Joe Biden bids farewell to a world on the edge of war
Speaking at the UN, the President eulogised his own record - but leaves behind a global crisis.
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What Hillary Clinton knows
Despite moments of frustrating caution, her memoir Something Lost, Something Gained is revealing about Bill and exhilarating on her feminist…
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Donald Trump targeted in a second “assassination attempt”
Unharmed after an alleged shooter was spotted at his golf course, the former president said “nothing will slow me down”.
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Kamala Harris’s flawed centrism
Boasting of Goldman Sachs’ and Dick Cheney’s approval will not win over the working-class voters she needs.
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There is an intellectual sickness on the American right
When free speech is treated as the highest good, it gives rise to shock-jock politics.
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The Coming Storm returns ahead of the US election
The BBC Radio 4 podcast about conspiracy thinking is back, and things are even weirder.
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What Americans really think of Britain
Also this week: the deification of Kamala Harris and the cruelty of ageing in the US.
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The transformation of JD Vance
Donald Trump’s running mate has brought the new right to the brink of power.
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