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In our age of ‘hyperpolitics’, what does meaningful change look like? Anton Jäger’s buzzy new book has some answers – but could go harder on neoliberalism.
The US president often provides meandering non-answers and strange speeches, but news reports omit the weirdness. Does it matter?
Oil companies are making massive profits and stockpiling cash, and holding off on changing their investment plans.
The most important thing for parents to know is that the order does not change which vaccines are available to children and is not based on any new data about vaccine safety.
Trump’s latest executive order is set to lead to delayed vaccinations, falling coverage and a resurgence of diseases once brought under control.
The US president’s approval rating is well below other past presidents at this point in their terms.
The recently shuttered immigrant detention facility continued a long tradition of using alligators in ways that have reinforced demeaning racial stereotypes.
The construction of the pool reflected a national ambition to build something unifying and enduring. The rushed renovation and political fallout of 2026 reveal how much that civic vision has changed.
The surge in irregular crossings at Ceuta has been seized on by the far right to criticise Spain’s liberal immigration policies.
The White House’s controversial Aliens.gov portal dehumanises undocumented non-US citizens by blurring the boundaries between the term “illegal aliens”, or unauthorised residents, and extraterrestrials.
Countries that sign deals with the Trump administration are quickly finding out that the stability and certainty they hoped to purchase was an illusion.
As democratic socialists make inroads into mainstream US politics, one loaded word is doing a lot of work for their ideological opponents.
The 47th US president and his family have benefited more financially from the presidency than any of his predecessors.
The spiraling violence on the West Bank makes a peace deal between Palestinians and Israelis almost impossible to imagine.
Research shows that market-based land reform in South Africa since 1994 has often benefited white farmers and preserved inequality instead of reducing it.
American faith in news is at an all-time low, aided by a president hostile to the press. But presidents have long attacked journalists as biased. What does objectivity really mean?
The days of long-established relationships between the UK prime minister and the US president are long gone.
The threat is a response to FIfa’s proposal to sell stakes in its football competitions.
Volodymyr Zelensky and Benjamin Netanyahu met with the US president on the sidelines of Lindsey Graham’s funeral.
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