Farage told me he would quit politics after Brexit. Now, mired in scandal, he should do it and mean it | Simon Jenkins

His byelection stunt shows he is clearly rattled by a perilous position. Wildcards rarely endure: his future is behind him Britain’s politics was never so weird. First, the people of…

Graham Platner is a crisis of Democrats' own making

Platner was always a bad bet. But Democratic Party elders have spent more time and effort trying to manipulate primaries than they have actually understanding why voters are so annoyed.

The Supreme Court just embraced an incoherent theory of presidential power

Last month, the Supreme Court majority issued a pair of opinions that take a bold swipe at the constitutional power of Congress to enact laws limiting presidential power at the…

Today's cautious AOC would not have endorsed the AOC of 2018

Ocasio-Cortez did not endorse the last four socialists nominated for House.

Trump's call to fight communism also applies to tyranny in Venezuela 

The United States is clear that a new Venezuela cannot be built upon the foundations of the old dictatorial structure.

Camp Mystic, revisited

This flood was Biblical in its scale, they tell us.

The FBI is finally following the money on mass protest-funding

The government’s focus on this problem validates that the disclosure gap between registered lobbyists and paid protest organizers was never one related to principle.

Through the teargas, I saw something missing from German politics for too long: hope | Scott Roxborough

I joined thousands of people blockading the AfD’s Erfurt congress. A civil disobedience movement is showing how to beat the far right At 5am on Saturday morning, I found myself…

My patients use ChatGPT for therapy. Now I use it too | Sarah Dargouth

I can’t blame my patients for turning to its straightforward assessments. But it has real risks – and care may require human messiness “Chat told me I should break up…

The great carbon capture con: behold the wasted billions Burnham could claw back | George Monbiot

There are far better ways to tackle climate breakdown, but successive governments have chosen to listen to the fossil fuel companies instead The new prime minister will be looking for…