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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Donald Trump is losing it
His alarming cognitive decline deserves the scrutiny that Joe Biden received.
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The lib-pilling of the American left
Kamala Harris’s competence is a relief, not an inspiration.
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How America resembles the dying Soviet Union
Like the former communist bloc, Western liberalism is slowly disintegrating.
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Donald Trump’s identity crisis
How the former president’s campaign abandoned its populist roots.
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