The US’s new status quo
The 6 January committee hearings show how much Donald Trump has irreversibly changed the political landscape.
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Joe Biden’s democratic values will be tested in the Middle East
The US president, scheduled to meet leaders in Israel and Saudi Arabia, may find that being committed to human rights…
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Margo Jefferson: “We were always performing desirable blackness”
The critic and memoirist on growing up in 1960s Chicago, Donald Trump’s “constant oversight”, and her fascination with minstrel shows.
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America’s crisis-industrial complex
Are alarmist narratives about a “new civil war” obscuring the real battle in US politics: the fight for democracy?
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Guns, abortion, climate: how a new US Supreme Court ruling threatens the planet
The court’s conservative majority has pressed its agenda by restricting executive power over climate change regulation.
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Capitol riot testimony was more smoking gun than smoke and mirrors
Trump wanted people with weapons at his 6 January rally, and knew they could march to the Capitol.
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Roe vs Wade and the land of lost liberty
Fear and frustration grip the US as the ruling that guaranteed abortion rights is overturned. What comes next?
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American pro-choicers try to have it all – and end up with nothing
Supporting gruesome cases of abortion to term just plays into the hands of anti-abortion activists.
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The second coming of Nato
The alliance has been revived – but it can’t save the West.
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Jonathan Haidt: “America is the ghost of liberal democracies’ future”
The social psychologist believes bitter online discourse is hastening the spread of US-style recriminatory politics.
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Facts are mere weapons in the war over US Capitol riots narrative
The US congressional hearings are a blockbuster but a divided audience hears two different stories.
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Cryptocurrency is a symptom of the death of the American dream
The collapse in social mobility is facilitating an age of shortcuts. Enter Bitcoin.
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Hillary Clinton: “I don’t think the media is doing its job”
The former US presidential candidate on why the right is winning.
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Dangerous skies over the South China Sea
Australia accuses China of endangering its aircraft in a close encounter. Beijing says it has done nothing wrong.
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From God to monsters – the “new nationalism” of the US right
Is the Republican Party of Trump and QAnon also now the party of non-religious class warriors?
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The diplomatic battle for the South Pacific
Duelling visits by the Chinese and Australian foreign ministers have focused international attention on the region.
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American exceptionalism is an open door to fascism
Complacency over mass shootings could lead to a far darker future.
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New York’s hipster wars
Why the city’s clash of cultures between progressive Brooklyn and transgressive Manhattan marks a new era in American politics.
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The toxic emotional symbolism of guns in America
Those who feel most empowered by guns are isolated white men, afraid they will lose their place in society.
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Republican primaries in Georgia haunted by the spectre of Trump
The former president’s election lies lost him Georgia. Or did they?
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