The Nato summit exposed the real source of Trump’s power
It comes from his willingness to violate all norms, rules and laws – and leaving everyone else to pick up the pieces At the Nato summit just ended, Trump lashed…
Why was the pundit class so quick to defend Graham Platner?
To some of Platner’s most influential backers his swaggering, reckless, and casually brutish masculinity was understood not as a liability, but as a virtue Graham Platner was accused of rape…
Graham Platner is out. Troy Jackson should replace him | Dustin Guastella
Democrats need a candidate who can speak to working-class, inland and rural Mainers. A logger from the North Woods seems like the obvious choice Maine’s US Senate race was blown…
Count Binface alone can‘t clean up British politics. MPs now have that chance, and they must seize it | Stella Creasy
Amid the allegations about dark money and funding, I have a solution: limit all single donations in a year – from any source – to £100,000 It is sobering that…
Here’s how Andy Burnham can finance a reindustrialised Britain – without doing a Liz Truss | Larry Elliott
Britain’s PM-in-waiting is right that the country has been failed by 40 years of neoliberalism. There will be obstacles, but he must embrace radicalism Of all the many prime ministers…
This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it? | Polly Toynbee
The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlantic Shock ricocheted around the world of social research this week…
ABC and SBS coverage of the Middle East isn’t perfect – but the proposed solutions are ill-conceived and dangerous
After 40 years at the public broadcasters I know they must be accountable to all of the public and for editorial decisions they make, not ones imposed on them Follow…
A Supreme Court climate case meets a changing scientific consensus
The Supreme Court is about to weigh in on a climate litigation case, Suncor Energy v. Boulder County, which seeks to hold energy producers financially responsible for the purported consequences…
Mitch McConnell owes public transparency amid prolonged hospital stay
Elected officials don’t get to disappear without explanation. Not because we’re owed their secrets. Because we’re owed their honesty.
Graham Platner drops out; left still victim-blaming
The credible allegations of sexual assault leveled against him by his former girlfriend, Jenny Racicot, are a dealbreaker, and rightfully so.













