Peter Turchin’s empty prophecies
The social scientist has made a career from predicting global instability. But in the new book End Times, his analysis…
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The Reeves doctrine: Labour’s plan for power
She is ready to be Britain’s first female chancellor. But will Rachel Reeves’ caution stifle her creativity?
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The patriotic preacher
Martin Luther King was no saint, but a deep faith in America drove his mission to redeem its soul.
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Run. Hide. Fight
An FBI video about how to survive a mass shooting has gone viral – it’s a monument to the trauma…
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Haiti’s descent into hell
Once a symbol of black liberation, Haiti has collapsed into anarchy. Now many see foreign intervention as their only hope.
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Why China and its trading allies are well placed to topple the dollar
After decades meting out sanctions and financial coercion, the US may soon feel its grip on world trade beginning to…
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Jon Ronson’s The Debutante and the myth of the “lone wolf” terrorist
This Audible podcast series delves into the white-supremacist world of Timothy McVeigh and asks: could the Oklahoma City bombing have…
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Why Tocqueville matters
Travel was a vital part of the French thinker’s political philosophy, but this has largely been forgotten in today’s secluded…
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The New Age of Tragedy
Great-power rivalry, resource scarcity and the crumbling of the liberal rules-based order.
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US Congress goes to “war” over Taiwan
The House select committee on China simulated war with the Chinese Communist Party over the island. The results were sobering.
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Letter of the week: A multipolar world
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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Joe Biden said “America is back”. So why are its foreign allies going their own way?
Former friends to the US are increasingly testing the forms and bounds of the shifting geopolitical geometry.
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What X-Men can teach us about prejudice
The Florida state representative Webster Barnaby’s comparison of trans people with X-Men mutants couldn’t have backfired more.
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What we get wrong about Taiwan, with Paul Huang
The island is preparing to defend itself. But are its military reforms moving quickly enough?
Graham Allison: “American politics is driving towards a provocation that China could not avoid”
The academic who coined “Thucydides’s Trap” warns we are sliding into a catastrophic new conflict.
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Donald Trump’s indictment is unprecedented. It shouldn’t be
Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon ingrained a flawed view of rule of law in the minds of many Americans.
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Arresting Donald Trump will only strengthen the conspiracists
Five years after QAnon was born, the idea of a corrupt deep state persecuting its enemies is in the mainstream…
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Gary Younge: how racism shaped my critical eye
Growing up working-class and black taught me to doubt the official narrative. If I was always lied about, where was…
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The chaotic return of the Trump circus, and why Americans can’t see the point of King Charles III
Despite facing criminal investigations, the former president’s poll ratings are rising. He is a master at gaming the media.
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Claudia Rankine: “Eventually they’re coming for you too”
The poet on how America’s racism epidemic intersects with the erosion of women’s rights.
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