January 2, 2020

America has always been a circus Kurt Anderson's <I>Fantasyland</i> explores the US tendency to blur fact with fiction

Justin Webb

30.12

So did ‘idiot voters’ get it wrong? 'False consciousness' has always been a popular explanation for Left-wing electoral failure

Tom Chivers

26.12

2017: when the US woke up to its drugs shame The decline of the American dream was perfectly illustrated by addicts dying in their thousands

Ian Birrell

25.12

2016: the Great Pivot Year Our correspondent imagines what future generations will make of the year western society turned on its axis

David Goodhart

24.12

2015 was a warm-up for the liberal Ragnarök Just when the political establishment thought they were safe, it all went horribly wrong

Peter Franklin

16.12

Don’t blame Big Tech for society’s problems We should know better than to think Google & co have our best interests at heart

Timandra Harkness

11.12

Why Tories are becoming extinct There are huge, unprecedented demographic challenges facing the Conservative Party

Ed West

05.12

Emmanuel Macron’s alienating ambition The French President's popularity is tanking — at home and abroad

Anne-Elisabeth Moutet

27.11

Why would the US want George W Bush back? The rehabilitation of the prodigal president says much about the state of American politics

Christopher Rhodes

25.11

How pessimism is poisoning our politics We are living through another 'Morbid Age'

James Bloodworth

20.11

What if everyone loses this election? Come December 13, Britain could find itself in a new and extraordinary form of political chaos

James Kirkup

18.11

Voters don’t need protecting from political ads Proposals to ban targeted adverts on Facebook show contempt for voters

Timandra Harkness