
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The nightmares of Pennsylvania
Fear and fatalism reign supreme in this crucial swing state.
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Ralph Nader: “The election is between the fascism of Trump and the autocracy of Harris”
The four-time presidential candidate on why he holds out little hope for the future of American democracy.
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JD Vance wants to lead the Maga movement
Donald Trump’s running mate seems prepared to put his desire for power ahead of American democracy.
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Are the polls underestimating Trump?
What we can learn from analysing a candidate’s campaign trail.
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Lisa Marie Presley takes us behind Graceland’s velvet curtain
From Here to the Great Unknown – a memoir of life as Elvis’s daughter – is a story of generational…
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Labour has become a weapon in Trump’s campaign
Republicans are accusing the UK’s governing party of election interference – but what’s really going on?
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Team Biden’s economic reformers deserve another four years – no matter who wins
A dogged group within the administration has built support for a manufacturing revival in the US – and won support…
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