Having never previously aligned themselves with either the left or right bloc, the Greens successfully pivoted to the left in this election, making headway on the issues of oil and Palestine. The ...

an old-school realist who has changed because of his experience. He’s gone back and re-examined everything he did, and he’s ...

Election results can often be a Rorschach test for pundits, the patterns they discern revealing as much about their ideological disposition as the political landscape. This is especially true in the ...

Trump is set on bringing the Federal Reserve to heel. Over the summer he succeeded in installing one of his key economic advisers, Stephen Miran, on its Board of Governors, attempted to remove another ...

There is a commonplace saying that history is written by the victors. At the time of writing, there is a ceasefire in effect in Gaza, although it is one-sided, because as usual in such cases, Israel ...

For much of the twentieth century it was a truism that political behaviour was motivated by material interests. Then, from about the 1970s, this idea began to be displaced by an understanding of ...

Iam the king and I will destroy you—all of the castas feed my appetite’, Javier Milei bellowed at his victory rally after Argentina’s legislative elections on 26 October 2025.footnote 1 His party’s ...

Because I could not stop for Death – He kindly stopped for me –footnote 1 Let’s process information in real time. A friend who is an excellent literary critic reminded me to stop for a second. ‘Think ...

The author of this by turns absorbing and tantalizing set of essays confesses that she came to write her book as a ‘complete outsider to psychoanalysis’. Her approach is more that of a historian of ...

For the next fifty years, ‘Burma Proper’ was developed as an administrative adjunct to British India. Many hundreds of thousands of Indian immigrants, as well as Christianized Karens and Anglo-Burmans ...