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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How America leads the world in school massacres
The Texas school shooting was the tenth such massacre in the country since 1990.
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How the Marshall Plan made Europe
It is 75 years since the US launched its ambitious aid scheme to rebuild postwar Europe and protect it from…
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The Texas school shooting won’t change the US’s deadly gun laws
It doesn’t matter to the Republican Party and the NRA that guns are being used repeatedly to kill children.
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The joyless rise of Anna Wintour
Amy Odell’s new account of the iron-fisted Vogue editor’s ascent struggles to find the human being behind the shades.
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Spare us the pseudo-Christian virtue signalling over Nancy Pelosi’s soul
The Catholic Archbishop of San Francisco apparently thinks the Democratic House Speaker is worse than Judas.
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The two genres of Trump book
A memoir by Kellyanne Conway is the latest in a now-established trend. What are we doing with all these revelations?
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