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US government shutdown: now what?
After weeks of threats from both sides and negotiations that went nowhere, the US is once again experiencing a government shutdown. This week, Jonath…
1 year ago
Why is the Trump administration obsessed with autism?
The US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has long been consumed by the neurological condition autism – what causes it, and whether there’s a tre…
1 year, 1 month ago
What does Donald Trump think free speech means?
This week, the US president has announced he is suing the New York Times for $15bn, and gloated that the late-night TV show Jimmy Kimmel Live! had be…
1 year, 1 month ago
Where does the US go after the Charlie Kirk shooting?
On Wednesday night, Charlie Kirk, an influential rightwing activist and Donald Trump ally, was shot dead at a university campus in Utah. The US presi…
1 year, 1 month ago
Is Trump trying to rig the midterm elections?
Donald Trump wants to change the way Americans vote, promising to introduce measures such as mandatory voter ID and a ban on mail-in voting. But what…
1 year, 1 month ago
Can the Democrats win by trolling Trump?
A fight over a redrawing of the congressional map in Texas united Democrats across the country. This week, we hear from the state representative Nico…
1 year, 2 months ago
The ‘Nerd Reich’: how tech billionaires infiltrated the White House
This week, Jonathan Freedland speaks to the journalist Gil Duran about his upcoming book The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Global…
1 year, 2 months ago
Is Trump abandoning his ‘America First’ policy for Ukraine?
Donald Trump has been all smiles with both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy over the last few days, but in trying to be ‘peacemaker-in-chief, i…
1 year, 2 months ago
Is Donald Trump too weak to be a strongman?
With a summit in Alaska and national guard troops in DC, Jonathan Freedland speaks to Susan Glasser of the New Yorker about the week that may dent th…
1 year, 2 months ago
Trump, Sydney Sweeney and the ‘war on woke’
Donald Trump needed his Maga base to focus on something other than the Jeffrey Epstein files. Enter Sydney Sweeney and the uproar over a jeans advert…
1 year, 2 months ago