In the years since October 7, the demand from the Jewish community for safeguards has increased. Credit: Getty.

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New hate speech bill reflects Canada’s widening sectarian divisions The country must be more than the sum of its persecution complexes

Rob Reiner’s liberal optimism shaped a generation of cinema His films had a moral centre but didn’t preach

‘It was always building towards something as awful as Bondi.’ Credit: Getty

Australia ignored growing Islamist threat for too long

Elites are fueling a dystopian surrogacy market Chinese billionaires are procuring armies of children with US passports

Mary Harrington

Zelensky’s Nato concession is an admission of reality The promise of membership was never credible

Bethany Elliott

Sunday, December 14

John Cena’s retirement spells end of apolitical American life He was a bridge to a time before hyper-partisanship

Australian Jews have been sounding the alarm for years. Credit: Getty

Sydney Hanukkah shooting is all too predictable

Limor Simhony Philpott

Why have half of secondary school pupils been off with anxiety? We are rewarding self-limiting behaviors

Kristina Murkett

Saturday, December 13

Losing dive bars will crush neighborhood life No rooftop lounge or cocktail bar can replicate these defining third spaces

The Secretary General is wrong to scaremonger. Credit: Getty

Mark Rutte’s Russia rhetoric is paranoid, not prudent

Is this year’s flu season really worse than any other? Alarmist coverage is running ahead of the evidence

Friday, December 12

Why British Jews could switch to Reform UK Mass immigration has prompted a rethink

Samuel Rubinstein

'The Pathways trial is the institutional repetition of a mistake we already made.' Credit: Getty

New puberty-blocker trial ignores children’s wellbeing

Josephine Bartosch

In any Ukraine peace deal, Europe loses Leaked US documents prove that Brussels has no plan for peace or war

Wolfgang Munchau

Thursday, December 11

When will US escalation in Venezuela hit its limit? Maduro’s fall may be imminent, but a power vacuum will be far more dangerous

Italian food is too diverse for a UNESCO heritage label Globalization is giving us cheap, homogenizing culture

Mattia Ferraresi

Tim Pool-Candace Owens feud reveals emptiness of e-politics Angry conspiracism is what passes as culture in our mimetic online world

Mary Harrington

New pals. Credit: Jordan Bardella

Should the EU fear a Bardella-Farage alliance?

Wednesday, December 10

Almost half of the Golden State's job loses were from the tech industry. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty.

California job cuts will hurt Gavin Newsom’s White House run

Miami result shows Trump’s Hispanic coalition is collapsing Democrats are reversing the President’s gains

Bisexuality plummets among Gen Z in UK ONS figures suggest we have reached the other side of a sexual revolution

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Should teachers really be banned for calling Britain a Christian country?

Tuesday, December 9

Jasmine Crockett run turns Texas into another lost Democratic cause Her inflammatory rhetoric will put off swing voters

Michael Baharaeen

Working-class hero. Credit: Getty

Jennifer Welch is not the voice Democrats need

Emily Jashinsky

$1 trillion trade surplus leaves China dangerously dependent Beijing’s export-oriented model could easily collapse

School flu lockdowns show Covid-era fear still rules Pandemic mistakes are being repeated across the country

Monday, December 8

President may have the last laugh in Trump v. Slaughter Independent agencies like the FTC are no longer fit for the modern era

Trump is preparing to abandon Ukraine Kyiv has become a financial burden

Bethany Elliott

Sunday, December 7

Almost half of Americans say the current cost of living is the worst they can remember. Credit: Getty

Can Trump win the affordability debate?

EU market reforms won’t bring back growth Necessary root-and-branch change is still politically impossible

‘It is a different kind of religion that seeks neither converts nor members.’ Credit: Getty

Paganism is the obvious religion for post-faith Britain

Saturday, December 6

Can Josh Shapiro rebuild the Democrats’ coalition? The Pennsylvania Governor’s pragmatism has won over swing voters

Michael Baharaeen