Zelensky needed to go to Washington
With the war soon to enter its second year, Ukraine still needs all the Western support it can get.
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Meghan’s Netflix documentary is made for Americans like me, not British people
It gets to the heart of transatlantic cultural differences over openness, class and racism.
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What the strong US midterm results mean for Joe Biden
Democrats kept the Senate and narrowly lost the House. Here’s how that will affect the US president’s agenda.
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How the New Statesman’s midterms forecast triumphed
The NS was the only forecaster to project that the Democrats would retain control of the Senate.
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The weirdness of America’s approach to sick days
The country’s rail strikes reveal a vulnerability in its workforce.
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The chaos at Elon Musk’s Twitter is a parable of US power in the age of Big Tech
Silicon Valley’s plight is fundamental to one of the biggest geopolitical questions of the 21st century: can the US maintain…
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The coming Republican civil war
The US midterms were a setback for Donald Trump. Will his 2024 White House bid survive a brutal round of…
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Decoding Adam Smith
A new history of The Wealth of Nations shows how the Scottish thinker’s legacy became an economic battleground.
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Is this America’s last real election?
Donald Trump’s election denial was once an egregious aberration. It’s now a widespread Republican strategy.
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Political violence in the US has always been there, waiting to erupt
The attack on the House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband is not an isolated incident.
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Joe Biden crushes Xi Jinping’s precious semiconductor ambitions
The US has imposed sweeping sanctions on a sector key to China’s goal of global technological dominance.
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Pennsylvania’s midterm race is everything that’s wrong with American politics
Doug Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor, revels in conspiratorial and far-right rhetoric. And his party is OK with that.
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The Alex Jones verdict won’t help America’s fake news problem
The conspiracy theorist has been ordered to pay the families of children killed in the Sandy Hook school shooting almost…
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Joe Biden’s marijuana pardons prove he can change with the times
The US president’s latest executive move is both popular and just.
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The extraordinary influence of the Claremont Institute on the American right
The think tank is trying to reshape the political landscape.
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Get ready for the next housing crisis: negative equity
As interest rates rise and mortgages become unaffordable, the whole system will start to crumble.
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From the US, the UK’s economic policy appears senseless
In America the view that sterling is now an emerging market currency is not a meme but a widely-held sentiment.
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There will be no UK-US trade deal – and the Brexit fantasy has been punctured
Having cut themselves off from Europe, the Tories are adrift without a destination or a steering wheel.
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US rail workers get closer to a deal, and what they deserve
Interventions by Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden helped avert strike action, and an economic crisis.
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“This is the big battle”: Jan Schakowsky on abortion in America
The US congresswoman explains how the threat to reproductive rights comes from the same place as the Republicans’ dismissal of…
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