Mitch McConnell’s sad final act Despite his declining health, the senator is still on manoeuvres

Emily Jashinsky

Marc Andreessen: AI has always been a censorship machine The entrepreneur has claimed technology goes hand in hand with political control

70% of US academics fear speaking openly on Israel-Palestine A new FIRE report suggests campus free speech concerns are not overblown

Is Zelensky undercounting Ukraine’s death toll?

Bethany Elliott

Puberty blocker ban is not the end of NHS gender ideology Wes Streeting still has work to do

Josephine Bartosch

Wednesday

11.12

Rand Paul: Tulsi Gabbard is gaining momentum The senator claimed that lawmakers are lining up behind Trump's intelligence pick

English curriculum ‘diversity’ sacrifices great literature A campaign by leading authors should focus on merit, not skin colour

Does Britain really prefer socialism to capitalism? New YouGov polling reveals broad public support for Left-wing ideology

Removing HTS from terrorist list would be a mistake

Britons’ anti-establishment sentiment reaches record high A new report reveals how disillusioned voters have become

Tuesday

10.12

DOGE’s cost-cutting mission may hurt Trump’s voters Elon Musk's brainchild risks introducing austerity by stealth

Syria has reignited Germany’s migration debate

The downfall of PinkNews was a long time coming Allegations of workplace misconduct have been made against CEO Benjamin Cohen

NHS puberty blocker trials are unethical Practitioners have been accused of ignoring safeguards proposed by the Cass Review

Luigi Mangione’s Ivy League background is no surprise

Will the UK send Syrian refugees home? Pausing asylum claims is far from Labour's most difficult decision

Monday

09.12

Daniel Penny acquittal confirms end of BLM era Mass mobilisation around racial justice is no longer a default response

John Mearsheimer: Trump is appointing Russophobic hawks The realist thinker doubts the incoming president can quickly end war in Ukraine

Net Zero drive will leave British Army in ruin

Philip Pilkington

Notre Dame proves the West can build if it wants to Infrastructure projects usually take far longer thanks to the managerial class

Mary Harrington

Keir Starmer’s main threat will come from the Left New polling shows Labour's vulnerability to Green and Lib Dem gains

Sunday

08.12

America’s Christian revival is a response to fractured politics A rise in Bible sales suggests many are finding solace in belief

Spencer A. Klavan

Can Joe Biden fix his death penalty legacy?

Fall of Assad leaves Putin powerless in Middle East Russia is no longer a major player in the region

Reform UK still has a youth problem Young Britons are less convinced by Right-wing politics than Zoomers across the West

Saturday

07.12

University of Michigan’s diversity overhaul won’t defeat DEI

Emily Jashinsky

Are teenage terrorists really on the rise? Prevent referral statistics are exaggerating youth radicalisation

AfD culls radical youth wing as it plots route to power Will this 'de-demonisation' strategy win over the German public?

Ralph Schoellhammer

Friday

06.12

Bitcoin boom could lead to a heavy crash The cryptocurrency rally is showing the signs of a pyramid scheme

Sergey Lavrov: Biden wants to sabotage Trump on Ukraine

Is Keir Starmer really shifting Right on immigration? The PM is just challenging the old Blairite consensus on the movement of people

Sadiq Khan: the last man in Britain to deserve a knighthood There is no metric in London that has improved since the Mayor took charge

Fall of Hama could have dangerous consequences Syrian rebels are connected to jihadist movements

David Patrikarakos

Thursday

05.12

UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting exposes America’s class divide

Keir Starmer is taking on the Deep State Today's speech was uncharacteristically populist

Britain’s prisons crisis goes deeper than Starmer realises Overcrowding won't be solved by superficial Government plans

Are assisted dying supporters preparing to weaken bill’s safeguards?

Michel Barnier’s fall won’t save Macron The President will face attacks from all directions — including within his own party

Pierre-Louis Bodman

Wednesday

04.12

Will Supreme Court trans case be America’s Cass moment?

Lisa Selin Davis

Eric Adams may be New York’s best hope for tackling the migrant crisis No other mayoral challenger appears interested in the problem

The Turner Prize has traded art for politics Jasleen Kaur's winning piece is a classic of the genre

Belgium’s new sex work law sanitises prostitution Pimps have effectively been given legitimate employment status

Josephine Bartosch

The artistic case for returning the Elgin Marbles

Tuesday

03.12

The rise of Barstool conservatism should be welcomed Non-ideological voters present Republicans and Democrats with an opportunity

Brigitte Baptiste does not belong on BBC’s 100 Women list The broadcaster has featured a trans woman for the second year in a row

How Trump can avoid an immigration backlash

Why is Keir Starmer comparing himself to Clement Attlee? Unlike post-war Labour, the current government's foreign policy vision is hollow

Richard Johnson

EU’s ‘Europe First’ strategy is a paper tiger Threats of a Sino-American trade war worry officials

Monday

02.12

Who was Joe Biden really protecting with his pardon?

Emily Jashinsky

Trump’s tariff threat could boost Brics It bolsters those who are already calling to abandon the dollar

Could Tony Blair be Starmer’s gateway to Elon Musk? Donald Trump's efficiency tsar is a diplomatic challenge for Labour

How Trump turned Fox News into the king of cable — again

The French crisis is Macron’s doing Government debt has ballooned in the President's tenure

Philip Pilkington

Labour risks following Tory failure on immigration A senior minister is refusing to give a numerical target on migration levels

James Sean Dickson

Sunday

01.12

Has Zoe Ball fallen victim to a pseudoscientific TMJ treatment?

Margaret McCartney

UK’s assisted dying vote is not the end of euthanasia debate Opponents of Kim Leadbeater's bill must continue the fight

Ireland’s political establishment avoids populist revolt Radical change isn’t coming to the Emerald Isle any time soon

Conor Fitzgerald

Did Louise Haigh really need to resign? Labour is letting a minister depart over a minor incident 10 years ago

Saturday

30.11

Three conditions for a US-backed peace agreement in Ukraine

The SNP would be unwise to bring back Nicola Sturgeon Relying on the former leader would result in almost certain defeat

UK has most expensive industrial electricity in Europe New figures slipped out by the Energy Department reveal Britain is being ripped off

Friday

29.11

Xi Jinping’s military purge could backfire There's a fine line between maintaining discipline and provoking dissent

Did Kim Leadbeater’s inaccuracies sway the assisted dying vote?

Gen Z may welcome a social media ban New Australian legislation helps anxious young people

Kristina Murkett

Half of Austrians support ‘comprehensive remigration’ A new survey reveals the depth of anti-immigrant sentiment in the country

The EV revolution is crumbling Have Right-wing politics squeezed out Net Zero targets?

Ralph Schoellhammer

Thursday

28.11

California doesn’t want Governor Kamala Harris

Trump brings Florida’s MAGA faithful to Washington DC Several of his key appointments hail from the Sunshine State

Emily Jashinsky

Islamophobia laws would be disastrous for Britain Keir Starmer risks letting extremists dictate blasphemy legislation

Supreme Court puzzles over definition of ‘woman’

Are assisted dying polls skewed by loaded questions? Misleading or poorly-worded surveys are giving the public the wrong impression

Wednesday

27.11

Is New York City ready for an Andrew Cuomo comeback? The former governor is mulling a run for mayor

Labour MP calls for blasphemy laws

Trump’s tariffs won’t stop China Beijing can extend its supply chain to other nearby countries

Philip Pilkington

Why is Russia singling out Britain over Ukraine?

Bethany Elliott

Boris Johnson is right to blame the Church for obesity Are 'fatsos' a product of our spiritual void?

Is Israel’s ceasefire letting Hezbollah off the hook? It is strategically unwise to let the terrorist group survive

Tuesday

26.11

Scott Bessent can moderate Trump’s tariff policy The Treasury pick may guard against outright protectionism

Anatole Kaletsky

Israel’s Haaretz boycott is another attack on liberal norms Netanyahu's government risks undermining its own legitimacy

Could Montreal riots bring down Justin Trudeau?

Cǎlin Georgescu proves populists aren’t always anti-expert Romania's presidential election has been upended by the independent candidate

Monday

25.11

The forgotten history of the Guardian and the Observer The daily now wants rid of the Sunday — but I remember when the deal was done