Trump looks to punish Canada for wildfires? Treat our allies better.
The president has officially put Canada on notice over the wildfires and suggested the country should now pay the U.S. damages over the smoke drifting across the border.
Structural shifts demand a new central banking mindset
Structural changes like geopolitical fragmentation and demographic shifts are forcing central banks to rethink monetary policy design as the era of low inflation and economic stability concludes.
Voting rights are under attack on multiple fronts in battleground Ohio
While statehouse Republicans have been pretty clear with their intentions, the scope and severity of the FBI raids on an Ohio voting rights organization still came as a stunning surprise.
Congress can end the shutdown cycle for good
Shutdowns are becoming longer and more frequent and are literally disabling our government at a time of intense international competition and conflict. That is unacceptable.
Healey as chancellor? Streeting as defence secretary? This isn’t a cabinet to change the UK like Burnham promised | Owen Jones
Putting Ed Miliband in charge of the Treasury would have signalled a genuine new era. Instead, the new PM has played it safe Andy Burnham has promised to bring “four…
Ads call ovarian cancer a ‘silent killer’. But does urging women to undergo early detection testing do more harm than good? | Antiviral
Website offering blood check is aimed at people with a higher risk of disease – and false positives can create fear Read more in the Antiviral series “Early detection blood…
Hunter Biden for president? Stranger things have happened | Arwa Mahdawi
Once Republicans’ favourite punchline, Joe Biden’s son is now building an online following by trolling JD Vance, taunting Trump and embracing the absurdity of US politics What sort of longshot…
In the US, the 2026 World Cup’s legacy will be an invitation to do it all again | Leander Schaerlaeckens
Fifa’s gargantuan revenue influx from the tournament, with little left over for locals, will beget more exploitation You do not, under any circumstance, have to hand it to Fifa. You…
The cables beneath the Strait of Hormuz are a national security test
The cables beneath the Taiwan Strait and beneath the Baltic are a test of whether free societies can protect what sustains us.
If only Bernie Sanders had won the nomination in 2016
Author Bill Press argues that the Democratic Party’s efforts to suppress Bernie Sanders during the 2016 primary prevented a strong candidate from defeating Donald Trump, a mistake he believes current…












